Chapter Fourteen

From Above

An Inuyasha Fanfiction

By Momoe

"Okay, You can take the blind-fold off now." Sesshoumaru said cooly. He asked me to put it on then we got in his car and we drove for a short time. Then he helped me out of the car. It was cold out still so I was glad I had a big coat on. I reached up and untied the blindfold.

In front of me was a very large, modern looking building. "Oh, this place looks nice!" I said happily as I looked up and down the facade of the building. It was huge, at least twelve floors. It was dark grey in color with large glass planes on each floor. "What is this place?" I asked Sesshoumaru.

"Well…. this is our new home." He smiled proudly at me. I laughed happily and gave Sesshoumaru a big hug.

"Really? You found a place?!" I laughed out. "What floor is it on?" I said. I was too excited to see our new apartment, especially in such a nice building.

"I actually bought the building." He smiled. I covered my mouth after my mouth, I was very surprised. "We will be living in the top floor apartment though. It's the nicest one." He smiled and took my hand. He went to the front door and pulled a key out of his pocket. He unlocked the large glass door and let me in. I looked around the lobby. There was a large reception desk in the center, an elevator and stairs off to the left and to the right was a wall of mailboxes. The floor was checkered with shiny black and grey titles and the walls were grey with black panels.

"I was thinking of getting some plants and sofa's put in the lobby. It would really look nice." He smiled happily and followed me around and I stood with my mouth agap.

"Sesshoumaru, this place is amazing! How did you…?" I didn't even know how to ask this question. I know he has a lot of money… but this place must have costed a lot.

"Well, the previous owner kicked out all of the tenants to remodel this place, then went over budget and went bankrupt. He had to sell it quick and cheap. So I got a great deal. And if we own the place where we live, my mother can't pull the same shit she did before." I nodded he had a good point.

"I know you feel bad about not working, Kagome, so I figured I'd let you help with finding tenants and managing this place. After the baby is born of course." He smiled at me. I was so happy.

"Sesshoumaru… that's really sweet thank you!" I said and gave him another big hug.

"You're welcome, I hope you like our new place. Want to go check it out?" he asked with a big smile. I nodded and we headed for the elevator. "Our apartment is on the twelfth floor." He smiled. "The first floor is the lobby, the second to fifth floors are one to two bedroom apartments, four on each floor. The sixth floor is our gym and sauna floor, it's huge, you'll love it." I smiled at him, he seemed to really be happy with his purchase. Floors seven to eleven are three to four bedroom apartments, with two on each floor." He explained as the elevator went up. It finally dinged at opened on floor twelve.

"Our apartment is the only one on this floor, along with the utility closets, staff rooms and such." He smiled and walked to a large black door in the middle of the hallway. The hallway matched what the lobby looked like, it was absolutely beautiful. When he opened the door, I was struck completely by surprise.

There was a large living room right at the door, with dark hardwood floors. Off to one side was a dinner room connect to a kitchen that was huge. It was black and silver themed like the rest of the building. What really drew my attention was the floor to ceiling windows the stretched all along the length of the living room. I walked over and looked out, the view of the city was even better here. My breath was taken away.

"Sesshoumaru… this is amazing." I said and then my eyes caught a long hallway. "Are the rooms down here?" I asked and started walking down the hallway.

"Yes, this is a five bedroom, 3 bath apartment. I was thinking one room for us, one for the baby, we each can have our own office and either have the last room as a playroom or a spare bedroom." He smiled.

He showed me what would be our new room. It was about the same size as our current room with a large master bathroom attached to it. And two different walk in closets which would be perfect. He has a lot of clothes and recently I've accumulated a lot.

"I already put an advertisement out and hired a few real estate agent to help us find tenants. So we will have a little extra income each month after all the apartments are full." He smiled proudly. "I hope you are fine with our current furniture, I'll purchase some new things for the baby's room and your office soon." My face was hurting so much from smiling.

"This is absolutely wonderful, Sesshoumaru." I giggled a little bit. This would be a good change of pace for us. I couldn't wait to move into here with him and for our little family to start.

