Firebrand

Firebrand
FatalFury

Chapter 14, Part III - The Honeymoon

She narrowed her eyes into slits and answered him with a voice dripping with venom:

"I don't give a bloody hell about your permission! I will curse at you anytime I feel you deserve it. Get out of my bathroom,"

Kagome ordered Inuyasha as she shrugged angrily out of his embrace, not noticing her state of undress in her anger. Inuyasha never forgot though. He let his hungry gaze roam over his wife's foam-clad figure, thinking this was how Venus must have looked like when she rose from the foams herself. Following her husband's gaze, Kagome let out an embarassed gasp as she fought to cover herself with her hands. Inuyasha grinned at her wickedly.

"Why so modest, wife? It's not anything I haven't seen before-- or haven't touched before, for that matter,"

He teased her mercilessly, stepping back away from her so he could take in her nudity fully. Kagome indignantly huffed at his words, splaying her hands over her breasts and the triangle between her legs in an attempt to cover herself more. She didn't know she only succeeded in tantalizing her husband even more with her display. She noticed her robe within her husband's reach.

"Hand over my robe. Now,"

Inuyasha glanced over to where her robe was lying an arm's breadth away from him. He shook his head slowly.

"Not before you say please, wife,"

Kagome almost stomped her foot in frustration, not in the mood for his teasing.

"Will you stop that and just give me my robe, you cad!"

Her husband's answer was to cross his arms across his chest as though he had all the time in the world. She gritted her teeth in desperation.

"Fine then! Will you hand me my robe, pretty please... Your Grace?"

She said in a saccharine voice filled with insincerity. Inuyasha complied to her pleading, though a frown marred his forehead at his wife's choice of addressing him. She shrugged into her robe (the cad didn't even bat an eyelid or turned his back!) and tightened the belt securely around her as he spoke.

"Why do you insist in calling me 'Your Grace'? It's annoying, wife. I already told you to call me by my first name,"

She looked at him haughtily.

"It annoys you? Good! Why do you insist on calling me 'wife' too? My name's Kagome. KA-GO-ME. Use that and I'll think of calling you by your name,"

Inuyasha only waved her argument aside.

"Then I give you permission to adress me as 'husband', so as to be fair,"

Kagome closed her eyes in a bid to control her rising temper.

"I will never call you 'husband', do you hear me?"

She all but shouted to Inuyasha, the duke's ears ringing from all the screaming that she was doing. Kagome suddenly turned to flee to her bedroom in agitation, with Inuyasha following her.

"What are you doing here, anyway? Say what you want, then get out,"

Kagome spat out at him. He raised his hands in surrender.

"Relax, wife. I'm only here to have dinner with you,"

Kagome narrowed her eyes in suspicion. Inuyasha then led her to sit at the dining table. Her dining table, for that matter.

"I noticed you didn't touch your food, and I haven't eaten either, so I thought we could share,"

His wife leveled him with her stare.

"Fine. We're going to have dinner together. But after that, you're leaving. Do you understand?"

"Perfectly,"

Inuyasha lied with a straight face, glad that his wife was taking the bait obliviously. He served her first before serving himself. He popped open the cork on the waiting champagne and poured them both a glass. He gave her a salute.

"To us,"

He put his goblet forward so she could clink hers on it. But she didn't even touch her glass. His eyebrows furrowed.

"I'm not going to drink another drop of liquor,"

Kagome said in a low voice, surprising him with its' intensity. Then realization dawned, and he put down his own glass to confront her.

"Kagome--"

She put out her hand to silence him. She began to attack her food as though she hadn't eaten in days and he knew he couldn't sway her. Sighing, he valiantly tried to concentrate on eating.