Title: Rags to Riches!

Chapter 2: Chapter One

Rating: Pg - 13

Ages: Sesshomaru and Miroku (20) Kagome and Sango (18)

Genre: Romance/ Humor

Words: 3663

Page: 8

Summary: So there are these two guys. Miroku and Sesshomaru, who are rich and live in a mansion. Then there are these two girls. Sango and Kagome, who are really poor. What happens when these two meet? SessKag MirSan

"To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt."

Madonna (1958 – 2004)

Two years have passed since that horrid day when Kagome and Sango's families passed through the gates of heaven leaving the two girls alone in the world. The only thing left was their pictures, memories, and money along with some food. Still Kagome and Sango lived on. Nothing would bring them down and they knew it. As long as they had each other they had something more then everyone; at least that's what they thought and believed in it.

Both dropped out of high school knowing that even though education was everything and that there was no way to actually have a good life or such without it, there was no way they could have paid their way to go to college or even through it. Even if they did get enough money they still wouldn't be able to because of the increase in costs and anything else that they might have wanted. They also couldn't forget the fact that their school supplies, clothing, food, would cost more due to the gradual increase taxes.

Sango and Kagome lived in a small neighborhood in Tokyo. It was a secluded part, that not that many people noticed, but it was there. It had a few beige colored apartments, and the basic stores that many people need to survive. Both had sold their already old houses because it was too much to bear. The pain they felt everyday knowing that the family they once had lived there and there used to be happiness everywhere. They couldn't stand living in the same house because it brought back memories of that one dreadful day.

Pooling together the money, which was a lot, both bought an apartment to share. They could have gotten one each but decided to stay close to each other and share since they had known each other for such a long time. It was on the very top so that no one would bother them, secluded from all the other city noises. They bought a mini fridge and brought some of the furniture from their old houses including their table, chairs, dishes, etc...

Every weekend they would go shopping for groceries that were necessary such as milk, orange juice, bread, etc… and only bought clothes, but only when it was extremely necessary such as if they ripped from an accident or if they were getting too small for them to wear any longer making them look like girls in bikini's. Even though they had enough money to support them for a few years both worked as maids to earn the money they needed or more exact would need later on, just in case something were to happen.

Kagome whipped the sweat of her tanned forehead. "Sango come on it's really hot and there is no way that I would continue to work with Mr. high and mighty." Whined Kagome.

"We need the money though." Sango countered whipping the sweat of her black brows.

"Come on we have enough money so we can quit and get another job somewhere else. I mean seriously why is he making his maids wear super small skirts when he's married. It's not humane I tell you." Kagome growled at her best friend pumping a fist in the air.

"Fine Kagome. We'll quit. If we don't find a job then I'm blaming you." Sango pointed out and continued to walk on, on the grey pavement of Tokyo streets.

"Oh thanks. Blame the handicapped person." Kagome grumbled incoherently.

"You're not even handicapped. You can walk, talk, think and the list goes on." Sango replied.

"Whatever that's what you think." Kagome childishly replied smiling innocently.

Both started walking towards the house they currently worked at. It wasn't far thankfully considering the fact they were required to walk to the house in their uniform. Both, Kagome and Sango, felt uncomfortable so both wore an overcoat over their uniform, making them look stupid, but at least they felt better about how the looked. Their uniform consisted of a short black mini skirt, and a white frilly apron on top. Whoever had designed it had no sense of making different sizes since all of them were the same size no matter what, because both of their were tight on them, letting them have trouble breathing sometimes.

Pretty soon they came to the large mansion, maybe the size of ½ a skyscraper. It was just one of the many mansion in Tokyo. That meant that even though mansions existed it wasn't that unique. Even though the space was limited there was still enough room to make building so colossal as mansions. This one though had a brown roof like any other house and then cream - colored walls, with not a paint drop out of place. There were giant metal gates, which opened through an intercom, which were connected to a study in the mansion.

