I am sorry that I didn't get this chapter up sooner! I felt really angry and sad after I got a certain review... Anyway, thanks for meeting the goal of reviews! You are awesome and I love you (with the exception of a certain reviewer...)! Well, here is the next chapter. Oh, the day in the fanfic is the second to last day of school, (Friday, May 30.)

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha.

Chapter 31- A Promise is Made

Kagome sighed as she pushed a large stack of papers into her huge yellow backpack, along with many books.

"I can't believe the school year is almost over. Just one more day of school left- and it's a half day!" Kagome said to Inuyasha as he also put lots of study material into his backpack.

"We have been reviewing in all of our classes for the exams. When we get home, I need to study probably until I have to go to sleep. I hope that I don't fail any of my exams... Inuyasha, will you study with me at home?" Kagome asked him.

"I don't know..." Inuyasha teased.

"I'll make you lots of ramen!" Kagome offered.

"You have yourself a deal." Inuyasha agreed as they began to walk out of the school together.

(A/N: Ya, they just got out of school, in case you were wondering. I am not feeling too inspired to write much after getting a certain review... Ugg... sorry.)

Ayumi, Eri, and Yuka ran up to Inuyasha and Kagome outside of the school.

"Hey, you know how Hojo has been absent from school since last Monday? Well, I heard that Hojo died from food poisoning after the carnival. They found him lying down, holding his stomach." Ayumi informed them.

Kagome and Inuyasha nearly choked after hearing that. They knew how Hojo must have REALLY died...

(A/N: That is for all of the reviewers that said Hojo should die lol. In case you haven't figured it out yet, when Inuyasha saw Hojo and Kagome kissing, and he got really mad, and punched Hojo in the stomach, so... yeah... fatal injury, I guess. ^-^)

"I am never going to eat food at the carnival again!" Eri decided.

"Me neither. Not after what happened to Hojo..." Yuka agreed.

Kagome laughed nervously. "That's terrible." Kagome said.

"Well, we'll see you tomorrow at school. We have to go home and study for all of those hard exams we have tomorrow!" Eri said as she waved bye to Kagome and Inuyasha.

Kagome and Inuyasha's walk home was silent.

"So, since we already took the exams today for History, Japanese, and English, I guess we need to study for the Algebra and Biology exams." Inuyasha broke the silence.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome said angrily.

"What, wench? You don't need to yell; I am right here." Inuyasha growled back at her.

"Could it really have slipped your mind? Does it not bother you to know that you are actually responsible for Hojo's death?" Kagome asked.

Inuyasha sent her a confused look and responded, "All I did was punch him-"

"Really hard. Remember, you are half demon, and he is only human." Kagome explained.

"He deserved it! That bastard..." Inuyasha growled.

Kagome sighed. "At least they don't know that it was you who killed him." Kagome laughed nervously. "They think that he died of food poisoning..."

They walked into the house together.

"I'll go fix you some ramen... Inuyasha?" Kagome gave him her best puppy dog eyes.

"What?" Inuyasha asked.

"Can we go to your time to study? I will fix you extra ramen there. Please?" Kagome begged.

"Kagome... you need to study. Mr. Saotome asked me to make sure that you study a lot for his exam. You and I both know that Algebra isn't exactly your strong point." Inuyasha responded.

"You can help me study for Algebra there!" Kagome said.

"I don't know... You will probably get distracted or something when we are there." Inuyasha protested.

"Come on, please? Why don't you want to go?" Kagome asked.

"It's not that I don't want to go; I just know that you need to study for your exams." Inuyasha explained.

Kagome tweaked his ears, but not in the way that Mrs. Higurashi did that annoyed him; Kagome massaged his ears, while giving him puppy dog eyes. Inuyasha couldn't resist. The ear massage felt so good, and he caved in to Kagome.

"Okay, fine." Inuyasha agreed.

Kagome hugged him; with a big smile, she said, "Thank you SO much, Inuyasha!"

"But-" Inuyasha paused while Kagome stepped away from him, afraid of what he might say. "You HAVE to study while we are there, and you must NOT get distracted by Sango, Miroku, Shippo, or anyone else, okay?"

Kagome sighed and gave him a kiss on the cheek. "I promise. I love you. Come on, let's go!" Kagome reopened the door, and just as she began to walk out, Inuyasha grabbed her wrist.

"What?" Kagome asked, confused.

"Don't you need to tell your mom and grandpa that you will be in my time before you leave?" Inuyasha reminded her.

Kagome laughed. "Oh, yeah. I forgot." Kagome said, then went to make sure it was alright with her mom and grandpa (not that her grandpa would really care anyway...)

Kagome grabbed several bags of instant ramen before heading out the door with Inuyasha. Kagome felt that a big burden had been lifted off of her shoulders (literally.) Kagome looked at Inuyasha, who had took her giant yellow backpack off of her shoulders, and was carrying it for her.

