So everyone here are summaries for those that are trully in need of them.
Kagome, in present-day Japan, gives us a run-down of her life, and informs us that it's her fifteenth birthday. On her way to school, she tries to help her brother, Souta, find their cat, Buyo, and is pulled into the temple's covered well by a centipede youkai (Mukadejourou), who is drawn to the reincarnated Shikon no Tama inside Kagome's body. Kagome, as it turns out, is Kikyou's reincarnation. The well is the portal between the present and feudal Japan. When Kagome fights off the youkai and pulls herself out of the well, she doesn't see her brother, but forest area. Kagome finds her way to the tree where Inuyasha is sealed, and after squeaking his ears for a bit, is caught by the local townspeople, who bring her to Kaede (Kikyou's little sister, now over 50 years old). For being in the Inuyasha Forest, Kaede comes to take a look at her, and slowly realizes as the episode progresses that Kagome is her sister's reincarnation.
After dinner, the same centipede youkai, still looking for the Shikon no Tama inside Kagome, attacks the town. Kagome, realizing she's the target, runs to the forest to draw away the monster. And (this part is cool) as she yells out in sheer panic for someone to help her, we see that Inuyasha, with a pulsating beat of youkai blood, awakens from Kikyou's seal. Kagome eventually runs back to the tree, surprised to see him awake. Inuyasha still cannot escape from the tree (the arrow is still stuck in his chest), but he eventually convinces Kagome to pull it out (after the centipede attacks for several moments, ripping the Shikon no Tama from Kagome's side, and endangering the people from town who have followed her). After Kagome virtually disintegrates the arrow, Inuyasha proceeds to kick the centipede's butt. The day is saved, but Inuyasha (still very resentful of Kikyou's betrayal, and taking it out on Kagome, whom he mistook for Kikyou for a few minutes), demands the Shikon no Tama from Kagome.
Episode 2: Those Who Hunt the Shikon no Tama (Shikon no Tama o Nerau Monotachi) : Picking up where Episode 1 left off, Inuyasha is still trying to get the Shikon no Tama from Kagome. He comes close to seriously hurting her twice before Kaede uses her priestess powers to put a rosary around Inuyasha�s neck. Telling Kagome to recite a binding spell, Kagome eventually comes up with "osuwari," which means "sit." She uses it to stop him from taking the Shikon and sends him plunging into the river. The next day, he more calmly demands the Shikon, realizing that the rosary won�t come off. After having an initial conversation with Inuyasha, Kagome goes to sleep worrying about her family. We then see the newest enemy, an ugly crow youkai.
The next morning, Kagome leaves by herself to check out the well that she came through, hoping to find a way to get back. Don�t worry, this is one of the few dumb things she has done. Kagome is actually pretty smart. In the forest, she�s grabbed by some common bandits, who bring her to their leader. To be brief, the crow youkai is nesting inside the leader�s heart (the leader is obviously dead) and using the body to try to get the Shikon, but since its control of the body is not that great, it makes for a bit of comedy when the leader randomly slashes his sword about the room. Inuyasha comes to save the day, of course, but only because he�s concerned about the Shikon (don�t worry, he becomes more worried about Kagome as time goes on). However, the crow youkai manages to get the Shikon and swallows it.
Inuyasha follows the bird on foot, doing his samurai run with Kagome on his back, and stops to give her a bow and arrows. At first, Kagome is not great at shooting arrows and misses the crow youkai when she tries to shoot it as Inuyasha runs below it (she gets much better at shooting later). She misses terribly the first two times, and Inuyasha dumps her on the ground, leaving her behind. She follows by herself, and has to dive into the river to save a child who fell in after Inuyasha sliced up the crow youkai, which had picked up the child as a snack. Kagome successfully saves the child, but the youkai regenerates and begins to fly away again. However, there is still part of the youkai�s foot clinging to the child�s back, which tries to return to the original body. Kagome, using someone�s bow and arrow, attaches the foot to the arrow, and shoots, causing the arrow to hit the youkai directly. Unfortunately, the Shikon is also hit, and shatters into lots of little pieces in a great white light. Inuyasha is really mad now...
Episode 3: Back Home Through the Bone-Gobbling Well (Honekui no Ido kara Tadaima) : At the beginning of this episode, Kagome is taking a cold bath and remembering the conversation with Kaede and Inuyasha that night before. Kaede insists that it will take both Inuyasha and Kagome together to restore the shattered Shikon no Tama. Then after Inuyasha peeps on Kagome as she wades up from the lake, she yells "osuwari!" While her clothes dry, she�s wearing a miko outfit, which makes her look almost exactly like Kikyou, and it about drives Inuyasha nuts. He brushes it off by saying that he doesn�t need Kagome�s help after Kaede is called away, and Kagome, in a huff, declares that she�s leaving for home, and takes the Shikon shard with her.
Kaede, upon reaching the house where a villager�s daughter has become strangely ill, finds that the daughter is actually being controlled by tiny strands of hair (as odd as that may sound, it�s actually used in Trigun, too). The daughter attacks Kaede, and then the scene cuts to Kagome, who is too scared to go into the Bone-Gobbling Well since the centipede youkai�s bones are inside. She�s pausing to collect herself when the hair youkai, surprised but undaunted that Kagome can see the strands of hair, decides to attack her. Meanwhile, Inuyasha, thinking about what Kagome said about going home, passes through the village. The village girls attack him, but he easily fights them off. Kaede, seriously wounded, shows up to stop Inuyasha from hurting them. Inuyasha battles for a bit, then runs off with Kaede on his back. She tells him to get Kagome since she can see the strands of hair.
