Title Wedding Arrangements

Author landofthekwt

Prompt "It's so glamorous, you have to see it." by Aretha Franklin

Rating M

Word Count 1234

Pairing Sesshoumaru/Mrs. H

Part of Homecoming

Warning innuendo

Summary Sesshoumaru surprises Mrs. H with a wedding gift

She couldn't believe the number of people who wanted to attend their wedding. Not that she knew any of them. They were all persons who wanted to leech off Sesshoumaru Taisho, a youkai pretending to be a human being or youkai who thought that they should attend because of their duty to the Lord and Lady of the West.

When Sesshoumaru saw the requests, he snorted. None of these people were worthy of him or his bride. He had promised her a simple wedding. Only immediate family would be allowed to attend. Her grandfather would serve as Shinto priest. His mother would be the matron of honor and witness. Souta would serve as ringbearer. Jaken would be the other witness.

The ceremony would be simple. Her mother-in-law had approved of her wedding gown. The shrine would be closed to all guests for the short time necessary. to complete the that the ceremony was even necessary. They had already signed the registration at city hall and filled in both families books

Who was the wedding for? Kagome and Inuyasha were dead. Her husband was dead. Sesshoumaru told her that among youkai weddings never took place, only matings. The wedding was to mark their marriage for humans. Without such things, humans who not accept them as the couple that they already were.

Living together had not bothered her. They had been living together since Kagome left and Kappei arrived. She could not imagine how she had lived without him before now. It did not bother who knew. The only people who mattered were her family and Sesshoumaru's family and they all accepted their relationship.

Things would be different once they were married. Sesshoumaru had warned that she could become a target. She and Souta would have to move to the Western Shiro, some six hundred miles from the Sunset Shrine. She was reluctant to leave. This had been her home since her husband's death.

Souta had grown up here. He was still in junior high and would be uprooted from his friends.

Ji-chan and his family had been shrine keepers at the Sunset Shrine for as long as anyone could remember. Kagome and all of her ancestors were buried here. How would they maintain contact with their ancestors if they moved into the Western Shiro?

In order to prepare for the day that they would move to the Western Shiro, they decided to spend a weekend at the castle. Souta and Ji-chan would come along to see how they liked the idea of living there. It was a fine spring day when they took the Kyushu Shinkansen. Souta and Ji-chan

slept on the train, but she stared out the window wondering if she made the right decision.

They had only been to Kyushu together one time, to visit Rin's grave and ask her permission to marry. At the time she had not noticed any castle merely ruins surrounding the grave. Certainly not a place to live with her family. Sesshoumaru seemed so certain that they would like it. Otherwise, he would not have suggested the outing.

They were met in Kagoshima by Jaken who had a vehicle to drive them the rest of the way. The trip had been overnight. They were all exhausted and slept until they were roused by Sesshoumaru who guided them to gaze upon the castle which seemed to have sprung up overnight.

Souta was astonished. He had seen the Imperial Palace and Edo Castle, but nothing like the edifice that stood before him. It seemed as if he had been transported back to another time and place. Nothing this grand had existed since the Heian era. He ran across the bridge without hesitation. The gates were open and he disappeared into the castle.

She stared at Sesshoumaru. He had to cover his mouth to keep from laughing. The castle had been here last time they were here. She just had not seen it. The youkai could only continue to exist if they kept their existence a secret. An unexplained castle would certainly make an impression. that would be hard to ignore.

"What's so funny?"

"Your face"

Just then they heard Souta yell from one of the battlements. "Mama, you have got to see this place"

Sesshoumaru offered his arm and led her into the Western Shiro. Once inside she realized that the castle was even bigger inside than it appeared on the outside. Corridors lit seemingly by fair light seemed to stretch for miles. She was struck by the fountain and dome in the lobby. Around the dome were depicted all of his great and terrible ancestors.

Just as she was hesitating about which direction to take Souta yelled from one of the corridors "Look this room has my name on it."

She walked down and stared inside. In the room was a king side bed. A wall size TV. A complete gaming system. A pizza oven and fully stocked refrigerator were available. Souta might never leave such a room. He looked up at Sesshoumaru " Is it OK if I try out the video games?"

Sesshoumaru nodded " It is your room.I hope it meets with your approval"

Souta nodded and was soon so engrossed in his game that he failed to notice them exit the room.

As they wandered down the hall, they found bathrooms with jacuzzi. When she looked out the windows she realized that in the center courtyard were gardens that covered the whole interior of the castle. They could walk for days and never see it all.

She felt a tap on the shoulder. Sesshoumaru guided her toward a room far away from the rest of the house. When he slid open the shoji door, he revealed a room which put all others to shame. Tapestries on the wall. Screens and triptychs everywhere. Gold leaf on the walls and ornately carved woodwork on roof. In the center was a huge bed with silk sheets.

She was about to flop on the bed when she felt herself lifted onto by Sesshoumaru. He hovered over her and covered her with kisses. She looked up at hm questioningly

" What is all this? None of this was here the last time we were here."

"Oh, but it was my dear. It has been here for thousands of years"

"But it looks so modern"

"I have not lived here since Rin died because it reminded me of her. After we came here to ask Rin's permission to marry. I have been modernizing it so that we can come here and live. I hope that it meets with your approval. This house is my wedding gift to you. We can come here as often as you want."

She pulled him on top of her " Sesshoumaru, you should know by now that I did not marry you for your money. The house is nice, but we could be just as happy at the shrine. I don't know anything except you I would be willing to test out the bed to see if it will stand up to our wedding night"

Sesshoumaru readily agreed. He had made the right choice. The sooner they were married the better Then they could get back to each other and forgot about all the unimportant things in their life. For now Souta was happy and Jaken would take care of Ji-chan. It was just them here and now and that was enough for both of them.