Any ways, thank you all for the reviews, I have decided to add the honeymoons, however it kind of goes against the title. So if you guys want me to change it I will, if not, then I won't. Oh and a thousand apologies for the repeating sentence in the last chapter. I had a little cutting and pasting problem, however it has been fixed. Oh and a thousand apologies for the so long update, I had a small writers block.
Winter Wonderland
Chapter Thirty-Six
Inu-Yasha growled and attempted to reach up and take the stupid red hat off his hat, but his hand was suddenly smacked.
"Damn it monk! This thing is hurting my ears!" growled Inu-Yasha, low enough so that no one else could hear.
"Just bear with it a little longer Inu-Yasha,"
Inu-Yasha just growled again and crossed his arms. Miroku sighed, and shook his head before looking up to see where Sesshoumaru and Rin had gotten too. A girl's laugh caught his attention, causing him to turn around. Rin was watching something on a big black box, and he could just see the top of Sesshoumaru's head behind the big box, probably trying to figure out how the thing worked. Turning his head to the left he could see Kagome and Sango looking at the different types of fruit to bring along for the honeymoon, which was why they were here in the first place. Tomorrow they would be heading back to the feudal era for the trip to the ocean. Sesshoumaru had offered them a private carriage, which had surprised the hell out of everyone, but they were starting to get used to the lord of the western lands acting like this. Kagome had convinced everyone to come shopping with her to get supplies. She had mentioned 'swem soots' and towels, and other beach stuff to bring along. Kaede had offered to look over Shippo, Kohaku, and Kirara while they were away for the three weeks. Inu-Yasha hadn't been in a good since this morning when Sota ate all his honey nut Cheerio's.
"How much longer are we going to be?" growled Inu-Yasha.
"Patients friend, Kagome has bought you more . . ."
"That's not what I'm mad about!"
Miroku cocked an eyebrow up, "Then what is it?"
"Eri and Yuka are somewhere here in the mall,"
The monk looked around the are they were in, which was between something called 'Elektroonics, and Grossery', "You sure?"
"I can smell them monk,"
"Well just ignore them, with Sesshoumaru here they won't try anything,"
Inu-Yasha just growled louder, his head turning in every which direction. Sesshoumaru came walking back to them with Rin walking by his side, "Are we almost finished, I smell those two bitches in here, and I'm sure they would regret running into me,"
Miroku chuckled lightly and went to see if Kagome and Sango were done yet. Sesshoumaru glanced at his brother, "I take it you smell them too,"
Inu-Yasha just nodded, keeping his eyes down.
Rin noticed that the big box thing was playing something very colorful and went over to take a look with out Sesshoumaru noticing. She reached out hesitantly to touch the bigger black box thing with her clawed hand. Rin looked around the box to still see Sesshoumaru chatting with his brother, so she couldn't to study the strange thing.
"Did you see Kagome? She's with her strange friends again,"
"I know Eri, thank god the Sesshoumaru isn't with them, or I'd be terrified,"
Rin looked up to see two girls walking towards her, she sort of recognized them, but couldn't tell where from.
Eri was about to make another comment, but the girl in front of the tv caught her attention, "Why hello there, I really like your long hair,"
Rin just looked at them before answering, "Um . . . thank you,"
Yuka ran her hair through the girl's hair, "It's so nice and soft, I take you have never had your hair cut,"
Rin nodded, "Nope, never had my hair cut,"
Eri was about to feel her hair, but a rather large shadow was being cast on them. Slowly turning around, both girls squeaked and backed away from Rin.
"Rin,"
The girl demon went to Sesshoumaru's side, "Yes Sesshoumaru?"
"You know this monster?" asked Eri.
"Rin, go to Inu-Yasha and the others,"
Rin looked up at the lord, before turning and running to the others.
"Do I have to ask what you were doing with her?"
"We were just talking to the brat, we did nothing," squeaked Eri.
Sesshoumaru's eyes narrowed, "That 'brat' happens to be my future mate,"
Eri and Yuka's eyes widened, "What the hell did you say?"
"That child is your future wife? What kind of sicko are you? Planning to marry a twelve year old? You could get arrested for that! That is just wrong," screeched Yuka
Sesshoumaru's eyes narrowed more, and slowly started to turn red, which caused Eri and Yuka to almost scream, "What did you say?"
The two girls finally screamed and ran off.
Sesshoumaru growled softly and turned around, heading back to the car.
