"Alright you guys, come straight to the house after school today." Kagome said as she let the two kids out of her car at the school.

"Bye mom." Yasha said giving his mom a kiss on the cheek.

"Bye." Azami yelled as she got out of the back.

The two made there way to Kyubi to start there day at school. Kagome smiled as she went off to work at the pet store.

She walked into the store as she went into the back to grab her apron that she had to wear while working. She passed a small kid who was reading while he waited for his mom to finish her shopping, the book was called, "The Puppy Sister" and had a dog on the front cover standing on its hind legs. She smiled knowing it was rare for kids to read freely now and days.

After signing in and putting everything away she started out on the floor to help customers. However, unlike normal, she had that book stuck on her mind the whole time. What could that book be about? Why was it on her mind so much?

(Later in the day)

Shiho was enjoying a bone that Kagome had just gotten from her job when Yasha walked through the door. Shiho stopped her chewing session to meet Yasha at the door.

"Mom we are home." Yasha yelled. Shiho came in and rubbed up on Yasha's leg as both he and Azami bent down to pet her.

"Alright hun, dinners almost ready why don't you guys go to the dining room and grab a chair?" Kagome never said the s word; it was something that Yasha and her family got used to never saying around her.

Azami walked into the room with Yasha, "So where should I si…" Azami started asking.

Yasha grabbed her mouth before whispering "Never say that." Shiho looked at the children with interest as she cocked her head to the side.

Kagome just walked out of the room acting like she never heard the small girl.

Azami waited until she assumed that Kagome was gone before whispering, "I always mean to ask you this, what's wrong with saying sit?"

At that point they heard a crash and looked to see Kagome's normal smile turn to a scarred look as she started to hyperventilate. The food was scattered all over the floor. Shiho sniffed a biscuit that was rolling on the floor.

"Mom, calm down. Remember the breathing exercises." Yasha said walking over to his mother which was always a bad move for him.

Kagome grabbed Yasha as she held him to her. Yasha's back was currently against her stomach as she cried into his hair. They both sat on the floor as she didn't let up on her crying as she yelled, "I'm sorry. I didn't mean for that to happen. Forgive me." Shiho stopped sniffing the biscuit and walked over to Kagome as she licked the side of Kagome's face.

Yasha never understood what his mom meant from this but it bugged him to see his mother like this. It seemed almost like she went into her own trance during this time.

He normally allowed his mother to cry it out but this time she end up with her arm around his neck as she squeezed. He knew she didn't mean to. She always felt bad once she was out of this trance but during this time it was something he had to worry about.

"Yash are you okay?" Azami asked, not knowing what to do.

Yasha started to choke under the pressure from her arm, "Go get my grandmother." He said through his chokes. "Tell her that someone said sit." Shiho was licking Kagome's face and trying to get her nose between her arm and Yasha.

Shiho let out a whimper.

"Gotchya." Azami ran upstairs knowing exactly where Yasha's grandmother's room was. "Grandma Higarashi." She yelled.

"Yes?" an older woman opened the door. "Oh Azami dear, Yasha's door is the next one."

"No Yasha told me to get you, Ms. Higarashi is acting weird."

"What do you mean?" the old woman asked afraid of the answer.

"Yasha said to say that someone accidentally said sit."

As soon as she said that the frail looking woman straightened up and ran down the stairs with Azami following close behind.

"Kagome let go of him." the old woman yelled as she bent down in front of Kagome pushing the dog out of the way.

"No mom, I should have never said that word, it is my fault. I shouldn't have said it." she yelled as she cried.

"Kagome snap out of it." the old woman said snapping her fingers in front of the girl. She realized this wasn't working as she noticed that Kagome's normal grasp over her son wasn't around his waist but around his neck. She took a deep breath as she whispered, "Kagome…dear, if you don't stop this you are going to hurt your son. Remember last time when you hurt him."

Kagome nodded her head.

"Remember how you broke his rib?" the old woman asked.

