Episode 5

Aristocratic Assassin, Sesshomaru is the fifth episode of the InuYasha anime.

Plot
It begins with Jaken guiding Sesshomaru to what appears to be a tomb to find whether or not it is Sesshomaru's father's grave. The temple is guarded by wolves but Sessomaru easily kills them with his poison whip. Jaken gets on top of the stone stucture and uses his staff to check if it's the place. The lady screams, telling them that it's not the right place. So Sesshomaru tells Jaken to find a boat while he walks off. Sesshomaru demands a boat.Then they refuse and their leader attacks him, Sesshomaru kills him and leaves the rest of his men to Jaken. Then they take a boat. On the way to another location, Jaken asked Sesshomaru if they should consult Inuyasha, but Sesshomaru states that he'd rather not think of his younger brother. He assumes that Inuyasha is still sealed to the tree for 50 years by Kikyo. Jaken says he heard from someone that the spell is broken and Inuyasha is free. He also states that the staff of two heads has been acting strange also and is sure it's because of him He also states to his lord that speaking of the staff he was wondering, because he had been tossed in the water to remove the staff from his head due to his not being able to breath. So they continue their search for Sesshomaru and InuYasha's father's grave. Myoga finds out about their plan and hurries back to inform Inuyasha.

Meanwhile Kagome brings her bike and her first-aid kit so she can heal Inuyasha's wounds from their battle with Yura Of The Demon Hair. Inuyasha is sitting in a tree and refuses to come down when Kagome tells him that she has to heal him, so Kagome tells him to "sit" to get him out of the tree. Kaede is with the other kids from their village, her arm still in a cast from her recent injury. Kaede says that she wishes Kagome and Inuyasha could start to like each other; the children tell her that Inuyasha and Kagome do like each other, but when Kaede sees Kagome on top of Inuyasha, she gets the wrong idea. So Inuyasha pushes Kagome aside and shows her that his arm is already healed without any scars on it. Out of nowhere Inuyasha feels something on his chest and it's Myoga the flea.

The group heads back to Kaede's hut that night and Myoga tells them about Inuyasha's father. Inuyasha, however, doesn't know anything about his father. Kaede told him that his father was a great demon and the western lands were his domain. When Kagome asked about his mother, Myoga told her that she was a beautiful woman that Inuyasha's father loved, and then time Inuyasha steps on Myoga and storms out, saying that his mother died a long time ago.

Kagome rides her bike back to tree where she found Inuyasha staring off into the sky. All of a sudden a strong gust of wind makes Inuyasha jump off the tree and he hides Kagome and himself in the grass. As the clouds passed by a carriage surrounded by demons flies in the air; there is a woman inside. Inuyasha identifies the woman as his mother in front of Kagome. Out of nowhere a gigantic demon ogre grabs the carriage and crushes it with Inuyasha's mother inside. As Inuyasha tries to free her, he is stopped by a poison whip belonging to his older demon brother Sesshomaru. After making sure that Inuyasha believes his mother has been brought back from the dead, Inuyasha successfully manages to free her by using his claws to cut off one of the demon's arms. He tells Kagome to look after his mom while he fights with Sesshomaru and Jaken. Inuyasha is hit pretty hard after Sesshomaru hits the ogre with his whip and then Inuyasha's mother stopped the ogre from further attacking her son with a bright light.

When Inuyasha wakes up he finds himself in a nearby pond where his mother tells him that she has to go back to the netherworld. But before she does, she takes a flower and tosses it into the pond they were by. The flower breaks into pedals. She tells him to look into the water. When he does he sees himself as a kid one day when he was going after his ball that was kicked by other people who were teasing him for being a half demon. He then runs into his mother's arms and asked her what's a half demon. She doesn't give him an answer, instead she hugs him tightly and starts crying. Kagome wakes up in the same place and sees Inuyasha talking with his mother. She's calm until she looks into the pond and sees that Inuyasha's mom's face doesn't have a reflection in the water, which means that she isn't his mother. When she tries to tell Inuyasha the truth she finds out that she's paralyzed.

Trivia

 * Sesshōmaru, the Inu no Taishō (in his dog form in a flashback), Izayoi (albeit as a disguise), Myōga and Jaken all make their first appearances.
 * This is the first time Inuyasha's family is discussed.
 * Inuyasha can be seen as a child while he is looking at the water.
 * Kagome manages to get her bike through the well and is wearing an outfit other than her school uniform.
 * Even though it was just part of their ploy, Sesshōmaru really does have the ability to revive the dead if he uses Tenseiga, although not someone who has been dead as long as Inuyasha's mother.
 * This is the first episode in which neither the Shikon Jewel nor its shards are key to the plot.
 * Apart from Jaken, Sesshōmaru is shown to have other, lesser yōkai that he uses as servants. Another, though not introduced in this episode, is Aun.
 * This is one of the two episodes that Sesshōmaru uses an ogre yōkai, the other being Episode 18.
 * Sesshōmaru reveals his distaste for using trickery and deception to achieve his goals, and threatens Jaken with death should he have stooped to such a level for nothing.