Episode 42

The Wind Scar Fails is the forty-second episode of the InuYasha anime.

Synopsis

 * 1) Kanna's mirror has the ability to deflect an attack back at the attacker, such as Sango's Hiraikotsu and even Inuyasha's Kaze no Kizu; Inuyasha is seriously wounded by the attack.
 * 2) Kanna's attempt to steal Kagome's soul proves ineffective, leading Naraku to wonder if it is because she has such a large soul.
 * 3) Naraku reveals that Kanna and Kagura are incarnations created from his being; Naraku shows Inuyasha's group the massive Shikon no Tama shard he has in his possession, which gave him the necessary power to create incarnations of himself, revealing that Kikyō gave him the shard that she had stolen from Kagome, shocking everyone.

Summary
Kanna has started stealing Kagome's soul. When she says that Kagome can no longer move, she wants to take her splinters of jewels from him, but Kagome sits up and draws her bow. Miroku realizes in time that Koharu wants to stab him and overwhelms her. Then he goes in search of Kagome, while Kanna is surprised that Kagome can still move so well. When Miroku and Kirara enter, Kanna takes flight and Shippo wakes up again.

Inuyasha still plagued with the villagers and Kagura around. To make matters worse, his right arm, which Koga had attacked, is still broken. Kagura also lets her wind up, as she has learned something since the last encounter and wants to prevent the wind scar. Also this time there can be no wind scar because Kagome cannot shoot an arrow so that she disturbs the wind of Kagura. Then Inuyasha sees that there is a wind scar in Kagura's wind and decides to hit it. Kagura even asks him to Miroku's been in horror while, because he knows that Inuyasha's attack as the bone boomerang Sango will be thrown back. Kagura willingly creates an opening for Inuyasha to use, and when he hits with the Wind Scar, Kanna, standing right in front of Kagura, deflects it and throws it back at Inuyasha, who gets badly hurt by his own destructive force of the wind scar.

When the dust clears, Inuyasha lies motionless on the floor and his friends come to him. Then Naraku appears in a purple cloud of miasma on the ground, who wants to see in person how Inuyasha is destroyed. Miroku wants the three with his Wind Tunnel, but with that he would also suck in the mirror that contains all the souls of the villagers, which is why he rejects the plan. Naraku thinks that his descendants, Kagura of the Wind and Kanna of the Void, serve very well, whereupon Miroku realizes that Naraku's power is growing and that the can cannot be perceived, which is why Inuyasha did not smell them either.

Meanwhile, Kagome wakes up and wants to be brought to Inuyasha by Kirara. Meanwhile, Naraku thinks that he has fulfilled a wish of a certain woman and pulls out and shows them a nearly whole Sacred Jewel he has in his possession. He tells them that Kikyō attempted to use him to kill Inuyasha for her and as soon as Naraku mentions her name, Inuyasha wakes up surprised and hurt. Naraku now says that he has the shards of the Sacred Jewel that Kikyo gave him and that Inuyasha should die because of her.

Then Kagura wants to bring the matter to an end and kill them and uses her Dance of Blades Miroku fended them off at first but couldn't, the second were fended off by Kagome's arrow. This flies onto Kirara on the battlefield and Naraku realizes that Kagome's soul is too big for Kanna's mirror is and therefore cannot be completely paralyzed. Kagome is weakened, but she is alive and so is Inuyasha. Kagome now concludes that Kikyo gave the shards of the Sacred Jewel she stole from her to Naraku and she is happy that Inuyasha is still alive. She also realizes that Inuyasha still loves Kikyo what she did, but Naraku says he should hate her. Kagome now fires an arrow at Kanna and although she knows that Kanna's Mirror actually repulses any attack, she also knows that her arrow can break any spell. When Kanna holds up the mirror for protection, the arrow is sucked into it, which is because the arrow has a soul and is therefore sucked into the mirror. The mirror is now full and starts to crack, which is why Kanna quickly releases all souls. Everyone's souls returns to their bodies. Miroku attacks with his Wind Tunnel, but Naraku escapes with his two incarnations.

The next day the group leaves Koharu for good and they hike up to a small hut. There everyone lies down first and Shippo gives a speech that they shouldn't be so demotivated. Meanwhile, Kagome has taken care of Inuyasha and his condition is slowly improving. Shippo and Kirara go to get more herbs for Inuyasha, who is lying in the hut pondering Kikyo's betrayal of him and giving Naraku shards of the Sacred Jewel, and the fact that he still loves her. Inuyasha wonders desperately why his Kikyō seems to want him dead and where is she.

Trivia

 * Kagura clarifies that she can control anything that once held a life/soul with her Dance of the Dead.
 * Kagura creates a wall of wind to block the pull of the wind tunnel when Naraku and his incarnations retreat; it wasn't simply to create a barrier of debris.