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secret kisses

CONGRATULATIONS, @youki-and-reiki / PrettyWoofEars (AO3)!!! Your fanfiction “Snowdrops; Sunspots” has been nominated by one of your fans for the 2026 2nd Term Inuyasha Fandom Awards run by FeudalConnection!

Your work has been nominated in the following category:

Best Angst/Tragedy

In addition, your fanfiction "Silver Bonds" has been nominated into the following category:

Best Rare Pair

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Once again, congratulations for your beautiful contributions to this wonderful fandom, and thank you for all that you do!

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I'm sure that some of you know me from over on Reddit, so it should come as no surprise that I get caught up in fan fiction related discussions over there from time to time.

This week, there was a thread posted about alternate pairings in fandoms. Personally, I tend to be a stickler for canon. Generally speaking, I believe that canonical pairings are canonical for a reason.

But there's one fandom where I have to admit that the canon pairings make very little sense to me. Have I still written them? Yes. Do I think the characters could do better? Also yes.

That fandom is Inuyasha. It's been ages since I've actually turned out something for the series, but there's a chance out there someone has read some of my more popular titles, such as False Truths, Time and Again, or Substance.

With Inuyasha, the main canonical pairings don't make sense for a lot of reasons, but they're pretty easy to boil down:

Inuyasha/Kagome - Kagome is abusive and insists that Inuyasha change himself for her, and that's something that stays fairly constant throughout the series. And let's not talk about her use of "Osuwari!".

Miroku/Sango - There's really nothing else to say other than apparently if you sexually harass someone long enough, they'll fall for you.

So yes, not great, even if I do enjoy them in the series greatly. But there's an alt pair that makes a lot more sense: Inuyasha/Sango.

They have similar backgrounds and purposes. They inherently trust one another. Neither is abusive to the other. And perhaps most importantly: they accept each other as they are.

As a writer, and someone who also likes writing violent stories with angsty romance, that dynamic is one that can be incredibly fulfilling.

What comes as a surprise for me is that I never really thought about it until I read a piece of fan fiction many, many years ago that beautifully illustrated why this works as almost an emotional refuge for the readers. That is magic, as only fan fiction can manage.

Chapters: 1/3 Fandom: InuYasha - A Feudal Fairy Tale Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: InuYasha/Sango (InuYasha), Higurashi Kagome & Sango, Sango & The Gang, Miroku/Sango Characters: Sango (InuYasha), Inuyasha (InuYasha), Higurashi Kagome, Miroku (InuYasha), Shippou (InuYasha), Kin'u (Hanyou no Yashahime), Gyokuto (Hanyou no Yashahime), Hisui (Hanyou no Yashahime), Original Female Character(s) Additional Tags: Trust Issues, Found Family, Denial of Feelings, Something Like Love, Secret Relationship, Friends With Benefits to Lovers, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, everyone is 18+, Character Study, of sorts, Angst, Taboo, Friendship, Sexual Tension, Bittersweet Summary:

Touch starved and lonely, Sango finds herself entangled in the last person, place, and predicament she could've ever hoped. Inuyasha feels he's lost his mind when she brings up their sparring circles, physical and verbal, their similarities, their needs... against all odds, the pair find refuge in each other--from their ails, their present, and themselves.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: InuYasha - A Feudal Fairy Tale Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: InuYasha/Sango (InuYasha), Higurashi Kagome & InuYasha, Higurashi Kagome & Sango Characters: Inuyasha (InuYasha), Sango (InuYasha), Higurashi Kagome Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - College/University, Alternate Universe - Human, Human Inuyasha (InuYasha), Roommates, Alternate Universe - Roommates/Housemates, Pining, Mutual Pining, Cooking, Food, Food as a Metaphor for Love, Matchmaking, POV InuYasha (InuYasha), InuYasha is Bad at Feelings (InuYasha), Oblivious Inuyasha (InuYasha) Series: Part 22 of Entertaining Events, Part 29 of Shipping Shenanigans Summary: Kagome's friend needs a place to stay, so she offers up their extra room. The only problem with this new situation is the fact that Sango was fucking gorgeous. Inuyasha is so screwed.

That panic you feel when your girlfriend's past jokes about joining a circus as an acrobat come back to haunt you - and you don't know how you're gonna catch her when she falls out of the swing.