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kenshin + inuyasha , relationship headcanons .

INUYASHA’S VERSE:

Inuyasha’s mother Izayoi finds Kenshin, a wandering, somewhat ‘legendary’ due to his consistency in existence and powerand begs it upon him during her last few days as the man is rather adept at looking very human until he opens his mouth or displays hands / eyes too closely to watch over Inuyasha. To ‘teach him’ the other half of him that isn’t human. Kenshin, who has a startling sense of humanity for an essentially ageless being, long having seen the seasons of both his father and his brother and even been around the younger days of the speaking tree – the great priestess, etc, still happens to hold a very humane heart. This heart of mercy takes her dying request and ushers Inuyasha into ‘his family’ despite Izayoi having initial fears of him being in the presence of a ‘dragon spirit’ . Kenshin agrees. The first initial contact is a speedy redhead zooming out of her quarters with a pup in his arms, the sound of his strong heartbeat resonating against the boy that would eventually become as real as his own blood offspring.

Kenshin, like he does in canon, thinks Inuyasha should fight his own battles. He often says that if he wants to ‘protect someone’ he cannot ‘die’ or he will ‘fail himself and the lives that ride on him, thus he will only fail them if he dies’ . He’s very kind and gentle with the pup, but no less blunt and serious when it comes to matters revolving life and lessons to be learned. With his millennia stacked upon many, he has plenty to share, his heartache? He keeps to himself, but Inuyasha like knows that the wisdom came not just from basic immortality, but a price granted the brutally bare cross-shaped scar on his cheek. Therefore, he tends to only enter the battle if his life is threatened and his allies are unable to save him - and he leaves him conquering his demon side alone, only there for verbal council.

In regards to Naraku, he has no hesitation in involving himself as he was nearly a father-in-law to Inuyasha’s first great love which he met and was highly fond of, Kikyou, and their tragedy has sparked the ‘dragon’ in the spirit. That is also a battle he enters sparingly, as he has plenty of might to match and dwarf most demons, especially the greater demons, but he also thinks that this personal vendetta while a family affair in a sense as the ‘papa in law’ – is still something Inuyasha should extract vengeance on with Kagome, Sango, Miroku, Kirara and Shippo - not to mention Kikyou. That is when things become terrifying when a dragon as large as a small mountain is prepared to use both ungodly fast sword techniques of great might and their own natural weaponry of fangs, claws and various honed techniques from all those thousands of years. Basically, it would make things a bit easy if Kenshin involved himself in everything, but still difficult granted Naraku’s cunning - and thus, even if he did fully involve himself in every battle, he still recognizes various lives and huts would be crushed alongside miles of radius if he were to fully unleash fractions of his power. He’s very very uptight on his self-control - his anger is something likely only Inuyasha has testament to in the current age.

Inuyasha’s growing feelings for Kagome are not unnoticed, and Kenshin merely reflects on his former human love long, long, long, long ago. He merely wishes that whatever path he chooses as a being like him, that it brings him great joy - and he treasures each memory. He will always help her cook and playfully tease Inuyasha into cooking with them as its ‘only polite and he taught him better as did his mother’ . When asked about his past, Kenshin remarks while touching his scar ‘that it will be someday, when he is a bit older’ as it is not a happy one by any means, and while Kenshin knows Inuyasha has known harsh and bitter joys as well, he would never wish to make him worry about ‘his old man’.

In regards to immortality / longevity of their race, Kenshin simply puts a hand atop his head and remarks he will be beside him in the ‘eternity of things’ just as he first cradled and fell in love as a father that first danger-filled night of fleeing Izayoi’s quarters from angry humans. ‘You’ll always have me,’ Is his sincere comfort, and he means it. Just the same, no matter how old, like any Father, Kenshin will always protect Inuyasha if no one else will / is able. That is his boyand losing him would be like losing most of himself if not all. The death of one’s child would be like the death of Kenshin himself, the love is that vast.

Sometimes Kenshin and Inuyasha go on ‘runs’ breaking away from the group to unleash their full abilities and might, so the hanyou feels he can let loose a bit and feel ‘freer’ like he used to teach him about his fangs and claws and different features and what they ‘did’ as a child hunting small game. The same sense they will hunt for things and cook them in a proper manner via Kenshin, and the dragon will often take him for rides upon his back when he wears himself out after days on end of running, jumping, swinging his fang, and trying to cajole his adoptive father into swinging his own fang. And like usual..it never really works.

Kenshin is present in the final battle of Naraku. When Inuyasha loses sight of his demon self, rather than stand by this time, like Sesshomaru also aids, he uses his massive form dwarfed slightly by his will within the miasma to take the brunt of his blows and aggression via his possession by Magatsuhi. When later coming to, Kenshin is already gone, and when his gi and chest is covered in blade slices and claw marks, all he gets is a loving, albeit gentle smile. In the same breath for the first real time the battle has them fight side by side before Inuyasha goes into the Jewel to find Kagome, and the combination is devastating. When Kagome vanishes, Kenshin merely pats his back and whispers, ‘go, this is your fight’.

By the epilogue, Kenshin waits and wanders the earth and villages with Inuyasha as the resident ‘Kenshin-sama’ via Kaede, the old and powerful dragon gently tending to Sango-dono’s children and Miroku’s while mostly keeping a watchful eye on his quietly sad child. He knows when to give space and when not, and as ever and always for eternity: his arms are open, to shield, to comfort, and to protect. Even when he’s 2000 years old, he will always in some way, be the ‘pup’. Somehow, they wouldn’t really have it any other way no matter how respected Kenshin holds Inuyasha - and so eras pass into memory, and they stay the same. Together, until the stars die.