"Thanks, Inuyasha. You didn't have to do that, you know. It was really nice of you." Kagome thanked him.

"Feh, it's nothing. It was slowing you down anyway." Inuyasha tried to cover the fact that he can be a really sweet guy sometimes.

Kagome just sighed and began to walk faster as they neared the well. Kagome held Inuyasha's hand as she jumped into the well. When they got out of the well, they began to walk to Kaede's hut, since they weren't expecting them; nobody was waiting for them on the other end of the well.

Inside the hut, as Kagome and Inuyasha were only feet away from the hut now, Shippo looked up and sniffed the air. Miroku, Sango, Kaede, (and even Myoga and Kirara) looked at Shippo, waiting for him to say something. Shippo's face quickly changed from its serious state to a happy one, as he ran out the hut, screaming, "KAGOME AND INUYASHA ARE HERE!"

Everyone inside the hut came out to greet the couple. Kagome laughed as Shippo jumped into her arms.

"Look, Kagome! I drew a new picture!" Shippo held up the picture he had just finished to show Kagome.

"Who are these people? This couldn't be Miroku and Sango, could it?" Kagome asked as she looked at the picture of Miroku and Sango kissing.

"Let me see." Inuyasha said, and looked at the picture also.

Miroku and Sango looked at each other.

"Yep! That's Miroku and Sango!" Shippo said proudly as he crossed his arms across his chest.

"Well, Shippo, you have quite an active imagination." Kagome said with a laugh.

"No! It really DID happen! I promise!" Shippo protested.

Miroku and Sango both turned crimson red. They didn't have to see the picture that Shippo had drawn in order to know what it was a drawing of.

'NANI?! How does that kitsune know? Unless he was spying...' Sango clenched her fist.

Miroku was angered at first to the thought that Shippo was spying on them while they kissed, then Miroku reminisced on that great moment when he and Sango shared a kiss. His expression quickly changed from rage to pure bliss. He closed his eyes and let a big perverted smile cross his features.

'Yep, that was the best moment of my life...' Miroku thought, but his happy reminiscing was interrupted by Sango glaring at his odd actions, then elbowing him.

"What are YOU so happy about, houshi-sama?" Sango growled in a whisper.

Miroku's expression then changed to serious after he cleared his throat, and answered, "Nothing..."

Kagome, Inuyasha, Kaede, and Myoga waited patiently for the kitsune to continue and give them the full details of the story behind the drawing. Just as Shippo cleared his throat, Sango knocked the kitsune unconscious with the help of Hiraikotsu.

"Hey, what was that for?" Inuyasha asked.

"What, are you trying to tell me? Do you actually like Shippo now?" Sango asked.

"No, I didn't say that! I just wanted to hear what the halfwit had to say." Inuyasha explained.

Sango looked like she was about to kill everyone who wanted to know the details of the kiss she shared with Miroku, so Miroku decided to step in and break the tension. *Grope, grope* Miroku did his work, with his eyes on the target, he said, "Mmm..."

"KYAAA!" Sango screamed, as her eyes eyebrows raised, her eyes widened, her pupils turned into little slits, and her eyes nearly popped out of her head.

(A/N: This is sort of like on the Inuyasha game on Playstation 1. That game is frickin' fun. This is like when you are Miroku, and you hold right [if the woman is on the right of you] and you press circle, he gropes them! He says, "Mmm..." and basically what Sango just did is the reaction. What is funny is that the women can LITERALLY be groped to death be Miroku. It is hilarious. I love being him on the game and groping... ANYWAY... *clears throat* back to the fanfic!)

Sango automatically whacked Miroku with Hiraikotsu until he was unconscious. She screamed, "HENTAI!" with every whack she made on the perverted monk's skull.

'I just don't understand him; I don't think that I ever will...' Sango thought.

Kagome stared at Miroku, and so did everyone else.

"Kagome, you still have to study, remember? You SAID you wouldn't get distracted by anyone here." Inuyasha reminded her.

"I sense jewel shards." Kagome said suddenly.

"Ya right. You are just saying that so you don't have to study." Inuyasha said.

"No, I am serious. The jewel shards are coming our way... really fast." Kagome said in defense of herself.

"Really fast?" Inuyasha repeated her words. "Could it be...?" Inuyasha trailed off.

"Koga." Everyone said at the same time, (Inuyasha with less enthusiasm.)

Just then, Koga came running up in the tornado like wind from his speed. Koga stopped and landed on top of Inuyasha.

"Hello, Kagome. I haven't seen you in a while." Koga said calmly.

"Hi, Koga-kun." Kagome greeted him.

"Where's that dog turd?" Koga asked as he looked around him, but didn't see him.

