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shikonstar · 1 year

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When Kagome returns to the past, a love-starved hanyou is hoping for some words of affirmation.

Inu/Kag

Rated: T

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The conversation that swirled around him was as meaningless as bird chatter to his ears. Only one thought ran through his mind: she was back. She was back. She was back!

The years of endless waiting were over, and it was as if, for the first time in his life, the gods had decided to look upon him kindly. He took deep, even breaths, but not to calm himself. Like that was even possible. No, he was taking in each glorious note of her scent, filling his lungs with it as if he might never smell her again.

As if there were any way in hell he’d let that happen.

Kagome was pressed tightly to his side, and he was aware of every inch of warmth that connected them from shoulder to knee. One of her arms was slightly behind his, and his sleeve hid the fact that her hand was tucked in the crook of his arm, her fingers rubbing slow, gentle circles as she laughed at something the twins were telling her.

Suddenly, it was too much; his senses were on overload, and energy hummed through his body, demanding release. As if she felt the tension in the rigid cords of muscle under her hand, Kagome paused in her conversation and leaned closer to whisper in his ear, “It’s okay if you need to go for a run. I’ll be here when you get back; I promise I’m not going anywhere.”

He looked at her with a fierce expression, but she only smiled, knowing that it wasn’t one of anger. He gave a sharp nod, and careful not to hurt her as he moved, he was soon darting through the door.

A few pumps of his legs had him into the air and moving through the trees at a high speed. The world passed by him in a blur, but he wasn’t out here to admire the scenery. He was here to let loose the joy and relief that her presence had brought; he could almost howl with happiness, but the thought of the villagers hearing him kept his lips tightly shut.

Without realizing it, his path had circled him to the hut he had built for himself in a more secluded part of the forest, close enough that he could be in the village in case of emergencies but far enough away that he could avoid people if he didn't want to see them. He looked at the building critically. It was larger than most homes, and in truth, it was far too big for him alone. Then again, he had never intended for it to be just him living there. In the months after the well closed, he had spent most of his time working feverishly, determined that there would be a home worthy of Kagome when she returned.

Tamping down on his nervous energy, Inuyasha slid open the door and stepped in, surveying the space with a judgemental eye. While it couldn’t come close to comparing to the luxuries that Kagome was used to in her time, he didn’t think he had done too badly. He had considered each piece carefully, bartering mercilessly after every extermination job with Miroku. In the beginning, he tried to hide what he was doing, but he had underestimated the perceptive nature of the monk.

Inuyasha stood at one of the stalls that was slightly separate from the others. Material was draped temptingly over tables, and he was torn between two. One was a deep green with falling leaves embroidered at the edges, and another was a pale pink with scattered silver blossoms. In his mind's eye, the wearer was beautiful in both.

He was so caught up in his thoughts that he hadn’t noticed the monk’s approach until the man was standing by his side. Inuyasha tensed, his ears flattening to his head. Would there be ridicule, or pity? He knew how this looked. He was well aware of the pathetic figure he must make.

“I believe she will look best in the green,” Miroku said thoughtfully, a small smile on his face as he patted Inuyasha’s arm before casually moving to the next stall.

Clawed hands gripped the fabric tightly as some of the heaviness left his chest. Miroku had said ‘will.’ That one, small word was all the difference between sympathy and pity. It gave him reason to believe that just maybe he wasn’t a complete idiot to nurture the fragile seedling of hope he kept hidden in his heart.

After that day, Miroku would casually point things out for him to consider. Sango took to sewing up the material into clothing, and also managed to slip him a list of household items and things to look for in each. He had been grateful for that, since he only had a very limited idea what he was doing. He hadn’t lived in a home since he was a small child, and he certainly had no clue what a woman would want. All he knew was that he wanted Kagome to have it.

He glanced around once more, satisfied that everything was in order.

Almost everything.

With an odd sort of caution, he approached the futon. He had only laid on it a handful of times, and he wondered if it wasn’t pushing things to have it set out when he brought her back to show her everything. He bit his lip, then scowled at his own indecision.

“Hell with it,” he growled under his breath, giving the bedding a small kick. She could always use the damn beads, but after three years he wasn’t about to dance around his intentions anymore. He’d done that in the past and all it had left him with were regrets.

The need to be near her again crashed over him in a wave, and he left the hut at a lope. He wasn’t ready to sit with the entire group; his nerves felt all exposed and dealing with that many people was just going to set off his temper. Instead, he decided to get close enough to scent her until he could get her away from the others without risk of being followed. Doing his best to suppress his youki, Inuyasha leapt from tree to tree until he was near the back of Sango and Miroku’s hut. He had somehow managed to time things just right, because it looked like they were coming outside to sit and talk while Shippo kept the twins entertained.

Inuyasha stretched along one of the wide branches, resting his chin on his crossed arms. His gaze was fully trained on Kagome, noting all of the tiny details that had changed. She was a few inches taller, but still a good head shorter than him. Her hair was only a little longer, but just as wavy as ever. Her eyes, though, were the same. Still full of that same gentle warmth that had pulled them into their depths three years ago.

It had been a bit of a jolt to see her in a different outfit. He was most used to seeing her in that thing she always wore to school. Still nice and short though, he thought with a smirk. And the close-fitting nature of the top half wasn’t too bad, either.

He made a mental note to remind himself to try not to shred those.

“Shouldn’t Inuyasha be here?” Sango asked as she settled the baby on her lap.

“There was a lot of noise inside earlier. You know how he gets,” Kagome answered easily. “I’m sure he’ll be back soon.”

Miroku sat down next to his wife, letting the baby play with the fingers on his right hand. “I see you haven’t forgotten how our friend works in the time you’ve been away,” he said with a knowing smirk.

Kagome blushed and twined her fingers into the hem of her skirt. “Ah, no. How could I forget?”

Inuyasha didn’t bother to fight back his grin. After all this time, she still understood him.

Kagome’s brow wrinkled as she thought of something. “Of course, it’s been so long, so I suppose he might have changed.”

Miroku and Sango exchanged a pensive look, which Kagome immediately picked up on.

“What? What is it? Is he okay?”

Inuyasha glared at the others; what the hell were they thinking, upsetting her like that?

“No, Kagome! Nothing like that,” Sango was quick to assure her. “Inuyasha is fine, and he hasn’t changed—not really. It’s just that….”

“These years have been hard on him,” Miroku continued. “He’s been quieter than what you remember. But who can blame him? Hope is hard to cling to even with greater odds than he had. I’m sure you know that better than anyone.”

Kagome stared down at her lap, her eyes reflecting the sadness that she had carried since she had been separated from Inuyasha. “Yes, it was…it was hard. In many ways it was harder than anything that happened while I was here.” She looked up then, and the smile that spread across her face chased away the shadows that had lingered in her eyes. “But somehow, I knew I would see Inuyasha again. We were meant to be together.”

Inuyasha closed his eyes briefly; isn’t that what he had said while they were trapped in the jewel? He had believed it then, and he had clung to that conviction in the years since. Knowing that she had done the same, hurt the same, made the pain a little more bearable.

“Girls, slay the kitsune a little closer to the house,” Miroku called, noting that Shippo and the twins were closer to the forest than he would like.

“So I definitely see what has kept the two of you so busy,” Kagome said with a nod to the kids. “But what about Inuyasha? I feel like if I ask him, all he’ll do is point at Miroku and grumble something like, ‘Keeping this idiot out of trouble,’ or something.”

From his tree, Inuyasha smirked. Damn, but she knew him well.

Sango threw her head back in a laugh. “Well, that would probably be because that’s exactly what he does!”

“Excuse me?” Miroku asked, the picture of affronted dignity. “It’s a mutual arrangement, thank you very much.”

At Kagome’s raised eyebrow, Sango explained, “Inuyasha helps Miroku with exorcisms and other demon related problems. Now that I’m training the girls, I usually stay back to protect the village while they're gone.”

“Does he still make a fuss about having to travel slowly for weak humans?”

Miroku groaned. “He’s worse, if you can believe it. When Shippo said he checks the well every three days, he wasn't joking. The man insists that anywhere is only two days away from the village if you try hard enough.”

Just because you're a slow-ass human doesn't mean you're gonna hold me back, Inuyasha thought with a snort.

A flash of sadness crossed Kagome’s face at the mention of the well, but that part wasn't what she wanted to focus on.

“But you can't be gone all the time. What does he do when he’s here?” Kagome was deeply curious to know what Inuyasha’s life was like; she was relieved that he still had Sango and Miroku, and that he hadn't completely forgotten her, but she would hate to think his days were filled only by sitting near the well.

Amongst the branches, Inuyasha sat up, eager to see her reaction. For three years, he had worked fucking hard. Once the first wave of shock and depression had passed, he had been determined to live a life that would make her proud. It hadn't been easy and there were times he hadn't seen the point in continuing and wanted to give up, but the memory of her face kept him going. At night, or whenever he was alone, he had found himself pulling out the things Kagome had said to him during their time together--the way she had always believed in him; how she always thought he was capable of so much more than the rest of the world gave him credit for. He had turned the words over and over in his mind until they were tattered and faded, the edges raw and fraying. Like a dog that had performed a complicated trick, he was desperate for words of praise.

“He keeps quite busy. He’s taken over a lot of the hunting for the village, and has shown the other men better methods,” Miroku told her.

“Yes, and he keeps the wood supply stocked as well. He patrols the surrounding area, and he’s even been known to do some repairs on houses for the villagers, Although he’s still not social enough to enjoy doing that unless it’s really necessary.”

“He’s also been joining the men in the fields more,” Miroku added. “I don't think they would have made the harvest last year without him.”

Inuyasha wiggled impatiently on the branch. The monk was doing a surprisingly good job of talking him up, but Kagome had done little more than smile and nod. He needed to hear what she was thinking! Didn't she know that his heart was starving for just one little word from her? Alright, so she didn't even know he was there, but still.

“And of course, he’s been really great with the girls. They love their Uncle Doggy, although I think He’ll be happy when they're old enough to call him something else,” Sango giggled.

Kagome had almost fainted earlier when the girls had referred to Inuyasha by that title. It had seemed like more of a miracle when he responded like it wasn’t a big deal.

“I suppose we’d better break them of it soon, though. It wouldn’t do for your children to pick it up and start calling him Daddy Doggy, eh, Kagome?”

She blushed brightly, but couldn’t make herself disagree. “I have a feeling he would prefer just plain daddy.”

Claws dug into the trunk to keep him from falling out of the tree. If he’d been harboring worries that she wasn’t staying or that her feelings had changed, they had just died and lit their own funeral pyre. She was planning on kids! His kids! Populating the village was one of the few duties he hadn’t performed, but he was ready to make up for it and fulfill his role as an upstanding citizen.

Upstanding, lying down, I’m not picky about the position.

But he was getting ahead of himself. Before all of that, he wanted to get her alone to see if he could at least get a verbal pat on the head away from the others. They’d had her to themselves more than long enough, anyway. He pulled his legs under him and pushed away, launching himself into the air to land at her feet.

“Inuyasha!” Kagome yelped, her hand reaching out for a bow that wasn’t there—something she was going to have to remedy soon; just because Naraku was gone didn’t mean this time was safe.

“Gotten a little jumpy, wench?” He snickered, smirking down at her.

No, he’s still definitely Inuyasha, Kagome thought drily, toying with the idea of using the beads for old times sake.

As if reading her mind, his face became serious and he reached down to pull her up. “C’mon, they’ve had ya long enough.”

“Wait, what? Inuyasha—“ Kagome protested half-heartedly, wanting to go with him but not wanting to be rude to their friends.

“We’ll see the two of you tomorrow, Kagome,” Miroku said with an understanding smile.

“But Shippo—and I haven’t even seen Kaede!” Kagome said over her shoulder, even as she was climbing onto Inuyasha’s back.

“They will also see you tomorrow, Kagome,” Miroku answered, cuddling the baby to his shoulder with one hand while helping Sango to her feet with the other.

“Hold on,” Inuyasha gave the short warning before dashing for the woods, not even bothering to say goodbye to the others.

“We’re not going to see them at breakfast, are we?” Sango mused, smiling happily after the rapidly disappearing pair.

Miroku shook his head with a laugh. “My love, we’ll be lucky if we see them at dinner.”

Kagome clung tightly to his shoulders as he ran, feeling his muscles contract and relax in an old, familiar pattern. She kept her head tucked next to his, not even bothering to take in the scenery that was little more than a multi shaded green blur.

“I've missed this so much,” She said, not attempting to raise her voice, knowing he would be able to hear her.

“Not the only one,” he replied, giving her thighs a light squeeze as he came nearer to the hut.

As he arrived at the edge of the small portion of land he had cleared, he slowed to a stop and let her slide from his back. He was pleased when, instead of moving away, she stayed by his side and reached for his hand, lacing their fingers together.

“I'm guessing this is yours? Somehow, I couldn't picture you wanting to stay in the village full time,” Kagome said, peering curiously at the building.

“Not likely. They might not hate me as much anymore, but someone is always wantin’ me to do one damn thing or another,” he grumbled, unpleasantly reminded that one of the store houses needed repairs soon. “C’mon, I didn't bring you all the way out here just to stare at the outside,” he continued, tugging her to follow.

Both were nervous as they stepped in. The implication of Inuyasha bringing Kagome here was lost on neither of them. This wasn’t like three years ago, where they had to hold back on their feelings for one reason or another. Three years of longing and waiting were enough to burn away any desire to be hesitant now.

Kagome stepped inside, her eyes working to adjust to the dim light. There was a fire burning low in the center of the room, and Inuyasha left her side to light lamps to make it easier for her human senses.

“Inuyasha, this is amazing! Did you do it all yourself?”

He gave a jerky shrug. “Most of it. Miroku and a few of the men came out to hold some of the larger parts while they were braced. I’ve got strength enough on my own, but there’s only so much you can do with one set of hands.”

“I wondered what had kept you busy for so long—this had to take up a good part of it,” Kagome commented as she wandered around, peeking into all the corners, and noting that there were two doorways that led deeper into the house.

“I did it in my free time. I do a lot besides just hang around here, ya know,” he said, wondering why she hadn’t mentioned anything else he had done. She had always been on his case to help people before—now that he was doing it on his own, couldn’t she even acknowledge it?

