Luxury Never was Cheap
Chapter One


"Oh really that would be awesome, thank you so much!" Sango Musouka smiled and hung up the phone, her heart lifted high in the air as she skipped around the crap apartment she shared with her best friend, Kagome Higurashi.

"You seem extremely happy today," Kagome commented as she walked out of the shower, steam escaping the tiny little mildew smelling room, "What's up?"

"You'll never guess who I just got off the phone with," twenty five year old Sango said as she hopped around Kagome who gently shook her head.

"You enjoyed that breakfast with your sugar this morning, Sango?" Kagome commented dryly as she started to brush her hair.

"I'm going to ignore that comment since I'm so excited," Sango said jumping up and down, trying to touch the peeling paint on the ceiling. Kagome watched her best friend hop around like a moron, Kagome's face never changing: the expression of someone who doesn't care.

"Well are you going to tell me or are you going to be a dumb ass all day long?" Kagome asked as she walked towards the small little kitchen that Sango and Kagome had to build when they bought the apartment.

Hey, no one said luxury was cheap.

Sango finally calmed down after what seemed like and eternity to her, "Alright, I just finished talking to Myouga Ojiur!"

Kagome gave her a look.

Sango sighed, "He's someone who was renting out apartments...remember, in the newspaper?" Kagome gave her a look, "You don't remember do you?"

"Nothing's ringing a bell," admitted Kagome who laughed nervously as Sango dove into their recycling bin.

Scarps of paper flew in the air before fluttering down softly like feathers as Sango looked around for the newspaper ad.

Kagome sighed and sat herself on one of the stools that extended from the high counter top. She glanced over at the little bulletin board Sango and Kagome used to respond between classes at the community college and their jobs.

Neither had been accepted to the college, having no money for tuition anyways, they both ended up taking classes at the community college.

Kagome sighed and noticed a newspaper ad pinned to the cork bulletin board. She sighed and grabbed the piece of paper.

Reading its contents she tossed an apple at Sango's back, who was still digging through the recycling bin, "What?" She jerked her head out of the bin and turned towards Kagome, who was waving the newspaper clipping in the air.

Sango snatched it in the air, "Yeah this is it. Listen to this Kagome! Two bedrooms! We can have our own room now! One full sized bathroom, a full sized kitchen, and a living room! Skylights Kagome, Skylights! Do you have any idea how much easier it will be for me to paint if we have skylights? And a balcony. Heating and air-conditioning too! This is going to be so awesome!"

Sango was one of those 'misunderstood' artists in the city, she had another job, but painting was her passion and she was aiming for a degree in Arts when she's finally accepted into a college.

Kagome didn't want to trample her friend's hopes and dreams but something was plaguing her mind, "But what about the rent?"

Sango paused and then cracked a smile, "we'll manage."

Kagome didn't like the sound of that.


On the other side of Tokyo, another was acting the same way as Sango was.

"Really, that would be great, thank you so much Ojiur-Sama, you won't be sorry!" Miroku Ugu said excitingly into the phone as he hung up and did a happy little jig.

The sounds of DDR music playing in the background proved that his roommate, and best friend since childhood, had not waited for him to return.

Sure enough once he got back on the dance pad, the game was over and Inuyasha Ginga had an 'AAA' and he, Miroku, had a horrible 'C'.

"Damn it, Inuyasha, your so impatient," Miroku sighed and rubbed his head as the little character on the screen started yelling at Inuyasha to type in his name for the high score on that particular song.

Inuyasha shrugged and smiled slyly, "You wouldn't have beaten me anyway, honestly, you get so boring to beat sometimes."

Miroku shrugged and then broke into a grin, "I have some good news!"

"A girl agreed to bare your child?" Inuyasha asked dryly. Miroku choose to ignore that comment. "You actually got to touch someone's ass before getting beat up?" That one would have to be ignored, too, Miroku concluded, "You-"

"Shut up."

"You told me to guess though," Inuyasha said, concentrating on the screen in front of him as the swirls of little red and yellow stars danced around trying to distract him.

But no such luck for the stars, for he was the King of DDR. Dancing away to the beat he glanced at Miroku every once in a while, who was too busy dancing to do much of anything else.

Inuyasha's violet eyes narrowed as a particularly hard dance move came up, he nailed it while Miroku tripped off the pad and onto his ass.

Inuyasha sighed and put the game on pause, "What were you saying?"

Miroku rubbed his head and suddenly bounced up as if nothing happened, "I got us a new apartment."

"What's wrong with the one we have?" Inuyasha asked, peering around the apartment, it was pretty nice, maybe a little small, but hey, he wasn't complaining.

"There's nothing wrong with this apartment, except..." Miroku fidgeted and rubbed the back of his neck.

