~Twists of Love
Author: Sam Kline, aka Thesamislame
Editor: Angelica Andres, aka luckylyra827
Copyright for editing: © January 2010
"I'm sorry, Souta." I said while walking into the kitchen. He hung his head low and dragged his feet. Rin followed behind him, trying to think of something to cheer him up.
"Couldn't you try to make him stay, sis? Even if it's just for a day?" Souta begged, looking up at me finally.
"I suppose I could try. But don't get your hopes up." I left them in the kitchen and went upstairs after Sesshoumaru.
"Sesshom-"
"What happened to my Mokomoko?" He asked, annoyance surrounding his voice. He held up the 'fluff' that I had token off of him last night, out of the hamper, that I had totally forgotten about it. It was still covered in blood, dried blood.
"Oh god, I totally forgot about that! I am so sorry!!" I grabbed it out of his hands and ran down the hall into the bathroom. Oh please, please, please, don't let it stain!
I filled the tub with hot water and put three cups of bleach, then mixed it around. I ruined his clothes, pissed him off multiple times, and now his Mokimono, or whatever he called it, might… No… I can't think that way… It's going to turn back out to white! I know it will!… I hope it will…
I put his, er, fluff, into the tub and mixed it around. The water started turning slightly pink as his blood started fading from the fluff. I heard a clatter behind me.
"What are you doing, human?"
I turned around to see Sesshoumaru opening my makeup bag.
"I'm, uh-" He took a small metal tube from my bag and opened it, examining my lipstick. "Um, washing your… Mokimono? Hopefully it'll turn out white again.."
"It's called a Mokomoko." He corrected me, putting back my lipstick and looked straight into my eyes.
I turned around and focused my attention on his Mokomoko. "Most of the blood came out… but I don't think the rest will." Standing up, I took his Mokomoko out of the water for him to examine. I was about to laugh from the expression on his face. I held it in, knowing it would only cause more anger towards him.
"It's… Pink." I wasn't sure if there was a hint of anger in his statement or not. I think he was still shocked it was pink to be angry with me.
"It's a light pink.. So it's not that bad. It's almost white." His face almost automatically went from shocked to angry.
"Consider yourself lucky Rin is here." His eyes were fixed with anger, as was his voice. He tore the Mokomoko out of my hand and flew downstairs. "Rin. Come, we are leaving."
"Yes, my Lord. Bye Souta, it was nice meeting you!" She called out, following Sesshoumaru out the door.
I followed them out the door, and led them to the Bone Eaters Well.
"Look, I'm sorry about your Mokomoko. And your Kimono. And everything else I've done to upset you. I really didn't mean too."
"Just tell me how to get back."
"Right." I opened the door and walked down the stairs. "All you have to do is jump down, but InuYasha and I are the only ones who can transfer through, so I'll have to come with you."
"Hn." He picked Rin up in his arms and jumped down, waiting.
Thanks. I jumped over the edged and let myself be gulfed in by the familiar blue light. Something went wrong though. I hit the ground of the Well, hard.
"Is this some kind of joke?" I heard a very aggravated Sesshoumaru say. I looked up to see him staring his nose down on me.
"No. I don't know what went wrong. We should have been transferred to the Feudal Era." This is weird. The Well has never done this before, besides when InuYasha sent me back home and stuck a huge tree down the Well, making me stuck here in my time. He wouldn't do that again though.. would he? Especially with Sesshoumaru here?
I climbed out of the Well, asking Sesshoumaru to get out also. If I can't get through to the other side, with only myself to transport, then something truly is wrong. Sesshoumaru flew past me easily, as I tried with all my strength to climb up.
I jumped back down after a few minutes of thinking things through. Again, I hit the bottom of the Well too soon, and no blue light had surrounded me. This is odd. I looked up to see Sesshoumaru peering over the hedge, beginning to get impatient.
I began to climb back up when a hand violently grabbed me and throw me onto the ground of the shrine.
"OW! That hurts you know!" I yelled when I realized Sesshoumaru and thrown me onto the ground.
"Explain yourself. How do I get back? And no more of your jokes!"
"I'm not joking with you! That's how you get back home. But I'm not sure why it won't let us go back." I explained, getting up and brushing myself off.
"Kagome's not lying," Rin interrupted. "When Kagome brought Rin here to come see you, we came out of that." Rin pointed across her shoulder to the empty Well.
He gave a quick glance at the Well, as if he did not know what Rin had pointed at, then looked me straight back in my eyes, peering into my soul. Well, that's what it definitely felt like.
"I give you a day to figure out what's wrong with it."
"A day?! You can give me a whole year to figure out what's wrong with it, and I'd still wouldn't know anything. Only thing that I could think of is if something is blocking the other side."
"Something? Like what? Some kind of a hoax? Spell?"
"That. Or a huge tree." I said, mostly under my breath.
"A tree?" He gave me a second glance, as if he wasn't sure he had heard right.
"Just… Don't ask." He was about to say something else, but I'd cut him off. "Look, my grandfather will be back in a week. He could take a look at it and maybe give us an idea on why it's not working."
Rin had excitement written all over her face, "Oh! Could we Sesshoumaru?"
It took him a while to think things over, while Rin and I stood there, waiting for his answer. I already knew his answer though, because, well, they had no other place to go. But I was anxious on what he will say.
"One week. I give you one week to get us back home. If that's impossible, then I will make this era my empire."
His empire? That doesn't sound good at all. I hope, by then, that I could change his mind. I know InuYasha say's stuff that he doesn't mean, but Sesshoumaru? He's a different story. I should have listened to my gut instead of my heart, and left him in Totousai's cavern! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!
If we can't get through the Bone Eaters Well, that means Inuyasha can't either. We won't have anyone to fight for us.
My stomach quivered as I sat on top of my bed, thinking, hearing his words going over and over my head, like a song or melody that never seems to escape your mind, usually happens to those really suck-age songs you hear on TV, like the McDonald's song or My Little Pony.
It was around 2am when I was able to get to sleep. Mother had let Sesshoumaru take grandpa's bed for the time being. He had refused though, saying something along the lines of, "Demons don't need the hospitality of a humans offer," and also that he only needs a few hours of sleep a week. And since when he had first gotten here, he slept almost 24 hours, he won't need any more sleep for a while. He had stayed in the bedroom, however, to watch over Rin as she slept in the bed.
I woke up to the sound of my alarm clock. I rolled over to my other side and slammed the alarm clock with my hand, turning it off.
"AH! SOUTA!!!" I opened my eyes to see Souta's face in front of me, "Don't do that! That's creepy!" Really creepy when your younger brother watches you sleep.
"Um. You may want to see thing, sis."
"See what?" Souta had gotten up already and was half way out of my door before he turned around and mentioned me to follow him.
"Just follow me sis. Mom's going to be real mad."
I slowly got out of bed and dragged my feet down the stairs. "Souta, what could be so impor-. Oh my gosh. What the happened?!" I yelled, as Sesshoumaru turned around, evidence in his hands.
- Oh no. What on earth could Sesshoumaru have done?
-I'm not really sure how to do the next chapter. Maybe I'll do it in his perspective first, then add where I left off when Kagome caught him red handed. But who knows?
-And my foot just fell alseep x_x. I hate that feeling. ha.
-Anyways, goodnight, and Merry Holiday eve!