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My Tale
InuYasha is a reckless hanyo (half demon), the result of a relationship between a powerful dog demon and a beautiful human woman. Orphaned at a young age, InuYasha is rejected by humans because of his yokai side and looked down upon by yokai as a hanyo because his human blood supposedly taints his superior yokai blood. Thus, before InuYasha met, and consequently fell in love with, the powerful human Shinto priestess, Kikyo, he found it very difficult to trust anyone else, and even more to find anyone who accepted him as a hanyo. Kikyo also fell in love with InuYasha.
Kikyo was the protector of the Shikon Jewel, or the Jewel of Four Souls, which is one reason why InuYasha followed her a lot. The Shikon Jewel was a jewel with incredible power, which InuYasha intended to use to become a full demon. However, Kikyo talked him into becoming human. Another hanyo, Naraku, plotted to take the jewel for himself. Naraku was once a bandit named Onigumo who was obsessed with Kikyo and became jealous that she had fallen in love with InuYasha before giving his body over to many yokai. After falling for Naraku's schemes, and their own lack of trust in each other, InuYasha broke into Kikyo's village and stole the Jewel of the Four Souls. To defend of the village and to keep him from escaping with the Jewel, Kikyo shot InuYasha with a Sacred Arrow pinning him to the God Tree (Goshinboku). Moments later, Kikyo collapses from a wound she received from Naraku and gives final instructions to Kaede to burn the Jewel with her body so it would travel to the afterworld with her.
50 years later, InuYasha was released from the tree by Kagome Higurashi, the reincarnation of Kikyo from 500 years in the future, who unknowingly carried the Jewel of the Four Souls inside the side of her body. After InuYasha kills Mistress Centipede, he tries to steal the Jewel but ends up with the Beads of Subjugation around his neck. When Kagome says "Sit Boy!" ("Osuwari" in Japanese) the necklace plunges to the ground taking InuYasha with it. Kagome accidentally shattered the Jewel when shooting at a demon crow trying to flee with it, and the shards were scattered around Feudal Japan. InuYasha, Kagome, and their friends then began the search for the shards of the Jewel of Four Souls. They eventually come across a perverted monk, named Miroku, and a great, talented demon slayer, named Sango, and a young fox demon, named Shippo.
InuYasha was introduced as an antagonist when, upon his revival, he attempts to kill Kagome in order to take the Shikon Jewel. He becomes more civil as time progresses, losing some of his more childish qualities and becoming much more mature. He maintains a crass, blunt, rude attitude towards everyone except Kikyo, and to a lesser degree the rest of his companions expect Shippo. He is brutally honest when it comes to dealing with emotional hardships, and always tries to take the most direct route possible in solving any problem, which usually involves violence.
InuYasha is offended when someone calls him a dog, puppy, half breed, or suggests that he is inferior to yokai, due to his human parentage. Although InuYasha should be weaker than full demons since he is a hanyo, he tends to remain the victor in fights largely due to the fact he wields Tessaiga.
Every once in a while, on the night of a new moon, InuYasha's hair turns black, his fangs and claws disappear, and his dog ears turn into human ears. His human emotions have more power, and his body becomes weaker. During these times, he is usually more protective and kinder. When the sun rises, he returns back to hanyo form, and his dog ears, claws, and fangs return, and his hair turns silver again. His attitude also changes back.
My Physical Abilities
Strength: InuYasha's yokai blood gives him superhuman strength. No upper limit has yet been shown in the canon, but, according to the Zusetsutaizen Ogikaiden official character data book, he is at least strong enough to easily lift a boulder with a diameter greater than the height of his body over his head with one hand, and then run many miles with it. Such a boulder would weigh perhaps eight to ten tons. The Ogikaiden similarly states that he is strong enough to punch through solid steel with his bare hands, as seen in the manga version of the battle with the Noh Mask.
Speed: While not as fast as Entei the yokai-horse that served as Hakudoshi's steed, InuYasha's speed has been shown to easily exceed that of a normal horse; possibly as fast as, if not faster than, a cheetah. Due to the speed he can accumulate in his runs, added with his incredible strength, he is able to cross great distances with a single jump. Altogether, this creates the illusion that he is flying every time he leaps. The Ogikaiden says he can reach the top of tall cliffs with a single leap as well.
Stamina: InuYasha's stamina likewise far exceeds human standards. He is shown to be able to run tremendous distances at tremendous speeds with minimal effort, and is often seen complaining about how his comparatively weaker human companions always slow him down by needing to rest so much every day
Defensive Ability: While his fire-rat robe provides additional protection, a power afforded to anyone wearing it (such as whenever InuYasha gives his robe to Kagome for protection), InuYasha's physique is capable of taking a lot of damage, more than the average human, or even most yokai. He appears unaffected by severe blunt force trauma, able to withstand a direct blow from a wooden log that broke on contact, and unfazed by the tremendous impact of being thrown hard enough to shatter solid rock. He also possesses tremendous resistance to sharp weapons, able to withstand attacks that slice through trees. While he can be injured by more powerful yokai and holy weapons, he appears invulnerable to most human ones, able to catch normal arrows out of the air and break steel swords with his bare hands.
