Sketch 4 – The Inutachi.
She was about to start the biggest, most complicated painting yet, it would take a couple of days, but as long as she did the outlines in the same day then she could take her time colouring it. Inuyasha was actually the easiest to draw, but that is because she had drawn him many times before and only found it hard when she tried to draw him in different and interesting positions. After all if all the pictures were the same the judges and teachers would get bored and not give her the good grades she needed to get a name for herself.
She wrote a little biography for each of the characters she drew. Inuyasha was drawn with his transformed sword outstretched and mouth open to reveal his fangs. 'Inuyasha is the alpha of our little group, he can be immature at times but a wonderful fighter and protects us well. He wants to kill our enemy Naraku to avenge his dead love Kikyou. Being a hanyou he is stronger than a human and even stronger than many demons due to his training and breed as the son of the legendary Inutaisho, former Lord of the West. He has claws and fangs and many attacks such as blades of blood when he uses his own blood to strike down enemies. That sword is called Tetsusaiga, left to him by his late father and only in that transformed state and not a rusty little thing when he is using it to protect humans (such as myself).
The next person she drew was Miroku using his wind tunnel. 'Miroku is a monk, but far from holy, this is his cursed hand, a wind tunnel that can be used to suck up his enemies into an endless void. Every time he uses however it gets bigger and will one day swallow him up like it did his father and grandfather. He wants to defeat Naraku to close up his wind tunnel and live the rest of his lecherous life in peace with the only one he truly loves – Sango. His other hand is just as cursed seeming as it never seems to be able to stay off the backside of the nearest female getting him slapped. He asks every female, be they old enough or not to bare his children, funnily enough as soon as someone accepts he runs a mile. He also uses his golden staff for exorcisms and to fight or to thwack Inuyasha when the sits are not enough to subdue him. He always seems to sense a ghost haunting the house of the headman of a village when we need a place to sleep for the night. In the morning when we have been fed and thanked we have decided this is pure coincidence.
She also drew Sango in her battle mode, boomerang ready to swing. 'Sango is a demon slayer, the last of her village, the rest were slaughtered and her brother Kohaku is being controlled by Naraku. She and Kirara are valuable assets to the team. She hits Miroku on the head with her boomerang when his hands wanders too close to her but secretly loves him. She is like a sister to me and she rides into battle on the fire cat' Kirara was practically impossible to draw; the sketch she managed was not all that good.
She could not draw Shippou in any other way than as an adorable kit. She took time over his clothing and his lovely orange hair, he was always so cute. 'Shippou is the pack's kit, adorable as he is mischievous he is always playing tricks on us like he did before we met him and took him in. Now he adores me as his surrogate mother and Inuyasha protects him on pain of death from me. He likes him though, he is cute and can transform into many things, his favourite being a big pink ball, immature like him, but useful seeming as he can fly. His weapons are toys such as spinning tops, using the power of illusion only to work.
The last character she drew was Myouga, though there was not much to draw or to write. 'Myouga is a cowardly flea, he is very old and very knowledgeable, so if we have a question he will almost certainly have the answer. However at the first sign on danger he is nowhere to be seen (probably why he has lived so long) and only returns once the enemy has been defeated.
The last member to draw was her, Kagome Higurashi, time traveller and the Shikon miko. She hated drawing her own lanky figure; it was not as attractive as everyone else in the tachi, except perhaps Myouga. It was done in seconds. On the Brightside, her first assignment was completed; she had done not three but seven pictures, all she had to do was paint them before the end of the month which was in about twenty days now.