“Miroku and Sango did say that you take care of quite a bit,” she agreed with a smile, trying to hide her puzzlement at why he sounded irritated.

“It’s not the same as when you left. Exterminations. Hunting. Repairs. Hell, even workin’ the fields,” he listed off, growing even more frustrated when she just nodded along.

“Well, I didn't think things would stay exactly the same—not after so long. I’m really glad.”

Inuyasha had fast been approaching the limits of his patience, and at her final statement, he hit the edge and went screeching over. Fuck, even the brat got a pat on the head for the shitty little new tricks he had learned!

“Is that all you have to say, Kagome?” He exploded, rounding on her with a glare.

Shocked at the outburst, Kagome reared back. “What? I just said--”

“Yeah, I heard. You're glad,” he snapped out, the quote dripping in sarcasm. “I don’t know why I even thought that after all this, that maybe—“

At the look of confusion and hurt on her face, Inuyasha deflated. What the hell was he doing? She’d been back less than a day, and he was already hurting her. Just because he wanted a few pats on the head like the dog he was. How pathetic was that?

While he was lost in his thoughts, Kagome had slowly approached him, raising one hand to tangle in the front of his haori.

“Inuyasha? What’s wrong?” She asked quietly, trying to get him to meet her eyes. But he kept his head turned to the side, his bangs hanging low to help him avoid contact.

“I can’t fix it if you don’t tell me!” She said, with a bit more desperation this time.

“I just—I just thought…maybe you’d be surprised, or somethin’, he said, his voice not much more than a hoarse whisper.

Kagome was suddenly reminded of Yuka’s dog, who would get upset if you didn’t praise it after it had performed a trick. It would sulk, and somehow manage to ignore you even when it was angrily shoving its head under your hand to get its ears scratched.

“Sango and Miroku both told me you've been doing a lot,” Kagome began, feeling his muscles tense against her hand. “You've done so much for their family--the girls adore you. You've helped the village and become an important part of the community. It’s the life of a good man.”

He started to relax at her words; that had been all he wanted! Just a tiny bit of--

Her hands reached up to gently cup his face, turning it so that she could look into his eyes. “It’s the life of a good man,” she repeated. “So why should I be surprised to find that’s the life you're living?”

Oh.

He had it wrong. He’d taken what she said--and what she hadn't said--and run with it in the opposite direction. Hadn't Kagome always had a freakish amount of faith in him? She had always believed the best of him. Even when he actively tried to prove her wrong. Even when he couldn’t bring himself to believe it. Kagome wasn’t surprised at his life because Kagome hadn’t been afraid that he would revert to the way he had been before he met her. Kagome didn’t think that her presence was the only thing that made him try to act halfway decent. All of the things he had done, all of the progress he had made….Kagome believed that he was capable of that on his own.

And she had been right.

And so wrong.

To Kagome, being surprised would have been an insult to him—it would have said that she had been expecting less of him.

All of this passed like a flash through his mind, and his arms, which had been folded tightly in front of his chest, shot out and pulled her towards him, his larger frame engulfing her. He felt Kagome’s arms reach around his back, and he clenched his eyes shut as he buried his face in her hair. This was what he had missed; the way that when everything felt like it was going to shit, Kagome could say just a few words that had his heart lighting up brighter than one of those bulb things in her time.

The wound left by her absence was scarring over and healing even as he held her. The crushing weight of loneliness slipped off of his shoulders, and he felt as if he could—

“I do have one complaint about your life, though.”

He had forgotten how the woman could ruin a good moment with that mouth.

“And what’s that?” He asked suspiciously, giving a growl of discontent as she leaned away from him to look him in the eye.

Kagome ran her hands up Inuyasha’s chest, skimming over his neck to rest along his jaw, her thumbs gently stroking his cheeks.

“For three years, you’ve lead the life of a good man—but at the end of each day, you had to live it alone.”

He couldn’t help but give a slight flinch at the reminder. She had only been back a few hours, but the years without her felt almost as if they had happened to someone else—surely he hadn’t been able to last that long without the feelings she stirred to life inside him?

“I asked you something a long time ago, and I want to ask it again one last time,” she continued, a slight quiver in her voice.

Golden eyes widened, and a pair of ears pricked forward in an effort to catch her every word. Could she be saying what he thought she might? Could he be that lucky? If any gods or ancestors would just grant him this one thing….

“Can I stay by your side, Inuyasha?”

Kagome held her breath as the seconds ticked by, worried by his silence that she might be moving too fast. Just as she was about to move away, his lips began to turn up in a smile, which soon lit his entire face. It wasn’t a smirk or a grin. It was the kind of genuine, heartfelt smile that Kagome had seen fewer times than she had fingers on one hand, but it was the exact smile he had given her the first time she really knew she was in love with him.

Tilting his head forward, he leaned into her until their foreheads were touching.

“As if you were born to be anywhere else.”

With a laugh that contained more than a hint of a sob, Kagome pulled his face closer until their lips met, as if sealing a promise. They broke away only briefly, before being irresistibly drawn into another kiss, and then another.

There would be time for conversations and the working out of details later; for now, they were content communicating in a language that both hanyou and human heart could understand. .

#inukag #inuyasha x kagome #inukag fanfic #my work

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grayluforever · 5 months

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Am I the only one here who likes InuKik better than InuKag?

DISCLAIMER: This little analysis took me quite some time to type out, so I'd appreciate it if you didn't downvote it right away and at least read it until the end.

I haven't finished the anime yet (currently at episode 129) but from what I've seen so far, I can safely say that I'm not too fond of InuKag as a ship. It just kind of seems like one of those bland "boy meets girl and they fall in love" ships. Sure, they have some cute moments here and there, but what really turns me away from the ship is stuff like Kagome constantly - and I mean CONSTANTLY - abusing the power of the beads of subjugation whenever she's in a bad mood and everyone in the group siding with her without even considering Inuyasha's feelings in the matter. He just needs to say or do something that might irritate Kagome even in the slightest, and the next thing we see is him face-planting at least once after an unsolicited sit command from Kagome.

For example, in one episode where he was in the modern world, Kagome's mother sent him on an errand to bring lunch to her daughter. What's the first thing Kagome does when he reaches her and is about to give her the lunchbox? That's right, she tells him to sit. This is but one of many examples that I noticed in the anime.

Here's another one: Kagome brings food from her era to Feudal Japan and cooks for the whole group. Nobody complains about her cooking, however, Inuyasha seems to prefer the instant ramen over the food that Kagome made. What does Kagome do? She gets angry and tells him to sit.

Last one: Inuyasha goes to see Kikyo. She's his first love, the first woman who ever accepted him for who he was after a lifetime of being ostracised from two fronts for being a half demon, a being that isn't wanted in neither human nor demon communities. Kagome gets angry over him wanting to see Kikyo and tells him to sit. While I understand the sentiment of her being angry and jealous, by no means does this warrant physically harming Inuyasha by making him face-plant into the ground.

Kikyo, on the other hand, seems to really, truly care about him. Sure, she did go overboard when she attempted to drag him down into hell with her because she wanted to die with him, and she held a knife against his throat at some point when she talked about the weakness that is Naraku's human heart, but she never intentionally harmed him, right? She was incited to kill Inuyasha by Naraku and sealed him against a tree by piercing his heart with a holy arrow, but she did that because she was under the impression that Inuyasha fatally wounded her - when it really was Naraku who disguised himself as Inuyasha to trick Kikyo into hating her lover. Before the tragedy, they seemed like a happy couple that was just about to achieve perfect harmony by becoming normal people. Inuyasha was very close to using the sacred jewel to become a human - a normal person. The consequence of this would've been that the jewel would've gotten purified, which would've released Kikyo from thr burdens of being a priestess, she could've become an ordinary woman, too.

Whenever Kagome punishes Inuyasha through the beads of subjugation for whatever reason, everyone in the group, literally EVERYONE sides with her. "Poor Kagome, how could that dummy Inuyasha hurt your feelings like this by going after Kikyo?", I dunno, have you considered the fact that this is his first love we're talking about here? He still loves and yearns for Kikyo. He can't let her go, because his feelings for Kikyo are still strong. Of course, it's normal for Kagome to get jealous. It's a human trait. But that doesn't mean it's okay for her to just yeet him into the ground like a toy figure every time he does something that's not to her liking? If we'd turn the tables, if Inuyasha would dare to hit Kagome even ONCE out of a bad mood, I'm sure there would be an uproar about this in the Fandom.

Kagome just seems like this moody, entitled schoolgirl, while Kikyo gives off more calm and mature vibes. This is also the reason I like Kikyo more than Kagome. She puts more thought into her actions.

#anti inukag #anti kagome #pro kikyo #pro inukik

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mizukixtsukiyomi · 8 months

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Guess what I'm doing...Gojou x Kagome x Getou

“Are you okay, Kagome-chan?” Getou asked over his shoulder as they stopped at one of the more open areas of the torii gates.

“Huh?” She blinked out of her thoughts. “Y-Yeah...I was just enjoying the quietness.”

“Oh, then I’m sorry for interrupting your peace.” He smiled.

Kagome shook her head, “n-no, it’s okay. I was content.”

Getou’s expression softened at the sight of her smile. His thoughts sprinkled back the memory of Gojou mentioning her pure energy. The energy she could emit naturally.

“Are you okay?” Kagome asked back. “You seemed more troubled than me.”

“Yes,” he replied, “just a bit tired.”

“Probably because we are both tired of babysitting these two girls.” Gotou yawned.

Kagome’s glare snapped over to Gojou, “is that so? Don’t get so sad, Gojou-kun. We all know you are going to miss us once we leave you.”

Gojou turned to her and inched closer to her face. “You really think so, huh? You think I’m going to miss your ass that much?”

“Oh I know you will!” She stuck her tongue out.

“Maybe you’re going to miss being by us hot guys!” Gojou blew a raspberry to her.

“You two...,” Getou nervously laughed as he saw the two were going at it back and forth.

Laughter erupted from the other end, making the trio turn to see Amanai losing her mind. She held her stomach with her two hands before clearing out a tear from the corner of her eye. “You three are too funny together!”

Kagome and the other two relaxed back, smiling as they saw Amanai was more than relaxed at that point. It was the sight they wanted to see before sending her off.

“Well,” Amanai spoke, clearing her throat, “it’s good to see that friendships grew out of this small trip. Thank you...all three of you for making this a special moment in my life.”

Getou nodded, “well, thank you to everyone for working so hard to do what they could.” Looking around, Getou saw the bigger of the torii gates just a few steps away. “We’re inside Jujutsu High’s barrier now.”

Amanai grabbed the cloth towel from Misato’s hand before using it to clear the sweat from her forehead. “What a relief!”

“Satoru.”

Gojou looked over to see Getou looking over to him with a smile of his own. “Hm?”

“You really worked hard this time.”

A heavy sigh escaped Gojou’s lips.

Kagome’s shoulders tensed as she sensed Gojou’s aura shrink in size. Is that why she felt the air so thick? It was his aura she was feeling? ‘That’s why he was exhausted...he must have had a protective spell of sorts to protect us and keep an eye out.’ It had her wondering if she should have done the same to help. Her head flashed back to his warning.

‘You are to not use any of your abilities while this mission is going on. Do you understand?’

Her fingers curled into her palm. She wanted to help!

“Like I said, I’m just happy to stop this babysitting mission!” He rolled his eyes. Parting his lips to speak again, Gojou felt a sharp object pierce through his chest making his eyes widen as everything around him slowed down. Eyes slowly lowered to his chest only to see a big blade resting with his blood staining the point and red droplets drip to the sand.

The group fell silent as they saw their companion frozen in place from the shock and pain. Kagome’s eyes widened with shock as she saw the long blade resting in Gojou’s chest. Red. Too much red. Her sense immediately snapped her out of her shock to see a black-haired male standing behind Gojou’s body with his hands holding onto the hilt of the sword.

‘W-Wait a minute...,’ Kagome’s throat went dry, ‘there’s no way Gojou-kun got stabbed! Didn’t they say we were inside Jujutsu High’s barrier?! Then why?!’ The priestess watched as the mysterious male slowly withdrew his blade from Gojou’s chest, only for a gush of blood to spill under his feet. A smirk decorated the man’s lips as he twirled the hilt of his weapon in his hand. This man oozed of corruption.

A curse.

Turning his head over his shoulder, Gojou forced a smirk over his lips. “Have we met before?”

“Don’t worry about.” The mysterious male’s voice was deep and low, but the tone was enveloped with confidence. “I’m terrible at remembering guys’ names, too.”

Gojou’s eyes scrunched. What did he mean by that?

“I once went to go see the brat born into the Gojou clan with the Six Eyes on a lark,” he continued. He scoffed at the memory of the little Gojou kid once watching him with those icy blue eyes. “Never before or after that had anyone noticed me standing behind them. That’s why I wore the infamous Gojou down.”

Kagome’s pupils enlarged as she heard the man’s plan. ‘You stupid girl! You should have placed a barrier! You should have helped! You should have used your powers! Now-!’

The sound of gushing blood and flesh ripped into their ear drums as they saw the black-haired man stab Gojou once more.

Gojou quickly twisted his upper body to throw a gust of curse energy towards him and blast him away from his person. As soon as the male was thrown away from Gojou, Getou’s body took an offensive stance and released a worm-like curse out of his collection to attack their enemy. Kagome’s eyes watched as the beige colored worm exploded out of thin air and stretched out in a blink of an eye to the size of a bus to pin the man.

Kagome’s ears picked up the sound of coughing, making her turn to see Gojou falling to one knee and clutching his chest. “G-Gojou-kun-!” She stopped in her tracks as she saw his palm signaling her to stop.

“I’m fine...,” he forced another smile. “I didn’t make it in time with my technique, but it missed my vitals.”

Her brows furrowed out of worry, “vitals or not, you need to be healed!”

“I strengthened myself with cursed energy so the blade couldn’t be swiftly drawn out.” He tried to reassure her with a gentle smile. “It was like passing a safety pin through a knit sweater. Prioritize Amanai first – the mission.”

