Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any of the characters. I'm just a really big fan of the show that has ABSOLUTELY no life what-so-ever. lol.

Here is the newley updated chapter. Hope you all like it. I'm trying to get them all out as fast as I can, but I'm trying to cut in time between work and school to work on this. So, just to let you all know, I haven't forgotten about all of my loyal readers!

Fully dressed, Kagome ran down the stairs and out to the back deck to see her mother sitting on one of the deck chairs drinking her iced tea. Kagome smiled as she happily walked up to her lounging mother.

"Slacking off, huh?"
"Glad you came down, Kagome. I have to go take Souta to the doctors. Do you think that you can finish cleaning up the yard?"
"That's fine, mom. I'll go ahead and mow the lawn for you," Kagome said happily. She didn't mind doing yard work. It was better than sitting around in her room all day with nothing to do.
"I'm going go to the grocery store on the way home, too."
"That's fine with me."
"Can you also plant my flowers out front for me? You do such a good job."
"You got it mom."
"Also, please mind your music Kagome. I don't want any of the neighbors to complain about it.
"Don't worry about me, mom. I'll take care of everything. Now you and Souta go on and get out of here."

Kagome's mom smiled happily at her young daughter as she stood up. Souta ran out back after their mother called him down. With a small hug and a kiss on the cheek to her mother and younger brother, the two of them made their way into town, leaving Kagome with all the yard work. She let out a heavy sigh as she headed back towards her mothers small green house in the back corner of the backyard to pick out some of the flowers to plant out front. This was going to be a long day. Good thing she had her music playing.

Kagome patted the dirt off her knees as she stood up and admired the newly planted flowers. Yet another beautiful summer flower bed out front. Kagome took her gloves off and took the tools out back in the green house and grabbed the lawn mower from the shed to begin cutting the lawn. Starting to get the back yard done and over with, she started up the loud machine and began cutting the small back yard. Not long after, she was finished with the back lawn. She tiredly pulled the lawn mower out to the front yard and walked up onto the porch as she grabbed her bottle of cold water. She closed her eyes as she listened to the sound of her music playing from her bedroom upstairs as she wiped some of the sweat on her forehead. She loved to listen to music. It was one of the few things that could relax her no matter what she was doing. To her, it always felt like the music was wrapping around her like a security blanket.

BANG BANG BANG

There just had to be someone that was being louder than her music, didn't there? She cracked open one of her eyes and glanced down the street, but didn't see anything out of the ordinary, so where was that noise coming from? When the noise came again, she looked to her right and saw what the entire ruckus was; it was him. One of the most beautiful sights she had ever seen. There, on her neighbor's roof, he stood upon it repairing something. The sweat that rolled down off his bare back seemed to make him glow. Kagome had almost forgotten just how built he really was. Kagome quickly shook her head and let out a heavy sigh.

'There's no point in drooling over a guy that you'll never be able to have, girl. Just give it up.'

Kagome set her water bottle down with another sigh as she walked back over to the lawn mower. Better get this all done before her mom and Souta gets back so she could take a nice, long shower. Kagome grabbed the handle and pulled that stupid string on it to start it up...no go. Okay, twice works nice...nope still didn't start. Well, three times the charm...nope. Apparently not charming enough. 4...5...10...Now, she was a patient person, but not this patient.

"Fucker!" Kagome yelled out as she kicked the metal contraption, but only ended up hurting her petit foot. "God! Modern technology is such a pain in the ass!" Kagome yelled out as she rubbed her sore foot.
"Hey! Do you need help? Or are you just practicing on acting like a sailor?"
"Huh?"

Kagome turned around and looked up to meet intense amber eyes looking down at her. He sat on the side of the roof and looked down at her with a half smile. That was the first time he had ever spoken to her. Sure, she's heard him speak before, they used to say passing 'hello's' to each other all the time…when they were younger. But, she didn't know his name, but maybe know would be a good chance for her to get to know him a little bit.

"Thank you, I would really appreciate that."
"Sure thing. I'll be right down."

Kagome smiled to herself as she waited for him to come over, and her smile only seemed to get bigger when she saw him emerge from his backyard and walked over to help her start up the lawn mower.

"Okay. Let's see."

He knelt down to look at the machine, checking gas and oil...all that good stuff. Of course, she would have probably been able to follow what he was doing, if she knew anything about that stupid machine. The only thing she knew about it was how to start it up, and how to cut the stupid lawn.

"You know...you just need to prime it."
"Prime it?"
"Yes. See this red button in the front?"
"Yea."
"Just press the button about three times and then...start it up," he said as he demonstrated. Viola! The machine came back to life.
"Thank you so much."
"Inuyasha. Inuyasha Takahashi."
"Huh? Oh I'm Kagome. Kagome Higurashi."
"Nice to meet you."
"A pleasure."

The two stood in a comfortable silence out on the front lawn. As the two stood in silence, the CD in Kagome's CD player changed to the next one, and began blasting the music through her speakers. A small smile appeared on Inuyasha's face as he looked down at Kagome.

"Poison, good choice," said Inuyasha.
"You're a Poison fan, too?"
"Yep. Practically grew up on the '80's rock music. I think it's the best."
"Same here. Pretty much all my music is the older rock stuff."
"That's cool. Hey, we should hang out sometime. You're not half bad."
"Really? You're not so bad yourself."
"Ha Ha. Listen; come down to Maddie's. I'm playing there with my band Saturday night. If you like the '80's stuff, then I think you'll like my band."
"Really? Okay. What time?"
"From 8 to 10."
"I'll be there."
"Great. See ya around."
"Bye."

'Inuyasha, huh? Inuyasha Takahashi. The name suits him.'

A/N: Like it...yes...no? I know it doesn't seem like much...but I'm trying here. I'm not very good at writing the whole action fanfics with all the fighting scenes. :whispers: I'm not very good at writing fighting scenes, they always end up stupid: So...taking a stab at something a little more...mellow...I guess. lol. Hope you all likes! Take care!