Chapter 13 - Tanaka/Eno

It had been a whole week without any word about Kouga. Honestly, I hoped he was dead in a ditch somewhere. But I knew he wasn't... evil doesn't die easily. I was glad though, I was able to spent all this time with Sesshomaru. He's the reason I've made it this far, he's my silver lining. Everything is perfect.. except for the fact that my sociopath ex husband was still on the loose and the security guards.. They were everywhere, if I had to pee, they would have to stand outside the bathroom door. Hiten was the worst out of all of them, he insisted on checking a room before I entered. He would even try my food before I ate it. I know they're just doing their jobs.. but their presence.. it's stifling. They're always hovering... and I hate it, I'm going crazy in here.

I heard a knock at the door.

"Come in."

"Hello my love."

I kissed him on the lips softly. "Sesshomaru you're finally back. Hiten and the rest of the 'secret service' was driving me crazy. What were doing this entire time anyway?"

He pulled a large envelope out of his satchel. "I did some digging into Kouga's past, and I found out something...strange."

He pulled out a picture, handing to me. "Who is this.. she looks just like me.. except, she's blonde."

"Her name, is Kikyo Tanaka." He handed me another picture. This time the girl... she was dead.. she looked very young. She was laid out on a cold metal slab.

"What.. happened to her?"

"This girl is, well it was Kouga's girlfriend, while they were in high school in Kyoto. She died from poisoning, she's one of the reasons he and Midoriko moved to here to Tokyo."

"One reason?"

"Yes. There's more."

"I see. So she died by poisoning?"

"To be exact

She was killed by Botulinum."

My breath hitched. "Oh god...how old was she when.. she died."

"She died at the tender age of 17."

"He was just a kid then. How was he even able to get a hold of something like this?"

"That brings me to the second reason."

He handed me another picture. This time of an older man, who was also dead. "Who is this?"

"Kouga's father. Kudo Eno. He was a plastic surgeon. Which is how he got a hold of the Botulinum. Apparently it's used for Botox injections."

"Let me guess, he died from Botulinum injections also?"

He nodded. "I believe that Midoriko and Kouga killed their father, for what reason I do not know ."

"But how could they survive on their own in a city like this."

He pulled out a stack of papers handing them to me. They were bank statements. "Apparently their father had set up a trust fund for each of them. That they would receive pending his death."

"What about their mother?"

"It seems she had left their father for another man when Kouga was only ten."

"They never suspected him of killing either of them?"

He flipped through the pages, skimming them over. "It says here they suspected his father, and when he died they assumed that he had committed suicide."

I sighed. "So much for the police doing their job. Where did you get all this from anyways?"

"I called in a few favors, from another judge."

"Different from the first one?"

"Yes. The first was my father."

"Who is this second mysterious judge?"

"My mother."

I was caught off guard. I had always assumed his mother had left him.

"My mother never left me. If that's what you're thinking. My father had an affair with Inuyashas mother. So she kept her distance, she just recently came back after Inuyashas mother had fallen ill and past away."

"Oh my.. I never knew, how did she die?"

"Ovarian cancer." He said nonchalantly.

I sighed. "You don't show much emotion when it comes to others, do you?"

"Only to those who matter."

"So.. basically just to me?"

He smiled. "Exactly, and speaking of my mother. We will be seeing her tomorrow."

"W-What why?!"

"She wants to meet her new daughter in law."

"Daughter in law?"

He laid back onto the bed. "I do intend to marry you Kagome. Did you think I would court you forever?"

I felt my face get hot. "W-Well no... but."

"But what? Do you not love me?"

"Of course I do!"

"Alright then, we shall go ring shopping tomorrow."

I sighed. "Alright."

I snuggled up to him, wondering when the dark cloud that is my ex husband would come in... ruining my life all over again.