

" Arawareta Kikyō Shikigami Tsukai" (現れた桔梗と式神使い) Naraku offers his Shikon Jewel fragment to Tsubaki, a dark priestess and rival of Kikyo, in exchange for cursing Kagome and using the girl to kill Inuyasha. " Sokoshirene Tsubaki no Jubaku" (底知れぬ椿の呪縛) Having successfully cursed Kagome, Tsubaki uses her to kill Inuyasha, but is interrupted by Kikyo, who warns her former nemesis not to underestimate her reincarnation and that she will kill Tsubaki if she dares to harm Inuyasha. Kagome struggles to break Tsubaki's curse, while dreaming of her life if she had never fallen into the Bone Eater's Well and met Inuyasha. Tsubaki is defeated as Kagome reflects Tsubaki's attack back at her exactly as Kikyo did fifty years ago. " Ikute o Habamu Kōhaku Miko" (行く手を阻む紅白巫女)Īs Tsubaki flees with her fragment of the Shikon Jewel, she returns to the shrine where she once trained and tricks Momiji and Botan, two young priestesses, into believing Inuyasha and his friends are their enemies. While Miroku and Shippo convince priestesses Botan and Momiji that they are not enemies, Tsubaki frees an oni from a tower and absorbs it to gain the power to defeat Kagome and Inuyasha. The defeated priestess loses her eternal beauty and youth when Naraku decides he wants his fragment of the Shikon Jewel back. Odd things happen when Myoga the flea returns Sango, Miroku, and Inuyasha are all possessed one after another and act strangely. " Naraku no Kekkai Kagura no Kesshin" (奈落の結界 神楽の決心) Little do they know, another flea is responsible - Shoga, who intends to marry Myoga. Naraku's barrier is mysteriously weakened, which allows Koga and Inuyasha finally to detect the demon by scent. Together, they must set aside their differences and work together to find the power granting shards spread across feudal Japan and deal with the threats that arise.Meanwhile, Kagura must decide whether or not she should betray her master after she acquires Koga's shards. Joining Kagome and Inuyasha on their quest are the orphan fox-demon Shippo, the intelligent monk Miroku, and the lethal demon slayer Sango.

Instead of hitting the bottom of the well, Kagome ends up 500 years in the past during Japan's violent Sengoku period with the demon's true target, a wish-granting jewel called the Shikon Jewel, reborn inside of her.Īfter a battle with a revived demon accidentally causes the sacred jewel to shatter, Kagome enlists the help of a young hybrid dog-demon/human named Inuyasha to help her collect the shards and prevent them from falling into the wrong hands.
Plot Summary: Based on the Shogakukan award-winning manga of the same name, InuYasha follows Kagome Higurashi, a fifteen-year-old girl whose normal life ends when a demon drags her into a cursed well on the grounds of her family's Shinto shrine.
