Episode 87

Kikyo's Lonely Journey is 87th episode of the InuYasha anime.

Plot
While Kagome, Inuyasha, Miroku, Sango, Kirara, and Shippo wait in a shelter for the rain to pass, Kikyo finds an old bandit, Rasetsu, looking for a peaceful place to die. His life is maintained by a shard of the Jewel, which he took from a demon. She tends to him while he recounts his story.

Fifty years ago, he was lured by a fellow bandit, who was Onigumo, into attacking Kikyo to possess the Sacred Jewel. Inuyasha had defended her, and Rasetsu lost an eye. Seeking revenge, he set fire to the house where Onigumo was, then threw his badly burned body from a cliff... at the bottom of which Kikyo fatefully found him. Rasetsu dies asking Kikyo for a favor in exchange for his shard of the Jewel; if she could take a strand of his hair to Mount Hakurei, were they say even villain can find peace.

Meanwhile, Inuyasha and company stop to rest from a heavy storm. While during the night of the storm next to a fire, Kagome catches a cold and Inuyasha gives her his kimono for warmth. Kagome at first shrugs off his concern saying someone was probably just gossiping about her to which he replies, "Don't be ridiculous. Who'd ever gossip about you?" Kagome then thanks him for looking after her and the two then lean on each other their shoulders and sides pressing against each other as they then blush and Inuyasha scratches his head as he does. Each with one eye open and pretending to be asleep; Miroku, Sango, Shippo, and Kirara witness the sentimental scene between Inuyasha and Kagome.