A/N: Just a shorty-short I did for iyficcontest on livejournal.
I'm embarrassed to say how fast I wrote this, so if you see any
spelling errors, well, my apologies, folks!  She was washing
dishes when she felt that someone was standing behind her. No
matter how many times she'd asked him to announce himself, it
seemed that old habits died hard. Mrs. Higurashi wiped her hands
on a dishtowel and turned around. Hopefully this time he'd
remembered to wipe his feet before coming in.  "Kagome is still
at school, Inuyasha," she said with a smile. Her smile faded at
his downcast expression and the way his shoulders were slumped.
Since the first time she'd met him, he'd always seemed full of
energy and bluster, impatient and annoyed when he'd come to the
house and Kagome wasn't ready to leave. Now he just shrugged and
nodded with his hands hidden up his sleeves.  "Okay," Inuyasha
muttered, turning towards the door. "Just tell her I was here."
She waited for a moment as he paused and added as an
afterthought, "I mean,