Kagome, after waking up from her fall into the well (the youkai had slashed at her with a sword, nearly chopping her head off), is found by her brother and grandfather. She�s quite relieved, and decides to take a hot bath. Inuyasha, after hiding Kaede under some dirt and leaves, runs off to find her. We�re left with a cliffhanger!
Episode 4: The Ingrown Hair Ghost, Yura (Sakasagami no Youma, Yura) : Inuyasha, jumping without hesitation into the well, travels to Kagome�s world, where she�s definitely not expecting him to come. Surprising her at dinner, he demands that she return. When Kagome turns to argue with him, she spots one of the hair youkai�s strands of hair, which Inuyasha can�t see. Kagome, seeing that it�s still moving, runs to the well to find that a lot of the hair is trying to come through. She helps Inuyasha cut the controlling strand, and then tells herself that she must go back in order to keep her mother, grandfather, and brother safe from youkai. Inuyasha gives her his cool red coat (made from fire rat�s fur) so that her skin is safe from the lone hairs that can easily cut her skin.
Kaede, from her hole in the ground, looks funny with just her face sticking out. She encourages them even though she�s not with them. Inuyasha and Kagome, who picks up a bow and arrows along the way, find the hair youkai. After a bit of fighting, Kagome shoots an arrow, barely missing Inuyasha, but which hits the ball of hair that is the youkai�s hideout. The purity arrow starts to ruin the ball�s magical powers a bit, to the dismay of the hair youkai. Yura then uses fire to try to kill Kagome, who is still wearing Inuyasha�s fire rat coat. Kagome survives because the coat is good at repelling fire, and while Yura is fighting with Inuyasha, Kagome sees the red skull from which Yura draws her power.
We see some more fighting, but just as Yura is about to kill Inuyasha and Kagome, Kagome drives one of her purity arrows into the head of the red skull, breaking the comb inside in half. The comb, used to comb the hair of dead people before they were buried, was the real identity of the hair youkai. Kagome gives Inuyasha his coat back, retrieves the Shikon shard, and asks Inuyasha how long it will take to collect them all. Inuyasha, not paying attention, says that it�s time to go, and uses Kagome�s name for the first time. And Kaede, still buried in hiding, wonders when Inuyasha will come to get her out!
Episode 5: The Terrible Young Noble, Sesshoumaru (Senritsu no Kikoushi Sesshoumaru) : This episode premieres the arrival of Inuyasha�s brother. We see Sesshoumaru and his servant, Jaken, approach a grave, looking for what Sesshoumaru calls "the Fang." We later learn that it is Inuyasha�s inheritence, a guardian sword, Tessaiga, which was made from a fang donated by his father. Sesshoumaru wants it. Using the Staff of Heads, Jaken tests the grave to see if it is indeed the grave of his and Inuyasha�s father. It isn�t! As Sesshoumaru simply walks away, we see Myouga-jiji, an old flea, who is riding on one of the wolves that had tried to attack Sesshoumaru. He's headed to see Inuyasha, and report the incident. Around a fire a few nights later, Kagome, Inuyasha, Kaede, and Myouga discuss Inuyasha�s father and the location of his grave. When the topic turns to his mother, Inuyasha leaves in a huff. Kagome follows, concerned that he�s upset, and wonders if he hates his mother because she�s human.
As if on cue, a carriage, holding Inuyasha�s mother, who looks very much alive, flies overhead, astounding Kagome and Inuyasha. Then an oni (ogre) grabs the carriage and crushs it. Holding Inuyasha�s mother in his huge hand, the oni holds her hostage, and Inuyasha takes the bait. Jaken, using the staff of heads, stands on the ogre�s forearm and throws fire at Inuyasha as he jumps to attack the ogre. However, he misses, and Sesshoumaru (from his seat on the Rent-A-Demon's shoulder) tells Jaken to stop until after he has spoken with Inuyasha. Inuyasha recognizes his older brother easily. Sesshoumaru cuts to the chase and asks about the location of the grave, and Inuyasha yells that he doesn�t know. Then Sesshoumaru recites a riddle, probably hoping that Inuyasha knows its meaning: "Where one can see but cannot be seen. The place where its own cannot look upon." (We find out the answer in the next episode.)
After some fighting, Inuyasha�s mother somehow transports herself, Inuyasha, and Kagome to what seems to be a safe place. She calls it the boundary between the mortal world and the dead world. Kagome looks to be asleep (or unconscious), and Inuyasha and his mother walk away a short distance. Kagome then wakes up to find that she can�t move. "Behind" Inuyasha�s vision, little demons are holding Kagome down with chains. Kagome, looking at the reflection of Inuyasha�s mother in the lake, sees that the reflection has no face. Kagome realizes that something�s very wrong (i.e.-that's not Inuyasha's mother!), and tries to warn Inuyasha, only to discover that she can�t speak, either!
