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It’s all your fault, you know

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Kagome let the strap of her dress fall off her shoulder as she entered the limo. The event had gone well, and the champagne was flowing. Kagome felt as if she was floating, and it wasn't just because Sesshomaru had all but carried her to the vehicle. “Tell me.”

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It’s Falls, which means I’m nostalgic, which means InuKag fan art. This marker doodle is based on a sweet little fic ‘Heart Patch on My Sleeve’ by @dawnrider .

Definitely check it out if you enjoy a meet-cute AU!

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Reading the same comment for the 100th time like💜😍🥰🥹😱🤧💜

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I have no snappy comments today. Just fatigue. Sick toddlers, man. Take it right outta you. 😩 Anywho. New chapter of From beginning to End coming at you!

Chapter 11 on AO3

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Hachi the Raccoon-Dog

Written for National Friendship Day

Read on AO3

Summary:

Hachi has known Miroku along time, he considers himself a faithful friend.

When he is invited to the Monks wedding he realizes there may be a certain half-demon also in need of his friendship.

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Beautiful artwork by @constantlyscreaminghere 

Posted with permission

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Kaede the Miko

Summary:

Written for Inukag Fluff week 2024 Day 6: The 5 Love Languages

Kaede always has the best advice.

Part 4 of The Moments Between series

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Chapter 9: Angelica

Chapter 10: Wind

Chapter 11: Chrysanthemum

The Witch

Chapter 1: Lamb

Summary:

Salem is a quiet town, at least it was. 1690 started out as a great year for Kagome. A fine home, a job, decent friends. But with sickness spreading, hysteria seizes the town. By 1691 rumors of users of the dark arts bringing misfortune on the righteous run rampant. Some believe, others are skeptical, and then there are those more then happy to use these rumors to their advantage.

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"Anything for you, my Queen."

Happy Birthday, @shikonstar! I hope you have a wonderful day 💚

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You can all thank @brain-rot-hour for the rapid turnaround on this chapter not like it was already written or anything because she surprised me with the piece you'll see in the chapter and I cried a thousand tears of happiness and melted into a puddle and then regenerated so I could post this.

From Beginning to End on AO3

Chapter 10 on AO3

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Naraku likes a full face beat and flaunts some pencil-thin eyebrows.

My question to you is:

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Think she needs another?

Summary:

The music pulsed through the crowd as Kagome danced to the beat, relishing the feeling of hungry eyes on her as she moved freely behind the bars of the cage suspended above the dance floor. The crowd thought the show was for them, they were wrong.

Written for Inuvember day 9: Kouga & co

The co wasn't specified...Inuyasha/Kagome/Kouga

Very E, mind the tags

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I'll probably disappear one day

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I think a lot of us could use a pick me up this week. I know I could. So, in the spirit of fandom... Have some spice. Things finally heating up for our not-quite-Lovebirds in From Beginning to End.

Chapter 8 on AO3

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@inuvember | Inuvember 2024 | Prompt Miroku | Ao3

Miroku frowned as he turned the textbook page back and forth, back and forth, back and-

“Kagome-sama, query,” he finally called out and Kagome glanced up from whatever stew she was working on, “The war of the world. It says the country of Japan was involved.”

“Ah, yup,” Kagome chuckled awkwardly as she stirred a few herbs into their dinner, “Japan was indeed involved in that.”

Miroku marked the pages with his hand and opened to the map that was printed behind the cover.

“So we had battle with the continent and lost,” Miroku surmised - looking rather perplexed and like that wasn’t surprising at all, “I will say the demons we’ve encountered from that region have been rather impressive and if it is how you say, that there are no monks or priestesses in your time, no demons, the defeat must have been rather sound.”

Kagome sucked on her teeth and watched as Inuyasha gracefully got up from where he’d been pouting beneath a tree for no reason.

“Let me see that,” Inuyasha huffed as he stormed over and took the book out of the monks hands, “What page were you on? Where was the battle?”

Miroku sighed in annoyance and yanked the book back. After a minute, he found the section he was on and Inuyasha plopped down with a scowl.

“So the continent killed all the demons,” Inuyasha mumbled before raising irritated eyes on Kagome who was ignoring them, “Oi! Kagome! The continent killed all the demons, right?”

Kagome let out a controlled breath. Of all the days for Sango to go repair her weapon, it had to be the one the boys decided to actually take an interest in what she was learning.

“Demons were not involved in World War II,” Kagome sighed and both men’s head whipped up.

“Two?!”

Kagome winced and continued stirring her stew.

“There were two wars of the world. Two?” Miroku hissed in disbelief as he began flipping pages until he got to a map - he ran his finger over the page, “But Japan looks so small comparatively. Your book said-“

“Look, I do not have the time or the patience to catch you two up on centuries of history that hasn’t even happened yet,” Kagome huffed, “Japan attacked. We pissed everyone off. Lots of battles. Big bombs go big boom. We surrendered. The end.”

Miroku made a face whereas Inuyasha seemed oddly defensive.

”Why would we have attacked-“

“We started the fight then surrendered?” Inuyasha scoffed in disgust, “No way Japan surrendered. We’d fight to the death.”