“That makes no sense!” Kagome exclaimed. As she took a step forward, she felt Gojou’s hardened glare on her person before his gaze shifted over to Getou.

“Get her out.”

Getou blinked – who? Amanai? Or was his priority someone else-?

“I’ll deal with him.” Standing up, Gojou faced the cursed spirit worm as it began to shake uncontrollably. Stretching out his arm in front of his chest while holding it down with his other arm, he sighed. “Suguru, get her out of here. Trust me, it would do us no good or Jujutsu High to have her captured.”

“Satoru...,” Getou whispered under his breath as he turned his attention to both Amanai and Misato. Both laced in fear yet taking their defensive stance. Shifting his focus over to the priestess near him, he watched as her fingers began to flex. Was she getting ready to fight? He closed his eyes in thought. He knew the mission, yet knowing his best friend, he also knew that demand from him wasn’t related to the mission at all. He sighed as he grabbed Kagome’s wrist within his grasp.

#dimensional lovers #mizukitalks #jujutsu kaisen #inuyasha #crossover #kagome higurashi #gojo satoru #geto suguru

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karingu · 9 months

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can i say something about inukik & inukag lol

For context, I’m a latecomer to this series. I just finished it last month in the year 2023. And “Did Inuyasha love Kikyo more or Kagome more?” is sort of a weird debate for me.

Because it's sort of implying that "love" could be quantified or something. Like it’s something you can point your finger at and count. But from my, ahem seasoned expertise, that’s not how it works.

So I want to look at it in a different way.

Let’s get it straight. Love is not quantifiable. Inuyasha loved both Kikyo and Kagome the best way he knew how. He was genuine about both of them. His feelings were earnest and true.

But you can’t deny his love somehow feels... different between the two of them.

So what is it? What is this difference?...

*deep breath* please bear with me I need to get this out of my system

Inuyasha loved Kikyo. But their love felt transactional.

Kikyo showed him kindness, didn't try to kill him, treated him like a normal person for once. But... she was kind of in a sad place in life. In protecting the jewel, she felt robbed of a normal life. So, she asked him one day, "Will you become human and destroy the jewel? For me?" Kind of a tall ask, but I don’t blame her. She was feeling miserable. And Inuyasha's like, "Yes, of course!"

But then she died. And got resurrected. And Inuyasha's like “well shit, now I REALLY need to do something for her. She DIED because of me.” That's really what's driving his love (is it love anymore? idk) at this point. It feels like he's chasing to pay off his debt.

That's what I mean by “transactional.”

Okay, so Inuyasha loved Kagome too. But their love felt unconditional.

Kagome also showed him kindness, didn't try to kill him, treated him like a normal person etc. just like Kikyo. But she doesn’t really need anything from Inuyasha, right. She’s content with her life and all. So... she didn't ask for anything back. She just gave kindness to him and went on her merry way. Ok ya, sometimes she gets a lil grumpy (she’s human) but she always believes in him, trusts him to do the right thing, supports him when he's weak, yada yada... and like, that's it. Inuyasha even tries to make himself look like the bad guy, steals her shards, freakin’ pushes her into the well to get her to go home (cuz he didn’t want her to get hurt anymore), but Kagome comes back HUGGING him LMAO

Kagome is giving him literally nothing but love and trust and support. Not really expecting anything in return. She just wants to see him be his best and do his best. Encourage him during hard times. Even when she sees him with Kikyo lol… Clearly it hurts her and she realizes she caught feelings (oops), but she accepts that about herself and holds on to her desire to support him through and through.

She kinda says to him, "Hey… I know my place (in relation to Kikyo), but I still want to support you. I want to see you smile and be happy. Will you let me stay by your side?"

DAMN. Inuyasha says, "You’ll stay for me?" (well, in the anime in Japanese that's what he literally says, I replayed that scene like 500 times to make sure I heard it right). And she's like ya! Let's go!

CMONNNN. His brain is probably like “NO STOP! I OWE MY LIFE TO KIKYO!” but his heart is already saying “JFC THIS GIRL. I LOVE HER.” And he wants to do everything for her, not because he's indebted to her. It's not a transaction he needs to pay up. He does it because he really wants to.

So like, people making a ruckus about “Inuyasha Loved Kikyo!!!” vs “NO INUYASHA LOVED KAGOME!!” And I’m just sitting here going, uhh. I mean y'all both right! He... loved them both? Hello? And he loved very adorably for both of them. He’s such an honest lover.

But the circumstances in which he loved each girl are totally different.

With Kikyo, the circumstances were pretty dire. They were both deprived of something important to them. Her, a normal life. Him, just basic love and affection. They weren’t able to love each other with no strings attached bc they both still had stuff internally to deal with (her: the need to be liberated & him: insecurity). But, regardless, they shared a special bond that can’t be replaced. That’s a given.

Kagome... gave him better circumstances to love. Her love made him feel light. It felt so good and positive. She taught him a lot on what it means to trust and love someone unconditionally. He could show her all his ugly and she accepts that about him. She helped him meet lifelong friends too, Miroku, Sango, Shippo... And he really treasures her for that. They also shared a special bond that can’t be replaced, literally no one can replace bc he basically screams out loud (in the Meido) she is his soulmate. :’) suh cute

I think at the end, yeah, Kikyo might’ve got some smooches and our InuKag friends are like D: But… I’m romantic ace so maybe I see it differently, but it’s just a kiss. I never doubted that the only kiss that would truly make his eyes light up, the only kiss that could cause his entire soul to leap out of his own mouth and stun him into silence, is a kiss with Kagome. And Rumiko Takahashi did that without actually providing us a kiss scene (in the manga).

Takahashi made me trust Inuyasha like how he and Kagome trust each other. :((((

That’s... incredible. Standing ovation character building 👏🏼

#that's it #let’s just all love each other okay #i'm done with this fiasco #inuyasha #kagome #kagome higurashi #kikyo #inukik #inukag #inuyasha anime #inuyasha manga #my:posts #my:inumeta

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misteria247 · 3 months

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Okay enough about my personal beef opinions on a decades old vampire romance series that was a staple of my preteens/teenage years. Instead let's get into the nitty gritty of things that a lot of y'all keep me around for. Okay then! Onwards-! And beware spoilers ahead-!!!

I'd just gotten done watching episode 24 of Urusei Yatsura: All Stars, aka the first episode of season two. And my thoughts??

Ohmigosh I'd missed this cast of chaotic idiots so much.

Seeing Ataru, Lum, Shinobu, Mendo, Ten and the rest of the cast again after a year was so nice! I'd forgotten how much I adore these characters and their shenanigans with the weird and strange and it was like being greeted by an old friend that you haven't seen in literal ages. Also the opening, holy shit.

Maisondes once again serving us all some delicious fucking food. I adored the OP, like the beat, the music, the chaos and colors, it all just screamed Urusei Yatsura insanity. Plus the little Easter eggs in the PV, just fuck yessssssss I love that shit. I eat that shit up, please don't ever stop feeding me this David Productions I'm begging you. Now enough about the OP, onwards to the episodes!!!

The chewing gum episode, surprisingly fun-! I like how David Productions didn't start with anything too big story wise for the episode. Given how it's been a year since the first season of this series, it's nice that they gave us a run down of Urusei Yatsura in its lil introduction and within its first episode of the season. The chewing gum episode was like a ride in a way, reintroducing the characters and their personalities and their connections with one another as well as with the main protagonist Ataru and his special lady Lum. I had an absolute blast seeing them all interact and seeing the shenanigans that Ataru gets in to! Seeing my pathetic little meow meow being his usual flirtatious, yet Tsundere self made me stupidly happy. He's honestly such a fun character and seeing him get into trouble is always hilarious. Especially when paired with Lum. Speaking of Lum-

My darling, my babygirl, my angel-

Jokes aside, ohmigosh I missed her so much!! Seeing her and Ataru being the hilarious, slightly unhinged duo once again made me smile so much. They're just simply great! I especially love how not only did we got to see Ataru use his brain cell and be clever, but we got to see Lum do it too! Just watching Lum and Ataru have this battle of wit and trying to outsmart one another was hysterical. And the ending with Lum being so smug while Ataru is irritated that he was foiled, was simply comedic. And now, my biggest thoughts on the second part of the episode.

The language barrier episode.

This episode, good God it feed my Atalum needs well. Just seeing Ataru feeling guilty and yet trying to brush it off in his usual Tsundere way, when in reality he wants nothing more than to fix things with Lum. Just ohmigosh, it made me so stupidly soft. Like this episode showcased what makes Atalum so special and just how complicated it really is. You see how much Lum's presence has really grown on Ataru, how much he really notices the little things. Like keeping his windows open and unlocked because Lum uses them to get inside, or how he cried when he realized that Lum still didn't understand what he was saying. And yet in reality she did understand what he was saying. As soon as Ataru's arms were around her and holding her close and she saw his expression. Lum understood exactly what he was trying to say, language barrier be damned. Ataru and Lum understand one another so well it's just so fucking sweet.

Also side note-

INUYASHA REFERENCE MY BELOVED THEY TALKED ABOUT MY GAL KAGOME AS THEY SHOULD.

Anyways that's really all I gotta say. I loved it, and I can't wait to see the rest of the season!

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inuyasha x yandere mother demon

You were a demon who became said demon after losing her children, you sought to kidnap children and raise them as your own however despite being a good mother, humans just don’t live long. When a white-haired dog demon named Inuyasha who you could smell was rather young. Came to you asking where the recent children you ‘saved’ were where you had a curiosity that needed to be quenched.

“ where is your mother pup? Or your father? You are far too young to be wielding around a giant sword!” you spoke calmly

“ Long gone and dead and I’m not a pup! Now tell me where those kids are that you kidnapped!” Inuyasha growled

You frowned no parents……could he? Your eyes widen this must be a sign from the gods a chance to get back one of the children you lost! You're so happy, you picked him up.

“ h-hey p-put m-e……down?……..” Inuyasha mumbled slowly getting dazed and confused was this lady…..holding him and singing a lullaby?

A young human girl screamed at him to wake up, you glanced at her can’t she see he is tired… she frowned and showed her away along with their friends. Inuyasha's eyes were glazed along with the others as a hazy feeling took over him…..

He passed out in your arms as you hummed a lullaby. He groaned when he woke up and found out his clothes were still there but a new necklace was around him. He gulped whoever had the power to undo that….well he wasn’t sticking to find out! He grabbed the kids and tried to exit your liar but got shocked. He tried tugging the collar off but he felt something sting him and his legs went limp. You walked over to him and frowned, “ honey if you want to play, then play where mommy can watch you~” you cooed trying to soothe him

“ let me go you crazy bitch!” Inuyasha said no sooner had the word been uttered had he yelped as he was spanked as if he was 5!

“We don’t say that Inuyasha!” you said as you spanked him the necklace only making it hurt more. ( smack! Smack! smack!) after and hour of this banter he whimpered and mumbled through his sobs…..” s-sorry w-wont say it….stop…..” he whined you rubbed his back and sat him up

“I should hope so young man, now time for breakfast!” you said carrying him since it hurt to walk for him. Inuyasha whimpered he needed to get out as fast as possible he wasn’t your son, but he guessed your whole reason for being a demon was because you lost your kids….at least you weren’t harming them or him. He just hoped kagome was okay.

#inuyasha is a moma'sboy #inuyasha got mommy issues #yandere mother xchild #yandere inuyasha #yandere platonic #yandere mother #inuyasha #platonic yandere inuyahsa #yandere inu #yandere inuyash

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authorautumnbanks · 5 months

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How To Tame A Sorcerer (50)

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Satoru stuffs his hands into his pockets, ignoring the pointed glare from Sesshomaru as they walked down the street. He wets his lips, the cool, crisp air, does absolutely nothing to cool the fire building in his veins. "So," he says with fake enthusiasm, "since you've so graciously accepted me as Kagome's mate. Does that mean you'll stop trying to claim her as your alpha female?" Now, Satoru is not an expert on demons—personally, he wouldn't be too upset if they just all disappeared one day. Well… Yakeru was growing on him and Buyo Jr. could stick around, but the others could kick rocks.

Especially this Sesshomaru and that wolf he mentioned. Satoru didn't even know the guy yet, and he already disliked him.

Sesshomaru slants him a look that would have Ijichi pissing himself, but he's not Ijichi and it will take a lot more than a couple of glares or threats of violence to make him fear anyone. Satoru rolls his tongue along the roof of his mouth as he notices a flyhead hanging on a woman's arm. Its eyes widen at the sight of him. There is always a surge of new curses around the holidays with all the negative emotions that holidays seem to bring out in people.

Satoru casually stretches his arms out, letting out a large yawn as he does. His outstretched hand exorcizes the curse easily. The woman shakes her head as she mutters under her breath, something along the lines of, "rude jerk."

Satoru quirks a brow at Sesshomaru. He wants him to say something. He dares him to say something, so he has a reason to see why Sesshomaru is so feared.

"You waste time on the weak. This Sesshomaru understands why the priestess is enamored with you."

Satoru smiles. His eyes squint behind his shades. Sounds like a backhanded compliment and he isn't sure if he should thank him or tell him to fuck off. "The answer is yes or no," he says, because in the end, Satoru is a menace at heart, and he has no problem poking the demon.

"Who knew that even the strongest suffered from insecurity," Sesshomaru drawls, the boredom dripping from each word is like a punch to the gut. "This Sesshomaru will not renounce her position as an alpha in my pack. The position gives her power and protection." Sesshomaru leads them to a parked Range Rover.

"S-Sesshomaru-sama!" a bald man exclaims as he rushes from the driver's seat to open the passenger one. "Oh, the six eyes is here. Not very impressive in person," he blubbers on, somehow not tripping over his own stubby legs.

Okay—they aren't that short, but the man insulted him first.

Satoru slides into the backseat, crossing his arms as he stares at the back of Sesshomaru's head. "I take it you know where the school is?"

"That poorly hidden school," baldie squawks as he maneuvers the car in the school's direction. The driver drives like a madman, swerving around and honking at the other cars. A drastic change from the uptight Ijichi, that is for sure.

