A/N-Wee! I love this fic so far. Anyway, I have nothing really to say so you can just get right to reading! Yay for you!
Disclaimer-I don't own the Inuyasha characters so if you sue me you'll get…*Looks around*…a pencil with the eraser gone, a pair of chopsticks that you can't even eat with because I stuck them in my hair, some headphones…Oh, and an Ayashi no Ceres DVD…Wait no, you can't have that. It's mine ^_^ and I'll guard it with my life.
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Not According to Plan
Chapter IV
So she had been the one to order that, which meant that while he had been scanning the crowds for half an hour, she had been sitting right there beside him. Well, at least he hadn't missed her entirely.
He grinned triumphantly and hid it by lifting his bottle of beer to his lips. Then he turned back towards the dance floor, leaning back on his elbows again. He might as well keep up the pretext of looking for someone, but he made sure to watch her so she wouldn't leave without him noticing.
"Hey baby. You look lonely," a scantily clad woman said, sitting on his lap and playing with his hair.
"Taken," Inuyasha lied, grabbing his beer.
"Really? I should've guessed that, a hot guy like you but I'm sure I can make you change your mind," she said huskily.
"Not interested," Inuyasha said, this time not really lying since he really was uninterested. He needed to make sure he wouldn't lose Kouga's girlfriend. If he lost track of her, he doubted he'd be so lucky as to find her again.
"Oh, I get it," she said, hopping off his lap. "There's a club down the street for people like you. You know, the flaming club."
Inuyasha, who had been taking a drink, choked and spit the beer over the floor. He glared at her back as she walked off and muttered, "Bitch, I am not gay…" He heard Kagome snicker. He looked back at the crowd of dancing people, glaring and muttering about gay bars and women who couldn't take a hint.
That was when he thought about what to do next. He had, by sheer luck and coincidence, found her, so what now? He wondered if she was meeting Kouga. But Kouga wouldn't come here, would he? Inuyasha doubted it. So maybe she was meeting him later? Inuyasha finally decided to follow her when she left. Even if she didn't meet Kouga, she'd go back to her hotel and he'd know where to find her later. Inuyasha nodded slightly. He had a plan now. Hopefully this one would work better than his detour plan and the plan to get to the club early and watch the door…Or his plan in Cancun to try to smoke out the Mexican drug dealers but inconveniently forgetting that there was a gas station close to the warehouse and that fire by a gas station was a big no no…Or his plan to-Well, you get the idea.
"No, I don't think so," Kagome said when someone asked her to dance.
"Come on. You got anything better to do?" the man asked, grabbing her arm.
"Yes, sit here," Kagome answered tartly, wrenching her arm from his grasp.
Still the man persisted and Inuyasha muttered, though loudly enough for him to hear, "Fuck off already. What does 'no' mean in your damn world? Moron…" before taking a drink. He was still pissed off about the woman calling him gay.
"Mind your own damn business," the man snapped.
"I would mind my 'own damn business' if your damn business wasn't getting on my fucking nerves," Inuyasha retorted, his eyes still on the people dancing.
"How 'bout I make it so you can't hear anymore pretty boy?" the man sneered.
"You don't wanna mess with me," Inuyasha warned the man calmly.
The man didn't listen to his warning because a moment later, Inuyasha easily rolled away as a fist came flying towards his face. He caught the next fist that the man aimed at his head and twisted it until the man's arm was twisted behind his back. Then he jabbed his thumb in a certain pressure point on the man's neck and he fell limply to the floor, unconscious. Some people walked by and looked down at the man questioningly and others just walked by him as if fights in the club were not unusual and they probably were a normal occurrence.
"Moron…" Inuyasha muttered as he sat back down.
Kagome stared down at the man for a moment and finally asked, "Is he…?"
"Dead? Naw, too stupid to kill. He's just unconscious," Inuyasha assured her.
"Guess she's not coming eh?" Kagome said.
"Who?" Inuyasha asked.
"Whoever you're waiting for."
"Oh," Inuyasha said and then shrugged.
"You don't seem too upset," Kagome said, peering at him.
"What can I say? I move on easily," Inuyasha said, shrugging.
Kagome turned to the bartender after glancing at her watch. "Ujiko, if he asks for me, tell him that I wasn't about to wait all night," she said, grabbing her purse and standing up. Then she headed up the stairs and out the glass double doors.
Inuyasha watched her go and waited for a few seconds after she went out the doors before getting up to follow her. He got into his car, making sure to keep an eye on her, and then drove down the street, inconspicuously following her since, to her, he was just another car driving down the street. He figured that she would've gone to her car as well but she just continued to walk down the sidewalk.
Inuyasha pulled out his cell phone and dialed Jack's number. "I found her," he said when Jack picked up the phone.
"Already? Where are you?" Jack asked, surprised.
