A had a few views within two hours of posting which made me sort of excited, and a little scared. No reviews though. Darn. But I did get a private message asking if kikyo will be in this. I'm not sure yet, I was thinking about it but I dont know about having the bitter ex girlfriend or secretly still loved kikyo come in. I will strongly think about it though.

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha

Chapter Two: No Regrets

"Your awfully quiet." Inuyasha said glancing over at the distant Kagome. She leaned her head against her hand resting her arm up against the car door. When she didn't respond he tightened his grip on the steering wheel. When Kagome first saw his Honda Accord she was a little surprise, by Inuyasha's appearance and from what she could gather of his personality she envision him driving something a little more edgy.

"Seriously? Did I say something? Most people would be jumping out of that seat asking questions about the apartment. You act as if you don't even want to be here!" He exclaimed.

She mumbled under her breathe quietly keeping her gaze on the outside world.

"What was that?" He leaned a little towards her.

"It's because I don't want to be here." She mumbled finally turning her head to look at him.

He sighed and pulled the car off the street parking in front of small house, the children on the front lawn stared for a moment then carried on with their game. He grabbed the keys from the ignition and stopped the car turning fully to look at her "Why not?" He prompted.

"What?" She asked looking at him strangely.

"Why don't you want to do this? You came to the real estate agency yourself, so if anything there has to be a reason your here and I am not going to take you to an apartment with your mood down the drain. That only makes it worse, because no matter how perfect the apartment may be if your mood is bad you will hate that apartment every second your in there. Or you'll be so miserable you'll say yes to the first apartment we see just to get this done with and then hate it every second you live there. So spill." She glared at him for a moment her eyes searching for a sort of comfort in his, when his gaze finally soften she sighed and nodded her head.

"I have to sell my house, that is why i'm moving into an apartment. The thing is I don't want to sell my house, or at least not right now." She said her voice shakey.

"Why are you selling it then?"

She gulped, knowing that beating around the bush wasn't going to work with this guy. He asked questions, he was probably stubborn, and that meant he wasn't going to let her look at the apartments without finding out her problem first.

"I went through a divorce.." she whispered. Inuyasha strained to hear her leaning closer

"What?"

"I went through a divorce!" She exclaimed her eyes burning with tears. Her cheeks flushed and her hands shook, the pain in her chest seemed to pulse out through her body. He looked at her with apologetic eyes and grabbed her hand, rubbing his thumb over her knuckles, the same knuckles that were bruised weeks ago from when she punched her living room wall. The same knuckles that were determined to punch her no-good ex-husband. Now the bruises were fading and so was her control.

"I'm sorry. I bet this is hard-"

"No! It isn't hard! It's terrible! A nightmare! For two years I woke up every day in the arms of a man I loved a man who I trusted just to wake up one day with a note and divorce papers! For weeks I laid in my bed thinking he would walk into the room and laugh like he usually did. Waited for him to kiss my cheek, tell me work was boring as hell, and that he missed me. We were suppose to have a family, children, a life! He took it from me..." The tears were pouring down her cheeks now, no matter how many times she wiped at them they were still wet.

"You can still have all of that...you look really young..." He tried to sound encouraging without sounding like a flirt.

She wiped her cheeks one more time then sighed "I'm 22, I got married when I was 20."

"I'm 26" he smiled "I never got married, but I was engaged once."

"Really?" She wiped away another tear "what happened?"

He laughed half heartedly "I realized I wasn't in love with her. My family may have been, but I truly only saw her as a friend. Maybe a bit more than that, but I didn't see her as the woman I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. So I broke it off."

Kagome stiffened slightly wondering if his ex-fiance had cried and broke down the way she did. "How'd she take it?"

He smiled again, warmer this time. "She took it well, she said that she had her doubts to and was glad that we talked about it before we made any mistakes. We were together for a year and engaged for another. We did go fast. I was 21 when I met her 23 when I got engaged been single ever since and I have no regrets."

Kagome flinched at his last words. 'Regrets'

He frowned slightly when she moved and sighed "Don't live with any regrets Kagome. Your marriage I bet was a happy one, and from how you act I doubt you did anything crazy or stupid that made it end."

She looked at him, her eyes filled with pain. All she had been thinking for the past few weeks was she had done something wrong, something to make Koga not love her anymore and want to go love another. And now here she was with a man she hardly knew telling her that she isn't the kind of person to do anything wrong.

"Thank you Inuyasha. It means a lot that you say that.."

He smirked at his, his eyes brightening and then Kagome noticed something. She hadn't paid much attention to how he was dressed but she was thrown off a bit buy his hat. It was a black and red checker board fedora. It hardly matched his outfit at all, when he smirked it twitched and that had her curious. She reached up to grab the hat but he gripped her wrists instantly.

"What are you doing?" He questioned his face held a puzzled look.

"Your hat, it was moving." She responded.

"Moving? Kagome I think your going a little over the deep end. Maybe you need some sleep." His voice was raspy but Kagome knew what he was talking about. Her make up had smudged from her tears and now the bags under her eyes were completely visible. She probably looked ten years older now.

"I'm perfectly fine thank you very much!" She hissed yanking her hands away.

"Now Kagome don't get defensive I was-"

"Defensive?!" She cut in "I am not getting defensive!"

