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Eye of the Typhoon - Chapter 12
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Summary: Kagome starts preparing for her plan to find work at the Tower. Inuyasha makes some preparations of his own.
Chapter 12 is up! One reason for the long delay - moving all my worldly possessions from one location to another. Another reason for the long delay - the words coming out of my fingertips mutinied, would not do what I wanted, and had to be negotiated with in order to reach a mutually acceptable solution.
Eye of the Typhoon - Chapter 11
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Summary: Kagome meets Miroku
Shit's about to get real for our heroes! Act 1 is wrapping up soon and I'm so excited to share what I've got planned.
I have a new rule which is that before I post a chapter, the next chapter needs to have its shitty first draft at least 80% done. Maybe this means I'll be able to stick to a schedule :)
Eye of the Typhoon - Chapter 10
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Summary: Some progress is made in the search for Suikotsu.
Lol I'm no good at writing summaries. I am back after a long hiatus! I fully thought I could keep a schedule writing this while dealing with some big life and work changes, but I was wrong! However, things have stabilized for me and now I'm writing again. I can't promise regular updates - but I do have most of chapter 11 written and chapter 12 outlined. Happy to be back and telling this story.
Thanks whoever nominated me and thanks to @feudalconnection for collecting and encouraging Inuyasha fanfiction!
To everyone who’s read Eye of the Typhoon - I haven’t updated in a while. A few big changes in my personal life happened at once and I haven’t been able to do much more than lurk the past several months. Things are getting better though and I am planning to release more chapters when I’m able. In the meantime, thank you very much for reading, commenting, and supporting the story! This nomination is really motivating.
Nomination - full-time-fiend
CONGRATULATIONS, @full-time-fiend (Full_Time_Fiend)!!! Your fanfiction “Eye of the Typhoon” has been nominated by one of your fans for the 2023 3rd Term Inuyasha Fandom Awards run by FeudalConnection!
Your work has been nominated in the following category:
Best AU/AR
Voting will take place between October 5th and October 20th, and the links to do so can be found on the feudalconnection Tumblr page.
If you would like to pull your work from consideration for an award, please let us know via the Tumblr page or feudalconnection@gmail.com.
Once again, congratulations for your beautiful contributions to this wonderful fandom, and thank you for all that you do!
Eye of the Typhoon - Chapter 9
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Summary: Kagome gets a new look, a new friend, and finds out some juicy details about Inuyasha and Kaede's past!
As always - thank you for reading!
Eye of the Typhoon - Chapter 8
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Chapter Summary: Inuyasha finally gets one of his questions answered. Why did Kagome really leave the barrier?
After a brief hiatus due to Covid I am back at it! Every chapter I put out is a humble reminder of the amount of work and thought it takes to put a story to words. It makes me even more grateful for the writers I admire!
Eye of the Typhoon - Chapter 7
Chapter 7 is up! Summary: Kaede shows Kagome where to go where she WON'T get attacked by demons. Inuyasha does some errands for Totosai and finds something rather interesting.
I’d like to thank my writers block and upcoming professional examinations for making this a particularly difficult chapter to get out. Next chapter is gonna be a turning point :)
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Eye of the Typhoon - Chapter 5
New chapter for Eye of the Typhoon!
I took a bit of an unplanned hiatus while I visited family and family visited me. I don’t know why I thought it would be easy to write while seeing people every day. Actually, I don’t know why I ever thought it would be easy to write an adventure romance scifi with world-building. I have felt very humbled by the experience of starting this story. Writing a story is so much harder than imagining it in your head. I have so much respect for all the fic writers out there. I bow to you! 🙇
Summary: Kagome is determined to get used to the world outside the Barrier. Inuyasha is not as determined to help her.
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Eye of the Typhoon update
Hi there! Since I missed my personal goal of posting every other week, I just wanted to say that I have been visiting family and haven’t found time to write. Story is not on hiatus :) stay tuned for chapter 5!
Eye of the Typhoon - Chapter 3
Eye of the Typhoon - Chapter 3 is up!
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Guess I’m on a two week schedule with these. As always, thanks for reading!
Summary: Kagome experiences her first typhoon
Eye of the Typhoon - Chapter 2
I updated my story!
Thanks to everyone who read Chapter 1! I had to build up courage to start writing and then to share this story online. I told myself, that even if no one reads it, this is something I’d like to do for myself. The nice folks reading, commenting, and leaving kudos have been such a wonderful, really encouraging and sweet bonus that I did not expect! Thank you so much!
