InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Decisions ❯ Christmas Spirit ( Chapter 4 )

Chapter 4: Christmas Spirit

Christmas. Sesshoumaru was not looking forward to this particular holiday. He had nothing against all of the humans and demons working in his building getting over excited and doing `secret Santa' whatever that is. His particular problem fell into two categories.

The first minor problem was the amount of Christmas presents he was subjected to each morning on his desk. He had no idea how they got inside, he was the only one with a key. But every morning there were assorted boxes of chocolates and bizarrely women's underwear. This he didn't understand. Why were people sending a male female underwear? Jaken had attempted to explain that it was part of the human mating ritual but he couldn't see it to be honest.

But this was a small problem compared to the massively large problem of what he would be doing on Christmas day. He had received an invitation from his sister-in-law Kikyo to ask him to spend Christmas with his Half-brother and their offspring and to bring Rin. Sesshoumaru did not want to go.

The only problem with refusing this invitation was that Rin had seen it and really wanted to meet his brother. There had been no problem turning down the invitation last year when he had not yet acquired Rin but now any attempts at turning it down were met with a pair of puppy dog eyes.

That was not fair; he was supposed to be the Inu not her.

So this was how he found himself on an unfamiliar doorstep looking up at a small house that stunk of his half brother with Rin in tow.

He rapped twice on the wooden door and it was yanked out of his way immediately. Sesshoumaru blinked twice in surprise as his golden eyes met the cloudy blue eyes of Kagome. She was dressed in a pair of black skinny jeans that clung to his slim legs and a deep blue tight fitting sweater that was long on the sleeves.

He paused on the threshold of the house. Was she stalking him?

She grinned at his expression and guessed what he was thinking.

“Higurashi-sensei!” Rin was overjoyed and flung herself at the woman's waist squeezing tightly

“Merry Christmas Rin-chan” she said stroking the snow from the young girl's hair

“Why are you here?” Sesshoumaru recovered himself enough to sound accusatory

She smirked “It's my families Christmas”

Yet again Sesshoumaru was at a loss. Was she saying that she was married to his mutt of a half brother? For some reason this put him off balance and he glowered at her.

“Explain” he growled

“Charming as always” she rolled her eyes and gestured to follow her into the house.

“He actually came” came a new but not entirely unfamiliar voice and Sesshoumaru stepped inside the house to see the young bartender Souta stood inside the house with his arms folded and a dubious expression on his face.

“Keh” mumbled a very familiar voice as Inuyasha appeared from out of the small kitchen. He was wearing a red short sleeved t-shirt in a `I'm not bothered by the cold' kind of way and blue jeans and was carrying a small silver haired dog eared child in his arms that was watching Sesshoumaru with wide hazel eyes full of curiosity.

“Rin” Kagome said kneeling down so she was on par with the child “Why don't you go into the lounge and play with Ran-chan?”

Rin nodded solemnly and skittered away down the corridor and into the front room.

Kikyo walked out of the kitchen and went to take the child from her husband when she saw Kagome do the cut throat sign. The way Kagome saw it if her violent friend was holding his baby he was less likely to attack. Kikyo caught on quickly and looked at the Inu Yokai coldly. She looked a lot like Kagome except she was slightly taller, her body shape was slightly more pear-shaped and her eyes were hazel instead of cloudy blue.

“So you finally decided to grace us with your presence” she said in a monotone that was both accusatory and bored at the same time.

“Hn” he said

“You could cut the tension with a knife” Souta said coming back out of the kitchen with a can of larger and a Gin for Kagome.

“Well as it's Christmas” Kagome said kicking Souta in the shins “let's try and remember that killing is a crime and go and sit down!”

“I wish you'd remember it was Christmas and stop beating on me” Souta muttered under his breath

*

Kikyo and her cousin were in the kitchen. Kagome wasn't exactly the best cook but Kikyo was rather good and with Kagome's assistance it was faster.

