He's probably not going to recover from this.

One arm is thrown across his eyes. He won't look at her, long, silver hair strewn wildly about his head from where he lays in his bed, and Kimi laughs so hard she can't breathe.

"Sesshoumaru—"

"No."

The distressed, high-pitched shriek of a female echoes down the hall.

Kimi can't take it. She doubles over, cackling like a mad woman at the sheer shock of the situation. She should be embarrassed. Traumatized. But if she's honest with herself, she has certainly faced worse in her life.

Sesshoumaru, on the other hand, probably has not.

Sinking down to the ground, Kimi clutches at her middle, shoulders shaking with the force of her laughter as Sesshoumaru gives up and shoves his blanket over his face.

He is grown, he is blushing, and he is mortified.

"What is going on here!"

Her mate's heavy footsteps come barging into the room, and Sesshoumaru lets out a sound that is somewhere between a groan and a growl. Kimi keels over, reduced to nothing more than a pile of expensive silks no longer capable of letting out sound.

"Sesshoumaru, Dear One, what—"

He stops.

A keen nose delicately sniffs at the air as the telling scent hits. Eyes widening with understanding, Touga's cheeks tinge red, and he clears his throat.

"Kimi, get out."

Somehow, she manages to scrape herself off the floor and, laughing the entire way, slips out of the room. Once out, she leans against the wall just outside, and wipes at her eyes. Her laughter dies down to quiet giggles as she listens to father and son talk inside.

"Was that General Yoshinaka's daughter I heard screaming down the hall?"

"Yes."

Kimi hears Touga sigh and slaps a hand over her mouth to squash the sudden surge of laughter.

"Get dressed. You're coming with…don't give me that look, Sesshoumaru."

Footsteps begin to approach the door, and Kimi finally manages to school her face just in time for a finally fully dressed Sesshoumaru to blaze out, walking past her without sparing her a glance.

Touga comes barreling out after him. "You will bathe first!"

There's no response, and together they watch their son storm down the hall.

Touga shakes his head. "This is not how I anticipated my afternoon going." He throws Kimi a wry smile when she begins to laugh again. "You are taking this well."

A delicate finger lifts to blot away the moisture under her eyes, and Kimi snickers. "I am taking this the only way I can." A high-pitched choke sticks in the back of her throat, and she once again dissolves into giggles.

"What is amusing you now, Dear One?"

Her tittering dying down, Kimi flashes him a wide smile, sharp, pearl-like fangs glistening as she does. "You should have seen his face."

This time, it's Touga who cannot contain himself.


A/N: Thank you for reading! Just one today! Poor Sesshoumaru, lol. Quick note: there seems to have been some confusion about the pairings in this story. Sesshoumaru and Kagome were tagged for a reason. This, as with all my other work, is not an Inu/Kag fic. Thank you for reading. I hope you enjoyed and constructive reviews are appreciated.