Episode 175

Kagome falls from the sky, but InuYasha catches her. Naraku recaptures Kikyo, who has been connected to him through his spiderwebs, rendering her spiritual powers useless. He intends on taking Koga's shards, but is dusturbed to discover that his spiderwebs are purified when he makes contact with Koga's pure shards. InuYasha and Kagome arrive and while InuYasha battles Naraku with his dragon-scaled Tetsusaiga, Kagome aims her bow at Kikyo to save her life, but Kikyo tells her to wait before firing her arrow. Naraku drops Kikyo from his grasp, and his body opens, revealing the Shikon jewel inside. Inuyasha catches Kikyo, but Kikyo tells Inuyasha to leave her in order to save Koga's life. Koga tries to get the sacred jewel from Naraku's body, but the jewel disappears and Koga is trapped. Miroku uses his Wind Tunnel to suck away the miasma to free Koga, while Inuyasha helps Koga break free from Naraku's grasp. Koga loses his shards, but he remains alive, as Kikyo intended. With the Shikon Jewel now inside Kikyo, she has Kagome shoot her with the bow from Mount Azusa. Kikyo purifies the jewel, and fires the jewel from her body at Naraku to try to purify him as well. However, he succeeds in defiling the jewel, and Kikyo is left dying. Kikyo is able to purfiy the core of the jewel, which Naraku is unable to defile, but at the expense of her life. She tells InuYasha that she is a normal woman now, and he kisses her one last time before she dies in his arms. Inuyasha tells Kagome when she goes towards him that he didn't want Kikyo to suffer any more sorrow, and that he wanted to protect her forever, before a scene of the twinkling stars ends the episode.