Targeted by illusions, Kagome resists their effects but is betrayed by Kikyo, who steals her Shikon shards and nearly kills her. Inuyasha breaks the spell in time to save her—but Kikyo escapes and takes the shards straight to Naraku...

Blinded by Sesshomaru's poison, Inuyasha learns to sense demonic auras and masters Tetsusaiga's ultimate technique—the "Wind Scar." Defeated, Sesshomaru retreats, and Tōtōsai recognizes Inuyasha as the blade's true wielder. Meanwhile, a human girl named Rin finds the wounded Sesshomaru...