"Except that everyone knows you live here and is coming to kick your ass, right?" Inuyasha asked as he turned off the game and began to pack into boxes that simply lived in the apartment. The two always ended up moving a lot, because of revengeful boyfriends after Miroku.

Miroku shrugged, "that might be it..."

"You're such an idiot."

Miroku glared as his black-haired friend cracked up.


Myouga hung up the phone with a look of confidence on his face, "wow, everyone wants a room in my apartment building. Kaede was right, advertising really does help."

He lifted his pen to write down the name of his newest customer. The man had requested a room on the top floor, and Myouga had reassured him that he had one open for him.

Then his face paled.

There was only one apartment on the top floor, and that one was already taken. He mentally slapped himself and cursed whatever god was up there for letting him be so stupid. He stroked his little white mustache, "oh well, I am the one to promote a friendship." And with that he wrote down the name of Miroku Ugu with Sango Musouka. He dotted the eye in Miroku's name and smiled, "everything will be fine."

"Everything will be fine, Kagome, I promise," Sango pleaded with her friend, "Trust me ok?"

"Sango, how are we going to be able to afford the rent?" Kagome squeaked out as she saw the going rate for the luxury apartment, "its two thousand dollars a month! I can't afford that; I don't have that kind of money!"

"It will only be one thousand, Kagome, we'll split it," Sango pleaded as she crawled down to her knees and grasped Kagome's pant leg. Sango was never a kind of person to fall to their knees and beg, but she was desperate, she had to have that apartment, it was really important to her, "Please?"

Kagome sighed, "Fine, fine, you win, Sango-Chan."

Sango hopped up and hugged her best friend furiously, "Thank you so much, Kagome, you won't be sorry, I swear!"

Kagome sighed and patted her friend's back right before she started doing some weird little dance on top of their little couch.

Kagome rolled her eyes and walked into the little room that the two girls slept in. Their two cats, Buyo and Kirara, peered at her from her bed as she walked over to her closet, where they'd stored their moving boxes when they moved into this piece of crap apartment.

She patted the cat's heads as she pulled out a box and began packing her stuff, being poor really came in handy when it came to packing stuff, "Buyo, Kirara, better get packing, we're leaving soon."

The two cats looked at her as if she was crazy.

Kagome sighed, "I must be very lonely if I'm talking to the feline population."

The two cats blinked up at her before returning to their slumber.

"So how much money is this apartment, moron?" Inuyasha asked as he heaved another box down the staircase and towards Miroku's car.

"Two thousand dollars."

"That's a good deal actually," Inuyasha paused to think about it, and made Miroku come crashing into him. The end result was the two boys rolling down the staircase and causing other occupants of the apartment building stare at them with identical looks of frustration.

Miroku pulled his 'I'm innocent' look and laughed nervously, "Darn those cats, always getting in the way, took all I had to dodge the poor things." He smiled brightly at the occupants of the residence.

The other inhabitants of the complex mumbled and grumbled as they barged back into their rooms, muttering about evil teenaged boys and how they should all rot in hell.

"Darn those cats?" Inuyasha asked, raising an eyebrow at his friend who in turn, shrugged.

"At least it worked. Why the hell did you stop?" Miroku said walking and picking up a box, "Damn it, this was the box with all our plates in them."

Inuyasha rolled his eyes, "It's not like we ever use the things."

"Actually, that's only you, considering you only eat ramen or takeout."

"Hey! That's not all I eat!" Inuyasha said crossing his arms.

"Yeah, what else?"

"Burger King," Inuyasha said simply and picked up a box, "now hurry it up bozo."

"Coming," Miroku sighed, "I have to find a way to get vegetables into your diet."

"Stop sounding like my mother," Inuyasha muttered. The two finished loading their stuff and headed on their way towards the apartment. "It's amazing we're able to move in today."

"What amazes me is that you got your lazy ass into the daylight," Miroku stated as the shifted gears and changed lanes, "that is a miracle in itself."

"I don't need your commentary," Inuyasha muttered and stared out the window. He sighed in frustration, "Why the hell are you granny driving you slow- poke? Plus, this is the left most lane, you're supposed to use that for passing!"

"I am not granny driving, I'm going the speed limit," Miroku said calmly and looked at Inuyasha, "I do not appreciate back seat drivers, so shut up, Inuyasha. And for the record, you can stay in the left lane when preparing for a left turn. So ha."

Inuyasha 'keh'ed and looked out the window. His eyes drifted closed and he soon was sleeping peacefully.

Sango honked her horn for the second time in the last two minutes. Kagome looked over at her friend, "Sango-Chan, what on earth are you doing?"

"The guy in front of us is such a granny driver," Sango said while rolling down her window, "Hey while we're young here you slow poke.!"

