Disclaimer: All characters belong to Rumiko Takahashi. This is purely for my own amusement.

A/N: All of these sweaters are actual ones except for Kouga's, I made that one up… or at least I think I did lol. If not, then don't mind me…

Ugly Sweater Day

It was known that Kagome would do just about anything to make things insane. She invited everyone over to her house so that they could participate in something that was for sure going to be fun. There were her brothers' friends, the Taisho's, her friends—Sango and someone that had come to visit her that she hadn't introduced to anyone just yet, the children, and of course her brothers since they couldn't exactly get away…

"Thank you all for coming today!" she announced with a smile. "Today is Ugly Sweater Day and I see some absolute treasures!"

"Not as bad as the one you certainly have on…" Inuyasha said, eyeing the sweater that Kagome was wearing. There were voices of agreement somewhere in the background but it couldn't be pin pointed at who was agreeing with him.

Looking down to the sweater that she was wearing immediately brought a grin to her face. She was wearing a sweater that was skin toned of the upper body of a man with a hairy front and back. Of course to make it worse, there were tattoos to go along with it. One the right arm, there was a deer head that was mounted. On the left arm, there were presents, candy canes, a single snowman, an a gingerbread man.

There was a skull with a Santa hat on the right breast. Across the stomach was the word, Christmas and underneath it was a gingerbread girl with the words on top of her saying, Eat Me. On the other side, there was a Christmas tree with small decorations.

To make things fun and funnier, on the nipples there were two hooks, where it was clear that Kagome had added to the design of placing two things that dangle; one red, one green, ornaments. Of course to top it off, she had wrapped some lights—they were lit and dancing—around her neck. Still grinning, she answered, "This is a classic!"

"Classic she says," Naraku muttered with a shake of his head. "I'm kinda glad that I didn't do something that dramatic…" He was wearing a black sweater with white lettering saying, Someone Shoot Me For Wearing This. Simple and to the point as he liked it.

Kagome made a motion with her hand and said, "Bang, bang."

"Nice try," he began. "But I think I meant for real."

"But then I would be sad if you were gone." She even gave a sad pout to him. He pointedly looked away with his cheeks a soft red hue now.

Inuyasha mocked him the moment he caught sight of the flushed face, "Is that red I see on your face? She's taken you idiot."

"Shut up… why must you always state the obvious?"

"It's fun and it makes you miserable. It's a win-win in my book."

Naraku was clearly unhappy at what Inuyasha said. "Go bug someone else." He then left to go sulk.

Inuyasha did in fact go bug someone else. He went to bug the host. "Hey Kags."

The woman looked up from staring off into space and raised an eyebrow at him. "You know it's supposed to be ugly right?" She pointed to the thing he was wearing. He was wearing a sweater with a reindeer crapping on it. It was weird, not ugly.

"It's a bullshit sweater day right?"

"You almost had it. It's Ugly Sweater Day." It was as if he wasn't paying attention the first time around when she told everyone what day it was. He merely rolled his eyes at her bs holiday. As if understanding that eye roll, she added, "It's not stupid!" She left to go find her friend.

Finding Sango was easy. All she had to do was follow the groans of pain, courtesy of Miroku. Sango was in turtleneck with a naked Santa with a present covering his package. He was laying down in front of a fireplace with a drink in his hand. "Whoa, where did you find that one?" she questioned, unable to tear her eyes away.

"Got it off of eBay."

"That site is scary at best. You found a gem, that's for sure."

Miroku groaned, looking up at the women and stated, "I wouldn't call it a gem…"

Kagome laughed nervously. "Now that I'm looking at it more, I think I take back what I said." Sango snickered at her, knowing that she scared and probably scarred her friend.

The two of looked over to the man on the ground just to see what he was in. Kagome's nervous laugh turned real when she read, When I think of you, I touch my elf. Kouga made his way over to the laughter and then understood what caused it.

"I see what you did there," he told. Miroku smirked and wiggled his eyebrows as Kouga looked everywhere but at the pervert. "It's still funny. Where'd you get it?"

"Oddly enough at a flea market that I saw when I was driving home."

He man looked at him strangely. "You have bizarre luck, you know that?" The smirk never left and only widened that let Kouga know that his friend knew he did. He noticed Miroku staring at his vest. "What?"

"What, did a three year old make that?"

"No," he said with a scowl. "I made it myself."

"Oh." Miroku whistled and pretended that he never said anything in the first place as he inched away from Kouga. Sango crackled at that action as she followed after him.

Inuyasha came out of nowhere again and his eyes lit up, after reading the vest. It read, Let's get hammered. "That's an excellent idea!"

A second passed and everyone that was in the room with him, yelled out, "NO!" Kouga facepalmed as Inuyasha deflated.

Kagome catch sight of her other friend and squealed, running over to the woman. Eyes watched her do this. "You made it! I'm so glad!"

"Kagome…" she murmured. "I slept over."

"Oh yeah… well I'm still glad you made it! Today is a special day!"

