Several hours later- Touga finally emerged from his hidey-hole along with his little mate, to go and set things up for dinner. He was in the middle of silently congratulating himself for not accidentally causing anyone else to ingest anything weird when Miroku walked into the kitchen and struck up a conversation about the event's earlier that morning.

Apparently he was very amused that Inu and Bankotsu had been taken so off guard. From what he gathered, Inu had gone crying to Kikyo (just what he didn't need, an overly temperamental female that reminded him of a lion. Should he call a tamer now or later?) and Bankotsu had decided that it was probably in his best interests to leave and maybe come back later to steal some food since he was a terrible cook.

Naturally Kagome overheard everything and broke out into hysterical laughter that nearly had her rolling on the floor. The damned evil woman.

And then just when he thought things couldn't get any worse...the veggie and cheese platter turned up missing. The horror!

Apparently his little mate was more stealthy and sneaky than he had thought. He didn't know when she managed to make the platter disappear, but she had better same him some damn veggies or- or he would have to make some of her clothes disappear via the garbage disposal.

What?

She was his mate, and while he could get upset with her, he wasn't going to threaten bodily harm. He was above that. He wasn't however above making her walk around their home naked as a jay bird since that literally have few to no drawbacks that could come back to bite him in the ass later.

So after waving Miroku off and then turning to Kagome and demanding the release of the veggies (which got him no where fast) his mate was nothing but stubborn when it came to what she ate. Especially when she was having a food craving. He finally conceded that the veggie platter was gone for good and moved on.

Quickly carving the reheated turkey once he had it out of the over almost an hour later, he then fixed several Tupperware containers of food for Bankotsu for when he came back while Kagome sat at the island, watching him work in silence when she finally asked, "Why did you have a gallon milk jug of jizz in the fridge?"

"It wasn't for funsies if that's what your wondering. Regardless of what Inu and anyone else may think, I usually have a good reason when I do something strange."

"Going senile?"

"I wish," He muttered before going on to say. "Maybe then I could forget the look on poor Inu's face." He said the look on his face on of horror.

Kagome giggled at his expression causing her mate to blink his citrine colored eyes at her and slowly shake his head. "I cannot tell you why I had the stuff in the fridge, just know that there is a method to my madness... And I may need your help buying Inu's love back later."

"Okay." Kagome said easily. Maybe a little too easily now that he thought about it a bit as he moved around the island to stand next to his little mate and he took a moment to study her face. She had the oddest expression on. Not cocky. As far as he knew his little mate didn't get cocky about anything unless she was literally beating the pants off of him at strip poker.

Like she had done the first time that they had been alone in the house with the power out. Sometime during the first month she had been present within his home.

No her expression wasn't cocky, but it was telling just the same.

She knew. The mere thought should have filled him with fear and dread. But it didn't. Somehow the fact that she knew what he had kept the jizz in the fridge for, was a bit comforting to him. Right now she was merely waiting for him to come clean about everything to her.

"You know." It wasn't a question. Merely a statement.

"I do." She confirmed, causing his gut to twist as he leaned in a little bit and rested one hand on the island next to her and fisted his hand tightly as he choked out.

"How?"

"I know enough about demon's now to know that when something like what he did to me happens and there is another male involved, things usually get ugly real fast. Besides...I haven't seen the bastard since yesterday."

"There is a good reason for that."

"Just like there is a reason you were trying to hide the fact that you've done something?" She asked as she watched his expression carefully. She could see so much in his eyes.

Fear, pain, betrayal, anger, but some of the most prominent emotions she could see was his fierce protectiveness and love for her. So it wasn't like she didn't understand why he hadn't said anything to her.

By demon law, what Sesshomaru had done to her was basically the same as forfeiting his life upon being caught. Because like she had been to him- he was now a slave to her whims. And unlike what he had done to her, no one could seek retribution against her for taking her pound of flesh and leaving the asshole to rot.

So she understood very well what her mate had been doing. She just wished that he had confided in her. So while she couldn't exactly say that she was angry with him. She was just a tad bit disappointed.

But only a little.

She'd get over it.

Touga suddenly felt faint again, he couldn't help it. He had been so worried about letting Kagome in on what he had been doing to punish his son... He had been so scared in part to worry her while she was in her current condition. And also that she would think him a monster and reject him...that he had kept everything to himself.

Feeling Kagome's arms around him, Touga let her pull him in closer to her and rested his head on her breast, just over her heart and took a moment to simply listen to the beating of her heart under his ear before he heard her say, that they would speak more of what he planned to do to his son later when they were alone.

But right now wasn't the time.

They had company to entertain and food to eat. And after placing a kiss on the top of his head, she let him go so that she could slip out of her chair and go and call the others down to eat.