Chapter 4: Trinity's Powers
Inuyasha yawned loudly as he entered the combat room Monday morning to find his children and mate in the middle of training. Inuyasha scratched idly behind a doggy ear and noticed that Trinity was playing against Toru while Hikaru watched. Sachi and Kagome were playing against each other as usual but the sight of his youngest child playing the difficult game was surprising and was enough to draw the hanyou away from the prospect of breakfast. Inuyasha walked over and stood over his three youngest children and watched them play.
Toru's thoughtful yet frustrated look was a stark contrast to Trinity's mellow and almost bored look. She lifted a stone and set it on the board with a loud klak and Toru's face twisted in even more frustration. Hikaru didn't looked pleased with what he saw on the board either and Inuyasha wondered what was so interesting about the board, he looked at it and his eyes widened when he saw an overwhelming amount of black stones surrounding bunched up and poorly placed white stones. Inuyasha saw Toru set down a white stone and wondered when Trinity became so good at Go.
Trinity rubbed her eyes sleepily and yawned widely; she picked up a stone and placed it on the board barely giving the board a glance. Toru sighed and shook his head. "I resign! Dang it! You are cheating I know it!" Toru yelled at Trinity who blinked up at him confused. Toru saw the innocent look she gave him and sighed louder. He got up and he and Hikaru went to play at another board leaving Trinity alone to put away the stones. As Trinity's small hands began to separate the stones by color and put them in their pots Sachi resigned from her game against Kagome.
Inuyasha looked from Trinity to where Kagome was admiring how much his eldest child had improved. "Hey!" Inuyasha groused roughly not really sure how to ask the question to the five-year-old. Trinity looked up at him and waited for him to continue. "You've been giving Sachi lessons right?" Trinity blinked and Inuyasha took this as a yes and continued. "I have a surprise for you and your sister but until I come back from talking with some elves I was thinking you could play against your Okaa-san." Inuyasha said to the girl who looked over at her mother who was talking with the twins. Trinity's eyes saddened a little but when she looked up at Inuyasha's curious gaze she nodded her consent.
Inuyasha smirked and took the little girl's hand once she stood; he walked with her over to his mate and kissed her cheek to get her to look at him. "Trinity wants to play a game with you." Inuyasha said pointing to a Go board to indicate what type of game he meant. Kagome looked from Inuyasha to Trinity and smiled.
"Of course, c'mon Trinity." Kagome said taking Trinity's hand and leading her to the Go board her and Sachi once played at. Inuyasha left the room silently and Sachi sat by the game to watch. "Do you want to be black or white?" asked Kagome.
Trinity picked up the pot with the black stones. "Black." Trinity said softly and took off the top of the pot. Sachi silently noted that that would mean her Okaa-san would automatically get 6 and ½ points since Trinity goes first, she wondered if Trinity wanted to give her mom the advantage.
"How about a handicap?" suggested Kagome wondering what the five-year-old would say to this. Trinity shook her head "no." Kagome frowned slightly and across the room the twins bark with laughter.
"Are you kidding! Toru and I need handicaps when we play Sachi and we still don't get close to winning!" Hikaru yelled across the room. Kagome briefly glared at her rowdy sons and looked back at the little girl who had placed a stone on the board. Kagome and Trinity began to play and after a half an hour things became tense.
Trinity set down a stone and looked up at her mother. Sachi watched Trinity intensely she noticed that Trinity made some subtle moves with her eyes and body before she placed down a stone. A lot of the time Trinity shifted was when Sachi could tell she had seen a very good move and decided against doing it, Trinity was definitely holding back in the game and Kagome seemed to sense it as well.
Kagome looked at her youngest daughter in amazement, she was practically a prodigy. "This is amazing Trinity, you are very good at this. I'm proud of you." Kagome said as she placed down a stone. Trinity stared at the stone she placed down and looked up at Kagome with a weak smile.
"I resign." Trinity said softly just as Inuyasha returned from talking with the elves. Inuyasha looked on curiously and when he approached the board he was surprised that it was nearly filled with black and white stones. He looked at Sachi who was staring at the board then to his mate who was smiling giddily at Trinity who seemed to refuse to look at her.
Trinity got up suddenly and ran out of the room. Inuyasha looked after her along with the rest of the family and wondered if she was okay. Sachi gasped slightly and the others turned to her. "What?" asked Hikaru looking at the board.
"Trinity won…if Okaa-san didn't get the extra points for being white Trinity would have won." Said Sachi, Kagome studied the board and realized the same thing.
Inuyasha scratched the back of his head and shrugged. "Feh! Whatever. Hey Sachi, how about you me and Trinity go hunting?" Inuyasha suggested. Sachi looked up at her father in surprise.
