Baka yala and Omanko are curse words in Japanese, search them if you wish to know the meanings*
A month passed and Kuda was completely outraged. It seems that Katsuro's gone 'majority' of the days turned out to be a month and if not more. Kuda angrily thought in her head what happened that night when she went to go visit the witch: "Lord Sesshomaru, I wish to take three days to visit my family," Sesshomaru turns and almost smiles at Katsuro, "Sure, go ahead, in fact take all the time you possibly think you will need," he says, and Katsuro thinks 'I will take the whole pregnancy time off!' Kuda angrily scratched her head and thought, I'm going to kill him the next time I see him. Not mention Kuda was experiencing the full affects of morning sickness and moods swings, which mostly consistent of anger and annoyance now. Even thinking of pulling a joke on someone seemed to much work for Kuda to do and immediately get annoyed when she started thinking of a joke to pull. And to make things worse, her greatest annoyance was Shinku. Shinku would constantly mock her of her half-breed child, if only she knew, Kuda thought, she would rip me to pieces if she actually knew this child will be a full demon. And the last thing that annoyed her the most, was her stomach growing already. She liked her slender body and now the baby would ruin that. But she grabbed her stomach and thought, but it's not your fault kid, it's Sesshomaru's! And in her state of thinking angrily, Sesshomaru sat beside her on he bench. Even in the gardens I can get anytime alone, Kuda thought angrily.
"The child will take my father's name if it's a male or my mother's name if it's a female."
"Sesshomaru," Kuda said with anger caged in her voice, "I told you in the start that this child is more mine than yours, so I will name it what I want."
"The child is actually more mine than it is yours, despite what you say," Sesshomaru replied angrily.
"THE CHILD IS MORE YOURS?" Kuda exploded as she shot to her feet, "ARE YOU CARRYING THIS CHILD IN YOU? ARE PROVIDING SAFETY FOR THE CHILD? NO, I AM!"
"I am providing safety for the child!" Sesshomaru defended himself.
"BAKA YALA, THE ONLY SAFETY YOU'RE PROVIDIG TO IS SHINKU'S OMANKO!" Kuda screeched.
Sesshomaru's mouth feel open a bit at Kuda's fowl language. He had never heard her speak like so, and he had a feeling he was about to hear much more from her until she gave birth, or at least until the mood swings pass. "I have not even touched Shinku."
Kuda leaned towards him, "Don't play stupid with me you baka inu, I've heard you two go at it almost every single night for the passed week." She hissed at him angrily.
"Were you the shadow standing outside the door a few nights ago," he asked with a smirk.
"Yes it was me in fact, going to shut you up. You know, it doesn't surprise me though that you two are dogs and were howling like moronic wolves!" Kuda spat at him and leaned away from him. "And the baby's name will be...it will be something when I figure it out!" Kuda said, waving her arms in the air in despair.
"I don't want our child to be named Something," Sesshomaru replied.
Kuda almost smacked her face into Sesshomaru's face, making their nose tips touch, "You're pissing me off even more than I am already and Sesshomaru, tell me, do you think it's wise to piss me off even more than I am already? Because I'm telling you right now that you do not want to see when I go full on Momma bear. I am terribly annoyed, angered, and tired and frustrated and you're not helping one bit! What kind of father are you? You can at least try to comfort me! But you do nothing than cause me more pain, and as if you hadn't actually cause me enough already!" Kuda smacked herself on onto the bench beside him and wiped her eyes with her kimono sleeves, "I hate crying, I hate these feelings. And this problem is all because I loved you and the alcohol made me seduce you."
"You still haven't old me what the witch said about our child," Sesshomaru changed the subject.
"You'll find out when the child is born." Kuda replied and sighed.
"Shinku and I have been talking, Kuda, about the child in you." Sesshomaru changed the subject once again.
Kuda looked him with a wary gaze, "About what?"
"As you know, Shinku and I are to be mated in a short time and she does not want you around." Sesshomaru spoke without looking at her.
"If you want me to leave with the baby that's fine, I don't care," Kuda replied angrily.
"No, in fact Shinku wants to adopt your child." Kuda kept staring at the water and when she didn't reply, Sesshomaru continued, "This is your time to give away the child. Think Kuda, you didn't want this child in the first place and now you have a chance to live your life normally again."
"And what is normal for me, Sesshomaru," Kuda replied softly, "normal that I will have to become a slave again?"
"And do you think I want my child living as a slave beside you?" Sesshomaru said angrily.
"I am not a slave," Kuda said loudly, "I am a princess, and I will take those lands back to give them to this child. I'm sorry Sesshomaru, but this child is staying with me."