Kagome and Sango walked through the gates and up the long drive way that lead to the front door. Walking swiftly they trudged up the path and came up to the front steps. Mr. Onigumo, their boss, opened up the brown oak door. He gave them an evil grin, which made the hairs on the back of their skin stand up to the point when they thought the hairs would just fall out. "Good morning ladies are you ready to work?" he asked still grinning, which scared Kagome and Sango.

Before Sango could speak up Kagome answered for her. "No sir we're here to say we quit and that just because we work for you doesn't mean you own us. We are our own people and that's how it should be. Plus I hate the way that your house is like a haunted mansion that people decorate during Halloween. It's horrendous and ugly!"

"You can't quit. I command you keep working. I own you. You are mine!" Naraku growled at the two girls.

"I don't think so. Good day to you loser!" Kagome flicked him off and stomped down the driveway not leaving any room for discussion.

Sango sighed, soon following and both girls left the mansion leaving behind a very angry man, by the name of Naraku. He growled knowing that he lost his maids and would have to venture out to get new one's. Luckily he had his cousins Kanna, and Kagura. They would be perfect for the job, why pay people off the streets when you can make your family work for free. He smirked and closed the door.

Kagome huffed. Even though now they would have to spend time putting up posters to get a job at least they were away from that creepy man. He scared her to her bones and Kagome bet staying that house probably took a few years off of her life. Sango also felt the same way, but didn't want to quit in fear of him doing something later. He was a scary man and not to be messed around with. She was especially scared when she once heard him talking about killing someone but that's all she heard before he hung up, and knew that Mr. Onigumo wasn't a man to be messed around with.

Both reached their home in a matter of minutes. They both started climbing the stairs, which led all the way to the top of the apartment complex. Recently the elevator had broken due to the fact that too many people tried to get in at once and the weight limit was exceeded. Another bad thing was that the building seemed to have no air conditioning. Kagome and Sango lived on the 35th floor, also known as the very top, of the apartment complex. It wasn't a joyous occasion to climb up and down all those stairs but at least they were kept in shape, which they wanted so that they wouldn't have to spend their other time doing it.

When they did reach the top Kagome burst through the door into their air-conditioned apartment. The cold air immediately hit her face drying all the sweat, which once existed. For some reason the apartment they owned since the owner was nice enough she let the girls have air conditioning whenever they wanted as long as their rent came on time and the provided themselves with everything else.

Sango soon followed and both of them fell down onto their knees onto the white carpet while Kagome kicked the door closed with her right foot trying to keep the cool air in the apartment in. "Okay Sango you ready to make some colorfulness posters?" Kagome giggled using words, which had yet to exist in the dictionary.

"Of course. We must get out the crayons and draw our way to our new job." Sango cheered pointing her index finger up in the air getting overly excited.

"Yes of course. I'll get blue, and you get purple. We will put blue and purple pride all over our posters and show the world that we care." Kagome childishly cheered once again.

"Yes we will. Blue and Purple pride!" Sango replied.

Kagome quickly ran into her room banging the door on her way in. A few bang and clicks were heard. Then an elephant howling and a bomb exploding was heard. Sango looked at the door which looked innocent with it's brown okay and gold knob. "Kagome! What are you doing in there? More important what the hell is in there?" Sango hollered.

"Just getting some supplies and there is no one else in here!" Replied Kagome stepping out of her room with papers and crayons in hand.

Sango suspiciously looked at Kagome's room. Everything looked normal. Sango nodded her head and walked towards the dinning room table, but still curious about the room. She sat down with Kagome and they decided to make the posters all the same except different colors.

Studies had shown that some colors are more attracted to people then others so if they used different colors then more people were bound to notice their posters. They were far too lazy to actually print them out from their computer, but then Sango realized that she couldn't draw so she decided to make them on the computer and walked off towards the laptop bringing it over to the dinning table.

"Kagome you do know it'd be easier to just print them off of the computer." Sango shared with Kagome.

"Yeah but then it would be just like everyone else's. If we make them with our own artistic abilities then it would mean something. It would show the people that we, Kagome and Sango, want to work for you!" Kagome replied drawing away on her piece of paper.

"Kagome we have no artistic ability! Your dog that one time looked like a crazy hyena or something seriously." Sango glared at Kagome.

