~Twists of Love
Author: Sam Kline, aka Thesamislame
Editor: Angelica Andres, aka luckylyra827
Copyright for editing: © January 2010
Knock, knock.
What's this? Sesshoumaru heard a knocking at a door. It was 9 a.m. and everyone was still asleep. He got up from his spot, across from the bed Rin sleeps in now, and went to where the knocking was coming from.
Knock, -
Sesshoumaru had opened the front door right before the guy's fist collided with the wood of the door for the fourth time.
"You must-" He had looked up from his notepad and looked at Sesshoumaru and noticed his markings. "Um.. You must be.." He looked down at his notepad searching for something, "Mr. Hygur-ash-i?"
"Higurashi. Not Hygur-ash-i." Sesshoumaru corrected him. "I am not. Who are you?"
"I am the carpenter. Here to fix a rip in the wall and ceiling, I believe."
"Oh, right." He stepped aside to let the carpenter in.
He entered, staring at Sesshoumaru's markings trying his hardest not to get caught. "My, my. What happened here?" He asked once he turned his attention onto the wall instead of Sesshoumaru.
"Nothing." Sesshoumaru grunted. "Stay here. I'll go get Kagome."
I woke up to Sesshoumaru lightly shaking my shoulder. His hand was hot against my skin. It felt relaxing.
"Wake up, damn woman. Someone's here for you."
I moaned, not wanting to get up, but I sat up and let my legs fall off of the bed.
"Are you always this hard to wake up?" Sesshoumaru asked with a bit of annoyance in his voice and eyes.
"Eh. Whadoyouwan?" My words slurred together with no emotion in them.
"The carpenter is here. Go do something. He keeps staring at me." Sesshoumaru said looking out of the window, something shinning in his eyes. Is he uncomfortable? This will be fun…
I stretched my arms out as much as I could behind me, "Maybe he likes you." I yawned.
I saw his eyes narrow, but a second later they where back to normal. He turned around to say something but I was already out of my door.
"Ah. You must be Mrs. Higurashi?" The carpenter had asked, extending his hand out to me.
"That's my mother. I'm Kagome Higurashi, nice to meet you." I took his offer and shook his hand.
He had gone to work on the wall while I went up and got properly dressed. I was still in my nightgown. I found Sesshoumaru still in the same position as I had left him, looking out the window. He was kind of beautiful in the sunlight. Something about the light that had hit his face, made me want to just pause time. He looked handsome and his face looked gentle, but also strong and superior. His hair, looking more white than silver, hung on his shoulders and down his back, made him look as if he was carefully designed by the god themselves. And for a second, I saw no resemblance between InuYasha and him.
"What are you staring at?" He asked, still looking out the window in deep thought.
I realized my mouth was slightly opened and my eyes widened. I was gawking at him and he had realized. I put my head down into my hands. I feel so embarrassed.
"Nothing," I finally said, shooting my head straight up, "I was just trying to decide if I should tell you something. I decided not to."
"Suit yourself." He said finally looking at me.
It's more fun when you play along and actually want to know what I was going to say. Party pooper. I felt like sticking my tongue out at him like a little kid and give him the evil stare.
"You going to be lazy all day, or are you actually going to change out of what you call a 'nightgown'?"
"Well I was going to change but you won't get out of my bedroom." I went behind him and pushed him out of my door, slamming it, jokingly of course, on his face.
I have to stop thinking about him like this! Yes! Okay! He might be beautiful as hell, but so is InuYasha.. Well.. Maybe not as beautiful. But that's not what counts! What counts is that InuYasha doesn't actually want to take over the human race. But.. that does make Sesshoumaru all dangerous and hot.. What am I saying?! Girls may like that, but I, Kagome Higurashi, do NOT like men like that. All they are is trouble.
I sighed. I'm so glad Sesshoumaru can't read minds. While I was having that little fit in my head, I had gotten dressed and had already put some makeup on. I straightened myself out, took a deep breath in, and walked downstairs to see a very uncomfortable Sesshoumaru and a very curious carpenter.
I was about to laugh once I saw Sesshoumaru. His face all scrunched up and eyes narrowed, trying not to notice the man staring at him. His head resting on his left hand, his body pressed up as close to the armrest as possible, one knee over the other. The carpenter kept taking peeks at Sesshoumaru while trying to fix the wall. He was already done with half of the wall, about to go onto the ceiling. I knew he was only interested in Sesshoumaru's markings. Probably wondering why in God's name does a grown made has his face painted. Sesshoumaru doesn't know that though. Humans in his time are rather too scared to notice his markings. Don't dare stare at a demon, that's their warning there.. Or they're already used to the markings 'cause other demons have them too.
"Would you boys like something to drink?"
"Yes." Sesshoumaru answered quickly, standing up almost as fast as the words he had spoken, and quickly walking into the kitchen.
The carpenter looked puzzled for a second at the stunt Sesshoumaru had just performed, then took his attention to me. "Yes, please."
I smiled, half at him, and half at how ridiculously Sesshoumaru is acting. I followed Sesshoumaru into the kitchen and took out some lemons from the fridge and the squeezer. I set them on the bar table in front of Sesshoumaru and went to get a knife and three cups from the dishwasher.
