Authors Notes: A big thank you to those of you who reveiwed my one shot the Strong Will Never Fall. And I might...Just might, make it into a longer story, you know? Gimme your opinions on that. And thankies to those who reveiwed my story thus fasr. You guys have kept me going big time. +hugs+
Bad Day
Chapter 16-Good Morning Dearest
Kagome was sleeping peacefully for the first time in almost two weeks. Her dream world was serenaded by a steady beating. What was it? Oh, his heart. She marveled that his heart beat so steady and loud, so constant. Not quite as fast as a human's, but just as steady, just as strong.
And the warmth! Everywhere she felt warm and protected. Odd what a simple embrace can do. It seemed like she had been here forever. How long had she been asleep in his arms on the old fold out bed?
Suddenly the rhythm of his heartbeat changed and her dream world began to fade away quickly. She felt someone nudging her.
"Kagome, Kagome, wake up, your mother is awake. I do not think she'd appreciate finding her only daughter in bed with an older man," He whispered.
Kagome shot up and out of the bed with a start, giving her bedmate a kiss on the cheek before running into the kitchen and beginning to make breakfast. She didn't want to hear her mother's reproachful words. They hadn't done anything, but still…
Her mother's footsteps sounded on the stairs and Kagome felt her mother enter the room.
"Kagome dear, you're up so early, and making breakfast? You haven't done this sine you entered high school! Does it have anything to do with a certain youkai?" Her mother asked as she helped her daughter begin to make some toast.
"Not at all mama, but this is the first time I've had time to make everyone breakfast since I entered high school. I thought you might like to take a small break from all the cooking," Kagome told her mother.
"Ah, are you sure it isn't just to appease my temper since I saw you and that handsome youkai sleeping together last night. I still check my children are in their beds at night. Especially you. Having you here…It's almost surreal. And as for you sleeping in the same bed as Sesshoumaru last night, I can't say I totally approve, but he cares for you, and he didn't take advantage of you. And as far as I can tell, he seems like a good man-er, demon. But Kagome, please be careful. There's so much on you right now. Yesterday you fainted from the stress. I don't want to see you go into a hospital for nerves," Her mother told her as they made eggs.
"Thank you mama," Kagome said, just as Sesshoumaru stepped into the kitchen.
"And I trust you heard all that Sesshoumaru?" Her mother said sternly as she turned to look at the shirtless demon. A blush graced her cheeks.
"Yes ma'am. I understand your concern for Kagome, and I hope that you'll come to trust me eventually. I know it can't be easy, having a youkai like me asking to court your daughter," Sesshoumaru said solemnly.
"You're asking to court my daughter?" Her mother asked, astonished.
"I was about to."
"Well, if that doesn't beat all. You act like a proper gentleman from those romance novels I've read. But those gentlemen were also devil may care men behind closed doors," Her mother said sharply.
"Ma'am, I am not devil may care at al. In fact, if anything, because of who and what I am, I must be very cautious in this time. If you allow me to court your daughter I promise to do the best I can to help her and to take care of her when she is out of your sight," Sesshoumaru told Mrs. Higurashi
Kagome's jaw dropped. Had Sesshoumaru just wormed his demonic self into her mother's heart or was it her? With the formal request and the promise he had just made, the dog demon had probably just won her mother's eternal affection.
"Of course! Now one more question. Where do you see all this going?" Her mother asked.
"I'm not sure what you mean," He began.
"Are you intentions towards my daughter more than just a few dates?" She demanded.
"Yes ma'am. I care for Kagome very, very deeply. My intentions are honest and despite being a male, my intentions are also very pure. I swear to not push anything on Kagome," He responded. Kagome smiled. Push anything on her? Dear god she had kissed his past self, slept in a bed with him last night and all of her own accord and without a second thought!
"That's good. Now ,how do you like your eggs?"
"Over easy," He responded. Kagome smiled. She loved her eggs like that!
"Okay, now, you go sit in the dining room Sesshoumaru. Kagome, could you please wake up your brother and your grandfather? Breakfast is almost ready," Her mother requested. Kagome nodded and left and watched as Sesshoumaru gracefully sat at the table, right next to her spot.
Smiling even bigger, she walked up the stairs and went to her brother's room to wake him up. Groggily he got out of bed.
"Is Sesshoumaru still here?" He asked as he ran a hand through his mussed hair. Kagome nodded and her smile got even bigger.
"What's up with you? You're smiling like Sesshoumaru just asked for your hand in marriage," Souta grumbled as he followed Kagome back down the stairs.
