Breakpoint by UnknownRandomness

Huh?

A/N: This chapter was written for the "He Said What?!" Challenge based on one of my own entries in the 'Things Sesshoumaru Would Never Say' thread. I hope you folks enjoy!

Word Count: 527

It had been a silly joke, that was all. Kagome hadn't intended for it to involve other people... But by jove, she was unimaginably glad that it had.

Recently, Sesshoumaru had been incredibly annoying; mocking her clumsiness, her inability to get up out of bed without sounding like a dying whale and of course, how could she forget his insistence on her changing her shampoo, because apparently the current one smelt like 'disappointment and bad taste'. But the final straw, the last ingredient in the boiling pot of her rapidly evaporating patience had been when the youkai had accused her of being childish. Well, she was - but that didn't give him the right to say it!  

Of course, not being able to let this go, Kagome had started mimicking Sesshoumaru to the best of her ability; turning her nose up at anything that wasn't of the finest quality, insulting the demon (even for things that weren't actually insult-worthy - like the silkiness of his hair) and just generally being a pain in his arse. Looked like he couldn't stand his own reflection, the hypocrite. 

But then the game had changed yesterday, when her lover had clearly had enough of trying to deal with her pretending to be him as himself. So he became her.

It was a little unnerving - but mainly hilarious - to see Sesshoumaru act like an energetic, optimistic, twenty-one year old woman. Except he had clearly been watching too many American sitcoms, because at no point in her life had Kagome ever uttered a phrase even remotely similar to the one that came out of Sesshoumaru's mouth. 

"Jaken, Inuyasha, Hiten, Kouga... you are all invited to my slumber party, and you are all going to paint my claws! Hot pink and lusty red are the only colours for me!"

Silence reigned for a painful eternity in the kitchen before everyone burst into motion all at once. Jaken promptly sqwauked with confused mortification, Inuyasha dropped the ramen he had been about to vacuum up into the sink, Hiten pumped his fist in the air and whooped whilst Kouga choked on the chip he had just eaten. And Kagome?

Kagome laughed. And laughed. She laughed until tears were streaming down her ruddy cheeks, her hands clutching her aching midriff as her starved gasps for oxygen broke through the joyous noise that jumped from her throat to fill the room. The others all looked at her with varying degrees of alarm as she slapped her thighs. Inuyasha even stopped trying to salvage his ruined noodles in favour of staring at her with obvious worry. 

Eventually, the smiling woman managed to stop giggling for long enough to wipe her eyes and look at Sesshoumaru fondly. His golden eyes were wide and she couldn't help but blurt out,

"I think baby blue would look better actually."

The collected youkai looked at one another, unbelievably confused, as Kagome snorted, before once more breaking down into helpless laughter. 

After the gang had left (without taking up the inuyoukai's offer of a sleepover), Sesshoumaru immediately stopped emulating Kagome and she stopped imitating him. It had just been far too weird for either of them.