Chapter 35: Happy Birthday, Sesshomaru and Kaori
Kaori woke up and Sesshomaru was fast asleep next to her. She quietly and carefully got away from him and dressed in a see-through top and wore no bra. She wasn't exactly planning to go out that day, so it didn't care. She wore a very mini skirt, making sure she purposely didn't wear anything else. No socks, no panties. Maybe it was uncomfortable, but at least Sesshomaru would have an image in his mind all day while he helped his friend out. She just hoped the friend wasn't female.
She went downstairs and starting brainstorming ideas for food. She decided on omelettes and started cooking them. She heard a yell and a door slam upstairs. She put the omelettes on a plate as Sesshomaru nearly fell into the kitchen.
"Where did you go?" Sesshomaru asked.
"I decided to make you breakfast," Kaori said, getting another helping of omelettes on another plate.
"I don't have the time," he told her, turning away.
"It's omelettes," she said. He paused and was at the table devouring the omelettes before Kaori knew it. She laughed and sat down.
"Are you hungry?" Sesshomaru asked. She laughed but shook her head no.
"Want to know what Kagome was telling me yesterday?" Kaori asked as he devoured his fifth omelette.
"What?" Sesshomaru simply said.
"It's your birthday today," Kaori said and admired how fast he stopped eating. The half-eaten omelette fell from his mouth and luckily hit the plate.
"Mine? How did she find out?" Sesshomaru asked, taking the omelette and devouring it before he put his chopsticks down.
"I don't know, but she just told me," Kaori said. She saw him look down to think, but suddenly looked at her chest.
"Get another, um, shirt on, ok, by the time I return?" Sesshomaru somewhat stuttered, standing. His eyes never left her chest until he completely left the room. Kaori laughed and followed him. He looked at her from the corner of his eyes and watched Kaori pass him.
"Sesshomaru, you really need to be calm. I mean, it is your birthday," Kaori said, walking up the steps. Sesshomaru caught a long and visible look underneath the skirt as she walked up and had to actually pry his eyes from her. He had to get to Kaori's mother's place, he had to get to Kaori's mother's place.
"Kaori, please get, um, changed, completely when I return, all right? I truly don't want you to have to pry me off of you. It will be painful for both of us," he told her, passing her quickly on the stairs.
"I have good news," Kaori told him and saw him pause at the doorway. "I got the pills."
"Great, tell me later," he told her, closing the door. Kaori crossed her arms, but wasn't truly cross. He would get his surprise and he wouldn't know what hit him.
He exited wearing his clothes for the past.
"Returning to the past?" Kaori asked.
He was silent as he passed her. He would not lie to her, but if her to her to truth, she would be furious. He was halted when she grabbed his boa.
"Returning to the past?" Kaori repeated with more force.
"It does not concern you. Remember, it was my secret?" Sesshomaru told her, keeping his eyes from her. One glance and he would most likely never want to leave.
"Ok," Kaori sighed, giving the boa a few pats before she saw him disappear out of the house. She sighed and rested her body on the banister. "Well, he has this one secret and I have mine. I guess it's somewhat fair, I guess."
Kaori smiled and continued upstairs to change. She smiled as she finished putting her hair up. Oh, he truly wouldn't know what hit him.
Sesshomaru headed home around six. Maybe he would get home in time for supper. He skidded to a halt in front of the house. A smell of vanilla was surrounding the house. How was that possible?
Sesshomaru entered and called out for Kaori. He got no answer, but he could tell she was still in the house, even though the smell of vanilla was nearly clogging up his nose.
He saw small candles along the edge of the stairs. The vanilla smell was radiating off of them. Sesshomaru took his boa off and shirt, just to make sure they did not catch fire when he went upstairs. He found a poster on the wall next to the coat hanger.
Sesshomaru, dearest, stay downstairs until I come down. I really want your present a surprise.
A black lipstick mark was at the edge of edge corner of the page. Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow, wondering what Kaori was thinking about. Why must he stay downstairs?
"Kaori, dear, why keep so secretive?" Sesshomaru called out.
Kaori's eyelids seductively opened slowly in her parent's room. She had locked and barricaded the door of the room, just to make sure Sesshomaru didn't enter. She really wanted it a surprise.
"I guess I must listen to her. I hate surprises, though," Sesshomaru said, sitting down on the couch and sighed.
