A/N-Woohoo! Guess what guys? You know how I said that all my future chapters were deleted?! I just found them! Turns out, I saved them under a different name by accident because I spelled the document wrong ^_^;; But I still have them! Yay! Now I don't have to type them all over again! *Does happy dance* I'm so happy since I hate typing…Anywho, driver's ed is almost over so I should have more time to update since it's summer vacation as well. Read the author's note at the bottom because I have an important question for you guys. Well, not really important because if no one answers, I'll do it however I want to. ^.^

Disclaimer-I do not own the Inuyasha characters. Do I really have to keep putting these?

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Not According to Plan

Chapter IX

Inuyasha sighed, tossing his coat onto the couch. Things did not go well. He hadn't thought that Kagome would return to her hotel rooms so soon. He had planned to just look around and then get out before she got back so she wouldn't even know he was there.

Inuyasha snorted. So much for that plan…If she purposefully tried to piss him off she was damn good at it. And it didn't help that she looked so much like her either. It only made him angrier. A year later and he still clenched his fists and shook with anger as he thought of her. He had only failed one assignment in his four years of bounty hunting and it was because of her and he wasn't about to fail this one too because of someone who looked like her.

He didn't even get a chance to find anything. There had to be some kind of clue as to Kouga's whereabouts in her rooms somewhere. He'd just have to try again.

The next morning, after a quick breakfast and a phone call to the Musashi Hotel to make sure Kagome wasn't in her rooms, he drove back to the Musashi Hotel, using a copy of the key to get inside. Again, he found nothing. He ran a hand through his hair in frustration as he thought about what to do next. After a moment of thought, he went to the desk and scribbled a note on a pad of paper beside Kagome's computer. With that done, he left the room, locking the door behind him.

Kagome sighed as she slipped her key into the lock. She was so glad to be back to her rooms. She just wanted to go to bed. Kagome pushed open the door and looked inside. Nope, no strange, confusing bounty hunter guy poking around her rooms.

After tossing her purse on the couch and hanging her coat on the back of a chair, Kagome walked over to her laptop and turned it on. Tapping her fingers against the desk as she waited for the desktop to load, Kagome noticed scribbly writing on her pad of paper. Kagome picked it up and read,

'Meet me at the Union Plaza Café tomorrow at noon. I have something for you.

-Inuyasha-'

Kagome frowned and ripped up the piece of paper, tossing it in the wastebasket.

"What nerve!" Kagome muttered to herself.

She signed on to AOL Instant Messenger and was glad to find that Sango was on.

YumeIzumi: Hey!

YoukaiTaiji-ya: Hiya, what's up?

YumeIzumi: He got into my rooms again!

YoukaiTaiji-ya: Inuyasha?

YumeIzumi: Yes Inuyasha!

YoukaiTaiji-ya: Wow, really? He's good…What'd he do? Pick the lock?

YoukaiTaiji-ya: - Is impressed.

YumeIzumi: I don't know! Somehow, he had a key!

YoukaiTaiji-ya: How'd he get a key? You gave him a key to your rooms? Don't you think that you're…you know…

YumeIzumi: I didn't give it to him!

YoukaiTaiji-ya: Oh…Well what'd he do?

YumeIzumi: He didn't take anything. He left a note though.

YoukaiTaiji-ya: Ooh! A loooove note.

YumeIzumi: -_-;;…no. And even if it were a "loooove" note, he should write it neater.

YoukaiTaiji-ya: Well?

YumeIzumi: Well what?

YoukaiTaiji-ya: Are you gonna make me guess or are you gonna tell me what it says?

YumeIzumi: *Grins* I think you need to guess.

YoukaiTaiji-ya: Okay…My dearest Kagome, ever since I first saw you in Yume no Kakera, I haven't been able to get you out of my mind.

YoukaiTaiji-ya: Please say you'll be mine. I don't think I can live without you.

YumeIzumi: Okay! Okay! Enough guessing! Gah, that was sweet enough to make my teeth hurt!

YoukaiTaiji-ya: So it doesn't say that?

YoukaiTaiji-ya: - Is disappointed since she was so sure that was what it said…

            YumeIzumi: All it says is: 'Meet me at the Union Plaza Café tomorrow at noon. I have something for you. –Inuyasha'

YoukaiTaiji-ya: I know what he has for you!

YumeIzumi: You do? What?

YoukaiTaiji-ya: He has himself for you! Haha!

YumeIzumi: -_-;;; You are such a romantic…Hmm…Nope, I still have it…

YoukaiTaiji-ya: Have what?

YumeIzumi: My wallet…So he can't be giving me back my wallet again…

YoukaiTaiji-ya: He's giving you a token of his affection.

YumeIzumi: Will you quit that?

YoukaiTaiji-ya: Quit what? You don't think he'll sweep you off your feet and wrap his arms around you? Doesn't that give you a warm and tingly feeling?

