Shippō and Kagome barely avoid being killed, but Kagome is unconscious. Manten, mortified over the loss of his hair, uses his thunder attack. She shoots at Manten, aiming for the Shikon no Tama fragments, but her arrow only glances off of his head, causing two of his three strands of hair to fall out. Kagome warns Manten that she'll shoot his brain next. Manten is preparing to use his thunder attack on Shippō when an arrow pierces his nose. Shippō tries to punch him, but he was punched back which causes the bottle to fall out of his pocket. Shippō stumbles upon Manten while he was running from Kagome and was shocked to see his father's pelt around Manten's waist. Manten, looking at his reflection in the water, wants more hair like his brother to get more ladies like Hiten does. Kagome chases him leaving Inuyasha behind. Shippō tricks Kagome with his fox fire and got the bottle with the shards and runs off. He puts a bigger statue on his hands and puts a charm on it, making it impossible to move. Shippō begs forgiveness and gets Inuyasha where he wanted. Inuyasha was insulted by Shippō for calling him a half-demon, so Inuyasha hits his head a couple of time. It comes to show that Hiten has three fragments of the Shikon no Tama in his forehead and Manten has two shards on his forehead along with Shippō's father around his waist. He tells them that his father has recently been killed by two Thunder Brother demons named Hiten and Manten. Inuyasha and Kagome think he vanished, only to see a skull with a fox tail suspiciously sticking out moving away from them. Shippō replaces himself with a jizo statue on Inuyasha's hand, browses through Kagome's bag and takes the fragments of the Shikon no Tama. Inuyasha slaps him and grabs him by the tail. The fire is a trick belonging to Shippō, a mischievous little fox yōkai. The sky suddenly grows dark and a strange blue light appears seemingly out of nowhere. When they ask how, she tells them that they use rocket ships. She tells them that humans have gone into space, even to the moon. Kagome answered that cup noodles were invented in Japan for Astronauts during the space age. He asks if her country does a lot of trading with foreigners from the south.

Myōga is fascinated with Kagome's things, like her bicycle, her food and a kettle. But Kagome says that she can't possibly eat in a wasted battlefield and asks him why they couldn't stop by a river or a field of flowers.

Inuyasha is impressed with her cooking skills, and tells her to start eating. It begins when Kagome makes some noodles for Inuyasha and Myōga.

Manten kidnaps Kagome, wanting to use her in some sort of hair-growth concoction Hiten confronts Inuyasha, declaring that he will kill him for his jewel shards.

Shippō tells them of the Thunder Brothers who murdered his father.

Inuyasha and Kagome meet a young kitsune named Shippō.

Brave and beautiful episode 9