Yay an update! WOWSERS...that took some time. So the goal with this story is that each chapter stays around 1,000 words and I'm hoping it won't be longer than 10-15 chapters. So the goal is that it will move quickly. I think we are going to update 2x a month for now. I have finished Finals but I am still taking a capstone, so my time is 100% free right now.

This chapter was beta'd by the lovely Laureninthesky96 thank you!

She opened her eyes groggily to a bright light in her face. Garbled words were spoken around her as she tried to sit up. "Try not to move." She heard Izayoi.

"Izayoi?" Kagome asked weakly, scrubbing the crust off her eyelashes and opening her eyes. Her mother-in-law sat in a chair in the corner of the hospital room.

Kagome touched her hand finding an IV, and then swallowed the thickness in her mouth. "What happened?"

"You passed out," a harsher voice said from the other side of the room.

"How did you get in here?" She pushed herself up to sit.

"It's amazing what hospitals are willing to do for you when you threaten a suit and have the means to follow through."

"Great," Kagome exhaled, catching her breath. Her hands immediately flew to her belly, feeling it still round and firm.

"The baby is fine." Izayoi quickly sat down on the bed next to her. "You can leave, Sesshomaru."

"Not until she signs a document absolving me of any legal or financial liability for this incident." He threw a paper on her lap with bright yellow arrows, pointing out where to sign.

Kagome adjusted herself in the bed, nodding just as the doctor entered the room. "I need to speak to her privately."

Sesshomaru glared at Izayoi as they waited in the hallway. The door was left cracked and he was able to catch pieces of the conversation. Kagome had been couch surfing for weeks and with that, she wasn't eating properly, causing malnutrition. The doctor asked her if she had a place to live. She said nowhere and started crying, explaining that her husband had passed recently and they did not have much money saved and she had only recently procured work that she was sure she was going to be fired from.

"She wouldn't be in this position if you weren't so cruel," Izayoi said angrily.

"Shut up, hag. If you and father had not been so cruel—"

"It was for your own good!" Izayoi screamed at him.

"I was a child!" he yelled back just as loud. "Did I deserve to be shipped off at the age of twelve like I didn't matter?"

The doctor exited the room and Sesshomaru's fury billowed within him. He left Izayoi standing in the hall and asked Kagome. "Did you sign the papers?"

"Yes…um, he said I need to rest for a week and eat and…"

"Your position will be waiting for you," he cut her off abruptly, taking them off the foot of the bed. "Next Monday at 8am." He paused by the door. "Come to my house, after you are discharged."

"Um…okay," Kagome answered, exhausted.

"Why aren't you finishing the food?" he asked her curtly.

Kagome only bit her bottom lip.

He opened his wallet and took out a twenty dollar bill, handing it to her. "Tell the hag to get something to eat."

"You are such an ass…I'll pay you back." She took it from him. "Thank you, Sesshomaru."

After he left, Izayoi entered the room. "You had me scared, Kagome."

Kagome handed her the money. "What does he mean you sent him away?"

Izayoi pursed her lips and sat down in a chair. "It's a long story."

"It's cruel."

"You don't understand." Izayoi shook her head in denial.

"He was twelve, most people wait until high school." Kagome lifted up the jello and started eating it.

"We couldn't wait that long," Izayoi raised her eyes to meet Kagome. "You don't know what happened."

"You sent him away!" Kagome yelled, not understanding where the anger was coming from.

"WE HAD TO!" Izayoi breaks down in tears. "We had to. You don't know what it was like raising him. He was out of control, Kagome. He was diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder, they said he was anti-social. He pulled a knife on a student at school and said he was going to kill him."

Kagome covered her mouth, shocked.

"Toga had to fight to get him out of jail that night." She wiped her sun blistered eyes. "Social Services said they were taking custody of him and that it wasn't safe for him to be around Inuyasha. They were going to put him in a home for children like him. We couldn't do that to him, Kagome. So Toga made a deal with the judge. He would send him to live at a Military school until he was eighteen or he showed enough progress that he was no longer a danger to himself or those around him." She took a tissue to clean her face. "He doesn't remember it like that. He doesn't know what we had to do to keep custody of him. It was the only way!"

"But you could tell him!"

"No!" Izayoi says shaking.

"Why not? He hates you and his father for it?" Kagome drops her spoon.

"No!" Izayoi barked. "You won't tell him either."

"But I don't understand why?"

"Toga said he didn't want him growing up with a label. He never told Sesshomaru he had a problem. We tried everything, but he was so stubborn. When this happened, Toga refused to let him become a delinquent. He wanted him to grow up proud of himself and his accomplishments, not a child that had been in jail, that had a record. We did it to protect him, Kagome."

"You have to tell him!" Kagome screams defiantly.

"NO! I would rather die than for him to think of himself as anything else than what he is. His father wanted him to believe in himself and that's what happened. He was so proud of Sesshomaru." She falls into her hands, sobbing. "He loved him so much. I love him." Izayoi drops to her knees in front of Kagome's bed. "You have to promise me you won't tell him."

"Izayoi—"

"No. Toga didn't want him remembering himself like that. You have to promise me."

"I promise." The oath tasted bitter in her mouth.

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Chapter Five I hope to get up on March 23rd!

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