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"What if she finds out?"
"She's still at school," Mrs. Higurashi replied, serenely. Her fingers kept up their steady motion.
The hanyou sighed, then, eyelids drooping, he let his head sink back into her lap.
"It'll be our secre--" she began, interrupted by the shoji sliding open.
"Mama? Inuyasha!" Kagome stood framed by translucent paper, gape-mouthed. "MAMA!"
Inuyasha launched himself off her lap with a yelp, his face scarlet.
"How COULD you?"
Sobbing. Girlish tears. And a hanyou cowering in the corner, hoping to escape his girlfriend's wrath.
"I hoped you'd understand," said Mrs. Higurashi, finally, her fingertips still tingling with the feel of warm velvet. "Wasn't it the first thing YOU did?"