The "Peach Man" Tokajin lives on a mountainside and eats both people and peaches. A riverside tree consumes his leftovers and bears fruits that look like human heads, which InuYasha's group find floating downstream. InuYasha goes ahead, hoping to finish before the night of the new moon. Tokajin knocks Tetsusaiga away, then shrinks and swallows InuYasha. Shippo and the others fall into Tokajin's tiny magical garden that shrinks them down to scale. Inside Tokajin's stomach, InuYasha loses his demonic powers, but stabs Tokajin's belly to get vomited out. He regains his full size, but awakes entangled in a thorn bush as Tokajin plans to pickle him. Tokajin takes Kagome out of his tiny garden to restore her to full size as his next meal. Miroku and Shippo escape by hanging onto Tokajin's sleeve and Miroku and help InuYasha to untangle himself. InuYasha breaks into the kitchen and sees Kagome being boiled alive in sake. They find Tokajin's mentor, a sage who regrets his actions, but is powerless to stop him since he has been converted to a plant. Tokajin acquired his mentor's powers by eating him, except for the secret of longevity which is why he preserved his head. The mentor changes himself into a bow to help Kagome to shoot a sacred arrow at Tokajin as he battles with InuYasha. Her arrow dislodges a jewel shard from Tokajin, whom InuYasha then tackles out through the window. Tokajin is killed by the fall, but InuYasha lands in the tree and is saved. Sango exterminates a demon and takes its jewel shard as payment. InuYasha's group hears of this and goes looking for her. Naraku manipulates Sango's brother Kohaku into killing their relatives as they exterminate a demon, then sends his demons to kill the rest of Sango's village and take their jewel shards. When Sango survives, Naraku tricks her into blaming InuYasha for the murders.
