One quick blue slash across the top, plus a yellow loop colored in the corner. Red, green, purple, pink; one by one a small childish hand traces and adds them to the white square on the wooden floor in front of him.
"Oi, runt, that ain't how the battle with the demon went!"
Inuyasha leaned over and surveyed the clumsily drawn image of Shippo singlehandedly defeating the large ogre, slain by the Windscar; they'd met the day before. In one bottom corner Shippo had frantically tried to hide the drawing of Inuyasha gnawing on a bone and drooling on himself from the furious half-demon.
"Brat!" With the insult Inuyasha returned to his place by the wall, leaving Shippo to nurse his new lump. Tears sprang to the young kitsune's eyes as he nursed his poor head. Kagome had left the days before and Inuyasha was always more irritable without her, but he didn't have to take it out on him!
"Least I can draw better'n you!" Shippo cringed after muttering this, knowing Inuyasha would hear and take revenge, but no new whack came. Instead he got to see his precious crayons snatched up by the hanyou.
"Hey, give them back, Inuyasha!"
Inuyasha held the box out of reach of the little fox's reaching fingers and took the time to snatch up the drawing pad as well.
"Keh, not till I prove you wrong." Inuyasha scoffed and set back down against the wall before setting the pad on his own lap. For a few minutes, while Shippo wiped his eyes and bemoaned the loss of his crafting materials, Inuyasha busied himself with drawing the true outcome of the epic battle.
"There!" The half-demon triumphantly shoved his creation under the nose of his drawing rival and looked pleased with himself.
This new picture, even more sadly done than the previous, depicted the ogre dying in blazing yellow light while the hanyou stood proudly with his sword outdrawn. A squiggly and lopsided Shippo sobbed and looked terrified while hiding behind an equally sloppy Kagome.
Inuyasha jerked back and glared with Shippo began laughing outright at his skill. Shippo, on the other hand, received another lump atop the first for his trouble.
"Hey! Yours is even more bad than mine!" Shippo declared pointing down at the pad. Inuyasha made a face and turned toward the wall.
"Keh, doesn't matter anyway. Besides you've had more practice!" Shippo stopped massaging his cranium, after a couple of minutes of quiet and gathered his supplies from the wooden floor before walking around to look Inuyasha in the face.
"What'dya want." Inuyasha looked past him at the wall with a distant look. Shippo tilted his head to the side and made a decision.
"Here." Inuyasha looked down again at the drawing supplies spilled into his lap. "You can try again."
Shippo took a deep breath.
"Yours was more true anyway." He grinned sheepishly and turned to go outside, but a claw on his shoulder stopped him.
"Keh, if you want me ta do another ya gotta show me how." Inuyasha stared straight-faced at the wall beside him and didn't look at the kitsune. Shippo's grin widened.
"Okay then, first…"
When Kagome entered the hut the sun was just sinking below the horizon. She was about to set down her pack with the scene in front of her caught her eye.
Inuyasha and Shippo sat together surrounded by several sheets of drawing paper. On some she could see different gory versions of Naraku's death and several other beings meeting their demise, including Kouga and Sesshomaru.
But it was the two boys themselves that caught her eye.
Inuyasha was slumped against the wall with a red crayon held loosely in one hand. In his lap Shippo lay with his face planted on a sheet on paper depicting him and Inuyasha both killing demons back-to-back, the kitsune also had a green crayon clutched in one paw. Both were sleeping soundly and snoring lightly. Neither seemingly aware of their positions, nor Kagome's arrival on the scene.
The miko smiled and re-shouldered her pack. She'd find another place to be until they woke, the scene was just too sweet to disrupt.
Kagome's only regret was the fact that her portable camera was back home, on her desk.
Hehe, I thoroughly enjoyed that and thought it fluffy and amusing. I'm sorry in they're not in character but that's jus' how the wind blows. ^_^