"Would you like to cut or squeeze?" I asked returning in front of him.
"S-cuse me?" He looked at me, confused on what I'd just said.
"Would you like to cut the lemons, or squeeze the juice from them?"
He looked down at the utensils on the table. "I'll cut." He took the knife in one hand, and a lemon in the other.
"Just be careful, don't cut your hand and don't let the juice squirt in your eyes."
He looked at me again, raising an eyebrow. "I'm a grown man. I think I may be able to do this on my own."
A light smile went across my face. I think he just made his first joke. "I'm sorry, I'm used to doing this with Souta. I'm just-"
"AH HELL!" I heard Sesshoumaru yell. The lemon had squirted its juice into Sesshoumaru's right eye, surprising him, and making him jolt up from his seat as it fell down onto the ground.
"I told you to be careful! And look, you even cut your hand!" I ran to the sink to get a paper towel, and wet it on the sink. "Let me see." I said as I hurried back to Sesshoumaru's side. "Stop rubbing it, it'll only make things worse. Use this." I held down the damp paper towel to him. He snatched it out of my hand and applied it to his now red, burning eye.
"Let me see your hand." I grabbed it before he could hold it out towards me. It was already healed. Only a faint scar remained now where the cut had been. Thin lines of blood has escaped the wound, getting thinner and thinner as they trailed down to the back of his hand and dripped onto the kitchen floor.
"I'm a demon, you know. I heal fast." He said once he realized on how amazed I looked.
"Yeah, but even InuYasha-"
"Don't compare me to that half-breed of a brother." He said angrily, snatching his hand back to his side.
"I'm sorry. It's just amazing on how fast you can heal." I looked up at him to see that his eye was back to its normal color. "How about I cut and squeeze? You can watch. Or you can go out into the living room with the-"
"I'll watch." He said, cutting me off. He bent over and picked up the chair that had fallen to the ground.
The carpenter had left around noon with still no answer on why Sesshoumaru had 'face paint' on. I had too much fun watching Sesshoumaru in his uncomfortable state that I forgot to tell him that he wasn't really interested in him, just his markings.
Sesshoumaru refused to be in the same room as him by himself. I suppose he was scared the carpenter would rape him. He would walk with me to the bathroom and wait outside of the door until I came out. Once Rin had woken up, he kept her by his side, telling me his 'plan' was to give off that he has a daughter, so hopefully he would stop staring at him. But since that wasn't why he was staring at him, though at his markings, it didn't work.
"Thank you for coming and fixing my mother's wall for us. I'm sure she already paid you in advance." I thanked him outside of the house.
"You're welcome. And thanks for treating me to food and drinks while I worked. Not very many people do that anymore."
"Of course. We'll probably call you again. I have a feeling something like that will happen again soon."
He turned around, but stopped half-way and looked back at me, "Was that really his daughter? They don't look at all alike."
"Oh, no she's not. Just a girl he's watching over. It's a funny story actually, he thought-"
"Would you mind giving this to him, then?" He dug into his pocket and pulled out a business card. "Tell him if he ever needs a break, to call me." He shyly smiled and turned around after I took the card from out of his hand, shocked.
"I thought…" I said to myself. "Um. Wow." I turned around laughing and entered the house. Sesshoumaru has a secret admirer!
"What did he give you?" Sesshoumaru asked, taking the card out of my hands. "What's this for? And what did he mean by if I need a break, call him?"
"It means he's interested in you, Sesshoumaru. When people in my time say 'call me' it means they want to go out on a date with you."
His eyes widened for a second, anger aligned his lips.
"Oh Sesshoumaru, it's not that bad. He was kind to you, you shouldn't hate him just 'cause he thought you were pretty." I said with a little sadness in my voice.
"I don't hate him 'cause he's gay. I actually know some demons who are. I just don't like it when they stare at me for hours or flirt with me. Just like with any other human."
I smiled at him. I thought he would have hated people like that. He didn't seem like a person who wouldn't mind it.
"Well, why don't we get some make up on you to cover up those markings and go have some fun in the city? Souta, Rin, you're coming too."
-Phew. Well, this is my longest chapter yet :]. And I didn't feel like stopping Dx But it's 3:35 and I have to wake up at 10. Ha. Good luck on waking me up.
-Again, sorry about my lack of chapters in the past few days. Computers hate me. This is my 4th in 1 and a half years. ha.
-I do not have anything against gay people. I just find it funny how people get nervous around them. Ha. Poor Sesshoumaru.
-I wasn't at first gonna make the carpenter gay. But I thought it would make it more fun if Kagome thought it was just the markings he was looking at, not Sesshoumaru :]
-Hope you enjoyed. Probably won't be a chapter tomorrow, going to an Island for the day :]. Hope I don't drown. Wish me luck.
-Sorry about any mispelled words. I just write what comes to mind, so I don't go back and check any of that stuff. haha. I've never had. But soon, hopefully, I'll have an editor that will
do that for me :] and I'll be sure to mention their names once I get the chapters back from 'em.
-And if anyone has any ideas for the next chapters to come, please share. I have a hard time, sometimes, on coming up with stuff :P I'll also be sure to mention you for any ideas I use :]