I am hoping to be able to post new chapters every one to two weeks, but no promises!
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Eye of the Typhoon - Chapter 1
I have had this headcanon for a while, and am determined to write it out!
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Summary: InuKag romance adventure set in a future dystopian Tokyo.
Kagome Higurashi has lived her whole life within the protective barrier that envelopes Tokyo. When she decides to leave, she's exposed to the districts living in its shadow. Inuyasha is a street smart hanyou who's spent his life getting by whatever way he can. Somehow he ends up responsible for a spoiled girl from the barrier city, who has no idea what she's gotten herself into.
Japanese-american musician Kishi Bashi just posted photos of a new custom guitar with scenes from my OTP on front and back!
When do you think Inuyasha caught feelings? I constantly reread the very beginning and try to find out! I know that it’s common for the character to not be consciously aware of their feelings (especially in Rumiko’s work) buuuuut we had that scene with Kagome realizing her feelings for Inuyasha at the tree! So I always wondered how Inuyasha would react if he had a clear AHA moment like Kagome. Or like the exact panel when he crossed the line from friend to ///blush////. I switch back and forth between thinking inukag was platonic for just a tiny microsecond or Inuyasha was always in denial about liking Kagome. Who by the way? Is pretty flirty with him from the get go?
I think the Yura of the Hair arc was the turning point in their strained relationship. They became friends and Inuyasha gained respect for her. Then by the time we get to Sesshomaru’s plot with the Unmother, we are potentially in crush territory because of the Tessaiga! And maybe Kagome’s turning point was the Noa Mask arc. He was trying to look cool for her by then- WHICH IS SO FAST!! Idk how he kept it together in the Fateful Night in Togenkyo arc! Kagome kept hitting him directly in his weak spot. Seeing her naked? Wearing his haori, and that line about not being disgusted with his blood because it’s his? Like Jesus Christ Kagome!! Give the poor guy a second to breathe 😂 The way she accidentally swooped him off his feet will forever be funny to me.
Idk just wanted to ask for your thoughts. Even though you probably get asks like these all the time 🥲
I completely agree about the Yura of the hair arc! Kagome went from being "this annoying girl who looks like the woman who killed me" to "oh this girl is actually pretty brave and resourceful actually".
It's also coincidentally when he called her by her name for the first time, and Kagome really hated being called "woman" or just "you" so to use her name showed that he respects her (side note, it's also why I dislike when he calls her "wench" in post-canon fanfics). The Tessaiga plotline is also a good one, he again saw how courageous she is when she followed him without any hesitation and stood up for him in front of Sesshomaru!
Another important one is the spider head arc, where he realized how kind and caring Kagome is, which I've talked about more in details here.
But the moment when he crossed the line from friend to ///blush//// as you so well described, imo is at the end of the arc where Kikyo gets resurrected:
This scene is also why I think it's sooo funny when people say he sees her as Kikyo's replacement because... he literally doesn't lol. At the beginning of this arc he says Kikyo's sad face made him feel "like he did something wrong" while here, Kagome's happy smile makes him feel "relieved". He starts crushing on Kagome based on qualities she has (the ability to cheer him up and her playful nature) that are different from Kikyo...
So this was the start of him crushing on her, but the real turning point and when he really realized his feelings for her is the other Sesshomaru arc, where she got put in danger and he realized how much it would hurt him to see anything happen to her....
That is not a hug between besties 😭 It's also after Kagome came back to him and hugged him back that he said "I thought it would be better if you were far away, but it's when I saw your face that for some reason my strength returned. That's when I realized... I want you by my side Kagome." to me that is 100% when Inuyasha realized he was developing romantic feelings for Kagome!
I think it's interesting that you say Kagome flirted with him early on, because I don't really remember that? Except that one line above where she teased him for "looking at her with desire in his eyes"? I think she started flirting with him after this whole "I want you by my side Kagome", like when they had to watch over a dead woman together and she snuggled up to him.
Also yes, Kagome very first sign of crushing on Inuyasha was when he saved her and Sota during the Noh mask arc!
But Kagome was in denial for a looong time 😭 She knew they weren't "just friends" (not that platonic relationships are lesser, just that there was clearly also romantic tension between them) but it really wasn't until chap 175 / episode 48 that she realized she really was in love with him!
Also everything you said about the Togenkyo arc is SPOT on, I still don’t know how Inuyasha survived that LMAO