Disclaimer: None of the characters are mine. The situation I put them in is. However, if Takahashi wants to do this, go right ahead. All I ask for is a percentage of the royalties.
A/N: I just find the images in this chapter hysterically funny. I think you'll see why. Plus, it's a realistic view of why Inuyasha lets Mrs. Higurashi fondle his ears. MILF's have all the luck.
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Bribery:
"Do I even want to know how you convinced him to stay here?" Kagome asked her mother rhetorically.
Mrs. Higurashi shook her head gently as she walked up the shrine steps alongside her daughter. "You just need to understand him, dear. He's a nice half dog boy."
Kagome rolled her eyes. "I'm so glad you approve of my fellow time traveler."
"He is so helpful too," Mrs. Higurashi continued, blithely ignoring Kagome's sarcasm.
"I don't think Inuyasha understands helpful," the younger woman said dryly. "I ask him to help all the time and he just sniffs like I suggested he wash his clothes or eat uncooked Ramen."
"Oh my, a sniff that bad?" her mother smiled as they cleared the top of the steps. "It's a goods thing he and I get along so well. I don't have to worry about dangerous things like those sniffs."
Groaning to herself in mild annoyance, Kagome shifted the backpack on the her shoulders. It has been pleasant to meet her mother as she was walking to the shrine after school.
It meant she was still alive after babysitting a fidgety Inuyasha for the day.
To her surprise, Mrs. Higurashi had immediately gone into a lengthy and positive report of Inuyasha's behavior in the Shrine as he waited for Kagome to come home.
"So he was okay?" Kagome asked finally. "I felt bad leaving him here but I can't exactly take him to school with me."
Mrs. Higurashi slid open the door to the house and smiled again. "He was wonderful. I just had to find out what he liked and then gave it to him in exchange for good behavior."
Kagome stopped in the foyer and stared at her mother, one shoe off and one on. "You bribed him?" she asked incredulously.
"More like an exchange of favors," Mrs. Higurashi defended herself.
"How much Ramen did that cost you?" Kagome chuckled, wondering at her sweet mother's sly ingenuity.
"None."
"None?" Kagome's mouth gaped open. "How is that possible?"
"Um…" her mother hedged.
"OI! YOU!" came the familiarly imperious yell from the kitchen. "COME HERE!"
Scowling, Kagome stormed forward, sliding open the door while snapping, "Say my name or just don't talk, dog boy!"
Souta laughed as he looked up. "You have no idea how right you are! Dog boy!" The younger boy cracked up again.
"Wench, I don't care what your name is," Inuyasha scowled. "How long can this 'school' thing take you? I almost died here of old age!"
Kagome stared down at Inuyasha, only hearing the two males faintly. Looking at what was in the half youkai's clawed hands for well over a minute, she blinked but couldn't get a word out.
"Inuyasha?" she asked finally. "What are you eating?"
Snarling, Inuyasha sprang to his feet. "They're mine!" he snapped, holding the box to his chest.
"I…I get that," Kagome answered haltingly. "But why are you eating doggie treats?"
Inuyasha stuffed another bone shaped snack into his mouth and chewed furiously. Knowing full well how disgusting Kagome would find the sight, he stuck his tongue out with partially grinded food on it.
"Inuyasha!" the schoolgirl grimaced in revulsion.
"I'll slice you if you try to take them away!" Inuyasha threatened. "I cleaned the whole god damned yard for these!"
Mrs. Higurashi beamed as she entered the kitchen next to the still gagging Kagome. "He did a wonderful job of it too!"
"See?" Inuyasha obnoxiously said. "I earned them! When was the last time you earned any food, huh?"
"Mama? Can I talk to you for a minute?" Kagome said quietly as she dragged her mother out before the older woman could reply.
"It's not nice to drag your old lady around!" Inuyasha shouted as the shoji door closed.
Kagome stuck her head back in and snapped, "Learn to chew with your mouth closed and then you can lecture me on manners!"
Turning to her unrepentantly grinning mother, Kagome raised her eyebrows. "Doggie treats?"
"It seemed a logical conclusion to me," her mother said innocently.
"It's rude!" Kagome protested.
"Why?"
"Because he's not really a dog, mother!" she said loudly. "He's a dog youkai!"
"Semantics," Mrs. Higurashi said dismissively. "Besides, one bag are a lot more easy to carry around then cups of Ramen," she added.
"I have to explain this to him…," Kagome said, not at all wanting to even think about Inuyasha's reaction.
"I don't see why."
Ignoring her mother, Kagome walked into the kitchen and bravely explained the insult to Inuyasha.
His golden eyes widened and he spit out what was left of his snack. "What the hell?" he shouted, face red. Racing outside, he leapt into a tree and refused to come down.
Kagome, feeling too guilty, left him alone, not using the coercive power of the sit command.
The next day, Inuyasha jumped down as soon as Kagome left. Pushing open the screen door, he gladly picked up the leftover doggie treats. Mrs. Higurashi dried her hands on a dish towel and smiled.
"So it'll be our secret?" she asked. "Chores for doggie snacks?"
Inuyasha nodded silently and popped three of the delicious bones into his mouth. "Don't tell the wench."
"Agreed."
And so it was. Inuyasha helped around the Shrine and Mrs. Higurashi kept a ready supply of his favorite flavor and brand in the back of the pantry closet. Kagome couldn't understand just why Inuyasha tolerated things from her mother that he never allowed from anyone else but accepted it as a boon from the gods.
She was never told that Inuyasha became friends with her mother before her.
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A/N: I hope you liked it! I just can definitely see Inuyasha being so 'mature' and sticking out half-masticated food just to gross out finicky Kagome! Hehe! Review and let me know what you thought!