"Heh heh… well maybe it was a hyenic doggy?" Kagome uneasily replied looking up from the paper.

Sango sighed. "Kagome you didn't even have a dog."

"Well I could have gotten one if you had just let me, but no you had to say 'Kagome we live in an apartment complex that doesn't allow pets!'" Kagome angrily replied standing up trying to imitate Sango.

"We do live in an apartment complex that doesn't allow pets moron!" Sango countered.

"Name calling are we now? Well you're a… a… doo doo head! Don't destroy my happiness you dentist!" Kagome replied.

"Doo doo head? Wow Kagome I'm so scared! Plus I'm a maid!" Sango told Kagome.

Kagome just huffed ignoring the fact that Sango was correct and continued to draw her posters, working very hard on them. Sango soon gave in and made some on the computer much to Kagome's displeasure. They argued long and hard when Kagome was done with her posters. Sango wanted to put up her posters while Kagome wanted to put up her hand drawn ones. "We are not putting computer generated posters! It is so last year Sango. We can't be last year we have to be this year because this year is in!" Kagome growled.

"Kagome our names' on your poster looks like Gome and Ang. Our names are not gome and ang, they are Kagome and Sango." Sango whined.

"Well maybe if you looked harder you'd see our names. You know that I know that you know that I knew that you would be like this but you knew and this knew and blah and then you knew that too!" Kagome replied crossing her arms unwilling to give in.

"Ahh you don't even know what you just said! Okay lets compromise shall we? We are grown women. We should not have issues like these. We should be arguing over politics and clothing not posters! We are the women of Tokyo, Japan and will not let anything bring us down!" Sango bravely replied as a transparent Japanese flag appeared behind her blowing back and forth with the wind.

"I agree let's argue about those thing after we get this done. Let's compromise sister!" Kagome replied.

"Yes let's compromise Kagome." Sango nodded in agreement.

"Okay how about this you put yours up and I'll rip them down replacing them with mine? So in the end both of our posters will be put up!" Kagome grinned.

"No! How about we both put our posters up?" Sango sighed trying to not get a migraine.

Kagome stood up from her chair thinking for a moment. It was a hard decision to make indeed. That would mean that just as twice posters would be up but only ½ of them would be hers. The other half would be the one's that Sango made, which she thought weren't that good since they weren't hand drawn.

Sango looked at Kagome thinking. She had no idea what the girl was actually thinking about since there wasn't much room left to alter the plan. It was a simple yes or no question that the girl seemed to be contemplating over, even though it shouldn't take that long to answer with a word. It wasn't that hard to make a decision.

It was simply weird. No doubt about it. Still Kagome stood there thinking over the issue at hand with a finger on her chin standing in the middle of the dinning room. Finally a large smile graced her face as if she had an idea that was sure to beat Sango's. "Sango I have the perfect idea!" Kagome smiled.

"What?" Sango asked suspiciously no sure at what to expect.

"How about we both put our posters up?" she giggled thinking that he idea was the best.

"KAGOME!" shouted Sango.

"What Sango?" asked Kagome quietly.

"I JUST SAID THAT!" she hollered.

"Fine then let's go and out our posters up!" Kagome glared.

Both started to leave the room. Sango quietly walked while Kagome grumbled the whole way about best friends stealing her ideas and saying that they had just asked the same question a few seconds ago. Sango on the other hand just inwardly sighed. It was impossible to make Kagome lose and when she won an argument it's like a party in that head of hers.

When they did reach the outside world the skies were blue, with very little to no clouds. The sun was bright yellow and a few birds, brown and grey, flew across the sky landing on telephone lines or on top of store roofs. Sango and Kagome decided to split up to accomplish work much faster, since they didn't want to spend that long in the blazing heat. Sango was a little worried about letting Kagome go around town by her self, but she had faith in her. Kagome gave Sango half of her posters and took half of Sango's while Sango did the exact same thing. In the end both had half of each other's posters and half of their own to put up all around town.

