InuYasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time

InuYasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time is the first InuYasha movie. It was released on December 15, 2001 in Japan.

It features Menomaru, a demon from the continent whose father was sealed by Inuyasha's father, as the primary antagonist.

Summary
InuYasha 's father defeated a powerful Chinese moth yokai named "Hyōga" 200 years ago. Now a Shikon Jewel fragment has freed "Menōmaru", Hyōga's son. He seeks revenge for his father's destruction and to free the power of his father sealed away with him. Menōmaru and his minions "Hari" and "Ruri" begin battling with InuYasha. Sango and Miroku have their hands full dealing with the duo, Ruri having copied Miroku's Wind Tunnel and Hari having stolen Sango's faithful companion, Kirara. Menōmaru then abducts Kagome and puts her under mind control so she turns against InuYasha.

When Menōmaru is finally able to access the power of his predecessors, sealed away by InuYasha's father, he becomes the new Hyōga and exponentially more powerful as each generation gains the power of all the preceding generations. Hyōga soon begins to change the essence of time and space as he's absorbing the souls of countless people in order to fully merge himself with his family's power. This causes the mind control that he put on Kagome to awaken and injure Kaede and search for InuYasha. As he's crossing a bridge, InuYasha thinks he sees Kikyo but instead it's Kagome who is wearing clothes similar to Kikyo's. InuYasha greets her on the bridge while Kagome is trying to tell him to run, but unfortunately cannot be heard. Then walks over to InuYasha and puts her head on his shoulder. He embraces her after which Kagome says "InuYasha... get away," warning him of her attack. He looks in amazement but is then stabbed by magical "claws" that come from Kagome's hands; afterwards, he realizes what Menōmaru has done. He then is chased by the controlled Kagome to the tree that he was sealed to. Regaining control of herself for a moment, Kagome tells InuYasha to run. After hearing that from everyone, InuYasha gets angry saying that he's "sick of everyone telling him to run," when in danger and refuses to leave without her. It is then that Kagome loses complete control of her body alltogether and shoots InuYasha, pinning him to the tree (similar to what happen between him and Kikyo fifty years earlier) sending Kagome into so much heartbreak that she breaks free of her mind control and cries out in pain to InuYasha and runs over to him, holding him in her arms sobbing. Kikyo then comes along saying how ironic it was for that to happen again. Then she begins to tell Kagome that this happened because Kagome did not belong in the past in the feudal era and that she needs to take the Jewel Shard and return to her own time. Kikyo then forces Kagome down the Bone Eater's Well to remove her once and for all from the past since through Menomaru's manipulation of time, she thinks that Kagome will be forever trapped in the future.

After returning to her own time, Kagome walks out to a snowy Tokyo. When she is walking towards the tree that InuYasha was sealed to and where he sits now, she sees him there, knocked out due to her shooting with an arrow while she was controlled by Menomaru. As she walks towards him, a snow flake floats by and erases the image. It is then that she realizes that without a way back to Feudal Japan, that she can never see InuYasha again and that she collapses and begins to cry.

Once she gets back up, she heads over to the tree and places her hand on it. Kagome and InuYasha are then connected to each other through the tree and begin to talk through thoughts. He asks where she is and Kagome tells him that she is in her own time. He replies by saying, "Oh, didja get scared?" Angry at first, Kagome says that was not the reason, but then recalls her reaction to Kikyo and admits to being afraid. It is then that Kagome sees InuYasha as if he were awake. She tells him that she feels helpless and since she hurt him that "maybe it's better if [she] wasn't around at all." With that InuYasha stands up and tells her to stop saying such things. Kagome begins to tell him not to move because he will open his wounds, but InuYasha walks over to Kagome and embraces her tightly (thus the name "Affections Touching Across Time") saying to her, "I need you with me Kagome.... Haven't you realized that yet?" Kagome then begins to cry again and lets her head fall into his shoulder saying, "Thank you... InuYasha."

It then goes back to Kagome standing by herself. She then tries to go back to the well, but sees that it has roots coming out of it. She then runs back to the tree and touches it again and tells InuYasha that she cannot get back. InuYasha then replies that she can use a sacred arrow. Kagome begins to say how she doesn'thave any sacred arrows in the present day era, but then realizes where she can get one. She then gets a stick and bow from her grandfather and jabs the stick into the hole of the tree where she had injured herself earlier in the film and where InuYasha was pinned to, pulling out a tip of an arrow. Before running back to the Bone Eaters Well, her mother gives Kagome her school uniform telling her to "do what she had to do."

After putting it on, Kagome shoots the arrow into the well just as a reawakened InuYasha is about to slash the roots away despite the protests of Kaede and Shippo due to his wounded condition. The blast from the arrow causes InuYasha to get burnt and fall back into the rubble. She emerges from the well and is happily welcomed back by Shippo and Kaede before getting into a fight with InuYasha for the explosion, verifying things are officialy back to normal between them. Myoga then interrupts their fight and tells them that they have to defeat Menomaru before it's too late.

Sesshomaru appears realizing that his father's ancient enemy is fighting with his half brother, but chooses not to interfere. For the first time in the series he has a conversation with Kikyo. Kikyo somehow knew he was InuYasha's older brother, and Sesshomaru knew about her relationship with InuYasha as he told Jaken and Rin that she was nothing but a dead miko. He leaves warning her that only he will kill InuYasha.

Miroku and Sango manage to defeat Hari and Ruri and join InuYasha, Kagome, and Shippo in a stand against Menomaru. However, he emerges from his cocoon as the new Lord Hyoga, a moth god with far more power than his father ever had. Only with the power of Kagome's sacred arrow and InuYasha's Backlash Wave attack do they manage to find a way to destroy Hyoga for good.

After the credits end, Kagome and InuYasha are sitting together in modern day Tokyo by the Tree talking about their conversation through their thoughts and the tree. Kagome then says she wants to make everyone some more lunch and InuYasha ends up insulting Kagome's cooking causing her to give him a Sit command.

Trivia

 * The movie stands far enough in the series that Rin is already with Sesshomaru, and InuYasha masters the Backlash Wave of his Tessaiga (so after episode 54) but not far enough for Kikyo to have lost her bitterness over her death, which cut her from the flow of time. Sesshomaru also doesn't have Tokijin, despite Inuyasha having mastered the Backlash Wave.