I arrived at my apartment with the same heavy heart I always had after talking to InuYasha. I never knew what he had done to me back then in High school. Our band, our friends and the way I used to beat the living hell out of InuYasha. I hated the half-youkai man, but some how he had made me love him with the glances he had given me on the stage. I guess the best romance is the one that needs no words, right? Then again we aren't together anymore, hmm.

I let the key click into the door and twist as I came out of my stupor. My apartment didn't feel like home, it never had. I hug my coat up on the coat rack, locked my door, threw my bag off to the side and kicked my shoes off before I could lie on the couch an unwind a full days stress.

As much as I didn't want to think about it, I found my thoughts constantly on InuYasha today. I wondered for so long why he hadn't trusted me when he had caught Koga and I. It's not like I ever had feelings for the full-blooded youkai male, he had kissed ME. Technically, I was the victim.

Leaning back, I popped by spine and pushed my hair back with one hand, sighing; I really had so many things wrong with my life. Too bad I worked with InuYasha and his brother as my boss. I smiled for a few minutes at that, the irony was too powerful not to have smiled.

I jumped three feet in the air when my phone started ringing and grabbed for my chest.

"What the hell?!"

Grabbing the phone, I answered and tried to make my voice calm.

"Hello, Kagome speaking."

"Don't hang up, I need to ask you something."

"InuYasha what could you possibly need to ask me?"

"I need to come stay with you."

I knew if InuYasha had seen my face he would have probably screamed bloody murder. I don't know if the expression I had was even in any kind of book. The appall, the nerve of InuYasha! Live with me? What in his right mind would make him say such a stupid thing?!

"InuYasha are you in your right mind?"

"Kags we used to date, I knew I could trust you."

"Give me one good reason why I'd ever let you stay with me?"

"Someone burned down my apartment complex, Sesshoumaru is away with Rin and I have no one else to stay with."

If there was one thing to make a person feel like shit, that would have been it. I rubbed my head and knew I was making a bad decision right before the words passed my lips.

"When you get here you're following my rules."

"Thanks Kago-"

I hung the phone up and dropped it next to me. My Ex-fiancée was about to come and live with me, god knows how long, too. What exactly had I done to deserve this plate full of shit? I laughed and leaned back on the couch. The reason? I wish I had thought to burn the apartment places down first, some lucky ass had beaten me to it. I was still smiling when I heard the doorbell; some how I think he was in the parking lot when he called. He knew me all too well even now, and it frightened me. But only a little. I wiped the smile clean and turned the knob.

I twisted the knob and as soon as I saw InuYasha I held my breath; who said it was a good idea to let him live with me? Oh yeah, that had been me. I felt like a complete idiot staring at him in the doorway. He looked completely awful; his hair was strewn, his clothes ashy and his face had patches of dirt and it looked like ash mixed in. He held only a few things in his hands, I suddenly felt bad for InuYasha.

I snatched the bags from him and sat them near the door before giving him a smile.

"Welcome InuYasha."

"Keh." He walked in and settled down on the couch, I knew I'd have to scrub it later to get the ashes, and the ash smell, out of it; at the moment I didn't mind.

"So, do you want to wash up or something?"

I saw Inuyasha's face move into a smile even before he leaned his head back over the couch to look at me.

"Already showering together are we? My, my we must be great friends, hum?"

I knew my face was red and that I was smiling like an idiot, so I took off a heel and threw it right in his face.

"Take a shower and shut up, you're pushing it even being here." I looked at him again before walking to the loveseat across from the couch, "So, what were you in the fire or something?"

He looked down at his clothing and gave a sheepish smile; I knew I was being rude.

"Well, some people were still in there and I wasn't going to leave until every person was out. Then I had to go back in for a damned cat."

I stared and then just started laughing very loudly, perhaps my neighbors heard me, I wonder. InuYasha just kept staring at me and finally smiled that same smile, this made me stop and cough slightly. I got up, went to the hallway closet and got a towel and soap for InuYasha and took it back to him with a blank face.

"Here you go InuYasha, you can wash up with these. You do have clothes to change into right?"

InuYasha pulled on the shirt he had on, "This one. Just these clothes."

I nodded; I hadn't really expected him to have much. "Alright when you get into the bathroom toss your clothes out to me and I will wash them for you. Then you can go get new clothes tomorrow or something."

He nodded and took the towel and soap from me before walking to where the bathroom was. I waited patiently for him to throw his clothes out and he came out in a towel and handed them to me personally.

"Here you go, Kags."

I wish I hadn't stared at him so long before I took the clothes, now I was thinking. Think for me had always been a bad thing on my part. "Yeah, thanks, Yasha."

I ran off quickly and didn't even see if he had made it back into the bathroom or anything, I threw the clothes in the wash with mine and turned it on smiling.

"3…2…1…"

"KAGOME WHAT THE HELL?! OWW, DAMN HOT, HOT WATER, SHIT! KAGOME!!!!!"

I just stood there with a smile plastered on my face staring at the closed bathroom door. Before I knew it InuYasha had opened the door, his whole body was a red color from the shower.

"What the hell, Kags?!"

"Don't come out in a towel anymore it's payback for not throwing the clothes out of the bathroom and staying in the bathroom. Remember? I said you had to follow MY rules?"

InuYasha smiled and yanked the towel off and threw it down before turning to go back into the bathroom. "There's my response to your rules. Enjoy the show?"

With that he closed the door; I could swear he was laughing. Damn, what had I gotten myself into this time?

My face burned with the heat that had rushed to it in such a little amount of time, I coughed and headed into the kitchen for something cold to drink. I put a pot of water on the stove and waited for it to boil. If I still knew InuYasha he'd want ramen pretty soon.

Why the hell do I do this to myself? It wasn't my fault we had broken it off; so then why did it feel like it was?

"Oh, InuYasha…why did things change?"

I opened up a portable Kool-Aid package and grabbed a cold bottle of water, pouring it in and mixing it up before taking a big drink of it, it settled my stomach and the sugar was something I needed at the moment.