"Could have teleported there," Satoru sing songs, pulling out his phone to check for any urgent messages from Shoko. He rates this drive a 3 out of 10, mostly because of the company, and somewhat because of how erratic the drive is. They've nearly crashed at least three times now. If he didn't have infinity running at all times, then he would be concerned.

"Jaken is a sufficient driver," Sesshomaru says. The car swerves sharply to the right as Jaken lets out a wail of happiness that sounds like a cat dying. Satoru opens his mouth and then promptly shuts it. His phone lights up before it vibrates.

It's bad news, he thinks. Shoko never calls him unless something awful has happened. Now, Kagome, on the other hand, Shoko calls for the most mundane things like whether she should eat the same salad for dinner as though eating one healthy meal will cancel out all the damage she's doing to her lungs.

"What happened?" he asks, not bothering with meaningless greetings.

"Cho is gone," Shoko replies. She inhales, probably taking a drag from her cigarette. Shoko's up to three packs a day. He'd tell her to find another vice, but the life of a sorcerer is short and with all the shit that Shoko sees, it's a miracle that she hasn't snapped yet.

His chest constricts. Those three blunt words confirm what he already figured from Sesshomaru's reaction. It makes little sense. Tsumiki is still a comatose state, so this must not be the same curse. "You lost a coma patient?" He shifts in the seat, throwing one leg over the other. His hand grips the phone tighter. "I know you cheated your way through medical school, but…"

Sesshomaru tilts his head back. Jaken slows down and makes a turn at the next light, pulling into a convince store parking lot.

"Hilarious." Shoko scoffs, the sound harsher through the phone. "She must have walked out. We would have been alerted if something snuck into the school. Maybe she went looking for her parents or something. She might not believe that they are gone. Trauma affects everyone differently."

"That's a long walk from the school," he says, catching the look Jaken sends Sesshomaru. "Call me if she turns back up." He ends the call. "Alright, what do you know?"

"Naraku wouldn't have attacked your clan without an escape plan," Sesshomaru says. "The priestess has clearly become weak in light of her new domestic endeavors."

"Fuck off."

"Don't you dare address Sesshomaru-sama with such foul language! You—you!"

"The half breed is most likely still alive. What his objective is, is cause for concern. Does the priestess have the jewel?"

He saw Naraku die. Saw the fear in his eyes when he couldn't escape the veil. Saw the finality in his body language as he accepted his fate and now Sesshomaru is saying that Naraku is somehow still alive. Satoru calls bullshit. When he kills someone, they stay dead. No exceptions.

"It merged with her. Let's pretend that Naraku is still alive just for funsies. He's never made a direct move to take Kagome. If that was his objective, then he could have tried a long time ago."

Like during the exchange event.

"Yakeru's sister took Kagome because of the baby and she knew of the jewel. Maybe the Shikon was huge in your world, but it doesn't seem to be that much of a threat here." He scratches his cheek. "Well, I'm supposed to be looking for a jewel that no one has ever seen before," he adds as an afterthought. He's tempted to have Megumi create a PowerPoint for him just so he can keep with who knows what. There are far too many players in this and far too much misinformation.

"Back to the estate," Sesshomaru commands. Jaken backs out of the parking spot and drives around the building. Satoru frowns when Jaken cuts the engine. He blinks at the familiar feeling of being transported in an instant. "Come," Sesshomaru says, striding forward, but Satoru is still stuck on how he can reach out and feel like he's touching the clouds.

Seriously? His estate was in the freaking sky? And did they just leave the car behind? How wasteful.

"Fancy place." He whistles. Satoru likes to think that the guards straighten themselves at the sight of him and not because of Sesshomaru. The gated doors swing open.

"Sesshomaru-sama," the guards greet, bowing. The glamor fades away from Sesshomaru and Jaken.

"Oh, Jaken, you should have kept the human disguise," Satoru complains, looking down at him. What was he? Some kind of imp with green skin? If he had seen him out on the street, he honestly would have thought that Jaken was a curse and not a demon.

"How dare you! I will have you know—"

"Jaken, go prepare the north wing for the priestess and her mate," Sesshomaru kicks Jaken, sending him flying. No one bats an eye. Perhaps Jaken and Ijichi have more in common than he first thought.

"We aren't staying with you."

"How do you plan on keeping the priestess safe from any human attacks? Or worse, you could have taken this Cho home with you, and then what?" Sesshomaru keeps walking. "You cannot always be by her side and the priestess would hesitate to strike down a child."

Kagome is friends with this guy?

"And you would?" He pays no attention to the elegance of the estate that really should be classified as a castle with how over the top everything is. He'd nearly forgotten that he is dealing with demons here, and no matter how much glamor they put on, it doesn't change what they really are. Almost as if Sesshomaru could feel him judging, Sesshomaru looks over his shoulder.

"You dealt with assassins as a child."

He did. His father and uncle thought it built character if he took care of them himself. His hands were stained before he even lifted a finger to exorcise a curse.

"Doesn't make it right," Satoru replies, pushing the memories away and stuffing them down into a box with a lock and chain. His child wouldn't be subjected to such horrors.

"Hn."

He hears the welcome sound of Kagome's laughter as they walk into a library. In the middle of the room, she's there surrounded by pillows, Yakeru, and another redhead that he doesn't know. Her face lights up when she sees him and he hates that he has more bad news to share. Satoru shakes his head.

"What up pops! Or should I call you dada?" The man waves a hand in the air. He's way too close to Kagome for comfort. His words give Satoru pause. Why would this demon refer to him as dad?

"Shippo, knock it off," Kagome says, pinching him on the cheek. "Ignore him. Did something happen with Cho?" Shippo's green eyes water over. His lips protrude out in a fake puppy dog look. Satoru wonders if this Shippo is a fox like Yakeru—they look far too much alike not to be.

"She wasn't at the school. It's possible that she tried to make her way back to the estate." Satoru strides forward, nudging Yakeru away with his foot. "But I don't think she would go back there," he says, sitting down next to her. "I doubt she even knows her way around."

The jujutsu world can be just as cruel as these demons, he thinks. Especially with how they treat women as nothing more than breeding stock and children as disposable.

"Question!" Shippo yells, leaning over Kagome and staring at him with such wonder that his skin crawls. "Can I impersonate Gakuganji and go dig around at the school?"

"How do you know the old man?"

Shippo gives him a blank expression.

Okay. Obviously, Shippo has poked around the school before. Maybe it's cocky of him, but Satoru just assumed that he was well known in the demon circles because he's the strongest.

"Depends. Are you going to be making things harder for me or harder for the geezer?"

"Satoru!" Kagome swats his arm.

"Harder for the old-timer, of course," Shippo says with a big grin. "And the Kyoto school is a little more traditional than Jujutsu High. I bet they have all kinds of stuff I can dig up." He rubs his hands together, sharing a wink with Yakeru.

Definitely a fox, Satoru thinks. Those two seem to share one brain cell. "Even if I said no, you would probably do it anyway," he replies. "We should have gone back to school and tried to retrace Cho's steps."

"How did you know about Naraku's attack?" Sesshomaru questions. His eyes flicker over to Kagome and then back to Satoru.

"I got intel from a subordinate within the estate." Satoru jerks a thumb towards Yakeru. "And he sniffed Naraku out."

"Hn."

"Oooh, I can translate," Shippo exclaims. He clears his throat. "What Sess is saying is that you guys are stupid to think that it would be that easy. Except for Kagome, because you have pregnancy brain and we love you." Shippo rubs the back of his head while Sesshomaru glowers at him. "Okay, he didn't exclude Kagome."

"And here I thought it was just his own hubris," Yakeru mutters. "I did find it strange that he couldn't escape his own veil."

"He's not working alone. They could have betrayed him," Satoru says. His mind races with the possibilities. Those curses took some of the cursed womb paintings, a scroll on the Shikon, and the few fingers of Sukuna that they had in their possession. Were they trying to boost their own power? "He was there when the curses attacked the school."

"Maybe he wants to create a new special grade or resurrect Sukuna?" Shippo throws out there. "What?"

"I can see resurrecting Sukuna," Satoru says, "but creating a new special grade?" He shrugs. It takes a considerable number of negative feelings to create a curse, let alone a special grade. "I don't see what this has to do with Cho."

"Cho is dead," Sesshomaru says with that monotone voice that Satoru is coming to hate. "Clearly, taking Kagome is not his objective."

"So, he's doing it for shits and giggles?"

"Hn."

"The Shikon," Kagome starts, "are there consequences if I were to make a wish on it?"

"Yes and no," Yakeru says after a beat. "Could you wish for anything? Yeah, you could wish for Sukuna's revival or even for all the curses to be wiped out. You wouldn't fall over dead because of a wish, but there would still be some consequences for everyone else." Yakeru glances at Sesshomaru and then at Shippo.

Dread pours into Satoru's gut. "Gonna, take a wild guess and say that someone has made a wish on the jewel before Kagome came along. What happened?"

"Nothing too bad," Yakeru says with fake cheeriness. "The wish only created curses."

#gojo satoru x kagome #gojo x kagome #crossover pairings #jujutsu kaisen x inuyasha #kagome higurashi #inuyasha fanfiction #gojo satoru fanfic #gojo satoru #how to tame a sorcerer #inuyasha x jujutsu kaisen

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kstewdeux · 2 years

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@inukag-week

June 18th, 2022 - Anniversary

Summary: Kagome goes a little overboard on her gift making Inuyasha feel like an asshole. Little does he know, it’s literally his thoughts that count.

It was a beautiful yet unseasonably cold spring morning. The weather recently had been flirting with summer but a series of thunderstorms had tipped the scales in favor of near wintery temperatures. Not that it really mattered. The cold never bothered certain people who had risked the near freezing waters that morning and didn’t so much as shiver. So it was that a fair way into the mostly naked trees stood a very frazzled yet well groomed Inuyasha busy brushing himself off before reaching up to smooth his slicked back hair.

Yes, okay, maybe he realized he usually didn’t give a rat’s ass about his appearance. Despite faking confidence until confidence came, he had always been insecure about how he looked. Not as much anymore though. It was hard to think you were ugly and disgusting when your wife looked at your body like she was seeing god. Still, he was usually kinda lazy about his day to day look. Never saw a point in dolling himself up but today was different. In fact, it was a day that he’d never in a million years thought he’d get. Some people might think your wedding day would be the most important day in someone’s married life but for Inuyasha, the end of the first year was way more significant.

All his life he’d other people talking about how the first year was the hardest year of marriage. To be perfectly honest, for the past twelve months, he’d been secretly waiting for the other shoe to drop. Expecting Kagome to say to hell with the modest lifestyle he could provide and jumping straight back to her world. A world with every luxury you could imagine and ones that the feudal era simply didn’t have. No running water. No electricity. No soaps or stove tops or fridges. But he tried to make her comfortable, okay? He did try. He got her fresh food all year round. Taught her everything he could think she might need to know to survive and just handled the things she didn’t like doing. He prepped all the meat because seeing how the sausage got made made her gag. Every single day he got her fresh water. Their house was as water tight as he could get it and there was no draft. Got her lye and fragrant flowers so she could have something resembling the soap from her era. Anything she asked him to do he did. Anything she mentioned missing he tried to replicate. Was he doing a good job? No. Did she say it was the thought that counted? Yes. Did that mean he sucked at making things? Probably.

Despite his screw ups, instead of doing what he worried she’d do, she stayed and being with Kagome had been as effortless as breathing. Sure they still fought. Their dynamic hadn’t really changed except in almost every way possible. She held him and cuddled him and kissed him good morning. For the first time ever, he owned things that he didn’t inherit. Bowls, plates, chopsticks, a table, and, of all things, art. Not great art. Kagome - bless her heart -had taken up painting and the ones she loved the most were hung on their walls. Such as the small portrait of her old home in the future. Well, it was supposed to be that. Didn’t look like much of anything to be honest but she’d called it ‘abstract’ art which Inuyasha took to mean the artist couldn’t draw. During the winter months, they’d sit around the hearth doing nothing except boring, mundane things. When things warmed up and he got comfortable enough to travel away from her again, she would welcome him home and massage his shoulders. Comb his hair and tended to his cuts with meticulous care. Told him she was proud. That he was so loved. That he was beautiful. Okay, she called him handsome but same thing. She complimented him, was always happy to see him and knew him better than he knew himself. She articulated her feelings with ease and sincerity. She let the world know loved him and he loved her more than words could ever express.

But, with god as his witness, he was gunna find those words.

So, to make this day especially meaningful to the woman who had the gift of gab, he’d spent the majority of the past few months working on a speech. Problem being, of course, that he was not good at using words to express emotion. Snarky quips and curses he could do but insulting Kagome out of love was not going to cut it this time. Or ever really but that was just how he showed he cared, okay? And she understood what he meant most of the time. Knew he didn’t mean how it sounded. Most of the time, when he said those things, he was scared shitless because she’d gotten kidnapped yet again or injured herself in a completely avoidable way by doing something impulsive. Besides, even though he didn’t use nice words all that often, he showed he loved her in other ways. Since she’d come back, he’d made a conscious effort to cuddle and kiss and hold her whenever possible. Brought her little gifts and was very supportive during her adjustment. Her efforts on that last bit made him so proud he might burst at the seams. She was already the strongest miko in existence so adding any new skill – whether it be medicine or cooking or sewing – made her get that much closer to achieving goddess level.

In short, with each passing day, he loved her impossibly more and this past year had been the best year of his life. So, he needed to celebrate that and thank her for making all his dreams a reality.

He just needed to not mess this up.

Swallowing thickly, Inuyasha closed his eyes, straightened up and focused instead on what he needed to say. Even on a good day, nice things he said sounded like an insult and despite knowing Kagome did love him for some reason, he really wanted today to go well. For one day, at least, he wanted to let her know how much he loved her and how much she meant to him. After all, despite them telegraphing ‘I love you’ back and forth, he’d never really…

“Okay. Kagome. I know…I know I’m not good at words but if I had the words to describe my feelings for you, I’d say them all the time,” Inuyasha began shakily – his eyes still closed and his face one of perfect concentration, “What I can say is that I love you. Not just because of who you are but for what I am when I’m with you. What you’ve made me. Even though I know…I know it must’ve been hard, thank you for never giving up on me. I actually love the way you nag and glare at me sometimes. The way we fight and the times that we don’t. I love every single second of it because it makes me know how much you care. You don’t know how much our fights mean to me. You’re fighting for me, not against me and…”

Stopping, Inuyasha groaned and pressed his fingers over his eyes. That sounded way worse out loud than it did in his head. Which meant he had to start over from scratch and throw something else together which would undoubtedly be just as shitty. Better yet, to add to this awful no good realization he had mere hours to come up with something before the sun went down. Hell, it was already high noon and he was fairly certain he wasn’t going to come up with something even half-way decent.

