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The Colors of Emotions
Chapter 10
Trial and Error
"Wait, so I get to try and kill the brat?" Inuyasha asked happily.
"No, Inuyasha! You are to pretend to try and hurt Shippou. Hopefully, Kagome will become protective enough of the kit to attack you. Stay on guard, because it could cause some damage if you're hit. If my guess is right, protection is a more powerful emotion than anger." Kaede explained.
"Okay, make Kagome come outside. I'll go find Shippou." Inuyasha said these last few words with a mischievous gleam in his eye. Kaede turned to fetch Kagome from inside the hut while Inuyasha sniffed out Shippou. He found the kitsune playing with a butterfly in a nearby field.
"Oi brat! Come over here!" The hanyou called.
"Why?" Shippou asked suspiciously as he made a lunge for the butterfly.
"Kagome wants to see you." Inuyasha lied.
"Goody!" Shippou ran in the direction of the hut. He stopped and picked a few purple flowers that were growing at the edge of the field.
"What are those for?" Inuyasha questioned.
"They're for Kagome. They are to make her feel better!"
"Why will flowers make her feel better?"
"I dunno, she was telling me about a boy in her time giving her flowers to make her feel better. I guess it makes her happy."
"What boy in her time?"
Shippou ignored the hanyou's question and ran off towards the hut. Inuyasha chased after him, and having superior speed, soon caught up and grabbed the kit by the tail. They had stopped right outside Kaede's hut. "What boy Shippou?" Inuyasha repeated growling.
"Umm, I think his name was Hojo. I don't remember. Why are you asking anyway?"
"No reason."
Kagome walked outside of the hut at this moment.
"I think you're jealous Inuyasha." Shippou accused. Inuyasha angrily hit the kit in the head. Kaede had said to make Kagome protective of Shippou, so why not make it good?
"Shut up!" Inuyasha yelled.
"Inuyasha, leave him alone!" Kagome scolded from her place leaning against the doorway. She was still pale and weak and couldn't walk very well on her own yet.
"No wench!"
"Ahh, Kagome help me!"
Inuyasha threw Shippou on the ground and shoved the kit's face in the dirt. Shippou was immobile in this position and could only cry out for Kagome.
'Come on Kagome! Attack!' Kaede mentally urged from her place behind Kagome.
"Sit!" Kagome yelled.
As usual, Inuyasha landed face first into the ground. Shippou jumped up and into Kagome's awaiting arms. "Wench! You did it wrong again!" Inuyasha yelled as soon as he could lift his head off the ground. Kagome gave him a confused look.
"Thank you for saving me Kagome!" Shippou then held out the now crumpled purple flowers, "I got these for you!" Kagome held Shippou in the crook of one arm and grabbed the flowers from his outstretched little paws.
"Thank you Shippou." She kissed the little kit in the forehead and walked back inside the hut.
Kaede walked over to the grumbling hanyou.
"Baba, remind me why we can't just tell her to use her magic and not to 'sit' me."
"Her feelings must be genuine. We can't tell her to pretend to be mad. If she could fake an emotion, then we wouldn't be here trying to force her to get mad or protective."
"There has to be another emotion that will set her off."
"We don't know anything for sure."
"Well I for one am sick and tired of being 'sat' for no reason. She had better attack me instead of 'sit' me next time or else I quit." Inuyasha stormed into the hut towards Kagome's room.
"How will you get her to not 'sit' you? She will have to be overwhelmed with an emotion for her to attack. Sitting you has solved all of her problems before."
"I don't know! Hopefully something will come to me as soon as I'm in there!"
And indeed something did come to Inuyasha when he walked a few steps into Kagome room. It came in the form of a little orange ball of fluff, in other words Shippou, crashing into his legs. Inuyasha fell forwards and landed in a push-up position. Actually, it was a push-up position over a certain girl who was lying down in her bed. The position was quite compromising. Kagome was unharmed, just shocked. Inuyasha had one hand on each side of her shoulders. His face was inches from hers, and his legs sprawled across her left side.
She looked up at him blushing while he looked back down at her. He was so caught up in making sure he didn't hurt Kagome when he fell, that he didn't realize the position he had put himself in. But instead of blushing, a devious smile took over his features.
Kagome wasn't strong enough to push him away from hovering over her, and he soon realized how perfect his 'on the spot' plan was.
"Kaede, get in here!" Inuyasha yelled.
Kaede walked into the room and saw the scene in front of her. She blushed and quickly turned making to leave the room uttering, "Oh my, I'm sorry" a few times.
"Shut up Baba and stay put!" Inuyasha growled. Kaede turned hesitantly and leaned against the wall.
"Umm, Inuyasha, what are you doing?" Kagome asked from under Inuyasha.
"None of your business!"
"Could you get off of me please!?"
"Nope!"
"Inuyasha, get up. I need to go take a bath and you're not letting me move."
"You can't move can you? You're such a worthless wench."
"S-"
Inuyasha quickly interrupted, "You'll get flattened."
Kagome quickly shut her mouth. "Get off!"
"Figures you wouldn't realize that I'd probably crush you if you tried to subdue me." Inuyasha taunted. Kagome became angry.
"Shut up and move Inuyasha!" Kagome gritted out.
Inuyasha already regretted what he was about to say, "Kikyou wouldn't have to rely on some stupid word like you do. She had real power."
That did it. Blue light shot from Kagome's fingers. Inuyasha was thrown backwards and hit the wall behind him with a sickening thud.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome shrieked bolting up. But as soon as she did, she fell back onto her bed unconscious. Inuyasha slowly sat up and rubbed his head.
Then a smile lit his features. "You got all you needed to know Baba?"
Kaede was still recovering from the initial shock of the power that had just come from Kagome. She snapped out of her daze and answered, "Y-yes."
Inuyasha then noticed that Kagome was lying motionless on her bedding.
"What's wrong with her Baba?" Inuyasha worriedly asked.
"Inuyasha let me check your chest. You took the full force of that blast."
"I'm fine, now why did Kagome pass out?"
"It was the same as the last time she attacked. Remember how she passed out? I guess when she attacks, the energy rushes from her body. She is healthy enough to only fall unconscious though. She should wake up as soon as her body regains some of its energy. We will just have to make sure she never attacks when she is seriously injured. Or else using her power will kill her because she wouldn't have much energy to begin with."
Inuyasha then stood himself up again, using the wall to steady himself. "Start teaching her to control herself as soon as she is awake Baba. If she actually is ever injured enough and she can't control that power, she'll die. And if she accidentally attacks me again, I might not be able to take it." Then he smiled and looked down at Kagome's sleeping face. He features turned serious as he watched her chest rise and fall to a pattern of slightly staggered breathing. "I just hope this isn't more than she can handle."
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