"Hey Sesshoumaru what's botherin . . ." but the half demon didn't get to finish when he noticed the red eyes and shut himself up.
Everyone else didn't say a word as they followed after the lord of the western lands.
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Sesshoumaru was in his usual spot every night, sitting on the steps watching the cars go by, and was doing his usual thinking. Rin watched him from Kagome's window and sighed, "Something's bothering him,"
Kagome looked where Rin was staring and nodded, "I have a feeling Yuka and Eri must have said something to him,"
Sango nodded and continued to pet Kirara who was sitting in her lap.
Sighing Rin took a seat on Kagome's bed, "Kagome?"
"Yes Rin?"
"What does, 'mates' really mean?" asked Rin.
Kagome glanced at Sango, "Why do you ask?"
"Sesshoumaru asked me if I knew what it meant, then he asked if I would like to stay with him forever, that's when he turned me into a demon,"
Kagome took as seat at her desk so she could face Rin, "So basically he was asking you to become his mate?"
"I don't know . . ." Rin started to blush, "I don't really know anything about this relationship thing,"
Sango looked up and glanced at Kagome, "So I guess she's never had the talk,"
"I guess not, I had it almost around her age,"
"Well, since Sesshoumaru isn't likely to tell her, I guess it's up to us,"
"What's 'the talk'? asked Rin.
Kagome giggled slightly, before making sure the door was closed, "Alright Rin, It's about time you discovered a little bit about the birds and bee's,"
Sango and Kagome didn't really know where to start, so they decided to grab Mrs. Higurashi since she had been through this sort of thing before. As Rin listened, she was blushing like crazy the whole time, but paid very close attention.
"So, Sesshoumaru is waiting for you to become older so you can become his mate. He loves you Rin. You may not understand what love really is for a while, but you must know that he cares for you. He has told Inu-Yasha, who told me, that the spell keeping you demon won't last forever, since you might fall in love with a human when your older,"
Rin nodded, still taking in all what they had said, "So . . . Sesshoumaru cares for me . . . but why is he so sad?"
Kagome answered this question, "Well the two girls you were talking to said some meant things to him, and I believe he's starting to regret his decision about turning you into a demon,"
"But I like being a demon,"
"I know Rin, but he thinks what he did was wrong since you are so young and are just understanding the concept behind being mates with someone,"
Rin, stood up and walked out of the door before anyone could say a word.
"Did we say something wrong?" asked Sango.
Mrs. Higurashi giggled slightly, "No, she's fine. I think she just went to discuss the matter with Sesshy. Say, anyone up for a game of Clue? I'm sure Inu-Yasha will keep trying to convince us it was Curnal Mustard, in the Dinning Room with the candle stick,"
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Sesshoumaru could hear the front door opening, and the scent of lilies filling his sensitive nose.
"Sesshoumaru?"
The lord did not turn around when he hear Rin's voice, just kept his eyes on the cars. Rin sighed and took a seat beside him, shivering slightly as she tightened her jacket around her, "Are you okay?"
Sesshoumaru just glanced at the girl and nodded his head.
Rin narrowed her eyes, "Oh please, how long do you think I've been with you? I can tell something's troubling you,"
This caused the lord to look at the girl straight in the eye, trying to not show how surprised he was by her comment. Shaking his head, he returned his gaze to its original spot.
"Is this about me being your future mate?"
For the first time ever, the great lord of the western lands almost swallowed his tongue. Sesshoumaru turned his head to look into the young girls eyes.
"I had a talk with Kagome, Sango, and Mrs. Higurashi,"
"I see,"
"They told me what 'mates' is really about, and some other stuff,"
The lord just nodded, wondering what she was getting at.
"Kagome told me those two girls might of said something back at that place we were at to you . . . and that you regret turning me into a demon,"
"Rin . . . if you don't want to be a demon anymore, I can remove the spell if you like,"
"But I like being a demon! And . . . they told me why you turned me into one . . ."
"Rin . . ."
"Sesshoumaru I don't really know what love is, and I can't say that I love you,"
Sesshoumaru was silent.
"However . . . I'm willing to stay with you, and find out if I do love you," whispered Rin, scooting closer to the lord.
Unknown to the two, Inu-Yasha was watching them from the branches of the god tree. The next move Sesshoumaru almost caused Inu-Yasha to fall out of his tree. Wrapping an arm around Rin, Sesshoumaru pulled the girl into his lap, resting his chin on top of her head. No words needed to be said between the two as they watched the cars pass by.