He hit the button to turn the TV on, but it didn't work. The lights also didn't turn on. The only light was from the candles that were still lit on the stairs. He sighed and rested his head on the couch. He heard the door open and lifted his head to see Kaori. But instantly his head buzzed as a strong scent hit his nose, like Kaori in heat. He saw Kaori slowly walk down the stairs, barely seen. The candles barely kept the room lit let alone show what Kaori looked like. He saw her hair was in pigtails and the clothing she was wearing was skin tight, but no details.
"Sesshomaru, you have been a bad boy," Kaori said and Sesshomaru saw her lift her head and look at him. Her usual baby blue eyes look more like dark blue ones. "You need to be punished."
"Kaori? Is that you?" Sesshomaru asked, standing up and looking over at her. She looked so different.
He saw her crack a whip that was in her hand, making one candle blow out.
"I am your mistress," Kaori told him in a tone that told him not to argue or disagree.
"But Kaori-" Sesshomaru started and Sesshomaru felt the whip wrap around his neck.
"I am your mistress. You may talk only when I tell you that you can. Understood?" Kaori said in the same tone. She saw him nod, even in the dark room. "Walk upstairs and stay there until I come."
The whip released around his neck and Sesshomaru looked back at Kaori with wonder. What the hell was this? Was this his present?
As Kaori followed him, she whipped at the candles, each blowing out one at a time. Once Kaori was at the top of the stairs, it was pitch black in the hallway.
"Go," Kaori told Sesshomaru, the handle of the whip poking his back. He turned to go into her room, but felt the whip hit his back. "Our room, dear. It's down the hall. Much more room."
He raised an eyebrow with curiosity and amusement, but was forced to walk forward before he could think anymore.
Once he was pushed inside, Kaori locked the door instantly. When her back was turned, he finally saw the outfit clearly. The moonlight shined through the window onto her. The outfit instantly got him into the mood, causing him to nearly pounce her on the spot.
"Let me think," Kaori said and Sesshomaru saw the extended nails on her fingers, painted black as she put a hand up to her chin. "Your pleasure."
"May I talk-" Sesshomaru started, but heard the whip just barely miss his feet as she whipped it at the floor.
"Silence or I will change my mind," Kaori said, the same demanding tone. "There are rules you must follow, or you shall be injured."
"Is that a threat or promise?" Sesshomaru asked, replaying Kaori's words. Her eyes went wide with shock and Sesshomaru took the chance to take her arm that held the whip and press his body against hers. He heard a nearly unnoticeable grunt by Kaori as the contact surprised her.
"I am the mist... ress," Kaori sighed at the end of the sentence as Sesshomaru licked the side of her face.
"I don't believe you are in charge anymore," he told her. He heard her drop the whip as he kissed her mouth. Releasing her arm, she wrapped her arms around his neck as he held her against the door.
"I just wanted you to have an enjoyable night," Kaori told him.
"I love this outfit," he told her into her ear with a very light whisper.
"I want to use it for another time," Kaori told him.
"Understood," he told her and she yelped as he flipped her so that her back was to Sesshomaru. She felt the claw trail down her back as he unzipped the outfit. She pressed her head against the door, trying her best to remain in control.
"Now, why in this room?" Sesshomaru asked, leaving the outfit as it unzipped but still on.
"More room, I told you," Kaori said nearly into the door.
"More room for what?" Sesshomaru asked. He wanted to know what she was thinking about.
"Fun," Kaori told him, looking behind her shoulder at him.
She saw his eyes nearly glow with amusement and wonder as he said, "Understood."
Kaori didn't even wake up until noon. She rolled out of bed, falling and hit her head against the floor. The sudden sound woke Sesshomaru and he too fell out of bed and hit his head. He laid his head on the bed, looking at the other side to find Kaori doing the same. Both had their eyes half closed.
"Morning," he told her.
"Morning," Kaori told him.
"I never got my present," he told her as a joke, but she didn't smile.
"You thought last night wasn't a present?" Kaori asked, slightly angry.
"I meant it as a joke," he told her.
"Whatever," Kaori said.
"What's the matter?" Sesshomaru asked.
"I'm tired like hell and-" Kaori paused and Sesshomaru saw her cover her mouth and bolt out of the room. Sesshomaru looked with wonder as he heard Kaori barf. Was that good or bad?
"Are you all right?" Sesshomaru asked. It was silent. He repeated himself and heard no answer still. "Kaori?"
He heard a thud and was on his feet in to the bathroom in no time. But Kaori's unconscious body stopped him halfway to the bathroom. He lifted her up and felt a pulse.
