Bah Humbug by kashi

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Well, here's my Christmas story of last year, I would have been put it up being that it's a two-shoter but I wanted to wait till it was closer to Christmas time. There may be tons of mistakes on here but that's because I haven't gone back over the story. Please bare with me.

Anywho, have a wonderful and safe holiday and a happy New Years.

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Bah Humbug

It was official. Sesshomaru hated Christmas. It was always so cold, people weren’t deserving of their gifts or always begging for more, and to top it all off he was alone…once again. No, he wasn’t the one dumped, as if that would ever happen. The demoness that he had been taking out for what must have been two months decided to show her true colors.

He believed that their relationship could have probably survived a few more months but he decided to end it early when he made the mistake of going with the wench for last minute Christmas shopping. He knew he should have said no, or at least lied, any excuse to not go but went anyway pushing away his instincts that kept barking at him to turn away.

The mall was crowded with dozens of people. Dozens and dozens of loud people aggressively moving from one store to the next before everything was either gone or closed. He thought many times to turn away while he was still close to the entrance but the tugging of his arm told him that he gotten himself in this mess and he was going to have to deal with it.

She dragged him around attempting to clue him in on what she wanted for Christmas and each thing more expensive than the last. He had enough and took his arm back from her and turned away to leave. When she tried to get him to come back, he told her that it wasn’t going to work because she’s nothing but a gold digging whore and left. She had always wanted something or another from him but he couldn’t take it anymore.

He was tired of hearing the same thing from each girl he’s been with during the holidays and each year he broke up with them having no regrets. His holidays were ruined anyway, he may as well ruin someone else’s.

On top of all of that, he was forced to go to that ridiculous Christmas party that his father always intended to have.

‘Then after the holidays pass, I can say to hell with it all and just stay home by myself.’ He thought already setting plans for next year. He decided to refuse his father’s demand to meet at the mansion just to watch everyone get drunk off eggnog and sing carols off key.

Sesshomaru hadn’t been back at the mansion since he started college eight years ago and hasn’t looked back since. He preferred his solitary life with the occasional few women that he allowed the privilege to temporally be part of. He was free to live as he pleased and didn’t have to deal with the annoyance that is his father and younger half-brother. He ignored the pleas that he gotten in the past years but his father threatened to not give him anything ever again if he didn’t come this time, Christmas present or anything else asked. Sesshomaru decided to go this time and if it sucked like he knew it would, then he simply won’t go again.

“It would be a miracle if the old dog could convince me to come back again.” Sesshomaru said to himself as he drove down the long twisted driveway to the estate.

He would have to watch his back though, Toga was always thinking up of schemes that could wind him in more trouble than expected.

~HOHOHO~

“Joy to the world, my teacher’s dead.

I barbequed her head!

What happened to her body,

I flushed it down the potty

And round and round it goes

And round and round it goes

And round and round and round it GOES!”

“Will you shut the hell up already!” Yelled the disgruntled hanyou.

The young raven-haired woman who was singing while helping him decorate the large tree in the equally large living room paused to glare at him.

“Don’t blame me for being in the Christmas spirit. You know I always sing carols, especially when decorating.” She said before she picked up the tinsel to string around the tree.

“It ain’t the singin’ Kagome. I tolerate your singin’ it’s just that you’ve been singin’ it all day. You’re drivin’ me nuts!” Inuyasha ranted but calmed himself when he heard the faint sounds of cracking. He had a delicate glass ornament in his hand. If he broke it, he would guarantee that there would be nothing for him under the tree. Most of the ornaments were antique and his mother would kill him if he mistakenly destroyed one.

He set the ornament on the tree before saying, “Plus if you’re gonna sing something‘, sing it right.”

Kagome rolled her eyes and snorted before saying, “There’s no fun in that. Singing the same thing every year, don’t you think it’s nice for a change.”

“Not when that change involves tryin’ to make my ears bleed.”

After saying that, Kagome flicked a bit of tensil to his face and he growled lightly at her causing her to giggle.

