Dearly Beloved by Aviel
Day Off
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A/N: I hope y’all missed me! I’ll be catching up with a bunch of missed prompts, so expect a trickle of `em soon. ;) Happy reading! Update 1 of 7.
Chapter 69: Day Off
“You want me to stay home for this?” Sesshoumaru declared, eyebrows shooting up to his hairline. Kagome merely patted the space next to her on the floor, giving him a sly look as he stared at her.
“Don’t pretend that you’d rather be working than be here with me.”
In the time that he had been in the shower, his lovely wife had built a fort out of a ridiculous amount of their pillows. Blankets of various sizes and colors were draped around the living room, where the grinning woman sat at the center of it all. An array of snacks and junk food was scattered around her legs as she reclined almost lazily against the fur pelt that was his mokomoko. He was surprised to see it wrapped around her, as if it was the most natural thing in the world.
Seeing her there, happy and so at ease, had reminded him of that winter they had spent as children, snuggling together while sipping mugs of hot chocolate. The sudden feeling of nostalgia overwhelmed him–pained him–and he didn’t know why. He was supposed to be in good spirits as she was, wasn’t he? He tried to get the feeling to rise, but it wouldn’t come. Though he had found a tiny spark in his chest, it wasn’t the burning flame that he had wanted. Vaguely disoriented with a creeping sense of alarm, he decided it was something he would mull over later. He still had a waiting female to take care of, after all.
“I will stay,” he said, voice thankfully steady, belying none of his inner turmoil.
“Perfect!” Kagome chirped. “Inuyasha will be relieved.”
“He is covering for me?” Sesshoumaru asked, understanding dawning in his eyes. “You… set this up?”
“Duh!”
Sesshoumaru ran a hand through his hair and let out a sigh, assuming that she was trying to cheer him up from their last encounter with his mother. “Troublesome…”
Kagome frowned. “You’d better mean that in a good way.”
“Of course,” he answered, finally moving to sit beside her. He pointedly eyed the tub of ice cream in her lap with interest. “I sincerely hope you are not planning to eat that by yourself.”
“Very funny.” His wife snorted and handed him a spoon. “I’m not the one with the sweet tooth.”
“Hn.”
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Original Posting Date: February 16, 2013
Prompt: For Riku Ryuu’s Random Prompts, Ice Cream
Words: 400