Unrequited Peanut Butter by kiltykat

Chapter One

'Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.'

I guess this is one of those things that are supposed to take flight on the wings of time, or something like that. Point is, the pain isn't going away... And this peanut butter tastes awful!

She looked down to the small jar in her hand and the spoon clutched in her other as if it were some lifeline. She couldn't quite remember why she grabbed it, but then again, she couldn't quite remember anything anymore.

It all started with him, him and my mother...

Kagome grinned as she stared at the large campus ahead of her. All of that hard work she had done her entire life, all led down to this one moment. The moment she stepped onto the soft grass ahead of her clarified it. She, Kagome Higurashi was now a college girl.

Everything was so new to her, the sights, the sounds, the smells, everything! And, while she usually feared change, she was beginning to like the college life idea very much. She shrugged her shoulders in a very determined way and began to pull her suitcase behind her. Thank-goodness she had already had the rest delivered to her dorm, God forbid she carry it herself.

She stared at the people lounging around the grass and under the trees as they provided shade from the late summer heat. A few guys were kicking a soccer ball back and forth and Kagome couldn't help but smile at the group of girls a little farther away. Perhaps she would meet some of them later on.

She looked down at the slip of paper in her hand and looked about her, a little bit overwhelmed, as the campus suddenly seemed to loom over her. Kagome placed a hand on her chest and glanced down again, giving a small sigh of relief when she found it to be in a more secluded part of the campus.

'Good,' she thought, 'I'm away from all of those nasty parties.'

To her utter dismay, not only was it secluded, it was slightly... oh hell, it was a piece of junk! She groaned when she realized the elevator was out of order, so she had to drag her suitcase up the stairs, and unpack before her first class started in, glancing her watch she felt her eyes bug out.

'Oh my God! Class starts in ten minutes!'

Kagome rushed to pack all of her things before her class started, because, as everyone knows, first impressions are everything! She quickly grabbed her leather satchel filled with her required books and rushed out the door, barely remembering to close the door before rushing down the stairs and out into the bustling crowd of kids trying to also find their classes.

Kagome sighed as her class building came in sight; however, a red clad shirt prevented her from reaching that goal.

"Oi! Wench, watch where you're going!" A slightly raspy, male voice said as Kagome found herself butt plopped on the ground.

She stared up into angry golden hazel eyes, and felt an automatic dislike begin forming for this rude stranger.

"Well," She began quietly, not exactly one for confrontation, "Maybe if you had watched where you were going, I wouldn't be on the ground."

The boy snorted and said snappily, "And if you weren't such a klutz you wouldn't be there either."

Kagome felt her face flame up and quickly dusted herself off. She really hoped she never saw him again, yet that strange feeling in the pit of her stomach was never wrong. Something big was going to happen...

"Yes, well... I apologize. Please excuse me, I'm going to be late, I hope I didn't injure you!" Kagome called out over her shoulder as she began running in the direction f her class again.

"Hey wait!" The boy suddenly called out, his voice slightly friendlier. Kagome regarded her watch impatiently and turned around and bit out, "Yes? Is there something else?"

The boy called out, "What's your name?"

Kagome smiled softly and said, "Kagome... Kagome Higurashi."

Who knows, maybe they'd end up being friends?

"Oh Kagome, quit being childish, I'm sure he can't be that bad..." the woman over the phone scolded lightly, smiling when she heard her daughters anguished cry.

"Oh Mother, he is! He really is! He's positively dreadful! He thinks he was born with a silver AND golden spoon in his mouth!" Kagome cried out as she plopped down into her plush couch, resting her hand over her eyes.

She listened as her mother began clucking like a hen at her; she was about to get 'a talking to'. God, how old was she? Surely not eighteen!

"Now, Kagome... you must give people a chance... maybe all this fellow needs is a friend or two. Why don't you invite him over for dinner Saturday?"

Kagome felt her eyes close themselves in annoyance. How she hated it when her mother understood. She had this strange feeling though that somehow, she was going to agree with her.

"Alright mom. I guess, I could try and give this guy another chance... our meeting, after all, wasn't under the... best of circumstances." Kagome said rolling her eyes, as she heard her mothers sigh in relief.

"Thank-you Kagome, I raised such a caring child! Who knows, maybe you and this fellow will hit it off yeah?" She asked suggestively. Crossing her fingers mentally.

Kagome gasped at what her mother was hinting at, Her, and that... that boy ever hitting it off? Yeah right! He was completely rude! On her first day of college too! The nerve of him was unimaginable!

"Um... let's stick to trying to be acquaintances for now." Sometimes, she wondered if she was the only young woman rendered helpless to the onslaught of the mother's tongue. It was highly unlikely...

"Yes, that would be a good place to start..."

Kagome picked at her nails as her mother babbled on and on about home happening's and such before exchanging 'love you's' and 'goodbye's' Kagome asked, "Mom... do you- do you really think this is a good idea?"

"Of course dear, now stay safe, and do good!"

Kagome clicked off the phone and bit her lip in hesitation. Ok, so things hadn't exactly turned out right today. Everything started with her rinky-dink dorm room, then her head-chest collision, with that weird boy. To top it off she had been late to class, AND he happened to be in the class with her. Just guess where the last seat in class was, guess! That's right, next to her. He made snide comments the entire time, and it really grated on her nerves. Then to top it off, he wasn't even listening to the professor, so he gave her his number and told him to call him and give him the homework, as if she would. She told him to go to hell. She smiled at the strangely now fond memory.

She glanced at the little slip of paper by her notebooks and silently wondered why she hadn't thrown it away. She quickly shrugged and decided it was now or never. She quickly dialed the number and held her breath. After a few rings the machine picked up and Kagome sighed in relief. Machines were so much more reasonable than people.

'You have reached the residence of Inuyasha and the Fluffmiester, we're not in right now but if you'll just leave your- Hey!'

Kagome giggled as she heard a deep voice mutter 'ingrate'.

'You have reached the Taisho brother's, please leave your name and number and we'll get back to you as soon as possible...'

Kagome raised an eyebrow at the new, slightly deeper, smoother completely male voice. It rose a bit of apprehension in her, yet she wasn't sure why. She shrugged it off for phone jitters and sucked in a large amount of air. Yet that voice echoed in her head...

'Not big on messages it would seem.'

Kagome cleared her throat when she heard the beep.

"Hey there Inuyasha, it's um... Kagome. Listen, I know we didn't exactly meet under the best of circumstances, so I was wondering if you'd maybe like to come to eat dinner with my family on Saturday, just to you know... get to know each other? You have my number so call, or don't. Either way, dinner is at 7 p.m. Don't worry; I won't be too upset if you don't show... but anyways, bye! Oh, and I love the message!"

Kagome sighed as she hung up the phone, how dumb could she have sounded? He was probably really actually there, and he probably knew it was her so he didn't pick up, and he was probably laughing at her message right now! Oh that ass!

'Come one now, that sounds too crazy to be true. But then again...'

Kagome bit her lip as she quickly dialed his number up again, and once again listened to the amusing message before grinding out, "Kagome again, if you were sitting here ignoring me, then... then you're such an ass! If not, sorry! See ya later!"

Feeling suddenly satisfied she nodded her head and hung up the phone. She stared at the large pile of books in front of her and couldn't help the groan that tore through her throat at that moment. Her first day of college and already she had a mountain high stack of homework. She could already feel the beginnings of a hand cramp forming. Grabbing the closest book she read, "Chapter One, New Beginnings..."