"You're making a bad decision," Sesshomaru whispered into her ear, "I don't care what you say, that child stays here, it is the heir to the Western lands."
Kuda turned her head and gazed into his eyes, "Sesshomaru, please forget about me, forget you've ever met me. Forget this child and focus on Shinku and place her first born as the heir to the Western lands. Please, can you forget about me?"
"No," Sesshomaru replied simply.
"Why?" Kuda asked softly.
Sesshomaru stared into her green eyes, and then her straight nose and her plump pink lips. And just as Sesshomaru opened his mouth to reply, Shinku appeared angrily behind them.
"Why are you two alone in the gardens?" She asked with a growl
Kuda quickly sighed annoyed and replied equally annoyed , "Calm down, he was just comforting me. You know, it isn't easy being pregnant."
"Yes, I can't imagine baring such a useless child, it just isn't right!" Shinku began her mocking again.
Kuda grabbed her stomach and groaned, "I've got to go, my stomach is churning because I'm feeling disgusted by everything," she said and stood.
"What are you disgusted by?" Shinku asked looking for something that truly disgusted Kuda.
"You," Kuda replied and walked away, leaving a Shinku with a glowering expression on her face.
That evening, Kuda walked into the empty kitchen, even the kitchen staff wasn't there either. Shinku ordered no food since she only trusted Katsuro's fine cuisine, so only one staff member would enter the kitchen three times to prepare Kuda a meal. All those times Kuda wanted to snack, she walked into the kitchen herself to get what she was craving. I'll admit I miss Katsuro, Kuda thought sadly as walked around a counter, the kitchen seems so dull without him. She stopped in front of the bucket full of water and looked to the side and found many small and big pots stacked on top of each other shiny and clean. Kuda cupped one cheek with her hand and thought, I have nothing to do so I am bored and hungry and probably preparing a meal myself will get rid of my boredom and hunger. But Kuda wasn't stupid either as she thought, but I've never prepared a meal myself, but I've seen many people around me do it so why can't I learn from seeing? And the truth was that Kuda did know how to cook by seeing all those chefs and cooks in her life, now including Katsuro. I think I'll shall prepare Kare Raisu, it's nothing more than curry rice and it's simple and nice to make. Kuda walked over to the cold storage room that was kept underground for cooling and looked around for her ingredients. After a while she came back up to the kitchen with carrots, potatoes, onion, pork meat, curry powder, ginger, garlic, salt, rice and a few other spices in a basket. She set the basket down on a counter and looked hesitantly at it for a moment. Should I do this, she thought, I have made this dish in over two decades. In the end she decided she was going to cook, but it didn't turn out as well as she'd hope.
Katsuro strolled through the courtyard with a sack slung around his shoulders. The sack contained imported potatoes, the very same potatoes Shinku and Kuda both liked. And as he hummed and entered his kitchen he screamed, dropping the sack of potatoes on the floor. The sack of potatoes ripped and little brown roots went flying all over the floor. But he took notice and he stood there, eye wide and mouth wide open. And Kuda stood in front of him, her hair almost white because of flour and her kimono sleeves burnt off. All his cleaned pots that he had left shiny clean before he left were now either burnt and in the bucket of water or used by whatever abomination Kuda had cooked. Burnt food was located inside a small bucket beside the bucket of water and the logs used to keep the oven and stove fire hot were now all used and gone.
"W-what, h-how, DA! GAH! What did you do?!" Katsuro finally asked, or more like shouted.
Kuda smiled and held her burnt and dirty hands up for him to see, "I cooked, what else?"
"You cooked?!" Katsuro shouted again and walked over to the bucket of water quickly, "You burnt all of pots more like! And the food, please tell me you didn't burn all of the food?"
"No, just a little bit, but we are out of rice." Kuda replied with another smile.
Katsuro almost went bug-eyed, "There were three sacks of rice before I left!" Katsuro yelled.
"Yes, but I couldn't get the rice right, and I jut had to get it right, Katsuro!" Kuda defended her herself.
Katsuro covered his face with his hand and sighed angrily, "What did you make?"
"Curry and rice-"
"I doesn't take a lot to make curry and rice, to burn pots and burn rice constantly! How hard can it be?" He interrupted and whimpered out his last sentence.
"It wasn't just curry and rice," Kuda replied angrily and set her hands on her hip, "it was my mother's recipe of curry and rice."
"Then your mother didn't know how to cook!"
"My mother never burned anything! I just happen to be a bit rusty in my cooking skills! Anyhow, why won't try some? It just finished cooking a couple of minutes ago." Kuda replied with genuine happiness.