Azami was astonished; she didn't know that Yasha ever had a rib broken from his own mother.

"Well you are chocking him now. Let the past go, relax." The older woman said. She didn't know the full story behind the death of Inuyasha. Kagome seemed to just have a thing about the word sit- she figured it was probably because Kagome would say that the two had a bond through that one word. Either way she was diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder. From the story they told cops and the press, she was gone for a year, captured by someone in another country and was forced to marry them. Kagome told them the guy would abuse her which was the reasons for the many scars on her. The doctors assumed the man must have had her sit a lot or did something with that wod and therefore diagnosed her with posttraumatic stress disorder.

"But mom, he always hated me because I said the word. If I never said that, he wouldn't hate me." Kagome let out as she still held her son firmly.

The old woman realized she wasn't getting through to her daughter. "Hang on Yasha." She whispered patting him on the head. "Azami, go up stairs in the bathroom and there should be a needle in the closet- bring that down." She said as Azami ran upstairs and the old woman ran to the fridge.

Azami ran into the bathroom and opened the towel closet, she looked around before spotting a box full of needles. She grabbed one as she ran back down stairs.

"Here you go." She said handing the old woman one. "What are you going to do with it?"

"It is a tranquilizer given to me by the doctor." The woman said as she started to measure some into the needle. "I don't give her enough to knock her out just enough to make her relax her hold on Yasha." The woman said as she put it into Kagome's leg.

Azami watched in amazement while Kagome seemed to all of a sudden loosen her grasp as Yasha was able to get a much needed gasp of air.

"Now calm down Kagome." The woman said as she grabbed Yasha from Kagome's hands. Yasha wrapped himself around his grandmother wanting to get away from his mother at the moment.

Kagome seemed to break from her trance, "What happened?" she asked as she looked at her mom and then around at the food that was spilled. "I did it again didn't I?" she asked.

"Sorry hun." The woman said holding Yasha. "Yasha, why don't you go upstairs with your friend?" she whispered.

"Yes Grandma." He said walking towards Azami, "Lets go." He whispered as they both started going upstairs. Yasha stopped halfway up the stairs to call out, "You too Shiho, come on." Shiho looked up at the two then back at Kagome before running to Yasha and following them to the room.

"Oh mom, I try not to do that but I can't help it." Kagome cried.

"Its okay hun, you did better, you acknowledged me this time." Her mother pat her back. "You need to work on this though, I won't always be around. You know what the doctor said"

"Yes if I don't get this under control before you pass, then they will take my son." Kagome was about to cry. That wasn't for a few more years at least. She was hoping either she could get it under control or Yasha would be of legal age by then.

"I think it will help you if we start to say it more often."

"But mom, it is so hard to hear and then to have to say it." Kagome was in tears.

"You need to start to say it. It will do you some good. It has been fourteen years and you still can't control it, we need to get this under control."

"Did I hurt Yasha?"

"That's what scares me. You wrapped your arms around him really tight this time."

"Please tell me I didn't leave a bruise again." Kagome said.

"We will check once the medication wears off on you. You know the rules when you do this."

"Yes mom, I need to check up on Yasha to see if there is a bruise." Kagome let out a tear at the thought of leaving a bruise on her son again. "I also have to clean up this mess. So what's for dinner then?"

"We will just go out tonight." Her mother said. "I am thinking fast food."

"Alright." Kagome smiled, it took about a half hour for her to not be relaxed from the medicine.

Yasha was upstairs with Azami, "That's why you don't say the S-word." Yasha said feeling around his neck.

"I was surprised to see your mom do that." Azami said.

Yasha looked into the mirror feeling around his neck. "Yep, I got a good bruise this time." He whispered. "These kind are gone in a day though."

"Does your mom do that often?" Azami asked.

"Not anymore." Yasha said. "But the last time she did that…I still have a bruise from that one." He said lifting his shirt to show a black and blue bruise under his ribs. "The bruise will end up going away. They always do."