It had been three weeks since Sesshoumaru purchased the new apartment building. We already had over half of the apartments filled since it was in a high demand area. We already moved in and Sesshoumaru highered a group of people to move all of our furniture. It was like home again, in this new apartment and I was loving it. The babies room was painted a very light pink color, we already had a crib and changing station in there too. I was getting very close to my third trimester by this point and showing very much.

I hadn't spoken to Sango much recently I decided it was finally time to confront Sango about why she had lied to me and her suddenly bailing on me while we were out. I tried calling her many times and texting her. She missed my calls and would text me hours later. I finally got her on the phone and asked her to come over and join me for dinner at our new place since Sesshoumaru had a big case coming up and he had a late dinner meeting. She accepted and dinner was already delivered, I ordered some chinese food and went out and rented a movie for us to watch.

She was a little late by the time she arrived. She looked beautiful as ever, wearing a short mini dress with frills around the waist and her hair in a high ponytail.

"Kagome! You're huge!" She said and gave me a hug when she stepped in.

"Thanks for reminding me." I laughed out. I showed her around the new apartment and she was in awe, just as much as the first time she came over to our last apartment.

"Sesshoumaru really is a keeper, huh?" She smiled. I took her to the dining room where I already had dinner set out for the both of us. "Did I call it? Or did I call it, when I said you need to marry this guy." she laughed out as we sat down to dinner."Speaking of which…." I rolled my eyes, I had a feeling I knew where this was going. "when are you and Sesshoumaru going to get married?" She asked.

I let out a sigh, she and I had talked about this before. "I'm not focusing on that right now." I told her again. "I'm happy just being with Sesshoumaru and having a child with him. That stuff won't come until later." I smiled "Besides, I would hate to have a big pregnant belly when we do get married." Sesshoumaru and I talked about it. I know we are committed to each other so I do need to be legally married to him right now. Down the line I would like to be married to him though.

"Listen, Sango… There was actually a reason why I invited you over today." I admitted when we were almost done eating. She looked at me curiously. "Look… I ran into Miroku the other day… why didn't you tell me." Sango looked immediately upset.

"Because Kagome…." She seemed somewhat angry.

"I'm your bestfriend, I want to be part of your life. I've said things that must have hurt you because I didn't know about it…" I said with a frown.

"I didn't tell you because it's your fault, Kagome." Sango said. I've never seen her look so angry. "He was still in love with you. Even though he stopped talking to you, like I asked him to, he still always talked about you. When we would get into fights, he would bring you up. Say things like "Kagome wouldn't do this" or "Kagome would do that." I'm so fucking tired of it." I was taken aback by what she was saying.

"You have the perfect life. The only man I've ever loved was all about you. I couldn't even get him to acknowledge me. It was always all about you. Why are you always so lucky?" She said in a very stern voice.

"Sango…." I had no idea what to say to her. She had never spoken to me this way before.

"You're boyfriend dies, then what happens? You so happen to fall in love with his older brother that is super rich and then you move into a super nice apartment… then what happens? He is SO rich that he buys you an even nicer apartment with an even nicer view? Why are you so lucky in life? Why do I have to struggle and lose the only guy I've ever actually loved to the person that has it all?" She was in tears by the time she finished yelling at me.

"Sango…." I felt so bad, not because she said those things to me. But because she was hurting and felt so bad that she couldn't handle it and started placing the blame somewhere else.

"Sango. I was always clear with Miroku on my intentions. I'm sorry that he did that to you, but trust me, you will find someone you love again and if he is right for you, everything will be wonderful in your life. But it is not my fault that things didn't work out between you two. As much as you might want to blame me…. It isn't my fault. I'm sorry that it didn't work out between you two…" She glared at me. Deep down she knew I was right.

"And frankly Sango…. I'm offended that you call me losing my first love 'Lucky'... it was the most painful event I went through in my life. It completely changed me as a person and the only part of it that might have made me "lucky" is the ability to move on." I paused again… I didn't even know what to say to her.

"Look… Kagome, I'm sorry." Sango stared at her food. "I know none of this is your fault but… I just… I can't do this right now." She said and got up. She let herself out. i didn't really understand why she was so upset with me, but I couldn't do anything about it if she wasn't willing to talk to me. I decided to let her breathe and deal with her issues. Once she was ready to talk about everything, I would sit down with her and talk her through everything and listen.