"Katsuro," a servant popped her head in the door way, "Shinku-sama and Lord Sesshomaru await their supper. Tonight though, Lord Sesshomaru has chosen to eat dinner, so he expects an elegant meal."
Katsuro looked at all of the burnt pots in the bucket, all the rice was gone, all the wood to burn fire was gone, every spoon was dirty, his kitchen was dirty and messy, and he looked at Kuda with a death glare, "What am I suppose to cook and how?" He shouted at her.
Kuda smiled at him and scratched her arm where her sleeve was burnt off and exposed her arm, "What about what I cooked? It really doesn't taste that bad, Katsuro."
"Curry and rice is not an elegant meal!" He replied angrily. But he sighed when he saw the servant's impatient face and pushed around Kuda to lift the lip of the curry. He was actually pretty amazed by how good it smelled, and when he went to inspect the rice, the rice looked a pot full of a white cloud. He sighed defeated and began to portion meals in bowls. Kuda smiled happily as Katsuro poured her curry into a bowl, my first time cooking my mother's curry and rice and I hope it's delicious!
Katsuro was nervous and he wouldn't deny it to himself either. He didn't know how Kuda's food would taste and curry and rice was really not an elegant meal. But what could he possibly cook in a hurry when all his pots were dirty and burned, rice was out of stock, and his kitchen was extremely messy? He just hoped for the best the curry and rice truly tasted just like what it smelled like. And for good measure, Katsuro placed a quick prepared raw fish sushi on a little bowl beside the curry. And he stood there in front of the door, biting his lip and twisting his hands as he watched servants take the meal out to his lord. Kuda came up to stand beside him and Katsuro looked down at her. "What happened to your sleeves?" He asked her and Kuda replied simply and embarrassed "They caught fire..." she mumbled. "And your hair, why is it filled with flour?" He asked again and this time Kuda laughed a little as she replied, "I actually pretended to be Sesshomaru while I cooked, so that's a reason why the rice brunt." Katsuro shook his head and nervously went to clean his kitchen. And while he was inspecting a burnt pot and looked as if he was bout to cry, Kuda was busy kneeling by the door and hearing Shinku's and Sesshomaru's conversation.
Kuda heard Shinku moan and say, "Sesshomaru-sama, have you ever tasted such a delicious curry and rice?" Kuda was utterly angry that she forgot that Shinku would dine on her fine meal she had made for herself in the first place.
"It is, and it makes up for not being an elegant meal. I wonder if it is a new recipe from that idiot," Sesshomaru replied.
"Sesshomaru-sama, you should be happy that Katsuro-san will take that half-breed from you," Shinku replied.
"Half-breed or not, that child is still mine!" Sesshomaru replied angrily.
Shinku shook her head and waved her chopsticks in the air, "Anyhow, you there, please bring me the chef who prepared this meal! I wish to speak with him."
Kuda stood back up and walked a little away from the door just as the servant entered with a worried face. She looked at Katsuro and said, "Shinku-sama wishes to speak to the person who cooked the meal, but it was not you..."
Katsuro looked at Kuda and Kuda smiled evilly, "It's fine, I'll be glad to inform Shinku-sama that I was the one who so wonderfully prepared the meal this evening."
And Kuda rubbed her kimono from the front to get rid of the wrinkles and flour and walked out proudly with a smirk plastered on her face. Shinku immediately stopped her chopsticks with a piece of pork between them and stared at Kuda. On the other hand, Sesshomaru stopped drinking tea, leaving the cup on his lips as he also stared at Kuda. "Lord Sesshomaru and Shinku-sama," Kuda said, "I prepared the meal."
"No, Katsuro-san did! He was in the kitchen the whole afternoon, burning food!" Shinku replied with a denial.
Kuda shook her head from side to side, "Actually I was the one in there burning pots and food this evening. Katsuro has just arrived from his travel."
Shinku swallowed and asked nervously, "Y-you didn't put any tasteless poison in this meal, did you?"
Kuda sighed and replied, "No, the meal was actually intended for me. But since I burned all the pots and rice, Katsuro had no choice but to serve my cooked meal. Is it good?"
"Very," Sesshomaru complimented.
Shinku scoffed and finally put the pork in her mouth, "It's...it's very good," she said defeated.
Kuda smiled and clapped her hands, "It's actually my mother's recipe and it was my first time cooking this!"
"And what happened to you? Your hair and your kimono?" Shinku asked upon inspecting Kuda.
"The kimono sleeves caught fire and you don't want to know the story about flour in my hair." Kuda replied.
"Dear Daughter, how are you doing this fine night? Is that your mother's curry and rice?" Kuda froze and Sesshomaru shot to his feet angrily.