A/N: The accidental prompt: Where is Breakfast from StormieLikeWeather. (Because oops I thought it was a prompt and got an idea but then it wasn't so here we are.) Post-canon

"Where's my breakfast?" InuYasha complained from his prone position on the floor of their hut.

She rolled her eyes. "You're injured. Kaede said no food until the hole in your stomach closes."

He huffed and rolled his eyes back. "The old hag knows nothing," he groused but didn't press the point.

Kagome shook her head. "Rin's coming with me but Kaede will be by later, InuYasha."

He grunted. "I don't need babysitting."

"Then think of it more as you're protecting her if anyone comes into the village," Kagome said, her voice sickly sweet.

"Keh. Like anyone would want to fight that old bitch," he said sourly, trying and failing to disguise his affection for the old priestess.

Kagome left the hut, not bothering to get in the last word, and bumped into Kaede outside who had a smirk tugging at her lips. "He's a fool," she grumbled but Kaede was just as bad at hiding her affection for InuYasha as he was for her.

Kagome grinned and then paused. "Where's Rin?" she asked, noticing that the teen was absent.

"Down with her lady pain." Kaede grimaced but there was mild concern in her gaze. "She will be useless for the next few days."

Kagome nodded, reevaluating her checklist for the day to allow for what she could reasonably acquire herself without Rin's help. Poor Rin; the girl had wound up with cramps worse than anyone else Kagome had ever met and after all that Rin had been through, it really wasn't fair.

She made her way out into the forest, wanting first to get more bark that Kaede used to brew a tea for arthritis, but stopped short when she saw a familiar large white inuyokai racing through the sky above her.

Sesshomaru...

Her eyes widened as she saw several other inuyokai chasing him, their coloring varying shades of gray, brown, and red.

"Well, that's something you don't see every day," she muttered to herself, figuring it was good and well that Rin was in too much pain to move. Rin would have been disappointed that Sesshomaru had passed by without a visit.

She continued on her way, stopping short when something rustled the bushes behind her. She turned, bow in hand, and shot, fearing the worst when a pulse of yoki accompanied the noise.

To her horror, she shot a deer and it thumped to the ground as it died.

She cursed under her breath. It was a waste to kill it but it would be a bigger waste to leave it. With InuYasha wounded, she couldn't take it back herself so she tabled all ideas of herb collecting and instead made a quick fire to break down the deer, cook the meat, and take the meat and marrow back. Kaede, at least, could benefit from the fresh marrow.

As she wearily began prepping the deer, she saw Sesshomaru, still in his true form, race back across the sky and this time it seemed that the females had fallen further behind. She wasn't really sure what to make of the sight, especially when he began heading towards the ground nearby.

He changed as he landed, appearing human once more, and his gaze immediately fell on the deer.

She made a quick decision as he stared, his eyes tinged with red. "You can have it if you want it," she blurted, not willing to fight him over a deer. If he wanted it that badly, he could have it as far as she was concerned.

He looked over at her with an expression of surprise. "You would offer this one your kill?" he said, his voice low and flat.

"Um, sure?" She wasn't sure if that was the answer he expected but she really did not need the meat and if he wanted it, why bother fighting him over it when she would need her strength to argue with her friend later? InuYasha wasn't likely to be in a good mood if he didn't heal enough to make it through his human night tonight without pain.

He stared at her for a moment longer as though he was deciding something. "Very well," he said, inclining his head as if he was doing her a favor by taking the deer. "This one accepts."

"Right." She stepped back to let him have the deer but to her surprise, he moved towards her. "Um, what are you doing?" she asked, holding firm. She had never backed down from Sesshomaru before and she certainly wasn't going to start now.

She was pretty certain he wouldn't bother killing her now, at any rate.

"Accepting," was his calm reply, his voice deepening as he added, "your request for mating."

Kagome's eyes widened as she realized he'd misinterpreted her offer somehow. "Sesshomaru, that's not—"

"Sesshomaru-sama!" Jaken came rushing through the trees, waving his staff.

"Quiet, Jaken." Sesshomaru didn't even look at the other yokai. "This one has already chosen."

Jaken's eyes widened as he opened and closed his mouth repeatedly, at a loss for words.

"Jaken. Leave," Sesshomaru added, his gaze heating as he reached for his armor. "Now."

Jaken fled.

Kagome swallowed back a lump at the lust that filled Sesshomaru's gaze and she whimpered quietly as he pulled his armor free, setting it and his swords aside as he stared at her. "Sesshomaru—" she tried again.

If he recognized her attempt to stop him, he evidently didn't care. "You will disrobe," he said, advancing on her.

She inhaled sharply as he reached for his haori. She really, really didn't know how she got herself into these sort of messes.

When he brought her breakfast later, after, she decided she didn't care. This, she thought to herself happily, was the absolute best kind of mess.