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Kagome finds herself staring at pristine white walls.
Intuitively, she knows they shouldn't be white; she'd never liked having white painted walls. But what color should they be then...?
She blinks and finds Buyo looking at her as he stretches out on her chest, a cheerful meow on his lips as he paws at her nose. "Good morning, Buyo," she says, patting his head as she finally realizes what was missing.
The circus tent is gone.
"Silly me," she tells herself, remembering that Sesshomaru must have taken the tent out for dry cleaning. Today is Tuesday after all.
She gets up and decides to hunt down her mate, but instead finds InuYasha and Koga in the middle of her living room, each dressed in matching bright blue kimonos decorated with dozens of pink spotted miniature horses.
"I'm leaving you," Koga says, folding his arms across his chest as he turns away from InuYasha.
"The fuck you are," InuYasha growls, brandishing his blade and swinging it around. "I didn't put out my ass here for nothing."
Koga growls and tries to push past InuYasha. "I found a far more worthy male." He glances out their open front door to where Kagome's mate is lingering in the gardens, evidently intent on practicing his swordsmanship.
Koga makes a move towards Sesshomaru and Kagome isn't sure who is more appalled: InuYasha or Kagome herself.
"Hey!" she snaps, glowering at the two of them. "Keep your hands off my mate!"
From out of nowhere, Rin suddenly appears in the doorway, holding a huge light saber and riding an enormous white furred armchair as she charges at InuYasha, screaming, "For my lord!"
Behind Rin comes an army of overgrown brown chickens that trample everything in their path, screeching as they pecked at anyone or anything not moving quickly enough out of their way. The house quickly begins to shake as though it has been caught in the middle of a huge earthquake.
The armchair bellows its own rage, sounding suspiciously like Jaken as it crows, "For my looooooooord!"
Pandemonium ensues. The armchair begins chewing on Koga's ponytail, Rin and InuYasha suddenly begin attacking each other with large pixie sticks, and Sesshomaru watches it all from the sidelines wearing a ringmaster outfit.
Buyo suddenly wanders into the fray, growing in size until he's able to sit neatly on everyone involved. And then, as they struggle to free themselves, Buyo begins to purr, shaking what remains of the house frame.
In mere moments, they are all standing in the middle of her demolished home, Buyo back to his normal size as he casually begins licking one hind leg.
Kagome stares in horror. Where will they live? Her children will now be homeless, cold, and alone, especially if Sesshomaru had any intentions of taking Koga up on the offers he was currently making with his eyes. She rubs her hands over her suddenly swollen stomach as anxiety settles within her breast. How is she going to be able to raise their children all on her own?
She suddenly wishes Koga had a leash so she could jerk him back and away from her mate like the bad puppy he is.
"I have a long tongue," Koga says, pressing a clawed hand to Sesshomaru's bare chest. Without Kagome even realizing it, Sesshomaru has stripped down to his fundoshi and Koga begins to run his hands sensually along the top of the cloth. "Would you care to see how well I know how to use it?"
Kagome doesn't even stop to think. She simply takes one of the large pixie stick tubes from InuYasha's hands and begins whacking Koga over the head with it. "Back off!" she hisses, smacking Koga again.
Koga doesn't even flinch from the blow as he sticks out his tongue for Sesshomaru to see.
Not to be outdone, InuYasha pulls out a glittering golden bra and begins to sling it around like a belt to pelt Koga with.
"Hey that's mine!" Rin tries unsuccessfully to grab the bra out of InuYasha's hands as Koga tries to cover his head from the combined fury of InuYasha's and Kagome's blows.
Kagome reaches out to pull Sesshomaru closer to her, trying to protectively shove her mate behind her back. InuYasha tries to do the same with Koga, only for Koga to continue trying to circle pass his own partner to grab at Kagome's. Rin, meanwhile, strains to retrieve her bra. When she finally manages to get her hands on it, it rips, and rainbow glitter explodes everywhere, coating everyone involved from head to toe in the sparkly substance.
"Well I'm not cleaning that up," Kagome grumbles, momentarily distracted by the mess.
Buyo and the armchair keep a careful eye on things, each now wielding twin copies of Tessaiga as they stand to the sidelines like some sort of referee, as Koga tries to lean in to kiss Sesshomaru—
And then the scene shifts. Instead of being in the ruined remains of her house, Kagome finds herself standing in the middle of a hot spring, up to her neck in the water as her entire body is suffused in heat. It's so hot she can't think, can't breathe, and struggles to keep her head above the water—
Suddenly, her entire body shivers, freezing, and she jolts to find Sesshomaru placing a cold cloth on her forehead, another already stretched over her bare chest.
"Shh." His voice is gentle as he presses a hand to her chest to keep her from sitting up on the futon. "How are you feeling, Kagome? It appears as though the fever might have finally broken."
She blinks, trying to take in the change in scenery as much as the illness she can feel swamping her body. Gone are the white walls, the chair, and InuYasha and the others. In its place is Sesshomaru's own personal room, one she'd slowly begun moving into now that they are courting.
"Sick," she manages, her voice croaking as she tries to speak past her sore throat. "How long have I...?"
"A few hours." He reaches for a glass of water and slowly lifts her head so she can sip from it. "I was unaware how ill you were until you began coughing in the middle of the night." He'd always been a light sleeper and she suspects she must have waken him up with her coughing at some point.
She glances around and sees evidence that he's been at her bedside all night. There's several bowls of water, multiple clothes wrung out, and a collection of herbs Kagome had been sure to set aside just before flu season had begun.
"Oh." She winces as she begins to cough haggardly.
"You must rest." He bends to press a soft kiss to her brow. "Your body still needs to recover, mate. I will be here if you need anything."
"Okay." She smiles in spite of her illness with relief and mutters, "It was just a dream."
He gives her a curious look but her eyelids begin to droop before he can ask what she means.
This time, when she dozes off, her dreams are of Sesshomaru singing softly to her as he cradles her body close and rocks her slowly back to sleep.