Chapter Summary: Kagome and Inuyasha swap bodies with each other in this "Your Name" inspired fic. They start switching bodies every time they sleep at the same time on the same side of the well. Can these enemies turned unwilling allies live as each other let alone get along? Start set between the jewel being shattered and Kagome's first return to her time.
Fandoms: Inuyasha.
Other Info: Body-swap. Power-swap. Partial Life-swap. English-Dub Anime only. Anime Canon Character Personalities. Partial Crack-fic.
AN: This is an older plot bunny from over two years ago that I don't really plan on doing much with. Still, when I showed it to a friend they said it was hilarious, so I decided to post it. I first wrote this when I was still in the process of first watching the series, so the characters may seem a bit OOC.
Why am I the Dog-Eared Jerk from Yesterday?
Kagome woke from sleep up the tree outside Kaede's hut, and promptly fell face first from it. She sat up with a groan. She then noticed that she was not wearing her clothing from yesterday, and that she apparently had gotten man hands with ridiculous length nails. Spotting the silver hair falling around her red-clad shoulders, she bellowed out in a voice not her own. "Ahh!"
Kaede ducked her head out the reed mat serving as her door, to see what the noise was about. "Inuyasha, what be ye doing? Ye are making quite the racket."
Wide eyed, Kagome in Inuyasha's body looked over at Kaede and replied, "I-Inu-yasha?! I-I'm not... I... uh?" She looked down at her clawed hands and struggled to compose herself enough to speak. "I'm Kagome, Ka-Go-Me! Not Inuyasha! Although, I-I think I might look like him?", she said, irritated.
Kaede never got to react to that statement, because at that moment a second higher pitched scream echoed out from Kaede's hut, causing Kagome to flinch and slap her hands over where her ears should have been, but weren't. Not having time to process that revelation, Kagome followed Kaede into the hut to see herself sitting wide-eyed and open-mouthed, starring at her clothes and hands like she'd never seen them before.
This, then, must be Inuyasha.
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Kagome was absent mindedly rubbing the dog ears atop her head, and pointedly ignoring any glares directed at her by Inuyasha. His opinion on her rubbing them didn't matter when she was the one who could feel them as her own ears.
Which was still really weird, by the way.
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Kagome felt like she was never going to live down the sheer embarrassment from having to use the bathroom as a guy. This whole thing just kept getting more and more strange and utterly awkward.
Short time after Inuyasha first acquires Tetsusaiga.
"How is it that when you're in my body, you're able to get my sword to transform for you when I can't?!", said Inuyasha in Kagome's body, with a tick mark on his forehead.
Kagome said, "I already told you, you need to be wanting to protect someone using this sword! That's the 'Secret'."
Night of their first new moon together.
"Kagome, why do you insist on saving everyone who is in trouble that we come across? In my body too! It's really not necessary, we're here to collect the shards of the Sacred Jewel not hand out charity!", yelled Inuyasha in Kagome's body.
The girl that Kagome saved from demons stared at them wide eyed, watching them yell at each other. Kagome said, "Helping people is a good thing to do and I would be a bad person for just standing back and watching her get torn to pieces by demons. Just how selfish are you?"
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Why do I feel so off, I feel kinda weak? Is there something I should know about? – Kagome
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Uhh... What? Ahh! I'm human! And still you, Inuyasha? What just happened to me? - Kagome
"Eh?! What do you think you are doing, monk?! Hands off!" Said Inuyasha in Kagome's body as he slugged the monk Miroku in the face for grabbing his butt. "You letch, I do not like that!"
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Miroku said, "So, you switch bodies every time you two sleep at the same time? How strange. I'm not entirely sure I believe what you're saying."
Inuyasha in Kagome's body yelled indignantly, "You better believe it monk, 'cause it's the truth!" He glared at the monk for good effect.
Kagome in Inuyasha's body said in a placating manner, "Inuyasha, calm down. I can barely believe it myself, and I'm the one living it. Think how much harder it must be to believe claims that aren't immediately obvious?"
Inuyasha then yelled, "Kagome, don't tell me to calm down, 'cause I ain't calming down! You may as well tell me to SIT!"
Kagome slammed face first in to the ground, thanks to the subjugation necklace around her neck. Once she'd gotten her face out of the dirt, she sent a glower Inuyasha's direction. She was not a happy puppy.
Sango groaned and opened her eyes, alerting Kagome to her having awakened. She sat up and said, "What happened to me? I feel like I got stabbed in the back and then went a few rounds with Inuyasha. Wait a moment." She frowned as she grabbed at her throat and looked down at her body. Her eyes then went wide, in seeming surprise and shock. "By Buddha, what happened to me? I look like the Lady Sango!", she said, voice trembling slightly. "I sound like her too!"
Kagome entered the hut from where she'd been standing and walked over to Sango, concerned, and said, "What do you mean, 'I look like Lady Sango'? You are Sango!"
Sango looked up at her with wide eyes and said, "Lady Kagome, let's just say that I believe you now about you swapping bodies with Inuyasha. I am Miroku the monk, not Lady Sango."
Kagome blinked, surprised, and said, "M-Miroku? Is that really you?! How?!"
Sango, or Miroku really, replied, "Yes, it is I. How, I do not know, perhaps the same as with your changes?"
Miroku PoV – First Swap Miroku - Sango
Miroku groaned and opened his eyes to the underside of a thatched roof with holes in it. Dull throbbing pain penetrated his senses from all over his body but a sharper stabbing pain came from his back.
Confused, he sat up with difficulty due to his injuries and said, thinking out loud, "What happened to me? I feel like I got stabbed in the back and then went a few rounds with Inuyasha. Wait a moment." Miroku frowned and grabbed at his throat, as the pitch of his voice had gone up overnight. His eyes went wide as he looked down towards his body and got the shock of his life. His body did not look like his body.
Miroku exclaimed, voice trembling, "By Buddha, what happened to me? I look like the Lady Sango! I sound like her too!" Miroku was stunned, how had this happened? Why did he have the appearance of Lady Sango?
Kagome, having entered the hut, startled Miroku by saying, "What do you mean, 'I look like Lady Sango'? You are Sango!" Miroku was surprised, apparently Kagome thought he was Lady Sango. Maybe he'd swapped bodies with her instead of just somehow ending up looking like her?
Miroku looked up at Kagome with wide eyes and, a thought popping into his mind, said, "Lady Kagome, let's just say that I believe you now about you swapping bodies with Inuyasha. I am Miroku the monk, not Lady Sango."
Kagome blinked in apparent surprise and said, "M-Miroku? Is that really you?! How?!"
Miroku in Sango's body replied, "Yes, it is I. How, I do not know, perhaps the same as with your changes?"
Miroku in Sango's body groped his butt and said, "It's just not the same, when I'm in her body." He looked rather put out about it. Sango in Miroku's body promptly whacked him in the head with his own staff for his transgression. "Ow! What was that for?!", said Miroku, looking hurt.
Sango gave him the look of death and replied, "You know what you did, lecher!"
Miroku looked over at Inuyasha for support, but Inuyasha only said, "You pervert! You never learn, do ya?"
Inuyasha was so gonna get Kagome back for sending him to school in her body as her. He was beginning to understand just why he hated this place so badly. If someone so much as flirted with him one more time, he would lose it. He wasn't interested in boys, no matter that he had become trapped in a girl's body half the time.
Hojo was a total wimp, and Kagome's annoying and nosey friends were, well, nosey and annoying. He hoped that he didn't end up being forced back there again. He'd never understand why Kagome cared so much about going there so often.
AN: So, what did you think? I'd love to know!