List of InuYasha chapters/Vol1to5

2. Inu-Yasha Resurrected

4. The Dancing Dead

6. Yura of the Hair

8. The Return Home

During the feudal era of Japan, InuYasha attacks Kikyo's village and steals the Jewel of Four Souls. Kikyo shoots him with a sacred arrow, sealing him to the tree of ages. Kikyo dies from her injuries and the jewel is cremated with her.

In modern times, Kagome Higurashi, a junior high school student, is dragged into the Bone Eater's Well by Mistress Centipede, a demon.

She escapes and emerges in the past, 50 years after InuYasha was sealed to the tree. Mistress Centipede attacks again, ripping the jewel from Kagome's body. Kagome resurrects InuYasha by removing the arrow. InuYasha kills Mistress Centipede. Then he starts to attack Kagome to get the jewel. Kaede identifies Kagome as Kikyo's re-incarnation. Kaede puts a necklace on InuYasha that send him crashing into the ground when Kagome says "sit".

A carrion-crow demon steals the jewel from Kagome. InuYasha and Kagome chase after it, and Kagome shoots the crow with an arrow. The arrow shatters the jewel, scattering hundreds of shards all over Japan.

Another demon, Yura of the hair, attacks Kagome trying to get the jewel. Kagome falls down the well and is transported back to her time. Yura attacks the village and fights with InuYasha. Kaede tells InuYasha that he needs Kagome's help to defeat Yura. InuYasha goes through the well to Kagome's time. Yura sends her hair through the well after them. Kagome agrees to return with InuYasha to his time to save her family from Yura.

10. Dilemma

12. Half Breed

14. The Nothing Woman

16. The Fang of Steel

18. Legacy

Kagome and InuYasha return to the Feudal era and discover that Yura has decapitated a group of rogue samurai. Yura seizes InuYasha with the hair she controls and begins taunting him with insults. Kagome's sacred arrow ruptures Yura's "nest", a giant hair ball containing the heads (or skulls) of the people whose hair she is manipulating. Yura tries to incinerate Kagome (who is saved by InuYasha's cloak). InuYasha and Yura wound each other severely, but neither is disabled. Kagome uses her arrow to break a skull which emits hairs which lead to Yura's hands. Yura tries desperately to stop Kagome, but Kagome then breaks a comb that is inside the skull. Yura then dissolves to nothing — her soul was in the comb. Kagome recovers the jewel shard that Yura stole; and InuYasha calls her by her name for the first time indicating that he is beginning to accept her. InuYasha's wounds from his battle with Yura heal rapidly and completely.

Sesshomaru and Jaken are searching for the grave of the father of InuYasha and Sesshomaru which contains Tessaiga. InuYasha's (dead, but resurrected) human mother appears to him and is being held hostage by Sesshomaru who demands to know where the grave site is. InuYasha does not know and they begin to fight. Kagome discovers that InuYasha's "mother" is actually an illusion created by a demon. The demon extracts a clue from InuYasha's subconscious. Kagome destroys the illusion. Sesshomaru combines the clue with one of his own and deduces that a portal to the grave is in one of InuYasha's eyes. He rips out InuYasha's eye and opens the portal. Sesshomaru, Jaken, Kagome, and InuYasha pass through the portal. They discover Tessaiga inside the skeleton of InuYasha's father. Sesshomaru is unable to grasp Tessaiga because it is spelled to repel full-demons. InuYasha can grasp it, but not withdraw it from the stone in which it is fixed. Kagome accidentally withdraws it from the stone, then gives it to InuYasha. Sesshomaru tries to kill them with violence and poison. InuYasha is only able to use Tessaiga's powers after he promises to save Kagome. Then he cuts Sesshomaru's arm off. Sesshomaru retreats; and they all leave the grave site. Kagome figures out that Tessaiga only works when it is used to protect a human.

20. Tsukomo No Gama

22. Plea for Mercy

24. The Broken Body

26. I'll Help You, But ...

28. FoxFire

Kagome and InuYasha meet Takeda Nobunaga, an accident-prone idiot who is on his way to rescue princess Takeda Tsuyu. The Takeda clan heard that her husband was possessed by a demon. That lord's soldiers have been kidnapping all the young women in the neighborhood and taking them to his castle where they disappear. Everyone at the castle is under a sleeping spell, except the lord who is indeed possessed by a frog-demon. InuYasha wants to just kill the demon and lord together, but Tsuyu and Nobunaga insist that lord be saved. The kidnapped women are found inside giant frog's eggs where they sleep until their souls can be eaten by the frog-demon. Kagome uses an improvised flame-thrower made from a can of hair-spray to drive the demon out of the lord. InuYasha kills the demon and recovers its jewel shard. The women are liberated from the eggs. Nobunaga leaves relieved to have saved Tsuyu, but disappointed that she chose to stay with her husband instead of going with him.

