Priceless (an InuYasha FanFic)

Rebuilding

After Kagome and the girls left the coffee shop they mostly just wandered around the mall for several minutes before Ayame caught sight of a clothing outlet that she liked. Grinning like a mad woman she zipped off in the direction of the entry, leaving the other three girls to wade through the veritable flood of human bodies that filled the walkways of the mall. 

When they finally managed to break free of the mob of people and stumble into the outlet, they found Ayame standing there impatiently tapping her foot. "You guys are so slow."

Sango glared at her indignantly, "Humans!" Sango exclaimed as she gestures to herself and the other two woman standing and panting from the effort of getting there unscathed.

Ayame had the good sense to look at least a little sheepish. "Right. Sorry, I forgot."

Izayoi chuckled. "Just because I mated a demon and acquired his lifespan, doesn't mean I acquired his speed. Or any of his other wonderful demonic abilities."

Ayame again apologized, and they all moved on to roaming the little outlet. As they made their way through, combing every rack and shelf they slowly built up a mountain of clothes. Most of them were for Kagome to try on, but the girls picked out things that they liked as well. When they had finally made their way through the whole store, they went into the changing rooms and staked out two changing rooms. Izayoi insisted on being in the changing room with Kagome, while Sango and Ayame shared a room, and slowly, Kagome modeled every article of clothing for them, and slowly, they narrowed her mountain down to about 20 articles of clothing collectively, containing a few shirts, a few pairs of shorts, jeans, and even a couple skirts. 

Kagome felt immensely awkward modeling for her little audience, especially since Ayame insisted she catwalk all the way down the hall and all the way back, including poses, in every single outfit. After the first few outfits though, Kagome began to enjoy it, despite herself. Her smile grew genuine, she added a little pep in her "catwalk", she even made a few jokes with the girls.

When they had fully narrowed their selection down to some clothing the girls insisted on, and some that Kagome insisted on, they made their way to the register. Kagome was completely prepared to carry a few of her bags, however, Izayoi told the cashier to have the clothing sent directly to Sesshomaru's apartment building, and handed the guy a card with the address on it. This was a novelty to Kagome, she left the outlet stunned that Izayoi could just have it sent straight home. She was grateful for not having to carry the bags, but she still couldn't quite believe it. It would seem Kagome would be getting used to having money as well as being a demon's  Mate.

The women repeated this routine with every store they went into; hunt, try on, eliminate, check out. By the time Kagome thought she had everything she could need Ayame grabbed her by the shoulders and steered her towards a lingerie shop. 

"Oh no. can we not? Please? come on have mercy!!!" Kagome begged.

"You do need underwear Kags," Sango remarked with a chuckle.

Kagome gave one of the mannequins an incredulous look. "That," she said indicating a red mannequin garbed in a lacy top without so much as an underwire and what looked like a lacy garter belt. "Is not underwear, that is a glorified piece of leftover lace with some leather."

Ayame just laughed. "You don't have to get that one... yet..." 

Izayoi chose this moment to step in, "We're just going to pick you out some panties and a couple bras. As comfortable as the one you're wearing may be, you need variety." she explained as though Kagome were a 3-year-old child.

Without any other words from any of them, they once again began their skilled search, Kagome reluctantly railing behind. They did have a pint, but seriously, why couldn't they just get a couple packs of those fruit of the loom panties at Walmart?