A/N: Hello folks. Some of my reviewers (you know who you are) need to straighten the fuck out. If you want it to stay Sango/Miroku all you need to say is "It should stay Sango/Miroku." I don't need a damned death threat to understand you think it should stay Sango/Miroku! As funny as I find it that you think you have the mental and physical capacities to kill me, I don't really appreciate death threats and I will get your e-mail address traced and put in a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison so fast it'll make your head spin! So please, if you need to express passion, do it in some other way than a threat. Thank you for your time.

Review Responses

NekoYasha101: Thank you for being so easy going. Your review is a refreshing change of pace after 10,000 e-mails telling me to keep it Sango and Miroku. Even though that's probably how it'll end up, I like people who support the Miroku/Kagome pairing, because they're not afraid of change.

Preetygirl109: Thanks to you as well for accepting the fact there is a chance it will be Kagome/Miroku. Most others say there life will end if I make it that. Damn drama queens.

Ryomaru Inu no Taisho: I'm glad you like the idea of a love square. That it would make it much more fun to write, no?

Starriecat: I suggest you seek counseling. While Kagome is not my favorite character in the anime or manga either, she is not that bad and you don't need to make a scene over it. Try taking up meditation. I use that when I'm stressed and it is a great help.

SanMirLover: Yes, some people do like that pairing. Not very many mind you, at least not in this case, but some people like that pairing very much. Myself being one of them.

lila: I can do whatever I like! It's my fan fiction after all.

BSMOMKIDS: See Ryomaru Inu no Taisho's response. The same to you.

nesulli: No need to be so melodramatic, but I appreciate your valuable input as a reader.

SpunkAnimeChick: I love your pen name!

MonkeyFeet180: Bring it bitch. Love square/triangle is good though.

Chapter 29: Confession

"Wake up you lazy lump!" Inuyasha yelled at Miroku's prostrate form. He kicked Miroku none too gently to rouse him. "And hands off my girlfriend!" he added, not very happy about last nights sleeping arrangements.

"Okay, okay, I'm up! God Inuyasha, you could've raised the dead with all the screaming you did. And did you really have to kick me?" Miroku complained.

"Your lucky that's all I did you man whore!" Inuyasha continued to shout.

Hojo piped up before Miroku could protest. "Sorry Miroku, but I'd have to agree with Inuyasha here. You did kind of steal his girl."

"I stole nothing! You ought to know two girls at once is strictly against my policy. Besides, it's not my fault Kagome likes me better." Miroku objected.

"You wish." Kagome grumbled. She too was just waking up.

"Yes!" Inuyasha leapt up in triumph. "Take that you sinister girl-stealing fiend! You've been foiled!"

"Aw Kagome, that hurts me right here." Miroku said in mock despair, putting a hand over his heart.

"I think you'll live." Kagome remarked, giving him a friendly peck on the cheek to appease him.

"You know, I think I feel better already." Miroku exclaimed with a wink. He joined Inuyasha and Hojo to help pack what they had all brought to the beach.

"You kissed him!" Eri squealed once the guys were out of earshot. "Admit it, your in love with the guy!"

"I am not! Okay, I admit I do have a little bit of a crush on him, but that's it!" Kagome finally confessed. "It's just a crush and nothing more!"

"Right again, as usual." Eri bragged.

"Yeah, well gloat while you can, because it will go away." Kagome confidently said. "In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if it was just your mind poisoning."

"So, who should I tell first? Miroku or Inuyasha?" Eri wondered out loud.

"Don't tell anyone!" Kagome screamed loud enough for all to hear. "Especially Sango and Inuyasha! They'd both kill me!"

"They'd try, but knowing Miroku, he'd protect you, wouldn't he?" Eri smirked.

"Don't try and trick me into thinking Miroku likes me too! I'm not so dense as to fall for that. I know how you work your tricks. Besides, even though he probably would, that says nothing about he feels about me."