Kagome returns to modern times. A woman approaches the Higurashi shrine to have a flesh-eating Noh mask exorcised. Just before she arrives, the mask escapes and takes over her body. The mask's body is disintegrating and it tries to compensate by eating more and more people, leaving behind a bloody mess. The mask attacks Kagome to try to get her jewel shards. She runs away and sends Sota to the well to summon InuYasha. InuYasha follows them and destroys the mask. They recover the jewel shard which was animating the mask.

Back in the Feudal era, Shippo appears and steals Kagome's jewel shards. He wants to use them to trap the Thunder Brothers Hiten and Manten who killed Shippo's father for a jewel shard. Shippo traps InuYasha's hands under a statue. Manten senses that Shippo has some shards and goes after him. Kagome shoots Manten through the nose.

30. The Crush

32. The Power to Devour

34. The Cry

36. Until my Eyes Open

38. To Rest

Manten takes Kagome captive — he plans to boil her to make hair-potion. Shippo frees InuYasha so that he can save Kagome. Manten is about to kill Kagome so that he can leave to search for jewel shards with Hiten, but Kagome tells them that InuYasha will ransom her with jewel shards because he loves her. All three of them go looking for InuYasha and find him. He denies loving Kagome, but Hiten and InuYasha start fighting over the jewel shards. Manten starts to intervene on Hiten's side, but Kagome and Shippo attack Manten. Manten is about to kill them when InuYasha throws Tessaiga at him, skewering and [...] him. Hiten is further enraged and grief-stricken. He eats Manten's heart to incorporate Manten's demonic powers into himself. He attacks InuYasha who defends himself with Tessaiga's scabbard. Kagome (with Shippo's help) shoots Hiten's flying wheels, grounding him. Hiten tries to incinerate Kagome and Shippo and appears to have succeeded. InuYasha slices him in two with Tessaiga. InuYasha asks Kagome's "ghost" not to leave, but she is actually alive. They add the Thunder brother's five jewel shards to their collection.

While InuYasha is having Tessaiga's scabbard repaired, Kagome returns to modern times. She sees the ghost of a girl, Mayu, who is playing cruel tricks on people and trying to hurt them. Mayu died in a fire (which she caused by carelessness) which injured her brother and mother whom she mistakenly blames for her death. Mayu tries to kill her brother and Kagome. InuYasha arrives and saves them. The soul piper demon (Tatari Mokke) decides to drag Mayu to Hell to become an evil spirit. Kagome insists on trying to save Mayu. So Kagome and InuYasha follow the demon and Mayu to the apartment where she died and will enter Hell. Kagome grabs Mayu just as she is being dragged down into Hell. Kagome tells Mayu that her mother loves her and they should make up. Mayu agrees and is released. Mayu and her mother forgive each other and Mayu becomes a good spirit, ascending to Heaven.

40. New Moon

42. Inside the Aura

44. Where the Shards Are

46. Empty Shell

48. Betrayal

Nazuna is chased off of a cliff by a spider-head demon and falls into the arms of InuYasha. Kagome, InuYasha, Shippo, and Myōga accompany her to her master's temple. He invites them to stay the night because the area is over-run by spider-heads. During the night the spider-heads break through the temple's barrier and attack. InuYasha loses his demonic powers because it is the night of the new moon. Shippo burns the webs with fox-fire and they escape from the temple, but Nazuna's master is still captive. Also Kagome left her jewel shards behind in their rush. InuYasha and Shippo go back for the jewel shards. Nazuna's master turns out to be the leader of the spider-heads and injects InuYasha with spider venom. Kagome and Nazuna rescue InuYasha and they hide in another room, sealing the door with Tessaiga. Myoga sucks out the venom. While the others are sleeping the master tricks Nazuna into opening the door and he swallows the jewel shards becoming much more powerful. He is trying to kill InuYasha, but the Sun rises and InuYasha regains his powers. Kagome points out where the shards are inside the master and InuYasha rips them out. The master dies. The jewels shards have fused together in to one large shard inside him.

The ogress Urasue robs Kikyo's grave. InuYasha's group and Kaede go after her. Urasue re-creates Kikyo's body, but her soul does not return to it. Urasue realizes that the soul is in Kagome's body and takes her captive. Just as the others arrive, Urasue drives the soul out of Kagome's body into Kikyo's (when InuYasha utters Kikyo's name). Kikyo kills Urasue. She starts to try to kill InuYasha (because she thinks he killed her).