A/N: I can't work on Past Servant so cuz my friend isn't back… I'm gonna put this one shot up. It's about a question we all ask. What happened to Kagome's dad? I have the answer. A songfic.

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Inuyasha or the song Family Portrait by Pink…I wish I owned Inuyasha I would put him on a leash… /receiving angry glare from Inuyasha/

Um…sorry?

Family Portrait

Sango and Kagome headed toward the hot springs with their usual warning. "Miroku, if you dare to even try and follow us I'll hang you from a tree, let Inuyasha chop you into small pieces with Tetsusaiga and feed you to Kirara." Sango yelled. No one saw Kirara's look extremely alarmed.

"Kirara you stay here and watch him ok?" Kagome asked and then added in an undertone, "Unless you want to eat him."

Kagome and Sango finally got to the hot spring. Sango knew almost everything about Kagome but there was question she wanted to ask.

"All right Sango ask me anything I'm prepared." Kagome said swimming a lap around the spring.

"Anything?" Sango asked smiling.

"Anything," Kagome replied.

Sango to a deep breath, "Ok , why have I never heard you speak of your father?"

Kagome's face fell but she said, "Only if you tell me what happened to your mother and you promise you never tell anyone else not even Kirara."

Sango agreed. Kagome started, "While, you know how I'm such a good example, I wasn't always like that I was a pretty bad kid. It all started when Souta was two and my mom lost her job, I was eight. My dad said it was all her fault we didn't have enough for money."

"It started to get horrible then…I would get home from school and lock myself in my room."

Flashback

"IT'S YOUR FAULT! YOU DON'T CAN'T DO ANYTHING RIGHT!" Mr. Higurashi screamed.

"YOU'RE THE ONE WHO'S WORKING YOU SHOULD BE SUPPORTING THE FAMILY! YOU SPEND ALL YOUR MONEY ON BOOZE!" Mrs. Higurashi replied.

From her bed Kagome heard glass shattering and her mother screaming and crying.

End of Flashback

Mama please stop crying,

I can't stand the sound,

Your pain is painful,

And it's tearing me down.

I hear glasses breaking,

As I sit up in my bed.

I told dad you didn't mean

Those nasty things you said.

"I always tried to make my dad feel better cause I loved him so much. I had no idea he was an alcoholic I was eight," Kagome said tears streaming down her face.

Sango hugged her and said, "You don't have to continue."

Kagome shook her head, "I've been holding this in for too long…7 years in fact."

You fight about money,

About me and my brother,

And this I come home too,

This is my shelter.

"Sango, the only reason I came back was for Souta. He was only two and my dad would sometimes beat him!" Kagome cried.

It aint easy growing up in world war 3,

Never knowing what love could be.

You see I don't want love to destroy me,

Like it has done my family.

"That's why I'm afraid to tell Inuyasha how I feel. I don't want him to chose Kikyou over me, my family has already been torn and I have always tried to forget about it." Kagome explained.

Sango smiled and said, "you're not the only one who's afraid to tell someone how you feel. We all get like that around the person you truly love."

Can't we work it out?

Can't we be a family?

Promise I'll be better,

Mommy I'll do anything.

"I decided I would change, I decided the bad me would be gone I wouldn't do bad stuff anymore and would be a good example for Souta no matter how much I call him a brat, I love my little brother, I did even then, he was the only one who would listen to me. Though I'm not sure if he could understand. Her was only two after all." Kagome paused for breath.

Can't we work it out?

Can't we be a family?

I promise I'll be better,

Daddy please don't leave.

Daddy please stop yellin'

I can't stand the sound.

Make mama stop crying

'cause I need you around.

"I needed him then I sometimes I need him now!" A fustrated, sobbing Kagome screamed. Sango was calmly listening not sure what to say. Sure Sango's father was strict and had never compliemented Kohaku to Kohaku's face but he loved both of them and told sango that Kohaku would be the best demon slayer in the village. That some day he would beat Sango. He was only teasing but even if he hadn't been sango wouldn't have cared.

My mama she loves you,

No matter what she says it's true.

I know that she hurt you,

But remember I love you too.

"My mom still loved him! EVEN AFTER HE LEFT!" Kagome was venting 7 years of anger she had kept hidden and was glad Sango could understand her anger. "I love him too, I still do! He's my father I can't not love him."

Kagome had calmed down a little bit, but their was still a lot a anger. She hadn't told anyone what happened to her father. Now that she was she found herself, crying, angry and yet relieved. Kagome hadn't been planning to tell anyone about her father but Sango had asked. No one else did. They just thought he left. No questions that should have been asked were.

