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Mending Shippo's Heart
The smart young girl looked at her trapped friends. How am I suppose to help them from their spells when I really don't know how it works? Kagome thought in brief moment of anguish. No it doesn't matter I have to help. And with that Kagome ran to the one nearest to her.
"Shippo! Shippo you have to snap out of it. You are in a spell," the miko yelled at the young demon before her.
It didn't seem to matter how loud she yelled or what she yelled at the kit, he just couldn't hear her. The mist was thick but she could see her adopted son crying in the middle of it. Seeing Shippo like that almost broke her heart.
What if I used an arrow? thought the time traveler. As she slung the bow off her back and pulled an arrow from the quiver she heard a voice. Kagome turned quickly to face the intruder, ready to purify.
"He can't hear you my dear girl. He gave into his fears and has believed them to be true and no one and nothing from the outside will be able to tell him differently. They all have," said a woman coming toward her. The woman's blue grey eyes were looking at Kagome as if she were a new thing to examine.
"Don't move any closer." Kagome hissed out in anger. Her bow was pointed at the strange woman's chest.
The lady did as the young priestess said for she knew that the girl was powerful. But the blue grey eyes never stopped looking at Kagome with curiosity. She maybe powerful but power isn't enough to break my spell. This girl's power isn't from being a priestess, its power of the heart. The spell caster was pulled from her trance by the girl before her.
"Well get them out since you put them in there," Kagome demanded.
The stranger gave an amused smile that irked Kagome. She couldn't figure out how the woman before her could look amused as her friends were trapped in a horrible spell. Before she could ask why she was amused the woman replied, "I can't do that."
"You can't or you won't?" Kagome asked incredulously.
"I can't. It's not how the spell works. I told you, nothing and no one from the outside can get them out. That includes me. If they don't get out soon their spirits will be lost and belong to me," the lady replied as if she was sorry that Kagome would lose her friends. She looked at the miko like any hope for her odd family was gone.
Obviously the spell caster didn't know the young girl very well if she thought that Kagome would just give up on her friends. Nothing from the outside huh? Well then I'll just have to get in with them, Kagome thought as she turned back to the kit that was in the closest spell mist. Before she could change her mind the miko kept a strong hold of her bow and arrows as she rushed into the mist.
From the outside, the mist looked like it was very close but it took her a few minutes to get to Shippo. The kit was on his knees with his head in his hands. Kagome looked at the young demon in concern and kneeled beside him. The kit didn't notice that someone was next to him.
"Oh Shippo," Kagome whispered as she reached out to stroke his soft red hair. Shippo flinched as he felt someone touch him. He looked up to see who it was. Kagome saw his eyes, which were usually a bright green, were now red and puffy from crying.
"Ka-Kagome?" Shippo stuttered in disbelief.
The miko nodded, too choked up to say anything. As she stared at the young boy she thought she saw a flicker of hope come back into the kit's eyes. But as quickly as it had come it disappeared. "B-but you guys said I was a burden and that you didn't want me anymore," Shippo stated as more tears ran down his face.
Pure, undiluted rage ran through Kagome at the spell caster for putting her adopted son through this. To make him feel unwanted was more than wrong. It was cruel. When Kagome got her anger under control she asked, "Is that what you saw?"
The young demon looked at Kagome in confusion before replying, "Yes. You were there and you left me." Shippo looked down and said dejectedly, "Everyone left me."
"Oh Shippo," Kagome said again as she scooped up the kit in her arms and hugged him tightly. "That wasn't any of us. You are under a spell and what you see is created by your fears." Kagome explained.
"A spell of fears?" Shippo asked.
The miko nodded before continuing her explanation, "There is a spell surrounding us made up of mist."
"I don't see any mist," the kit interrupted.
At that Kagome looked around and then said, "I didn't see the mist either until I fought my fear and refused to give into it. So that's what you have to do."
"How?"
She had to think about it for a moment before saying, "Well I think you do it by not accepting what the fake us said to you."
When she saw the look her adopted son gave her she tried to go about it another way. "Hmm… Do you really believe that we would just pick up and leave you in the middle of the night after all of us, even Inuyasha, have tried so hard to keep you safe?"
The kit considered it a while. "I don't think so," the mist wavered a bit but became solid again as Shippo went on, "but Inuyasha and I fight all the time so he might want to be rid of me."
"I fight with him too but that's what families do. They fight. That doesn't mean that we don't love you or want to be without you," she said as she tried to put his abandonment issues to rest.
"Even Inuyasha?" came the uncertain question.
Kagome smiled and said, "Yes even Inuyasha. He may not say it but he loves you and will protect you with his life just like I would."
Shippo was so grateful for Kagome that he hugged his adopted mother very tightly. She's right, the young demon thought, Inyasha and the rest love me. Kagome loves me. And I love my family too.
As he thought that they began to see the mist around them.
"You did it Shippo. Now let's get out of here."
Shippo nodded as Kagome pulled her bow and arrow and aimed and shot it at the ground like before. And just like before the air around them glowed pink, purifying the mist. As the air cleared Kagome noticed that she didn't see the strange woman who said she cast the spell. Kagome shook her head, right now she didn't need to worry about the spell caster, she needed to focus on helping her friends.
