To what I already said in this post + reblog I also want to add that in my opinion the reason why Inuyasha couldn't stop thinking of Kikyō's face - I mean, this face
[Chapter 47, Rejection*, Inuyasha Fanslation].
- is not only out of guilt. I think he saw in her his own desire to be seen and recognized. And perhaps he was confused/awed by how vulnerable a person could look without even trying to hide it, when vulnerability was exactly that thing that he had always avoided.
*Viz translation of the Japanese title (Kyōzetsu): Resistance.
