OniKik

OniKik is the term used to refer to the romantic relationship between Onigumo and Kikyō.

## Their Relationship

### Inuyasha

**Despicable Villain! The Mystery of Onigumo!**

Kaede reveals to Inuyasha and Miroku that in a nearby cave, she and Kikyō once cared for a badly burnt thief, who ended up lusting for Kikyō and allowed his body to be consumed by yōkai from his desire for her and ended up creating Naraku.

**Naraku's True Identity Unveiled**

Inuyasha and Naraku meet face to face; Naraku reveals to Inuyasha that he was born from Onigumo and was the one who indeed turned Kikyō and Inuyasha against one another 50 years ago, in the hopes of gaining the Shikon no Tama, defiling it in the process.

**Kikyo, Captured by Naraku**

Kikyō goes to Naraku, to taunt him about his weaknesses, such as his half-human blood and the memories of Onigumo, then she hands over to him the shards of the Sacred Jewel. She tells him flatly that if he needs her, he'll have to send a messenger, for she is free to do what she wants, and will neither flee nor hide herself.

**Onigumo's Heart Still Beats Within Naraku**

Kikyō confronts Naraku, who had been spying on her; Kikyō surmises that it's because Naraku still has Onigumo's heart beating within him, and bears feelings towards her.

Inuyasha takes her in his arms towards the sacred tree, when Kikyō wakes up, they begin to talk about her past, Inuyasha tells Kikyō that her life belongs to him since she also told him the same thing on a previous occasion, Kikyō tells him that Naraku harbors feelings for her because of Onigumo, this infuriates Inuyasha, disgusted and jealous he takes her in his arms and tells him that he is the only one who could love her and protect her and that he does not want her to continue fighting alone against Naraku. Although initially Kikyō seems to reciprocate the hug to Inuyasha, she wields a knife and puts it on his neck, telling him that all men believe that because a woman gives them a hug she belongs to them, she tells him that she will use the weak point of Naraku from Onigumo's heart to purify him and the Jewel Shikon.

**Terror of the Faceless Man**

The incarnation decides to call himself Musō, after the monk he slaughtered, and Inuyasha is disgusted by the man's many killings and attacks him, cutting off his arm. Despite the severe injuries, he regenerates quickly, due to the help of Naraku's insects who absorb themselves into him to give him a new arm. He then asks Inuyasha what was in the village saying it is "calling" him and that perhaps if he slaughters the village people he will have his memory restored causing Inuyasha to attack him again but fails. Kagome then returns from her time but is unable to see what is going on causing them to yell and warn her to stay back, but Musō sees her. This in which triggers a piece of his memory which turns out to be of Kikyō. Desperate to know who she is, Musō then grabs Kagome and takes her declaring she is the one he has been missing.

**Onigumo's Memory Restored**

Kikyō soon comes upon the apprentice of Musō the priest who was killed by Musō the demon. He tells her the demon had a spider-mark on its back and Kikyō decides to investigate. Naraku sees this in Kanna's mirror and releases Kagura who he has been holding chained in the area beneath the castle since her betrayal. He tells her to go find Inuyasha and tell him Musō is headed towards Kaede's village. Slowly Musō has put himself back together, and Inuyasha is worried about Kagome being there when Musō seems indestructible.

Musō makes his way to the cave where Onigumo once lived and was cared for by Kikyō, and Kaede and Kagome go to investigate it, while Inuyasha and the others go in search of Naraku.

Meanwhile, Musō thinks to himself in Onigumo's cave. He lays on the patch of dead grass where Onigumo once laid, and remembers this place. He also remembers being unable to move due to his burns, and how Kikyō was near him and he desired her. He recalls that he is Onigumo and he desired her so much that he sold his soul to demons, creating Naraku. He sees Kagome as he emerges from the cave and demands to know why Kagome looks so much like Kikyō. Inuyasha arrives just in time and severs Musō's arm. Kaede happens upon the cave and asks Musō who he is and what he wants, and he calls her a "shriveled up old hag" and "grandma". He attempts to kill the old priestess, but Inuyasha arrives at the last moment and saves her. Musō says he remembers everything now: he once went by the name Onigumo. Inuyasha blames him for everything and says he's the heart of Naraku, but Musō disagrees, saying as soon as the demons devoured him, nothing went as planned. The entire reason he sold his soul was so he'd have a working body able to take Kikyō for himself, and steal the Shikon jewel. But once he had his new body, the first thing he did when he left the cave was rip apart the body of the woman he'd longed to possess, the woman he sold his soul for. He admits he was conscious the entire time, awake inside Naraku, watching him slash at the priestess he desired. After the Shikon Jewel was burned with Kikyō's remains, Musō was banished to a "deep, dark place", within Naraku. And then suddenly, he found himself alive again. Miroku asks Musō if he's been given any orders by Naraku, and the demon replies he takes orders from no one. He takes what he wants and kills who he hates. He says Inuyasha is included in the latter.

