The priestess mentioned in the story of Inu-Yasha is the one and very same . . . Kikyo. Raven-haired, serious, duty-filled, saddened Kikyo is the one that first made Inu-Yasha's heart feel true, honest-to-goodness love. She is the older sister of Kaede, the recent priestess of the village, and was the former protectress of the Shikon no Tama. Kikyo abhors Naraku, but she still has to find a way to completely destroy him, and one part of her strategies is to earn his trust---to make him think that he finally has her in his grasp. By giving him what he wants, which is the shard of the jewel in which is around Kagome's neck.
What she wants most of all is to have Inu-Yasha one way or another at the very end. Dead or alive, she would still be with him . . . Although she learns that she now has a rival, which is Kagome herself, the girl from the future and has shown somewhat that she has a connection with Inu-Yasha that she knows she once had too (She's the one who pinned him to the tree!). Love, hate . . . Either way, she wants no one else but herself to hold Inu-Yasha's heart, and it is really what makes the tension between the hanyou's and Kagome's friendship every time either of them shows jealousy because of either Kikyo or Kouga. When she was first resurrected by an evil witch named Urasue, all she wanted was to kill Inu-Yasha, thinking of the day that he had purposely "betrayed" her, but later learns the real truth, and now keeps herself alive by stealing the souls of young girls since the souls she stole from Kagome had been taken back. How she acts against Kagome, is in a hateful kind of way because she knows that she will become an obstacle in the later future---and so she is when, on her first attempt to bring death upon Inu-Yasha, Kagome was the one who awakened him from a dazed trance, and so stopped the spell in which Kikyo could bring him to hell with her. |
