Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. I do not intent to get any kind of retribution for this work of fan fiction.

A/N: This a small story that takes place in the Reunion AU, which has a story of its own. But this can be read as an independent story. Enjoy

The Bed

Inuyasha was flipping channels while in his boxers late at night. Asahi was already in his room. He could perfectly hear his son talking with his toys, but that usually meant the boy was in his way to placing every toy with their 'families' so they could have a good night too.

Kagome was still in the bathroom, and by the smell and soft humming she was in the midst of her nightly beauty routine.

Nothing was interesting on the tv, so he turned it off and rested on his side with direct view into the bathroom, or at least the small space the door wasn't blocking.

His head slipped from his hand and banged into the headboard of the bed, and for the first time he paid attention to the carving. It was a beautiful scene, woods and mountains with big thick trees and scattered wolves howling.

The bed was resistant and not even once had he heard it crack. It looked like a good bed.

"OI, Kagome..." he tried, in an effort to start conversation.

An almost melodic humming sound came from the bathroom as a response.

"Where did you get this bed? It's really sturdy..."

Kagome was trying to get her night mask to make foam on her skin, and kept rubbing in circular motions when she heard his voice. When she indicated he had her attention the question came to her along with some grunting, from the corner of her eye she could see he was standing on the bed bouncing softly from different spots.

Finally! There was the foam and now it was time to rinse.

"It was a wedding gift?"

With her head under the water she missed both the sudden stillness of his body, and the low growl accompanying his words "Wedding gift? From whom?"

Kagome looked at her reflection and smiled. Everything clean, now for her moisturizers. She opened a small container and took a very small amount of the substance onto her fingers and started to rub it carefully into her skin. "From the wolf tribe, I think it was Kouga's father's before it became ours."

The moment that left her lips, her focus changed entirely, finally thinking about the subject of their conversation.

Inuyasha's raspy voice was too soft and velvety when he asked "ours?"

He was still on the bed when Kagome told him where it came from... His reaction had been instantaneous, jumping out of it and glaring at it as a blatant and infuriating intruder's presence in their home, in their bedroom. He could feel the anger rising. She had been sleeping in that bed for years. They had been sleeping in it. A rush of memories of the moments they had there came to him, along with the taste of bile. Now he felt as if the stupid wolf had been there with them in all of the memories, tainting them.

And then the last part of what she said echoed in his mind "ours?" He repeated without knowing it had been more than a thought.

Kagome opened the door and saw him cracking knuckles, glaring at the bed with murderous intentions.

"...yeah, it was kouga's and mine and when we got divorced he said it was too difficult to take it with him and gave it to me. Now it's mine."

Inuyasha's eyes focused on Kagome for a moment, seeing the worried lines on her face and the eyes pleading for understanding. It was too difficult to stay mad when she was looking at him like that, so he returned to the insult of the bed.

"Do you like it?" he asked, surprising her by the calmness of his voice.

"Huh? Well, it's a nice bed..." she answered with a shrug.

"No, I mean do you LIKE it? As in, better than other beds?"

Kagome was still lost about where this conversation was going, and the contradiction between his soft voice and the rest of him was getting on her nerves.

"It is a nice bed. But I guess is not more special than any other". She thought that maybe that would calm him and they could go to bed. Kagome was not lying to him, she liked the bed because it was a really nice bed, but it didn't have a special meaning to her, and if Inuyasha wanted to put it in the guest room, that was ok with her.

"Good" the hanyou turned and began to walk to the t.v.

Thinking the discussion was over, Kagome sat on the bed and looked for her book, when she found it, she sat on the bed and rested her back on the headboard. She looked up and saw that Inuyasha had put his pants back on and was glaring at her.

"No" he said before getting his head inside his dirty shirt.

"No, what?" She asked with a tired voice. After he finished fighting with the shirt—which was backwards, but she didn't feel like telling him—he pointed to her then to the rest of the bed really fast.

"You! Bed! No! Get off the bed. We are not sleeping on it. YOU are not sleeping on it". Shaking his head walked to her and scooped her up with no effort.

"Inuyasha!" was all she could say before they were in the hallway walking to the guest room. He stayed silent as he opened the door and put her on the bed.

"Inuyasha! It's just a bed!"

He was already walking out of the room when he turned to her and glared with a face of mixed anger and confusion, that in a different situation Kagome would have thought was really cute.

"Just a bed?" He scoffed "just thinking about us, there..." Pointed to their room and growled. "You. Him. Us... I just can't! No, we are not sleeping in that bed anymore. It's like that stupid wolf was watching us!"

Before she could say anything else Inuyasha walked back to their room and Kagome heard cloths moving and a soft thud.

By the time she walked back and saw him, the mattress was resting against a wall and the bed was missing a leg. He was quickly dismantling the bed, fast enough that the bed was now more header than anything else. But, she noticed he was not breaking it.

"Inuyasha... it's only a bed" She repeated at the same time she crouched beside him in a corner.

He took a deep breath and answered without looking at her. "I don't want this bed here. This bed shouldn't be here and that stupid wolf knows it... it is NOT just a bed, is the clan's leader nuptial bed."