"Yes, that's what you said over the phone as well." The young woman stayed close to Kagome once she realized that she had some attention on herself. She glanced back to her friend and talked softly, "Your… sweater is terrifying."

"I know! It's beautiful!"

"Beautiful is not the word I would've used…"

Her friend turned her attention onto the jumper she was wearing and couldn't help but gape at it. She knew just want kind of girl her friend was and was shocked that she would be willing to wear it. "Shiori, how—who made you wear that?" Kagome inquired.

With a giggle, she replied, "No one. It was the only innocent shirt that I could find."

Kagome shifted her eyes; it was possible that the dirty joke simple went right over Shiori's head. She debated whether or not she should say anything but since Shiori didn't see anything wrong with it, she might as not too. It wasn't going to be her fault if someone else pointed it out.

The wording on the jumper was being said by an unhappy Christmas tree and said, I don't want your balls on me!

It only took a few short minutes before someone came over to the two of them and requested, "Would you let me put my balls on your tree instead?"

Shiori looked horrified at what the male was implying as Kagome stifled a laugh in the background, offering no help whatsoever. "Excuse me?"

"I'm sure I'd look pretty against you." The woman that followed this male was Sango and she whacked her boyfriend over his head once again as he hissed in pain.

"I'm so sorry about him. He was dropped on his head when he was young." Sango pushed Miroku out of Shiori's line of sight as the woman turned her attention onto Kagome.

"What was he talking about?"

Kagome panicked and said the first thing that came to her mind, "Uh… I never know with Miroku. You learn to block him out. Don't worry about it Shi. It's fine." The smile that Kagome gave her seemed to comfort her. Kagome let out a sigh of relief.

Deciding that she needed a distraction, she called over Inuyasha, who came over with a cup of drink in his hand. The second that he saw the woman standing next to Kagome, he nearly dropped his drink. "What's up?" He clearly didn't trust his voice to say more.

"This is Shiori. She's a really good friend of mine. Shi, this is Inuyasha. He's one of my brother's really good friends. Inuyasha, can you show Shiori around and introduce her to everyone? I need to play host a little better than I have been." She didn't even hear his answer before disappearing and laughed a little.

She found her brother, Bankotsu, sitting on the couch watching tv. He had her boyfriend sitting next to him with Miroku and Naraku off to the side but it was clear they were all talking to one another. She was staring at the pole-neck sweater he had on. The picture in the middle was of an alien with a probe and Santa on the examining table with his pants down. It was definitely a close second to hers.

Sesshomaru asked, "Bank, is there something you would like to share with the class?"

Bankotsu looked genuinely confused as the male motioned at the thing he was wearing. It still didn't click in his brain at what he was really asking. "What are you talking about?"

"Well—" He got cut off as he glared at Miroku.

"What he means to say is that since you have a somewhat… possibly questionable…" Miroku trailed, suddenly he wasn't all that sure what he wanted to say.

Kagome laughed as they looked over to her. She questioned her brother, "Have you told your friends about your you know what?"

"I haven't…"

"You probably should~" She walked off and over to the children.

Bankotsu now had his friends glancing over him as if trying to understand what Kagome was just talking about. He sighed and said, "Think of it like this. Take what you see on the sweater, apply it to myself, and what do you get?"

Naraku came over closer to bluntly inquired, "Are you gay?" Kouga heard that from where he was and leaned against what he was sitting in to listen better. Bankotsu gaped at him. The dark haired male waited but judging from the silence, he added, "It's okay you know. I don't judge. You have a boyfriend?"

The male in question flushed but shook his head. "No, I don't… you're really okay with this?"

Sesshomaru shrugged. "It's your life. Why would we hate you for that? Plus, I already figured you swung a different way when you let Naraku flirt with you." The two he mentioned gawked at him. "And of course as an added bonus, I have the perfect blackmail." They knew exactly what he was talking about. Simpering, he got up and decided to find his girlfriend, leaving behind some stunned friends.

He found her with his family and her brother and son. Souta didn't participate in this holiday; he was so lucky. Then again, neither had his father. He was somewhat jealous that they didn't have to do anything to embarrass themselves.

The children had a theme for their ugly sweaters; dinosaurs. Shippo was wearing one with a T-rex that was eating a Christmas tree that read, I ate Christmas. It was cute. Rin was wearing something similar with a T-rex, but the difference was that hers was so much more derpy. It was just existing with its tiny arms while wearing a Santa hat. Judging by Kagome's feedback, Rin was winning as Shippo pouted.

Kagome turned around and smiled when she saw Sesshomaru. They were still in the room where everyone could hear everything. Now everyone had their ears ready for whatever was about to be said since Kagome didn't respond to her boyfriend's sweater.

And react she did.

Sesshomaru was wearing a sweater that was design to look like a present. Her immediate question was, "Does that mean I can unwrap you?"

All eyes went wide at hearing that. Sesshomaru didn't have an immediate response; he was still staring at her like he couldn't believe she just said that.

"It does now," he said with a grin.

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