"Inu-Yasha! Sesshoumaru! Rin! You guys want a game of Clue?" called Mrs. Higurashi.
Before Inu-Yasha could answer, Sesshoumaru suddenly appeared in front of the half demon, causing him to finally fall out of the tree.
"Ever heard of privacy dear brother?"
Inu-Yasha picked himself up, and muttered 'feh' while heading into the house with Sesshoumaru and Rin at his heels.
"Oh there you guys are. Come in a play, and maybe Inu-Yasha might actually win a game,"
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The sun beamed down on the ocean waters, causing it to sparkle like jewels. No snow was left in the sand, or anywhere else left in Japan. Spring was finally here.
Kagome couldn't believe what she saw in front of her. Two large houses, which she had only seen in magazines on the beach. They were quite a distance from each other, and were almost the size of Kagome's house.
"Where on earth did these come from?" asked Kagome, almost dropping her luggage into the sand.
"Sesshoumaru had his servants build them," said Inu-Yasha, not seeming as surprised as Kagome.
"What? But they look so modern," said Kagome, noticing that Miroku and Sango were just as speechless as her.
"He told me he was doing some reading in one of you thin books and saw it. So instead of us staying in a flimsy hut, he had these built for us,"
"Uh . . . what if someone sees this?"
"Don't worry, Sesshoumaru has put a barrier up so we'll be completely alone for three full weeks,"
Finally Kagome headed into the house on the left, while Miroku and Sango went to the house on the right. Inu-Yasha examined the house while Kagome put their clothes in the closet. It was quite similar to Kagome's house, however there was a fire stove for cooking, and one bedroom up stairs with a balcony that over looked the ocean. Kagome was quite speechless that Sesshoumaru would do such a thing for them.
"He told me this was our wedding gift from him,"
Kagome nodded and stood beside Inu-Yasha who was on the balcony, "Just beautiful,"
Inu-Yasha smiled and kissed her temple, "Yeah, and here I though he hated modern buildings,"
"Well, maybe we wanted to make us more comfortable,"
"Shall we take a look at Sango and Miroku's?"
Smiling, the two walked hand in hand over to their friend's house, which turned out to be exactly the same. The two couples unloaded their luggage, and decided to just have a relaxing day, and would go swimming tomorrow.
Before anyone knew it, the sun was setting and it was dark. Kagome was almost finished cooking as Inu-Yasha waited patiently at the table.
"So I don't get it, what are we supposed to do out here for three weeks?" asked Inu-Yasha.
"Plenty silly! Why do you think I brought so much stuff? We can play volleyball, badminton; I brought some frisbies, kites, and the two canoes,"
"Speaking of which, they were a pain in the ass to pack," growled Inu-Yasha.
Kagome only smiled and brought the bowl of ramen over to her husband, "Say . . . I was thinking,"
"Do I dare ask what?"
"What would you think about spending Christmas at my time again . . . at the cabin?"
"Sounds fun to me,"
"Yes, but I was wondering if Miroku, Sango, Sesshoumaru, and Rin could come with us,"
"You mean . . . bring everyone?"
"Yeah, I mean we can all go skiing, ski doing, skating . . . we'll all have a blast!"
"You do realize Sesshoumaru and I will get into the biggest snowball fight ever?"
"Which will probably last for two days straight, but it will be fun!"
Inu-Yasha just smiled, and pulled Kagome into his lap, "You do realize though, that our pup will be born by then, and Sango's will be on the way,"
"Hmm, I found out I was pregnant in February, so . . . around November our child will be born, so Sango's will be born around December,"
"Which prevails a problem if Sango goes into labor at the cabin,"
"It won't be that bad. There's a hospital near by, we'll be fine,"
Inu-Yasha was about to protest, but Kagome placed a finger over his lips.
"Oh shut up and eat your ramen,"
Inu-Yasha only chuckled and released his wife before digging into his supper. Kagome just shook her head, "Blow out the candles before you come to bed,"
The half demon said something, but Kagome couldn't make it out since his mouth was full. Kagome headed to their room and changed into her night gown before slipping into the futon, and blowing out the candle. A half hour later Inu-Yasha finally came to bed and crawled in beside his wife, snuggling his face into her midnight hair.
"Hello there," giggled Kagome.
Inu-Yasha just growled and held her tighter, "Good night, Kagome,"
"Good night Inu-Yasha,"
TBC . . .
Sorry sorry sorry for the so long update, I was busy busy busy! Anyway, just review!
Lynns