Story:
Kagome Higurashi, a girl living in present day Japan goes searching for her lost cat in her family shrine only to find that a terrible demon has revived in the shrine well. The demon, named Mistress Centipede, grabs Kagome and drags her down the well. After falling through the well, she finds herself transported back in time to a village in Feudal Japan. There, Kagome encounters the Priestess Kaede, who senses Kagome is the reincarnation of Kikyo, Kaede's dead sister who was a powerful priestess. The village is soon attacked by Mistress Centipede who followed Kagome through the well and who is searching for the Shikon Jewel, a stone that will grant anyone a wish. While in Feudal Japan, Kagome also crosses paths with the dog hanyō InuYasha. She first encounters him nailed to a huge tree by arrows and believes he is dead. When she removes the arrows, she is surprised to find he is alive. He explains that he was imprisoned by Sacred Arrows and bound to the Sacred Tree until she released him. Now released, Inuyasha is able to defeat Mistress Centipede with his super human powers. During the fight with Mistress Centipede, Kagome sees a jewel emerge from Kagome's chest. Kaede recognizes the stone as the Shikon Jewel and bestows in on Kagome, because Kaede says Kagome is the rightful heir to its power. After being released from the Sacred Tree by Kagome, InuYasha plans to steal the Shikon Jewel, using its powers to become a yōkai. Kaede casts the Beads of Subjugation onto InuYasha, allowing Kagome the power to control him with the spoken words SIT. InuYasha and Kagome later chases a crow demon that steals and absorbs the Shikon Jewel. Kagome is able to shoot the crow with a bow and arrow, which consequently shatters the Shikon Jewel. Now the two of them must look for the Jewels together.
Main Group:
From left to right: Miroku, Sango, Shippo, Inuyasha, Kagome. Miroku is a perverted con-man whose family was cursed by the main antagonist Naraku to have a hole in his hand that can suck everything. The hole keeps growing bigger and will eventually devour Miroku if he doesn't kill Naraku. He is also in love with Sango. Sango is a headstrong demon slayer whose family was killed by Naraku. Her younger brother Kohaku was revived by the Shikon Jewel, but Naraku targets him. Sango wishes to gain revenge on Naraku. She is also in love with Miroku. Shippo is a wise-cracking prankster fox demon-child whose father was killed by demons, and thus he travels with his friends Kagome and InuYasha because he doesn't have anything better to do., InuYasha is a half-demon half-human who is rude and reckless. He fights using the Tetsaiga sword, and is torn in a love-triangle between Kikyo and Kagome. His original goal was to use the Shikon Jewel to become a full demon, but seems to have accepted his humanity., Kagome is an outspoken, reactionary, and big-hearted girl who is the reincarnation of a Priestess. She has spiritual powers and is in love with InuYasha, but has an insecurity complex of InuYasha's love for Kikyo.
LORD SESSHOMARU's group
LORD SESSHOMARU, the guy on the left, is Inuyasha's older brother. He initially hated Inuyasha for being half-human and for getting the Tetsaiga. However while injured LORD SESSHOMARU met a young girl called Rin who showed him compassion, leaving LORD SESSHOMARU to like humans. LORD SESSHOMARU also finally obtained his own sword Tokijin to use in battle. His father gave him the Tensaiga, but it does not work in battle, only to resurrect the dead. His loyal companion is Jaken, a green imp who is very outspoken and cowardly.
Supporting Cast:
Kikyo: An aloof and serious priestess who was killed and later resurrected. She was once involved with InuYasha in her past life, which causes tension between InuYasha and Kagome.
Kaede: Kikyo's younger (but older in appearance) sister is Kaede, a wise and powerful priestess.
Koga: An arrogant and prideful wolf-demon who is in love with Kagome. His clan was murdered under Naraku's orders, and thus he seeks revenge. Koga has three sacred jewel shard himself.
Totosai: A senile old man who was friends with Sesshomaru/InuYasha's father and created the Tensaiga/Tetsaiga.
Myoga: Inuyasha's family friend whom is a flea who gives information to InuYasha but cowardly runs away during moments of danger.
Hachi: Miroku's friend that can turn into this yellow cylinder transformation to transport Inuyasha's crew around.
Naraku's Group:
Naraku is the main antagonist of the series. Naraku is a half-demon hybrid formed as a fusion between demons and Onigumo. Onigumo was a desert bandit who was almost burned to death in battle, and Kikyo looked after him. Once Onigumo regained the strength to talk, his true nature was revealed. Onigumo began to lust Kikyo, so he sold his body to a group of demons in order to have working body again. However this backfired as the demons used Onigumo's body to kill Kikyo and finally merged into a different person, Naraku. Naraku wishes to use the Shikon Jewel to rid himself of his humanity, and to full the world with hatred and despair. His biggest weakness in power was Onigumo's heart, since it does not allow him to attack Kikyo. Eventually Naraku removed his heart into several different pieces to gain the power to beat Kikyo, and now has finally surpassed his main rival in power. One of Naraku's incarnations is Kagura, who is the fan lady in the first picture. She is rather outspoken and uses the power of wind to fight. She is a free spirit who hates working for Naraku, but can't leave him as he controls her heart. she is also in love with LORD SESSHOMARU. Kagura has officially betrayed Naraku at this point of the series. Kanna is another one of Naraku's incarnations and is the little girl in the picture.. Unlike Kagura, she is rather quiet and can absorb souls with her mirror. She is nicknamed NarakuTV by fans because Naraku uses her mirror to spy on InuYasha and co. The little boy in the picture is Kohaku, Sango's little brother who was resurrected by Naraku with the Shikon Jewel. He regained his memories and come into his own, but his life is maintained by the Shikon Jewel, which Naraku is after.
Hakudoshi: One of Naraku's hearts. Arguably even more of a prick than Naraku himself, really.
The Infact: Another one of Naraku's hearts. He is Naraku's biggest weakness and the link to Naraku's lifeline.
