The smile she gave him was reassuring, a balm to his wound-up nerves, and Kagome felt him relax.
"I did not want to assume," he said, leaning back against the cave wall. "She is uncooperative at the best of times."
"This is nothing," Kagome grinned, "you should've seen the tantrums my brother used to throw. The mess he made was way worse than this."
The ribbon in her hair seemed to keep Inukimi distracted during her bath, but Kagome could tell that the female youkai did not like being confined. The garden had been in disarray, but the gauges in the ground showed a fit of anger and frustration that went beyond a simple outburst.