"Leaving the Yume no Kakera nightclub," Inuyasha answered. Then he muttered, "Idiot girl…" It wasn't safe to just go walking down the streets of New York alone at night. He saw some thugs surround her. "Idiot girl…" he muttered again as he prepared to get out of the car and deal with them when she made some obscure hand gesture and they all scurried away. Then she turned down a wide, remote alley. He waited a few seconds, turned off his headlights, and then turned into the alley to find her…gone.
Confused, he looked towards the end of the alley. It was a long alley and she wouldn't have made it to the other side before he saw her unless she had run and even then she would have had to run fast. And in order to get the inclination to run to begin with, she would have had to know that someone was following her and, as far as he could tell, she hadn't noticed that he was following her.
"Shit…" Inuyasha cursed. "I'll call you later Jack," he said before hanging up. He looked at the sides of the alley to find two doors. He got out of the car, slamming his door shut and checked the two doors to find them both locked. He patted his coat pockets and then his pants pockets and cursed again when he realized her had left his tools to pick locks in the hotel room. Considering that the locks weren't deadbolt locks, he could have easily picked them but he hadn't thought he would be needing to pick any locks. And it wasn't likely that she had gone through these doors anyway because, if they were locked, which he assumed they were since no one left doors unlocked in New York, she wouldn't have had time to unlock the doors before he saw her.
"Shit…" he muttered again, stuffing his hands into his pockets and leaning against his car as he thought.
She couldn't have just disappeared. That much he knew. But then, where had she gone? He frowned and looked up and down the alley again and saw that there was dirt, dust, and grime covering the pavement from disuse. He knelt down and could just barely make out footprints from a pair of high-heeled shoes. He stood and followed them until they just stopped. The dirt and dust was shuffled around a bit as if she had turned around or jumped. Where'd she go after that then? He was positive that she couldn't fly. He looked up and saw that he was standing right beneath a fire escape. The stairs had been pulled up. He took a few steps back to get a better view of it to find Kagome leaning on a rail on the side of the escape looking down at him.
"Who are you?" Kagome asked.
Inuyasha shrugged and stuffed his hands back into his pockets, leaning against his car. "What do you mean?" he asked innocently.
"You know what I mean. Who sent you?" Kagome asked, climbing down from the fire escape.
"What makes you think someone sent me? Can't you believe that I see a hot girl in a club and decide to follow her?" Inuyasha asked, smirking slightly.
"Bull shit," Kagome told him, glaring. "One thing wrong about your lie smart-ass: someone stalking me wouldn't think of nor go to the trouble of following my footprints to find me."
Inuyasha smirked and looked up at the building in front of him. "I'm looking for your boyfriend," he said casually.
"I don't have one," Kagome answered abruptly.
"What if I told you I didn't believe that?" Inuyasha asked, still looking at the building.
"Then I'd tell you that I don't give a damn if you believe me or not," Kagome retorted coldly.
"Where is he?"
"I don't know where he is and even if I did, I sure as hell wouldn't tell you," Kagome snapped.
"So you do have a boyfriend eh?" Inuyasha smirked. "Kouga Wolfe. Where is he?"
"Like I'd tell you. That's highly classified information," Kagome said, crossing her arms.
"So you do know where he is then," Inuyasha said, still smirking.
Kagome flushed. He was making her nervous. How could he have this effect on her when he just stood there? "Who are you? Are you a cop? An assassin?"
"Name's Inuyasha. I don't work for the government," Inuyasha told her.
"Ohh…" Kagome said, nodding. "A bounty hunter then."
Inuyasha just shrugged.
"We're at an impasse then," Kagome said. "You won't let me leave until I tell you where he is and I'm not going to tell you."
"No impasse. I don't care if you leave. I can find you again," Inuyasha said indifferently.
"That's it? You'll just…let me leave?" Kagome asked in disbelief.
"I don't care. I'll find you again."
"Hah! Riiight…" Kagome said, smiling. "In New York City? Okay," she said, and then she began to walk out of the alley.
As she walked by, Inuyasha inconspicuously kicked a rock forward and she stumbled slightly. Her caught her by the arm before she fell, helping her regain her balance.
"See you tomorrow then!" she called, a sarcastic tone in her voice, laughing as she turned the corner.
When he was sure that she was gone, Inuyasha grinned and reached into his coat pocket, bringing out her wallet, which he had managed to take from her purse when she had conveniently stumbled and he had caught her arm, tossing it from one hand to the other.
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A/N-Haha, Inuyasha's sneaky sneaky…I was going to end the chapter where she just says "See you tomorrow then!" but I figured if I did that, I'd get a lot of questions about the rock and why he kicked it at her and tripped her so I decided to continue to explain it. Inuyasha's sneaky sneaky. He would make a good thief. Oh, and he didn't steal her wallet to take her money. I know I'm going to get a question about that but that's not why he took it. Now leave a pretty little review for me to read. They feed Baka, my muse ^_^
