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The Colors of Emotions
Chapter 9
Controlling Power
Kagome awoke the next morning feeling much better than she had the previous day. She sat up, yawned, and stretched. A slight twinge of pain came from her chest wound, but she ignored it. It wasn't nearly as bad as the day before. Kagome looked down and saw that she was dressed in a simple white kimono. Just as she began to stand, a small orange fluff ball rocketed into her stomach sending her back onto her bedding with an 'Oomph.'
"Kagome! You're awake!" The smiling kitsune sitting in her lap cried.
"I sure am Shippou! What have you been up to? I hope you haven't been pestering Inuyasha too much."
Shippou smiled sheepishly, "Not too much. Ahh, Inuyasha's coming. Hide me!" Shippou ran under Kagome's blanket and tucked himself against her stomach.
As if on cue, Inuyasha stormed into the room. "You better not be in here brat! Kagome is still sleeping!" Inuyasha then noticed that Kagome was actually very wide- awake and was looking at him with laughter in her eyes. His eyes softened seeing her smile but he quickly caught himself and reapplied his angry expression. "Well, you were asleep a moment ago."
"I just woke up. Shippou isn't in here Inuyasha. I heard him run past my doorway a few seconds ago."
"Liar, I smell him in here. And unless you're pregnant, my guess is that the bulge on your stomach is the little brat."
Kaede came into the room at this moment. "Ah, Kagome you have awakened. Here, let me get you some of the stew I just made. You must be hungry. You haven't eaten for two days child." Kaede left the room seeing Kagome's nod of agreement.
Inuyasha chose this moment to try to grab at Shippou's furry tail, which was protruding from the edge of the blanket.
"Leave him alone Inuyasha."
"Feh. Why should I wench?"
"He couldn't have done anything too horrible to you."
"How would you know? You've been dead to the world while your weak human body took forever to heal."
Kagome tried hard not to say 'sit.' She held in her anger knowing that the hanyou had had a rough few days and was blowing off steam.
"Inuyasha, has anything important happened while I've been asleep?"
"No. But everyone missed you. I missed you-"
Kagome's heart was beginning to melt until he continued with his little speech.
Inuyasha continued, "-because with you lazing about we couldn't go shard hunting."
Kagome face-faulted. He just had to go ruin anything sweet he might have said. 'Don't 'sit' him Kagome. He doesn't know any better.' Kagome repeatedly thought this in her head, but it was becoming exceedingly harder not to teach the hanyou a lesson. Kagome didn't realize that holding her anger inside was causing little blue sparks to form at her fingertips. Kaede however, who had come back into the room with a bowl of stew, distracted Kagome from any damage that might unintentionally be done.
"Here's your stew Kagome dear."
Kagome snapped from her state of glaring at the rambling hanyou. Accepting the bowl handed to her from the elder miko, she noticed a faint glow of blue around her fingertips. As if it was never there, the light disappeared.
"Is something wrong child?" Kaede asked, for she had suddenly felt a strange magic around Kagome. Inuyasha left the room to get himself some stew. He was oblivious to the turmoil going on in the two miko's heads. Kagome suddenly snapped her head up from where she had been looking at her hands, to lay fearful eyes upon Kaede.
"Kaede, I was just really mad at Inuyasha, and my hands started glowing blue. It was like last time, only last time my hands were glowing green. I almost attacked him again. And this time the emotion that was dominant was definitely anger. I thought you said getting angry wouldn't set my magic off!"
"Child, I guess I was wrong. Don't worry, that only means that anger is one of the emotions that will set your new power off. You managed to control it so it couldn't have been too powerful. That's a good start. I do not think you would have seriously hurt Inuyasha if you had just attacked him. I felt the magic surround you, and even though it seemed powerful, I do not think it would have been fatal if you had accidentally released it and hit him."
"Kaede, I might hurt him. I need to learn to control this!"
"I cannot help you until I learn a little more about it. Eat your stew, I need to go gather some herbs." Kaede then left the room.
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Kaede actually was not going to get herbs. She headed straight outside to find a certain hanyou. "Inuyasha?" She called.
Inuyasha jumped down from a nearby tree and landed gracefully in front of Kaede with an empty bowl of stew in his hands. "What is it Baba?"
"I am going to need your help." Kaede continued to explain, "I believe I have figured out why Kagome attacked you earlier. It seems if a certain emotion becomes too powerful inside of Kagome, her strange new magic feeds off of that emotion. The magic releases itself and attacks whomever seems to be closest."
"So the stupid wench is going to attack whenever she becomes emotional? Just great, we'll all be dead in no time if she doesn't learn to control her powers."
"That's where you come in. You are going to help me train Kagome's powers."
"Huh?"
"It seems that anger is one of the emotions that can set her off. Protection also is, that is why she attacked you earlier."
"What do I have to do?" Inuyasha asked, eyeing the miko suspiciously.
"You have to make her mad or protective enough to attack you. I need to actually see her use her power or else I cannot be sure about anything."
"Why can't she go and kill somebody else."
"It won't kill you because you're a hanyou, and no one else can endure pain as good as you. Her attack would kill a human if it hit them in the chest, but you should be fine. Besides, no one else is able to get her as emotional as you can."
"Feh, so what exactly do I have to do?"
"Go in there and make her mad. I will be watching from the doorway."
"Why are we trying to make her attack me? Isn't it a bad thing for her to lose control of her power?"
"If I see the attack, I will be able to get a clear idea of just how Kagome's magic works. From that information, I should be able to understand how to teach her to only use the magic as an attack that she can control, or to just stop the magic from forming an attack at all."
"Fine. But if I do this, she had better bring me a lot of ramen next time she goes back to her stupid time."
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Inuyasha walked into Kagome's room. She was sitting up and looking out the small window. Upon hearing him enter, she turned her head and smiled at him. Inuyasha almost felt bad about doing this. He had decided on just the perfect thing to say that he knew would make her mad.
"Hey wench! Make me some ramen. I'm hungry! Get your lazy butt up! Wow, you look awful this morning. I've seen rotting demon corpses prettier than you."
Kaede, who was sitting outside the doorway and looking in the room thought, "Hopefully those words will just set off a few sparks. Come on Kagome, release your anger."
"Sit!" Kagome yelled. Her control over not subduing the hanyou snapped.
Inuyasha smashed to the ground. "Well I guess she can always go and do that too." Kaede chuckled. She had forgotten that when Kagome got the slightest but angry, she used the subduing spell.
"Wench, you did it wrong!" Inuyasha yelled at Kagome. Kagome became confused and decided to just ignore him. Inuyasha stomped out of the room and turned to Kaede. "Why didn't she attack me?"
Kaede let out an exasperated sigh, "I guess we move on to plan B."
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