Episode 6: Tessaiga, the Uncanny Sword (Bukimina Buddou, Tessaiga) : Inuyasha�s mother, saying that she has to return to the world of the dead soon, tells Inuyasha to look at the surface of the lake. He then sees a flashback of a time when he was a child. (he's so cute.. i want one)She reminds him of how she used to hold him as a child, and then hugs him herself. Inuyasha, seeming dazed and vulnerable, doesn�t realize that his "mother" has started to absorb him. Kagome, quite alarmed, wakes up from the illusion, and is galvanized to move when Myouga bites into her cheek.
Jaken then arrives to where the muonna ("non-woman") is beginning to absorb Inuyasha: muoona is made up of the scorned souls of unfortunate mothers who have lost their children to wars. Jaken reminds her of her task to find the location of the father�s grave, and she uses her powers of suggestion to look into Inuyasha�s heart, where she sees the black pearl, which is hidden in Inuyasha�s right eye (there�s the answer to the riddle). The black pearl is a portal to Inuyasha�s father�s grave. In actuality, his father�s bones are sort of just sitting in the middle of a wasteland, not really buried.
Kagome saves Inuyasha by destroying the muoona�s reflection on the surface of the lake. Then Sesshoumaru arrives, and grabs Inuyasha by the neck...he has realized the answer to the riddle. Using one of his powers (eh, I�m not sure how he does this), Sesshoumaru pulls the black pearl from Inuyasha�s right eye and then tries to kill Inuyasha, but the muoona protects him...mothers always protect their children. Using the Staff of Heads, Sesshoumaru decides to just leave and opens the gate to his father�s grave. He goes in first, but Kagome and Inuyasha follow. The bones of Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru�s father are huge. They fly into the rib cage to find Sesshoumaru hasn�t been able to take the sword from where it�s stuck into an altar (remind anyone of the King Arthur story?). Inuyasha is coerced by Myouga to try, and though the barrier spell on the sword accepts Inuyasha, he cannot pull it out because the sword only "performs" if the wielder is saving human life (has mercy for humans in their heart).
Sesshoumaru then declares "playtime" to be over and tries to kill Inuyasha (again) with his pretty cool poison claw attacks. Kagome beats up on Jaken (yeah!) when he tries to use the Staff of Heads on Inuyasha. When Jaken knocks her down, she reaches up to grab Tessaiga to hoist herself up, and sees Sesshoumaru about to deal a heavy blow to Inuyasha. Wanting to save his life and being a human, she yells his name and starts to run at Sesshoumaru: so naturally the sword easily slips out of the altar. Shocked beyond belief, everyone in the room stops what they�re doing.
Episode 7: The Difficult Confrontation! Sesshoumaru versus Tessaiga (Geki Taiketsu! Sesshoumaru vs Tessaiga) : Sesshoumaru, quite intrigued, approaches Kagome, wondering who she is that she can take out the sword. When Inuyasha tells him to leave her alone, Sesshoumaru gives a speech about the weak blood of humans, and turns to kill Kagome with a Dokkasou (Toxic Flower Claw) attack (I actually consider his attacks to be acidic more than poisonous). When it looks like Kagome has been melted away, Sesshoumaru tries to kill Inuyasha (again), claiming that a hanyou (half-demon) has dirty blood flowing through him. In the middle of their fight, Kagome emerges from the remains of the melted bones around her. Inuyasha is just astounded (and happy, of course). Kagome then gives him the sword. However, Sesshoumaru takes off the kid gloves and transforms into his real form...a huge white dog. He breathes out a poisonous gas, forcing Kagome and Myouga to climb up the wall of the rib cage and escape the fumes. Inuyasha is forced to fight with his brother for a few moments.
When Kagome tries to encourage him, Inuyasha jokingly says that she should be hiding because she could get killed at any time. Disheartened, Kagome is on the verge of tears, which jolts Inuyasha into admitting that he�ll protect her, so she shouldn�t cry. Then, Inuyasha goes to face his brother�s youkai form. As Inuyasha approaches Sesshoumaru, Tessaiga pulsates. Sesshoumaru jumps high to pound down onto Inuyasha, but Inuyasha uses the sword, which grows into huge fang, to slice Sesshoumaru�s left arm off (ouch). After receiving a couple more slices from Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru falls away from the side of his father�s stomach, returning to his human form, which, as a ball of light, leaves the area. Kagome and Inuyasha, with the cowardly Myouga, go back through the gate, and the black pearl returns to its place inside Inuyasha�s right eye.
Back at the village, Kagome and Myouga retell what happened to Kaede, and figure out how Inuyasha uses his sword (having mercy for humans makes Tessaiga "perform"). Kagome goes to ask Inuyasha if he wants to know how to use the sword, but asks him to promise to always protect her in return. Inuyasha, full of himself now, tells her that he�ll use the sword to become a taiyoukai (Lord Demon), not to protect her. Kagome gets her revenge by making him stand over a wooden bridge, and yelling "osuwari," thus crashing him through the bridge and into the river below.