He laughed, a bitter laugh but still a laugh. He looked at her with a golden stare that trapped her instantly "Really now?"

She huffed and leaned back in her seat crossing her arms in front of her chest. "Yes" she muttered looking away from him.

He chuckled grabbing the keys from the cup holder, turning the car back on. He sighed feeling a knot in his a rope in his stomach loop into a knot, Kagome was going to be someone he would have problems with. She was going to be a stubborn child, he could tell. If it wasn't from the way she just snapped at him or from the way she played the silent treatment, it was from the way she fidgeted in her seat blowing smoke out of her ears.

She was going to be a tough girl to get a long with, a problem.

So why was his heart beating so fast?

The next 10 minutes of the car ride was the quietest time of Inuyasha's life. Kagome kept her gaze out the window, he knew he spooked her when he grabbed her wrists. After a while he began to feel guilty, she was recently divorced and who knew how bad it could've been. He didn't know this girl at all. He knew he shouldn't of been so rash to act the way he did, but she had scared him. He was hiding something, and he knew for a fact Kagome was curious about it.

Every few moments she would take a glance at his hat, waiting for it to move again so she could prove to herself she wasn't crazy. 'Why was he so protective of it?' She thought before turning her attention back out the window.

They came to a stop in front of a white building, it was about 8 stories tall, not a lot of windows and very little grass. Needless to say Kagome already didn't like it. When Inuyasha brought her up to the third floor apartment 3H he had very little to say about the apartment and when he talked about it, he didn't sound as if he liked it either.

"The rooms are small, there's only two of them." He said.

"The Kitchen has plenty of cabinets but it's pretty cramped." He added.

"It doesn't have a lot of space." He finished the tour off with.

Kagome looked around it with a small smile, it was cozy which is just what she wanted, but it was smaller than she wanted. With all the stuff she had this wasn't gonna do. She leaned on the kitchen counter trying to take a minute to think.

Inuyasha tried not to stare, body was to irresistible. The way she arched her back and legs made her Ass stick out perfectly and he couldn't not daydream. When he felt himself getting to excited he ripped his gaze away turning towards the wall, clearing his throat he tugged at his shirt collar "Uh so...do you want to..go look at the others?" He asked.

Kagome nodded, his voice sounded off to her, she figured that he was just bored. She stood up and walked over to him giving him a pat on the shoulder before leaving the apartment. He let out a sigh of relief trying to push the thoughts of her out of his head.

He was right, she was going to be a problem.

And yet, he was smiling.

Looking at the second apartment was no different then the first. Inuyasha like the first time was unenthusiastic, and continued to put the apartment down.

But the third apartment he seemed to be all happy about. He was excessively chatty about apartment three.

On the second floor of a 4 story apartment complex it has a nice view of a nearby park and was next to a grand grocery store. "It isn't a market.." Inuyasha stated "But it is better than nothing." He smiled.

It has three bedrooms, one and a half baths, a nice living room that was open to the kitchen. Though the kitchen wasn't as big as the second apartments it was definitely bigger than the firsts, and it had more cabinets. In the main bedroom was a very small balcony, She probably wouldn't be able to fit a chair out on it, but at least she could stand on it and watch the children at the park.

Maybe she'd get a dog and walk in there.

She had never been into dogs mainly because Koga never wanted one, but this apartment allowed pets and who knows maybe she just might like the companionship. She loved responsibility and without Koga she was going to need something to take care of.

The apartment was 2,200 a month well under her price range, she was almost ecstatic about that. Almost.

'Whats the point of extra money if you have no one to spend it with?' she thought.

Inuyasha noticed her once again distant expression and offered her some advice "If I was you, i'd get rid of any furniture from that house." He said. She looked at him shocked until he continued "Getting a new apartment may seem like your moving on and starting fresh, but if you hang onto anything from the past, especially something meaningful like furniture, you'll only end up despising this apartment just as much as you did that house."

Kagome turned her head slightly "How is furniture meaningful?"

"Did you and your ex-husband pick it out together?" He asked.

Her eyes widened a bit before she nodded looking down at the floor.

"Then it is meaningful." He stated rubbing her back softly for a moment "Come on don't be sad."

How couldn't she though? The pain in her chest only got tighter when she remembered her and Koga going to the Crazy Furniture to pick out their first couch and coffee table. They were so happy with the deal they got they were back a week later to pick out their dining room set. Then their bedroom furniture and that soon became the guest rooms because they found a set they liked better when they went back again a month later.

He sighed and gave her a slight nudge noticing the tears in her eyes "Come on Kagome." His nose twitched as he scoffed back the urge to groan. The smell of her tears was intense, and it made his stomach turn. "If it makes you feel better, i'll..come with you to pick out new furniture." He managed to spit out.

She sniffled wiping the tears before looking at him "Really?"

He smiled and nodded "Yeah, that's what friends are for right?"

"Were friends?" she asked.

"Only if you want" he added.

When she nodded he smiled and continued to talk to her about the apartment.

But in the back of his mind the word 'friend' banged around. The word was bitter when he said it, he almost caught himself regretting it.

But why? She was just a client wasn't she? Well now she was a friend?

Inuyasha never believed in love at first sight. But looking at this girl, he finally realized what that knot in his stomach was.

It wasn't sorrow, or some kind of guilt.

It was butterflies.