Title: Upset Everything

Author: SakuraRyuu

Prompt: Cherry on Top Challenge - Peppermint Stick

Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance

AU/CU: AU

Rating: T

Warnings: N/A

A/N: Inuyasha and all characters in this fan fiction are the property of Rumiko Takahashi.

"I don't like peppermint. It tastes like toothpaste" followed by an uncomfortable grown were the only things Kagome seemed to be able to say lately. And for all her protesting she would take the offered stick to suck on.

"I don't know why you bother complaining. You know your stomach is upset, and you know peppermint is the only thing you've been able to take that helps and is safe." Sesshomaru poked Kagome in the cheek with the covered candy cane. "Come on." Poke, poke. "You know you want it." Poke.

"No, I don't," she groused, "but I'll take it anyway." She snatched the stick from his hand. "Where did you get a candy cane in the dead of summer?"

He shrugged. "Left over from Christmas."

"Awe, that's nasty. You could have at least bought me fresh." She shoved the end of the candy cane in her mouth and crossed her arms over her chest, a grumpy scowl on her face.

Sesshomaru sat next to her on the couch, putting his hand on her leg. "Can I get you anything?"

She looked at him out of the corner of her eye.

"Are you comfortable?"

Now she turned her head, candy cane hanging out of her mouth.

"It can't be that bad."

She took the cane out of her mouth and raised her shirt. "You see this bubble in the middle?" He nodded and she put her shirt down. "It weighs 40 pounds. My back is bowed. The only clothes I can wear comfortably are yours. My skin and hair are greasy all the time. I can't even properly wash myself, and my Keds don't need laces my feet are so swollen." She grew silent for a moment.

"You're right. I'm having a great time." She put her candy cane back in her mouth and faced forward again.