~HOHOHO~

Sesshomaru stood in front of the large marble mansion definitely not wanting to go in but he couldn’t push the feeling to leave. He had a strange feeling about this visit and couldn’t tell if it was good or bad. Either way, he was sure that something was going to happen. He decided, even though it would make him feel like a coward later, he didn’t think that he could be in the presence of so many holly jolly fools.

The inu turned on his heels and took one step before…

“Ah, Sesshomaru my boy, you came just in time to help decorate the house.” A deep but energetic voice bellowed out from behind him.

The taiyoukai inwardly cringed and stopped walking before he said threw his teeth, “Hello to you too father.”

Toga slapped him hard on the back making him stumble from the force of it. “Aw, what kind of a greeting is that for your old man that you haven’t seen in nearly a decade.”

The elder demon then wrapped his arms around his son in a crushing bear hug. Sesshomaru could feel his ribs cracking from the force. Who knew the old dog still had this kind of strength. Sesshomaru suppressed the growl that wanted to get out knowing that it would only make the demon squeeze him more.

He closed his eyes and slowly counted to ten in his head knowing that it would take that long for the old fool to let him go.

‘1...2...3...giggle…5... Wait a minute, did I just hear a giggle?’ Sesshomaru thought as he heard the noise again. He hasn’t heard that particular siren’s sound since the night of his going away party. He groaned hoping that it was someone, anyone other than the woman he knew that giggle belonged to.

He opened his eyes slowly and to his horror, there stood his half-bother with a camera in his hand and the giggling woman in the doorway.

The gods must hate him.

The gods only keep him on earth to laugh at him.

The gods are seriously twisted as he suspects that this day will not go well.

The one woman who could actually make him feel anything was standing there, happy as ever. Unintentionally he took notice of her dress, the black furry snow boots and her tight blue jeans that curved along with her hips. They’ve gotten a bit wider in his absence. His eyes then traveled up to the green and red striped sweater.

‘That tight green and red striped sweater.’

It looked as if she got the thing a few years ago or shrunk in the wash from how it fit on her. It kept rising up showing her flat abdomen with every movement and oh, how it squeezed her obviously large breast together that begged him to be set free.

He must have been staring far too long because when he decided to look at her round, apple shaped face under a Santa hat, she held a blush as her gaze went to anywhere other than him. One arm went over her chest while the other pulled the bottom of her sweater down. He would have smiled at her innocence if it weren’t going to make his father and brother think that there was something wrong with him. There must be something wrong for him to agree to come in the first place.

“Well don’t give your brother and Kagome the silent treatment, go give them a hug.” Toga said as he finally let his son go.

Inuyasha’s face held a look of disgust as he said, “No hugs for me thanks.” Then he turned back to go inside the house.

Toga looked to the girl that lingered as he forced Sesshomaru to walk in the house. “Well my little Keggy, how’s about sharing some of your holiday cheer.” He patted Sesshomaru’s back again for emphasis.

The younger inu turned to glare at his father, he could tell that he was up to something now. He only pats his back more than once when he’s brewing up trouble. He felt a growl bubble up from within him only to freeze when a pair of slender arms and warm body pressed up against his own. He slowly looked down to see raven hair and automatically wanted to burry his nose in it. He probably would have to if the faint clicking of a camera that cought his attention.

“This would make a great Christmas card to send to your family ay Keggy.” Toga said with a grin.

Kagome detached herself from Sesshomaru, something that had him feeling cold, and walked over to his father to look at the image on the digital camera. She smiled brightly and nodded her head telling him that it would make a perfect card. Then the two left Sesshomaru standing there alone as if he had never came. He sighed and reluctantly followed them.

“Sesshomaru? Why I’m so surprised to see you join us this year.” The voice of his stepmother, Izayoi, came to his ears when he went past the kitchen. The small woman came up to him and hugged him before stepping out at arms lengths to look at him,

“You haven’t changed a bit, but you are handsome as ever. Then again you are a demon and your father's son at that.” She said with a smile.

Sesshomaru looked at her as well, she had a few grey hairs in her long ebony tresses but besides that, she looked just the same as he last saw her thanks to the mating mark from his father.

