Episode 20

'''Despicable Villain! The Mystery of Onigumo!' is the twentieth episode of the InuYasha'' anime. It first aired in Japan on March 19, 2001.

Synopsis

 * 1) Kagome is stuck in the modern era, unable to return to the Feudal Era without a shard of the Shikon no Tama.
 * 2) Kaede tells Inuyasha and Miroku about a man named Onigumo, a bandit whom Kikyō had cared for 50 years ago; they visit the cave where Onigumo laid, and feel the overwhelming presence of a demon.
 * 3) Naraku unleashes Rōyakan, whom he is controlling with the use of a Shikon no Tama shard, on Inuyasha.

Summary
Inuyasha locks the Bone-Eater's Well with a gigantic tree so that Kagome doesn’t appear again in the Feudal Era, so that nothing happens to her. Then he wants to go back to the normal course of events - without Kagome. Inuyasha and Miroku discuss Naraku and Kikyō. Miroku throws in that they need Kagome to find the shards of jewels and he's irritated because Inuyasha just sent Kagome back.

In the meantime, Kagome is reunited with her friends Yuka, Eri, and Ayumi and goes to school again - she has no choice, as she cannot easily return to the Feudal Era. She longs to see Inuyasha again.

Kaede takes care of Inuyasha because he has the very bad injury of Sesshōmaru. Kaede later talks to him about Kikyō and her claim that Inuyasha stole the Shikon no Tama. Kaede says that there was probably only one person in the whole world who was malicious enough for such a deception: Onigumo. Kaede reveals to Inuyasha and Miroku that in a nearby cave, in which she and Kikyō once cared for a badly burnt thief named Onigumo. A bandit who was completely maimed and hurt - but he was able to talk. But towards Kaede he showed himself to be vicious at an early age, which Kikyō, however, left cold and so it came to the deception. Kaede had looked for Onigumo a few days after Kikyō's death, but the cave in which he lay was burned with him and grass never grew again where he had been.When they go into the cave, however, they sense a hideous, demonic spirit there, which cannot come from Onigumo because of its humanity.

Shippō did not go with the others; he still tries to get Kagome back, but fails. Then he is surprised by a pack of wolves and flees to Inuyasha. This comes from Onigumo's cave and immediately confronts the wolves, but then his wound opens again. Then the guardian of the cave appears, who has become an evil yōkai and now competes against Inuyasha. He calls himself Rōyakan and Inuyasha cannot do anything about his injuries. When Miroku sucks the wolves in with his Wind Tunnel, except for the leader, the latter spits a new pack out of his throat. Meanwhile, Naraku is sitting in a nearby tree who revived Rōyakan with a jewel shard; actually he died years ago. With his wind hole, Miroku does a good job and Rōyakan disappears. Inuyasha has already collapsed.

Kagome has been back in the Modern Era for three days and is waiting for Inuyasha. In physical education class, Hōjō asks her to meet and her friends suspect that she likes someone else, but as evidence to the contrary, she agrees to Hōjō. Still she tries to get through the well, but of course it doesn't work.

Inuyasha has meanwhile been tied up by his friends and locked in a hut so that he can rest and not open his wounds again. But he kicks the hut the whole time and finally has to be brought to the ground by Miroku by force. Shippō asks Inuyasha afterwards in the middle of the night what Kagome is doing when he actually didn't want to think about it anymore.

After his near death, Rōyakan fled into the woods and is visited there by Naraku, who forces a splinter of the Shikon no Tama on him, so that he again succumbs to his will. He immediately goes to Inuyasha to destroy him, which is already noticed at the hut. Miroku and Kaede keep a spell circle there, which for the first time fends off the wolves and also makes the hut with Inuyasha and herself invisible, so that Rōyakan smells but sees nothing. But it is much bigger than last time, because of the jewel splinter. An arrow fired by Naraku flies towards Kaede, so that they have to drop the spell and Rōyakan jumps onto Inuyasha's hut, for which he from Tessaiga get hurt. However, the second blow with the sword is intercepted and also loses the jewel that strikes away from both. Rōyakan would be faster than him, but Shippō jumps in between and grabs it in front of the much larger yōkai. Then a pack of wolves is after him and Miroku can not suck up the pack because of Saimyōshō.

Differences from the manga

 * The anime omits the scene of a fake Kikyō appearing in Onigumo's cave in Naraku's effort to provoke Inuyasha.
 * In the anime, Rōyakan escapes Miroku's Kazaana by slamming on the ground. In the manga, however, Miroku closes his Kazaana right before Rōyakan is sucked in in an effort to find out who set Rōyakan up to attack Inuyasha.
 * When Naraku gives Rōyakan another Shikon shard in the manga, he finds Rōyakan in a cave and inserts the shard along with a seed that will crush Rōyakan's head. In the anime, however, Naraku finds Rōyakan in a forest, and the Shikon shard has no such seed on it.

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