Yawaragi

Yawaragi was an adult wolf demon from Kōga's Wolf Demon Tribe. She was also Moroha's master for 3 years.

History
Hachi the Racoon-Dog had left the infant Moroha to her, Kōga and his wife Ayame for her own safety to raise her. For three years, she raised Moroha on par Kōga's request to train her.

When an 11-year-old Moroha uses the rouge to combat the Birds of Paradise, Yawaragi warns her not to use it, but failed when Moroha scratched her on the left cheek. Later, a Weasel Man came and offered her an Armor of the Iron Rat which would boost her power and defense, only to have a curse where it would shrink down and squeeze the wearer to death. Eventually, she had decided to sell Moroha off to test her strength against the legendary sorcery Kodoku.

She decides to pay a visit to Jyūbei the Corpse Dealer, whom she tells that if Moroha were to use her rouge repetitively, she would end up as a monster who only knows how to fight.

When Moroha returned from her fight, Yawaragi sold her but gave her her sword.

It must have taken Yawaragi a long time to find the village of the rat yokai. But Konton had been there before her and brutally murdered the rat yokai. He tried to get Yawaragi to his side, and she pretended to agree. He had the only key left that would open her armor.

She went to Moroha and challenged her to a fight. After Yawaragi was far superior to her in battle, Moroha wanted to transform into Beniyasha, but Yawaragi stopped her. Moroha should learn during the fight to be able to defeat an opponent even without this transformation. When Konton joined the fight, Yawaragi grabbed him so that the attack would destroy them both. However, Konton managed to escape with the blue rainbow pearl, and only Yawaragi was hit.

Fatally wounded, Yawaragi said that she is proud of Moroha and that there is nothing more she can teach her. Moroha burst into tears, and finally buried Yawaragi in this place. When she said sadly that she is now alone again, Towa and Setsuna said that she now has them both.

Physical Description
She appears humanoid with a wolf tail, pointed ears and a rope headband. She is seen donning a fur kimono and knee-high fur boots like Kōga. Her hair and attire are pure white, and her eyes are a light brown. She gained scratch marks on her face from when Moroha became Beniyasha and lost control of herself.

Abilities and Skills
Wolf Physiology
 * Superhuman Senses: As a wolf demon, her senses of smell and hearing are quite acute.
 * Enhanced Slashing & Slicing: She has unusually sharp claws that can slice through solid objects from a distance and even slice flesh with ease.
 * Scattering Winds: TBA
 * Longevity & Decelerated Aging: She is able to live for many centuries without aging.
 * Superior Speed: When fighting Moroha, she uses her Speed to attack and dodge from her apprentice, just like Kōga did when he had shards of the shikon jewel in his legs.

Formerly

 * Kurikaramaru: TBA
 * Armor of the Iron Rat: This armor greatly increased her demonic powers. So Yawaragi was able to destroy a whole swarm full of Birds of Paradise. But at the same time this armor squashed her more and more and would have killed her soonly.

Moroha
Yawaragi was never very nice to Moroha. She put her through dangerous tests and sold them without hesitation. But Konton was of the opinion that Moroha was her favorite student. In fact, Yawaragi seemed to have shown her enough affection to want her to have a good life and not be a grueling fighting machine.

Trivia

 * She is the second wolf-demon female to appear in the InuYasha series, the first being Ayame.
 * She was in possession of the Kurikaramaru sword originally.
 * It is she whom Moroha referred to as "the Master" she owes her debts to in Episode 14.
 * She is shown in the second opening "BURN" with a distraught Moroha cradling her in her arms, that would foreshadowing her death in Episode 16.
 * After Koga, she is the second wolf yokai to have a wolf tail.

Media Appearances

 * Episode 14 (Hanyō no Yashahime)
 * Episode 15 (Hanyō no Yashahime)
 * Episode 16 (Hanyō no Yashahime)

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