"The what?"

Inuyasha moved to the other side and pulled a few pieces, and the bed was no more.

"It's the bed that is given to the newly mated couple with the blessing of happiness and bearing healthy... cubs." Inuyasha put a couple of pieces on his shoulder and arms and started to walk out. "This is not meant to be used by anyone other than the clan's leader. So it won't". He gave her a smile that was more teeth and fangs than anything else, before disappearing.

Now even she didn't want to sleep in that bed. She wondered why Kouga left it if it meant that much for his family. Wasn't that the question that bothered Inuyasha the most? Thinking about the moment she and Kouga had split she had to admit that her finances weren't good... was that why? She wondered.

Inuyasha's voice took her out of her musings. "Oi, wench! Where are the matches?" He asked carrying the last parts of the bed downstairs.

Distractedly she answered "In the kitchen..." She looked around and noticed that not even the mattress was there anymore. She stood up as fast as she could repeating the question in her head. She sprinted to the stairs.

He was already in the center of their backyard, and looked like he was making a pyre with the bed pieces. Even the mattress with the sheets still on it was there.

"What are you doing?" she asked when he passed her on his way back to the house.

"What does it look like?" Inuyasha answered in a gruff voice

Asahi was the one to respond from the door "A bonfire?" his voice full of wonder.

Kagome ran after the father of her son "No!" she said pointing at said son without stopping.

His small shoulders slumped along with a disappointed "ow"

She reached the kitchen where Inuyasha was methodically opening and closing each door with enough strength to make them squeak.

Without waiting for him to turn his head she started. "We are not burning that bed!" Her finger up and pointing at that hard head of his.

He didn't stop checking just slowed his pace. "You said you didn't care about it."

Kagome tilted her head in confusion. "When did I-you know what? I don't care." Hooking her arms on her hips she enunciated loud and clear. "We. Aren't. Going. To. Burn. That. Bed!"

His ears drooped on his scalp at the same time a hurt expression flashed on his face before frowning and pointing in the direction they both came from. "That bed won't come back to our home! I, you-WE won't sleep in that bed anymore!" His voice raising with each word.

Kagome raised her hands in a conciliatory way. "Didn't say that either..." she gave a few steps before continuing. "You told me the bed was important." his eyes darted to her face with a worried expression, as worried as he could look without losing the anger beneath it. "Not to me, but for the wolf clan. And it should be returned to them... intact" she hurried to clarify when a sly smirk replaced the scoff in his face.

"Maybe I can just play with the mattress?"

Without even giving a minute to think about what could be his idea of 'playing' she shook her head. "No! Every part will be delivered as it is! And the mattress, I bought that less than a year ago..." she felt her cheeks becoming red. "Only we have slept on it..." she moved her finger back and forth between them. "And that set of sheets..." she moved her eyes off his face. "... I bought them after WE started to use the bed... because you said you liked how my skin looked on red."

Inuyasha felt a pleasurable shiver run down his back when an image of a very nude and blush Kagome on those very sheets came to him.

"We need that mattress back in our room!" he declared before running to the backyard to retrieve said mattress.

She walked beside him in time to see a very confused Asahi watching his father move it with the same ease as he had before.

"So no bonfire?"

"No, baby. Go back to sleep". She caressed his back ears as they both followed.

"Why did dad move your bed like that?" the boy asked looking back at the forgotten pyre.

"He just felt the urge to do it before sleeping..."

Asahi looked down with a pensive expression "but it's too late... he doesn't like to do things after dinner."

Kagome tucked him in, explaining how his father sometimes did weird things.

In their room Inuyasha was crouched trying to erase the grass stains from the sheets on the mattress that rested directly on the floor. He looked up and assured her they would wash out. She knew they wouldn't, but didn't say a thing, just smiled and opened her arms.

In no time he was between them hugging her back. "We don't need a bed, right?" He asked with an apologetic look on his face.

Kagome gave him a half smile "Have we ever?" She declared before kissing him. Inuyasha smiled against her lips when he placed his hands on her behind and pulled her closer. She hummed in appreciation as the kiss became deeper. Her hands went up to the back of his head, playing with his soft hair. Inuyasha pulled her up and she circled his hips with her legs.

In a swift movement he let himself fall backwards onto the mattress, making Kagome squeal as they fell, and giggle when they bumped their heads at the last moment.

"It's lower than usual..." he explained, his voice low and a little shy.

She dipped her head down and slowly nuzzled his neck as her hands traveled down his chest.

Inuyasha cupped the back of her head and pulled her for another kiss.

That night they proved it was true. They didn't need a bed.

Kagome thought the discussion about the bed was over. That same weekend she had called Kouga and asked him to take it. He had told her that he had forgotten to ask for it after he married Ayame and was glad that he hadn't had to say something. The bed was retrieved and for her, the matter was over.

She was really surprised when a couple of days later a truck pulled over in front of her house and announced it was there to make a delivery in Inuyasha's name. Kagome accepted the delivery and observed, bewildered, how the bed they were building became bigger and bigger as they put it together.

