Episode 58

Fateful Night in Togenkyo Part 2 is the 58th episode of the InuYasha anime. It first aired in Japan on January 28th, 2002.

Summary
Human Inuyasha wakes to find he is bound in thorny vines that are draining his blood to feed to the Ninmenka, the Demon Tree of Humans. Inuyasha notices Kagome's glass jar that usually holds the jewel shards nearby, and asks Tokajin what he did with Kagome. Tokajin reveals his excitement to hear that there is a girl in the house because the blood of a young girl is the Ninmenka's favorite. Tokajin deduces that Kagome is in the village-box and is now in tiny form along with his friends. In the village, with help from a boulder and the Air Void, the three manage to make a hole in the side of the box. However, before they can use it, Tokajin reaches in and extracts Kagome from the box.

Later, Tokajin appears in front of Inuyasha with just Kagome's school uniform and taunts him by claiming he ate Kagome spiraling Inuyasha into anger and Toakajin states that the look on his face says it all; Inuyasha is in love with Kagome. Still in tiny form, Miroku and Shippo appear from Kagome's uniform and with some help from the Air Void, Inuyasha breaks free from the vines and Tokajin is knocked out. Tiny-Miroku shows Inuyasha where Kagome is: stripped of her clothes and bathing in an odd bath with Ninmenka fruits. Inuyasha comes in and gives Kagome his fire rat kimono as clothing.

The four decide that it's time to leave and on there way out, they notice the head of an old sage sprouting from some flowers. The sage explains that Tokajin accidentally implanted the Shikon shard in the bark of the Ninmenka, and the tree then convinced Tokajin eat its fruits with promises of power. The Ninmenka fruits contaminate the heart of the one by which they've been ingested. The sage explains that he in this form because Tokajin knows that without him then he can't make the immortality elixir. Tokajin, once again in Golem Mode, appears to take-out Inuyasha. Tokajin attacks and easily knocks human Inuyasha down. The sage tells Inuyasha to drink some Ninmenka fruit elixir to heal him, but Inuyasha refuses and charges Tokajin head on. Kagome pulls out a bow and draws an arrow at Tokajin.

As the sage looks on he senses a mysterious energy radiating from Kagome. The energy emitted by Kagome is too much for the old bow and it breaks. Inuyasha manages to gouge Tokajin's left eye out with a near by stick. As atonement for training Tokajin, the sage transforms into a bow for Kagome to use. Kagome uses the sage bow and manages to pierce Tokajin and knock the Shikon shards from his stomach. However the shards land on the Ninmenka. Out of rage, Tokajin charges at Kagome, Inuyasha jumps up and manages to knock himself and Tokajin of the cliff however though falling with him. As they fall, the Shikon Jewels powered Ninmenka and spread it's thorn roots out of the cliff and saves Tokajin, but only to absorb him, thus transforming it into a large thorn root demon,now also known as Touboku Ninmenka. Touboku Ninmenka, begins to try to absorb Inuyasha, but the sun rises and Inuyasha transforms back into his half-demon self and with an assist by the Wind Scar, Inuyasha obliterates Touboku Ninmenka.

With both Ninmenka and Tokajin dead, Miroku and Shippo return to their normal size. Having only seen Inuyasha and Tokajin plummet towards the ground, Kagome and the other assume Inuyasha died because he hit the ground while in human form. Kagome and Shippo begin to cry for Inuyasha's supposed death when Inuyasha arrives to show them that he is indeed alive and calls them stupid for worrying about him. Kagome gets upset and snaps at him that it was only natural for them to worry since they thought he was dead. Inuyasha notices Kagome's tear streaked face and realizes that she had been crying. When he points this out, she vehemently denies it. The two go back and forth for awhile in argument until Kagome tells him to "Shut up and sit!" As he smashes onto the ground, Shippo then comments, "Now he's dead."