Episode 160

The Lucky but Two-Timing Scoundrel is the one hundred sixtieth episode of the InuYasha anime.

Summary
The episode opens with Kagome returning to her own time. Inuyasha talks to Kaede back at the shrine, informing her that Kikyo is is still alive and that Kagome had saved her by purifying Naraku's shõki. She is not surprised, stating she suspected as much when she saw two shikigami (Kocho & Asuka) collecting dirt from her sister's grave.

Back home, Kagome rests up with modern comforts (running water, a bed) and thinks about Kikyo's reappearance. She comes to the conclusion that she's still second fiddle.

In the past, Inuyasha complains to Miroku and Sango about Kagome leaving without telling him. Sango chastises him, saying they don't need his permission for everything; Miroku says Kagome left that way because she didn't want to interrupt him and Kaede. When he continues to gripe about it, Sango tells him to sit, but it fails, much everyone's surprise (though Inuyasha tries to play it off as a given).

The following morning, Kagome's mother presents her with another bicycle for her to ride to school on. It is second-hand, but she polishes it up nice and clean...only to have Inuyasha come crashing down on top of it.

After reaming him for damaging her bike, she walks to school and meets with her friends. They gossip together about the Kagome/Inuyasha/Kikyo love triangle and Kagome lets slip that Inuyasha had come to see her. Inuyasha spends the morning trying to bend Kagome's bike back to normal. He apologizes to Kagome's mother for breaking "the metal contraption" and she tells him she appreciates him trying to fix it. Inuyasha works diligently but only succeeds in destroying it completely.

Knowing that Inuyasha is now at her house, Kagome's friends decide to follow Kagome home and meet him themselves.

Inuyasha asks Sota what to do about Kagome's bike. Sota recommends that he try and pay her back. Their first attempt for money is for Inuyasha to use the Kongōsōha to produce diamonds and use those to buy a new bicycle. The plan fails when Tessaiga does not produce the diamonds, either because the attack cannot be used in the future or (more likely) because the attack cannot be used for personal gain. Sota refuses to let Inuyasha try again after he nearly destroys an airplane in his second attempt. Plan B is for Inuyasha to work off the debt by helping Kagome's grandpa with shrine maintenance.

Kagome and her friends arrive home (much to her chagrin) and find the tangled mess that had just that morning been Kagome's new bike. Her friends mistake it for an avant-garde sculpture.

In the storage unit on the Higurashi property, Inuyasha works to help Grandpa clean and rearrange boxes. As he picks up a very delicate jar with "a very storied history", Kagome (unable to see him but knowing he's still there) screams for him to sit. He crashes to the floor, taking an entire shelf of antiquities down with him, in addition to the precious jar. Hearing her grandfather's wails of woe, Kagome dashes to the shed to find him weeping pitifully over the remnants of his tattered treasures, with Inuyasha nowhere in sight.

In her room, Kagome tells her friends that Inuyasha must have already left. When she leaves the room to get tea for everyone, Inuyasha barges in through the window and begins conversation with the other girls. Kagome comes back and drops the tray when she sees Inuyasha. Her friends question him mercilessly about everything from his hair color to his lineage while Kagome listens nervously. (He is still wearing the bandana from cleaning at this point, so his dog-ears are hidden.)

Later, Kagome walks her friends off the property. They tell her that she made Inuyasha out to be so much worse than he is and that he wasn't at all what they were expecting. They sing his praises and even start conspiring amongst themselves how to let Hojo down easy on the fact that Kagome is with Inuyasha. Flying high over his success with her friends, Kagome forgives Inuyasha for laying waste to her bike and promises to apologize to Grandpa for the broken bric-a-brac.

Quotes

 * Ayumi [to Inuyasha]: Do you bleach your hair? Inuyasha: I was born with it. Yuka: It's such an unusual color. Inuyasha: Think so? Eri: Can I touch it? Inuyasha: Yeah, but you're weird.