"hunting? Why?" asked Sachi.
Inuyasha blinked and looked away with a scowl on his handsome face. "You know, trolls and goblins and such. We need to protect the human village. Besides, your sister doesn't get out that often and I thought you both would like to go through the woods but if you don't want to…" Inuyasha trailed off turning away with a huff of disappointment. Sachi immediately jumped up with a grin.
"Of course I want to! Let's get Trin and get going!" Sachi howled happily and dashed out of the room for her sister. Inuyasha stared after the hanyou girl in surprise and shrugged nonchalantly. The twins looked outraged by this turn of events.
"Hey! Why cant we go!" demanded the twins together. Inuyasha gave them a glare.
"You don't think I know how you two have been ditching your little sister lately? Ha! You two will be spending the day with your Okaa-san answering to her every beck and call." Inuyasha snickered and left the room. The twins looked at their mother who glared after her mate in irritation. Kagome looked down at her two sons and watched as their ears drooped in disappointment. Kagome got a weak smile and felt bad for them.
"Hey…" she said happily. "I can show you some transmutation circles when we come back from shopping in the village." Kagome suggested the twins perked up a little and ran over to hug their mom's legs. Kagome smiled down at them, they had their nice moments but she didn't notice Toru reach into her pocket and snatch a few coins and pocket them.
About one hour and one troll later Inuyasha, Trinity, and Sachi could be seen walking through the forest quietly. Inuyasha glanced at his older daughter who walked beside him and then at the younger one who walked a little ways ahead of them. Inuyasha coughed nervously, the silence beginning to bug him.
"So, Trinity when did you get so good at Go?" asked Inuyasha. Trinity shrugged and didn't say anything. Sachi spared her tiredly looking father a sympathetic look. She knew how hard it was to get Trinity to start talking.
"She's been reading many Go books and watching so many matches she is practically a pro." Said Sachi as if Trinity wasn't there knowing that Trinity didn't care if she talked about her. Inuyasha blinked I amazement.
"She can read? I've never even seen her actually reading." Inuyasha said with a slight frown. Sachi grinned a fanged grin and nodded.
"You have seen her read! She reads all the time! Trinity has a photographic memory." Said Sachi. "So when she is flipping through pages she is really memorizing books! She's even recited a whole book for me once." Said Sachi. Inuyasha was surprised by this revelation but the news that Trinity would talk that much was equally surprising. He felt close to Sachi in that they could talk and stuff, at least they could talk just as well as between him and his mate. Inuyasha did feel the same closeness with Trinity but it was much more fatherly than friendly, she never seemed to act like a real child and in the end he ended up getting an overwhelming urge to protect her because she was nearly defenseless as far as he knew.
Inuyasha looked over at Trinity and came to a conclusion. Inuyasha jogged over to the girl and picked her up abruptly from behind and put her on his shoulders. Trinity held onto him by his hair and looked at her father in surprise.
"Hey…did you know that you are named after a very powerful and intelligent priestess?" asked Inuyasha knowing already that Trinity didn't know about her great aunt. Trinity shook her head, her raven tresses swinging side to side as her golden orbs peered down at the adult hanyou. "Her name was of course Trinity and she is your Okaa-san's aunt. She is nice to be around and has saved your mother, Sachi, and I many times. She was very powerful in more ways than one, she had a lot of magic in her and yet she didn't need to use it to get what she wanted, she was also a lo tech do you know what that is?" asked Inuyasha when Trinity nodded he briefly wondered how she knew of lo techs but brushed it off as simply something she read in a book. "I'm sure that one day she will become the head lo tech, she is actually friends with the head lo tech in our time." Said Inuyasha off-handily. Trinity stared off in space with a thoughtful look and Inuyasha didn't expect an answer from the girl and was surprised when she spoke.
"A Phoenix." Trinity said and pointed up into a tree. The beautiful golden and violet plumage of the bird glowed in the sunlight and as the harmonious song it made rang through the air the bird was busy building its nest for when it was time to set itself on fire and die. Inuyasha looked up at the bird with a bored look and shrugged nonchalantly. Trinity saw this and a slight smile came to her little face. She knew her father wasn't entertained by simple bird watching and she wanted this father-daughter time to go well since it didn't happen too often.
Trinity reached up a small hand and tugged lightly on her Otou-san's hakamas. Inuyasha looked down at Trinity curiously. "What's up short-stop?" asked Inuyasha.
