#narkag

While Kagome’s powers may destroy or calm them, depending on the enemy’s own intent, it is Kougai’s presence that makes many subservient. Having a tsukumogami servant - not a shiki or shikigami - makes Kagome stand out.

She’s not quite sure she likes it.

Heaven's Palace doesn't protest his conduct, for he is very deferential to Kagome (no matter that she gently chides him over it).

In Heaven's Halls he is the collared beast and she a benevolent god who puts up with him for supposed benefits. While on earth humans and ghosts consider her the dangerous one and him the one in possession of mercy.

In many ways these things are ridiculous, as they are both equally dangerous and at times equally kind, but they work together well.

Heavens approve of their dichotomy and while he is the possession and she is the possessor there is no strain in their relationship.

He may not be a shinki nor a shikigami or a subject believer, but he is her's and that matters.

Some don’t like it. Shinki view him as something putrid, a thing that shouldn’t be anywhere near a Kami like Kagome. None say it to her face lest she look at them in disappointment and pity as she tens to do to all who couldn’t hope to understand.

They glare at him, hiss at him, but his smirk doesn’t leave his face.

Sometimes he wonders if things will change once Kagome gets a shinki, but that is a worry for a different time. In the meantime he’ll enjoy the looks of anger and jealousy.

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(P2) Spoilers everyone but the way Naraku tricked Inuyasha’s group and Kaguya, their mutual foe at the time, was downright epic. My jaw literally hit the floor from the shock and Naraku erased any doubt in my mind on his legit villainy from there on out! Anyway, I didn’t consider this at the time but now that I’ve had time to digest and better understand Naraku as a character, I’ve come up with a theory about why he intervened when Kaguya attempted to possess Kagome. (P3) Kaguya, a demon who absorbed and impersonated a celestial maiden, wanted to do the same to Kagome for her spiritual powers. By the end of the confrontation she was desperate, since her physical body had been destroyed. Naraku had already come out of Kohaku, but promptly got his tentacle butt kicked by Kaguya. Instead, he retreats to the shadows to let Inuyasha fight it out. (P4) The thing is, Naraku re-emerges behind Kagome as soon as Kaguya’s disembodied form isolates her from Inuyasha and the gang. I never understood why he didn’t continue hiding until AFTER she took over Kagome, THEN absorb her. Kagome’s powers would’ve been his as well if he’d just done that! (P5) My theory why? Because Narkag! Is it just me or has Naraku treated Kagome just like Inuyasha had in the beginning of the series: a Kikyō imitation, a knockoff. The difference is Naraku and Kagome remained enemies, it’s not until the Kikyō finally dies that he focuses and becomes kinda obsessed with Kagome. Or did he? I’m likely reading too much into this but I believe Naraku indirectly protected Kagome that one and only instance. (P6) This movie is set before Mount Hakurei and not long after he took back Musō/Reincarnated Onigumo, so he hardly had control over his human feelings for Kikyō. It’s likely he thought he was doing one thing when he was actually doing another. After all, he did call Kagome an impudent wench at the start of the film! The jewel could’ve manipulated him into saving her as well. Naraku and Kagome were what it ultimately desired, and in the worst way possible, Narkag was supposed to endgame. (P7) Therefore, Naraku successfully killing Kagome was out of the question. (P8) P.S. Sorry for dropping this bomb on you, but blame Rumiko Takahashi and her amazing characters! P.S.S. As shit as this theory may be, I kinda wanna make it my first fanfic. P.S.S.S. Have you ever played Doki Doki Literature Club? Now that’s another amazing villain/hero ship! Not to spoil it if you don’t know what it is or haven’t played it, but the main antagonist’s love interest/obsession...goddamn is it a visual horror novel masterpiece.

wow, this is a really long ask! sorry it took so long to answer - not only have i been on & off hiatus, but i also needed some time to process the volume of this information lol

to start, i don’t really consider the movies to be canon, so it’s hard to discern movie info vs. the most valid canon material (the manga)

that being said, a bitch loves narkik, so

i remember that part of the movie lmao and it fed my narkag heart... it’s totally cool interpretation to apply the dynamics of onigumo’s human heart to those circumstances, how they might have compelled naraku to protect kagome in that moment

i think that narkik i think was /initially/ endgame; what the jewel didn’t expect was that naraku would express so much agency, to the point of killing kikyou. it’s arguable that kikyou’s soul reincarnating into kagome is the jewel’s way of trying to force that dynamic back again, bc yes, it ultimately needs a priestess vs. demon battle to fuel itself, and it wanted kikyou’s soul w/o recognizing that kagome was a separate individual. so yeah!!! during the majority of the series, narkag is supposed to be endgame, but only bc it couldn’t have kikyou

“naraku successfully killing Kagome was out of the question” you are CORRECT sir dot gif!!!!! the jewel wouldn’t let him do it!!!!! hell his human heart wouldn’t let him do it!!! our boy has always been fücked

i have never played doki doki literature club!!! not sure i will (games aren’t really my thing) but should the interest ever arrive??? knock knock app store