"Good evening everybody!" Kaoru yelled. Her tail was twitching and she was bouncing on the balls of her feet, clearly excited. "Can anyone guess why I am so happy? Can you? Can you? Can you? Of course you can't! Well, that's because I've just created a fun new project! We all know how there are holidays that celebrate people? You know! Mother's day! Father's day! President's day! Black History Month! Well, this week is now Shadow Appreciation Week!"

Kaoru cheered loudly and began bouncing faster! "SHADOW NEEDS LOVE!" She calmed herself a bit and smiled into the camera. "Can anyone believe that there has only been one toy in the entire history of the show that was based off of Shadow? For these two reasons reason, I have created six toys based off of our little friend and will present one of them for every day this week. On the seven day I will be showing a very special video about Shadow! So I hope that all of you are super excited and ready for this!"

Off-camera a stage hand pushed a very depressed looking miniature Shadow onto the stage. "Now look at that, everybody!" Kaoru said, standing the Shadow up; he only came up to her knees. The toy stared at the floor and pouted, crossing his arms. "Shadow is all sad because there is only one toy based off of him!"

Today we are introducing the new Shadow: Cheer Me Up! This poor little innocent Shadow toy is just a player in a game. As you can see, this guy is perpetually sad and to win this little game, you have to cheer him up!"

Kaoru sighed, "Unfortunately, cheering this guy up is nearly impossible. It's almost as impossible as catching the Sonic: Let's Play Tag! Fortunately, I said nearly impossible which means that you still may have a chance at finding it." She tapped the Shadow on the nose to get his attention. "Each Shadow has its very on thing that it favors. My Shadow may enjoy dancing, while Carmen's Shadow enjoys knock-knock jokes, and even still, Ashleigh's Shadow may enjoy operas! The only way for you to find out what cheers him up is to try as many things as possible!"

Kaoru ran over to her radio and turned on a fast paced instrumental song. "Anyone want to Tango?" She asked loudly, running over to the Shadow. She tried to twirl in circles around him but shook her head. "Yeah...I don't know how to Tango...I can sing!" She pulled a remote out of the pocket of her hoody and pressed the next button, allowing the opening chords of Kryptonite to play. "I took a walk around the world with my friend Shadow!" she sang off-key. "He ran away and left me stranded out in...Colorado?...Cream! Does Shadow and Colorado rhyme?"

"Umm...not perfectly," Cream called to her.

Kaoru shrugged. "He doesn't seem to like singing anyway. Hmmm. I guess I can try to...I don't know! I'll figure it out while you watch some happy customer videos!"


A little girl was hopping on one foot while hola-hooping and juggling. Her Shadow was smiling happily as he watched her. "He loves this!" she yelled. "It took me forever to figure this out, but this is truly the one that makes him smile! I'm so glad I figured it out! The way he always frowns was bringing me down!"

McDonald's guy was sitting on the hood of his car as someone drove him through the drive-thru at McDonald's. "Look at me!" he yelled. "Look! And look at who's driving!" The camera man zoomed the camera in so that he could see the inside of the car. Shadow was sitting behind the wheel, laughing. "He can't stand driving, but it makes him ecstatic to drive while I ride on the hood! This is amazing!"

And old lady was crying as her Shadow stared at her with a deep frown. "I've tried everything! I've tried taking him in a hot-aired balloon! I've tried taking him to watch the sunset and look at rainbows! I've even bought him a pet duckling! It's adorable! But it only made him frown more! I don't know what to do!"


Kaoru was standing on her head with her tongue sticking out. "Hew ish he dowing, Cweam?" she asked, with her tongue still out. "Ish he smowlling?"

"No!" Cream called.

Kaoru and Shadow sighed simultaneously. Kaoru kicked herself back down and sat on the floor. Any other ideas?"

"You could try martial arts," Cream suggested.

"Nah...I don't think so. I could try to hula! Quick! Someone grab me my grass skirt and coconut bra!" she yelled. "Okay everyone! Come one down to Kaoru's Toyland today and buy a new Shadow: Cheer Me Up! This toy only cost 235 trillion Aperture Science Weighted Storage Cubes! Or 3,800 Aperture Science Weighted Companion Cubes, because I love those things! Everyone needs a companion!"

Suddenly, the Shadow fell over laughing. "That's it!" Kaoru said happily. "My Shadow loves weird currencies! This is so awesome!"

"Or he loves Companion Cubes," Cream suggested.

"WHO DOESN'T?" Kaoru looked into the camera. "Anyway. I would like to warn everyone who is watching the show that there are some things that you do that will only make the Shadow more irritable! And if he becomes irritable, he may...destroy things...so try not to do that...TUNE BACK IN TOMORROW FOR ANOTHER FABULOUS SHADOW TOY!"


A/N

I'd like to thank WinterMuffin for pointing out to me that "SHADOW NEEDS LOVE!" and giving me this idea. I never really noticed that there was only one Shadow toy, which is weird considering that Kaoru has a crush on him and would most likely make a lot of toys based on him. However, I looked through my list of toy ideas that have been given to me and found that there are SIX toys and a non-toy Shadow idea on the list. I was already planning the non-toy idea and was going to have it ready for Valentine's Day, but now I want to do these first. So, I'll have these ready before then (hopefully.)

Happy February everyone. I hope you enjoyed this chapter.

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