On a moonlit night, a streak of blue light flew toward Kaede's Village and landed on the torii gate before the shrine. The monster who called herself the ogress Urasue had astonishing attacks, even unleashing wide-ranging sound waves from her scythe. She broke through Kaede and the villagers' defenses, gravely wounded them, and took the White Porcelain Urn containing Kikyo's Spirit Bones.
Meanwhile, Inuyasha, who was out collecting Soul Fragments with Kagome, caught the scent of fresh blood from a monster passing overhead... Kaede's blood. He immediately decided to hurry back to Kaede's Village. Kaede... she was someone who had truly lived through those fifty years. Kikyo, the woman who had sealed him away, had died; Han, the girl who had always followed Kikyo around, laughing and playing with Kaede, had left with Sesshomaru. In the end, Kaede was the only one left who had witnessed it all. Though her face now bore the unmistakable ravages that long years left on a human woman, deep in Inuyasha's heart, she was still that human girl who followed Kikyo around.
"You're old enough already. Isn't it time you stopped overdoing it?" Inuyasha spoke rudely to Kaede, but inwardly, he was relieved that she had not died and had only suffered minor injuries. Beneath those seemingly offensive words lay his wish for Kaede to enjoy an ordinary human life, to be someone protected rather than a protector who labored so hard. Not only Kagome but Kaede herself noticed his concern. Yet this was a responsibility she could not lay down. Like her elder sister Kikyo, her destiny was to protect the village and battle monsters until she died.
Come to think of it, although they had never discussed what happened back then since Inuyasha's seal was broken, Kaede still believed in him. From