~Twists of Love
Author: Sam Kline, aka Thesamislame
Editor: Angelica Andres, aka luckylyra827
Copyright for editing: © January 2010

"So, Gramps comes home in a few days." My mother told me walking into the kitchen.

"Yeah, I know." I wasn't sure if I should be happy about it or not.

"Mother, what if gramps can't fix the Bone Eaters Well? What if Sesshoumaru becomes upset about it? There might not be a way to calm him down. Not with InuYasha here."

She put down the brown grocery bag on the counter. "Maybe you should get to know him better. Talk to him. It seems to me that the only person who ever got to know him is that little girl, Rin. Maybe he needs someone else who will talk to him, make him feel safe."

"Make Sesshoumaru feel safe? It'll take a strong demon to do that, mother."

"Sometimes, strength doesn't make someone feel safe. It's knowing that someone actually cares about you and will help you through life. He only has a little girl who doesn't know much about life, who she depends on him to save her."

Me? Talk to Sesshoumaru about life and all these other mushy topics that I know he does not like to talk about? But my mother's always right, even if they don't make any since at all. "I suppose I could try."

My mother took out two red apples and handed them to me. "Give one to Sesshoumaru. I'm sure he's hungry."

I smiled at her and hugged her. "If I don't come back, you got no one to blame but yourself." My mother laughed and scooted me out of the backdoor.

Sesshoumaru was sitting down on the bench watching Rin and Souta play with each other. He looked a bit depressed for some reason. As I got closer, his face changed back to his normal bored expression.

"Mind assisting me on a walk?" I asked handing out an apple to him.

He looked at the apple for a few moments before grabbing it out of my hand. He looked back to the kids playing before standing up next to me. "Where to?," he asked, his voice a bit lower than usual.

"Nowhere in particular." He followed shortly behind as I exited our shrine and walked down thousands of stairs that I had finally had gotten used to thanks to a year of traveling with InuYasha and the group.

It was silent at first. All that could be heard was the crunching of both of our apples as they entered our mouths. It wasn't an awkward silence, it seemed natural and welcoming.

The winds started picking up, only strong enough to shake leaves off of the trees above us. It was quite a beautiful day out. The sun didn't beam down on us, it was hidden behind darkened clouds turning the day gray, but not depressing. I have always loved this weather, it always made me happy and cheerful.

"Why did you bring me?" I heard Sesshoumaru speak finally, breaking the beautiful silence between us.

I turned around to look back at him, walking backwards on a curb. "I wanted to talk to you."

He didn't say anything, instead he kept looking in the direction behind me.

"I wanted to talk to you about.." About what? What was I suppose to talk to him about? "Well, about anything really. What's on your mind?"

"You're going to fall." He said tossing the apple core to the side of him.

"No I'm not. I have great balance even if I can't see-" My foot missed the curb, gravity pulled me down as both my feet flew up into the air above me. The curb had ended, curving to the side to box in the trees I was walking beside of.

"Ow.." I whined, grabbing my lower back with my hands. Sesshoumaru stared down at me as if saying 'I told you so.' I rolled my eyes at him, ready to flip him off if I hadn't seen his hand out offering to help me back up on my feet. It took me by surprise. I never thought Sesshoumaru would offer his hand to a human. I grabbed his hand and was amazed on how easily he had picked me up.

"Um, thanks." I said brushing myself off, trying to avoid his eyes.

"Hn."

We ended up at the park again. Barely anyone was there this time, it was too late for children to be playing outside at this time. The sun was ready to set, another half hour the sky will be engulfed in a blackened sky. We sat down on a bench under some tree's, furthest away from the playground, overseeing the empty soccer field.

Sesshoumaru's not one to start conversations, is he? We sat there for a while before I got tired of the silence between us. We're supposed to be talking, that's why I brought him on this walk with me.

"So, nice day out, isn't it?"

He looked at me from the corner of his eye, "You're asking me of the weather?"

"I suppose I am."

