Title: Concubines
Author:landofthekwt
Genre: General
Prompt: Boredom
Universe: Canon
Rating PG 13
Warnings None Dokuga Contest (Drabble #9)
Summary: Sesshoumaru wants a concubine
When Sesshoumaru returned from Tokugawa's installation as shogun he was restless. . When he looked at the lords who paraded before the emperor and the shogun, he saw that they had one thing in common. They had trains of woman following in their wakes. Sesshoumaru was intrigued. He was told that they were wives and concubines of the lords. It never occurred to him to have a wife or a concubine. Why did anyone need more than a mate? He had to find out what he was missing.
" I am bored. Why can't I have a concubine?. All the other lords have one. Tokugawa has had nineteen wives and concubines. Nobunaga had nineteen children with his concubines and he even had a male companion. Do you think I am not as great a lord as those humans. Why won't you let me have any fun?" whined the Tai-youkai
Kagome rolled her eyes. She had to listen to this crap since Sesshoumaru had gone to Kyoto when Tokugawa had been made shogun. His mother tsked in sympathy with Kagome. She had lost her mate when he went to save his human concubine. Kagome knew that the enmity between Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha was a direct result of this entanglement.
While she knew lords in this era had more than one woman and that wives were used to forge political alliances and swap as hostages, she was a modern woman and she was not going to stand for it. She had been through Kikyou with Inuyasha. The atmosphere became poisoned when a man tried to love more than one woman at a time.
" Sesshoumaru. I am willing to compromise. You can have a male companion if I can have Inuyasha as a lover."
The subjects of wives and concubines never resurfaced.