InuYasha (犬夜叉)

Woods... squirrel... lily... yellow...

Your late father's friend lives so deep in the forest.

Huh?

Welcome... I have been waiting.

A voice... from the sky.

I don't see anyone.

I've been expecting you...

Sesshomaru.

You knew that I was coming, Bokusen-Oh?

You've come to speak to me...

about the swords.

Inuyasha told me...

while I went in search for Kohaku...

Miroku! What're you doing?

There are poison insects!

Wind Tunnel!

Miroku!

You're sucking in the poison insects, too!

Inuyasha, go after Sango and Kagome.

You sacrificed yourself and fought... Yet I went after Kohaku...

Kohaku!

I'll kill you, then kill myself.

This is the only way to get you back from Naraku!

Forgive me, Kohaku!

Stop, Sango!

I'm sorry, Miroku.

It was my fault you ended up sucking in poison insects.

Sango...

Yes?

Don't look so sad.

There's still hope for Kohaku.

Miroku...

So keep smiling.

Thank you.

Miroku...

No! Hang on! Miroku!

Oops!

Sango, we brought water.

How is Miroku?

I think he's much better.

Is the information you seek...

about the Tetsusaiga, your father's heirloom sword?

Or...

A tree demon!

Lord Sesshomaru, just what is that?

A 2,000-year-old magnolia tree.

Oh...

The sheaths of the swords, the Tetsusaiga and the Tenseiga...

that belonged to Sesshomaru's father were carved from my boughs.

The sheaths?

So the sheaths for those swords came from this tree!

The strange power of the sheaths...

I can see why after seeing him.

Bokusen-Oh...

You would know... the link between Inuyasha and the Tetsusaiga.

Inuyasha?

You mean your younger brother?

Inuyasha's blood changed.

The first time was when a demon bit into the Tetsusaiga.

The second time, he had let go of the Tetsusaiga while fighting me.

Die!

This scent!

It changed from a half-demon's blood scent...

to the smell of a demon's blood... like mine and my father's.

The same smell of blood?

I wonder about that.

What do you mean?

Inuyasha is a half-demon, born between a demon and a human.

He could never become a full-fledged demon.

Sesshomaru... there is something...

that you, a full-fledged demon, can do...

but which Inuyasha could never do.

Inuyasha could never do?

It is to maintain oneself.

Maintain oneself?

Yes.

For example, Sesshomaru...

during a battle, if you are cornered, you are able to remain calm.

You never lose control of yourself.

I would never get into such a desperate situation.

Perhaps.

However, Inuyasha is different.

If backed into a corner and his life is in danger...

in order to protect his life...

his demon blood takes control of the body and transforms.

So that's what happened that time...

But...

the pure demon blood of his father is too strong for a half-demon.

So what happens?

Let me see...

It could be said that the demon blood devours the soul.

He cannot recognize himself.

He cannot differentiate between friend or foe... He just kills.

And in that transformation Inuyasha will eventually lose his soul.

He will become a demon who only knows how to fight and kill.

He will continue to fight until he is destroyed.

Your father probably did not want such a fate for Inuyasha.

That is why he bequeathed Inuyasha the Tetsusaiga to protect him.

The Tetsusaiga protects him?

If he lets go of that sword, Inuyasha becomes...

Inuyasha, you've really matured.

Whaddya mean?

I'm complimenting you!

You saved Kohaku's life.

I just wanted to irritate Naraku.

If we get Kohaku back alive that would make Naraku mad as hell.

Putting on an act again.

And besides, you were alive.

Huh?

- Did you worry? - Of course!

I was a bit concerned, too...

since you didn't come for a long time.

Doesn't your wound hurt? Lemme see.

Never mind. I can take care of it myself.

Don't you know you can make it worse with lack of care?!

- It's okay! - It's not okay!

- I said I'm all right! - You're not!

Am, too!

Sorry! I wanted to thank you.

- Huh? - Thank us for what?

Thank you, Kagome and Inuyasha...

for staying with me.

We'll get out of your way.

Staying by her? Why wouldn't we?

What was that?!

It came from over there!

What's wrong?

- Gramps... My gramps! - Is it a demon?!

Where is it, old man?! Where'd the demon go?!

I don't sense any demons.

Over here! Over here! I tripped...

What?!

I'm saved!

Cripes! I thought a demon attacked. Getting us all worked up over nothing.

Good thing, Gramps.

Thank you so much!

I twisted my ankle and had fallen...

And now, you even carry me like this.