There was no sputtering or adamant denial, and Kagome hid her smile. It had been a long journey, almost a decade in the making, but they really did feel like family now.

Kagome had come to terms with her father's death—she wouldn't have fallen down the well if he'd been alive—but would Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru still have been at odds if Touga had been around to smooth things over?

From what Inuyasha had told her, his mother would've wanted the siblings to be close, and Kagome was sure Sesshoumaru's mother—

She gave the daiyoukai a startled look.

In all the years she'd known him, Sesshoumaru had never mentioned his mother.