“Your questions don’t matter. Your destiny is inside, and you won’t make any more progress in your quest until you step inside.” Updated, chapter seventeen, March 10, 2010.

Two years after the quest for the shards of the Shikon no Tama began, emotions are at an all time high and the tension btw Inu Yasha and Kagome has grown. As the end draws near, Inu Yasha deliberately pushes Kagome away, breaking her heart and his own.

A spell causes Inuyasha to be split into two parts, one human and the other youkai. Kagome struggles to help Inuyasha become whole again while both sides of Inuyasha with his own internal struggle between his human and youkai parts.