"Yes. It is." I could hear him sign as he adjusted himself on the bench. "Is this why you brought me here?"

"Well, no. Not really." I looked up towards him, he was looking off into the distance, slightly up towards the sky. "I want to get to know you more. That's why I brought you here, so we can talk with some privacy."

He was silent, yet again, before he spoke, "I have no interest in getting to know you, human."

I was ready to stand up and slap him across the face. I held my anger in, thinking what my mother had told me, It's knowing that someone actually cares about you. "But I'm interested on getting to know more about you, Sesshoumaru."

I could see his eyes soften up a bit before I spoke again, "I want to know why you say you hate InuYasha, yet you had just saved his life only a few days ago."

He sighed. "My father," he paused, looking for words, "left my mother for a human when she clearly still loved him. Bearing a child with the human even made it worse. I may not have liked it, never caring about the half-demon my Father bore, but I never hated him. I clearly just left him out of my life. Until I found out Father gave him the Tetsusaiga.

"Even then, I respected my Fathers wish. Even if I hated it. And left InuYasha alone. I went along with my life never giving InuYasha another thought until the Western Lands got attacked by the Cat Tribe and began a war. I sent Jaken out to seek help from InuYasha, only to find out a day later that he was cast in a spell by Kikyou, a human. I decided then that he did not deserve the sword my father had given him.

"I felt he shamed my father and his sword. The sword needed a true wielder, and InuYasha didn't even know he had it within himself. So, that's what I did. I hunted him down once I was informed the seal had broken, and vowed to take the sword for myself.

"Even if the barrier around the sword rejects me, I thought it would still be better in my care, not InuYasha's."

"Do you still think that way now? I've noticed you haven't been trying to take it from him for some time now." His story moved me. He didn't hate InuYasha, he just never really cared for him. Which isn't much better, but it's better than hate.

"I still don't understand why my father gave him the sword. I thought to myself he can't wield the true power of Tetsusaiga, he's only a half demon.. But through the year of trying to take it away from him, he's gotten stronger. But still lacks its true power.

"It's true I've stopped trying to take Tetsusaiga away from him, thinking to myself, maybe if he does get stronger and can wield the true power of Tetsusaiga then he will redeem the honor he had lost. I have yet to see it, though."

"Even though he's a half demon and, as you say, has lost his honor, you still saved him. Because, even if you don't admit it, he's your brother?"

"Even if I will never admit it to anyone else, yes." I could tell he never talked about himself for this long. He probably never told a person how he felt about something. He always kept to himself, maybe it's a relief for him to finally say what he's been keeping locked up inside of him for who knows how long.

He looked over at me for the first time since we sat down on the bench, his eyes were warm. I could tell he was actually looking at me, not past me, not how InuYasha usually looks at me, trying to see Kikyou. "I prefer you to not repeat this to him."

I smiled and nodded, "I promise I won't." Sesshoumaru may never tell InuYasha he considers him as his brother, but, rather he knows it or not, I believe he'll always be there for him when he really needs him.

The sun had already set, letting the darkness take over. There were no stars out tonight, but it was as bright as ever.

"Should we head on home?" I got up and stretched out my legs and arms. Sesshoumaru got up without saying a word and followed me home at my side, instead of behind.

Sesshoumaru starts opening up :]

This is how I really believe Sesshoumaru feels about InuYasha. Maybe not considering the whole brother part I added in there, but he does show his true colors sometimes in the anime and movies. I mean, he did stop trying to take the sword away from him once InuYasha started becoming stronger. And he could easily kill InuYasha if he actually wanted to, he just always backs down right before he does. Ha. That's why I LOVE Sesshoumaru. He's so mysterious.

I'm not very good at writing fight scenes, haha, that's why I have yet to put any in. Maybe I'll try to write one soon.

Sesshomaru meets Houjo in the next chapter. Let's see how Sesshoumaru acts around Houjo-kun, who won't stop flirting with Kagome.