hey guys, looks like we're about to get hit by Hurricane Irma sometime next week. I'll try to post another update before then but things are about to get a bit crazy here*
The next morning Kagome was surprised to see Sesshomaru waiting outside the hut, a fire already started in the fire pit outside.
"Good morning Lord Sesshomaru! Will you be joining us for breakfast this morning?" She asked brightly, setting down her cooking utensils. It was not unusual for Sesshomaru to join them for meals every so often while Rin was visiting the village, though it was still a rare occasion. He normally tried to keep his distance from the large group, preferring to watch their interactions from afar.
"Hn" was his only answer as he held out a basket filled with two dozen eggs. Kagome's eyes lit up.
"Thank you!" She smiled brightly at him as she set a flat pan over one side of the fire "Now if only we had a bit of bacon. Oh and pancakes! That sounds so good!" she mumbled to herself as she started chopping up veggies to put in the omelets she was making. As she was pouring the eggs onto the now warmed up pan a hand shot into her view holding a large cloth wrapped around what she thought was meat. She took the package and opened it in her lap to find a slab of thinly sliced bacon.
"This Sesshomaru did not know what the 'bacon' you referred to was but the woman at the market seems to be familiar with your odd requests. Although I had no luck with the "pancakes" you spoke of" Kagome blinked up at him, dumbfounded. Did that sentence really come from his mouth? Kagome wasn't sure she'd heard him speak that much outside of his lectures, and that was 500 years in the future.
"Well, thank you again. You've been a big help this morning!" He nodded his head at her and gracefully sat down on one of the logs situated around the fire pit and watched her as she flitted from pan to pan, flipping omelets and bacon, and grilling various vegetables preparing a breakfast large enough to feed her large group of friends. Finally, just as she was sliding the last of the prepared food onto plates her group started filing out of a few of the large tents Kagome had set up around them.
"Is that food I smell?" a loud voice yelled from inside the tent that Miroku and Shippo had come out of just moments before.
"What else would it be, brother?" Sesshomaru's deep, cold voice, questioned sarcastically, the word 'brother' laced with malice. He did not raise his voice knowing full well that his brother had heard every word that had been said since he had arrived this morning. Inuyasha came out of the tent huffing at the demon lord. Kagome's eyes widened as he walked right past his brother without a single word, leaping into the nearest tree and getting comfortable on one of the branches nearest to them.
"Inuuuyaaasha!" Kagome sang as she stood underneath his branch waving around a large plate of food "Come join us for breakfast!"
"Keh. Not while that asshole's sitting over there" He responded, folding his arms and turning away like a petulant child. 'And there's the fight I was waiting for' she thought to herself frowning up at the stubborn hanyou.
"Inuyasha" His ears pricked up at the warning in her tone.
"No, wait, don-"
"Sit boy." The crash drew everyone's attention, despite how often it occurred. They all watched as he picked himself up out of the dirt, waiting for his outburst and the eventual following sit commands, but today none of it came. He stayed laying in the dirt, rolling over onto his back to look up at Kagome.
"It wouldn't kill you to be a little nicer, you know" Kagome admonished, putting her hand out to help him up. To her surprise, he actually took her hand.
"It wouldn't kill ya to not be such a wench, ya know" he replied, like a snotty five-year-old, taking the plate of food from her hands and stalking away to sit next to Miroku. Kagome sighed lightly and moved across the fire to sit beside Rin and Shippo to finish her own meal, absentmindedly answering the children when they asked questions, but mostly watching those around her. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw as Sesshomaru put on large hand gently on top of Rin's head. Rin beamed up at him lovingly coaxing out the most gentle expression Kagome had ever seen on Sesshomaru's face. She blinked as their eyes met and she turned her head sharply, feeling her cheeks heat up slightly. She hadn't meant to stare and she certainly hadn't meant to be caught staring! Her eyes landed on Sango who was watching her interaction with Sesshomaru, a slightly amused expression on her face. Kagome felt her cheeks get even hotter at being caught by not one, but two people. She couldn't help but say a silent thank you to whatever god had Inuyasha distracted at the moment.