**Three-Sided Battle to the Death**

The Saimyōshō take Musō to nearby forest where Naraku is waiting. Musō recognizes him as Naraku, and angrily questions him, accusing him of using his body to kill Kikyō, the very woman that Musō gave his soul up for. Naraku tells Musō that Kikyō is alive again and she is as he remembers her. Before he can question Naraku about Kikyō, Inuyasha and Miroku appear. As Inuyasha starts a fight with Naraku, Musō runs away but stops abruptly. Still angry at Naraku for his imprisonment, he decides to go back to kill Naraku. Musō impaled Naraku with his tentacle, believing he'd won, but Naraku used this as an opportunity to absorb him back into his body. Musō tried to break free but couldn't, as he screamed for Kikyō.

Naraku gloated that Musō should have run, just as Miroku and Inuyasha confront Naraku. Inuyasha hypothesizes that Naraku was very eager to get rid of his human heart that longed for Kikyō, but he must have accidentally released something else with Musō, something he wasn't ready to part with. Naraku commends Inuyasha for his deduction and admits that he still needed Onigumo's heart as a connector for his body, which was why he needed to reabsorb him.

**Kikyo's Lonely Journey**

Kikyō finds an old bandit, Rasetsu, looking for a peaceful place to die. His life is maintained by a shard of the Jewel, which he took from a demon. She tends to him while he recounts his story. Fifty years ago, he was lured by a fellow bandit, who was Onigumo, into attacking Kikyō to possess the Sacred Jewel. Inuyasha had defended her, and Rasetsu lost an eye. The wounded Rasetsu discovered Onigumo tricked him and made off with his men. Seeking revenge, he set fire to the inn where Onigumo was, then threw his badly burned body from a cliff at the bottom of which Kikyō fatefully found him.

**Farewell Kikyo, My Beloved**

Naraku shows off his powerful new ‘body’ with smug confidence while Kikyo seethes at his audacity. Kikyō tells him she knows Kagura escaped with something from the mountain, and demands to know what it was and what Naraku’s real intentions are. Naraku toys with Kikyō, telling her how he manipulated her into coming to Mt. Hakurei. Naraku then savagely slashes Kikyō, severing her bow and slicing deep into her body. Kikyō collapses to her knees as her life force gushes out as Naraku tells her he is no longer controlled by Onigumo’s heart and can now destroy her. Kikyō realizes it must have been Naraku’s human heart Kagura carried away from the mountain. Naraku delivers his deathblow impaling Kikyō on his cruel claws. He propels her over the edge of the fissure and into the torrent of Shoki below. Falling, Kikyō’s thoughts turn to Inuyasha and she calls his name. At that moment, Inuyasha is seized by a dreadful feeling and he races off abandoning a bewildered Kagome.

**The Tragic Love Song of Destiny (Part 2)**

Secretly Kikyō was also taking care of a bandit named Onigumo, who had been burned and was immobilized, so out of pity Kikyō fed and cared for her, she told Kaede that she could not tell Inuyasha because knowing him was going to make her jealous. But Onigumo felt something for Kikyō: an unhealthy obsession. Onigumo had lost his sanity. At that time a spider demon, who resented Kikyō, since she had killed the demons that were his companions, convinced Onigumo that if he allowed his soul to devour thousands of demons, they would grant him a new body to move and be with Kikyō, so Onigumo agreed and became a demon called Naraku.

**The Mysterious Light that Guides the Saint**

Inuyasha approaches the Holy One, only to find that it is a puppet. When it disperses, Kagura is overhead. She tells Inuyasha that Naraku thinks Kikyō is still alive, and that the arrow that broke Hakudōshi's barrier was smeared with dirt from Onigumo's cave.