“Yeah, yeah, that was kinda what happened then the other side dropped big bombs and wiped out entire cities in minutes,” Kagome supplied, “Ash. Nothing. Just gone. So the emperor surrendered to prevent everyone dying. Good job Japan.”

“So you think we should’ve kept fighting,” Inuyasha asked curiously.

“That isn’t what I said,” Kagome groaned, “In the grand scheme of things, Japan was one of the aggressors. We did bad things. We were one of the Narakus of the world.”

“Well, we’ll change it. That’s what the quest is, right? We stop him. No Naraku. No world war,” Inuyasha concluded and Kagome gave him an incredulous look.

“Naraku wasn’t involved in World War II,” Kagome replied slowly, “That’d be four hundred years from now.”

“I’m just saying no one would be stupid enough to invade the entire world unless it was Naraku,” Inuyasha huffed with an eye roll, “We kill him. The war of worlds never happens. Problem solved.”

“It would still happen because it wasn’t Naraku,” Kagome insisted, “It was-“

“Emperor Hirohito,” Miroku supplied with a frown before he abruptly flipped back several pages, “I’m not particularly well versed in the world of politics but we have an emperor now, do we not?”

Kagome’s eye twitched at the non sequitur nature of this conversation.

“Yes. Yes, we have an emperor. The dynasty goes back to the 7th, maybe 5th or 6th, century-“

“Dynasty? So the line of succession has been unbroken?” Miroku breathed in awe, “That’s-“

“What number are we now?” Inuyasha interjected as he yanked the book back, “Kagome, what number century-“

Miroku gave his friend a withering glare and stole the book back.

“What does it matter what century?” Miroku clipped, “The upper classes have always preyed on us and if this book is correct, that continued until it nearly destroyed the entire-“

“That why you prey on them?” Inuyasha surmised, “Bitter about class inequality?”

Miroku scowled.

“For a fellow member of the low born class, I would think-“

“For the record I am not low born on either side. I’m high born,” Inuyasha humphed pettily. Miroku looked nonplussed and raised a single brow.

“How is that working out for you? Well, I presume?”

Inuyasha’s face contorted in anger.

”How about I shove that-

The poor miko closed her eyes and let out a long breath.

“Neither of you need to worry about the freaking World Wars. If anything, just keep an ear out for the name Nobunaga,” Kagome muttered and Inuyasha gaped like Kagome just slapped him.

“The rejected toad prince guy?!”

Kagome sat back and punched her nose.

“How do you remember that?”

“Because I’m not stupid,” Inuyasha scoffed in annoyance, “You saying I should’ve killed the toad guy? Why didn’t you tell me? Look what you did! Now we get world wars.”

“No, no, I am not saying we should’ve killed the toad guy! He had nothing to do-“

Miroku glanced between them with a somewhat amused smile.

“Was I present for the Nobunaga toad man?”

Inuyasha sighed in annoyance and rolled his eyes.

“Don’t remember a gross comment about the naked women in these bubble things so-“

Miroku’s eyes widened in interest.

“In bubbles, you say?”

“Oda Nobunaga was a shogun who unified Japan. The ‘Great Unifier’. It was not the poor kid who came to save the frog princess,” Kagome interjected before this conversation could devolve further into madness.

“And the emperor is the leader of Japan, right? So Nobunaga becomes the emperor,” Inuyasha concluded incorrectly, “We kill him. No world wars. Problem solved.”

“I would like to revisit the bubbles,” Miroku hummed with a wicked grin, “Specifically-“

“No,” Kagome snapped at the monk before turning her irritation onto Inuyasha, “And no. No, Nobunaga was not and is not the Emperor. Just a very-“

“So who’s the Emperor then?” Inuyasha cut in.

“Hirohito,” Miroku supplied unthinkingly, “So about the bubbles, were they-“

“Can we stop talking about the bubbles!?” Kagome screeched before cursing softly when her stew began bubbling over. She quickly began trying to move it off the flames, “And no! No, Hirohito is in four hundred-“

“So if the war of the freaking world didn’t kill demons, what killed demons?” Inuyasha interjected like that was the most important part that kept getting skimmed over, “Because I’ve been to your time. There aren’t demons.”

“Well maybe they just all moved or got sprayed with demon pesticide. I don’t know,” Kagome hissed as she tried to keep their food from getting ruined.

“Pesticide?” Miroku asked curiously, “What is pesticide?”

Kagome barely stopped herself from screaming.

“Spray that kills bugs on crops,” she ground out as her annoyance hit critical levels, “Look, I am trying to save our food-“

“That would make a difference,” Miroku hummed with a wise nod.

“Oh like you’re a farmer who’d know,” Inuyasha scoffed before rounding in Kagome, “When did demons stop showing up in your books? Because look around, they’re everywhere right now. When did they-“

Breathing heavily, Kagome turned irate eyes on them both before getting to her feet and storming away. The boys watched her go for a minute before Miroku gave Inuyasha a side-eyed glance and a playful smirk.

“Out of curiosity, how many bubbles were there?”

Inuyasha fidgeted as he watched Kagome head into the treeline - probably to scream.

“Dozens,” a faint blush, “Not gunna lie. It was kinda awesome. You know, except the toad demon eating their souls bit.”

Miroku made a soft ‘hm’ sound and nodded sagely.

“That would put a damper on things, yes.”

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Election 2024 mood.