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Not a single one of them had both parents still alive.
That was just a part of being born hanyou—people on both sides hated your parents for making you almost as much as they hated you. Anyone who saw the other species as anything other than the enemy automatically became a target.
Inuyasha's father had died of violence. Jinenji's and Shiori's had as well. Even those mothers who still lived could not expect to meet with anything but scorn.
Whenever they took in a new hanyou, "What happened to your parents?" was one question everybody knew never to ask.