Episode 8: The Lord Demon, Tsukumo Toad (Donosama Youkai, Tsukumo no Gama) : In this episode, Kagome and Inuyasha meet Nobunaga, whose pet monkey stole Kagome�s clothes while she was swimming in a small pond, thinking that they contained food. Kagome retrieved her clothes, but gave Nobunaga some potato chips to eat. They follow Nobunaga on his business, and learn of a local lord being "possessed" by a vengeful spirit. Inuyasha, certain that the possessed lord must have a Shikon shard, helps Nobunaga and Kagome get inside the castle, where everyone is asleep under a spell. Nobunaga finds the princess he�s been looking for, Tsuyu, and tells her that he was ordered by her father to bring her back. Poor Nobunaga loves Tsuyu, but she only has friendly feelings for him.
When the possessed lord finds them, Myouga warns Inuyasha that it is a yowai (youkai lord), Tsukumo no Gama, and that he shouldn�t underestimate it. Inuyasha tries to kill the youkai, but Nobunaga tells him not to when they realize that the real lord�s mind has been preserved inside the yowai. Inuyasha sits down in a huff when Nobunaga places himself between Tessaiga and the youkai. But then the youkai�s control returns, and wounds Nobunaga. Inuyasha does nothing, claiming that if he interferes, the lord will die. So Kagome and Tsuyu run, but the yowai catches up when Tsuyu falls down, pulling Kagome with her. This is when Nobunaga�s monkey, after hearing Myouga's suggestion to use fire to drive out the yowai, returns with a tiny flame. Just as the yowai arrives to "devour" Kagome and Tsuyu, Inuyasha comes to protect them. He�s about to kill the yowai, no matter if the lord is still inside or not, when Kagome osuwari�s him and shoots her hair spray through the little flame, making a huge ball of flame.
The yowai is driven out and Inuyasha quickly slays it, grabbing up a Shikon shard. The lord is saved, and Tsuyu is happy to see him back, much to the dismay of Nobunaga. The episode ends with Inuyasha and Kagome discussing how it was a good thing that a human life was saved.
Episode 9: Here Comes Shippou! And the Lightning Brothers, Hiten and Manten (Shippou Toujou! Raijuu Kyodai Hiten, Manten) : As the episode starts out, Inuyasha is eating some of Kagome�s food (in an old battlefield, to boot), when it suddenly becomes dark, and fox fire appears. It is a magic trick of a fox youkai; so we finally meet Shippou, a very young fox youkai who has recently lost his father. Shippou tries to intimidate Inuyasha and Kagome into giving him the shards of the Shikon no Tama that they have, but his huge pink balloon form is definitely not intimidating. They hear his story about the murder of his father, and then the scene cuts to two opposing armies about to battle each other. Two thunder & lightning youkai (Hiten and Manten, brothers) come along on a group of dark clouds, and kill one of the armies for fun. Then, when the other army confusedly asks themselves if the youkai are on their side, Hiten and Manten kill them off as well. As they fly off, enjoying themselves and bragging to each other about the Shikon shards they stole from a fox youkai that they recently killed, we see that Manten is wearing Shippou�s father�s pelt as a stole.
In the next scene, Inuyasha, Kagome, and Shippou are traveling along a well-trodden road when Shippou decides to insult Inuyasha. Then when Inuyasha hits Shippou over the head a few times, Shippou gets his revenge by place a heavy stone over Inuyasha�s hands, pinning him to the ground. He places a scroll on the statue, making it immovable. Then he grabs the Shikon shards from Kagome, who then angrily grabs up her bow and arrows, running after the fleeing Shippou. Leaving Inuyasha to his own devices, Shippou loses Kagome in some tall brush, but surprisingly comes upon Manten (who has issues about the few hairs on his head). Manten shows off the fox pelt, getting Shippou very angry, but Manten then finds out that Shippou has Shikon shards, and demands that Shippou give them to him. Kagome comes along, shooting Manten in the nose with an arrow in an attempt to save Shippou. When Manten doesn�t give up his demand to have the Shikon shards, Kagome shoots again, clipping off most of the hairs left on his head. In a rage, Manten releases an awful lot of his thunder powers. Kagome and Shippou get barely far enough away to avoid being killed, but Kagome is knocked unconscious, and a frightened Shippou runs off, leaving Kagome to be kidnapped by Manten, who thinks she�s very pretty (eww!).
Shippou runs back to get Inuyasha�s help (and has to beg him to go save Kagome, though I�m sure Inuyasha would�ve gone anyway). They arrive at the brothers� hideout, and the brothers are ready for them. Kagome, to stall them from killing her, told them that Inuyasha would give up the Shikon shards he had for her because he was in love with her. They decide to believe her, but when Inuyasha is confronted with this story, he�s incredulous, and makes Kagome think that he�s entirely insensitive (actually, he was secretly quite relieved to see her still alive). The brothers know he has the shards anyway, though, and the older brother, Hiten, immediately begins to fight with Inuyasha. Powered up by Shikon shards and using a Raijekijin (Blade of Lightning), the brother is going to be a hard foe to defeat. We�re left with another cliffhanger!