They decided that they would venture town posting them up on the brown telephone poles, or a cardboard sign, or any windows around, and when they were done would come to the apartment. Kagome would end up covering the west side while Sango covered the east side. So by the end of the day most of Tokyo would have their posters everywhere. They wanted to have the biggest chance possible of getting a job and sooner they did the better it would be for both of them. At least that's what Sango thought.

Kagome quickly put up posters pole-to-pole, store window to store window. She ran through the streets of downtown Tokyo occasionally saying an "excuse me" or "sorry" to the people that she bumped into by accident. Sango on the other hand was doing the exact same thing. Both were rushing wanting to get home to their comfortable apartment with the cool air conditioning.

Outside it was blazing hot while their apartment had cold relaxing air - conditioning. Kagome ran, no sprinted using her stapler to staple all the posters up and tape for the one's she placed on store windows. Sango on the other hand power walked and quickly placed the posters everywhere, because like Kagome she didn't want to stay in the hot streets where car pollution and such made the temperature's rise even more.

When both were done Kagome quickly rushed home wanting to get the cool air and wanting to win a race, which didn't even exist. Sango on the other hand swiftly walked home wanting to produce the least amount of sweat as possible. Even then Kagome made it first because first of all she couldn't sprint, so it looked like an extremely fast waddle. Everything was out of form, but she made it home first beating Sango.

Minutes later Sango came walking through the door. Kagome smiled. "Hey Sango. It's your turn to make dinner today!" Kagome smirked.

"Oh darn. Fine. Well I'm going to make pasta." Hollered Sango from the kitchen.

"Pasta? Again? Oh fine. This time don't put in a cup of salt!" yelled Kagome.

"I said I was sorry. I thought the recipe said I cup not 1 pinch." Sango replied while getting the fire started so the water could boil.

Kagome sighed and turned on the T.V. "Tonight on the 10:00 pm we will have a special report on a scientific experiment gone wrong. He thought that maybe if he placed his 1 year old baby with a baby chimpanzee, the chimpanzee could learn from humans. The upturn that he didn't expect was that his baby started to learn chimpanzee howls instead of the human tongue…"

Kagome laughed hysterically. She started to crack up so hard she fell off the couch. "Ha ha ha loser! Complete stupidity I tell you! " Kagome laughed.

Sango came walking through the doors. "I just put the noodles in the water… what's so funny?" She asked.

Kagome looked up. "This guy thought that if he kept his baby with a chimpanzee baby then the chimpanzee would learn from it. Like learning how to speak human, but like oh it's so funny. What ended up happening was that his baby started to learn chimpanzee howls so the baby doesn't know how to speak like a human but a chimpanzee."

Sango looked at Kagome. Before you knew it both of them were laughing. It was the first time they truly laughed in two years. It had been so long. So young. How it was unfair for two girls who did nothing but try to help others to get hurt so badly.

Sango got up and took out the noodles and mixed in the pasta sauce. Within minutes she called Kagome to come eat. Kagome came and sat down at the table. "You think we'll get a job soon Sango?" she asked while eating her noodles.

"I don't know Kagome. Maybe. It all just depends." Sango sighed eating her noodles.

It was quiet for a while until Kagome decided to break the silence. "Sango no matter what happens I just want you to know…" Kagome trailed off.

"What Kagome?" Sango asked kind – heartedly.

"That you're like a sister to me. No matter what I will never forget you!" Kagome whispered, but Sango heard.

"I won't forget you either Kagome. Never!" replied Sango smiling.

To be Continued…

Hi Guys,

Well I haven't recently checked my email so I don't know about the Beta thing yet. From the people who do want to be my beta i'll probably see how they're rated and see what kind of stories they have or something.

This chapter is so not the edited one. Okay? I'll have the better/ edited one up like later in the week or something. It all depends on how mean high school is going to be to me!

I can't believe it it has been like a month since school started and these damned bitches are all over one of my best friends/ the guy i like. I wanna tell them to bug off but I can't come to say it because my angle side is like "it's not nice" and I want to be like "angel fuck off"

So enough about my love life. Okay many of you have been asking when Sesshomaru and Miroku are coming in. Well they are coming in the next chapter!

Tensaiga