Inuyasha's story begins in Feudal Japan, when he steals a very powerful item, called the Jewel of Four Souls, from a village. InuYasha almost escapes, but is caught by Kikyo, the village priestess. She shoots InuYasha with a sacred arrow and seals him to Goshinboku, a sacred tree in the forest. After being wounded, Kikyo, who knows she is going to die, tells her younger sister, Kaede to burn the Jewel of Four Souls with her body to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands ever again.

In modern day Tokyo, a junior high school girl named Kagome Higurashi is on her way to school when she stops by her family's Shinto shrine to find her cat. Suddenly, a centipede demon emerged from the well and takes Kagome into the Feudal Japan time era. After Kagome is found by Kaede(the village priestess), she is told the story of InuYasha and Kikyo and that Kagome is a reincarnation of Kikyo. The centipede demon finds Kagome again when she is near InuYasha's tree. InuYasha awakens because he thinks that he smells Kikyo approaching. As the demon is attacking Kagome, he notices that she cannot defend herself, and he makes her a deal that if she will release him, he will defeat the demon. After InuYasha defeats the demon, he tries to take the Jewel(that was found in Kagome's body by the centipede demon). Kaede puts prayer beads around his neck which allow Kagome to momentarily paralyze him by simply saying, "Sit!".

Soon, many other demons are drawn by the Jewel's power. When one demon, the crow demon, steals the Jewel, Kagome shoots it with a sacred arrow. The Jewel is then shattered and the pieces are scattered across the land. It is then decided that InuYasha and Kagome should team up and go looking for the Jewel fragments(despite the fact that nither of them like each other at all).

Inuyasha, the Half Demon mut

InuYasha despises most humans( and demons) because, throughout his life, he was rejected for being a half-demon. InuYasha's father, who was a great dog demon, fell in love with Izayoi(who was a normal human). When InuYasha was born, his father was killed defending Izayoi and InuYasha. As InuYasha was raised by his mother(who loved him very much despite the fact he was a half-demon), he was continually rejected by other humans because of his heritage. Some time later, InuYasha meets Kikyo, a village priestess, and they fall in love. One day, Kikyo meets a bandit named Onigumo who has been wounded( by someone in his bandit group). She nurses him back to health and during this time he begins to have feelings for her. He then finds out that InuYasha is in love with Kikyo, and he summons some demons and asks them to devour his body and give him a new body in order to defeat InuYasha and Kikyo. He then tries to steal the Jewel of Four Souls(to make him more powerful) disguised as InuYasha. Kikyo finds Naraku with the Jewel and fights him. He wounds her and then disapears. Kikyo then goes after InuYasha and seals him to the sacred tree with her arrow(and then she dies).

Inuyasha swinging his blade like a madman

Love interests:

Kikyo: a young priestess of a village.

Kagome: Kikyo's reincarnation and InuYasha's second love interest after Kikyo dies. Despite the fact, that at the beginning of his journey with Kagome, he hated her; he now loves her very much and will protect her at all costs.

Weapons:

Tessaiga: InuYasha's sword given to him by his father and made by his deceased father's fangs. If the sword is weilded properly, it can destroy one hundred demons in a single stroke.

Weaknesses:

During the night of a new moon each month, InuYasha loses his demon powers and becomes human with black hair and violet eyes.

Inuyasha holding Kagome

Techniques

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Blades of Blood- InuYasha's blood when combined with "Soul-Scattering Iron Claws". When InuYasha dips his or other's blood on his claws, he can fling them like multiple shuriken made of red-colored yokai energy.

Iron Reaver Soul Stealer- InuYasha's basic attack in which he channals his yokai powers through his claws, making them strong enough to tear iron.

Windscar- with a swing of his blade, Inuyasha can create blast of winds similar to slashes

Backlash wave- inuyahsa's best move, it can slice most things in half

Red Tetsusaiga- Barrier shatter (Red Tetsusaiga) is gained indirectly from the orb of the bat demons that gave them the power to create barriers. This technique renders barriers useless. Only the strongest barriers cannot be shattered by this attack, assumably it must be stronger then the barrier made by the orb. When being used, Tetsusaiga's blade becomes crimson red. InuYasha learns Barrier shatter after he destroys the bat-demon Taigokumaru.

Addament barrage- Inuyahsa creats diamonds on his blade and fires them at his enemys Tetsusaiga: InuYasha found the tetsusaiga by having it draged from its hiding place. Sesshomaru hade used a mother demon to look inside Inuyash's mind and find the hiding place. He had discovered it was hidden deep inside his right eye. He used his demonic powers to drag it out of his eye. Then it turned into a big vortex that led it into a different dimension. It had Inuyasha's fathers real form as a statue and deep inside their was a podeum where the Tetsusaiga was. Sesshomaru couldn't take the sword out of their because demons cannot touch the sword. When Inuyasha tried to pull it out, his half demon aura wouldn't let him pull it out. But Kagome had pulled it out and gave it to Inuyasha. The battle had ended and Inuyasha had a new sword to use.