ShipSat

ShipSat is the term used to refer to the romantic relationship between Shippō and Satsuki.

## Their Relationship

### Inuyasha

**The Stone Flower and Shippo's First Love**

Before Satsuki and Shippō met, she was accused by three children for stealing. Shippō appears and scares the three kids away. Satsuki then introduces herself and shows Shippō the Stone flower her brother gave her. Satsuki then shows Shippō a "Sacred Jewel Shard" then tells him that it grants any wish and was given to her by her elder brother to inspire hope in her before he left for battle and she says she will use it to bring her brother back. Shippō takes Satsuki to the headman's house where Inuyasha and the others are and tells them that he found a Shikon fragment. Kagome goes over to Satsuki and asks to see the shard. After a minute or two, Satsuki then declares that Kagome had looked at it enough and that she was going home. However, afterward, Sango and Kagome confirm that it is actually just a "Stone Flower" (a piece of quartz).

That night, Kagome has a bad dream about Math, and Shippō tries to steal the real shards that they have in order to give to Satsuki. Just as he is about to escape with them, he is stopped by Inuyasha and Miroku. Inuyasha teases him about "falling" for Satsuki, Shippō retaliates by mentioning his love triangle with Kikyō and Kagome only to end up with another kick on his head.

The lizard demon, in the disguise of Satsuki's brother, arrives in her hut. The next day, Shippō goes to visit Satsuki, planning on saying goodbye to the young girl before the gang has to leave the village. Satsuki went and told Shippō that her brother was back. They both arrive in the hut. Shippō sees Satsuki's brother's reflection and finds out that it was a lizard demon who's with her, and bids her to hurry and come with him. He then uses his Fox Magic for him and Satsuki to escape the hut. While Satsuki and Shippō were running, he noticed that the lizard demon was after them and told her to escape. She says that she wont leave Shippō behind, but he stays behind and lets her escape with his Toy Horse Running.

Satsuki then falls from the sky as she lands right into the path of Kagome, Inuyasha, Miroku and Sango, who had been looking for Shippō while Shippō fights the lizard demon. Shippō battles the demon, but his attacks don't seem to have much effect on it. The lizard demon revealed that he used Satsuki in order to take Shippō as a hostage as a means of getting a shard of the Shikon Jewel from his friends. Inuyasha appears and was mistaken to be Shippō in a disguise. Inuyasha thought that this would be the perfect opportunity to try out the Backlash Wave, but soon realized that the lizard demon's yōki was so weak that he couldn't even use it. Inuyasha then angrily punched the demon, causing it to revert to a much smaller form; Miroku soon arrived and pinned the lizard to the ground with his staff, realizing that this is the same demon he had exorcised before. Inuyasha pretends for Shippō's sake that Shippō had done most of the damage. Miroku reveals that the lizard demon was the same one he had exorcised from the village headman's house the day before. Shippō gives Satsuki the remains of her Stone Flower, but she already decided that she will go live with the headman and reveals to everyone that she actually knew of her brother's death all along, but just refused to accept it. Satsuki thanked Shippō and was glad she met him. They both bid farewell. Shippō is seen staring into space, while the others discuss how even if he is a child, he is still a man. Kagome remarks that Satsuki was Shippō's "first love".

## Manga

**The Stone Flower**

**Shattered Dream**

## Movies

### **InuYasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time**

In the end credits, Satsuki was seen sitting in a tree with Shippō as he gave her a rice ball.