After sending off the pair of men, she walked back to her room with her son's hand in hers and stood in front of the monstrosity of bed. It was a heavy, wooden, ginormous and tall canopy bed that took almost all the free space of the bedroom. It made it difficult to even walk around it. The carving work was pretty, for people who were into heavy and over the top curves and swirls. She wasn't.

It looked out of place, it was a king size bed in a room made for a full, and the lack of a ginormous mattress around made her think he wanted to keep their small mattress on the new frame, which looked ridiculous. Not wasting another second she called him on his cell phone.

It rang a couple of times before he answered with a grumpy voice "It's after hours, whatever you want call tomorrow!" She could almost hear the 'asshole' at the end of that sentence.

Kagome almost smiled "I'm not calling tomorrow..." she assured him with the most serious voice she was capable.

Inuyasha chuckled on the other side of the line and a long sigh preceded his voice. "Sorry... The asshole has been calling for me to stay late, and I really, really don't wanna."

"That sucks..."

"I know... Hey! Did it arrive?" Inuyasha asked with a sudden energy and child-like expectation that made her feel hesitant about telling him something bad about it. For example, how much she disliked it.

"Yes! They did, and now it's in the middle of the room."

"And?" he asked, not caring about how eager he sounded.

"Um... Asahi will tell you about it!"

The boy raised his hands excitedly and smiled, happy to help. "Yes! I will tell him!"

As soon as the boy had the phone on his hands he started talking in that special volume that Inuyasha assured him should be forbidden to used between Inu hanyous. "Dad! The bed is BIIIG! And hard! Mom and I almost can't walk around it." He stopped for a moment and tilted his head as he wondered something. "I think it's easier to walk on the bed that doesn't have a bed."

"Mattress" Kagome corrected.

"Yes! Walk on the part of the bed without mattress to get to the other side of the room... There is a lot of bed without mattress! It has a lot of wood! Big pieces of wood, ant it has a stick on every corner.

"Post" Kagome said again.

"Oh! It has a post on every corner, and another square really up high!" Asahi explained as he pointed to what he meant.

"Frame, baby."

"What?" Asahi was confused as he looked for a photo's frame around.

"It has four posts and a thick frame on top".

"Yeah, that! Dad, this is the biggest bed I have ever seen! Can I have one?" His voice hopeful, already imagining how he could play with the pieces that his current bed didn't have.

Inuyasha felt deflated as his son kept pointing things that were interesting and fun for him, but the mental image that he was forming in his father's head became darker and darker. After a defeated sigh Inuyasha told him he was not going to get a new bed. The kid whined both figuratively and literally before his mom asked for the phone with a no-talkback-allowed voice that Inuyasha was desperate to learn how to imitate.

"I'm back!" Kagome announced on the other side of the line.

"Is it as bad as I think?" He asked rubbing one eye.

"I'll send you a picture..." she said in a flat voice.

He let out a dry laugh. "That bad, huh?"

Kagome rubbed the back of her neck thinking how to say something without sounding whiny. "Just one question... umh, Why this bed?"

"It's my style?" He ended the answer as a question and Kagome huffed in disbelief.

"Try again."

Inuyasha could feel the heat rushing to his cheeks. "Had to try. Well, um, you see... I justorderedthemostexpensiveone, ok?"

Kagome took a moment to understand what came rushed at the end, her jaw dropped when it became clear. "You did what?"

"It was a moment of stupidity, apparently... but I wanted" his voice became lower and lower with every word. "I wanted the best one, and thought that the most expensive one would be the best..."

"Inuyasha..."

Kagome fought between berating him or consoling him as she thought of him fretting about getting the best bed, one better than Kouga's. "It was a very stupid moment. More so..."

Inuyasha nodded vigorously even if she couldn't see him.

Her voice became deeper "when we agreed that we don't need a bed."

Inuyasha stopped mid nod and grinned. "You're right"

"I know... that is why you are calling the store to get this returned. Tomorrow!" All warm and soft emotion was gone from her voice.

"Ok, I'll do it now." Inuyasha agreed, his voice tired.

"I'll right, take care. We are waiting for you..."

"I'll be back soon"

Inuyasha hung up and stared at the screen thinking about how difficult it was for him to say goodbye to his family.

The notification of a message turned on the screen and he quickly opened, she had sent him three pictures. The first was an image from the door, and he instantly agreed with Kagome, that bed had to go!

The second picture was Asahi and her sitting on the mattress-less part of the bed, the boy was practically hanging from the post and Kagome was keeping an eye on him more than she paid attention to the camera.

And the third was of the both of them laying down on the mattress with their heads close to each other smiling at the camera. Two thoughts crossed his mind, the first was how much he loved his family, and as he looked at Kagome's hair fanning on the red sheets and her red lips looking more kissable than usual, he decided their next bed was going to be red. She was in charge of the style, but he wanted it red!

The End.

A/N:

I love Inuyasha jealous moments XD

Thank you for Reading, and thank you to the people that takes the time to leave a review. It is always wonderful to read what the readers think.

Love,

Nanna.