“Hello Izayoi.” Sesshomaru said to the woman. She was not his mother and he would never call her so but he did respect her. Any woman should be respected having to deal with the unruly wildness that is his brother.

“I’m glad that you could make it, oh I feel like our family is complete now. Come on, you could help decorate the living room with Yasha and Kagome.”

‘Oh yippee.’ He thought sarcastically with an inwardly eye roll.

~HOHOHO~

“Dashing through the stores

As Christmas comes our way

Looking for some gifts

To make everybody’s day

Got to hit those stores

Have to push and shove

Trying to get everything

For everyone I love.

OH! Christmas shopping Christmas shopping

I dread it for my own sake

It would be the top most hated thing

If it wasn’t for fruit cake!”

“Will you kill me now?” Inuyasha pleaded to the gods with hands together.

“If you didn’t like it so much, why did you let me finish singing it?” Kagome asked as she hung an ornament on the tree.

“Forgive me for being curious about it, now I hate that I let you sing it.” Inuyasha groaned as he handed her another ornament.

Kagome huffed and said as she put that decoration on the tree, “Well at least I stopped singing the other one unless you would like for me to continue. Joy to the…”

“NO, please no. I just might try and drown myself along with that teacher’s head in that toilet in order to never hear it again.”

Kagome decided to hum the rest of her second song to alleviate her hanyou friend this time as she decorated more of the tree.

Sesshomaru stood around the entrance of the living room against the wall listing to her singing. His heartbeat sped just a little as her gentle voice wrapped around his ears. This time he let a small smile escape, it seems that she still liked to make a joke out of carols. She had been a friend of the family for a long time since her father and his father were business partners. He never realized his feelings for her until he left.

He would have gladly taken her as his own but he felt that he couldn’t. She was always around the half-breed. ALWAYS. She also never talked to him. Sure, he was always quiet but whenever he was in the same room with her, the atmosphere was always awkward and she would look away from him as if he disgusted her. Also, he always teased Inuyasha and she would always defend the hanyou. It only strengthened his resolve that she felt nothing for him and that there would never be anything between them. There was no need to go after something that he could never possess.

“Ay, ice bastard either stop stalkin’ us or help us.” He heard Inuyasha’s voice call him out. He cursed under his breath for allowing himself to be caught but stepped into their view calm and composed as ever.

“So are you helpin’ or are you too high and mighty to do any kind of work?”

He wanted to say no.

“Inu, don’t be silly, of course he’s going to help. Aren’t you Sesshy?” Kagome asked sweetly.

He was going to say no.

“Yes.”

Damn it! What the hell was wrong with him?

Kagome cheerfully skipped to him, wrapped her arms around one of his, and tried her best to drag him in. He ignored the thought of how annoying this was going to be along with the feeling of having her breast pressing against his arm.

“Now, because you are so tall, you can reach up to the higher part of the tree.” Kagome said as she handed him an ornament.

Sesshomaru was never one to decorate trees, he saw no point in it. They would do all of this work in getting the tree home and fixing it up only to take it down a few days after. For some reason, it didn’t matter as their hands brushed for a brief moment when she handed him the ornament.

“And where would you like for me to put it?” He asked not sure where exactly to put it, he wasn’t sure if there were specific places for each one being that he never took part in this task. Izayoi used to for the most part while they were younger. Their father passed the responsibility to Inuyasha and him but he refused to do it so he enlisted Kagome to help.

Kagome looked thoughtful as she eyed he tree. After a moment, she then said as she pointed up, that damnable sweater rode up on her body.

“Sesshomaru, did you hear me?”

The demon in question shook his head mentally, clearing his mind of any thoughts that started to form from seeing a bit of her skin.

“What?” He didn’t mean to ask, it just slipped out.

“Are you okay Sesshomaru, you goin’ deaf or somethin’?” Inuyasha asked as he eyed his brother.

Sesshomaru was about to growl at him. How dare the whelp think that his superior hearing was failing? The warning never escaped him because of the warm body that pressed against his side and captured his arm again.

“Come on Sesshy, put the ornament on the tree.” Kagome told him, eyes full of glee.

