A/N-New chapter! I've got nothing else to say so you can get right to the chapter!

Disclaimer-I do not own the Inuyasha characters.

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Not According to Plan

Chapter VI

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"What is it going to take for you leave us alone?" she asked.

Inuyasha glanced down at her and raised an eyebrow. " 'Us?'"

"Me and Kouga," Kagome said.

"I won't leave you alone until I see Kouga behind bars," Inuyasha answered evenly.

"Yeah, but you don't even want to do it because it's a good deed. You're a bounty hunter. Find someone else to turn in," Kagome told him, crossing her arms.

Inuyasha shrugged. "So I'm not in it to play the hero. I get an assignment and I take it, no questions asked. It's my job and I'm going to do it."

Kagome crossed her arms and leaned back, glaring.

"So what's a girl like you doing with Kouga anyway?" Inuyasha asked.

"What do you mean, a girl like me? What kinda girl am I?"

"The kind to win a science fair in eighth grade and win two spelling bees in seventh. The kind to get first place at piano recitals and have dozens of colleges willing to pay you to go there. The kind who gets straight A's and is at the top of her classes," Inuyasha said calmly, watching her face for a reaction.

Sadness flashed across her eyes for a moment and then pain. Then she glared at him and muttered, "What do you know?"

"A lot," Inuyasha told her.

"You don't. You don't know who I am so you shouldn't just pretend you do. All that stuff was before my mom died. After that…" her voice cracked and she didn't finish her sentence. "You don't know what happened alright? Don't pretend that you do know because you don't!" she shouted and then stoop up and ran for the doors.

"Damn it…" Inuyasha cursed to himself. "You weren't supposed to make her cry you moron!" He stood and ran after her, trying to shove his way through the people on the dance floor. They apparently had a different idea though and some just didn't move.

"Damn it! Get outta my fuckin' way!" Inuyasha shouted as he glanced up at Kagome hurrying up the stairs. "Shit…" He finally shoved his way to the other side and asked himself why he didn't just go around the crowd before hurrying up the stairs.

He ran out the doors and looked up and down the sidewalk to find her gone. Inuyasha cursed again and then spotted a man standing on the corner in an entirely black outfit except for his gloves, which were white. He had white face paint and black teardrops beneath his eyes. (A/N-Can you all guess what the man is? ^_^ I had to put at least one in here…)

"Did you see a girl run by? Which way did she go?" Inuyasha demanded as he ran over to the man.

The man rubbed his chin as if deep in thought. Then he held up his finger as if something had just come to him. He placed one hand behind his head and the other on his waist, posing as if he were a model. Then he dropped his hands and nodded eagerly.

Inuyasha sweatdropped as the man pretended to be running. A mime…He just had to find a mime…

The man spread his hands as if to ask, 'Is that who you're looking for?'

"Yes! That's her! Where did she go?" Inuyasha asked.

The man scratched his head and then rubbed his chin. Then he began to do some strange hand gestures as if he were trying to describe a place.

Inuyasha cursed loudly, getting impatient. He grabbed the mime by the collar of his black shirt and shoved him up against the wall of the building. "Which way did she go damn it?!"

The man frightfully pointed to his right and Inuyasha set him back down. He began to run in that direction but hurried back to drop some cash into the little black hat the man had placed on the sidewalk. Inuyasha felt kinda bad about getting so pissed off and scaring the mime like that. He was doing his job after all…sorta…

He ran down the sidewalk until he saw Kagome just sitting on the curb.

"Kagome…I…" Inuyasha said, panting from his run. "I…" he tried to say but he couldn't since he was out of breath. "Damn…mime…"

Kagome glanced up at him, raising an eyebrow questioningly. " 'Damn mime?'"

Inuyasha shook his head. "You don't wanna know." Then he sat down next to her on the curb.

"After she died, I had no reason to try so hard anymore… it didn't matter if I was any good or not," Kagome said sadly. "I only wanted to make her proud…She always told me how proud she was of me. And then…My father didn't care. He didn't care if I won the Nobel Prize. He'd only tell me, 'You can do better, you can do better.' He started to drink. He'd hit us every once in awhile, but that was only when he was awake. The majority of the time, he was passed out on the couch. Sometimes he didn't even come home for days. Me and my brother were by ourselves a lot. Then he just…left. He just left me and my brother. He didn't even say goodbye. One morning, he was just…gone. We waited but he never came back. Then…my brother just left too. I couldn't find him. I tried. I looked everywhere. I asked everyone. I asked the cops to help me find him and they couldn't find Sota either. I didn't want to believe he was gone so I tried to look for him one last time and found Kouga instead. I don't know what happened to my father and I don't know what happened to my brother either. As far as I know, they could both be…" Kagome didn't finish her sentence. Tears welled in her eyes but she quickly wiped them away and gave him a weak smile. "So what about you. How'd you get mixed up in this business?"