"So... hungry," Kaori said quietly. Sesshomaru took her downstairs and placed her on the couch while he got a quick bowl of cereal to her. But with one bite, she was up the stairs, barfing in the bathroom again.
"Are you all right?" Sesshomaru asked.
"I haven't eaten something in so long," Kaori said.
"How long?" Sesshomaru asked.
"I didn't have anything yesterday," Kaori said, wiping her mouth and washing her hands.
"Oh, I'll get you something," he told her.
"Just get a green bottle from the fridge and the box of crackers from the shelf," Kaori told him and followed him downstairs.
He did as he was told and Kaori was taking small nibbles from the crackers and sips from a cup of ginger ale.
"You are not safe not eating so little," he told her, rubbing her shoulder. He kept catching her head falling and lifting as she was falling asleep. "And when was the time you had a good night sleep?"
"I really haven't been sleepy for a while. And these odd dreams don't help," Kaori said, shaking herself awake.
"Odd dreams?" Sesshomaru asked. Kaori never mentioned this. Ever.
"It's nothing, really. I mean, you just went to the past and you didn't say anything was going on, so I didn't really think they mattered," Kaori said.
"I did not return to the past. I preferred to wear those clothes while I was helping your mother yesterday. She had asked me to come over and help," he told her.
"Oh, really? I guess I'll see your results when I go over later, huh?" Kaori asked, a smile showing.
"We are getting off topic. What dreams?" Sesshomaru asked.
"Well, every day, it continues. Like the night before I had a dream about Rin killing everyone in my village and then the next night was when she went after me once everyone else was dead. It was very odd. Like it was actually happening," Kaori said, recapping the dream in her head. "I mean, the screams were so real and blood piercing, it felt like I was actually there with her."
"You need to relax. Nothing like that will happen," Sesshomaru said. "Tomorrow we will return and we will find no death."
"Sure. I love that idea," Kaori said.
"Also, dear," Sesshomaru started and Kaori looked up at him as he kissed her cheek, "happy birthday."
Kaori smiled and sighed. She quickly finished the small snack and dressed, going over to her mom's house. Once he saw Kaori board the bus, seeing that the car wouldn't turn over that morning, Sesshomaru used his super speed to beat Kaori to her mother's house. He surprised Yori, who was waiting for Kaori still and Kaori's mother. He helped with small adjustments to the place, like tapping a banner on the ceiling or getting the cat out of its cage into the living room.
Just as he put the decorated cake into the fridge, the doorbell rang. Sesshomaru waited to hear Kaori's voice before he looked at the front door. Kaori hugged her mother while Yori still hid behind a couch, ready to surprise Kaori.
"Surprise!" Yori yelled and Kaori heard a deep male voice say "Surprise" from the kitchen. Sesshomaru stood at the door, just looking at her.
"When did you get here?" Kaori asked, walking forward. Unfortunately, Cleo wrapped her body around Kaori's feet, and when Kaori tried to walk, she tripped over the cat.
"I got here just recently. Glad I did, clumsy girl," he told her, catching her before her face impacted with the floor. "You wouldn't want to be injured on your birthday, would you?"
"Shut up," Kaori said as she caught her balance and brushed his hands away. "I could have caught myself, for your information."
Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow at her, but was called to Kaori's mother's side.
"Sesshomaru, dear, I need you to help me bring these downstairs," Kaori's mother said, standing in front of a closet on the third floor.
He gave a slight nod and opened the door. Moving out of the way in time, he growled at the falling presents that would have buried him.
"That was not a nice trick," he growled at Kaori's mother.
"Give me a break. It was just a joke. I knew you would get out of the way in time," Kaori's mother said. Under her breath, she added, "Even if you didn't, it would be a funny site for us all."
A hiss was heard upstairs and Sesshomaru carried boxes downstairs.
"Presents!" Kaori screamed.
'Presents? I hold presents? Oh, no. Does that mean-' Sesshomaru was thinking and felt himself falling to the ground. The boxes scattered everywhere and Sesshomaru sat up to Kaori kneeling next to him.
"-ok?" Sesshomaru only heard while digging himself out of the mess of boxes.
"I'm so glad you were worried about-" He started, but Kaori glared at him.
"Are the presents ok, not you," Kaori said.
"-me," Sesshomaru concluded, glaring at Kaori.
"Oh my god!" Kaori screeched. Sesshomaru didn't even get to see what she was so excited about. She bolted out of there, laughing hysterically.
