Well, I've decided just to skip on ahead to when Kurama goes to Kagome's house for their project… and BTW, they'll be the main people in this chapter.

"Mom! I'm hoooooooome!" Kagome yelled as soon as they walked through the door. "Hello, Kagome! How was schoo- Ehm, who is this, may I ask?" Kagome's mom interrupted herself, having seen Kurama. "Oh, this is Kurama. He's my partner for the language arts project." "What?! Your teacher ALREADY gave you a project?" her mom exclaimed. "Yeah, 5 typed pages on any subject. Do you think we could use the Internet for it?" Kagome asked hopefully. "Of course. BUT, if I catch you doing ANYTHING other than researching this 'project', (a/n: MUST KEEP MIND OUT OF GUTTER o.O) you will be grounded until your next birthday. Understood?" "Yes, mom…"

~~~~~upstairs~~~~~~

"Geez, Kagome, your mom was a little harsh about that, wasn't she?" Kurama asked her, sounding a bit worried. "Oh, don't worry about her, she always forgets the threats after a week of being grounded." Kagome replied with an overly cheerful grin. Kurama glanced at her, sweatdropping. "Well… what did we decide on?" she asked, having the awful short-term amnesia. "The history of jolly ranchers." "oh yeah… well… since we're using jolly ranchers, how 'bout we eat some?" Kagome asked hopefully, using the all-powerful puppy dog eyes. Kurama, unaware of how easily Kagome became sugar-high, agreed. "YAY!!!!" Kagome ran downstairs, and grabbed a jumbo bag of jolly ranchers. (2 pounds. Lotta sugar^_^'…) popping 5 into her mouth at once she ran back upstairs and plopped down on the computer chair. "Uh, Kagome, isn't that a bit big of a bag?" Kurama asked, beginning to feel suspicious. "Of course not, silly! It's only two pounds!" 'two pounds of sugar plus Kagome… oh gods what have I gotten myself into?' Kurama thought, with a groan. Kagome was logged onto AOL, and looking at her buddy list, squealed, "Sango's on! Oh no… Kikyo is too…" Sango had imed her right away, and demanded to know how she got her mom to let her online. (this point on, unless specified, it's im mode.)

Kago: biiiiiiiiiiiiiig project for language arts

Sang: who's your partner?

Kago: me give ya 3 guesses

Sang: Kurama

Kago: go fig… you got it on the first try =p

Sang: So how long he gonna be staying over there? ;)

Kago: I dunno but I gotta work on the project so ill ttyl bye. =p

Sang: bye ='(

Kagome put up an away message, and started working. When she was about half ay through the bag of jolly ranchers, her mom knocked on the door. "Kagome? I think you should be going to sleep soon…" Kagome looked at her clocked and yelped. It was already half past ten! "Uh, hey mom? Do you think Kurama could spend the night if his parents agree?" "Sure, I don't see why not." So Kagome handed Kurama the phone, and he called his parents. When they had finished lecturing him about being out late, they agreed. Kurama told Kagome this, and she jumped up, squealed, and hugged him. (Remember people… she done ate a pound of jolly ranchers…) Kurama had turned a beautiful shade red, and when she let go of him, she asked off-handedly, "Whatchya blushin for? Cause I hugged ya?" Kurama slowly nodded. He immediately regretted it though, for Kagome's eyes had gotten an evil glint in them. She ran up to him, wrapped her arms around his waist, and kissed his cheek. 'Ah ha! He has a crush on me!' Kagome's sugar

loaded brain informed her, as Kurama turned even darker red, if possible. Then, to her utter astonishment, he kissed her cheek back! Now, it was Kagome's turn to blush. She decided to get a bit of revenge, and kissed him full on the lips. Kurama's emerald eyes widened in shock, then he kissed her gently back. When he pulled back, he noticed that Kagome's eyes were almost completely closed. 'Looks like her sugar high wore off…' he thought to himself with relief. Then he realized her arms were still around his waist, and his arms had inexplicably wrapped around her waist as well. They stayed in that position until her mom came and knocked on the door. They quickly separated and laid down on the beds. (A/n: of course Kagome has 2 beds in her room! Shame on all of you sick minded people out there!) Her mom opened the door and saw them both laying there, apparently asleep, and smiled. She knew what had just happened. Meanwhile, Kurama lay there, thanking whoever invented jolly ranchers, for without

them, that sweet little moment would probably never have happened.

And so ends this chapter! Hoped everybody liked it! And I am hoping and praying my computer will be nice to me and keep the spacing normal. I think I'm beginning to develop the dreaded writer's block, so please bear with me! Oh yeah, about the no sleep thing… I broke my personal record by staying awake 60 hours! I slept almost 24 hours after that though. This is my longest chapter yet, I think! I'm so proud of myself… ^-^ have any of you people out there read Demon Diary? It's really good… its almost Inuyasha meets Family Guy meets… well, I don't know! But it's actually really funny. The best way I can think to put it is, imagine Kagome trying to be colder and crueler than Sesshomaru, and having someone like that teach her to be that way. Very interesting results! ~_^