chapter 2

after convincing inuyasha that she couldn't hang out because she had chores to do, she went in her house and ran up to her room. She put down her school bag and went into the kitchen to find her mother lying on the floor drunk. She sighed and walked over to the fridge. She pulled out a can of sprite and went back up to her room and did her homework. When she finnished she looked out her window and saw inuyasha running around with his dog in the backyard. "Kagome…are…You home?" she heard her mom calling up the stairs, so she went to go find her mom. "Will you be alright if I got out for a few hours, I won't be home until after you go to sleep so you'll have to make your own dinner again." She looked like she was sober again, kagome guessed that she had another date tonight and nodded her head as her mother went out the front door. She went into the living room and turned on the TV. She watched two of her favourite shows before she heard some one knocking at the door. She stood up and answered the door. Fear swept over her when she realized it was a police officer, "hello" she said, trying to remain calm. "are you kagome higurashi?" the officer asked, she sounded sad. "yes, I am kagome" "I have some bad news." "come in " she led the way to the living room and turned off the tv. "okay, there is no easy way to say this…your mother was killed in a drive-by shooting.she was the only one that was hit and died instantly so she did not suffer." She paused for a moment to let this sink in, "I…she…She said…She promised she'd come home…" kagome was in shock, her mother was dead her father went missing years ago, her brother had died a few months ago, her sister had abandoned her. "I understand that this is going to hurt for a while and I, that is to say the force and I cannot allow you to live here by yourself, but we can also not allow you to go off to an orphanage, so we will be assigning an officer to protect you until we find the scum bag that did this." Kagome nodded, barley noticing that she was shaking. She could feel the tears streaming down her face. I will go and retrieve the officer that will be watching over you while we continue our investigation." The officer stood up and left the house. She came back in a minute later with a tall silver haired man. She stared at him for a moment bfore wraping her arms around her leggs and drawing them up to her chest.

"this is sesshomaru, he is one of our top officers, he is going to be watching over you." She nodded and stood up. "you will have to stay at his place for the next day or two, but don't worry you can still come back home to get things, he is your neighbour." The female officer was still trying to brighten the mood a little.

(an hour later)

she had packed up a few days worth of clothes and her homework, and other important things, a disk man, her favourite cd's and er teddy bear. When she saw the house they were walking towards she looked confused. It was inuyasha's house, and he was standing there in the doorway he looked like he was about to cry himself. He ran towards kagome and gave her a small hug. He couldn't believe it, neither could she and she hugged him back. Sesshomaru showed her towards the guestroom between his and inuyasha's. she sat on the bed, pulled her knees up to her stomach again and cried her self to sleep.

Her mother was talkin with a guy and sitting at a table in the patio at her favourite café. Then a black van sped around the corner, a man wearing a white cloak leaned out the window and shot at her laughin.

"Nooooo! Mommy!" she woke up screaming. She'd just seen the face of the man that killed her…it was the brother she thought had died. It took her a few moments to realize that some one had gagged her. She looked around and saw him. "Markufhf" she tried to yell his name but was muffled by the gag. She tried to pull it out of her mouth and realized he had tied her up as well. He was still wearing his white cloak and had draw his gun, he was about to pull the trigger. She shot up, she looked around and didn't see her brother anywhere, and he was only in her dream. She realized there was a tall figure standing in her door way, "no, naraku leave me alone" she didn't want to wake any one else up, and it took her a few moments before she realized that it wasn't naraku. "Kagome, who's naraku?" it was inuyasha, she must've been talking in her sleep. "Naraku is my brother, or was anyways" she could feel the tears try to force their way down her face "he was in an accident a few months ago, I thought he died" "oh, I see" he walked over and sat on the end of her bed. "I think he might have been the one that shot my mum" she whispered, she regretted saying it though, she loved her brother and wished for the longest time he hadn't died. "I think you should tell that to my brother" he put his arm around her shoulder and they walked down stairs to the kitchen. Sesshomaru looked up from the stove; it looked like he was making spagetti. Mmm my favourite she thought, and she realized for the first time she hadn't eaten since lunch. "Would you like some spagetti?" she looked up at sesshomaru and nodded. He set a place on the table for her. "she says that she think her brother might have shot her mom" inuyasha said quietly. Sesshomaru looked a little shocked when he said this "is that so? What is your brothers name?" he was currious to see if the rumours surrounding her family were true. (AN: her family's the main topic at the police station in this story) "naraku" she whispered, if he hadn't been a demon I doubt he would have been able to hear it. He dropped the spoon he was stirring the sauce with. "did you say naraku?" "ya" "oh shit" he whispered, "inuyasha could you finnish cooking this? I need to uh…chack up on something" he walked out of the room, and headed for the phone. Inuyasha went over and stirred the sauce.

(30 minutes later)

Kagome and inuyasha ate their spagetti in silence and didn't look up when sesshomaru entered the kitchen. "kagome, I have been told that you are not to sleep in a room on your own so will have to sleep on a cot in my brothers room" she looked up, she was completley shocked, sleep on a cot in inuyasha's room? "Why does she have to sleep in my room?" inuyasha asked, he was just curious, "because the chief said so". Inuyasha stood up and went to set the cot up in his room.

(next day)

kagome and inuyasha got a ride to school with sesshomaru, who said he had some 'buisness' to attend to in the office. Sango and miroku ran up to greet them, it was Friday morning (AN: ye she started grade seven on a Thursday (2 weeks after everyone else did) "hey guys, we should have a sleep over at my house" sango said happily "I can't" kagome said "my mom needs my help with something this weekend" inuyasha looked at her and was about to say something when koga (surprise surprise) came up and put his hand on kagome's shoulder "did it hurt when you fell from heaven?" (AN: what a lame pick up line eh?) she reached up and slapped him across the face. Then she ran off crying inuyasha chased after her leaving two stunned friends and abaka wolf staring at kagome. "What did I do?" he asked, rubbing the red spot on his cheek. Snapping out of her shock, sango ran after kagome and inuyasha, dragging miroku behind her. They caught up and heard inuyahsa and kagome talking, "how could he say that? Right after my mother died!" "kagome, he didn't know, but I'm sure if he did, he wouldn't have said it" "bull shit, he's an insensitive, baka, and he's an ass!" "Well can't disagree there." He chuckled, and hugged her. "Come on, lets head to class." They stood up and walked towards their class. "Oh my god, kagome's mom just died?" sango looked horrified. "But hse just told you that she had to help her mom with something" miroku was right, she had just said that. "Maybe she didn't want any one to know?" sango was thinking really hard "But inuyasha knew about it" miroku once again had a good point.