A warmth I had never felt before hummed underneath my skin. Staring down to my former love interest I could feel nothing but hatred, disgust and embarrassment at the fact that I had believed him. I could feel the white-hot anger searing its way through me, that irritating smirk causing my hand to twitch. Thoughts and questions whirring through my brain faster than I could blink.

"Why?" I asked, my own voice now surprising myself, it was such a foreign sound, as if it wasn't even myself talking.

"Lover boy." He grinned. "You had what she wanted."

"Sesshoumaru?" I questioned.

"All I was told to do, was distract you from the guy so she could swoop in." He sighed, expression becoming more serious as he spoke again. "Listen, that bitch is crazy Kagome, last time we spoke she had just found out you were expecting..." I thought back to the hysterical rambling of Kagura. "She changed the plan, told me to do whatever I needed to."

"As in?" I grinded out, taking some satisfaction as he grimaced slightly. He seemed a little apprehensive to continue but did so anyway.

"I'd like to think of myself as a good man," I scoffed. "But let's just say, I've had to bury a few things in the past."

"Bury? Wha-"

"Bodies." Inuyasha spat out sharply. "The bitch wanted you dead." Bankotsu whistled and nodded his agreement, confirming Inuyasha's statement which only seemed to push my anger higher.

"This is ridiculous." I muttered, untying the makeshift restraint and, with a sudden, surprising strength, pulling the man up to stand. "I suggest you leave now while you still can." Bankotsu raised a brow and took a slow step towards me.

"Is that a threat doll? What about my money?" I snatched his arm, intent on slapping some sense into the man, before I could he yelped and cradled his arm, the skin I had come into contact with slightly singed.

"Leave now, unless you want to be a dog's dinner." My smile became wider when seeing his expression, again when he ran out of the house, tripping over himself.

"You can be real scary when you want to be." I chuckled at his attempt to joke, my mind, however was occupied with thoughts of what just transpired, how I had burnt his arm and everything I had just been told.

"Kags I'm just going tell you what I need to." Inuyasha led me over to a chair and sat beside me, he was sudden and seemed to move around quite often. I could tell he had been torturing himself for a while, so I waited patiently for him to collect his thoughts and talk to me.

"Our father had an affair with Kagura's mother, about the time we were finishing college. Remember when Sesshoumaru and Kagura just became a thing?" My nerves were on edge, the affair he had just exposed made me terrified of what was to come. I nodded, breaking from my icy demeanour.

"The deal between our parents would've been for them to end up married, her family would share our power and wealth, in exchange they'd forget anything had happened, everything would've continued that way as well, until Kagura's mother discovered she was pregnant." I gasped, eyes wide, all of this felt like an alternate reality, a dream.

"D-Did she?"

"She kept the baby, a little girl." A sudden realisation washed over me and without any words spoken Inuyasha answered my question.

"Kanna is our half-sister." The white hair, pale complexion, it all made sense. Kagura would often visit her sister, I'd seen photos but never met her in person. On the few rare occasions the woman had been mentioned, I'd always notice Sesshoumaru clam up and now his behaviour didn't confuse me.

"Well... What happened? Why didn't it end up like that?"

"Kagura's father retaliated, they hadn't planned for the idea of pregnancy, even less so that Leiko would keep the child. Our fathers fought, as a daiyoukai my father was, by nature, a very proud and confident man, so he didn't share the opinion of Naraku to terminate something that was of his own blood." I nodded again, the only motor function I was currently able to show.

"Naraku was a con-artist, he was stealing millions from companies, lending, loaning, racked up debt everywhere he went. As well as being caught trying to plan out our family's murder, which included you." I squeaked, my brain started to malfunction.

"Why?"

"Us for clear reasoning. You, they always assumed, just by association. Later they found out however, that Kagura had a prominent role in this too and convinced him that you knew all about this, she involved you driven by jealousy."

"You're kidding." My hands clasped together as I forced them to remain still.

"Naraku went to jail, Kagura and her mother had to move as they were now the scapegoats of the abuse and nothing was heard of her until..."

"Until she turned up with Rin." I finished. "That doesn't explain anything though Inu, it doesn't tell me why things just suddenly changed."

"As soon as she appeared, Kagura threatened to expose it all again. When this first happened, the business took a hit, only due to our slight public association with them. Even though Sesshoumaru now owns the company, if this became public information, just to save face, every company we work with would pull out of support. It would ruin us and she knows that, it's her only power."

"Blackmail? That's why all of this happened?" It sounded so shallow and my anger now boiled over, practically a solid form in itself, at Sesshoumaru for prioritising business over family, then more so at Kagura for being a scheming bitch. My vision started to tint a pink hue, my body warming up, fingers and toes tingled. I could feel myself leaving my own body, like a spirit I simply floated away. In my mind I briefly registered a voice, an earthy forest smell and the view of two large doors, quite like the ones I ran away from only one month earlier.