By a Hair by thetroll

Chapter 1

The hair was staring her straight in the face. Kagome picked it up, sighing as she resigned herself to a long day of cleaning.

What she wouldn’t have given for the modern conveniences like a vacuum cleaner, but those didn’t exist in the feudal era.

She grumbled to herself as she picked up the various long strands of silver hair all over the hunt Kaede had built for their visits.

“Does he really have to shed like one, too?” She huffed loudly as the ball of hair continued to grow. “Hell, everywhere I turn there’s more of it!”

“More of what, mate?”

Kagome turned to see her husband in the doorway.

“This!” Kagome held up the ball of hair for him to see. “It’s out of control, Sesshomaru.”

One brow raised. “It is normal for our kind to shed during spring,” he informed her with a sniff of disdain.

“Well then it’s normal for your kind to clean it up, too.” She put her hands on her hips, hair ball and all.

Wordlessly, Sesshomaru reached out to pull a long strand of black hair from his shoulder and held it out to her.

“That doesn’t count,” she hissed but it was with far less heat. Flushing, she took the hair from him and balled it up with his own.

“Perhaps,” he said then, smirking, “you have forgotten how I lost much of this hair last night, mate.” 

Kagome faltered as the memory surfaced. She recalled the way he’d pinned her down to the floor after dinner and slowly moved his way down… her hands had found his hair and—

“You still participated,” she managed, aware she was rapidly losing ground. “If you hadn’t—”

“You enjoyed it.” He stepped closer until he had her pinned to the wall. “Admit it.”

“Never.” She knew he liked her defiance and would never give him the satisfaction.

His eyes blazed and it did not take him long to have both of their clothes off and on the floor.

When they woke the next morning to hair on his pillow, Kagome ignored his pointed look and rose without saying a word.