Trinity got a sweet innocent smile on her face. "I bet I can beat you to that branch." Trinity said while pointing to the thickest branch right below the branch where the phoenix's nest sat. Inuyasha stared at the branch then at his daughter in a look that screamed "Have you lost your little mind!" Trinity continued to smile innocently and now Sachi was watching curiously.
"No way in hell could you beat me up there." Inuyasha said flatly. Sachi looked at Trin like she was crazy but she also wanted to see what would come about from this so she didn't affirm what her father said. Trinity shrugged.
"I beg to differ." She said in her high voice that sounded like a child but talked like an adult. Inuyasha seemed to be filled with energy at the prospect of a challenge.
"Alright…I'll give you a head start." Inuyasha said while crossing his arms. Trinity shook her head.
"Naw, you go ahead." Trinity said innocently. Inuyasha raised an eyebrow and shrugged her jumped for a branch about half way up the tree but what he didn't expect what came next. Trinity reached into her kimono and pulled out prayer beads that had demon fangs on them that were placed around the necklace between 8 bead intervals. She closed here eyes and the beads began to glow.
They suddenly shot apart and towards the hanyou who was about to jump to the branch, they came around his neck to form the necklace again and Trinity snapped her eyes open, a very Inuyasha-like smirk crossed her face.
"Sit." She said smoothly. The prayer beads glowed again and Inuyasha plummeted to the ground with a yelp. Inuyasha layed there on the ground stunned and didn't do anything as the fine-year-old stepped on his back while approaching the tree. Sachi stared with her eyes the size of saucers, completely stunned.
By the time Inuyasha got up Trinity was about one-fourth of the way up. He went to jump up again but was stopped as Trinity shouted. "Sit!" Inuyasha fell to the ground again with a shout. The hanyou laid there on the ground in pain and soon got up again this process of sitting continued until Trinity made it to the top and sat on the branch.
Sachi finally gained her voice as she helped her hurt father from off the ground. "What the hell was that!" she screeched looking up at Trinity who petted the phoenix from the branch.
Inuyasha looked up at Trinity and blinked in surprise when he saw a strong miko aura around the child and then suddenly the aura disappeared completely. Inuyasha narrowed his eyes suspiciously. "Trinity Kaoru Takahashi!" Inuyasha shouted up to the little girl. Trinity looked down at him in fear of punishment. "How long have you known you were a priestess!" Trinity shrugged.
"A year?" she said down to him. Inuyasha sighed tiredly and flopped onto his back. Sachi giggled.
"So now I have a sister who is a priestess! Awesome!" She shouted happily using the slang term her mother taught her. Trinity grinned finding relief when she knew she wasn't going to be punished. "Hey! Can you alter the spell so I can sit Otou-san too!" asked Sachi. Trinity shook her head. Inuyasha looked to be in slight agony from the all the sits but that would fade soon enough. When the phoenix burst in flame minutes later the three decided to head home after they caught tonight's dinner.
After teaching her sons some alchemy stuff Kagome found her self doing some hand to hand combat with the twins. She didn't know how they convinced her to do so but they did, they had to retract their claws of course but that didn't seem to help the human seeing as it was two against one.
Kagome blocked Hikaru's punch and send him sliding backward in the dirt. Toru came over to kick her but she was easily able to jump over the leg and once the momentum of his kick was out of harms way she ducked down on her legs and swung her leg around sharply to kick the feet out form under him. The boys were finally tired out and Kagome was DEFINITELY tired if they were and flopped down in the dirt as well.
The mother and sons panted, trying to catch their breath. "Man! I wish combat training could be like that everyday instead of that stupid Go game!" Hikaru complained. Kagome giggled slightly.
"You two still aren't ready for this type of combat you haven't gained enough control and tactical skills. Maybe in a year or two." Kagome said sitting up and brushing dirt off of her robes.
The boys sighed disappointed and scented the air suddenly. "Outo-san's back! They brought rabbit!" The boys cheered and ran towards the forest line just as the three other family members emerged. Kagome smiled and got up to join her family. Sachi told Kagome about what happened to Inuyasha and Kagome was really amused, Trinity changed the spell to allow Kagome the ability to sit the hanyou which she was more than happily to test out much to the hanyou's dismay and to the amusement of the children. The family was happy and content with the way things were, not expecting that this time of peace of mind was soon to end.
A/N: Alright, the next chapter will be mainly Trinity's battle with Naraku and what happens right after the battle is over. A lot of exciting things to come this was mainly just to get you more involved with the Inu-family and to give you the warm feeling inside and for the entertainment of reading as Inuyasha get sat a lot. Oh! And if anyone is still interested in seeing the picture I drew of the children then email me! REVIEW!
Oh! and sorry it took so long to update! I got sidetracked by a lot of bad crap that happened to me .