Flashback

Kagome crept out of her room and down the stairs. She had put Souta to bed, like the good sister she was going to be from now on. She found her mom crying on the window seat. She looked around for her father. She found him in the kitchen with another pack of beer.

Flashback

"That's when he left, when I needed him the most! How could he? I hated him, and I couldn't hate, because that would mean hating myself! He left without one word to anyone, except me. He said 'Don't make the mistakes I did, be sure to live your life respectfully' Then he walked out the door. That's all." Kagome screamed in fustration.

Sango had been amazingly calm during all of this and had been so intense she never even noticed that Kirara had come to worn her.

I ran away today,

Ran from the noise, ran away.

Don't wanna go back to that place,

But don't have no choice, no way.

"One day before my father left I decided I would. I didn't want to be with my family. My mom wasn't home and my dad didn't see me leave." Kagome wasn't angry anymore just sad. "I had to come home though, I couldn't leave Souta. There was no way. It was agood thing I came back, my dad was beating Souta when I got back. He was a baby! I took him to my room and bandaged him. He was crying, I hated what my dad had done to him."

It aint easy growing up in World War 3.

Never knowin' what love could be.

You see, I don't want love to destroy me.

Like it did my family.

Can't we work it out?

Can't we be a family?

Promise I'll be better,

Mommy I'll do anything.

Can't we work it out?

Can't we be a family?

I promise I'll be better,

Daddy please don't leave.

Kagome walked to the shore she pulled in her clothes and something fell out of her pocket. Sango picked it up. It was a picture. Kagome's mom and dad standing together smiling holding hands. Kagome was holding a young outa in her eyes smiling. Sango handed the picture back to Kagome. Kagome smiled. "That was fake, we never looked like that. It was all pretend."

In our family portrait,

We look pretty happy.

Let's play pretend,

Act like it comes naturally.

I don't wanna have to split the holidays,

I don't want to addresses.

I don't wanna stepbrother any way,

And I don't want my mama to have to change her last name.

"They got the divorce, and my dad started dating other people. But he killed himself. He was driving drunk. He also killed his passenger, and it happened to be my best friends mom. Nanashi was so mad at me. She never forgave me, even after she was moved to foster care.

In our family portrait,

We look pretty happy.

Let's play pretend,

Act like it comes naturally. (2x)

Can't we work it out?

Can't we be a family?

Promise I'll be better,

Mommy I'll do anything.

Can't we work it out?

Can't we be a family?

I promise I'll be better,

Daddy please don't leave.(4x)

"The last word I said to him we're 'Please don't leave.' The next thing I know he's dead. I was hit hard. But it hit Souta harder not knowing what his father was like. I felt so bad for him. That's why he looks upi to Inuyasha he needs a model male figure in his life. After my dad moved out my grampa came to live with us. And that's all there is really."

You took my shining star.

Daddy don't leave! (4X)

Mom'll be nicer,

I'll be so much better.

I'll tell my brother

I won't spill the milk at dinner.

I'll be so much better,

I'll do everything right.

I'll be your little girl forever,

I'll go to sleep at night.

"It wasn't until he was gone I realized hom much I missed him. See that star?" Kagome asked pointing to the North Star, Sanog nodded. "It's my fathers star, he told me whenever I felt lost I could see this star and it would guide me. I felt as if it went out when he left." Kagome wiped her eyes and said, "I guess that's all."

Neither noticed in the bushes stood Inuyasha and Miroku. "I never knew…"Miroku started. "I didn't either," Inuyasha replied.

Sango smiled reassuringly and put a hand on her friends shoulder. "Kagome-chan thank you for telling me this," she said.

"Your Welcome, actually I think it helped me out to. Now it's your turn, what happened to your mom?" Kagome asked.

And so Sango told her story. But that is a different story and not one I will tell.

End

A/N: Did you like it? R&R!

And now some important business. Do you guys wanna know why I'm not gonna tell you about Sango's mother? 'Cause I want you to. I'm holding a fanfic contest. It has to be like a sequel to Family Portrait. The second chapter of my Series Of Serious One-shots and Poems. It should be a one-shot, though it can be a very long one-shot.

Summary: Sango tells Kagome about her mother. You can basically decide from there. That's the only guidelines I'm giving you. oh just so you know, they're both now out of the hot springs and dressed.

Now if you're interested in this contest, send your entries (you can have 3 different ones max.) to

You have until August 30th to get you entries in. The first, second and third place winners will have there stories posted on fanfic. In my story but with total credit to the authors who wrote them.

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