Inuyasha shrugged. "My dad left me and my mom and my brother before I was born. I didn't know him. My older brother did though. He said I wouldn't have wanted to know him. My mom died when I was four. I lived with my brother until I was eight years old. Then I ran away and lived on the streets for two years, pick pocketing and stealing anything I needed. I don't know why I never went back home. I guess it never occurred to me that I actually could. Jack saw me pick pocketing once and said I had a lot of potential so he trained me until I was fifteen and actually started taking assignments."

"You never saw your father?" Kagome asked.

"Nope."

"Can't you look for him? I mean, from what I've seen so far, you can find anybody," Kagome said.

"I can and I could but I don't want to," Inuyasha said simply.

"You don't want to see your father? I know he just left you but he's still your father, right?" Kagome asked.

Inuyasha said nothing. Then he asked, "Would you want to see your father?"

Kagome thought for a moment and shook her head. "No, I wouldn't really, but maybe just to make sure that he's alive. I mean, I'd want to know that much."

"The way I see it, I've got this picture of him in my head. I didn't know him so I can always imagine him how I want. If I see him, I'll just be disappointed. And he's a bastard who couldn't handle responsibility and ran away."

"Four years old? On the streets for two years? Kinda makes my story seem stupid…" Kagome said sadly.

 Inuyasha glanced at her but said nothing.

"Oh no…Sango's probably pissed I left her," Kagome said suddenly. "I'll be right back okay?" Then she hurried back towards the Yume no Kakera.

"Wait! You forgot your purse!" Inuyasha called, but she didn't hear him.

He felt bad about doing it, but he still had a job to do so he opened her purse and pulled out her cell phone. Then he reached into his pocket and pulled out his palm pilot and attached a cord from the palm pilot to the cell phone, copying all the data from her phone like history, any text messages, and her speed dial list, and transferring them into the palm pilot. Then he looked in the purse and this time he got lucky because the hotel she was staying at was obviously very old-fashioned since he pulled out a key that said 'Musashi Hotel; Room 302' on it. He dug around in his pocket again and pulled out a little compact. He checked to make sure no one was looking, (they'd probably guess he was powdering his nose and then they'd all really think he was gay) he opened it and set the key on the putty-like material. Then he snapped it shut and opened it again, taking the key out and putting it back in her purse. Shoving everything back into his pockets and back into the purse, he made sure everything was the way she had left it.

Moments later, she returned and sat beside him. "So why are you doing this? If you're not in it to play the hero? Are you just in it for the money?"

"That and the fact that I don't want a safe, boring life. I like the danger and the challenge involved. So are you going to tell me where he is now?" Inuyasha asked.

Kagome grinned mischievously. "Well you see, where's the challenge in me just telling you hmm?"

Inuyasha didn't get a chance to answer though, because a phone rang and Inuyasha and Kagome reached for their phones. Kagome looked at the screen of her phone and then put it back into her purse since it wasn't hers that was ringing.

"Yeah?" Inuyasha asked, picking up his phone.

"We may have a lead," Jack told him, getting right to the point.

Inuyasha glanced at Kagome and then held up a finger, gesturing her to excuse him for a moment. He stood up and walked a little ways away from Kagome. "You do? Where?"

"A black Mitsubishi Eclipse without a license plate was seen parked outside an abandoned warehouse in downtown New York City," Jack told him. "Kouga drives a black Mitsubishi."

"That's your lead?" Inuyasha hissed, making sure Kagome couldn't hear him. "Do you realize how many criminals with a black Eclipse and no license plate there are in New York? They never have license plates on their cars and they all have black sports cars."

"I told you that it wasn't going to be easy to find him and that's the only lead we have right now."

"Fine, I'll check it out," Inuyasha said so Jack gave him the coordinates of the warehouse. After he hung up, he walked back over to Kagome. "Nice chatting with you but I've got to run." Then he hurried to the parking garage and got into his car. He punched the coordinates of the warehouse into his palm pilot and got directions.

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A/N-There. Chapter six is done! Woo hoo! I love this song. It's Matchbox 20's "Unwell." It's a good song ^_^ Wow, all the technology is making me feel smart ^_^ Bad Inuyasha, going through a woman's purse like that. Bad! Bad! He'll learn his lesson soon enough I think. I had to put a mime in there. I have no idea why…Anyway, now review! You know how I love them ^_^ And read my newest Inuyasha fic! It's called Do You Remember Me? Kagome gets amnesia! Oh, and feel free to email me or IM me if you have any questions, comments, suggestions, and death threats (although those I don't like too much…).

Review Responses:

Mitsuko Maxwell: Sango is a cool gal. She doesn't like Kouga. Hee hee…I hadn't thought of actually putting Miroku in here but maybe he should make an appearance…Hmm…

hyperchica11: Fine fine, you can have your sugar back *Gives the sugar back and munches on the cookie*

Saro: Yes, Jack is cool.