### Inuyasha The Final Act

**Kagura's Wind**

Kikyō explains to Inuyasha (with Kohaku listening in) that the only way to defeat Naraku is to purify the Shikon Jewel as he is absorbing it into his body - which will obliterate the soul of Onigumo. Surrounded by light and her soul collectors, Kikyō flies away into the sky. She tells Inuyasha that they cannot hesitate to do what is needed. Once she leaves, Inuyasha thinks about how this will kill Kohaku; Kohaku emerges from the shadows, surprising Inuyasha as he didn't detect his scent. Kohaku races after Kikyō. When Inuyasha tries to follow them, he is blocked by a barrier; Kohaku explains that he is not going to die, but to kill Naraku.

**Inside Naraku**

Inside a cave, Naraku sits as he looks at the Shikon Jewel, thinking of Onigumo, who desired Kikyō's heart and the jewel; a prisoner in his own body, the bandit fed it to demons, who merged into a new body for him called Naraku. Looking on from the cave's mouth, Byakuya of the Dreams notices the jewel has been completely defiled by Naraku to the point of where there's barely room for Magatsuhi; this forces him to reside within an unconscious Rin. Naraku thinks to himself that as Inuyasha, Sango and Miroku fought him, he channeled their hatred and transformed it into the darkness filling the jewel. Once their battle ends, they will be consumed by the very darkness they helped create; he once more says that Kikyō's light has died.

### Hanyo no Yashahime

**Inuyasha: Since Then**

In Kaede's hut, Inuyasha and Miroku are speaking with Kaede about the arrow. Kaede examines the arrow as she says there's no doubt it's Kikyō's Arrow of Sealing. Inuyasha questions Kikyō's Arrow of Sealing before thinks of her. Kaede tells Inuyasha and Miroku that Root Head is a demon Kikyō sealed shortly before meeting Inuyasha. Miroku asks Kaede why didn't Kikyō purge the demon with the Sacred Arrow instead. Kaede says who knows as at the time Kikyō had been dealing with demons of all sorts but she thinks she was growing tired of having to kill them and was also around the time when she helped the bandit Onigumo who eventually became Naraku. A flashback of Kikyō taking care Onigumo in Onigumo's Cave is seen.

## Evidence

* It was Naraku's actions that brought some sense of irony with Onigumo's words of how he would have liked to see Kikyō "apprehensive and frightened," a facial expression that was made as Naraku struck down Kikyō, as he was disguised as Inuyasha, though Musō, Onigumo's later reincarnated form, expressed a large amount of anger and regret as he recalled that bitter memory as Kikyō had died from such a mortal wound due to Naraku's miscalculation.
* As Musō, while Onigumo did remember about the Shikon Jewel, he apparently did not seem to desire the jewel as much as he did with Kikyō, which implied that Onigumo saw the Shikon Jewel as merely a bonus and his main objective was Kikyō.
* Kikyō rescued Onigumo.
* Onigumo fell in love with Kikyō.

## Quotes

**Onigumo**: "*You, young lass..*"
**Kaede**: "*It's Kaede.*"
**Onigumo**: "*Yes... Your sister possesses what is known as the Shikon Jewel, does she not?*"
**Kaede**: "*What would ye know about the jewel?*"
**Onigumo**: "*All who are wicked know of it, and pursue it.*"
**Kaede**: "*Ye included?*"
**Onigumo**: "*I understand that the more evil the jewel absorbs, the more evil it becomes; outstanding.*"
**Kaede**: "*My sister has it under her control, it won't be corrupted.*"
**Onigumo**: "*Kikyō's manner is self righteous; for once I should like to see her apprehensive and frightened, that would bring me true pleasure.*"
―Kaede and Onigumo's chilling exchange[src]
"*That's ridiculous! Why do you think I took heed of the the demons that I summoned? I wanted possession of the Sacred Jewel, and a healthy body, so that I could steal Kikyo away, and leave this cave. But when I got my new body, nothing went as I've planned. The very first thing I did when I left the came was cut down the very woman I sold my body and soul for. Kikyo followed him, that half-demon Inuyasha, straight into he very demise. Kikyo perished and the Sacred Jewel was burned along with her corpse."―Muso*