A/N: A tale told in drabbles. Five updates Mon-Friday, breaks on the weekends. Please read, review, and enjoy Lord Taisho's Bride-Procuring Extravaganza.

Proper

They finish their tea and Lady Bou whisks her away to a room deeper within the palace. It's lined with rows and rows of beautiful, shimmering fabrics, with every print, pattern, and color she can imagine. "What is this place?" she gasps.

"This is where you shall become a proper servant of the General," she says.

Kagome is measured and poked and prodded, and after a long while waiting a demon with crude shears tucked behind his pointy ear begins to fit fabric to her body. "Can't make the kimono too fine," he tells her. "But can't make it too bare either. You like green or pink?"

"Pink," she says.

When the kimono is done, Lady Bou nods her satisfaction. "All right, Kagome. It's time for you to work with the General."

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