This one's as grim as it gets. Commodore Perry's forced opening of Japanese ports took place in 1853, three hundred years after the events in Inuyasha. Fat Man was the nickname given the nuclear weapon that destroyed the city of Nagasaki, in the former domain of the great dog demon, on August 9, 1945.
Desperate Measures
by Kristine Batey
Ten months after Sango fell, Kagome bore a child. The youkai and Kaede were already dead; the boy drew breath in Kikyo's cold hands. Miroku wept, for joy and sorrow.
When the void appeared in the toddler's hand, the others knew they'd lost the monk.
Kagome was next, caught unawares; they buried her in the forest.
When American gunboats steamed into Edo Bay, the hanyou and ghostly miko had wandered Japan for centuries, accompanying a series of monks.
Over time, there were more than ten score companions, and a dozen named weapons. The one called Fat Man ended the quest.