Episode 10: The Difficult Confrontation! Raigekijin versus Tessaiga (Geki Taiketsu! Raigekijin vs Tessaiga!!) : We pick up where we left off, and Inuyasha battles it out with Hiten. Kagome pushes Manten out of his floating cloud (and Manten hits the ground hard), but his floating cloud at once dissipates. Kagome falls to the ground, but she�s saved from broken bones by landing on Manten. Kagome thinks she�ll be okay, but then sees that Manten is still alive! She runs a bit, but trips (of course...it�s a great plot device, though). Shippou comes to save the day, and his Smashing Top attack (Tsubushi Goma) clips off the last hair on Manten�s head. Now that Manten is super mad, Shippou and Kagome run for it. They try to trick Manten by having Shippou pose as Kagome, and using fox magic to hold him still while the real Kagome stabs Manten on the point of his forehead where the Shikon shards are buried, but Manten knocks the real Kagome down and hits Shippou a good distance away. Inuyasha, distracted by Kagome�s predicament, is hit in the shoulder by Hiten�s Raigekijin. Inuyasha then decides that he must solve the Manten problem before he can fight Hiten. Meanwhile, Shippou has latched onto Manten�s throat with his teeth, and, though he must be in a lot of pain, doesn�t let go even as Manten hits him pretty hard on the head. With the other hand, Manten holds Kagome by the throat, attempting to choke her to death.
Finally, the good guys get a point: Inuyasha, making like he threw his Tesseiga at Hiten, hits Manten instead. Tessaiga pretty much annihilated Manten. Kagome retrieves the fur of Shippou�s father, and at least took Tessaiga out of Manten�s body, but was unable to get it to Inuyasha when, with a burst of thunder and lightning, Hiten knocked her away in order to get to his little brother. Manten died in his brother�s arms, and Hiten, very mad, consumed the Shikon shards that were on his brother's forehead.
Inuyasha is struggling in his fight with Hiten now that the lightning youkai has five Shikon shards, but at least his scabbard for Tessaiga is able to block some of Hiten�s attacks. Since Hiten can fly freely with his "fire wheels," Kagome gets a great idea. Using the arrow she pulled from Manten�s nose earlier, she fires her bow at Hiten�s fire wheels, and manages to shatter one. Inuyasha takes advantage, and simply punches Hiten. Now Hiten is bursting with anger, and comes at Inuyasha, who blocks with his scabbard. Unfortunately, the scabbard starts to break, and the others are desperate to help him. Kagome sees Tessaiga near Manten�s body, but Shippou beats her to the punch. Hiten sees Kagome (still holding the fur of Shippou�s father) and Shippou going for the sword, and (still pressing his Raigekijin down on Inuyasha) uses his brother�s thunder attack (via the mouth) to attack Shippou and Kagome. It looks like they�re dead amidst the flames of the attack.
Inuyasha, quite alarmed and angry, still wants to fight Hiten (who obliges). The sheath is about to crack when the scabbard calls the sword to it and Inuyasha is able to use Tessaiga against Hiten. With one swipe, he breaks Raigekijin and kills Hiten. The five shards drop to the ground as Hiten disintegrates. Inuyasha, saddened by Kagome�s death (and Shippou�s, too, I suppose), turns to see what looks like Kagome and Shippou�s ghosts, pausing to say thank you and farewell. They are surrounded by a blue fire, and then look as if their spirits are leaving. Inuyasha yells for them to wait, and grabs Kagome by the arm. The blue fire rises up into the air, and Inuyasha yells Kagome�s name (how sweet!), but he looks down to see that Kagome is still standing there with Shippou. The blue fire was the fox fire of Shippou�s father�s pelt, which protected Kagome and Shippou from Hiten�s attack. Inuyasha fakes being angry since he�s embarrassed about his emotional outburst. As they travel away at the end of the episode, Inuyasha pesters Shippou about leaving (he�s not leaving since the poor kid has no parents now), and Kagome makes him stop by yelling osuwari!
Episode 11: Revived in Present Day, the Cursed 'Nou Mask' (Gendai ni Yomigaeru, Noroi no Noumen) : Kagome, who has tests soon, leaves feudal Japan via the Bone-Gobbling Well (and has to crash a boulder on top of Inuyasha in order to get away). She brings with her the Shikon shards that she has so far, leaving them on the desk in her room. At school, she receives health sandals from Houjou-kun, a male classmate who seems to be interested in her. Because of Jii-chan�s outrageous lies, given in order to make excuses for Kagome�s absences, Houjou-kun thinks that Kagome had gout! Back at the house, Jii-chan finds a fire in one of the storehouses. He sees that the nou-men (Nikuzuki Nou-Men: the mask of flesh) has broken the scrolls that were an attempt to seal it when a Nou actor gave the mask to Jii-chan�s great-great-grandfather to exorcise it. The nou-men chants that it wants a body (a living body) and darts around the room randomly as it searches. Jii-chan tries to stop it, but the fire spreads quickly and a rafter of the storehouse breaks, falling on top of him.
Later, Kagome comes home to find a crowd and the fire department. She learns of what happened, and her mother leaves to see Jii-chan at the hospital. Meanwhile, a fire fighter inside the now-soaked storehouse is caught off guard by the nou-men, which rises from a watery hole in the storehouse floor to latch onto his face (eww!). The nou-men then steals a fire truck and roams about the city, crashing into other cars and consuming the bodies of the passengers. The nou-men, attracted to the shards in Kagome�s room, attacks her home (Souta happens to be in the room, talking with her, when the nou-men attacks). Breaking the glass of her window, the nou-men doesn�t have good control of its black gooey body, and Kagome is able to rescue the bottle of shards before grabbing her brother and racing out of the room. Souta is scared by the blood from the glass cuts on Kagome�s hand, but Kagome continues to run. The nou-men attacks again from above once Kagome and Souta are outside, so Kagome has a chance to see the Shikon shard on its forehead. She tells Souta to go through the well and get Inuyasha before running off. Souta jumps into the well, but sadly hits hard (poor baby!) because he has no "link" to get there. As he cries for help, Inuyasha suddenly comes through the portal (looking rather cool, I must say).
