January 11, 2001 (two years and two months ago)

Kagome had just turned thirteen the day before and she was having her party today. She couldn't wait to get home from school. She was so excited. She wanted to see what her mother had waiting for her. However, what she got was not what she expected.

As she came up to her house, she saw a police car parked outside her house. Worried about her mother, she ran inside the house. "Mom?" She called when she got into the door.

"Kagome," her father called from the living room.

"Daddy? What's wrong? Where's mom?" She asked as she came into the living room.

"Oh honey." He cried as he hugged her, "They're gone."

"Gone? What do you mean 'gone'?" She questioned. She didn't understand. Her mother was here when she left for school and now she was… gone?

"Come and sit down," he led her to the couch and sat down.

"Daddy, what are they doing here?" She asked nodding in the direction of the two officers.

"They are here because they have some news for us." He started to explain, "Kagome, your mother and Souta went out to get your cake and gifts."

"Yes. I know that daddy but where are they now?" She looked at him with confused, questioning eyes.

"They are… they have gone to heaven, Kagome. They died in a car accident." He explained to her.

"What?" She said, "No! That cannot be true! Why would you lie to me?"

"I wouldn't lie to you, Kagome. I swear it," he said pulling her into his arms. "Your mother and little brother are gone and you are all I have left."

"No!" She cried as she held on to her father.

The police officers excused themselves and left the little family in peace. Three days later, they buried her brother and mother side by side. On their head stones it said "Beloved brother and son… Beloved mother and wife." All her friends that knew her mother came to the funeral. Inuyasha came because her mother was like his mother, since he didn't have one. He also came to give Kagome the support she needed. That was up until she ran from the plot as her mother's body was being lowered in the ground. Inuyasha would have run after her but Onigumo stopped him.

"Let her go. She needs this time to her self." He said holding on to Inuyasha's shoulder.

Kagome ran and ran till it felt like her chest would burst and her legs would fall off. She stopped in a clearing. She couldn't believe both her mother and brother were dead. She cried until she couldn't cry anymore and that was heard were silent hiccups. By the time she made it back to her father it was dark. Everyone had left. She couldn't care less. She didn't want to talk to them.

Her father drove them home to the very empty house, where Kagome went to sleep as soon as she got into her bed.

The next morning, Kagome found it hard to get up. Knowing that she would never hear her mother call her down for breakfast or her eight-year-old brother snooping through her things. In less than a week, her whole life changed. Reluctantly, she got up and went down stairs to see how her father was doing.

She wasn't surprised when she saw he wasn't faring well either. He was sprawled out over the couch, a liquor bottle on the table beside him. She took the blanket that was on the back of the chair and laid it across her father, and then she took the liquor bottle and threw it away.

Present time
Kagome cried some more as she remembered how her father started drinking heavily after that. He would yell at her. Something he never did while her mother was still alive.