Episode 43

Tetsusaiga Breaks is the forty-third episode of the InuYasha anime.

Synopsis

 * 1) Inuyasha tracks down Kikyō and asks her if she truly gave Naraku the shard of the Shikon no Tama that she stole from Kagome, she confirms this; Kikyō states that she would not allow Naraku to kill Inuyasha, because, she says, his life belongs to her.
 * 2) A demon called Goshinki, Naraku's newest incarnation, emerges and attacks a village.
 * 3) Inuyasha confronts Goshinki, but the still injured Inuyasha is no match for Goshinki's speed, strength and mind reading abilities; Goshinki snaps the Tessaiga in two with his fangs.
 * 4) With Tessaiga broken, Inuyasha's yōkai blood takes over him, and he momentarily transforms into a full-fledged demon; the bloodthirsty Inuyasha easily slaughters Goshinki.

Summary
While Kikyō cares for wounded soldiers in the war at the temple, when she suddenly gets up and walks a bit into the forest. She came because she had sensed Naraku's presence. He says that Inuyasha is angry with her because he almost died from the shards of the Sacred Jewel that Kikyō gave him.

Inuyasha, however, can often not explain why Kikyō did this and wakes up from his thoughts after he was seriously injured. Inuyasha and Sango lay, wounded, they are taken care of by Shippō while Miroku and Kagome gather medicinal herbs. Sango also gets restless at the same time, she was hit by her Hiraikotsu and Shippo goes to get water for her. In doing so, Shippo does not notice, the Soul Collectors appearing.

The Soul Collectors passed through the wooden walls of the hut to come to Inuyasha, who wakes up and notices them, before passing through the wooden walls again. However, Inuyasha now knows that Kikyō is nearby and, despite his injuries, immediately stands up with his sword to find her.

Shippō is held by the Soul Collectors and although he calls for Inuyasha to not go, he only goes with the Soul Collectors to find to Kikyō and falls to the ground shortly before her. Kikyō appears and calls out to Inuyasha, who looks up and sees her. Kikyō says that she is happy that Inuyasha is still alive, but he's just angry. Annoyed, Inuyasha asks what is she plotting and did she hand over the shards of the Sacred Jewel to Naraku. Kikyō explains that she plans to destroy Naraku this way, confusing Inuyasha as he says Naraku has becoming stronger than before and created 2 incarnations of himself, Kagura of the Wind and Kanna of the Void.

Kagura stands behind a tree and overhears everything as she was ordered by Naraku to spy on Kikyō as he couldn't trust her. Inuyasha asks if the reason Kikyō gave Naraku shards of the Sacred Jewel so he can kill him. Kikyō tells Inuyasha that she will not allow Naraku to take his life and he was their most bitter enemy. Kagura is bored of listening to Inuyasha and Kikyō's conversation and tries to attack them. Kikyō senses Kagura's presence immediately and shoots her arrow near her head before she could attack, which makes Inuyasha notice her. Kagura realizes that she has no chance against Kikyō and quickly flees. Kikyō says to Inuyasha that Naraku will grow stronger and stronger and he mustn't allow him to kill him, until she is able to destroy Naraku and the Sacred Jewel from existence his life belongs to her and no one else will have him. She ends her conversation with Inuyasha and then also disappears.

Inuyasha thinks of Kikyō before he makes his way back to his friends, leaning on Tessaiga and he stops when he comes towards Kagome. She says that he probably met with Kikyo, but he can't look at her. Kagome isn't thrilled that they met, but Miroku is distracts from it and says that Kikyō has probably joined forces with Naraku. Inuyasha is very irritated by this suggestion, but Kagome just makes off. Miroku says Inuyasha did everything wrong again and Kagome is outraged that Inuyasha is still defending Kikyō.

In a nearby village, a purple demon is attacking the horses and the villagers cannot do anything about it. Kagura sees this and thinks that the demon can do nothing but the demon repeats the thoughts he has read. In the hut of the group around Inuyasha, Miroku takes care of his wounds and Kagome takes care of Sango, the dispute has still not been resolved. But all talk about it is interrupted when an undead approaches who announces that a demon with a spider-shaped scar has destroyed the village in which he lived and then he falls rotten; he was long dead. Miroku suspects that it is a trap and that Kagura set it, but Inuyasha doesn't want to surrender despite his injuries.

The purple demon meanwhile wants to kill the last two survivors of the village, two girls. Inuyasha arrives at the last moment and attacks the demon, but despite his enormous size, he evades the attacks with enormous speed. As the demon discovers, Inuyasha thinks just that, and they also realize that he is indeed a incarnation of Naraku. He calls himself Goshinki and the fight begins, but Goshinki can foresee every hit Inuyasha and also knows that Inuyasha is injured. So he has an easy game and Miroku can with his Wind Tunnel because of the Saimyōshō he do anything either. Inuyasha gets up again and sees the two children clinging to their parents' clothes, although Goshinki doesn't understand why he feels sorry for them. Now Inuyasha wants his opponent with the wind scar switch off, but it jumps into the trajectory and catches the sword with its teeth. After a short pressure it broke, because Goshinki's teeth are extremely strong and then he hits Inuyasha, which sends him to the ground bleeding heavily. Goshinki can no longer read his mind and he appears to be dead, but the others cannot face Goshinki.

Now Goshinki wants to eat Kagome, but suddenly he feels something like thoughts in Inuyasha's head again, but he cannot read them and so in the next instant he loses his left arm through Inuyasha's claws. He has red eyes and purple stripes on his face and doesn't know how it came about, but he doesn't care either, as long as it makes him stronger. Then the two run towards each other but Goshinki doesn't have enough power and so Inuyasha can destroy him in one fell swoop - and he really enjoys it. But after Goshinki's death he does not calm down and rejects his friends because he does not want to hurt them: his demon blood takes control. Kagome, however, is not afraid of him and approaches him with calming words and finally with a 'Make way!' defuse the situation. When he pulls himself up again he is the old man again and Kagome happily falls around his neck.

However, he still cannot explain how it came about, but his eyes immediately fall on the broken Tessaiga. his demon blood takes control. Kagome, however, is not afraid of him and approaches him with calming words and finally with a 'Sit!' defuse the situation. When he pulls himself up again he is the old man again and Kagome happily falls around his neck. However, he still cannot explain how it came about, but his eyes immediately fall on the broken Tessaiga. his demon blood takes control. Kagome, however, is not afraid of him and approaches him with calming words and finally with a 'Sit' defuse the situation. When he pulls himself up again he is the old man again and Kagome happily falls around his neck. However, he still cannot explain how it came about, but his eyes immediately fall on the broken Tessaiga.