~Twists of Love
Author: Sam Kline, aka Thesamislame
Editor: Angelica Andres, aka luckylyra827
Copyright for editing: © January 2010
I woke up to head aching, high body temperature, and a very dry, sore throat. I felt awful, I just wanted to lie in bed all day and die. My nose started running and my back starting aching also. If I moved, it meant more pain and my eyes would start to burn.
It was about one when I heard the phone ring from downstairs. I tried getting up, but my body failed on me. If it's that important, they'll leave a message. It had rung a few more times before it stopped then rung again. Someone answer the phone! It stopped. In mid ring, as if someone had hear her scream in her head.
It's that ring again. Seshoumaru was standing in front of the phone in its holster. He looked up at the wall and remembered his last encounter with this device. He picked it up from the holster and examining it, trying to remember what Kagome had told him the other day.
I believe it was this one.. He pressed the button with the green phone on it and waited. He heard a squeaky noise coming from it. He held it up to his ear to hear better.
"Kagome!" The device had yelled, making Sesshoumaru jerk the phone away from his ear. It was quite for a bit.
"Is this the man who's staying with Kagome? If so, you don't need to be shy! I'm very nice." He heard it say.
Do I talk into it? He put the phone up next to his ear again, "Hello?"
"So it is you. Um. Sesshoumaru, right?"
How does this thing know my name? "Yes. Who is speaking?"
"You're voice sounds pretty hot from this side of the phone. My name's Eri. I'm Kagome's friend from school."
Eri. I remember Kagome talking about her. "The hum- Kagome talked about you."
"Oh, really? What did she say about me? Well that's not important right now, is Kagome home?"
He looked towards the stairs, "I believe she's still asleep."
"Still asleep! It's almost one! You didn't keep her up all night in the bedroom, did you?!"
"Keep her- Why would I keep her up all night?" He was starting to get upset with this girl.
She gasped, "Don't tell me that you're pure and innocent!?"
He could feel his face getting a bit steamed. He knew exactly what that statement meant, yet she spoke it as if she was talking to a five year old. "I'll get Kagome." He said taking the phone away from his ear as he walked up to her bedroom.
I heard knocking at my door. I moaned, making my headache hurt more, "Come in," I coughed.
Sesshoumaru entered with the phone in his hand. "Someone is- You don't look good." He quickly walked over to the side of my bed and put his hand on my forehead. I could see a bit of concern in his eyes.
"Humans are fragile things." I heard him say before he handed me the phone. "It's Eri."
"You didn't tear apart my wall this time, did you?" I managed to say in a horsed whisper.
I heard him scuffle, but his face remained the same. "No."
I put the phone up to my ear and said hi to Eri.
"God. He sounds so hot. Where the hell did you find him!? And him being so innocent! That's rare to find, especially if he's in his twenties! Gives you an easier time to train them."
Sesshoumaru had left before he could hear anything she had just said. "I don't think he's that innocent, Eri." Well. I don't think he is. I mean he is 500 years old and not bad looking either. He doesn't seem like a guy for relationships though. Does that mean he's a man- er, demon-whore?
"What's wrong sweetie? You don't sound so good." I could hear her concern in her voice.
"I don't feel great. I think I have a fever." Sesshoumaru had entered my bedroom, this time he brought a cup of water with him. He extended his arm and waited till I took it from him, his eyes never leaving mine. I took the cup from him and mouthed a 'thank you' and drunk almost the whole cup. The ice cold water feeling fantastic down my throat. Sesshoumaru had left right after that.
"Would you like for me to come over there? I could take care of you. Or do you want your man to take care of you?"
"My ma- No! I'm just going to stay in bed for the rest of the day."
She seems to have a fever. I don't know what kind of medication she has in her time. Sesshoumaru left the bedroom and went downstairs. He knows an ingredient that will make her better in the morning. But he would need to find them in this time, in the village made of metal and reeked of gasoline and smog. And he knew the right person to ask.
He went up to the little boy's room and knocked on the door that was already opened. Rin had been in his room since she had woken up playing on the machine he calls an Xbox. He was teaching her what buttons to press and what the person will do.
"I need to go into town. You're both coming with me."
Souta seemed a bit taken aback. He didn't know if he should argue with a Demon Lord or not. It seemed wise not to. "What for?"
"I need to get some ingredients. You will show me where I can buy them."
"Um. Alright. Let me go get my mom's magic card." Souta got up, turned off the gaming device and went into his mother's room. He came out with a gold card in his hand. "I'm not sure how to use it, but my mother always just slides it in this machine and presses the code 7639. I'm sure it'll work for you." He handed it out to Sesshoumaru.
Grabbing it out of his hand, he put it into his back pocket. "Right."
Souta and Rin led the way back into the city. It took about an hour to find all of the ingredients that he needed for the medicine.
"Let's go in here!" Souta yelled pulling Rin into a ice cream shop. "Three vanilla cones please!"
The lady behind the counter was a bit older, her hair was turning gray, and her hands began to wrinkle. She smiled, "Of course."
"Now, you have to eat these slowly, or your brain will freeze." Souta informed Rin.
"Ok!"
The elder lady handed them their ice cream cones while Sesshoumaru paid.
"Just don't tell my mother, she'll kill me if she knew I was eating ice cream before dinner."