"It says he cares about you." Eri protested.

"Well, thank you Capitan Obvious." Kagome said sarcastically, rolling her eyes. "Anyone could've told me that. Miroku cares for all of us. He is our friend."

"Maybe more for you." Eri reminded her, giving Kagome a wink.

"Whatever." Kagome said, going back to Inuyasha's car.

"Is that all of it?" Hojo asked.

"Yup." Miroku replied as he shut the trunk of Inuyasha's car. He drove a dark green Chevy Cobalt, nothing to special, but nothing wrong with it either. Except for the fact that it only sat five, and there were six people, causing a bit of a squeeze in the back. Hojo volunteered to go and fetch the girls, and Miroku took his chance to try and settle his beef with Inuyasha. "Look, I know what you're thinking," Miroku began under Inuyasha's cold glare "but I swear I have no sexual interest in her at all! I mean she is probably the nicest and most trusting girl I know, she is very smart, fact smart, not common sense smart but you know what I mean, and her body…" Miroku stopped his explanation before he went too far. Inuyasha was still giving him the same look. "Forget I said that, I'm just trying to make the point that you can't blame me for everything that goes on between the two of us!"

"Just stay away from her. For all I know you could be lying out of your ass right now. Why wouldn't you have any interest in Kagome? You gave me several of the reasons one would not thirty seconds ago." Inuyasha said. Their conversation couldn't continue any longer for Hojo returned with Sango, Kagome, and Eri as Inuyasha finished his sentence. They all piled into the car and drove back to their respective residences.

"Inuyasha is quite certain I'm after you." Miroku mentioned as Kagome and himself were dropped off at their homes.

"You'll have to forgive him. You know he's insecure and all." Kagome reminded him.

"True enough, but me and you? That's about as far-fetched as they come."

"How do you mean? It's happened once before." Kagome pointed out.

"Yeah, but it was over bloody quick." he added.

"Do you even remember why we broke up?" Kagome asked.

Miroku answered her question with a question. "Not really, why?"

"I don't remember either. Probably because you were a pervert or something." Kagome joked.

"Hey, I haven't done anything perverted for a while!"

"It doesn't matter. From the first time you groped a girl you were marked for life."

"Well thanks for letting me know that now!" Miroku complained. He checked his watch. Well, its only noon and I'm bored. "Want to catch a flick or something?"

"Sure. Kagome replied. "Should we invite anybody?"

"Well I know Inuyasha has had enough of me for one day and is it agreed the company of Eri isn't desired?"

"Definitely." Kagome confirmed.

"Well, I'll invite Sango if you don't mind." Miroku said.

"Of course not." Part of Kagome would much rather be alone with Miroku, but her resistant half differed.

Only Sango and Eri remained in the car with Inuyasha. Sango, though not as suspicious as Inuyasha, was beginning to wonder if Miroku and Kagome had a little thing for each other. "Hey Eri." she whispered to the girl beside her, as not to incur Inuyasha's wrath, "You don't really think Kagome and Miroku like each other do you? You were just teasing right?"

"I know Kagome and Miroku like each other. Didn't you see them yesterday?" Eri asked.

"Come now, they were just being friendly. There always like that." Sango responded.

"Ever think that maybe they might be like that because they already have something going on the side?" Eri persisted.

"I don't think Kagome would do that. I've known her pretty much since she's moved here. And besides, though a pervert he may be, it's not like Miroku to cheat on somebody." Sango said in his defense.

"I don't know, you thought he was cheating once before, didn't you?"

"Yes but I was wrong."

"Sure, but if you thought so it can't be that unlikely."

"But-"

"Look." Eri cut her off before she could finish her sentence, "You didn't hear this from me, but Kagome admitted to me she is crushing on Miroku. And can you really see any reason for him to not feel the same?"

She had a point. Kagome was pretty, nice, and she had been Miroku's best friend since they had known each other. Why shouldn't he like her?