Souta came back into the room and sighed heavily.

“What are you doing in here?” Kagome asked “You're supposed to be out there making sure they don't kill each other!”

He sighed again “I couldn't take the atmosphere anymore!” he told them “I've seen pub brawls where the participants were in better moods. The only reason they haven't tried to kill each other yet is because there are three children in the room”

The door opened again and Ranmaru ran into the room and launched himself at his mother and wrapped his arms around her waist burying his face in her midriff.

“Don't make me go back in there!” he whimpered “their Yokai is going crazy!”

Kagome stroked his hair softly “If we aren't careful they'll upset Kyo too” she mused; it was already irritating her spiritual radar and she wasn't even in the same goddamn room.

They all jumped as suddenly baby wailing broke out from the direction of the front room.

Kikyo picked up her rolling pin with a determined but scarily relaxed expression and started out of the room but Kagome grabbed her elbow.

“I'll go” she murmured in her ear easing the rolling pin from her cousin's hand. Kikyo looked at the door and then at her cooking and conceded and let Kagome go. Kagome sighed in relief; she didn't want a murder on her hands and Kikyo could be violent when she wanted to be.

Ranmaru, worried about his mother, followed.

Inuyasha was absentmindedly trying to stop Kyo from squalling but he wasn't actually looking at the pup so the baby was not in the least soothed.

Kagome walked up to the Hanyou and took the child from him pulling him close and rocking him slowly. She started to croon to him a lullaby in a different language. It was the same her mother had used on her when she was small. The baby looked up at this woman who resembled his mother and grabbed a lock of her hair calming down.

Rin was watching the two brothers warily, unlike the two Yokai children she couldn't sense their animosity but she could certainly see their murderous expressions.

Kagome looked at the two brothers who were glaring at each other.

“Stop it now!” she ordered “I understand that there is some bad blood between you two but you are upsetting Ran-chan and Kyo-chan”

They both blinked and looked at her. “If you continue like this I will get Kikyo to put your food in a dog bowl and you can eat it off the floor”

Inuyasha smirked “Yeah, yeah keep your hair on Kags” he stood and relieved her of his child

“I guess that makes Inuyasha the bigger man” said Souta from the doorway before ducking away from Sesshoumaru's death glare.

“He is merely afraid of this Sesshoumaru” Sesshoumaru was calm and cocky

Inuyasha glared at him and then they were once again locked in a freaky staring competition. Kagome sighed.

“I didn't want to have to do this to you guys” she said taking Kyo from Inuyasha and taking a step back “Ran-chan, do your worst”

Ranmaru giggled kind of evilly and held out his hands one pointing at Inuyasha and the other at Sesshoumaru. Suddenly they both stopped staring at each other as they were sprayed with freezing cold demon conjured water.

“Now run!” Kagome squealed passing Kyo to Souta and grabbing her son around the waist and picking him up and running from the completely distracted, completely soaked and completely pissed brothers.

“She's so going down” Inuyasha growled shaking his entire body

“Just like a dog” Souta remarked to the baby in his arms who gurgled happily

“Ah” Kyo replied

“Exactly” he remarked dryly as the baby punched him in the nose with a flailing fist.

*

A few hours, two new changes of clothes and a personality transplant on Inuyasha's part later they all sat around the table together.

Sesshoumaru found himself in between the only two people who would sit next to him: Kagome and Rin. He had to admit that Kikyo was a good cook and now that Inuyasha was in a better mood he no longer wanted to kill the Hanyou as much. It would be a different story tomorrow.

Kikyo was also acting a bit more courteous around her brother-in-law now that her husband had calmed down.

Bizarrely Sesshoumaru found that he was having that feeling of light heartedness again. But he put that down to the unnamed concoction Souta was giving him to drink. It looked a bit like liquid gold but it was good.

He wondered if this was what people meant by Christmas spirit. He'd never experienced it before.

A/N: I don't own Inuyasha. So please read and review.