Sesshoumaru and the kids got home, trying to eat their ice cream cones before they entered the house. There was someone else here, he could smell it. He entered the house first, making sure it wasn't an introducer, he checked the perimeter of the living room and the kitchen. No one. Kagome's room.
Half flying up the stairs, he could hear come chatter in her room. He got to the closed door and listened to what they were saying.
"You didn't have to, you know." He heard Kagome say in her hoarse voice.
"I had no choice once I heard you were sick. No one's even here to talk care of you." He heard a deeper voice this time that belonged to a man.
Knocking twice on the door, Sesshoumaru opened the door so he could properly stand in the doorway entrance.
"Sesshoumaru, you're back. Where did you go?" Kagome said sitting up in bed.
"I-" He started, but got cut off.
"Kagome, you should really lay down." The man put his hands on either side of her shoulders and guided her back down to her bed.
"I'm fine Houjo, I swear." But she stayed lying down.
"I got you some medicine, be sure to take it ever four hours. And stay in bed."
"What do you have in the bag, Sesshoumaru?" Kagome had asked trying to move her head to see.
"Um." He looked down at the bag for a moment, "It's nothing." He left the room without saying another word.
"Was it me, or did he seem a bit… Upset?" Houjo had asked me still looking at the spot Sesshoumaru was at a moment ago.
"I'm not sure why he'd be upset. It'll take a whole lot to get him upset." But I couldn't help but wonder if he had really been upset.
"I wasn't aware someone else was living with you. If I would have known that, I'd let you sleep for the day and not bug you." Houjo was sitting on the edge of my bed, as he has been for the past hour, telling me he won't leave until I fall asleep. I can't normally fall asleep with someone sitting next to me staring at me. I couldn't say that to him though, plus I liked his company.
"That's fine, Houjo. I don't really think he'd take really good care of me anyhow. He doesn't seem to get things like that."
"Well then, I'm glad I came over and helped out. You always seem to get sick so often, it kills me that I was never able to come do this anytime sooner. But, well, frankly your grandpa scares me a bit." Houjo awkwardly laughed.
"Yeah, he can be quite scary some times." I laughed with him, well, as much as I could.
She thinks I wouldn't have taken care of her? A small growl came out from deep in his throat, surprising himself he had gotten angry at that thought.
He heard the whole conversation while walking down the stairs, thanks to his great hearing. Why am I getting mad over something like this? I shouldn't have gotten the medicine for a human. It's not something I would do, yet without even the smallest hesitation, I did go out and get it for her. Why?
He threw the bag onto the kitchen table and sat down to ponder about why he had gotten so worked up about this. He was deep in thought when he hadn't even heard Rin entering the Kitchen and sitting down next to him.
"Sesshoumaru, why the long face?" His shoulders quickly rose as his back straightened, and his face going back to normal.
"Rin, what do you mean?"
"Weren't you going to make Kagome some medicine?" She asked going through the grocery bag.
"I don't think she needs them, Rin."
"Why not? I thought she was sick? Is she feeling better now?"
He signed. "She already got medicine from someone else."
"I think you should still make it then." Rin said looking up at her Lord and giving him a smile.
"That's pointless, Rin."
"Nothing is pointless if you're trying to show somebody you care about them." With that, she hopped off the stool and ran back into the living room where Souta was watching something about a yellow square living in a pineapple under the ocean.
"I don't-" He didn't give himself time to finish his own sentence, he sighed, grabbing the bag off of the table.
"I should really be heading back home. I didn't mean to keep you up all day." Houjo apologized sliding off of my bed.
"It's fine, I really did like your company." I smiled weakly.
He paused for a moment as he stared at me then said, "Well, when you get better, you should call me. Only time I really get to see you is passing through school or if you're sick." He jolted down his number on a notepad on my nightstand next to my bed.
Did he just ask me out? "I'll be sure to, Houjo." I knew I was blushing, I hoped the fever had already gotten my face red so he wouldn't be able to tell.
"Alright then," He smiled, "I'll talk to you soon then." The moment he was out my bedroom door, Sesshoumaru had entered, not caring if he had given Houjo enough room to exit. He stumbled a little passing by Sesshoumaru before he turned around and did a half wave at me, then left.
I could see a glimmer in Sesshoumaru's eyes as Houjo had trouble passing him up. I gave it no thought, though. Sesshoumaru's stubborn, of course he'd do something like that. He was holding something in his hand, a cup with steam escaping the top.
"Here." He said extending his arm out to me, "Drink it."
"What is it?" I asked taking the cup away from him into my own two hands. It smelt familiar somehow. Then it had hit me. InuYasha had made me this last time I had gotten sick, the next morning, I felt fine.
"Did you make this?" Well of course he did. It was just hard to believe he'd do something like this for a human.
"Just drink it." He didn't look at me as he handed the cup to me and still he hasn't looked at me but out of my window in front of him.
"Thanks," I smiled unable to hide my blush again, thank God he wasn't looking at me. I took a sip out of the cup. Last thing I remembered was looking into Sesshoumaru's eyes as he took the empty cup away from me, and seeing something I never thought I'd see in his own two amber eyes. Love.
-Chapter 12. And is the longest chapter I've written. Phew.
-Poor Sesshoumaru got his feelings hurt when he saw she didn't need his medicine, and after all that trouble of getting them for her.
-Thankfully Rin's there. Have to love her, yes?
-Well, yet again its 3am. So, bedtime for me.
-I don't know when the next chapter will be. Online school starts back up tomorrow x_x.