Based off the line prompt, "Are you jealous?"

"I'm going to marry him." Kagome decided, nodding her head and taking another octopus puff from the bag from where it rested against her bare thigh.

"Which one did you decide on?" Sango asked over her headset, in her own apartment a few miles away doing case work for her precinct.

"The hottest one, of course. And he's super strong with a huge house. I mean, Vlindrel Hall is a little dark and I can't really have an alchemy lab if we add on once we have kids. AND the smithing amenities and Smelter are across town BUT you get four HUGE bookcases and plenty of room for storage. Plus once you upgrade the master bedroom it becomes super luxury. Only the best for my kitten!" Kagome ranted, gesturing with her hand at the screen's menu as her Skyrim character rotated slowly to one side.

"Why do you always choose Khajiit? Is it so you can reference that meme any time you get something you want? Like when you marry your Markarth hubby." Sango laughed, making Kagome laugh as well.

"AH! Yes! Khajiit do has Argis the Bulwark! But this Khajiit isn't looking for sale! " Kagome mimicked the species particular type of speech in the game as she toed a blanket closer to herself and pulled it over her legs.

From the kitchen, Inuyasha curled a lip as he scrubbed the same bowl for the past 10 minutes. Since she had beaten the game, Kagome had been diligently searching for someone to marry in Skyrim. Looking at every eligible bachelor across the map, checking their level cap, what they had to offer her in terms of a home and their fighting style. And most of all, how attractive they where.

He watched as she got out of the character menu and ran towards the Great Hall where the dude she chose was staying.

"Yeah, Yeah, I already completed all the quest from jarl Throngvor Silver-blood and am a Thane. So all I have to do now is buy the house and then he is my personal housecarl and I can wear the amulet and make him my handsome hubby and this can be my dream house as i go complete every side mission!" Kagome cheered, her armored cat-creature climbing the steps to the Great Hall.

"Keh!" Inuyasha huffed, pulling the stopper to the sink drain and rolling his eyes. Every night after work for the past six months, Kagome allowed herself an hour and a half of game time. Weekends and holidays/ sick days were free to play as long as she wanted when she didn't put in as much effort as possible spending time with her friends and him of course.

And he had been perfectly fine with watching her battle it out, starting from the bottom as a nobody on a slave cart to be executed to slaying dragons and cyclops with ease. Usually he finished grading his students papers or even cheered her on.

But as she began this new journey.. searching for a husband.. he got more and more irritated. Need he forget the close call when she considered becoming a werewolf to wed one of the options.

"Find someone you ain't gotta change for. You're perfect just the way you are, ya fuckin' walnut."

Now he sat on their bar stool, his hoodie sleeves rolled above his elbows as he leaned back onto the bar and hair tied into a bun, with a bowl of walnuts in his lap.. ironically enough.. watching as Kagome sat on the low couch and went through all the necessary steps to make this… "Arse" dude her in-game husband.

He couldn't even help his ears flicking in agitation.

Deftly, clawed hands slowly wedged razor like nails in between weak points in the tree-nut's hard exterior and gently pulled the sides apart as if it where the wrapper to a straw. His golden-honey eyes never left Kagome's face and body as she chatted aimlessly with her friend.

How is it that they have been dating for 4 years, and any time marriage is mentioned, she shies away from the topic. But now she hasn't stopped imagining her fake life with a fake character in a fake game for the past hour. He already heard what she wanted to name their kids.

IT WAS INFURIATING.

"There's this girl standing beside me. But you know that you would be my maid of honor, if i did a western style ceremony. So I'm going to pretend she's you. Okay. Annnnnd 'I do. Now and forever.' BOOM. I'm now Mrs. Escargot Pudding the Bulwark! Oh? Okay! I'll see you Thursday after work for dinner. Sleep well!"

Kagome hung up her phone, taking out her earbuds, and continued clicking through dialogue as she giggled to herself. "So handsome! Look at you!"

"'I do. Now and forever.' You serious?! Dude looks like a meatball. He has a face tattoo for fucksake!" Inuyasha growled, tossing one sweat-pants clad leg over the other, bare foot tapping wildly in agitation.

Kagome paused the game and turned her attention to the half demon munching angrily on the meat of one poor walnut, his gaze averted. Her eyebrows seemed determined to lose themselves in her hairline.

"Inuyasha." She asked, her tone slightly amused.

"Are you jealous?"

"Jealous?!" He scoffed, his action so dramatic she was sure his jaw would dislocate. "Why would I be jealous of a dumb ass fuckin' video game! It ain't like that's a real person you're talkin' to. Marry whoeverthefuck ya want. I don't care. Don't bother me none." The man rambled, his chin jutting out in distaste.

Kagome, ever wise to her lover and his mind, saved her progress and turned the game off.

Long, slender legs carried her in front of the pouting man and she stood, hands on her waist, for only a moment before she decided how she wanted to approach this. Her best bet? Sweep his feet right from under him.

She noted the way he still avoided her gaze and rolled up the sleeves of her pea-green sweater, its hem barely coming to the edge of her denim shorts, as she spread her legs to either side of his. Quickly, almost startlingly quick for Kagome's usual movements, one of her hands slapped the wall to the right of Inuyasha's head and the other went behind him to rest on the counter. Making her small yet full frame VERY MUCH in his face in a full kabe-don pose.

"Well in that case, Takahashi-kun." She snickered, licking her lips playfully, a giggle threatening to escape from her throat when his eyes snapped in her direction.

She hadn't used honorifics or any type of formal language with him since she met him in primary school.

" I would like to think that you were perfect marriage material. Was betting on it, actually. But I can't have a husband who lies to me when i ask him a simple question. So i suppose I'll just have to start aaall over-" "You'd actually marry me?" He interrupted, pulling her by the waist as he uncrossed his legs and made room for her between them, his canine ears standing painfully straight. His heart simultaneously feeling like it wasn't beating at all but also like he was running faster than the wind itself.

Kagome looked into his eyes now. All trace of irritation and fussiness gone. They swam with questions and fear, hope and excitement. Their spun gold and honey mixed with amber was alive and searching for anything and everything only she had to give.

For months now, she had been afraid of their future together. Unsure if the past would remain there. If she was truly enough for him. If he actually wanted more than just this cohabitation with her. A family. A life. A marriage.

And strangely enough, watching him get jealous over a video game character answered it all for her. He did want her, but his stupid mouth and brain just didn't know how to communicate it.

"Yeah." She whispered, her hands traveling from their positions on the wall and counter to his immediate body and slowly towards his face, her eyes closing slowly as she couldn't help but smile, her lips brushing against his as he sighed. His chest rose up to meet hers as a clawed hand gently scraped up her neck.

"I do. Now and forever."