Chapter 1: Crushed

Disclaimer:I do not own any of the Inuyasha characters in the story.

Her world was officially crushed.

For once in her life Kagome wanted to just crawl into a dark crevice in her room and never come out again. Why did life have to be so damn cruel? She loved him so much and she couldn't do a single thing to get him back. He was gone.

He had left her and to even think of it made her a complete wreck. She would go to school like a zombie and talk to no one. When school was over she'd go straight home and run to her room, locking herself in it, not even coming down for dinner. Her mother was very worried.

She would often just sit there, thinking about how exactly everything went so completely wrong. Her heart was torn severely and her soul was broken. It wasn't Kagome, the fun loving happy go lucky Kagome, anymore. She wasn't there anymore.

She hadn't smiled since that night…

Flashback

"Inuyasha, please…just tell me what went wrong. What'd I do?" She started to cry uncontrollably. Here was Kagome Higurashi, losing the guy of her dreams. To her dismay, there was nothing she could do.

Inuyasha's frustratingly sighed. "Kagome…I just can't say, ok? We're through…I'm sorry. I don't expect anything from you. You have every right to hate me. I understand."

"Inuyasha, I could never hate you…I love you….I thought you did too…" Kagome couldn't say anything more as hysteria had hit her like a ton of rocks tumbling on top of her.

There was that dreadful silence.

Kagome couldn't tell what he was thinking through the phone, but she knew that something just wasn't right about the whole thing. They were so happy and things were only getting even more better when, all of a sudden BAM. He is done with her.

She couldn't think straight anymore. Her anxiety was overpowering her as her mind went out of control trying to figure out why all this was happening. Why to her? Why now? Why was he doing this to her when just the other night he was telling her how he loved her so much that nothing could change his taken heart.

"So is that it?" She barely whispered. She couldn't even speak. If she even spoke up a little she would fall into another uncontrollable fit of hysteria. Her heart raced at a much too fast speed as she awaited his reply.

He softly spoke through the phone. "Kagome…I…did love you…I gotta go…sorry…I really am." And he hung up. That was it, and her world was over.

End Flashback

That was a week ago, and she couldn't get over it. She couldn't even function. She was so numb, her whole body was. She didn't talk to any of her friends or him since that night. They wondered how she was though, even him.

That night she cried all night. That day, she refused to go to school, and that whole day she cried and stared off into the distance, lost in her own thoughts. She just couldn't seem to figure anything out. She didn't know what the hell she did.

After two days of no school, her mother had to force her to eat and go to school. So she went on the Wednesday and said nothing. She was an emotional wreck, and looked very unstable. She saw him, too.

He was over by his locker, putting his morning books away and pulling out his Chemistry book out, along with his red notes binder. She couldn't help but notice a girl hanging by his locker with him, her back against the lockers and her hand on his very sexily toned chest. It ripped at Kagome's heart.

Kagome's throat started to close, slowly suffocating her. He already had a new girl, Kikyo. Tears started to fall as she tried to keep balance when everything started to go dizzy. Her stomach turned dangerously as she started to feel the urge to vomit.

The unlucky part was that the bathroom was right next to his row of lockers. She darted for the door hoping to not be noticed by the two sickening characters in the horrifying scene of a nightmare. That wish was not granted. He saw her darting, pale and clearly upset, into the girl's bathroom.

He looked over at her with realization, then instant sorrow. His guilt and pity was written all over his deep amber eyes. She couldn't stand it. She knew he must not think that she would out this early. Three days after the break up.

She found the first stall just in time to make the toilet before anything hit the ground. The little bit of food she had eaten the night before was gone and she felt completely empty. Her heart was ripping into an even deeper dark abyss.

After coughing the last bit out, she fell off the balls of her feet to her butt, leaning her back on the closed stall door. Nearly hyperventilating she tried to calm herself down and slow the never-ending stream of tears. They did stop after a bit, not because she could, but because there were no more tears left to cry. She was exhausted.

She hadn't really slept, eaten, or much of anything except fall into a teary depression in only three days. She was so hurt by what had happened that she had forgotten to live. She skipped a couple classes before she went to 8th period.

The next two days she had eaten and drank little. She had already lost six pounds and her face wasn't laminating like it used to. She hadn't smiled and she hadn't talked to anyone. She was lost in her own spiraling meltdown. She wouldn't look anywhere but her destination and didn't listen in class.

So there she was. Empty.

For the first time in two years she was home on a Friday night. Turned on the TV but didn't really watch it. Her mother brought up food for her to eat, that she fakely smiled and thanked her for.

A few hours had passed when she heard footsteps running up the stairs, toward her room. When the door swung open, her best friend, Sango marched in with a huge bag on her back. Worry was written all over her face.

She had just gotten back from a family trip to Hawaii and couldn't get through to Kagome's cell. She later found out what had happened when she was gone. As soon as she found out she packed her bag and ran out to her house.

Sango walked over to where Kagome was sitting, against the side of her bed on the floor with her knees to her chest. She was a disaster, but Sango knew that was how she'd look. With apologies written in her eyes she hugged her best friend. "Oh, Kagome."

Kagome fell into Sango's arms. She started to cry uncontrollably, stuck there for a couple minutes. "Shh…It's ok, Kagome. I'm here, I'm here. And I'm not leaving you until things are better." Kagome just cried.