Even without his fire-rat robe, he has shown the ability to withstand direct contact with fire and tremendous heat, as well as corrosive substances like acid. When injured, he heals far more rapidly than a human, so much so that attacks powerful enough to severely injure him are rarely fatal, as they would be to humans, if they sustained an equivalent injury. For example, he recovered quickly from numerous serious attacks, including a large fist-sized hole punched through his gut. Unfortunately for InuYasha, his tongue is still susceptible to being burned by curry. He also appears weak against strong smells, as was the case with the ink from the episode "The Cursed Hell Painter".
Senses: InuYasha's senses are highly developed, and in some ways, appear to be "supercanine" rather than "superhuman". His senses of hearing and smell are quite likely his most powerful - he is shown to be able to hear what people are whispering from great distances, as was the case when, while perched on a tree, he overheard Akitoki Houjou hiding in a bush and quietly praising Kagome under his breath. His ability to hear is sometimes used for comic relief, as when he overhears Shippo whispering insults about him to Kagome. Likewise, his sense of smell is shown to be extremely sensitive - he can smell hints of blood from miles away and can detect the presence of people by smell long before they can be seen. This is also sometimes used for comical purposes.
Not much is explicitly said about his other senses. One can however speculate that his eyesight is somewhat enhanced at night, due to the fact that his eyes sometimes are shown to glow, and appear to share some characteristics with cat eyes. The fact that his robes are bright red (one of the colors dogs cannot see) suggest that InuYasha's visual spectrum is at least similar to that of humans. His sense of taste may also be heightened, considering how affected he is by curry.
Techniques:
Soul-Scattering Iron Claws:InuYasha's basic claw attack is powerful enough to tear apart iron, making it easy for him to rip his enemies in half.
Hijin Kesso (Blades of Blood): InuYasha's blood, when combined with the "Soul-Scattering Iron Claws", does damage when thrown. With this attack, he is able to attack his enemies from afar instead of in close combat. InuYasha splashes his own or other's blood on the end of his claws and flings them like multiple shuriken to cleave his foes in two.
Time Travel: This technique basically involves InuYasha jumping down the “Bone Eater’s Well†and traveling back and forth 500 years from the future. How this is done has not been explained and is one of the series most talked about plot-holes. In episode 4 among others, InuYasha traveled to Kagome's time without the aid of a jewel shard. Others besides Kagome (who needs a jewel shard to travel through the well) and InuYasha have been unable to travel through the well even with a jewel shard. Specifically, in one episode, Shippo attempts to go through the well but fails. In another episode, Sota (Kagome's younger brother) attempts to go down the well to call InuYasha for help, he also fails.
Tessaiga's Techniques
Wind Scar:A special attack that can kill 100 yokai with one strike. InuYasha first used this attack by accident, but eventually learned to see the Wind Scar. This attack uses the collision of yokai winds between two enemies to create a path ("the scar") to unleash an attack of cutting wind. Once he has mastered this, he is able to take 100 lives in one strike of his sword. If he does the Kaze no Kizu too many times it eventually will wear him out since the Kaze no Kizu is from his yokai spirit. It nearly wore InuYasha out once when he fought Muso, also the fact that he was injured may have contributed to this. Later on after he stabs the heart of the yokai, Ryukotusei, he gains the ability to unleash the Kaze no Kizu whenever he wants.
Explosive Flowing Wave(Viz's names: Backlash Wave): The Tessaiga's ogi (or ultimate technique). Uses the opponent's strong yoki and the Kaze no Kizu to return the attack, magnified hundreds of times. With this movement of the Tessaiga, he forms enormous charging twisters that sucks the foes power into the "Wind Scar" and forces it to flow backwards. The wind and the power twist together into a vortex, pushing it backwards and the enemy is attacked by its own yoki and Tessaiga's might combined. But to use it, he must see where to cut the yokai's aura and have strong enough "chi" himself to overpower his foes. An alternate way to look at it is this: when an enemy fires any type of yoki, InuYasha is able to use that attack and send it back entwined in a twister along with Kaze no Kizu as long as he is more powerful than they. This only works on foes with a yoki. However, InuYasha has also used it against Bankotsu of the Band of Seven in Episode 122 when Bankotsu gains the ability to unleash a demonic power from Banryu (his pole-arm), by slaying 1000 human warlords and 1000 demons. This is only seen in the anime.