Inuyasha growled from under Koga, "Get off me, or I will REALLY kill you!"

Koga looked down, in surprise at who he saw he was standing on. Koga just shrugged and continued to stand on poor Inu-chan.

"You..." *sniff sniff* "smell different somehow." Koga realized. (A/N: I am not sure if you understood this, because after my stepsister, Amanda, read it, I had to explain. Koga smelled Inuyasha's scent on Kagome.)

Kagome blushed crimson red as Koga continued to sniff her to find out what it was that was different about her.

"Kagome, when are you going to leave that stupid dog turd and come with me?" Koga asked.

"Um..." Kagome trailed off.

"Well, you see, Koga..." Kagome tried to think of a way to explain that she is now Inuyasha's girlfriend, but to no avail.

"Get OFF of me! Kagome likes ME, NOT YOU!" Inuyasha growled.

"Kagome's MY woman!" Koga yelled back.

"ACTUALLY..." Kagome began.

"What?!" Koga said a little loudly.

Kagome then had to explain what a girlfriend was to Koga. Then, she had to explain that Kagome was Inuyasha's girlfriend, which made Koga really angry.

"I am going to make you pay for taking MY woman away from me..." Koga growled to Inuyasha before running off again.

Sango sighed in relief that everyone seemed to have forgotten about wanting to know about Sango and Miroku's kiss. Everyone began to walk back to the hut.

Kagome was in the middle of studying with Inuyasha when she remembered about the picture that Shippo drew.

"Hey, Inuyasha?" Kagome asked.

"What?" he responded.

"Can I go... um... can I have a study break? Just for a little while?" Kagome said.

"Oi, you still haven't fixed me any ramen yet." Inuyasha pointed out.

"Oh yeah... I forgot. I will go fix you some ramen right now." Kagome promised, then went and fixed 3 packets of ramen to help persuade him.

She came back with the large pot full of ramen just for Inuyasha.

"Here's your ramen, Inuyasha." Kagome said as she set the pot of ramen in front of him, with a bowl and chopsticks.

Inuyasha happily slurped all of the ramen in record time.

"Well...?" Kagome said, tapping her foot impatiently.

"Thanks for the ramen, Kagome. It was good." Inuyasha said.

"Inuyasha, can I go take a quick study break? Please?" Kagome begged.

Inuyasha looked at her paper to see how far she was on studying. She was a little more than half way finished. Inuyasha sighed.

"I guess so." he agreed.

Kagome smiled. "Thanks, Inuyasha!" Kagome said happily and then she went over to Sango to talk to her.

"Hey, Sango. Will you come outside with me?" Kagome asked.

Sango sighed and stopped petting Kirara, knowing exactly what it was that Kagome wanted to talk to her about. Sango got up and walked out the hut with Kagome.

"Hey, Sango, will you PLEASE tell me what it was that Shippo was talking about you and Miroku kissing?" Kagome begged.

Sango blushed. "I... don't really want to talk about it..." Sango said.

"Come on, Sango, please tell me. I told you about me and Inuyasha. Don't you trust me?" Kagome asked.

Sango let out a sigh of defeat. "Ok, I will tell you, but you have to promise not to tell ANYONE- not even Inuyasha, okay?" Sango said.

Kagome smiled and agreed.

Sango began to tell Kagome, "It was yesterday. I decided to take your advice, and make sure that I wasn't in groping range of him ever since you came last time. I was walking with Kirara to find some vegetables for dinner, and I saw Miroku sitting down. He didn't seem to notice that I was there; he kept staring at his right hand, like he was really worried or something. I went to go sit right next to him, and he didn't grope me. I asked him, 'What is wrong, houshi-sama?' and he didn't answer for a while, but then he said, 'I am worried about the wind tunnel. It seems to be getting bigger, which means that my life is getting shorter. I am afraid... what if I die before we are able to kill Naraku? With my lecherous ways, I still haven't found a woman to bear my child. I am worried that I will be that last of my kind. I won't have a child to kill Naraku and end the curse that has plagued my bloodline...' Houshi-sama looked very troubled, and I felt bad for him. He actually wanted someone to bear his child, and not in a perverted way. Despite the fact that he can be very perverted at times, he is a really good person once you get to know him. So, I said, 'Houshi- sama... I understand. I... will bear your child.'"

Sango blushed such a dark shade of red; it looked like she was going to explode or something. Kagome nodded, and motioned for her to continue her account of what happened yesterday.

Sango cleared her throat and continued, "Then Miroku smiled and we kissed. He is so sweet sometimes, when he isn't being hentai. We kissed for a long time, and then we walked back to the hut together, holding hands. Now that I think about it, I think the only reason houshi-sama groped me earlier today, after you came, was just to break the tension. I guess he didn't mind feeling my wrath for doing so."

Kagome smiled at Sango.

