Feudal Christmastime

Chapter 10: Christmas Morning!

DISCLAIMER: Well, really short chappie (sorry guys! I debated over this for a while, but the next one's the present exchange! 11 chapters!) but I still have to put a d/c. I mean disclaimer, not disconnected. Well, I don't own InuYasha or related titles, products or characters.

In the early morning mist, the windows in the kitchen had fogged over completely, except for now it was ice. The scent of the food cooked last night still wafted through the empty, frozen, jubilant air. As the sun hit the frozen crystals on the window, it reflected through them and gave the kitchen the illusion of sparkling. Suddenly, from overhead, a loud thump resounded through the house. It was followed by some incoherent muttering, and followed by more thuds as Kagome ran downstairs, limping slightly.

"Why did I have to do that? Trip on Christmas morning… Ah! Now I'm going to be late!" She hastily grabbed the containers out of the fridge, microwave, and oven. As she piled them on the table, InuYasha walked downstairs rubbing his eyes. He looked around the kitchen after he made it downstairs, and Kagome couldn't help but smile at his bed-headed expression.

"Get a good night's sleep?" Kagome asked as InuYasha shook to wake up.

"Yeah, until the snow came in the window when I tried to go out it to get to your roo--- I mean, well…"

"It snowed? And do you mean you were trying to get outside?" InuYasha nodded and smiled sheepishly as Kagome beamed at him. Trying to sneak to my room again… and it snowed last night! InuYasha picked up most of the packaged food, and Kagome brought out a box with a picnic blanket folded neatly at the bottom and a pan covering a matchbox and some wood stacked neatly. The food was carefully loaded in, with the heated foods on the top and the cold foods on the bottom.

InuYasha lifted the box, and Kagome picked up the ham in its container and followed him out the front door. Thank goodness I dressed for the cold! Kagome thought as she caught her first glimpse of the outdoors. It was covered in a few inches of snow, with the sky being the deepest blue she'd ever seen it, in her time anyway. The sun sparkled from the horizon. The snow probably won't last through today…Kagome thought sadly as she trudged through it following InuYasha's footsteps.

"InuYasha!"

"What?"

"Don't you have any shoes, or something to keep your feet warm?"

"No, why should I?"

"So you don't get hypothermia!"

"Hypo-what?"

Kagome set down the ham on the edge of the well, and dashed back into her house. InuYasha sat there, baffled. He'd never worn any kind of shoes before, why did she think he needed them now? After about five minutes, InuYasha had begun to become more than fidgety, and was pacing, fighting himself to not go and get her. Luckily, she came back only a minute later, after InuYasha was standing at the edge of the snowline. Hey, it did bite some.

"Here, put these on." Kagome hastily shoved some snow-boots into InuYasha's hands, which were thankfully empty; the box was next to the ham on the edge of the well. He stared at the boots dumbfounded, wondering how on earth you would get these off. Kagome wasn't being all that patient, so he slid his foot in. It was warm, but really uncomfortable. He paid no attention, and soon had both boots on. He gave up when it came to the laces, and, although it pained him, asked for Kagome's help. To his horror, she laughed, and began pulling off the boots.

"Wrong feet!" She said simply, before putting one of the boots on the other foot. She stopped somewhere in the middle and gave him the other boot for his other foot. As she laced up the one, which was now far more comfortable, she moved to the other one. As soon as His boots were tied, InuYasha jumped down from where he was sitting and picked up the food once again. He wasn't blushing at all anymore, because Kagome had explained to him that she'd had these problems too. Just out of curiosity, he placed his foot in the snow before coming back in and closing the door. He didn't even feel the ground, much less the snow. He turned around, and couldn't resist smiling at Kagome, although she was probably well aware that boots could do that.

"Just one more thing." Kagome said as she walked over to InuYasha. She bent down and pulled his pants out over the boots. "Much better, for looks, anyway." She said, then walked over to the well. InuYasha joined her, and making sure they hadn't forgot anything, jumped in.

Sorry to make you all imagine InuYasha wearing boots... I think it's cute, but if you don't think so, tell me in the Reviews! I can change it. Also, I have not even started writing chapter 11. I've been under a bit of stress lately, and I think I need a short break… don't worry, I'll have the last chapter up as soon as I find the paper where I wrote what they all got each other!