Series: Inuyasha/Sweetness and Lightning
Pairing: Kagome/Kouhei
Prompt: Baking pumpkin pie/bread/etc
Kagome and Kouhei laughed as Tsumugi shrieked when she stuck her hands into the pumpkin seeds that needed to be scooped out.
Reaching her own hand in to get a handful of seeds and muck, Kagome cringed and giggled, "Why did we decide to use fresh pumpkin for this? Canned would have been easier."
"Tsumugi wants to carve the pumpkin after!" Tsumugi answered from where she stood on a chair between the adults, still wrist-deep in pumpkin guts and enjoying it more and more by the second.
"There we have it," Kouhei said with a smile as the girls pulled out more and more seeds and goo to put in a large bowl.
Kouhei wrinkled his nose a the smell as he asked, "Can we really eat these?"
"The seeds?" Kagome questioned. When Kouhei nodded, she smiled, "Sure! We have to separate them from the stringy parts and wash them off, but then we can season them and bake them and they'll be great."
Soon enough the inside of the pumpkin was cleaned out and Tsumugi was picking the seeds while Kouhei used a spoon to scoop out the inner flesh to go in the food processor.
Bit by bit, the pie filling came together, even if some of the filling ended up dabbed on Kouhei's nose, much to the amusement of his girlfriend and daughter. To her credit, Kagome always cleaned any mess she made on him, and even the cornstarch he'd managed to get on his glasses himself.
Once the pie crust they'd baked earlier was filled and back in the oven for the pie to finish up, the new little family sat down to try and carve a jack-o-lantern.
As Tsumugi, seated in Kagome's lap, drew out their pattern with a marker, Kagome looked at Kouhei and smiled. "You still have a little bit of pumpkin on your face," she laughed. "You're a mess. I didn't even put any on your cheek." Leaning over, careful not to jostle the little girl in her lap, Kagome kissed away the bit of pumpkin filling on Kouhei's cheek.
"Maybe I put it there for you to clean off for me," Kouhei suggested even as a blush rose to stain his cheeks.
"Well," Kagome said as she looked back to what Tsumugi was drawing on the pumpkin, completely ignoring the grown-ups behind her. "We're out of pie filling, but we still have the whipped cream that goes on top later. Maybe one of us will make another mess." When Kouhei began choking at Kagome's words, she laughed, and it only got worse when Tsumugi complained about Kagome moving around too much.