"That is really sweet, Sango." Kagome said.

'I think that Sango and Miroku are really in love...' Kagome thought to herself, her smile getting bigger. 'I only imagined this happening, but it is nothing like I would have imagined...'

"Let's go back to the hut, Sango. I still have to study. Inuyasha will get mad if I am gone too long. I promise that I won't tell anyone. You have my word, Sango." Kagome promised, and then they walked back inside the hut together.

"Kagome, we still have to study for Biology. Come on." Inuyasha said, and Kagome sat next to him and began to go over everything that they had learned when they dissected earthworms.

Here is what happened while Kagome and Sango were out of the hut, (Kagome and Sango were in the nearby forest, so nobody would here them)-

Inuyasha asked Miroku to come outside with him, and once they were outside, and out of hearing range of the others, Inuyasha began to ask Miroku the question.

"Hey, monk, mind telling me what happened between you and Sango?" Inuyasha asked bluntly.

"I don't think that Lady Sango would like if I told you..." Miroku said.

"Come on, I know that you have been waiting to gloat about it to someone." Inuyasha pried.

"Okay, I will tell you, but you must PROMISE not to tell ANYONE- not even Lady Kagome." Miroku told him.

Inuyasha agreed, and Miroku continued with telling the story about what happened yesterday.

"I had been following your advice by not groping Sango. Yesterday, I was sitting down in the forest. I was worried about my wind tunnel, because I knew it was getting larger, and my life was becoming shorter. Sango came, with Kirara, and we started talking. One thing led to another, and we ended up kissing. That's all that happened, nothing else. I promise." Miroku told Inuyasha, purposely leaving out the details, because he knew that Inuyasha would accuse him of being hentai.

"You are boring." Inuyasha said, and went back to the hut, followed by a relived monk.

Soon after, Kagome and Sango came back into the hut.

Inuyasha and Kagome finished studying for Biology, when they noticed that it was already dark outside, so they went back down the well, and went home.

Inuyasha went to Sota's room and went to sleep, and Kagome went to her room and went to sleep.

That is the end of this chapter! I am sorry, I am in a hurry right now, I am about to go to the water park with Krista and Amanda (my stepsister.) I hope everyone liked the Miroku/ Sango fluff!

Here are some responses to reviews-

Jazzy fangirl- This is a great story but after chapter 15 the whole thing is like another story it's like chap 16 and on is the epilogue or the sequel. It's not that I hate it. It just gets a little to far from the title main idea. You don't have to listen to me because of this. But what in stinking hell are you thinking. Sorry if that hurt I am not being bad or anything. And Again I am very sorry I mean sorry.

Response- You are right, I should have made chapters 15 and on a sequel story or something. But, really, do you have to be so mean? If you feel this way, then please DO NOT CONTINUE TO READ THIS FANFIC. If I say anything else, I am afraid that I will sound worse than Inuyasha with a VERY colorful vocabulary.

DragonTamer9741- "You look beautiful, Kagome." she told him.

I SEE A MESS-UP!

Response- Thanks for correcting me. I don't go back and re-read my chapters for mess ups. I email the chapters to my friend, and she does that for me. I am sorry that I missed that, I went back and changed it.

Sauratos- You should kill off hobo.

Response- I hope you liked it! Inu-chan is innocent as far as everyone else knows, tee hee.

VashtheMan- Will we find out what is going on between Miroku and Sango? Hojo is such a WUSS ^_^... anyway great story but it seems like its slowing down A LOT... I hope the story picks up a bit in the future, nah I know it will! Great story anyway.

Response- Sorry, I have been kind of busy working on my Inuyasha website and trying to make notebooks for the people I am teaching Japanese to. I will try to write another chapter tomorrow and post it before I go to Alabama.

Homicidal Muse- Your family...is kinda...disturbing. But aside from that, I loved this chapter! And I have a question that has been plaguing me for some time now. Is there any fanfic that u know of that Hojo dies in? I'm in the mood for some angst (cept it won't really be angst if it's Hojo.)OK! Please update! I love this fic!

Response- Ya, my family is very dysfunctional...

Ryuu_Kanemeate3- You took that scene line on the top of the Ferris wheel from "Lizzie McGuire Movie" didn't you?... and NO! I DIDN'T see it, it's too freaking' gay... the commercials played, like, every second for a month, ne? Cute chappie! gotta go though, I'm still on the run from the evil bunnies... Have fun!

~Lotsaluv~ Ryuu the mercenary hanyou and Inu-chan's girlfriend!

Response- ACTUALLY, I didn't get that scene from the "Lizzie McGuire Movie" I haven't even seen commercials for it. I don't watch much TV. I only watch Inuyasha, so ya... I got inspiration for the carnival from a friend of mine's fanfic, though.

That is all the responses that I have for now, sorry, I have to go! Ja ne!

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