Michiru Kururugi (InuYasha)
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The male version of the main character of InuYasha: Secret of the Cursed Mask. He is nervous, but kind and brave. He lives in the modern era of Japan and lives at the Kururugi Shrine, where his family is holding the Doll Festival, a ritual of placing a name in a wooden doll painted with the symbol of the Shikigami (a red star inside a circle). As the dolls are burned, the legend says that you will be able to see the person whose name you put inside. Since he is late for the festival, his father sends him to the store house to retrieve more talismans. A symbol appears on the ground and he falls through it, arriving in the Sengoku era.
After being chased by a demon and unwittingly destroying it with unawakened Shikigami powers within him, he meets Inuyasha and Myoga, who take him to Kaede's village where she, along with Kagome Higurashi and Shippo are waiting. Kagome attempts to take him back to the modern age with the Bone-Eater's Well, the gateway Kagome uses to move between the ages, but finds it does not work. Stuck in the past until they can find a way to send him back, Michiru joins Inuyasha and Kagome on their adventures.
While traveling, they run into a new enemy: Utsugi, a "hitogata" (clay doll demon) who looks just like Kururugi and seems able to use the Shikigami. His goal is the take his descendant Kururugi's soul and use it along with the power of Shikigami to become fully human again. With help from a blind old priest named Kakaju, Kururugi awakens the spirtiual power of Shikigami within him-/herself and uses it to aid InuYasha and his party in their quest.
After a long-fought battle, and risking their lives many times, Naraku is seemingly defeated by the combined efforts of Kururugi and the others. However, after time passes, Kururugi decides to leave Kaede's Village and find Utsugi — the only one who could seen him/her back to the modern era. Kakuju is killed while traveling with them, and uses his/her remaining few moments of life to transfer his soul into an amulet and protect Kururugi when Utsugi tries to take his/her soul.
Kururugi then confronts Utsugi, who is taken over by Naraku for Utsugi's Shikigami powers. With Utsugi's help and after a very difficult battle, Naraku is once again defeated. Utsugi is released, but dies soon after, for Kakaju's soul in the amulet merges with her instead of Kururugi's.
With Utsugi's death, Kururugi returns to the modern era at the point where he left.
[edit] Attacks
[edit] Fire type Shikigami
- Info: Fire type Shikigami makes an image of a boar or dog when it is used.
- Raging Flame: Michiru's first shikigami attack that is a normal fire attack.
- Flame of Judgment: a powerful shikigami attack that hits all foes with powerful flames.
- Grieving Flame: just a counter-shikigami attack
[edit] Water type Shikigami
- Info: Water type Shikigami makes an image of a fish when it is used.
- Great River Offering: Its one of Michiru's first healing moves that is like it rains one of your comrades.
- Great River Blessing: Its another of Michiru's healing moves but it heals all of his team like it rains.
[edit] Wind type Shikigami
- Info: Wind type Shikigami makes an image of a hawk when it is used.
- Sealed Blue Sky: One of Michiru's status effect moves that seals a foe so he/she can't use any techs.
- Blue Sky Confusion: One of Michiru's status effect moves that confuses all of his foes.
- Blue Sky Calamity: The barrier stone destroying move that Michiru learns after the fruit from the Magatama Tree.
[edit] Light type Shikigami
- Info: Light type Shikigami makes an image of a dragon when it is used.
- Protective Light: One of Michiru's defensive moves that increases the defense power of all of his comrades.
- Light of Judgment: Michiru's strongest Shikigami attack that summons up several lightning bolts to massive damage but it takes all of his Health Points after it is used.
[edit] Relationships
- Inuyasha: Michiru ends up becoming good friends with him. Michiru thinks at first Inuyasha is rude and weird, but finds out that is Inuyasha's way of showing he cares.
- Kagome: Michiru ends up becoming good friends with her. In InuYasha: Secret of the Cursed Mask, if you keep picking her to go with breaks, Michiru will end falling in love with her and becomes jealous of Inuyasha.
- Shippo: Michiru thinks of Shippo as a little brother, though he never says it explicitly.
- Miroku: Michiru ends up becoming a good friend with Miroku, though he does not approve of Miroku's lecherous tendencies.
- Sango: Michiru ends up becoming a good friend with Sango and thinks she is amazing person because of her skills and beauty. In InuYasha: Secret of the Cursed Mask, if you keep picking her to go with breaks, Michiru will end falling in love with her and become jealous of Miroku.
- Kirara: Michiru becomes good friends with Kirara after Sango joins the group. In one of Sango's events, she says that Kirara only lets someone she likes a lot to feed her.
- Sesshomaru: Michiru befriends Sesshomaru somewhat, but is disturbed by his lack of emotion.
- Jaken: Michiru and Jaken are not friends, but Michiru shows Jaken some respect while Jaken thinks Michiru is annoying.
- Rin: Michiru saves Rin from Naraku and counts her flowers. She thinks of Michiru as older brother.
- Kikyo: They only meet once after Michiru ran away from Inuyasha and the others in Minamo Village, Michiru thinks she is very beautiful and wise, but does not fall in love with her.
- Koga: At first, Koga mistakes Michiru for Utsugi because of their faces look very similar. Once he realizes that they are not the same person, Koga comes to respect Michiru.
- Kagura: Michiru and Kagura become enemies fast after he finds out that Kagura and Naraku is the reason he is in the past.
- Kanna: Michiru is scared of Kanna when he they first meet because of her mirror. Kanna tries to steal his soul.
- Kohaku: Michiru feels sorry for him and wants to help free him of Naraku.
- Naraku: Michiru hates Naraku like the others do and wants to stop him at all costs.
- Kaede: Michiru thinks of her as a grandma because that she is caring and wise.
