Hey, this is Mrryl (Mer-ill, in case you were wondering how to pronounce it). Thanks for taking a glance at my Inu Yasha fanfic! Yep, if you want you can skip this portion, but it would help explain the story better if you did read it. I'm not going to give away the story, just explaining what it's about. Here's the main plot: A "What If?" story I'd been musing about for weeks now, and finally wrote it down... er... typed down. In this "What If?" fic, all the characters (or most, anyway) are flipped, such as Inu Yasha is no longer an Inu Hanyou (half-dog demon) and Kagome is a Neko Hanyou (half- cat demon) I'll explain everything later...
If you don't want to read this, click on the "next" button on the chapters bar and continue on to the first chapter. But like I said, this will help explain the changes of nearly EVERYTHING.
Alright, first I'm going to explain the biggest changes (excluding the plot, of course) this big change is the characters. If there is any change in the name, I will have it like this: New name/ Old Name. Mainly the name will be the same, but you might not recognize them if I just post them as what they are now. Here we go!
- Inuyasha/ Inu Yasha – Yes, I know it isn't that big of a name change, but it's still important because modern day names don't split, even when the person has two first names they're usually hyphenated so it ends up like this. Anyways, the changes in his personality include the fact that he is no longer a Hanyou, he is a 15 year old kid, who wears the Shikon No Tama (I can't remember if I spelled that all correctly) on a necklace around his neck. He and his family live in what was Kagome's house in the series with his older brother Sesshoumaru and his father, Inutaisho. He is a calm, collected kid who has strong Shintoist ties. (Males cannot be Mikos, remember?) He actually learns how to use the spear, instead of the bow or sword because when I wrote the story it was more functional for him to keep the spear, so I changed the Tetsusaiga. He is the reincarnation of Ano, who replaces Kikyo entirely. His appearance is much like his human form, actually, it is exactly the same except for the haori, which ended up on Kagome's alternate form. He instead wears the typical black Japanese school uniform (which I think totally kick arse!).
- Nekogome/ Kagome – A picky, untrusting Neko Hanyou. She was both the beloved of Ano and the Hanyou he was forced to seal in a statue. When she is released by Inuyasha, she acts much like Inu Yasha from the series, a mean, sarcastic half-demon who neither likes nor trusts anyone. She still uses the bow, and gains a bow-Tetsusaiga. She has a mean, younger brother, Souta, who is fully demon and has aged in her "seal-ence" he is now older than she is, or at least looks like it. He rules the Western Kingdoms in her stead, because he is a full-demon and she is not. The matters of father/mother are th same as Inu Yasha, her parents died and Jii-chan has taken Jaken's place. I changed her name to what it is because Inu Yasha's name had something to do with his dog-demon heritage (Inu means dog to those who don't know) so I put Neko into her name (which means cat) she wears the fire rat haori. It is exactly the same as Inu Yasha's, so just picture a female Inu Yasha with cats ears and a furry, cat-like tail.
- Miroku(I just couldn't change my favorite characters name!) – He is now a taijiya (demon exterminator) and has lost his entire family, this has left him hard as stone and more angry than anyone else in the group. He rarely has a vulnerable moment and is constantly being groped, patted, and generally harassed by Sango, the perverted Bhuddist priestess (I don't think I spelt Bhuddist correctly, gomen sorry to all of you who do worship him, please tell me how to spell it if I misspelled it!). He uses Hiraikotsu, the giant wooden boomerang that was once Sango's weapon, and is not cursed with the kaazana, because it isn't his curse anymore. He wears armor like Sango's was and his hair is still the cut short frayed mess that it is in the series.
- Sango (No changes because the name still works) – "She is a lecherous, perverted Bhuddist priestess" is how Miroku often describes her. She is dressed in robes that are tight enough to show off her body, yet loose enough to not show too much. She uses the same staff as Miroku, which I cannot remember the name of. Her mannerisms are a bit worse than Miroku's was, as she endlessly teases him and gropes him and he cannot do anything physical to her other than shove her away. She has the kaazana on her right arm and suffers the same fate as Miroku does in the series. Her robes are the same black and blue as Mirokus. So she is practically a female, more perverted Miroku!
- Ano/ Kikyo – The main change is that Kikyo is now a man, and he is a Shinto Priest instead of a Miko. Ano also uses the spear instead of the bow. Actually I'm toying with the idea of giving him a Naginata, which is a very large and powerful type of spear. He was known for sealing thousands of powerful demons into statues and then destroying the statues, sending the demons spirit to reincarnation, or wherever demon spirits go when they die. But he ends up falling in love with the Neko Hanyou, Nekogome and when she steals the powerful Shikon no Tama he is forced to deal with her also. But when he finally catches her and fights her with all he has. But when he the fight is over, neither can stand up. He uses his power to seal her body into a statue and with his last breath is about to destroy it, but instead joins her, using a powerful spell to defend her from any damage until the say when she might be released. As he himself changed into stone with his arms around her, he lost control and changed totally. They lay, clasped in the forest of Nekogome, awaiting eternity.
- Souta – He replaces the emotionless Sesshoumaru as the early adversary of the fanfic. He uses his full-blooded Neko Youkai abilities to be a fearsome demon. He is searching for their mothers great weapon, the Tetsusaiga. He hates Nekogome as much as Sesshoumaru hates Inu Yasha in the series.
- Sesshoumaru – He replaces Souta as the friendly brother of the main character. He is still a pr!ck sometimes, and they still have a sibling rivalry thing going amongst them, but it isn't nearly as bad as in the series. He is adept with the spear and has been both Inuyasha's day-today teacher, when Inutaisho is busy, and rival when they compete. He is a lot better than Inuyasha, and he is arrogant about that. But he still looks after Inuyasha. - Inutashio – Okay, bigget change: he's alive. That's pretty much all I have to go on, but he's going to be a loving father and a nice guy. Very supportive of his kids and a powerful Shinto Priest.
- Tetsusaiga – It is a bow instead of a daikatana, with much the same properties as the daikatana. The actual bow is made from the arm bones of Souta's and Nekogome's mother. The arrows are formed from her claws and fangs.
I believe that is all. Also, I made this a Humor story because I find it funny how Miroku's getting harassed by Sango, instead of the other way around. Also, thier should be other things that are funny about this story.
Note to all you people who want to know:
"I'm not going to re-write the series except with the characters changed, I'll keep the ideas the same, except it'll be my own story. This is mainly because I haven't seen all the episodes and don't want to mess up that badly by not giving an accurate account of what happens in the series. Also, any characters that I haven't posted up here are either going to wait until they come along, or they haven't changed... yet."