Satisfy my curiosity...

[timepiececlock]

You know, I never bothered to find out... how does the Inu Yasha manga end?

Can anyone give me a brief summary?

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[manonlechat.livejournal.com]

There's a final, long-anticipated battle against Naraku in which all the aggrieved parties (Inuyasha, Kagome-channeling-Kikyou, Sango, Miroku, and Sesshoumaru) get in various hits, save one another, etc. Naraku merges his body with the Shikon Jewel (now reassembled and whole). Kagome uses Kikyou's sacred arrow to pierce the Jewel in his heart. As he is dying (vy. cool art by the point--he's just a floating head and a spinal cord) Naraku reveals that he has made a wish on the Shikon Jewel and that his wish was that the Sacred Jewel would have its wish. (There's a great moment where Naraku realizes that he, too, was tricked by the jewel and never got the one thing he wanted: Kikyou's heart. But the knowledge doesn't lessen his resolve to screw over Inuyasha and Kagome. Committed villainy is refreshing!)

The Shikon's wish (the wish of its evil component) causes Kagome to get sucked into the void of the Jewel itself. Inuyasha uses a power of his sword that he picked up from Sesshoumaru to go after her; it's revealed to him that the Jewel plans on tricking Kagome to wish to be with Inuyasha. By making this "selfish" wish, her soul will then be trapped along with Naraku's inside the Shikon, locked in eternal battle like that of the priestess Midoriko and the demons' whose souls fused to make the Jewel. Kagome is tempted to make the wish, but decides to trust that Inuyasha will come for her. He does (surprise) and Kagome finally makes her choice: wishing that the Shikon Jewel disappear forever.

It does; and Kagome is thrown back into the future era and Inuyasha to his time. The Bone Eaters' Well that connected the two worlds no longer works. Three years pass, during which Kagome grows up and finishes school. Older, she realizes that the well closed because she had missed her old life and family and wanted to be with them, but she also loves and misses Inuyasha. The well reopens, and they are reunited and get married. (Miroku and Sango also marry and have adorable kids; Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha's relationship has thawed, though neither one will openly acknowledge it; Kohaku lives and becomes a demon-slayer).

[gojira007.livejournal.com]

I...wow. Y'know, I've only ever been mildly interested in "InuYasha", but...that just sounds REALLY cool.

Committed villainy is something I'd like to see a little more of in Naruto these days.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the detailed summary.

I guess I hadn't gotten far enough to realize the jewel was inherently malevolent.

Older, she realizes that the well closed because she had missed her old life and family and wanted to be with them, but she also loves and misses Inuyasha. The well reopens, and they are reunited and get married.

Man, that makes me nostalgic for this fic I was writing years ago. I had Kagome at 17 decide to stay with Inu Yasha, and she has a baby, but someone (Kikyo? I can't remember... this was before Naraku was the Big Bad) uses the jewel to seal Kagome on the future-side of the well, while InuYasha and her baby stay behind. So Inu Yasha has to raise the kid himself (and he's very, very bitter), with the help of Sango and Miroku and Shippou but mostly by himself. And the little girl grows up with some mildly demonic power, and when she's like six ro seven she informs the teen-aged Shippou that she plans to marry him, and then she grows up and does so. And she eventually dies (having 3/4 human blood) after living around 200 years, and her and Shippou's son-- Kagome's grandson who is part dog, part human, and half kitsune, grows up and has the long-life of a hanyou, and he eventually lives through the future, carefully waiting, until Kagome is like 18 or 19, and he finds her and says, "Hi. I'm your grandson. Your daughter lived a long, healthy life, and she was loved, and I have pictures. BTW, no one's seen InuYasha in about two centuries, but I have a theory. You must have had a rough couple of years, but how would you like to go and find him? Today? My mother told me all about you, and I can't give you your daugther back, but I can help you find your husband."

Of course, I never finished it.