A/N: Prompt: InuKimi wants the best wedding for her son. Too bad he and Kagome don't agree. Prompt from SugarDropsomeArt

Post-canon

"No," Kagome said flatly, immediately rejecting the idea.

Sesshomaru's mother, Ryoshi, snapped her fan shut. "You are being difficult, daughter."

Kagome did not so much as flinch at the look of bored displeasure on Ryoshi's face. She'd never backed down with Sesshomaru and she certainly wasn't about to begin with his mother. "We want a small wedding, Ryoshi-sama." She lifted her chin. "We've already chosen the guests and—"

"So what are a few hundred more? Our family is not broke, Kagome, and it is time that the wealth was used for something other than Sesshomaru's penchant for expensive armor and clothing." Ryoshi gave an unladylike snort. "This one simply does not know where the boy inherited such an odd proclivity."

Kagome silently stared at the elaborate, multilayered kimono Ryoshi wore, wondering how his mother could even move as quickly as she did, laden down by so many clothes.

"Simply leave it up to me, dear daughter. This one will ensure that all is taken care of. Oh!" she shouted as Kagome opened her mouth to protest. "The florist has finally arrived!"

Ryoshi dashed off towards the courtyard with inhuman speed and Kagome, groaning, rushed after her. The inuyokai could simply not be left to her own devices or Kagome and Sesshomaru wouldn't have a wedding at all.

They would have a damn grand ball, complete, she was sure, with jewel-encrusted kimono.

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"Your mother is driving me crazy," Kagome complained as she settled beside Sesshomaru for the night.

He snorted. "It is to be expected," he replied flatly. "It is how she has been amusing herself for decades."

Kagome glowered at her fiancé. "I mean it, Sesshomaru. Do you even know what she was trying to do today?"

"No, but I am sure you will tell me," he replied, his lips twitching as he struggled to hide a grin.

"She was trying to negotiate for elephants! Elephants! From the mainland!" Kagome pinched the bridge of her nose and tried not to think of how much that might have cost them. Even though Ryoshi had offered to pay, the cost alone would simply have been too ridiculous to entertain—even if Kagome had been so inclined. "And do you know why she wanted elephants, Sesshomaru? I'll tell you! She wanted us to each have our own elephant to ride in for the ceremony! Where does she even come up with these ideas?"

Sesshomaru toyed with a strand of her hair. "I have given up any hope of learning that answer," he admitted.

"And it didn't stop there, either," Kagome complained. Now that she'd started, she couldn't seem to stop herself from venting. "She wanted to redo the landscape of the entire garden so that we could get married on a small island in the middle of an elaborate pond, complete with lotus in full bloom. It's fall, Sesshomaru! The lotus aren't in full bloom."

She felt rather than heard his chuckle and she decided she wasn't amused by his lack of urgency. The only person who had any hope of reining in Ryoshi was her own son and he was too busy being amused at Kagome's plight.

She decided it was time to bring out the big guns and she revealed Ryoshi's craziest idea of them all, "She thought it would be touching to have InuYasha there, dressed in your father's armor and wearing your father's swords. After all, you don't need Tenseiga now that you have Bakusaiga."

It was a still a sore point with Sesshomaru and they both knew it.

Sesshomaru stiffened beside her and he was up and out of bed before she could even blink.

"What are you doing?" She stared as her fiancé quickly began redressing.

"Finding Mother," he said darkly, striding towards their bedroom door. "She is to desist from any further wedding planning."

He was out of their room before she could reply.

"Well, at least he's taking it seriously now," Kagome muttered to herself. The only idea that Kagome liked of Ryoshi's at all was having Rin and her husband, Jinenji, be the ones to provide all of the flowers for the ceremony.

When her fiancé returned, his expression was stony and he refused to talk about what happened, no matter how much Kagome pleaded.

Kagome woke up the next morning to find two huge white elephants in their courtyard and cried.