What made him come through was the smell of Kagome�s blood, which had dripped onto Souta�s hand. Letting Souta tag along, Inuyasha seeks out Kagome. He saves her at a critical moment, and the nou-men has to take time to collect itself. This gives Inuyasha time to make Kagome apologize for dropping the boulder on him. She�s entirely insincere when apologizing, but the nou-men interrupts, and gives us the reason why it has a Shikon shard. When the Shikon no Tama was shattered and shot off in different directions, one shard was buried in the trunk of a cinnamon tree, from which the nou-men was carved. We see a great fight sequence, and Inuyasha saves the day by pulling out his Tessaiga, which "performs" since he was saving Souta�s life in the process of destroying the nou-men mask. Daylight suddenly pours over the area, and though Kagome takes a second to see how nice Inuyasha is finally being to her, she then realizes she still has tests to take (and has somehow missed a whole night of sleep). Running off, she leaves Inuyasha and Souta behind...Inuyasha feels a bit unappreciated, but at least Souta tells him that was cool.
Episode 12: Tatari Mokke [Unexpected Curse] and the Little Poltergeist (Tatari Mokke to Chiisaina Akuryou) : Kagome walks home with her friends after school, and takes a moment to seriously consider if a high school will accept her considering the way she's now living, but is distracted by a young girl playing a prank on some children. The young girl is surprised that Kagome can see her after Kagome runs after her, telling her to stop. The girl nevertheless tells Kagome to mind her own business and disappears in a burst of flames, which completely confuses Kagome. Meanwhile, Inuyasha is using steel bees (Hagane Bachi) to repair the crack in his scabbard. As he, Shippou, and Myouga wait for the wax to do its thing, they see the youkai, Tatari Mokke, playing it flute and floating along the nearby river with the souls of dead children laughing around it. Myouga explains that Tatari Mokke was born from these souls, and plays with the souls of recently deceased children until they can pass onto the next world. Myouga then says that the youkai is gentle, as long as it keeps its eyes closed (foreshadowing!).
Kagome later takes Souta to a hospital while her mother tends to other errands so that he can visit a friend, Satoru, who�s still in a coma after being caught in a fire in the apartment that he, his mother, and his sister lived in. Sadly, the sister, Mayu, died in the fire. While they�re visiting, the same girl that Kagome saw playing a prank reaches out from under Satoru�s bed to yank down on the line to his IV, crashing the unit to the floor. Kagome recognizes her, and knows that she must not let the situation go on like it is. Kagome and Souta pass by the burnt apartment on their way home, and Mayu throws a pot at them to scare them away. Kagome confronts her when Mayu approaches, but Mayu tells Kagome not to interfere, or she�ll kill her as well. Mayu then becomes angry and de-roots nearby bushes and a tree, throwing them about to scare Kagome. Then Kagome hears a flute, and turns to see the Tatari Mokke. Somehow, she garners something important from looking at the Tatari Mokke, and says out loud, "Until the eyes open." She goes to feudal Japan to ask Myouga for advice, and he tells her about the Tatari Mokke. He also tells her that children who can�t pass on become evil spirits. Kagome wants to help Mayu now.
Here�s Mayu�s story: When Satoru became ill six months ago, Mayu�s mother couldn�t make it to Mayu�s play, which got Mayu mad at her mom, so she ran off. She has actually run away before, but her mother was used to her coming back after a little while. Her mother had to leave to get groceries and medicine, so when Mayu came back, she hid in a closet, telling Satoru not to tell their mother that she was in there so that she could make her worry. Hanging her scarf above the furnace in his room, she didn�t pay attention to Satoru when he told her that she should hang it elsewhere. Soon, the apartment was on fire. The mother came back home, and--thinking Mayu was still away from the apartment--she grabbed only Satoru. Mayu, trapped inside the closet, and thinking that her mom had abandoned her, died in the fire.
Inuyasha tells Kagome that helping Mayu is impossible since she�s a ghost, not a youkai. She leaves him babbling (at which point Shippou calls him an idiot...hehehe) to seek out Mayu and Satoru�s mother to get the story about Mayu. After hearing it, they see that Satoru�s room is under attack, and run to find Mayu making a mess. After knocking her mother out, Mayu throws Satoru�s bed, with him on it, out the window, despite Kagome�s attempt to reason with her. Kagome thinks that Satoru fell out, but alas, Inuyasha has come to help! (What a sweet guy!) However, he�s still certain that there�s nothing Kagome can do.