Kagome's eyes widened as she yanked her friend in, "Sango-Chan! He could be a rapist!"

"Rapists don't drive like my grandmother," Sango muttered, "Look at him; he's going exactly the speed limit! That's so indecent it's disgusting!"

Kagome sighed and if Cats could, Buyo and Kirara would be sighing as well.

"Sango-Chan, aren't you suppose to go the speed limit?" Kagome asked, looking at her friend. Her low ponytail swished dangerously and her maroon eyes with the pink eye shadow narrowed dangerously as she leaned on the horn, "I guess not."

As soon as the road opened up, Sango did some crazy driving moves, dodged on coming cars, and cut in front of the granny driver and was soon zipping down the street about twenty miles above the speed limit.

Kagome looked behind her to see that the granny driver still seemed oblivious to the world, and so was the passenger who, actually, looked pretty pissed off.

Sango and Kagome looked around the apartment happily. Kagome smiled at her friend, "You were right, Sango-Chan, this was a good idea!"

Sango beamed, "Aren't you glad you listen to me?"

"Yeah, yeah, I'm going to take a bath, okay?" Kagome said heading towards the bathroom. Her eyes widened happily, "Sango, they already have towels in here, just like a hotel!"

Sango shook her head and starting unloading their kitchen wear. She smiled around the kitchen. It was large, but not too large, the perfect size for someone who loved to have plenty of room while cooking.

She peered out into the living room, yes, there was plenty of room in their too, she'd have to go shopping for some furniture once she got this place paid off and she had some extra cash on her hand. Sango smiled, she loved bargain hunting.

Then she heard the door unlocking.

Sango paused in her unpacking and grabbed a knife from the already unpacked knife holder. If someone was trying to break in, they weren't going to find anything they'd want. Plus, she'd cut them into a bloody pulp before Kagome could even leave her bathroom.

"Hey! Miroku watch where you're going, you fucking moron, calling me a clumsy oaf," came a male's voice, who sounded very annoyed and agitated.

"Shut up, you are a clumsy oaf, I'm just having an off day, what's in this box anyway, bricks? Damn it Inuyasha, you have too much crap," came another male voice. Though, in Sango's opinion, sounded much calmer and more mature. She shrugged and crept around the corner, crotched down and ready for action.

And sure enough, two boys came walking around the corner. The first boy had black hair pulled into a little ponytail at the nape of his neck, very short, and almost a rat-tail. His bluish purple eyes gleamed with childhood playfulness and he wore jeans and a blue short-sleeved shirt.

The second boy had long, black hair pulled back in a braid that stopped about half way down his back. He also had blazing violet eyes and a scowl on his face. He wore jeans as well, and a white tee shirt with a red buttoned up shirt pulled over it.

The second boy paused, shifting his eyes dangerously. The first boy stopped and turned towards his friend, "Inuyasha, what on Earth are you doing?"

Sango dove out then and threw the knife at "Inuyasha" aiming for his shirt, only to pin him to the wall, but to her surprise, the boy caught the knife and examined it. He looked at Sango with a quirked eyebrow, "This knife needs sharpening, girl."

The first boy perked up, "Girl? Where?" He turned towards Sango and looked at her with a dreamy look on his face, "Why, the girls have followed me here Inuyasha, pinch me I must be in heaven."

Inuyasha punched him.

"Ow, what was that for?" Miroku asked, rubbing the bruise that was forming on the back of his head.

"Punching is better than pinching," Inuyasha said as he lifted the box and held it under his arm, he then looked at Sango. "What are you doing in our apartment?"

Sango's anger flared, "Your apartment? This is my apartment! How did you get the key for MY apartment?"

The two boys stood in shock. "This is ours," Miroku said, his face looking utterly confused.

Inuyasha rolled his eyes, "Oh great, not this again."

Miroku jumped forward and caught Sango's hands. Sango's eyes widened and she stared at him. Miroku grinned, "You are the perfect image of beauty, my lady, may I ask your name?"

Sango blinked as Inuyasha groaned.

Sango shifted nervously, "My name's Sango Musouka."

"Sango...that is such a beautiful name, a beautiful name for a beautiful woman." Sango blushed and looked away, "I am Miroku Ugu."

Miroku then grinned wolfishly, "Musouka-san may I ask you a question?"

Inuyasha groaned, "Here it comes..."

Sango blinked in confusion, "Of course you can."

Miroku looked Sango deep in the eye with the look of someone who is deadly serious and asked, "Will you bare my child?"

Kagome relaxed happily in the huge bath tube, the soap bubbles floating on the surface cheerfully. The bath tub, (in Kagome's opinion) was the greatest tub she'd ever been in, the thing was about the size of a hot tub she'd seen in a hard wear store one time.

