I only ever wished softness for you. For pain is the other side of strength. But you bleed and bore the injuries of life, and you survive and thrive despite all.

• ch. 163: SessKagu meeting for the first time. Kagura wonders aloud if Sesshomaru might be able to defeat Naraku.
• ch. 203: Kagura offers Shikon jewel shards to Sesshomaru in order to defeat Naraku. Sesshomaru declines and asks why she doesn't do it instead. Kagura is indignant and flies away.
• ch. 318: Kagura approaches Sesshomaru to tell him there's another way to the otherworld.
• ch. 321: Kagura shows Sesshomaru a gate to the otherworld and then observes from afar.
• ch. 322: After seeing the guardians kneel before Sesshomaru, Kagura is sure he's the only one who can defeat Naraku.
• ch. 342: Sesshomaru notices Kagura flying towards him. She offers to tell him a way to find Naraku's heart.
• ch. 343: Kagura gives Sesshomaru a crystal that can locate Naraku's heart. Sesshomaru asks her if she's using him. She replies indignantly that he's the only one that can defeat Naraku and flies away. Rin says Kagura likes Sesshomaru.
• ch. 350: Kagura flies towards Naraku's heart but gets attacked by Moryomaru. Sesshomaru smells her before she falls into a river. He wants to let her float but Rin won't allow it. Eventually, Sesshomaru has to pull Jaken, Rin and Kagura out of the river. After Kagura has healed and woken up, Sesshomaru wants to leave. But when Kagura tells him she found Naraku's heart, he finally looks at her.
• ch. 351: Kagura tells Sesshomaru what she found out. Sesshomaru concludes that it's pointless for Kagura to continue since Naraku now knows that she's after his heart. Kagura wonders why she's still alive, then, and turns to leave. Rin stops her by asking if she doesn't want Sesshomaru to save her but Kagura denies, thinking she just wanted to see him one last time before she dies, and leaves. Sesshomaru watches her fly away.
• ch. 371: Naraku confronts Kagura regarding her betrayal. Sesshomaru smells the both of them and flies towards them instead of going after Naraku's heart.
• ch. 374: Sesshomaru finds Kagura dying in a field of flowers where she dies smiling, having been able to see him one last time.
• ch. 406: Sesshomaru and the InuGang are fighting Moryomaru who keeps insulting Kagura and her death which provokes Sesshomaru. (The chapter is called "Wrath" after what Sesshomaru is feeling.)
• ch. 407: Sesshomaru knowingly risks Tokijin because he's in emotional turmoil after Kagura's death and what Moryomaru said about her.
• ch. 409: Being called by Tenseiga, Totosai approaches Sesshomaru to re-forge it since something new has been born inside Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru reflects back and supposes it's because of Kagura's death and Moryomaru's insult of her.
• ch. 410: Sesshomaru receives the reforged Tenseiga and is immediately able to use Meido Zangetsuha. He thinks about Kagura and Moryomaru's words and decides that he'll be the one to determine whether Kagura's death was for naught or not. The moment he claims the reforged Tenseiga as his own, the wind blows all around him.