Disclaimer: To all hopes and dreams, I still don't own Inuyasha. And I don't think I ever will.

A.N. Thanks for the reviews. n-n I lurv them so like... review more. Anyways, I've kept you all waiting for the 4th chapter long enough, so here it is. I might leave you hanging on a cliff though as I find those most amusing. Plus I don't want to make this chapter super long. o-O Anyhow, here ya go. n-n

Italics - Thoughts.

BOLD - Emphasis or yelling.


"You can't be serious!" Sango said outraged. "How could they be so cruel!"

"I don't know," Kagome replied softly. "When he told me his plans, I couldn't believe it of him. He'd always been so kind to me. He'd always known I'd longed for a daughter, when my wish came true, he turned on me just like that," she said snapping her fingers to emphasize her point. "I can never forgive that bastard for he tried to do."

"That case was all over the news," Miroku started. "But they never said why you were divorcing him."

"Of course they wouldn't. Hojo paid them all not to release the information. I did several press conferences and interviews, I told them everything, but Hojo gave them all an offer they couldn't refuse to keep quiet."

"The bastard," Inuyasha growled. "But why wouldn't he let you live with your mother?"

"I have no idea. Maybe it was because he knew I was so close to her. Hojo knew that aside from him and my daughter, my mother was the one person I was closest to. She had always been there for me when I needed her. She was the one I could always turn to when I needed help or simply to be comforted. She was especially like that with my younger brother. When he was still alive, before what happened."

"What do you mean, Kagome? What happened to him?"

"I'm not surprised you don't know about it. When we spoke to the police, they said it was an accident. They said he'd accidentally shot himself. But it was a lie. He never had a gun. Whenever his room needed to be cleaned, I always did it for him. I knew every last hiding place in his room, and never did I find a weapon. He could never even keep a secret from me. He told me everything. But when I found his body, he was lying in a pool of his own blood. In his hand was a gun... and when I called the police, they did all of the crap they normally do, and said his prints were the only ones on the gun. They found the bullet hole where he supposedly shot himself, but he wasn't like that. My brother would never kill himself. He had dreams he wanted to live. He had a life to live, but it was taken away from him. And now I have one more reason to hate the bastard that tried to take away my daughter.

"I knew he never liked my brother. Hell he hated him. And he figured that if my brother was dead, I'd come running to him. And that's exactly what I did. I thought I would find comfort in him, and for awhile I did. But I still didn't believe that my brother would shoot himself. So I did what I had to do. I found out the truth about his death. I was searching through Hojo's things one day while he wasn't home, and found several things that made me understand who really killed him. I found a note he'd written to himself about my brother. About what he was going to do to him. I also found out where he'd bought the gun he used on my brother. All of this I coped into my journal. I tried to tell the police, but they didn't believe me. They said I was wrought with grief for my loss. I tried to tell my mother, but she only half believed that someone else had done it."

"The heartless bastard," Inuyasha growled. "I just don't understand how someone could be so cruel."

"Neither do I," Kagome said shaking her head. "And I never want to. I just want Hojo locked up and thrown in jail for the rest of his miserable life. I don't want to see some other woman treated the way I was. Thinking he was a good man, but then turning on her. If anything I want to see the bastard hung," she growled through her tears.


Yeah yeah. Short chapter I know. And it was randomly odd... And I did leave you hanging on a cliff as promised. I'll try to get the next chapter up as soon as I can. In the mean time, please review. n-n