Title: The scent of a woman
Pairing: Sesshomaru/Kaede
Rating: T
Words: 300
Universe/Genre: Canon/Humor
Warnings: none
Author's Note: This was inspired by n0t_again's awesome fic, The Slings And Arrows Of Outrageous Fortune.
Summary: Sesshomaru's nose knows all…
Won third place at Inuromp.
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Sesshomaru stood there, keenly aware that someone was watching him as he gazed up at his younger brother. Inuyasha had been pinned to the tree for some time now, locked in eternal slumber. Every time he came by, Sesshomaru noticed his unseen watcher was also there. Neither spoke to the other as the youkai lord never stayed more than a few minutes. And yet, he could tell it was a woman who watched, one that was in the first blush of womanhood.
Catching her scent on the wind, he could tell something was different about her, and it broke the silence between them. "You reek of the badger."
Kaede felt her cheeks heating up. "Excuse me?"
"This Sesshomaru said, 'you reek of the badger.'"
"Do not!" she replied, stringing her bow. Reaching for an arrow, she then nocked it. Holding him in her sight, she drew back the bowstring.
Sesshomaru snorted in amusement. "This Sesshomaru cares not if you dally with the old badger."
"Who?"
"The old badger," he said. "Toutou-sai."
"Oh…" Kaede blushed deeply over her scandalous behavior with the charming if slightly daft youkai. "He didn't…?"
Foolish woman! "He said nothing. This Sesshomaru can smell him on you."
Lowering her bow and, easing up on drawing the bowstring, she asked, "You know him?" Oh crap! I bet every youkai in the area knows we've been intimate…As handsome as this one looks from behind; I have no intentions of being with him or anyone else!
"He's an old friend of this Sesshomaru's father's." Could Chichi-ue have picked up that disgusting vice from him? "Do not worry; this Sesshomaru has no interest in you." He simply walked away much to her relief.
"Hey! I'll have you know Toutou-sai thinks I'm really cute!" she called out to his retreating form.
"Indeed…"