A/N: For Chie's 2023 12 Days of Promptmas event!
Day 12 Dec 25th: Merry
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Sesshomaru lifts the ceremonial cup, taking a sip before he passes it onto Kagome.
As she lifts the cup to her own lips, Sesshomaru's eyes dance. "It is a merry occasion, is it not?"
Kagome recalls then the moment that had led right to marriage here and now with Sesshomaru.
"I wish you a merry—" she'd begun last December, not wanting to leave Sesshomaru out of the festivities. Ever since she'd bumped into him again while vacationing in the United States, she'd found in him a friend.
"I accept." He lifted his chin. "I will marry you."
"No, that's not what I—" She stops short. "You'd marry me?"
"Is that not what I said, miko?"
She has no regrets, but it makes for an amusing story. "It is," she agrees with a smile of her own.
For her ear alone, he says then, "I was well aware you were not offering marriage to me then, wife. I would not allow the chance to slip through my fingers, however."
Smugly, she replies, "I know."