He sighed and put the ornament on the tree in the spot that Kagome told him. This went on for a few minutes, Kagome would hum her song as she told Sesshomaru where to put the next decoration while the brothers glared at each other. Eventually Inuyasha left to go see if his friends arrived yet leaving the two alone. They completed the tree together in surprisingly comfortable silence and stood back to look at their work.

“You know,” Kagome started breaking their silence, “after all the times I’ve decorated a tree over here, I don’t think that I’ve ever seen it look so beautiful.”

There was another moment of silence then, “Would you expect anything less from me?”

She was surprised that he spoke, he was too, but she pushed it away as she laughed. “No I know to never expect anything less from you.”

He let a small smile show as he looked at the tree once again, she tilted her head to the side. “It’s missing one thing though.”

She then bounced to a box that held some of the ornaments and pulled something out. It was a beautiful gold and glass star. It was one of the things left by his mother. He would often sit in the room alone to admire it when he was younger.

Kagome came back to him and said, “I want to put it up but I can’t reach. Yasha always helped me but since he’s not here…”

She couldn’t finish what she was saying as she turned away. Suddenly she felt hands at the side of her waist and was slowly lifted her up. She looked back at Sesshomaru and her eyes widened seeing his smile, she would have missed it completely if she wasn’t that close to him.

“Well?” Was all he said as he motioned his head to the tree.

She looked from him, to the tree, then to the star and laughed embarrassingly as she knew what he meant. She placed the star on top then smiled at it as he lowered her down. She was still in his arms as her feet touched the ground and the two of them looked admirably at their work.

“Now it’s perfect.”

Silence came back into the room and the two were still absentmindedly in each other’s arms. Sesshomaru did take notice after a while when he felt her arms tightened around his waist.

Maybe the gods didn’t hate him as much as he thought. Then again…

“Get your fuckin’ claws off her and keep em to yourself ya bastard!” Inuyasha said aloud receiving glares from not only Sesshomaru but from Kagome, but from the four guests that followed from behind him.

“Inuyasha, watch your language.” Kikyo scolded making the hanyou cringe and flatten his ears to his skull and everyone else, but Sesshomaru of course, snicker. Inuyasha hissed at them then looked back to his brother who was still holding his friend.

“What are you waitin’ for, let go of her already!”

It was then Sesshomaru really figured out what he meant and pulled away from the girl in his arms as if he had been burned. Kagome just rolled her eyes and said, “Calm down Inuyasha, he was just helping me put the star on top of the tree.”

Inuyasha’s eyes went wide in shock then narrowed in anger as he growled, “That’s my job. “

“That’s funny because I could have sworn that I heard you say that you hate lifting my quote, unquote ‘fat ass’.”

Inuyasha was lost for words and looked around with a light but noticeable blush on his face.

Kagome pulled away from Sesshomaru once again to go greet everyone. She hugged the two girls, Sango and Kikyo, and then went to one of the males, Miroku, and patted him on his shoulder. He seemed disappointed about not getting a hug and complained about it but one glare from everyone and a low rumbling growl that surprised everyone of where its origin could have possibly come from stopped him knowing that he wouldn’t get his chance to let his ‘cursed’ hand go to work.

“D-did Sesshomaru just…” Sango stuttered but the wolf demon took this time to bud in.

“Miroku, if you touch her, I swear I’ll shove that ‘cursed’ hand up your ass.” Koga growled as he pushed the violet-eyed man away.

Sesshomaru relaxed slightly, he didn’t want to be caught and he was glad that the wolf proved to be some sort of distraction.

“You should know better than to touch my woman.” He then pulled…well, more like forced Kagome into his body and nuzzled her neck.

This time, the growl was enough to shake the room and all eyes landed on the inu youkai that was, once again, forgotten by everyone. Kagome used this as her chance to escape Koga’s clutches and took her place right next to the inu.

Sesshomaru felt the urge to smirk seeing the mongrel wolf’s dejected then angered expression, so he did which further angered him.

“Well now that everyone’s here, I’m hungry from working all day, let’s eat.” Kagome chirped as she grabbed on to Sesshomaru’s arm again and dragged him to the kitchen.