The last thing he wanted to do was remind her how terrible being with him actually was. She deserved to be with someone who she didn’t have to yell at all the time. Someone who was kind and sweet and…and thoughtful. Who never needed to be fixed in the first place and just came into this world with rainbows shooting out of their ass Instead, she’d gotten saddled with the sorriest son of a bitch who ever lived. Someone who was a broken hot mess and had to be put back together piece by piece. Who had to stand outside talking to himself like a lunatic just to practice saying something sweet because he was not a sweet person and resorted to insults half the time out of insecurity. She was so much smarter than him and he just knew she thought he was stupid….

Groaning louder, Inuyasha buried his face in his hands while his ears flattened against his skull.

Why didn’t he have the right words?

Inuyasha rocked back on his heels and folded his trembling hands in front of him like a ‘proper’ gentleman might do. His eyes still closed as a thousand images and words raced through his mind. It might not be good but something was better than nothing. Besides, she always seemed to understand him somehow so…so maybe…

“Kagome. I know I don’t say it…ever…but I love…”

Groaning again, Inuyasha reached up with both hands to scratch the back of his neck and massage his shoulders. That was even worse somehow. One shuddering breath later and he was trying again.

“Twelve months ago, you came back. Knowing you has been the best….best thing that ever happened to me,” Inuyasha mumbled shakily – his face making little quirky expressions as he imagined actually saying these things out loud, “You made me a better person. Gave me everything I could ever ask for. And I try to…to give you everything but-no. No can’t say that.”

Shaking his head, Inuyasha inhaled and exhaled.

“You have given me everything I could ever ask for and I am so grateful that…that you chose me. You didn’t hafta but-shit no.”

Agitatedly pulling as he shoulder blades, Inuyasha huffed and sighed heavily.

“I am so grateful that you chose me. I love you. I love who I am around you. What you’ve made me into. And I just…I just wanted…you to know…that.”

Figuring that last bit was probably the only bit he could reasonably get out without messing it up, Inuyasha twisted to crack his back before turning back towards the village with a determined glare.

“Okay,” he whispered to himself before jumping and kneeling down to pick up the flowers he’d picked with meticulous care, “Can’t forget these. Okay. Now I’m ready. Let’s do this.”

Inuyasha, for all his planning and practice, had every ounce of confidence wiped from his mind upon entering the hut and seeing Kagome standing there with the proudest little smile. Somehow, some way she’d managed to completely transform the sleeping area. There were furs, a futon on raised stilts and worst of all, she had done the impossible.

Ramen. There it was - herbs, noodles and beef - boiling away in a pot. Somehow she’d figured out how to make something as close to ramen as one could get in this era. It smelled spot on too. For lunch he imagined but that…that…

“Wha-“

“Happy Anniversary!” Kagome exclaimed happily before her smile fell upon seeing his face turn green.

“This-“

“Oh! Okay, so tonight is the twelfth new moon since I got back so I thought it’d be nice to celebrate,” she offered – clearly trying to stay positive and not freak out, “It’s completely okay if you weren’t keeping track. I mean…”

“The hell is that supposed to mean,” Inuyasha huffed miserably as he removed the flowers from behind his back and half-heartedly raised them up, “I remembered. I kept track. I did.”

As soon as he dropped his hand, his very modest gift decided in that moment to betray him. Almost as if on cue, every single flower head decided to jump ship en masse leaving only ugly naked stems in the horrified and crushed half-demon’s hand.

“I-I can get more,” he mumbled wearily as he knelt down and began collecting the traitorous little bastards off the floor, “I just…I wanted to do something nice but maybe I should’ve done something-“

“You really remembered?” Kagome breathed happily – her heart melting behind her eyes despite Inuyasha being unable to see it, “On your own?”

“Yeah,” he sighed – his eyes focusing squarely on the petals and heads, “Look, Kagome I…”

��“You don’t need to get anything else. This is perfect,” Kagome cooed quickly – completely interrupting his other gift of words as she rushed forward and began plucking the petals from his hand, “This isn’t really all that much. I just wanted to make a safe space for you tonight. So, you could actually sleep. And I didn’t do-“

“That’s stupid. You’re my safe space whether I sleep or not. I don’t need all this shit,” Inuyasha sighed miserably as he visibly sagged in defeat, “You always do too much. I can’t compete with this Kagome. I got you flowers and you-“

“I’m your safe space?” Kagome asked – her voice happier than he’d ever heard it before and out of surprise, amber eyes flicked upwards. His face crumpling in confusion.

“Yeah?” he replied slowly – his brow furrowed and his eyes betraying how much of an idiot he thought she was in that moment, “Did I stutter or something?”

Kagome’s grin widened and Inuyasha felt more uncomfortable than ever.

“No. No. You were saying?”

“Well its…it’s just not fair. I mean, people like you. You give them medicine and they give you priceless shit,” Inuyasha continued mumbling defensively, “The only real thing of value I have to my name is you and I can’t really sell you to buy nice things for you. Defeats the purpose and…and…”

Nodding like she was listening to his points, Kagome was having a hard time not just kissing him senseless. He didn’t realize it but he was actually being quite sweet and dropping little statements that let her know how much he loved her.

“I mean, shit Kagome, who the hell gave you furs? Helped you build a freaking bed, huh?” Inuyasha huffed as he gestured towards the luxurious items, “If you wanted a bed, I’d’ve made you one. I’d do anything for you but I don’t know what to do unless you tell me. You should know that by now and you shouldn’t have had to do this yourself and…and just….”

“Can I tell you what I need then?” Kagome interrupted his verbal self-lashing and breathing heavily, Inuyasha nodded. His eyes screaming and wavering as he waited to jump at the opportunity to do whatever she was about to ask.

Clasping her hands behind her back, she smiled widely and rocked back on her heels.

“I want you to be happy. Always. I want you to smile and laugh,” she offered – repeating her thoughts from the very beginning of the quest, “And I want you to always know I am your safe place.”

Sagging in defeat, Inuyasha gave her a withering glare.

“Seriously?”

“Yes seriously. That and I want you to use the stuff I worked hard to get you and I want you to sleep tonight,” she added sweetly, “For my present, I want you to let me protect you.”

“That’s not a real present,” he huffed irritably as he ran his claws through his hair, “Give me something to do woman or I’m gunna scream.”

“We need more firewood,” she offered without skipping a beat and rolling his eyes, Inuyasha nodded before heading towards the door.

“I’m gunna get you new flowers too, okay? Ain’t nobody gunna say I didn’t get you anything.”

Humming contentedly, Kagome leaned up against the doorframe and watched him go. Hearing him say his feelings out loud was the best present she had ever gotten. Topped only by the fact that later that night, he did fall asleep in her arms. All it took, apparently, was having her heartbeat ringing in the human ear pressed tightly against her chest. Burrowing under the covers, Inuyasha released a long relieved sigh and all the tension in his muscles melted right out while a soft mumble of ‘love you’ made its way over his lips. Throughout that night, his body subconsciously tried to melt into hers - unknowing nuzzles and coos of contentment made her heart soar. The few times he seemed to having a bad dream all she needed to do was hum and whatever negative expression he made faded almost instantly. He was precious. He was warm. He was happy. He snored. Not loudly but still. His lips twitched upwards in his peaceful slumber whenever she stroked his cheek. Above things it was clear he hadn’t been exaggerating when he admitted she was his safe place and that he was most likely downplaying how much he loved her. All this time she’d assumed that she loved him more than he loved her but after today, it seemed like him saying he needed her was a gross understatement. She was his world. The only thing he needed in life.

Alas, time stood still for no man but Kagome was very happy to report that night was quite possibly the best one she’d ever had. Officially, she was now the only person who had ever had the pleasure of seeing how his human side slept. Probably the only person in history who’d heard his cute soft snore. She was the only person he would ever let see - much less hold - him in his most vulnerable state. Being graced with that level of trust and love which had been demonstrated in such a simple way?

Oh it was the best gift ever.

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Custom Toonami Block Week 160 Rundown

Spy X Family: This one’s a relatively serious affair focusing on Yuri tailing a guy that’s forging propaganda which seems like a lot of work considering if you can’t find a government doing something shitty, especially one of these turn of the century police states, you’re probably not looking hard enough. Still it’s a nice change of pace for this to be pretty light on comedy and have Yuri methodically watch this guy be a douche but someone that cares about his family and arrest the guy but still want to help his family at the end of the day. It’s also a neat little release that when he goes to visit Yor Anya basically reads the whole episode from his mind and feels sorry for him and basically all his logic goes out the window once Yor praises him. The remainder of the episode is a little short of the in-universe tv show Bondman basically making itself a harem anime like ‘The 100 Girlfriends and the Spy who really really really really really really loved them’ and it’s just becoming more and more questionable that this is where Anya’s worldview comes from, maybe she’d be better off watching Becky’s soap operas after all, though at least Bondman does still promote a sense of borderless globalism and peace which has got to be a hard sell in this world specifically but it’s a good influence on kids like Anya who are going to grow up healing from decades of nationalism and war. Then there’s also like three 4koma-ass omake style things with quick jokes, they’re okay, never been a huge fan of the 4koma style since they kinda reuse punchlines for effect and don’t have as much setup.

Inuyasha: It’s a “Kagome returns to the present” episode with some ‘Inuyasha talked about Kikyo for five seconds so Kagome’s moody’ thrown in honestly these are usually pretty solid comedy-wise though this one does kinda suffer from getting caught in the Kikyo spiral that’s been getting less and less coherent as Kagome’s character’s developed and they continue to get mad at Inuyasha for… being happy she’s not literally dead? Either way it’s got some good physical comedy of Inuyasha trying to fix a bike that has the same vibes as the ‘Goku doing normal shit with the powers of a god’ episodes of DBZ which is always a treat, and apparently for some reason he can’t use the Adamant Barrage in the present which I don’t think was ever explained but it’s fine since the present basically doesn’t exist in canon past a certain point so the filler can say whatever it wants. The other half of the comedy comes from Kagome’s friends wanting to meet Inuyasha and finally seeing him and… kinda having a completely normal conversation with him by complete accident, like Inuyasha’s chill/oblivious enough to not say anything too stupid and it’s really funny how they recognize him from the cultural festival arc like the filler’s been quietly having its own story about Kagome’s friends learning more about her exploits and it’s a nice little throughline even if it doesn’t amount to anything, though it does draw a more clear line around the Inuyasha/Kagome/Hojo love triangle they had in the beginning since Kagome has officially confessed to Inuyasha at this point and her friends draw a line that despite not entirely being sure about Inuyasha they like him well enough and Hojo is officially out. I’ve said it before but I really wanted Yashahime to give us a well-adapted Hojo with a cool wife that loves him because he’s a sweet boy and did not deserve all the romantic yanking around this story gave him.

Yu Yu Hakusho: It’s time for Yomi versus Shura and this didn’t go how I thought it would at all. Like I don’t remember this arc very well and only saw a couple episodes of it to begin with but yeah, Yomi vs Shura is just a series of DBZ moves with Yomi going ‘DO YOU YIELD!?’ and beating the shit out of his child in a more mild recreation of that scene from Invincible. Shura has the shonen protagonist spirt and doesn’t back down but Yomi’s eventually just like ‘bro I am literally going to kill you if you say you won’t give up one more time’ and Shura gives up so like… what was the point of any of that? Like Yomi was going easy on him to teach him shit but didn’t really teach him anything and Shura’s spirit is admirable but gets broken at the end so like what was the point of the ‘I have a secret son who’s super strong I swear’ plotline? Like the reason I didn’t predict things going this way was because… it kinda doesn’t make sense, like the new mystery character is supposed to have an impact on the tournament not get kicked out before it starts, this’d be like if that guy with Dakrai got beaten before he even got to fight Ash. I don’t know I’m just kinda confused about where the arc is going and Yusuke fights a giant cat demon for like five seconds, like it feels like the arc doesn’t have a lot of time but it keeps inventing filler fights to pad things out anyway.

Jujutsu Kaisen: Geto squares off against Megumi Sr. to avenge Riko and turns out JJH has the same flaw back then that it does now where if you’re just some dude and know where to look you can kinda just walk right in and since Megumi Sr. is the ultimate love child of Rock Lee and Tenten and is able to hide his pocket dimension spirit like he’s smuggling drugs at an airport terminal, he can just poke his head right in no problem. You’d think they’d fix that flaw considering it’s the exact same one Mahito used to steal the fingers and the womb brothers. But yeah Megumi Sr. kicks Geto’s ass, considering his two major losses are this and a kid with an angry girlfriend and two weeks of sword training I’m starting to doubt his claim to being the ‘strongest’ with Gojo. Megudad delivers Riko’s body to the crazy cult and picks up his money and FUCKING GOJO is just standing outside the building like ‘sup’ like he’s still covered in his own blood and shit and it’s great cause he’s just high off his ass like full Gear Fifth laughing and not caring about anything. Turns out Gojo works on Aizen rules and almost dying makes him stronger because it let him figure out the healing techniques and considering that’s a whole half of his power that just opened up plus the fact he can multiply that half with the half he already had to be exponentially stronger he’s gonna kick Megumi Sr’s ass with the power of MATH. Just a full on SAO Abridged ‘MY NUMBERS ARE HIGHER THAN YOURS’ deal and he blows Dadgumi a new chest hole, between this and how Geto’s defeated I think the author just really likes the ‘blow an arm and half their chest off’ pose. He tells Gojo about Megumi on a whim, though maybe for some fleeting pity for his son despite Gojo having every reason to go and kick the kid in the nuts and watch him be sold off to slavery for what his dad did. Still with the final stinger we find Geto’s found Daddad’s cursed spirit and finds Gojo with all the HappyHappyists cheering for him for grabbing Riko’s corpse. Gojo’s just like ‘you know I’m pretty high right now, could probably just murder all these cultist and not be torn up inside about it’ and we show that despite both their foundations being rocked, Geto’s still on the side of not wanting to hurt normal people even as Gojo’s starting to teeter on the edge.

