Title: A Child a Day Keeps The Doctor Away
Author: Priestess Skye
Word count: 515
Genre: Romance, Humour
Rating: PG
Note: Written for Nobody's "Confetti" challenge
Kagome stared at the little packets of candy-coated almonds that covered her front table. They stumped her and baffled her as they were typical bonbonnieres at weddings, but it was the bride and groom who handed them out to the guests, not vice versa. She didn't even like candy-coated almonds, so she was puzzled as to why she received them. Chocolates she could understand. She liked chocolates. Chocolates liked her. Chocolates would have made sense. But candied almonds?
Her wedding ceremony had been simple and elegant. Eight hundred guests at the most, but only because Sesshoumaru had insisted on inviting all of his business associates and extended family...on both sides. It was huge. But the ceremony itself wasn't as extravagant. Their bonbonnieres had been equally as simple, a silver picture frame. She refused to give candied almonds as was traditional. But this was the first she had heard of the guests giving them to the bride and groom.
"I don't get it," she whispered at him as she stared at the hundreds of packets in front of her. Of all the things she had thought she might have to return to after the honeymoon, this was so far off the list. The gifts were neatly stacked in the living room waiting unwrapping. The envelopes containing money were placed carefully in a hand-carved wooden memory box, his wedding gift to her.
Together they read through the different tags on each little pouch, each containing a name of a guest. Were they supposed to mail them to their guests afterward? She found one wrapped in pink, frilly lace and recognized Rin's flowery handwriting. "Maybe we can call Rin and find out why we have all of these waiting for us. Unless you're not telling me something..." Kagome narrowed her eyes at the stoic demon lord as he held up a packet of multi-coloured almonds in front of him, lightly sniffing in disdain. "Are you a closet candied-almond fan?"
"Hardly."
He handed her the packet and watched as she opened the tiny attached card. "Wishing you a very fertile marriage...fertile??" Kagome dropped the packet immediately before staring down at her flat abdomen. "What the hell do they mean by fertile ?"
"I believe they mean children, and lots of them."
"How old will you grow to be?" she asked, mentally trying to figure out the math.
"I am immortal, and so now are you?"
"...times one baby every 9 months equals...oh dear God!" she shrieked before glancing at the hundreds of sachets and the fire Sesshoumaru had started earlier. "Burn them all," she demanded, reaching for a handful. "I have no intentions of being that fertile."
He helped toss the packets in and watched as they succumbed to the flames. "Agreed."
AN By tradition, the Italian "confetti " (sugar coated almonds) are given out at weddings, often wrapped in a small bag to give as a favor to the guests. They are said to represent the hope that the new couple will have a fertile marriage.
Disclaimer: Inuyasha and company does not belong to me. They belong to Rumiko Takahashi