#human!inuyasha

just a boy... in the early morning, the day after the new moon

Hello @fmrinukag !

Thank you so much for reaching out to the Archive, we absolutely can get a list of Human Inuyasha stories together for you. However, in the course of making this list the team noticed an interesting quirk: Inuyasha is not always explicitly stated as being human or not in all AUs. He is sometimes given his hanyou coloring but with no mention of his ears, claws, or demonic heritage are featured in the plot. For organizational purposes, we chose to split this list into STATED HUMAN and IMPLIED HUMAN.

Happy reading!

STATED HUMAN

Oh, But You're Good To Me @witchygirl99 (M)

It’s a terrible photo, really. The action figure takes up the entire bottom of the screen and part of both of their faces. Shippo’s giggling though, eyes shut and crinkled in his mirth while Inuyasha looks at him. His expression is clearly fond. It’s the softest Inuyasha has ever, ever seen himself.

This is fatherhood, he thinks a little wildly.

He sends the photo to Kagome.

Inuyasha is a single father. Shippo is his adopted son. Kagome isn't supposed to be in the picture, but somehow, she returns anyways. A story about family, love, and all of its obstacles.

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Shot Week IV: Lovey Dovey Edition (Chapter 7: You May Be Right) by TheMondayChild (E)

Kagome has been pining for Hojo who no longer pays her attention and brings her gifts as he once did. To try and get him to notice her again, she enlists the help of a known bad boy, Inuyasha, and they concoct a plan: bully her and let Hojo white knight his way back into her life. But will she still want him when all is said and done?

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One Night Stand by doggieearlover (X)

A chance of fate throws two souls together.

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The Jilted Lover by basya88 (T)

“You were very young, marrying you felt like clipping your wings before you took your first dive”, he said, looking at her like he still had the right to do so.

She huffed, her haughtiness apparent, “So you’re saying, you had to make a choice for me? Who gave you the right to do that, huh? Excuses, excuses, but yeah, you made a choice, and you choose to break my heart by leaving me.”

Those we’re the longest spoken sentences he heard from her in years and now she’s walking away from him, and if he didn’t stop her, she’d be gone for good. He can’t have that. He had to do something.

“Please, don’t walk away,” he pleaded.

Without looking back she replied, “You taught me how. You walked out on me once. Now, we’re even.”

Both of them forgot, that hundreds of listeners are witnessing their exchange thru the radiowaves.

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A Late Loving by LittleDarkStar (M)

8 years ago Kagome ran away from her cheating husband, Now 8 years on Kagome lives with her Cousin Miroku and her son. But Inuyasha has found her again and wants his revenge.

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all night long I feel his presence hover by @doginabirdcage (E)

It is when Kagome turns forty-five, living in a small apartment in Tokyo, with her child and husband long gone, that she inherits a fortune. She’s got a gray streak in her hair that she didn’t fight when it started coming in years ago. There are crows feet by her eyes. But suddenly, she is an heiress.

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Skinny Love by emaniem5 (T)

"This was no love letter. This was a threat."

Flunking math, bad hair days, inheriting a family business she doesn't want, falling in love with her sister's boyfriend...If Kagome thought she had problems before, they had just been multiplied a hundredfold. And having to dress up like her sister to confuse a stalking pyromaniac was only one of them.

Slow burn. No pun intended.

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I Do by Shirahime Shou95 (M)

A.U. "I hate you." She whispered in a low voice, tears brimming in her brown orbs. But the young boy before her just grinned smugly. "The feeling's mutual." When seven-year-old Kagome Higurashi met Inuyasha Takahashi on the elementary school for the first time, she would've never guess that fifteen years later, she would say those two words to him; "I do."

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Hallway Shenanigans by toesalignedarch (T)

AU: When Inuyasha delivers flowers to Sango on Miroku's behalf, he runs into one of Sango's friends and unwillingly develops a little crush. He thinks he's just going to get over it. But when Sango finds out, she decides to play matchmaker. Told in snippets of 250 words or less.

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Bad Influence by ji-an (Y)

Meet the bad boy.

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9 Months by DeletedAccoutnNotChangingMind (M)

Kagome is given the weirdest offer by top business man Inuyasha Takahashi. With a few simple words he changes her whole life: "Will you bare my child?"

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IMPLIED HUMAN

Soul Therapy by dolphingirl0113 (T)

{Alternate Universe Plot} Kagome is a young, aspiring physical therapist who receives more than she bargained for with Inuyasha, a victim of a car accident trying to walk again. She soon discovers reasons why you don't fall in love with patients...

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Dog Tags by @lemonlushff (E)

On the worst day of his life, an old WWII dog tag washed ashore. Now, being a Navy man himself, he feels like tracking this soldier down is the right thing to do. It's amazing how sometimes random twists of fate can help your heart heal in ways you didn't know were possible. M for language and lemon content. Inu/Kag

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Memento Mori by LuxKen27 (E)

She was the embodiment of virtue. He was her forbidden temptation.

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Shy by @ninmenkaspeaches (E)

Shy (Alternatively: What Inuyasha Most Certainly Is Not)

Sometimes love is the best thing to break you out of your shy little shell.

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The Shogun's Daughter by @shnuggletea (E)

Kagome's father passed away when she was just a child but his Shogun status still makes her a valuable bride to a Lord of lands that border their village. Lord Inuyasha Tashio is pushed by the council into marriage, assured his new bride was an excellent choice. All their fears and anxiety are amplified when they meet.

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Check our Masterlist of previous lists to see which topics we've covered.

Why does Towa turn into a human during the new moon and Setsuna doesn’t? And how come Towa never experienced it when she was growing up?

The way I look at it, they never explained why hanyou have a special night of vulnerability in the original series either.  It was just an inconvenient thing that raised the stakes higher.  I don’t think Inuyasha ever had a peaceful new moon either!

So lets try and understand why Towa has never experienced one until now.  Myoga says its because Towa is meant to be in 16th century Japan, and that’s why she is experiencing it properly.   However....does Myoga even understand the implication of what he’s saying? Its not like the moon has changed in the past 450 years!  

But, if you think back to the cold open, Towa brings up how different she and Setsuna are, and how they’ve inhabited different worlds.  The modern era is so peaceful in comparison to the Warring States era.  In the modern era the most Towa had to deal with is bullies, but she lived very comfortably.  She also barely used her real powers.  But since she travelled to the past, Towa has been pushing herself constantly and exerting her demonic energy.

What I’m saying is, I think the reason hanyou get affected by the new moon is because they are constantly exerting a certain level of demonic energy that keeps them in peak condition.  They aren’t really “human”, they are half human and half magic creature.  But it takes energy and practice to not get picked on by other youkai.  And the effect of consistently using their demonic power is that every month there is a reset or “release valve” that happens as a result.

That would at least explain why Towa never experienced it before.  She was barely tapping into her real power.   Only now, in this era, has she been living her life “fully”!

posting art for the first time is scary

♗: Everyone has a timer on their wrist that counts down to the moment of meeting your soulmate

Ari!!! Lov you!!! And also this was hard to write and i didn’t put in all i wanted to but thank you sm

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The years on Kagome’s wrist had, slowly but surely, trickled down to months, to weeks, to days, to hours.

There had been days, where she traced the different times over and over, thinking that maybe, just maybe the time would speed up. It never did, but now that she was just a mere couple of hours away from meeting them, she prayed for time to slow down.

It was coming too soon, too fast, and despite having fifteen years to prepare herself for this very moment, she was suddenly not prepared at all.