Barrier shatter (Red-colored Tessaiga): Gained from the blood of Taigokumaru which was absorbed into Shiori's orb. This technique renders barriers including Naraku's for a while useless. When being used, Tessaiga glows red. Only the strongest barriers cannot be shattered by this attack, such as Naraku's current barrier and Midoriko's barriers.
Diamond Spear Wave(Viz's name: Adamant Barrage): Attack gained from Hosenki after Naraku had used the shard to make him fight InuYasha. After defeating the diamond yokai with the power to obliterate any type of barrier, InuYasha absorbed his power to combine his Kaze no Kizu with the diamonds to wreak havoc on the foe. The Tessaiga turns into a massive diamond, whipping diamond shards from its blade with huge yoki explosions to destroy any and foremost Naraku's Barriers. In India, where the show is dubbed and aired on Animax, this attack is referred to as "Diamond Onslaught". However the attack can not be done out of greed, therefore InuYasha cannot use the attack to gain large amounts of wealth. This becomes apparent in Episode 160 when InuYasha tried using the attack to make diamonds to pay back for Kagome's broken bike, it failed miserably.
Ryurin no Tessaiga (Dragon Scaled Tessaiga): This attack involves one half of Tessaiga being covered in large dragon scales. This move is different from the rest because it absorbs yoki instead of causing direct damage to an opponent. InuYasha gained this attack when a sword smith that got possessed by a sword forged from a yokai's scale, named Datsuki, attacked InuYasha. During the fight Datsuki absorbed the Kaze no Kizu attack as well as the Bakuryuha, and Tessaiga almost snapped, again. In the end, the sword smith couldn't handle it and died, causing the sword to break and give its special power to Tessaiga. This does not appear in the anime as it was discontinued.
Tessaiga's Transformations/Abilities
Rusty Form: Tessaiga's basic form when in InuYasha's human-form's hands or those of another human. Despite its appearance, it can still be used as any other sword and repel most yokai with its other forms. This form as well as all the other forms carries a barrier that protects humans holding the sword and hurts yokai trying to wield it.
Transform; True form: With InuYasha's yoki fused with the Tessaiga, the katana becomes a giant fang with fur flickering at the hilt. This can block and of course use any of his "weapon techniques" It is also known that the Tessaiga can keep InuYasha's yokai form from emerging. However, some attacks can purify the yoki such as the Hama no Ya, during which InuYasha has to send in more of his yoki into the blade to transform it again. It is in this form that the blade can unleash the Kaze no Kizu and the Bakuryuha in the manga and the anime, but in the movies this rule doesn’t seem to apply.
Crimson: After the bat yokai king Taigokumaru was defeated, his blood was absorbed into a red orb used by each son of his family to set up a powerful barrier. By destroying the orb and bathing the Tessaiga in his blood the sword was able to assume a crimson form capable of destroying all but the strongest barriers in the series.
Diamond: An ability granted by the powerful yokai Housenki. Tessaiga transforms into a massive silverish, diamond sword that allows him to break though any barrier, which is useful when InuYasha needs to overcome a barrier that his crimson Tessaiga can’t. It is in this form that the blade can unleash the Kongosoha.
Dragon-Scaled Tessaiga: Another form of the Tessaiga gained in the manga after the anime ended. This form is gained by destroying "Datsuki" a yoki-absorbing sword. Whenever he used it to absorb yoki it burned his hands, and if he absorbed too much of it, the sword let off an enormous explosion of yoki, that nearly killed him once. However, later on Tessaiga absorbed a priest's senki (holy energy) which stopped the backflow of youki from hurting InuYasha and allowing him to properly use this form of the Tessaiga. The sword doesn't permanently absorb yoki as most of the time the energy lasts only long enough to be used by InuYasha against his opponents. The only exception to this is the yoki from Yorei-Taisei (below) and the senki that it absorbed from the priest because he absorbed all their powers rather than just a blast of energy. Eventually, InuYasha trains under a yokai named Yorei-Taisei (who later infuses Tessaiga with his power).
The yokai teaches InuYasha to sense and attack yoketsu, whirlpools of yoki that channel the powers of yokai. Most yokai have one yoketsu, but yokai like Moryomaru and Naraku have many yoketsu due to the fact that they're composed of many yokai. To destroy a yoketsu is to ruin an opponent's ability to channel yoki, or in some cases utterly destroy them, as the yokai in Yorei-Taisei's training disintegrated when their yoketsu were destroyed. This is potentially one of the series' most effective techniques as it can totally disempower his opponent. Breaking Yoketsu does not seem to fill Tessaiga with any additional power. On a side note, InuYasha was told that there was a final form that the Dragon-scaled Tessaiga was capable of achieving. We have yet to discover what this form is. However, Sesshomaru seems to have a vague idea of what it is.