"What the hell is going on here?" Sesshomaru asked, rubbing his head and looking back at the door that just closed upstairs.
"You'll find out soon," Kaori's mother said, a smile on her face. Yori was also smiling.
"Oh my god! I love you mom!" Kaori screamed, coming out.
"It was Yori's idea," Kaori's mother said.
"What are you-" Sesshomaru said and Yori pointed to where Kaori was standing. She stood wearing a silky white nightgown. It was somewhat tight and almost see-through. She twirled around, a strap that held it up falling down her shoulder. She quickly replaced it and laughed. Kaori's mother and Yori laughed as well, but Sesshomaru truly didn't know what was so funny. He just liked Kaori in that nightgown. If only they were at their place, with the candles again and it was nighttimes. He licked his lips and saw Yori and Kaori's mother rush up the steps to Kaori.
"This suits you perfectly!" Kaori's mother exclaimed.
"From the look Sesshomaru's eyes are giving you, I think we should have gotten it a size smaller," Yori said, watching Sesshomaru pass by them with another load of boxes. He was more concentrated on what Kaori was wearing then where he was going and bumped into a wall, the boxes falling again. Growling lowly, he kicked one box and crossed his arms. This was not his day.
"Are you in a bad mood?" Kaori asked, sticking her face under his nose.
"Naw," he said sarcastically. "I kick boxes, growl and cross my arms for fun."
"From what Jaken has told me, you used to," Kaori said, giving him a very brief kiss on the lips before hurrying back to the first load of boxes and looking through them all. He growled at her, but kept it under the hearing range of humans.
It was near the end of the day and Kaori had opened her presents. Some were really useful, like a three-in-one printer/scanner/photocopier, and others were not as useful, like a foot massagers. When she opened the present, Sesshomaru commented that if she wanted a foot-rub, all she had to do was ask. Kaori laughed, but still accepted the gift.
In the end, Kaori turned to Sesshomaru. "Where's your present?"
"You'll find them at home," he told her.
"Them? You got me more than one?" Kaori asked.
"You'll find out," he told her.
She smiled the rest of the day and heard a faint song of "Happy Birthday" coming from her mother and best friend. Sesshomaru didn't know the words, so she didn't exactly expect him to sing. Well, he didn't sing, but she heard him saying the words as well. He was forced to learn the words by Kaori's mother or else (she threatened to find fleas, seeing that they were supposed to be a dog's worst enemy.)
Kaori blew out twenty candles and they cut the cake. Kaori was shocked; it was chocolate cake inside.
"Who chose it?" Kaori asked.
"You tell her or I?" Yori asked Kaori's mother.
"I did," Sesshomaru spoke up, cutting his piece of cake after Kaori.
"Sweet," Kaori said. Sesshomaru looked at Kaori and saw a slight chocolate moustache. He thought she meant the cake. "That was really sweet, Sesshomaru. Thank you."
"I remembered you were arguing about the cake with me for weeks. So, I thought, since it was your birthday, you get your cake. I want my vanilla later," he told her, wrapping his arm around her shoulders.
"I suck at baking-" Kaori started, but Sesshomaru whispered into her ear, shutting her up.
"Not for food, dummy," Sesshomaru said, repeating another set of Kaori's words.
Kaori rolled her eyes and snatched a piece of Sesshomaru's cake and stuffed it into his already full mouth.
"Girls!" Sesshomaru said but it was muffled like crazy and all the girls squealed for him to be quiet when the chocolate cake was seen flying from his mouth.
Kaori was laughing on the bus, recapping all of the events during the night. Sesshomaru was insisted to ride the bus by all except him, but majority won and he was forced onto the bus with Kaori. Keeping a hand on her waist so that she was steady while another held a pole to keep himself steady, he barely got to get close to Kaori. The bus always screeched to a halt almost every two minutes, causing Sesshomaru and Kaori to fall backwards. Once they got themselves balanced again, the bus would halt again, taking them off balance. Sooner or later, they got home.
Kaori dropped the three large bags holding the gifts to the base of the coat hanger. Sesshomaru dropped two of them and sent a surprise lick behind Kaori's ear, sending shivers down her spine and making her knees collapse, sending her to her knees on the floor.
"What... What was that for?" Kaori asked.
"Just got tired of enabling to touch you, that's all," he told her, tossing his shirt on top of her head. "Wait here until I call you, understood?"
Kaori removed his shirt from her face and glared at him as he closed the door of the guestroom. What could be possibly be in there? Only their grandparents stayed in there once, before their wedding. So, what did he have to do with that room? Kaori didn't even think he knew it was there.