The Tatari Mokke appears behind Mayu, and opens its eyes almost to their fullest. Chains surround Mayu, and the Tatari Mokke tugs her along to take her spirit to hell, the portal of which is in the burnt apartment. Inuyasha still takes Kagome to the apartment even though he says it�s no use, and tries to go into the apartment with her, but only full humans can pass beyond the boundary (remember, Inuyasha�s a hanyou). Kagome runs through the burning apartment (she has gone back to the time when it was burning...or it�s a recreation...something like that), looking for Mayu. Mayu, chained inside the closet, is about to be pulled into hell when Kagome finally finds her. Grabbing her hand, Kagome saves the child�s soul by helping her get past her anger and regret. At the hospital, Satoru has finally woken up. Mayu is able to make up with her mother, and thanks Kagome before she leaves (not to hell, thank goodness).
Episode 13: The Mystery of the New Moon: Black-Haired Inuyasha (Shingetsu no Nazo: Kurokami no Inuyasha) : Kagome is trying to leave school to "keep a promise" when she�s waylaid by Houjou-kun, who wants to ask her on a date. Her friends encourage her, and Kagome decides to accept the date. Kagome and Inuyasha leave through the well in the next scene. Note: I really love this episode because Inuyasha looks so cute with black hair! Going along a river in a boat (with Shippou seasick), the Yasha gang is seeking another Shikon shard. They pass under huge spider web strands going across the river�s steep banks, and then see something shove a young woman off the cliff higher up. Inuyasha is gracious enough to catch her, and the girl, Nazuna, lets the Yasha gang know that the thing that pushed her was a boss spider youkai (kumogashira), and that he and his minions are terrorizing the local villages. Though Nazuna says she doesn�t want any help from them, they at least take her home, where they meet the monk who has assumed the position of her guardian after her parents� death.
They stay the night at the monk�s insistence, and Inuyasha looks quite uncomfortable the whole time. After Kagome incorrectly assumes that he�s scared of spiders, Inuyasha is about to go off to sleep alone, but sees that they were already surrounded by the spider youkai..."his nose had already failed him." (Foreshadowing!) Kagome, Shippou, and Myouga wonder why Tessaiga hasn�t transformed, and Nazuna finds the monk unconscious under a spider web. Inuyasha tries to fight for a bit, but is covered with spider webs. Shippou uses his Kitsune-Bi attack to at least get them away. As they stop to rest, Kagome asks Inuyasha what�s wrong, and pulls off the web over his head...to see that his hair is now black! His dog ears are gone, too...hmmm...he�s human!! Myouga explains that a hanyou (half-demon) lose his youkai powers once in a while; for Inuyasha, it�s the first night of every month when the moon has disappeared (New Moon). Nazuna then shows up, asking them to save the monk. It�s at that moment that Kagome realizes the Shikon shards are still in her bag, which she left behind...so Inuyasha and Shippou go off to get them back, and hopefully help out the monk (Inuyasha leaves Tesseiga behind for Kagome in case they need it).
When Inuyasha and Shippou arrive, they see that the monk is the kumogashira. Inuyasha can�t do much as a human, and gets himself bitten by the kumogashira. The poison starts to paralyze him and will soon kill him. Shippou, only able to rescue some of the shards before the kumogashira got the rest, is by himself now. However, Kagome and Nazuna come to the rescue. Kagome uses Tessaiga to free Inuyasha from the web that is holding him in place, crying as she does so, and pulls him into a room off to the side of the main hall. Placing Tesseiga on the door, they manage to seal the room off from the kumogashira and his minions so that they can recuperate. Myouga sucks out the blood, and in a seemingly well-placed bit of comic relief, says to the camera, "Nice to meet you. I�m the chubby Myouga." Inuyasha spends the night with his head on Kagome�s lap (kawaii!!!!) and sleepily admits to Kagome that he "likes her smell" (which definitely gets Kagome�s heart beating).
About a moment before sunrise, the kumogashira crushes the building in his attempt to reach the last of the Shikon shards. He shakes them out of Shippou�s pockets, and Nazuna tries to confront the spider boss with Tessaiga, but loses her will when she learns that there was no human monk at all...it was all a plan to draw out Inuyasha. She�s picked up by the kumogashira, and lets Tessaiga drop from her hand. Inuyasha, looking quite refreshed (but still with black hair), plucks the sword out of the air. The kumogashira picks him up in three of his many hands (eww), still thinking Inuyasha is human, but the sun suddenly rises behind Inuyasha, and in a cool sequence, his youkai blood pulsates once again. His hair fades to white, and Inuyasha proceeds to kick the kumogashira�s butt!
Afterwards, Kagome and Shippou find that the Shikon shards had fused inside of the spider youkai�s body, and the Shikon no Tama looks about halfway completed. They drop Nazuna off near a town, and head down the river again, with Shippou hanging off the side, seasick (poor baby!).
Episode 14: The Stolen Sacred Bones of Kikyou (Nuzumareta Kikyou no Reikotsu) : At the beginning of this episode, we see a youkai that looks like an old hag. She attacks Kaede�s village, and steals the bones of her sister, Kikyou, for her own purposes. She identifies herself as Kijo Urasue before flying off into the night. In the next scene, Inuyasha wakes from a dream about Kikyou, and accidentally wakes up Kagome as he stares at her face in thought. They argue for a bit, but look up to see the old hag youkai flying across the sky...and Inuyasha smells Kaede�s blood on her. So they return to the village, and Kaede tells them what happened. Inuyasha doesn�t want to get involved because of the hurt he still feels about Kikyou sealing him to the tree. We once again see the scenes from 50 years ago when Naraku tricked Inuyasha and Kikyou into hating each other. Kagome convinces him that he should go, and the Yasha gang (plus Kaede) go to retrieve Kikyou�s bones.
