Once Kagome brought the woman indoors out of the cold, Yuki noticed that the woman was a demoness. Which was...well, somewhat peculiar to Yuki even at shrines that were considered neutral grounds and thus safe for even demon's with the blackest of souls to visit without fear.
The demoness in question was holding her daughter's hand, she was...frightfully thin. Meaning either Kagome was right about her being ill, or the woman had outdone herself on a crash diet and was in desperate need of a lot of food. Though Yuki got the feeling that the woman was indeed ill.
There was a foreign power meshed with her own youki that looked as if it were weakening at an alarming rate. Could this woman have a mate? Yuki wondered as she watched Kagome seat her at the dining room table just off the side of the kitchen and then run from the room to grab a blanket to wrap the woman in as Yuki slowly moved forward to place a mug of hot chocolate in front of the shivering demoness.
"Here you go dear, drink this and warm up some."
The woman looked at Yuki with wide ruby colored eyes and nodded her head quietly. "T-Thank you." She said as politely as she could from between her chattering teeth. Yuki even noticed that her fangs were smaller than a normal demon's. Meaning that the woman sitting at her table was an elemental demon.
Interesting. Yuki thought as she finished fixing her own mug and one for Kagome and set them both on the dinning room table at the exact moment that Kagome returned with an electric blanket and wrapped it around the woman before she plugged it in.
"If you give that a few seconds it should warm you up pretty fast." She said before moving to sit down across the table from Kagura.
"T-Thank you. I didn't realize just how cold I had gotten. Demon blood tends to burn a little warmer than human's. But even that can't save us from feeling things like frost bite and hypothermia." Kagura said lightly as she finally started to slowly get warm again. Between the electric blanket, Kagome's jacket, her own clothing and the hot chocolate she knew that it wouldn't be long before she was having hot flashes.
"That is quite alright dear. Please, take your time and warm up and we'll all have a nice little chat about what brings you to our humble little shrine." Yuki said gently as she finally finished the finishing touches on her families lunch and went to sit down.
A few minutes or so wouldn't make much of a difference with the food anyways.
Kagura took a small sip of her drink and snuggled into the electric blanket some and practically purred when she felt the feeling slowly coming back into her face and fingers and toes.
Both Kagome and Yuki exchanged a look as they listened to the woman's soft purrs of contentment and Kagome was half tempted to reach over and run her fingertips along one of the woman's pointed little ears to see what would happen when her mother asked, "So, miss- What brought you to our shrine on such a horridly cold day?"
Kagura stopped purring and blinked at the woman before slowly saying, "I've never been to a shrine before, and well... I received some bad news the other day and thought that perhaps it was time to do so."
"Your sick?"
"I'm dying. From what my doctor told myself and my mate, the only reason that I'm alive now is my mating mark. However because of how sick I am- it is fading and my body can no longer take having it. It a sort of...uh..."
"It's a sort of rejection that is deeply embedded in the instinct of your kind. Since you are on the brink of extinction, it is the only way that you can protect your mate from dying as well."
"In most cases that would be true. However my mate's beast has finally awakened and chosen a breeder for him. Which is good since the darned man would die within a week of starvation and the like if he were left totally to his own vices." Kagura said as she gave Yuki a look that had the woman snapping to attention rather quickly. Going from polite and pleasant mother/hostess to calculating momma bear in the blink of an eye.
I do not envy Sessho should he manage to get his butt anywhere within this home. Dealing with a protective mother is never easy. Kagura thought as Kagome said, "Tsk, stupid men. Does your mate have no honor at all? Why would his beast choose a breeder when he has you? Surly the two of you have children."
"Ah- no actually. We wanted pups, but back when we first mated we were too young. And kind of hated each other," She wasn't going to tell the two about her murder attempts, much less Sesshomaru's. It'd screw up the situation even more than it needed to be. "And then with all the wars and such, whenever we thought of pups we worried what would become of them. So we decided to wait until about a hundred years ago before we tried. But nothing came of it. Apparently that's when I began to get ill. And my illness has sort of rendered me sterile. So when he came home to tell me that he found a breeder- I was happy for him. He's always wanted a big family."
"It's still dishonorable of him to even think about cheating on you." Kagome said in a huff. She didn't know who the woman's mate was but she wanted to kick the two timer's ass.
"Oh dear- you misunderstand. My mate may have found himself a breeder, but because of recent findings about her life- thanks to one of her friends being kind enough to speak with him- he knows that she would hate, perhaps even resent him should he take her to his bed before I am gone. And he's already decided- that because she has concerns about being labeled as a home wrecker and a slut and such- that he will wait until I am gone so that he can offer her more than just a place in his home and in his bed. My mate is an honorable man, he would never willingly bring another into his home or his bed while I lived and he could offer nothing to her aside from being the mother of his pups. It would be cruel of him if he did. He wishes to offer the woman a mating. A full partnership. Anything less would be disgraceful to not only him but the woman. Besides, the time between now and then also ensures that he should be able to fall in love with her and vice versa."
"It still sounds like a shady deal." Kagome said as she blew her long bangs out of her eyes.
Meanwhile Yuki sat there soaking up the information before finally nodding her head to the demoness as if to say, Message received, thanks for informing us. Gaining a subtle nod from Kagura before Yuki suddenly asked if she would like to have lunch with them since Kagome suggested it earlier.
Kagura happily accepted and then while Yuki got up to get the food and lay it out on the table, and then call the rest of the family down to eat- started making small talk with Kagome when she curiously asked to know more about Kagura's mate.