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off: Ramona continues the Great Scott Pilgrim Investigation of whatever the fuck year this is supposed to be, I forget. This time the focus is Lucas Lee, movie star and potential Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater secret character. Now something that’s been going on in the background that I haven’t really mentioned is what appears to be a multidimensional robot feeding Scott’s dumbest acquaintance a script of what is presumably the original Scott Pilgrim series which is now getting made into a movie which would presumably be the original live action movie or at least similar to it. The funny part is Lucas plays Scott instead of himself and they have a good amount of fun with the who plays who deal like Lucas getting in more trouble for dating a 31 year old actress playing a teenager than Scott got in for dating an actual teenager and the whole thing has an Ember Island Players vibe with everyone kind of picking at how their performances are adapted and how things they do are unrealistic in retrospect. There’s a big skateboard fight with paparazzi ninjas because that’s just the kind of series this is, and Ramona gets what she needs to clear Lucas while getting a good flashback of humanizing their relationship. Gotta say though, I mentioned this last time and while the Exes do seem to be entitled jerks who mostly feel they own Ramona, she DOES seem to be REALLY bad at ending relationships and really flighty about who she’s interested in, like she herself claims she’s different now and I have no clue what might’ve caused that change because if it’s just Scott being adorkable I think I’d puke but yeah while it doesn’t really justify creating a whole evil Evangelion council dedicated to claiming dominion of a single American girl, I kinda get the frustration these guys have that engendered that kind of anger if Ramona’s just hopping around without actually communicating the end of these relationships, like girl seems like she’s got some issues.

Ranking of Kings: This one’s a follow-up to last week’s episode about Ouken with his presumably filler friend Fren breaking the Underworld Law about monsters not being allowed above the surface. Long story short he and a bunch of his friends stage his death so he can search and the gist that the guys are like ‘oh yeah it’s over there where Bosse is’ and Fren considers his job done and Desha and Despa are like ‘well we already killed Fren so whoever this guy is giving us helpful info must be an imposter so get out of her losers’. And it’s just like… so many questions, like Fren barely looks monstrous but apparently he’s not allowed on the surface but the bulky probably monstrous order of the underworld knights are? Also like all this for something we could assume the kings could find out on their own like Miranjo’s not a huge secret and they never even establish how Fren found out about her so this could’ve been an email if Desha and Despa were doing their best to look for demon traces idk, even when we get new content from this season it feel like Naruto filler where it’s like ‘here’s a backstory for something that you could’ve assumed was common sense’. The other bit is about the underworld guards training Despa’s fat horse so that’s kind of dumb amusement I guess.

Vinland Saga: Snake gets Thorfinn patched up after his little run-in and gives him a blast of good old Conqueror’s Haki to let him know he means business about trying to kill him so Thorfinn flashes back to Askeladd and unconsciously snaps into battle mode to defend himself, proving to Snake that all his talk about not wanting to live anymore wasn’t true which is more of a shock to Thorfinn than anyone else, since he wonders why he would want to live and why he’s alive at all. The farm doctor treats Thorfinn and gives him a new shirt and gives him the day off and they make a point of saying how Thoffin never says thank you and rarely responds to anyone given growing up on a ship full of pirates that he wanted to murder probably didn’t help his etiquette and social skills. Still when Thorfinn just jumps back in to chopping trees, Einar has enough info now to piece his story together and asks Thorfinn if he’s been to war and if he’s killed anyone. Thorfinn basically gives him the less glib version of the ‘how many breads have you eaten?’ speech and given the time period and Thorfinn’s penchant for killing I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s killed more than he’s eaten breads. He acknowledges that he’s exactly like the people that burned down Einar’s village and he has every right to hate him. That night Einar’s thinking about just snapping Thorfinn’s neck to make himself feel better even though he had nothing to do with it, sort of a revenge by proxy. It’s kind of a neat parallel that now Thorfinn is the one waiting to be killed in his sleep like his first night with Askeladd, though by contrast Thorfinn actually is really asleep and having a nighmare about the grandma from the beginning of the series and all the other people he directly or indirectly murdered and how fighting for his life gradually made him think nothing of killing whether they were innocents or combatants. Einar sees how much the dream is tearing Thorfinn up and how much he regrets killing and realizes that he’s not like the people who killed his family, at least not anymore, and wakes him up. He tells Thorfinn that he won’t ever know if something good can come from living if he dies and he’s definitely in a better place now than he was, so there’s no reason to carry on about wanting to die, and no reason for Einar to hate him directly since he wasn’t responsible for what happened to his village. Thorfinn notably thanks Einar for waking him, showing he definitely is a little better off now and is starting to accept human connection again little by little or at least is willing to make an effort to. Also we see Canute doing cool guy shit around so it’ll be fun to catch up with him next time.

#ooc #Toonami #Custom Toonami Block #Spy X Family #Inuyasha #Yu Yu Hakusho #Jujutsu Kaisen #Scott Pilgrim Takes Off #Ranking of Kings #Vinland Saga

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Hi! Do you have any ficus about either Inuyasha and Kagome expecting their first child or inuyasha and mahometanos courting in the feudal era (au/canon divergent)? Thank you!

Hello Nonnie,

We apologize for this ask getting lost in the shuffle!

Since this request was submitted we have put together two lists of Feudal AUs, one which focused on "early marriage". We have linked both lists below.

For this list the team focused on the "expecting first child in the canon era" portion of the ask since we have not previously compiled recs for that topic. (But if you like pregnant Kagome NFSW in both canon or AU-- we did that, too.)

While many fics on this list are one-shots, we also included longer stories where Kagome's pregnancy is a major component of the plot.

Previous Lists

Feudal AU's // Similar to Half-Breed's Wife and Feudal Marriage

InuKag Expecting Their First Child

Up The Wall by Hadi42 (T)

Kagome would like to believe that she's a rational person, but it's not always easy to stay reasonable or calm when Inuyasha just won't get the hint.

A Busted Knee by WakingPriestess (NR)

Kagome takes a tumble while on her way back from attending to a patient. Shippou swears Inuyasha is going to kill him, because a bruise on Kagome is one thing. A bruise on a pregnant Kagome is an entirely different beast.

Get Through This Day by @mamabearcat (T)

A very pregnant Kagome is feeling more than a little stifled under the constant watchful eye of her anxious hanyou husband. A little angst tinged fluff piece for Inuyasha and Kagome. WARNING: Contains multiple mentions of a previous miscarriage. Please don't read if you think this would be upsetting for you.

Together Changed by @goshinote & @lostinfantasyworlds (G)

On his first human night since finding out he’s going to be a father, Inuyasha begins to feel overwhelmed by the idea of impending parenthood. As always, Kagome knows just how to set his mind at ease.

Tiny Miracle by @len-barboza (T)

Post-canon comic collection.

Miracle by @dawnrider (M)

A repost of story of the same name under same pen name originally posted on FF.net in June of 2011, now complete: The Shikon has influenced many lives, particularly Inuyasha and Kagome's. Seems it has one more trick up its sleeve for the young miko and her hanyou companion. Can they roll with the changes, especially when Inuyasha might not be feeling quite himself?

The Sounds Of Love by @mamabearcat (G)

'Inuyasha gazed down at her, his heart swelling as he took in the beautiful picture his pregnant wife made, finally resting in the afternoon sunlight.' So, I felt the need to create some art of a tired and sleepy pregnant Kagome, and a very happy and soft Inuyasha, watching her as she slept. And then I wrote this to go with it. Not much substance to it, just an extremely fluffy moment in time. All the soft Papa Inuyasha feels. Because I want them both to be happy.

InuKag Family (collection) by Reindrops (G)

Just a few works of InuKag fluff that is mostly canon compliant.

Mating Season by @splendentgoddess (X)

FINALLY COMPLETE! 100 Chapters! What was once a cliche PWP is now an epic tale of romance and adventure! See how Inuyasha suffering from "mating season", and a squabble with Kagome over some pocky, sets the dominos in motion for the story of a lifetime!

The Honeymoon Phase by @that-one-nerdy-gal (T)

Kagome has finally returned to the feudal era to live with Inuyasha and the couple couldn't be happier. A few months after Kagome's return however, she can't help feeling like there is something missing from their lives. A collection of one-shots that follow our couple on their journey into to becoming parents. These shorts take place after the events in Final Act, but before Yashahime. (Edit) After watching Yashahime, this is officially cannon divergent and I'm okay with that.

They Great Dog Demon War by @lavendertwilight89 (E)

After Kagome returns through the well to Inuyasha with Naraku and jewel destroyed, they all thought they would would happily ever after. That is, until they end up in war involving Sesshomaru and Inuyasha's uncle, Inu-Touma, and his sons trying to reclaim the land their father took from him. They must fight these new and powerful enemies with their friends risking everything they have to save humankind. Their uncle and cousins reveal their hidden powers and end up sending Kagome back in time and facing new challenges and dangers with the help of her family and friends. How will Inuyasha and his friends save the world without ruining the timeline and reawakening their defeated foes? Will they come out victorious? Or will they fall at the hands of this powerful adversary?

Honey by @little-known-artist (K+)

Kagome was restless, kicking and shoving and wiggling as she tried to sleep. Inuyasha had gotten used to this in the few years they had been married, and held her to him to calm her fussing before he drifted off to dreamland himself.

Blackout by King Baka (E)

*COMPLETE* A night of celebration yields life-altering consequences for Inuyasha and Kagome. Can they weather the storm, or will the consequences of their actions prove too much to handle

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Inuyasha Rant/Rambling

I think it would have been cool to see Izayoi outside of being sad, dead or a damsel in distress. She could have been given much better substance.

I would have loved to see what her and Inuyasha's lives were like pre-death. Wiki says she died of natural causes. It can't possibly be old age because discounting the 3rd movie, Inuyasha ages like any human would. (If anyone says otherwise, that would make him way older than not only Kagome, but Kikyou too.) He was 9 - 10 years old when she died. Then this would mean sickness? Would have been nice to see Inuyasha's last days with her or how her family treats her... Ya know...to make me care more...

Some alternative deaths I have in the back of my mind,

a) getting killed by a rival demon of Toga's to show that yes, she was always in danger by mere association, let alone having the child of a Demon General/King. At that point, getting murdered by a demon might as well be a natural cause of death at the feudal era.

b) The house/estate got stormed by a hate mob because she's "impure" or a major target by other demons. She was either disowned or her family legit just fell into ruins. Either way, nobody would protect her. Wouldn't it be so tragic if it was humans who killed Inuyasha's mom instead of just demons? There's so many ways to make all this (TogaxIzayoi story, InuKik,Inuyasha learning to trust humans again) so much more heartwrenching. Inuyasha rarely mentions her in both the manga and the anime. At least in the anime, he mentioned her to Kikyou once which was nice but that's about it. In the manga, she didn't even have a name or a face.

I think it would have been cool to see Kikyou outside of being sad, undead or a damsel in distress.

No, but seriously, there could have been better ways to write Kikyou's character than what we have been given. For all the shit I say about the characters I hate (like Kikyou and Hawks), at the end of the day, I appreciate the concept/attempt. They're like stylized bottles with little canon substance in them.

Kikyou, self-insert or not, she's integral to the plot- to Inuyasha's life. Now how would I rather the story have gone when it comes to Kikyou?

A) They should have written her relationship with Inuyasha way better.

B) She should have remained a major antagonist.

C) Let the characters (who always call one another out on their bullshits mind you) call her out on her shitty actions during her redemption.

Better yet, A + B (since her being an antagonist, getting called out should be a given) or we keep the plot as is but with a bonus C!

With Option A, it should fix the major issues I have with InuKik: a)Their dynamic and how it's inherently in Kikyou's favor. b)Their mutual distrust of each other. c)The lack of intimacy outside of being romantic/sexual partners.

a)Their dynamic and how it's inherently in Kikyou's favor.

Socially: Inuyasha was an outcast from having no family (they're either dead or hate him), being homeless, and worst of all, being a half-demon. In contrast, we have Kikyo, who is a priestess of high status, she is loved, she is legendary, she is powerful (if she killed him upon their first meeting, no one would care).

Mentally: Kikyo in canon, is not only regarded as older, she is meant to be wiser. She was educated, trained, and was (supposed to be) smart. Inuyasha by contrast was very likely homeschooled, sheltered and never had any of the social interactions Kikyo would have had. Inuyasha is said to be physically 15, if said to be 200 years old. Okay. Based on what I said about his actual aging in canon, he is 15 years old. Kikyo should have known this, yes? She met this young social outcast who was hated by both man and demon and thought "Yeah, ask him to be human. That solves both our problems and we can be happy!" But would it have worked?

But before all that, why would Kikyou specifically want the jewel gone?

"She wants to be a normal woman." Okay, but what even is normal in a world full of demons, witches, and other supernatural entities? "She doesn't want to be the guardian of a jewel that grants immeasurable power, that puts her life at stake more than usual." Fair enough, but I raise you this, her life was already at stake all the time anyway simply by being a powerful priestess (Midoriko for example). Inuyasha was even helping her guard the jewel which was barely kept safe.... at a shrine in the middle of the village... why was it just placed on an altar. I don't know. I won't touch it.

Now, Kikyo has been robbed of a regular childhood just by being born a priestess. I'll giver her that. She's way too young, even by their standards, to be burdened by a life-threatening job. Which begs the question, why does Inuyasha have to bear the consequences of that? He was already helping her, protecting her and her village. She proposed the idea of him being human, leaving himself vulnerable, leaving something he was born with, just to conform with society- and what changes with her? She already admitted she's just going to live as a priestess without the threat of the jewel. That's something so heavy to leave on him -

(I had to check what she actually said and it was just "I will be an ordinary woman." See earlier point. Wishing him to be human doesn't suddenly rid her of her powers, she'd still be a priestess regardless lest they elope which was never stated or implied. I mean, she could have dropped her position as priestess ? But it was never stated or implied what she meant. Honestly that proposal between her and Inuyasha didn't feel like a proper conversation between lovers who planned to eventually marry.)

