Sesshoumaru tosses the arm carelessly out in front of him and it's grabbed by one of the giant wasps. It carries the arm over quiet tree-covered hills to a swamp-like area, where a still masked Naraku reaches for it. Holding the arm, Naraku curses Sesshoumaru for failing.
Sesshoumaru looks up when he hears a voice from the sky asking him to suppress his anger, and promises that they'll meet again when he's set up another scheme to kill Inuyasha, perhaps very soon. Sesshoumaru acknowledges Naraku as an awfully cunning guy, but I guess he doesn't bother to fuck around trying to find him just yet.
Kagome turns to tell Inuyasha that they're going to arrive at Kaede's village pretty soon, and also asks him if he's okay. Inuyasha replies with a short "yeah", but trails off. Kagome thinks that Inuyasha's WANTING to return to the village must be a sign that his wounds are really bad this time, regardless. That, or he wants to get near the well for some reason...
Once they get there, Kagome thanks Miroku's tanuki friend whom he still hasn't named with a bow. Miroku offers him some coins for his trouble, and the tanuki says they'd better not be leaves in disguise again. Man, Miroku's a serious DICK to this guy.
Kagome turns with surprise toward a request for her to come along for a second. Inuyasha is standing, hunched, and Kagome protests his upright walking position when he should be resting. He tells her to never mind that, and just come with him. As he begins to walk away, Miroku and Shippou plod along behind him, earning a glare from Inuyasha when he notices. While he's kicking at them and demanding to know why THEY'RE following him, Kagome watches with a hand over her mouth, thinking Inuyasha's in better shape than she assumed.
Outside of the village, among whispering trees, Inuyasha has lead a confused-looking Kagome to the Bone-Eater's well. She says his name like a question as he collapses onto the ground against the low well wall. He asks HER how she's feeling, because she was injured too. Kagome's hand hovers next to her head where she says she thinks she might have a bump. Inuyasha apologizes for getting her into that situation, which just increases her look of bewilderment.
Turns out that Miroku and Shippou followed along despite how Inuyasha shooed them away, and they hide behind a nearby rock outcrop. Shippou wonders what that jerk Inuyasha thinks he's planning on doing after calling Kagome out into the forest alone. Miroku commands him to sush. Wouldn't want to miss what they're saying, would we? Just hope that Inuyasha isn't energetic enough to catch your scent and tell you to get lost before something cool is said.
Inuyasha reminds Kagome of the information she's aware of too, that the same jackass who set he and Kikyou against each other was also pulling Sesshoumaru's strings. He says that from here on out, things will get more dangerous. Kagome begins to say that may be so, and Inuyasha asks her if she's not scared, even though she narrowly escaped death this time. She insists she's not scared, and begins to say his wounds are a higher priority for her when Inuyasha grabs her wrist and pulls her forward, much to her shock.
Although Inuyasha doesn't articulate ALL of it, keeping the elaboration that when he thought Kagome might die, he was scared. He keeps holding onto Kagome like he's afraid she'll disappear, though. While peeking over the side of the outcrop, Miroku has his hand over a struggling Shippou's eyes. Shippou wants to know what he's doing, and Miroku answers that this scene isn't something children should see.
Pshaw, this is the tamest, G-rated, embrace I've ever seen. And make no mistake, I've seen some DIRTY shit.
Inuyasha grips the back of Kagome's head a bit harder as he gets a steely look in his eye. With a thud, Kagome is thrown into the grass where Inuyasha was sitting against the well before, then looks questioningly up at him.
Shocked, Miroku jumps out from his hiding place, trailing a question about what Inuyasha (hunched over the mouth of the well and gripping the edges) has done. Looking into the well and seeing it's empty, he's even more flabbergasted to see that Kagome is gone. Inuyasha simply explains that Kagome lives in the place beyond the well.
In Tokyo, Kagome climbs up the side of the well with a distinct air of annoyance, wondering what all THAT was about. She doesn't get it, but she's determined to get back there and give that guy a piece of her mind. She leaps back down into the well, and thuds down into the bottom of it without anything happening. She's still in her own time.
So, what did I think of this chapter overall? Inuyasha outright TELLING Kagome that he was afraid is big. It's the first time we've seen him being so frank about how he feels, at least in the case of emotions that paint him as more vulnerable. He didn't spend too much time beating around the bush, either, because FEAR probably isn't something that he's very unfamiliar with, even if saying it out loud would be normally unthinkable for him. In fact, saying it out loud to Kagome was probably very difficult because it would ironically have taken quite a lot of courage.
Which is probably why he got a bit quiet after uttering it, not having much to say after that. He knew what he was about to do, and as much gumption it took to muster up the words that he was scared, it was spent in just saying that. I don't think Inuyasha meant to cause Kagome any confusion, though I think he didn't doubt that there would be anger on her part. He just couldn't bring himself to fully explain how his fear connected to how he wanted her to go home and never come back.
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