"Oh." There goes his theory that Kagome is a super powerful magical girl or superhero or something.

She's just going to get Inuyasha some chopsticks while she recovers from having a heart attack. You can't just ask people who are sitting down to dinner if they tried to kill your family, Sota. Jeez.

"What kind of demon was this one?"

Things Inuyasha has:

- Claws

- Dog ears

- Fast healing

Things Inuyasha does not have:

- Table manners

NOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM, and, while eating, "Oni." Munchmunchmunch. "Put her soul in a magic comb. I tore her to bits and Kagome snapped it -" there's a brief pause for even more enthusiastic OMNOMNOM -

(Sota kind of feels like he should be offended, or something, but he's too busy being fascinated.)

"- so she's not totally useless." OMNOMNOMNOMNOM

...she'll take this assessment. 

There's still a bunch of stuff she needs to do, but first, she's hungry. She gets some leftovers for herself and sits down to eat them very politely, trying not to be too pointed about it.

Maybe he's never... seen... chopsticks. She really needs to ask Kaede what she knows about him tomorrow.

He has SEEN chopsticks in his LIFE. He even ate with them when he was a kid. But he's NOT a kid so he doesn't HAVE to eat them.

He will regale Sota with stories about how they shredded the horrible demon monster, treating it as something that happens a lot, while he eats vast quantities of whatever's on offer, favoring meat if it's available.

...sure, he can have more food if he's hungry, although eventually they're going to run out of leftovers and she'll have to get some ramen out (as she does not, currently, consider herself to be in any state to cook). 

She's a little worried about whether it's appropriate for Sota to hear all of that, but probably it's not any less appropriate than it was for her to do all of that? Anyway, they both seem happy enough.

And eventually Ayako comes home to find her son, her little sister, and... that teenager with silver hair and dog ears, who is indeed still dressed like he just came out of the feudal era, all sitting around the dinner table. The guy looks kind of beat up this time, though.

Supportive. She'd decided that she was going to be supportive, on the grounds that if this had happened to her as a teenager, and her parents had tried to stop her, she might well have gone through the well and never come back.

"You're back."

"Yeah! It didn't take that long this time. Uh, also we got hurt some in the fight, and we needed a place to recover."

OMNOMNOMNOMOMNOMNOM

"And eat things." She is beginning to suspect that this boy was literally starving before?? Does he eat this much all the time??

" - great. Okay, well, you can always come back here, as long as the well lets you." She's not entirely sure it's wise to extend a general offer of hospitality to the demon boy, but you know what, he brought her sister back in one piece, and she'd rather they take shelter here than somewhere on the other side of... whatever that thing is. "Do either of you need medical attention?"

WHY do people KEEP ASKING HIM THAT does he look WEAK

OMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM

He looks stabbed. But less stabbed, with the robe on again, or Ayako probably wouldn't be asking. 

"I kinda shredded my hands. I tried to fix them, but I don't know if I did a very good job."

"Well, let's see." 

And she can take her sister's hands and clean and re-bandage them, talking as she does so. She's probably not much better at first aid than Kagome is, but she's being less half-assed about it.

"You think you can pass through the well whenever you want?"

"Yeah. I think so. It's worked enough times that I'd be surprised if it closed now. Inuyasha, too, although it didn't open to send him back the first time until I was already through."

"Mmm. It seems like it would be a problem if anything could go through, given how things went with the centipede. Maybe we should try to keep it secret on both sides until we know more about it."

"That makes sense. I think right now it's - me, Inuyasha, Kaede - Kaede's the priestess on the other side - and you guys. And Yura must have known about it before, but Yura's gone. Uh, Yura's the demon comb we just destroyed."

"You got these fighting a comb?"

"....it was a tough comb."

"Not very."

That will earn him an annoyed glance. "It was a lot tougher than you would expect a comb to be, okay?"

"Okay, okay, I'm just trying to keep track of which things are deadly monsters now. Are you going to want to go to school tomorrow, or are you going to skip again?"