The Snow Angel by SunsetMiko

The Instructions

Chapter 138 - The Instructions *Morning Moon* (Stella's Soundtrack Challenge)

The next morning it was decided that Sesshoumaru would take Kagome back to Edo so that she could make the trip home. Knowing that they would not be having sex again until she obtained the 'birth control' she had explained to him made them both eager to get the trip over with quickly. Sango offered to come along. The slayer didn't know the true purpose of Kagome's trip, but she wanted to keep her friend company until she went through the well. Sango also needed to replenish some of the herbs she carried, and Kaede usually had what she was looking for or knew where to find it.

Breakfast was much more comfortable than the previous meals due to the marked absence of one very nasty inu demoness. Everyone chatted, and Kagome shared her plans. Inuyasha and Miroku chose to remain at the palace, neither male minding being waited on in the least. Shippo, of course, had no intention of leaving Rin unless he had to.

Silence fell as the head servant approached Sesshoumaru. She looked distressed, and everyone wanted to hear what she had to say.

"My Lord, your mother," she started.

"What did she do?" Sesshoumaru asked, mild annoyance audible in his tone.

"She destroyed her room during the night, My Lord."

The taiyoukai raised a brow with interest. "Did she now? I will look in on her." Sesshoumaru decided that now was the perfect time to give the staff the instructions on his mother's care, something he had been considering all morning. "For now, she is to be fed twice a day."

"Yes, My Lord," the head servant said with a bow. "But what shall we feed her?"

The taiyoukai's lip quirked up in a smirk. "Whatever scraps remain from breakfast and dinner. Just throw it all into a bowl together. She will also be given a bowl of water to drink. Check occasionally and make sure it is filled when necessary. At this point, she will remain in her room, which is not to be cleaned. She made the mess, she can live with it. She will, however, have to be taken outside to relieve herself. She will be leashed at all times and any mess will be cleaned up."

"Oh, oh!" Inuyasha practically hollered. "Can I be the one to walk the bitch?"

Kagome giggled. "Why in the world would you want to do that?"

"Why would I want to walk the bitch that has treated me like diseased vermin my whole life? Because it would piss her off. To be led around on a leash by the person she hates the most, while she's forced to use the gardens as her bathroom? I'm definitely the one for the job. But I'm not cleaning up after her."

Sesshoumaru chuckled. "As you wish, Inuyasha. You are welcome to be the one to walk her. Perhaps it is best this way. The servants may be uncomfortable doing so, knowing that she was once their Lady."

"Sounds like a plan."

"Just promise me you won't be intentionally cruel to her," Kagome asked softly.

"Aww, now why would I promise that? I'm gonna taunt the bitch every chance I get."

"Inuyasha," the miko said, her tone slightly chastising. "She's already being punished."

"Well, it ain't like I'm gonna be kicking her or anything. Just reminding her of her new station."

"She more than deserves it," Sesshoumaru explained to Kagome. "She treated Inuyasha far worse than she ever did me."

"Worse than the spell?" she asked.

"Far worse."

"Alright, fine. But no hurting her!"

"I ain't a damn monster, Kagome. Sheesh! And you shouldn't give a shit anyway!"

The miko sighed and shook her head. She knew the Lady Mother more than deserved her punishment. Hell, the whole thing had been her idea, but that didn't stop her from feeling a twinge of guilt from time to time about it. Reminding herself how Sesshoumaru had suffered, however, worked well to wash it away, and the knowledge that the Lady Mother had done even worse to her best friend finished it off.