She grinned, "I really should listen to Sango more often."

"Pervert!" Kagome paused in her musings to listen to her friend's high-pitched screams from the other room.

"Sango-Chan? I wonder what's wrong." She asked herself as she wrapped a towel around her body and emptied the bathtub. She turned to open the door only to discover someone was in the bathroom with her.

Sango stood fuming over the body of the knocked out Miroku, who still had a perverted look on his face, even when he was unconscious.

"Inuyasha was it?" Sango asked, turning to Inuyasha, who raised an eyebrow, "Can you go get Kagome for me? She's probably in the bathroom."

Inuyasha shrugged and walked towards where Sango pointed.

"Don't mind him; he's a little cranky, he fell asleep during the ride over, but he was rudely awoken. Some chick behind us kept pounding on her horn," Miroku said, somehow recovering from Sango's slapping and punches.

"Oh," Sango said nervously as she inched away from Miroku.

Suddenly a high pitched scream was heard. Sango and Miroku both jumped as Kagome's scream filled the air and she came barging out, looking very pissed and ready to kill.

She paused when she saw another boy in the apartment.

"Sango, this apartment is overrun by perverts! I knew this was too good to be true!" Kagome screeched a she ran over and punched Miroku, causing him to fall back down in la la land.

"Eh? Kagome-Chan?" Sango said running over and stopping her friend from pounding Miroku into the ground, "Maybe you should get dressed first?"

Kagome blushed and ran over to her dresser that hadn't been put in a room yet, grabbing some pants and a tee shirt she ran as fast as she could into the next room.

Inuyasha came out of the bathroom rubbing a red mark on his cheek and grumbling about psycho girls.

"It's your own fault, Inuyasha, for going into the bathroom," Sango said crossly.

"I didn't go into the bathroom! I didn't think she was in there, the door was unlocked!" Inuyasha scowled at Sango.

"Still, it's common sense to knock, you idiot," Sango said to Inuyasha.

"Keh!" Inuyasha turned away and sat down onto Sango and Kagome's couch, before immediately jumping up again, "God what is living in that couch?"

"Well excuse me! I didn't mean to displease you!" Sango said sarcastically.

"Keh!"

Suddenly Kagome barged out of the room she'd escaped into and was now wearing jeans and a tank top, she glared evilly at Inuyasha who glared back at her. She purposely stepped on Miroku as she stood next to Sango, "Sango-Chan, why are they here anyways?"

"I don't know Kagome." Sango turned to Inuyasha, "You! Why are you here? We want answers now!"

"You want answers? I want answers! You're in our apartment!" Everyone stared at Miroku who somehow woke up again and was now standing next to Inuyasha.

"I believe I can answer that!" all four of the young adults turned towards the short little midge man, "allow me to introduce myself, I am Myouga Ojiur."

"Oh thank god you're here, Ojiur-Sama, you can get rid of these perverts for us!" Kagome said happily as she glared at Inuyasha and Miroku.

Myouga cleared his throat and caught the attention of the bickering foursome, "Listen, while you four all wanted this apartment, I accidentally signed both parties up for this one apartment."

He paused again as he tried to dodge the evil glares the younger people were sending him.

"Anyways, unfortunately, there are no more free rooms in this apartment building. So you can either move back to where ever you came from or you can all live together, it's as simple as that, understand?"

The four nodded numbly.

"Then it's settled, you will all be roommates from this day forward, I'll be on the lookout for another room! Until then, bye!" And the short little man ran away before the young adults beat him up.

"Think of it this way, Kagome, now the rent's only five hundred dollars!" Sango said trying to lighten the mood.

"I guess so...only now I don't get my own room," Kagome sighed, "oh well."

Miroku was suddenly in front of Kagome, "Hello there miss, I don't believe we were properly introduced?"

"Eh? Well, no, I suppose not," Kagome said as Miroku took her hands.

"I am Miroku Ugu, who may I ask are you?"

"I'm Kagome Higurashi; it's nice to meet you, Miroku-" Kagome stopped talking as she felt something rubbing her butt. With a vain popping she grabbed Miroku and tossed him in a closet, "You pervert!"

Sango sighed, "At least he didn't ask you to bare his child."

Kagome looked horrified, "He asked you?"

"He does it all the time," Inuyasha scoffed from his position.

Kagome blinked, "Well, my name's Kagome Higurashi and this is my friend, Sango Musouka, but I don't believe we've met." Kagome extended a hand and Inuyasha grasped it firmly.

"I'm Inuyasha Ginga," he said shaking her hand quickly before releasing it and turning away.

"Interesting name."

"My parent's were interesting people," was Inuyasha snide remark.