YumeIzumi: No! It doesn't, that jerk!

YoukaiTaiji-ya: *Singsong voice* I see Kagome-chan blushing!

YumeIzumi: …But you can't see me…

YoukaiTaiji-ya: I'm picturing you in my mind.

YumeIzumi: Well, I'm not blushing!

YoukaiTaiji-ya: Kagome is lying through her teeth!

YumeIzumi: I AM NOT BLUSHING!

YoukaiTaiji-ya: But you're getting uneasy. A sure sign that you secretly harbor deep feelings for him. I know these things.

YumeIzumi: I have half a mind to storm over there and hit you right now…

YoukaiTaiji-ya: I know. What kind of friend would I be if I didn't tell you the things you don't want to hear huh?

YumeIzumi: A good one!

YoukaiTaiji-ya: You know I'm right. I gotta go. The kitchen is calling me. I'm starving.

YumeIzumi: Alright, see ya

Kagome drummed her fingers impatiently against the table. It was five minutes until noon and she was sitting at a table in the Union Plaza Café. She wondered what he had for her. She couldn't even begin to guess. She had her wallet this time so he couldn't be giving her that. She had no idea at all what ran through his head since he was so confusing. He was the most confusing person she had ever had the misfortune to meet! She decided that she didn't want to know what was going on in his head. She figured it would be a scary place.

Then she frowned. What was she doing here anyway? She didn't want to see him again! He was trying to find Kouga through her so why did she decide to show up? She should have just stood him up and gotten him pissed. Despite all her reasons to leave, something made Kagome stay.

Five minutes later, Kagome got thirsty so she ordered herself a cappuccino. When she finished her drink, she glanced at her watch again. 12: 05.

"Well honestly!" Kagome sighed exasperatedly. "What nerve…" she muttered. First he snuck into her rooms…twice, and then he's late! Of all the-

"Kagome?" a voice asked from behind her.

Kagome turned around, thinking she recognized that voice and saw a boy of about eleven or twelve years old standing behind her. I know this boy from somewhere… Kagome thought to herself. Then she stood up slowly.

"Sota?" Kagome asked, her voice barely over a whisper.

The boy nodded, eyes shining. Then he ran forward and threw his arms around Kagome. "Kagome!! I missed you so much!"

"Sota?" Kagome asked again in disbelief. She couldn't believe it was him. But it was. It was him. "Sota!" Tears spilled from her eyes as she hugged him tighter.

"I'm sorry I left, sis. I just left and then I didn't want to come back. Home seemed so sad and lonely and I didn't want to go back," Sota wailed. "And then when I tried to come home, everyone was gone! They were all gone and I was so scared!"

"You're alive and safe, that's all that matters," Kagome told him, tears still running down her cheeks.

"Don't cry sis. I've been with the Tenjou's and they're good to me," Sota assured her, wiping away her tears.

Kagome smiled and laughed, the first time she had truly laughed in a long time and it felt so good. "But I don't understand. Why are you here? We lived in California."

"I got a phone call yesterday. The man said that he knew where my sister was and he told me that he had arranged for me to fly over here to see you," Sota explained. "Then he talked to the Tenjou's and they said yes and that I should go see you. He picked me up from the airport and brought me here."

"He? He who?" Kagome asked in confusion, then she blinked. Inuyasha? Could Inuyasha have really done this for her? Why? Kagome stood and looked around. Sure enough, she looked out the window and saw him leaning against a stop sign on the other side of the street, smiling a little. Then he put on his sunglasses, turned, and walked away after seeing that Sota had found Kagome all right.

"That's him!" Sota told her, pointing to Inuyasha's retreating form. "He's a nice guy. Do you know him sis?"

"I know him a little but I don't understand him at all," Kagome told her brother, watching Inuyasha walk away.

"I've got the whole rest of the day with you so let's go do stuff, sis," Sota said excitedly, grabbing her hand. "I've never been to New York before!"

Kagome smiled. "Let's go then." Sota practically dragged her out of the café, chattering about all the things he had been doing and how he was doing in school.

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A/N-Yeah, Inuyasha is confusing ne? I thought that was so sweet! *Sobs* Ah, such a sweetie! Anyway, sorry that I took so long to update. I was debating about where to go with this story and I actually have a question for all you readers. Well, in the next bit of chapters, the Inuyasha and Kagome romance starts to get moving and I can make things graphic (not too graphic *shudders*) or not. If I make the lovey romance scenes graphic, they still won't be really, really graphic because I really can't do that. But basically I'm asking whether I should make them slightly graphic or not. Seeing as how I don't really care one way or the other, I figured I'd ask you guys. After all, I don't want to write them graphic and have people totally turned off of the story but at the same time I don't want to write them non-graphic and have people totally disappointed. So tell me in a review and make sure you answer quickly because it's the next chapter where the first lovey-romance scene thing comes in. Hopefully I'll update quicker this time if I get enough opinions about the graphic-ness level.