Trials of Family by dirty.dishes

Of Paint and Parents

"Sesshoumaru."

He grunted slightly in response to his fiancé; not looking up from the proposal he was reading over for tomorrow's meeting.

Kagome glowered at Sesshoumaru, she understood that he had to take business home, but really, was it too much to ask that he at least respond with words? Hell, just a 'yes' would have sufficed. Grinning evilly when a thought struck her Kagome stalked her way to the lounge chair and sprawled in it. She sighed heavily, and, when she knew she had even his slightest attention, Kagome undid the top two buttons of the men's dress shirt she was wearing and sighed dramatically at the paint on her shirt and skin.

"Oh dear, whatever shall I do, I seem to have gotten all dirty...if only my fiancé were here...I'm sure he would know what to do..."

Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes at her words, not only did they sound like something out of a play, but Kagome saying 'whatever shall I do' was just unimaginable. Still, he found his attention riveted to her brightly painted skin. His thoughts went to the large shower in his bathroom and the last time he had 'helped' her with cleaning up.

Sesshoumaru nearly growled out loud when he caught the smirk on her face that clearly said she had won. Really, it was embarrassing how such a top ranking business man was so often beaten by a floundering artist. Still, Sesshoumaru thought with a vicious smirk, that didn't mean he wouldn't enjoy cleaning the winner up.

"Sesshoumaru!"

At Kagome's exasperated voice Sesshoumaru surfaced enough to realize that his glazed eyes had given him away.

"Yes?"

Kagome sighed and straightened in the black chair slightly.

"I was thinking that we should meet each other's families. I mean, we've been engaged for almost a week now, and I know we both wanted to keep our relationship away from our families for privacy but now it's serious and I just..." Kagome trailed off, looking at Sesshoumaru hopefully.

Sesshoumaru sighed as he looked at his raven-haired lover. Really, she was far too innocent sometimes. She probably expected that everyone would be overjoyed for them when they suddenly turned up engaged. It certainly wouldn't be the case with his family...and, considering the way she had told him her family had reacted to her choice of...career...Sesshoumaru doubted his flighty fiancé would get the reaction from her family she was hoping for.

"Kagome...I know you think this is a good idea but...can't it wait until next month some time? At least then we can have some strategic planning."

Kagome gasped in mock horror.

"Strategic planning? Really Sesshoumaru, you'd think a big tough business man like yourself wouldn't overreact like this. Besides, I thought...well, since you said you're going over to your parent's house for dinner tomorrow I thought that that would be a good time. Well?"

Sesshoumaru didn't know whether to keep Kagome locked away in a padded room so that she would remain that naïve forever or if he should introduce her to the real world. The way she looked so hopeful had him wanting to give in, but he couldn't for several reasons. Besides, taking her to a gathering of his family where...no, it was the wrong way to introduce her to his world.

"I don't think so. It's too soon, besides, if we just dropped in with no warning to my parents they wouldn't take it well. Give me till the end of the next month to set something up at least."

Kagome sighed, her shoulders falling slightly.

"Okay, if you want."

Sesshoumaru winced at her defeated tone. He knew she wanted others to know, hell, he wanted others to know, but he was terrified--the great Sesshoumaru--was terrified that his family would pick Kagome apart and leave nothing behind. His family was nothing if not fastidious and while Kagome may have broken through his icy demeanor and nestled her way in his heart he had no doubt that the rest of his family would be impossible.

Sighing to himself Sesshoumaru moved off the couch and scooped the dejected young woman into his arms, her peals of laughter making him smile.

"Sesshoumaru put me down!"

Sesshoumaru just grinned at her and let her body slide down his until her legs were wrapped around his waist and he had access to her neck.

"But you said something about being dirty."

"But--"

Sesshoumaru silenced her throaty protests by moving his lips from her neck up to her mouth, enjoying the way she responded to him. He inwardly smirked when Kagome even failed to notice that he was quickly moving them towards the bathroom. With any luck he'd have her mind so far away from their parents that she'd forget about the entire affair for a few days at least.

But he knew her, Kagome was easily distracted but her mind always came back to what he distracted her from in the first place and she'd wheedle him down until he relented. Although, Sesshoumaru thought at Kagome's squeal when the warm water hit their clothed forms, he didn't find himself minding all that much right then.

Welcome all, to the latest fanfic of my minds creation. I've decided to post this one, simply because I felt like sharing(looks like something from kindergarten really did stick).

I've decided that, while I want to start here and move forward, I also want to show how they came to be here(yes, I have realized that Sesshoumaru seems...perhaps a tad out of character, but I couldn't have him 'hn-ing' in response everytime. Besides, in reality, I think he'd be changed by Kagome, so I want to show how the change came about. And so, now comes the part where all you lovely readers(do I have the number two out there?) get to decide how I go about this.

I have decided that I can do one of two things. I can write the "before" part of the story as a separate story on this site or I write leap-frog style. Where I write a chapter of the present, and then a chapter of how they got together, and then it goes back and forth...slightly confusing perhaps but it could be interesting. I don't really mind all that much, it's up to you...(anyone out there?)

Well, thank-you for reading the first chapter in what I hope will be many, many more. Before I finally end this rather long author's note, please let me forewarn you that there is very little doubt in my mind that there will be a lemon somewhere in later chapters, and I know that the rating should tell you that already I just wanted to let everyone know...(holds the backdoor open for escapees).

Thank-you.

Dirty.Dishes

AHHHHH. =_= WHY do I have to change all of my coding from XHTML to HTML....sigh....trust the stupid digital studies class to ruin my posting on this site. Oh well...I'd try to post it with the coding I have, but I don't want to screw something up, so here I come...HTML...sigh...oh well, I guess...