Which now leads to my next point, it wouldn't have worked.

(Disregarding the possible implications of the jewel being destroyed had they just burned the jewel inside Midoriko's mummified corpse, or if not, just sealed the entire cave with Kikyo's powers that came next to Midoriko's.)

The jewel, at least in the anime, was finally gone due to "the right wish" - Kagome's selfless wish. The Shikon Jewel got tainted by any sort of impure, selfish desire, yes? The mere inkling of jealousy, hate, and envy was enough to taint the jewel. While I think Kikyou just wanted that jewel gone and never to see Inuyasha again. I'll entertain the idea for the sake of my argument. Kikyou's supposed wishes on the jewel were (in the first case, was going to wish)

1) "For Inuyasha to be human." - The main motivations for this wish aren't inherently awful but it's still questionable at best. Inuyasha clearly hesitated and she insisted that this wish will lead to them living normal lives. Inuyasha clearly dislikes being human - being weak, vulnerable, and essentially unreliable during an attack lest he trains to be a soldier afterwards, and even then that's not going to stop demons who just know what he looks/smells like-he'd be dead. To end this point, this clearly benefits her more than it does him. That's clearly still selfish.

(Even if Inuyasha was fully into it, that wish is still by all technicality, self-serving, - a wish tainted by possible feelings of resentment and loneliness, only to be somehow "fixed" by conforming to a world that clearly hates him.)

2) Supposedly, "Kikyo wished to see Inuyasha again" and that somehow manifested into Kagome being born with the jewel. I'll lightly entertain the idea that that wish is what caused the jewel to be recreated and brought back to the feudal era. That wish is still very much self-serving. It is what she wants, after she "killed" or sealed her supposed loved one. You really can't ask for someone back after you did that to them. (This is ignoring the fact that the narrative wasn't even sure what happened back there. She aimed to kill. Then he was sealed because "she didn't want to kill him." Then the story says "she followed him to death." Which. Was. It.

This leads me to my next point, relating to her wish. Kikyo clearly had a basis of what the right wish could have been. She wouldn't have suggested that wish to Inuyasha if she didn't know what constituted as a wrong wish, right? "She wasn't sure actually, cut her some slack!" Then why would she want to test her idea out on Inuyasha, who she supposedly cared about. She knew the jewel was dangerous and likely twisted any wish the user had based on any sign of impurity.

Why use it on Inuyasha?

What, because he was desperate enough to let her.

b) Their mutual distrust of each other.

Inuyasha didn't trust her enough to know that she wouldn't just suddenly fire arrows at him the exact day they promised to seal their fate together. He didn't even bother checking her scent- very important, mind you. It's actually evident post-resurrection that he didn't even put it past her to keep hurting him. With Kagome, he always doubted if she could ever actually hate him. I think it is also note-worthy to point out that after thinking Kikyou betrayed him with those warning arrows, he never bothered to sought her out, hurt her, confront her or anything, just snatch the jewel, sack the place then run.

Kikyou didn't even bother checking the aura of the person who she thought was Inuyasha. This man fought for you, helped protect you and your people, always made the effort to get closer to you, even agreed with your questionable plan, ready to abandon half of his identity to be with you, and you didn't once think "Hey. Something ain't right."

"They were fooled! Naraku was cunning! The disguises looked real!" Naraku can't hide scent and aura! These two "lovers" lived in an era where shapeshifting demons who want them both dead were a thing and they never thought it could happen? This lack of acknowledgement ties into another point I have.

c)The lack of intimacy outside of being romantic/sexual partners.

So they didn't trust each other enough and it was barely given proper acknowledgement and introspection. What did they have going for them outside of the kissing and being social outcasts "together"?

Well, they went out on a boat ride together. Sat nearby each other whenever they were barely talking. Didn't talk about much and it was about loneliness and about the jewel. (minus the one time they had brief mention of Inuyasha's parents and Kikyou even apologized for damaging his robe.) She asked him to bathe with her once. Don't know the rest.

They could have literally talked about anything else of substance. Inuyasha's Mom, Kikyo's parents, Kaede, the villagers, places they've been,Favorite Food, people they've faced, Onigumo, The looming threat of being ambushed by shapeshifters, nasty bandits, their hobbies outside of what they do, their education, the topic of how their marriage would be, what their life would be like, where would they go- literally anything else?

"That's the point! It's tragic and sad and they didn't have enough time! It was cut short because of Naraku-"

Tragic implies inevitability of the awful thing that will happen. e.g. A forbidden relationship being found out, put to the test and despite doing their damndest, one or both of them die.

Kikyou for some fucking reason, never bothered to tell Inuyasha of this Onigumo (who lusts for her mind you). Inuyasha never bothered to be more open about not liking being human. The both of them not even bothering to try giving the other benefit of the doubt.

"That's the point! They're immature! They were desperate and needed each other's company!" That's not love. That's infatuation at best and unhealthy at worst. I wouldn't mind you know, if they (the narrative and characters) just treated it as such. Say so, they were lonely and just needed someone and it happened to be each other. Now why would you want to marry someone you're not emotionally intimate with, let alone you barely trust?

How Can All These Be Fixed:

1) Have Inuyasha and Kikyou have simple scenes of bonding outside of being angsty teenagers. Kikyou was capable of playing with kids, so she's probably somewhat fun. Apply that to Inuyasha then. Yeah, "but that's childish!" Let the young people have fun- eat together, play board games, stargaze, talk gossip, literally anything lighthearted, please. The atmosphere around Inuyasha and Kikyou always felt so heavy. Not even in a somber, melancholic way. More of "Do these people even really enjoy each other's company?"

So there was one scene that wasn't shown enough of and when I read it, I really like it: The origin of the subjugation beads. Kikyou decided not to kill him after finding out he was after the jewel. Made the beads and was about to trick him to wear them as a present but decided not to give them to him when he suddenly gave her his late mother's shell of rouge, which she likely felt touched by. Questionable, even she admitted it. If she gave it, she should have confessed to it and never use it- kept it as a necklace gift. Either way, that, that kind of moment is honestly cute. Plus, the mention of his parents I stated earlier. :)

Should have had them courting each other with presents and late night talks instead of whatever the anime gave us.

2) Have Kikyou try any other way of making Inuyasha welcome in society instead aiming for what honestly should have been a final, desperate attempt.

Inuyasha did not like being human. Simple. Kikyou should have known this, yes? Nope. Because Inuyasha never showed himself to her as a human. Never told her about. He was never around long enough for her to even come close to seeing him human. Because he didn't like being vulnerable around her or anyone for that matter. Come to think of it, their "relationship" properly "developed" because Inuyasha for once felt compassion towards her. Kikyou started the entire meeting thing because she felt confident, arrogant even, that's he's just a half demon she doesn't need to kill. Alright, fine. Standard "They didn't like each other at first because of obvious reasons." Then she felt some sympathy when she found out that Inuyasha's parents were interracial and both deceased. Okay, nice development. Then it ends there. That's the best they could do with them. Basic remorse and sympathy. For all the months that Inuyasha stayed at that village, Kikyou didn't even invite him to stay inside with her and Kaede. The attempt. The mere offer would have been nice. Kikyou should have at least made more of an effort to integrate Inuyasha into the villages (she had influence over them). Inuyasha only seemed to matter to the villagers when he's needed for a fight or when he's feared.

I would understand if Kikyou and Inuyasha wanted to be rid of their respective powers if they actually tried to be normal and the villagers just did not like them being together. But no, Kikyou tried being normal for a day, playing with kids which for some reason, she only started doing when Inuyasha was around because "she felt more human with him" or something. Yeah but why though? What's the difference with Inuyasha around and him gone, in regards to her duties at the village? Fine, say Kikyou did feel softer and kinder when Inuyasha came because it's the first time she had to actually feel sympathy for someone who isn't human. Why hammer in that Kikyou pre-Inuyasha was kind, caring, and loved by all? Wouldn't it have made sense to write her being colder to everyone except Kaede, at the beginning, feared even but she started changing with Inuyasha which could lead to the people being more accepting of half demons?

Fine- if you don't like that option and that Kikyou had always been an open-minded, kind, smart person, why not use that influence to make Inuyasha an equal. A hero. "Oh she didn't trust him enough for that." or "The society will never like Inuyasha even if she said anything."

Currently, Inuyasha's respected in the world by doing what he does best and it was helping people, slaying demons and protecting the weak. Something he was already doing pre-seal anyways. It's baffling that there wasn't even an attempt to take him everywhere as her bodyguard and to spread that positive message to all the villages that not all demons were evil.

Could they have thought she was bewitched? Probably. But it seems Kikyou's word was gospel to the lot of them. The attempt would have been good.

3) Kikyou should have died any other way, caused by Naraku.

The only way this whole ordeal felt "tragic" was because of the curse Tsubaki placed on Kikyou (weird plot-convenient curse she had there). What was her fucking plan really? Just hope that Kikyou was gonna eventually fall in love? What if she didn't? What then? Kill her? Why not do that to begin with? Kikyou knew all this actually and just vowed to never fall in love but later in the anime she managed to deflect a curse and turn it on Tsubaki? Is there no way to counter the initial curse? She's much more powerful! But the reason why this was never properly dealt with was because it would be convenient for the plot for Kikyou to just die because of Inuyasha. And he didn't even know about all this until later on , if I recall correctly.

If we took that whole thing with Tsubaki out, we would have been left with Naraku's scheme. (Which is what I grew up knowing about, I only knew of the curse now. I was just told her power would diminish when she fell in love, which is bullshit because Kagome never had that problem and Kikyo's powers didn't weaken by that much. So apparently ist was a curse. Huh.)

"But Naraku's whole M.O is manipulating and tricking people!" It's one of them sure, but Naraku is also ruthless when it came to his attacks. Should have went with that route instead of them falling for an obvious trap that pretty much proved how shallow their "love" for each other was.

In this new version, since Inuyasha and Kikyou are an actual couple, they wouldn't have been fooled by obvious trickery and Inuyasha would have known about Onigumo- this leaves the options of possession/puppetry, trapping them both in an illusion, and or just straight up killing Kikyou while Inuyasha was lured elsewhere. But if we insist that she had to have been killed while he was transformed as Inuyasha, just to fuck with her, then at least have her know that it wasn't him but someone she isn't sure of (condition being she's not aware Onigumo has a thing for her) , wishing that Inuyasha would avenge her. Inuyasha, upon finding out that he's been lured to somewhere else (something that can happen, like with Mt. Hakurei) or tricked, and Kikyou had been killed, yeah, he's out for vengeance. The way he could be sealed was if Naraku then uses Kikyou as a disguise to attack him then get Tsubaki to do the seal. With the first one, since Inuyasha knows Kikyou is well, dead, it leaves who could possibly be out for the both of them (not immediately thinking it's Onigumo since last he checked, the man was a critically injured human who has no relationship connection to either of them). With the second, Tsubaki gets to fuck with them both because she's always hated Kikyou and wanted to one-up her. There, you have your tragic lovers who deserve to be together and get revenge for what happened to them.

Option A + B

This is the one where Kikyou doesn't get redeemed. Fast forward to Kikyou being resurrected because the hag thought she could do something with that. She's bones, gravel, spite and hatred incarnate. And she should have stayed that way. I adore the idea that had Kikyou been written to be good and then upon being dug up, turned into this awful husk of a person who just resented the living.

You can't have both the likeable, kind, sympathetic Kikyou while she goes around hurting people, stealing souls, scaring kids, helping Naraku, killing someone with her powers-an innocent human at that.

She goes on resenting Kagome, who is an unwilling participant in this love triangle, a 15 y.o who actively helps Kikyou and Inuyasha. (The manga is littered with Kikyou pointing out that Inuyasha was hers to heal and keep. I'm not against the idea of Kikyou coming back as this vindictive spirit but they should have acknowledged that. Not even her sister acknowledged it. Kikyou legit went "Inuyasha's gentler now. When he wasn't with me. She's healing his heart. I should have been the one to do that." and Kaede just went "Kagome is a strange child." Maybe tell her to not be so possessive? Yeah I know she looks a tiny bit like Kikyou but damn, she was willing to murder a child.) She goes around hurting the people she used to care about (Kaede, Inuyasha), hurting the people Inuyasha cares about (Kagome, the gang) and this creates heavy impactful angst! Because if they were an actually happy couple and this happened with Kikyou, then it comes down to Inuyasha's "She's no longer the woman I loved. She's a danger to the people around her and herself. Her soul needs to be put to rest." And then you have her die once, at the end to finally give her closure with Naraku and Inuyasha. I would have cried if that was the case.

and Option C, the one where she gets redemption.

I hate the love triangle because of how convoluted it is. Inuyasha looks like a fickle cheater at times, Kikyou clearly hates Kagome, and Kagome is just in it, trying to be the bigger person for the both of them and not fucking die.

If we kept the entire story as is, the least they could have done was acknowledged how awful Kikyou was to Kagome, Kohaku, Kaede, and a lot more people.

Her bullshit plan using the jewels to give Naraku a new body and then destroying him, along with the jewel was so ridiculous, not even counting the lives ruined in the process.

Would that arc have been solved if the characters just acknowledged that she was being shitty? No. Because that also needs to be coupled with her owning up to her mistakes.

She never owned or admitted to trying to kill Kagome, Inuyasha, and Kohaku. She never took accountability for being such a liability in during battle. She never owned up to the fact that she was absolute trash to her boyfriend, trying to drag him to hell, making him for guilty for even finding happiness with another woman, nevermind not even sure if they were dating, just chalking her up to "her replacement". She always had to be right and pitied on and that was so infuriating.

I think I'm getting a headache. Lets move on.

Now to fix the redemption, with Writing A + a bit of B.

Rewind back to Kikyou being resurrected, she's spiteful and bitter and the resentment is now personal, focused on Inuyasha, Kaede and most of all, Kagome, who she views as her replacement.

