"Going to Kyoto isn't really much of a vacation…" Kei chimed as he stared out the window of the train; his tone reiterating his disappointment for not going somewhere more exotic. He'd been passively complaining since they'd left home and while Kagome was thankful that he wasn't being excessively childish and throwing a tantrum; his father was growing tired of it.
Sharp eyes turned down to the boy whom had deliberately sat apart from the rest of the family and Kagome watched quietly as the demon lord moved across the aisle to sit beside him. Seishiro and Kasumi were silent, Seishiro settled into Kagome's lap and Kasumi holding her mother's hand as she sat beside her; all eyes were on the father and son across from them.
Kei didn't look up to his sire as he settled beside him, instead keeping a firm look out the window at the scenery that was passing by in a blur of color. His father's voice did not raise, it was just barely loud enough to be heard clearly above the rattling of the train. But the tone of it was chilling and Kagome knew that after 500 years, he'd not laxed in his commanding air.
"You are acting like a child…" Still Kei did not look up, he was stubborn just like his mother. Instead he retorted in a tone just as soft as his father's, though it held less of a commanding air; after all, he wasn't the alpha male in this pack.
"I am a child." Clawed fingers wrapped in a deceptively gentle hold on the boy's chin and turned it up to look at him. Though his face was placid to any other that looked on, Kagome could see the anger seething in that molten gold gaze and from the way Kei's eyes widened, so could he.
"You are far from such, act your age." Kei's dark brows drew down over golden orbs that so reflected his father's before he wrenched his jaw from his father's grasp.
"I just didn't want to go to stupid Kyoto" He snapped, returning his gaze out the window. Sesshomaru's eyes closed and a deep breath was taken and Kagome knew that there was going to be no pleading for her son's sake. As those eyes reopened and he stood, the demon lord's tone was remorseless.
"Your mother explained to you that we can't afford to leave the country like you wanted to. Until you learn your place and the value of money, your allowance is revoked." That caught the hanyou's attention and his gaze snapped back to his father; any other child might have protested, but the harsh look that the demon lord was giving his son was enough to silence him. Instead he turned his gaze imploringly to his mother who was not swayed to intervene. The punishment fit the wrong-doing and so Kagome said nothing to rebut her husband as he sat beside her once more.
The rest of the train ride was observed in silence.