'I'm not running away.'

Sango shifted in her seat, hoping to get comfortable in the chair. She was aware that the other occupants of the flight were giving her uncomfortable stares, and sighed in defeat as she gave up on her search for a comfortable spot. A flight attendant came over and offered her a glass of water, having watched Sango's uneasiness earlier, Sango took it gratefully and watched the flight attendant disappear behind the curtain separating the passengers from the pilot.

The plane was heading towards the runway. Soon it would be picking up speed and lifting off the ground, leaving her life and prison thousands of feet below. It was a brand new day.

'I'm not running away.' She thought again. After all, there was no way she would have been able to stay.

Daijobu Deska?

Chapter 2 Breathe

By: Leucothea

"Life's like an hourglass glued to the table."

-Anna Nalick

She couldn't think of anything else to do, but to grab him by the neck and just squeeze. Kami-sama...How could one man be this annoying? She had seen women do this, but not men.

"JUST tell me! Is it flight 549 or 459!" Kagome looked up at the man behind the counter, which was separating both him and the woman who wanted to strangle him now, and tapped her fingers loudly. The man looked up and rolled his eyes, thinking it would be better if he stopped his game for a while to look for the flight.

He typed quickly and accurately for seconds, then stopped and looked at the screen curiously for minutes.

"Well?"

"Flight 459, Nagasaki to Tokyo non-stop. Gate 3-A. Arrival was 45 minutes ago."

"WHAT? Kami...I spent all of that time asking you this stupid question when I could have just figured it out myself. Who gave you this goddamn job?" Kagome stomped away soon, leaving the man in his counter complain about how women were so annoying and had no manners at all.

She rushed around twisting around people and following the signs. She arrived at the gate, seeing it mostly empty, except for a couple people, she presumed where leaving through that gate. She looked around frantically seeing nothing but restaurants and shops aligning the gate. Then she saw her in one of the cafes window, and rolled her eyes. She was reading again.

She walked into the small cafe and walked behind her friend. "Kami, will you ever stop reading?"

Sango gave a little involuntary jump, and turned to see her long time friend stand over her hands on hips and slowly smiled as she enveloped her arms around her. How long had it been since they had seen each other?

Looking back, it was only a year, but seemed like an eternity. Kagome took a seat across from Sango in the booth and served herself some orange juice from the jug in the table. "Sorry I'm late; I had to deal with someone on my way." She gulped down the juice and Sango closed her book and placed it on the table.

Kagome put down the glass and grabbed the book with interest. Soon the look on her face clearly told Sango what she thought about the book. "You still read these trashy romance novels?"

"They're not trashy."

"Uh-huh." Kagome held up the book, which clearly had a woman standing in the middle of the meadow, the wind dramatically blowing her hair and dress. Behind her, stood a man with bulging muscles and long silky blonde hair. Of course, his shirt was unbuttoned.

"Hopeless."

"I'm not hopeless..."

Kagome looked down at her friend curiously. Why hadn't she stood up? Or yelled? Or argued? Could a year really have taken out this much fire from her best friend?

Kagome stopped asking herself questions and got up from her place. "Well?"

"Well what?"

"Come on let's go. I want to make sure you get to know Tokyo like the back of your hand." Kagome started walking out of the cafe and Sango quickly got out of her seat, leaving a hearty tip, and hurried out the door. "Wait!"

Sango changed the Radio to a better station, and she laid back on the cushioned chair of Kagome's car when she found Do As Infinity. Kagome and Sango had lightly talked, and now they were in a comfortable silence. They soon entered a colorful little neighborhood. Sango looked around curiously out the window and was soon interrupted from her musings by Kagome's next comment.

"There have been multitudes of breaking and entering going around. Just yesterday I heard of it a couple of streets from where I live, so I think it would be better if we stuck together for some time, and then you can calmly look for a place.

"Robberies...?"

"Yup. But I'm warning you 'cause they were lingerie robberies." Sango looked at Kagome curiously, as she drove down what seemed a nice and calm neighborhood. She saw a couple of kids in front of the buildings and well...it looked calm. It wasn't a place where you would expect robberies to take place.

Especially lingerie robberies.

"Looks like a quaint neighborhood, are you sure you heard right?"

"Yup, just come and stay at my place, and we'll go looking for a place soon."

"Alright." Sango sighed. This is not what she expected. Well, really she didn't expect anything but to move out and change, or at least try to change. Kagome turned into a blue building and parked into its garage.

They both got out and Sango noticed a familiar group of boxes by the stairway. She pointed at them, cocking her head to the side and tried to figure out if those were really the ones she thought they were. Kagome let out a sheepish chuckle...

"Umm...yeaaaah...you see...I haven't really carried all your things inside...as you can see..."

"Yeaaah..."

Sango carried the 3 boxes stacked on her arms out of the elevator and wasn't able to see where she was going, she moved her head to the left hoping to catch a glimpse of where she was going. She saw Kagome's door right away and hurried over, hoping to be inside the apartment soon, still thinking about Kagome's warning.

However, she soon regretted her actions...

"Itai!"

"Oh! I'm sorry, I couldn't see you. I'm really sorry." she bowed forgetting she was holding a very heavy box and in doing that the box slid off her arms and landed onto the person's torso.

"Ah! I'm really, really so very sorry." She quickly got the box off of the person and placed it on the ground

She offered a hand to him and he refused it. She pulled her hand back and watched as he got up and dusted his suit. Now she felt even worse. She probably ruined has suit, it looked expensive.

"Is there anything I can do to make up for what I did?" She looked up at the violet-eyed man and made so not to take a step back. That manic glint that suddenly appeared in his eyes, were not something good. He grabbed her hands and cupped them in between her own. Sango couldn't stop from blushing as he did this.

What was he up to? He looked so serious all of a sudden...

"Will you do me the honor of bearing my children?"

Disclaimer: They all belong to the wonderful, Rumiko Takahashi.

Um...yeah...this has taken me some time to write because of school and all. I do hope to write for you guys sooner so you can get in more to the story (Because it will get better, I promise.)

To sum it all up:

Sorry for the delay.

OK that's it for now. I decided to leave it here and yeah...I love cliffies, though I don't know if this would be considered as one. I'm just barely introducing the story so, I wasn't able to put the little twist of the story in this chapter. However, I will next chapter, so please continue reading it will get better.

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-Leu