That night, Kagome thinks about Inuyasha�s feelings for Kikyou, and suspects that it�s not all hate. The next morning, Kagome studies Inuyasha, and confirms at least one thing...he was in love with Kikyou. Kagome believes at the time that it was a one-sided love, which shows on her face, and makes Inuyasha curious about the pity in her eyes. We then see that Kijo Urasue has mixed Kikyou�s bones and the earth from the grave, and baked them in the shape of a body. She also uses some of her magic, and from the clay has created a new body for Kikyou. Kijo Urasue wants Kikyou to collect all the Shikon shards, and give them to her (she does have authority over Kikyou for giving her a new body, I guess). The body is empty, though, because Kikyou�s soul has already been reincarnated (in Kagome), which gets Kijo Urasue very mad.
The Yasha gang (plus Kaede) reach Kijo Urasue�s hideout, and are about to cross a long rickety bridge when the same clay dolls they saw earlier appear at each end, crack open to reveal run-of-the-mill warriors, and attack everyone. Kijo Urasue hears the racket Inuyasha makes, and sees that the Kikyou re-make is reacting to the proximity of the outsiders. She goes outside to check, and sees that Kagome looks just like Kikyou...seeing her chance at such a coincidence, she cuts the bridge in half with her sickle, and grabs up Kagome as the Yasha gang (plus Kaede) drop to the ravine below. She tells Kagome her plans (though I don�t know why), and we�re left with another cliffhanger!
Episode 15: The Resurrection of the Tragic Priestess, Kikyou (Hiun no Miko, Kikyou Fukkatsu) : Inuyasha, Kaede, and Shippou land safely (relatively) at the bottom of the ravine, and Inuyasha takes time to slash at some more clay warriors with Tessaiga. When they�ve been defeated, the human souls inside that allowed them to move float away, and Kaede explains that Kijo Urasue must have stolen Kikyou�s bones in order to attract her soul into a body that she made...then realizes that Kijo Urasue just kidnapped Kagome. Telling the rest of the Yasha gang that they must hurry, she says that they may now actually meet Kikyou (Inuyasha�s shocked at this), and that Kijo Urasue will be a tough opponent.
Meanwhile, the old hag youkai has placed Kagome in a tub of medical herbs meant to draw out Kagome�s soul and allow the Kikyou re-make to absorb it. Kagome fights for as long as possible, but the herbs begin to work, and the Shikon shards she has with her react to the process. As her soul leaves her body, it gives off a very bright light (Kagome has a very big soul...what that means, I don�t know). Inuyasha, Kaede, and Shippou finally arrive to see the bright light, and the Kikyou re-make. We hear Kikyou�s voice (coming from the bright light), saying not to speak her name, but of course, Inuyasha does. It seems to be the catalyst, and the soul finally leaves Kagome�s body.
Kijo Urasue gloats over the success of her plan and tries to order Kikyou to kill the "intruders," but Kikyou kills Kijo Urasue instead (one point for Kikyou, I guess). Then Kikyou demands Inuyasha tell her why he betrayed her, and a red light re-creates the wound she had received before she died. Kaede asks Inuyasha why he doesn�t remember the wound he gave her, and Inuyasha is clueless...he, of course, never hurt Kikyou at all...the fake Inuyasha (Naraku) did. A bit of the Kikyou-Inuyasha story I covered in the summary of episode one is revealed by their conversation.
Kikyou attacks Inuyasha, and when Kaede tries to stop her (she may be Kikyou�s younger sister, but she�s got a lot more experience that Kikyou now), she pushes her own sister away, pulling the bow and arrows from her as she shoves. She shoots an arrow at Inuyasha, missing, and Shippou has managed to pull Kagome�s body out of the tub (remember, Shippou has loyalty only to Kagome). He asks what will happen to Kagome, and Kaede says that if Kikyou doesn�t carry out her revenge, their soul will not settle down, and Kagome will remain asleep forever. Kikyou fires off another arrow, and though Inuyasha tries to block it with Tessaiga, the sword loses its transformation, and the arrow begins to penetrate Inuyasha�s skin. As he cries out, Kagome�s body stirs, and her eyes open. Of a sudden, the "parts" of Kagome�s soul inside the re-make of Kikyou begin to leave the clay body. Kikyou is still able to move around, though, and Inuyasha wonders if Kikyou still has a part of the soul. However, the somehow-still-alive Kijo Urasue gladly explains that the only thing driving the clay body now is Kikyou�s hatred of Inuyasha (I think it�s more of a love/hatred, ying/yang sort of thing). The old hag disintegrates as she finishes, laughing maniacally.
Inuyasha runs in the direction that Kikyou left in, rescues her from falling down the cliff, and tells her that she should return the last part of the soul to Kagome, but Kikyou turns his words around to mean that he wants her to die (geez, she�s messed up), and uses her miko powers to make him let her go. She falls down the cliff, and vanishes in the fog. Inuyasha angrily asks himself why it had to turn out like this, and has a brief flashback that reveals more of the story covered in the episode one summary. He then walks back to the others, in a lot of emotional and physical pain (poor baby!).