"Owe." She said staring at it.

"Yeah. We will go to my room and start studying." Yasha said.

"Good idea."

The kids were in the room for twenty minutes before Kagome knocked on the door. "Come in." Yasha said as he pet Shiho.

Kagome opened the door slowly, "Sorry Yasha." She whispered. "And sorry Azami that you had to see that."

"Sorry for saying that word." Azami said.

"No you didn't know." Kagome whispered. "Come on Yasha." She turned to Azami. "He will be right back Azami."

Azami nodded as Yasha got up to go with his mother.

Shiho walked over to Azami as she allowed the girl to pet her.

Kagome had him sit on the toilet. "Let me see your neck." Kagome said as she looked at her son's neck. Sure enough there was a big bruise on his neck. "Sorry hun." She whispered.

"It's alright mom." He said.

"No, it's not alright." She whispered. Kagome opened up some cover up as she started to apply it to Yasha's neck. "You know I love you. I don't want to see you hurt."

"I know mom."

They sat in silence for some time before Yasha spoke up.

"Mom, what was dad like?"

"He was a strong willed guy."

"That's what you always tell me. Can you tell me more? His likes, his dislikes?"

Kagome sighed, "He liked eating and napping and hated his brother."

"Why? I would love to have a brother." Yasha said happily.

"They just never got along." Kagome told him, "Why don't you go back to studying?"

"Yes mom." Yasha whispered walking out.

Kagome walked down stairs as her son went back into the room. Shiho got up and ran out of the room to go downstairs. Kagome stopped at the bottom of her stairs, "And keep the door open." She yelled up it.

"Yes mom." Yasha yelled. Once Yasha knew that Kagome was downstairs he smiled, "Now I can show it to you." He whispered. "Just remember my mom said not to take it out so don't tell her."

Azami smiled as Yasha went into his closet to show another object that he was able to get. She loved his room more than anything; this room seemed to be put back in time. It has so many feudal era objects. The only thing that was in today's era was the bed, computer and his clothing. Everything else seemed to be somehow related to the feudal era. From the bow and arrow set hanging on his wall to the old fashion dresser where it might not have been straight from the feudal era- it still looked old and beaten up.

"Here it is." Yasha whispered as he took out the sword his mother just gave him. "It is called the tetsuiga."

"Why is it called that?"

"I don't know just yet but it is an old sword." Yasha said pulling it out of its sheath. "See all that rust."

"Your father used it?"

"Yeah! I don't know how but he used it all the time."

"It looks so cool, are you going to hang it on your wall?" Azami asked as she picked up the sword.

"Yep, I just have to get the right nails to hang it up with. I am going to put it near the archery set."

"You never told me where you got it from."

"My mom got it for me; I have always had it as far back as I can remember."

"Your room is the coolest when it comes to the stuff it has. Your mom is so cool when she gets this stuff."

"Yeah, I guess my mom is cool when it comes to getting me things for my room." Yasha smiled as he put the sword back into his closet so that his mom would never know he had shown it to Azami. "Remember don't let my mom know I showed it to you." Yasha told her.

"Yeah yeah." She said as she went back to the books in front of them, "So how do you do this problem again?"

"Well you see, you just put this number over there and the answer is three." Yasha said laughing.

"Wow, how do you do that?" Azami asked. Yasha was always good at problem solving.

Yasha shrugged, "My mom said I must get it from my dad's side."

Sorry it has been so long, school has been the worst for me. My life is so hectic that I end up dropping a class turning me to a part time student and thus making it so that I have to do well in school with no reasons why I should fail. I am working so much that I am going to cry if I get stuck with anymore hours. And tons more stuff that I couldn't explain plus a dream that kept me up a few nights about me dying in a car crash a year and a half from now and my boyfriend was driving…ugh, I hate how all my dreams are so freaking detailed. Then I didn't like this story to much and was debating if I should change it or take it out…

Anyways enough about my excuses please review and let me know what you thought of this chapter.