Kaori stretched while she looked around. The place didn't look that different then when they left.
"Kaori, come here," Sesshomaru told her. Kaori was curious to Sesshomaru's surprise and gasped with her hand covering her mouth.
"It's... Beautiful!" Kaori said. She felt him hold her waist and rest his head on her head.
"I'm glad you like it," he told her.
He had completely changed the room. What once held a queen bed and two dressers now had a crib, changing table and dresser inside. The room hadn't been repainted, but Kaori didn't seem to care. When did he do this?
"Sesshomaru, how... I mean, when..." Kaori stuttered. He did something so marvellous.
"That day I was human and you and Inuyasha's wench talked, I just quickly did this. Inuyasha stood at the door, watching every move I made and I was ready to kill him instantly..." Sesshomaru said, his teeth gritting. What started out with a sincere and soft voice ended up to end with him growling it.
"Calm down. Anyways, I love it. But don't you know all this stuff is for a baby?" Kaori asked. He smiled sincerely down at her.
"Yes, I know," he told her.
"Sesshomaru-" Kaori started, a look of worry on her face. He placed a clawed finger on her lips.
"No need to talk. I'll explain it to you," he told her, leading her to the couch and taking a breath before he started.
"I've been thinking. I would want a son or daughter with you. I want to so badly start a family with you. I love you Kaori, and it would make me so happy to be able to raise a complete family with you. We could settle down either here or a wonderful place I know in the past. There's all these advance items we can use for the child and with the help of Kaeda, maybe this time it will work out. I know we still have our problems with demons, your powers, Queen Kaori and everything. I still have to decide about Rin and Jaken and I need to kill Naraku. Yes, I know that. But, Kaori, it would make my life so much lovely if we had a child we both raised, risked our lives for and loved. So, what do you say?"
Kaori didn't interrupt Sesshomaru once during his explanation. She was too taken back. He actually wanted to start a family? And this was what she was worried about when she first found that she was pregnant.
"Sesshomaru-" Kaori stopped but was interrupted by Sesshomaru again.
"I made that room to prove to you that I truly want a family with you. I want to learn about your time and have our child know about this time, but with my time as well. I love you, Kaori. Will you accept this offer I'm offering to you," Sesshomaru said, taking her hands into his.
"I don't know Sesshomaru. The problems won't exactly be resolved over night. And a child is huge. But with you making that room, it was so sweet," Kaori said.
"I know. But it's you who will be giving birth to them, and have to stay healthy and safe for nine months," he told her. "I want a positive answer, Kaori. Not just a maybe, because there's no turning back once you are pregnant."
"I know. Sesshomaru, this is huge. I love you too, and of course if I become pregnant, I'll be more careful than last time. But I just don't think I'm ready just yet," Kaori said.
"Hey, I need to show you something," Sesshomaru said, standing up.
"What is it?" Kaori asked, her hands being released by Sesshomaru.
He smirked at her and told her to stay put. He ran up the steps two at a time and disappeared into the room that was next to Kaori's room. It was where the gifts were kept. He returned with a package in hand. He sat down next to her and gave it to her.
"I was barely helped by your mother, but I tried my best," he told her.
Kaori took the present and carefully unwrapped the present. She gasped and just started ripping the wrapping paper off as soon as she saw an edge of the present. Once the paper was thrown off, Kaori nearly smothered her face into the blanket. Her old blanket. But how did Sesshomaru find it? Kaori looked over at him with tears edging her eyes.
"I found it while I helped your mother pack your father's items, since she assumed you would be too busy with the birthday party than to pack and found it in the night table next to his side of the bed. Your mother burst into tears and I barely heard what she had told me what it was. I thought maybe this was what you were looking for that one day, since you suddenly trashed your room after looking at the package of blankets. Do you like?" Sesshomaru asked.
"Sesshomaru... I love it. I love you. And dear, I would love to be the mother of your child!" Kaori said, embracing Sesshomaru with the blanket between them. He smiled and rubbed her back.
"So, dear, I guess my next question will might be my third gift. How about we try tonight?" Sesshomaru asked, rubbing small, slow circles on her back after her sobs stopped.
"Come on, my dog demon, mate, husband and soon-to-be father of my child!" Kaori exclaimed, dropping the blanket on the couch and taking his hands and led him upstairs. He smiled widely as he disappeared into the room. It was dark and quiet most of the night afterwards.