"Almost. He asked mom's permission to go out with me," She said as she practically danced the rest of the way down the stairs. She heard her brother yell something akin to 'I knew it!' as she walked to her grandfather's room and opened the door.
"Grandpa, it's a bright and beautiful day, time to wake up!" Kagome said in a sing song voice as she gently shook him. The old man grumbled as usual and then got out of bed and began to pull his hair into it's usual pony-tail as she left the room.
"Wonder what's got her spirits so high" he grumbled as he began to pull on his normal shrine clothing.
When Kagome arrived back into the dining room, the plates were ready and she took her place next to Sesshoumaru. Smiling, she hummed as she broke open the yolk of the egg and dipped some toast into it. She had picked this up from her aunt who had gone to America and eaten the dish and quickly learned how to make it.
Sesshoumaru did the same while oddly smiling.
"Sesshoumaru, I know mom's a good cook, but they're just eggs. Why are you smiling so big?" Souta asked as eh ate his eggs. He didn't really like eggs, but his mom and Kagome did, so he ate them every once in awhile, but he was seriously contemplating grabbing a bowl of cereal.
"No reason," Sesshoumaru answered as he continued eating. Kagome giggled and quickly finished her eggs. Sesshoumaru was neater(as neat as toast dipped in runny yolk can be at least) and quickly finished as well.
"Sesshoumaru,can I go with you and Kagome to the museum to see you and Shippou spar today?" Souta asked.
"Not today. You have school today don't you?" Sesshoumaru responded.
"But Kagome gets to go," He objected.
"Tomorrow Kagome will be starting independent study Souta, which will be very hard for her. I will be helping her. But I promise by the week's end you will see Shippou and I spar," He told the boy. Souta nodded happily.
Kagome gathered the plates and took them into the kitchen and dumped them into the sink, then walked past everyone up the stairs and into her room. She hoped no one had noticed her blushing. She had just realized she had gone through the past hour in nothing but her oversized tee-shirt and underwear!
Quickly she changed into a pair of jeans and a light green sweater. The weather was rapidly getting warmer. She couldn't wait for the cherry blossom festival at the end of the week. Sesshoumaru wouldn't be angry if she stayed for that. If nothing else, she'd say she had to and he'd probably leave it alone. After all, he understood her obligations much better than Inu Yasha did.
She walked back down the stairs and Souta was gone, presumably to school, and grandpa was in the living room reading the newspaper. Sesshoumaru was already standing, and while Kagome was upstairs he had donned his shirt and socks.
The raven haired girl went over and hugged her smiling mother and kissed her on the cheek.
"Bring Shippou for dinner tonight Kagome, and Sesshoumaru, you're welcome anytime," Mrs. Higurashi said.
"Mama, if I bring Shippou, I'll have to bring three other people," Kagome said. Her mother looked startled.
"I'll come home early and help with dinner, how's that?" Kagome asked. Her mother nodded and looked somewhat pale. Kagome saw the question in her mother's eyes and shook her head.
"I'll explain later mama," Kagome said as she put her shoes on at the door.
They rode the bus to the museum, and Kagome delighted in the contact she and Sesshoumaru shared the entire time. Holding hands, leaning on each other. She didn't bother to question what had changed him so. She didn't think there was a secret soft side to the Sesshoumaru of the past. But he had said five hundred years changes people.
Kagome was aware of disapproving glances from old ladies as they leaned against one another and whispered. Somehow Sesshoumaru knew what she was thinking about.
"Ignore them, they are nothing to us. They have lived long yet do not understand anything," He whispered in her ear. Kagome smiled.
"See how they fidget constantly and glare at us. They are thinking, 'That man is taking advantage of that young girl, he'll spoil her'. And I will, but not in the way they think."
She giggled and responded.
"I'll spoil you too, more than anyone ever has, and you'll never want to go back to that old computer because I'll drag you out and make you eat a snow cone and cotton candy, and I'll make sure you know how good Ben and Jerry's ice cream is. And I'll give you back massages and make you watch sappy romantic films until you like them," She threatened jokingly.
"Oh the horror! Such torture those things represent, unless of course, I do them all with you," He answered. Kagome snuggled into his side as he put his arm around her shoulders and waited for their stop, ignoring the increased whispering of the old women on the bus.
They didn't matter anyways, just like he said.
Blix:Okay, that's got to count for something,another sweet fluffy moment. Sesshoumaru has changed, but remember, it's been 500 years. That might do something to someone. Now, it's going to be a long drawn out story, and it will soon get more Kagome and Past Sess action in it. Just give it time, he won't melt overnight ya know lol. Now onto my wonderful reviewers!
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