Since in this version, Kikyou knew Inuyasha didn't murder her, the hurt now comes from the fact that it seems like he moved on, with her reincarnation, and he hasn't avenged her yet. Of course she would be upset, she has every single right to be. To be a memory. To be stuck in the past. I'm gonna tear up just thinking about it.

Now where does Kagome come in all this. Nothing changes. She already actively helped Kikyou and Inuyasha in canon. She had always been understanding, the only condition being Inuyasha tells her beforehand that they will meet.

Kikyou and Kagome's relationship wasn't always just about their romance with Inuyasha. There were other things to be petty and or insecure of, like their roles as priestess, rivals of Midoriko's legacy, all that.

So here we know that Kikyou lost everything, not just her life, her beloved, she lost her position, her life's hard work, and all that went to a woman from a different time period- clearly she didn't belong here.

So there, we have the angst and drama on both sides. Kagome's insecurities trying to measure up to an amazing priestess and person, and Kikyou's insecurity of being replaced by "another her".

"But that's already canon! Kagome is an extension of Kikyou! She's her reincarnation! Wouldn't that make them the same person!"

No. I hate it when people disregard the message said and told by the narrative that Kikyou and Kagome were never and will never be interchangeable. Kagome is not Kikyou's 2nd Chance to be with Inuyasha. She's Inuyasha's 2nd Chance at Happiness. Kikyou is not Kagome from the Feudal Era. Kagome and Kikyou are two very different people.

You can make Kikyou and Kagome opposites without making the other ridiculously unlikable. (With Kikyou being so unkind and unsympathetic and Kagome being "bratty and spoiled" -according to InuKik shippers.) I don't have to put Kikyou down to prop Kagome up. The writing did that all on its own.

I'm trying to put them on an equal bar while trying to keep them with their individual personality and quirks.

Pre-Death Kikyou can be the calm, collected, intelligent, fearless one. She was mature for her age, probably overworked and never got to experience all the joys of being a teenager. (One might even add some level of paranoia that adds in to Inuyasha's protectiveness towards her and why he's so special to her. )

Kagome is the impulsive, temperamental, resourceful, brave one. She's emotional, sassy, and all around a social buttefly that got all the experience Inuyasha and Kikyou never had.

There. Complete opposites without the other being so unbearable.

Now how would Kikyou and Kagome's relationship go?

Well, only in the anime, I appreciate the attempt to make Kikyou respect Kagome. The episode was called "Kikyou and Kagome Alone in a Cave."

I would have liked this more if this wasn't one episode among multiple episodes with attempts on Kagome's life, Inuyasha's life, Kohaku's... Ugh.

For this version, she can probably try killing Kagome once because she was newly resurrected and "there can only be one of us." Kagome immediately tells Inuyasha this and this obviously angers Inuyasha which Kikyou then accuses him of actually replacing her. This drama causes a rift between the two that has nothing to do with Naraku or them being gullible or selfish because that was absolutely infuriating. Kikyou then keeps looking for ways to send Kagome back to her time (which she did in the first movie, she quoted "You don't belong here. Never return." )

Kagome clearly bottling up resentment at this point, because this undead woman whose name she has to live up to hates her, wants her boyfriend back, and just sent her back to her time. We have that scene of her realizing she loves Inuyasha but wanting to be supportive. The same goes as follows until Kagome finds her again, injured and filled with miasma after her last encounter with Naraku.

Kikyou, still bitter at this point, wandering around, stealing souls to stay "alive", looking for Naraku, just sees this girl and gets defensive. Kagome, having decided to be the bigger person and be sympathetic, offers to help Kikyou. Kikyou obviously taken aback, begrudgingly accepts this.

Kagome leaves the situation with more pity and sympathy for this woman she barely knows, and maybe some perspective. Kikyou isn't immune to mistakes and getting injured. It's okay to not live up to her right away. Kikyou leaves the situation with newfound respect because if it was the other way around, would she have helped? Would she have set aside her resentment to help someone again? If she didn't, what would that make her? Was she always this vindictive beneath the surface? Without the expectations of being the mature older sister/priestess, would she be selfish? Kikyou should have pondered stuff like that in that state.

Because Kikyou is supposed to be smart and self-aware.

Maybe have Kikyou want to get to know Kagome personally-? Maybe earn her trust back?

Now what happens to their relationship with Inuyasha involved? Kikyou now having more respect for her reincarnation, should actually stick around to see her and Inuyasha in action, maybe even try to help out, see what their dynamic is like, maybe kinda see if Kagome's better than her or not. This drama is better than the constant Inuyasha running off to see Kikyou and Kagome being jealous even though Kagome stated outright that them seeing each other was not the issue, it was them going behind her back.

Okay, so I love Kagome and InuKag but this needs to be stated, they were all did dirty. Kagome and Kikyou's potentially complex relationship was boiled down to relationship drama.

How Do We Fix The Love Triangle?

Easy. It ceases to exist. Let Inuyasha, Kikyou, and Kagome have a proper friendship and talk about their situation. The common argument neutral parties have about the love triangle is that "Inuyasha cares about them both equally!" I'd believe you if it didn't feel like InuKag + Kikyou attempting to homewreck an already good relationship.

"The Love Triangle was integral to the plot!"

It was a fucking parasite is what it was.

"But what is the drama of these three if not the romance?"

Insecurities, Duties, Mortality, Regrets, Expectations, Trauma, Loss, and Competition, among other things. The feudal era is a goldmine of drama and angst and you want to settle for this weird trite?

Inuyasha's main conflict in the series was avenging Kikyou and getting a happy ending for himself and Kagome. Great. Cool. But that damn love triangle made it seem like it was a 'who did he love more' then proceeded to show that Kikyou was awful and Kagome really just was the better choice.

Now, with this version, what is the main conflict, if he and Kikyou were indeed happy and Kagome is there, the new girlfriend... well, it is letting go of the past and moving forward.

Kikyou is quite literally dead. Kaede, Inuyasha, her village mourned her 50 years ago. Next thing she knew, she was conscious- made from clay and bones. The world move on without her and that, she never had a say or fault in any of what happened- to her, it was like days ago (since Inuyasha did not age) You can't even fault Inuyasha for this if they were happy. The tragedy lies now in what they never got to and never will finish.

Kikyou's clay body maintains itself from souls of dead women. Wether she takes them or her body's just a magnet for them, up for debate. Either way that is not sustainable and she's taking souls from strangers, not letting their souls to move on and rest.

"But the relationship was supposed to be flawed and exploitable and that's tragic!"

You're asking people to care about two people who barely care about each other beyond the bare minimum.

If the goal was to make them flawed but believable why did they have to crank up the problems to 20?! If Inuyasha and Kikyou were meant to be individuals with serious deep-seated issues, why not bring that up, lets talk about that. Address it. But nah, the story kept flip-flopping between calling it an undying tragic romance and a betrayal that somehow stemed from a lack of trust. Feeling betrayed ≠ Not having any trust in that person.

"It's like enemies to lovers where they don't trust each other completely!"

First off, there's no ideology/authority that makes a human dating a demon illegal. The exception is priests and monks because they're spiritual heads who are tasked to killing demons so yeah it would be highly questionable. For the demons, having intercourse with a human isn't really unheard of because they already see humans as lesser, be it entertainment or ya know, food. They raise eyebrows when the demon in question falls in love and makes an offspring. The point I'm trying to make is that they were never actual enemies and the story never painted them as such. Their description in canon is "tragic lovers". Also, the proper taboo here is it being interracial.

Inuyasha himself has no personal grudge against Kikyou at the start because why would he? He never had the intention of hurting or killing her because Inuyasha never harmed humans out of fun or spite. Kikyou, it's just business. Her job was to protect the jewel. She did so.

End of this segment, just brought it up in case someone tries to justify why two "lovers" didn't trust each other to not get attacked by the other.

Now for my final thoughts, there was a point in time that I was a fan of Kikyou's design, her aura, all that. I even drew her nonstop at that period. Same goes for Hawks actually. But why inflate what actually happened in canon? For all the fun what-ifs, could-bes, this is what we have. This is what is shown and told to us. I'm more of a show and tell person and but if I had to choose, it should be Show. Kikyou's pretty design doesn't really mask the fact that she's underdeveloped and written like scribbles on cardboard.

Miscellaneous things to mention before someone brings it up:

1) Kagome's final wish on the jewel was selfless because of her very personal motivations at the beginning and at the end of the story. Kagome stayed to help collect the shikon shards because she felt personally resposible for it shattering. Kagome didn't have to, really. She didn't know these people, even worse, they were 500 years ago. They'd still be long gone when she returns home to her normal life. But no, she selflessly stayed to help fix the mess she accidentally made trying to fulfill Kikyou's shoes. Now, at the middle of the story, friends and all. What did Kagome specifically have to lose if she walked away from the fight, with Kikyou back to do her job? Her pride? Her job of filling in for Kikyou? Inuyasha? Yeah, true. But those are still things she started without. What did Kagome have at the start of the story that she never would have lost if she walked away- her family, and her life at the modern era. She personally had nothing to lose at the end of the day by wishing for the jewel to disappear. (The wish was anime only. The manga states Kagome will fight in Midoriko's place eventually which yikes...)

"Kagome wished for the jewel so she could stop fighting because the jewel hurt her friends and so many more people!"

Yeah. Other people. Not her, specifically. She chose to fight. She didn't have to. She had no obligation to. "She didn't belong in that era." Kagome had nothing to gain from the jewel's power- no personal vengeance, no lifelong grudge to speak of. The wish benefited everyone else the most. Which is why it was the right wish to make and why Kagome was the right one to make it.

2) InuKik would not be cute or romantically tragic if Inuyasha was a girl and Kikyou was a man- it would be way too obvious it's unhealthy at best and abusive at worse.

See my points about the disparity between social status and maturity. Side tangent: Now the rich person x poor person is a common trope and the implications of abuse of power is usually sidestepped by having the poor person secretly being rich, becoming rich or the rich person losing those riches and power to be with the other. Now Kikyou and Inuyasha don't have a class problem but it's more of a position/status in society issue. Kikyou is a priestess, someone with the authority and "pass", if you will, to exterminate demons people deem dangerous. No one would care if she killed Inuyasha on first sight because who would protect this man's right to live? He had no support system, no family, friends, nothing. That itself isn't the main issue because she spared him for vague reasons. The issue now lies with her attempt to ask him to use the dangerous jewel to make a wish. If something goes array and he hurt her or anyone else, she'd have "good reason" to hurt/kill him in self-defense. Just a thought.

Kikyou has been really nasty towards Inuyasha despite him always being the one to get closer despite getting hurt. She was possessive, making him feel guilty for her death, asking him to die for her, to abandon the happiness he got from Kagome and his friends.

Now all the issues I've mentioned here and paragraphs beforehand and then genderbend that. You'd call him controlling, manipulative, selfish, abusive, yes? Because that's what she was like.

"You're reading too much into it!"

And why shouldn't I? If their relationship was so important, why shouldn't we look at it and scrutinize it?

"You're overreacting. She did reassure him that it was all Naraku's fault! He tricked them!"

- By exploiting an already weak relationship.

"InuKik was supposed to be endgame but the author of the manga was pressured to make it InuKag."

You as the author, have the power to make your story any way you want. If you're gonna upset a bunch of fans for a pairing you've written well for, better back it up with an equally well-written pairing. Leave no room to argue. No one will give you shit if it was done right. If you can somehow make a good way to write Kikyou back in and give Kagome a satisfying ending then yeah, it would be fine. Not happy for everyobe but it would have been serviceable. I'd say, if you're gonna piss the fandom off, at least do it well.

3) I'm not a mysogynist. I'm a girl and I would like to not see someone go "Ew. You're too hard on Kikyou but give Inuyasha a pass. You're just pitting two women against each other!"

I just said how Inuyasha's character was tainted by the love triangle, along with how we can have two powerful likable women and not reduce them to romantic rivals Inuyasha just had to choose from. I appreciate the "what Kagome and Kikyou offered him if he chose them" but I can totally understand how that would come off as unfair to the other party.

4) I have enjoyed fanfics with Kikyou before.

The first one. Can't remember the title but it was a ficlet about Kikyou being a narcissist. She kissed Kagome in that one because she was so entranced about Kagome being pretty. It was so weird because I don't think it was meant to be romantic. Kikyou was supposed to be self-absorbed and unsettling. This was the same woman who thought so highly to herself and told the 15 y.o stranger that she was an extension of her. Damn.

The second. It was what I suggested, maybe have Kikyou actually want to get to know Kagome. In this fic, Kikyou, after having been saved, wanted to befriend Kagome, earn her trust back. Kagome, already nice to her by default agreed to hang out and they even had friendship necklaces! :D It was a cute ending when they finally set aside the thing with Inuyasha and just talked about being girls, school, teen stuff- because Kikyou never had that so Kagome brought her presents from the modern era and I should stop rambling omg.

The third. Kikyou post-resurrection, having been rid of her duties and mortality decided that she should be more chill and carefree. The fic was half serious, half Kikyou just flirting with guys, sleeping with everyone who wasn't taken, ugly, or a minor. The fic was just fun, because it wasn't weighed by the characters not talking about the very suffocating relationship drama. Inuyasha, Kagome and Kikyou talked, remained friends, and she was over all being friendly now that yeah, she doesn't have to be crushed by the weight of responsibilities and it wasn't like she was leaving Kagome to do the work since she decided to stay with them to help out. Also, SessKik. It was just interesting.

5) The easier and more dramatic way Inuyasha could have betrayed Kikyou was to take the jewel when she handed it to him and he secretly wishes to become a full demon and then mauling her (still fulfilling thay violent death curse Tsubaki set on her). Just a thought.

6) KagKik is so fucking odd to me because Kikyou first thought Kagome to be an extension of her and then she flat out hates her. The the story thinks Kagome was Kikyou's second chance to be with Inuyasha. I don't need to tell you why it's a tad bit weird. I swear.

7) A polycule is a weird way to solve this. That takes out the tragic part of Kikyou being dead. To each their own I suppose but this should come with the condition of Kikyou being a well-written partner to begin with and Kagome being somehow okay with a three-way with her boyfriend and his undead ex girlfriend. ' - '

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