Disclaimer: I may not own Inu Yasha, but he loves me! He does! What?! I'm not crazy... I'm just... leave me alone!

A/N: Okay, here's yet another fanfic by the great Kaggerz! I got the idea from this from my Stripper Kagome name on Yahoo! Messenger..

12/15/04: Revisions: The excessive poem was getting on my nerves, so I shortened it. Some other minor content revisions as well.

If you could forget someone, would you? What if the pain was so great that you just wanted to forget them, forget all that you did, and go back to a normal life? What if you couldn't stand it any more, and you fell into a depression so deep, so intense, that you had lost all will to continue living? Would you want to? Or would you rather cry in your pillow for weeks and not eat or sleep?

Kagome Higurashi lay awake in her bed one night, pondering these questions. It had been months since her journey had ended, but the pain was so real. She rolled over, tears falling from her eyes and catching in her ears. At night, the images came back..

The images of what happened...

She saw Inu Yasha... She saw Kikyou... She saw their lips locked...

She saw her heart breaking...

No, this wasn't like the other time she saw them kissing... No, it was different..

She saw... she saw...

The tears wouldn't stop! She just wanted to forget what she saw! Forget the pain of her broken heart!

"Inu..Yasha.." she whimpered as she looked towards the full moon in her window.

Kagome found herself walking home from another exciting day at school. The bags under her eyes were so bad that she couldn't cover them up with make-up no matter how hard she tried! She sighed, dragging her feet along the sidewalk as she rested her forehead against the glass window of a shop.

She had lost weight... Hell, she had to be told to eat and shaken before she'd even consider putting it in her mouth.. And even then, it was small portions. Her thoughts also wondered and she found it harder than ever to concentrate.

But she found it even harder to have the will to live...

'He... he... and now..' her thoughts were a jumbled mess. Tears shimmered in her eyes, but she was suddenly smacked in the side of her face with a flyer.

It told of a new club opening up around there.. A strip club! They wanted girls to work..

Young girls, but not -too- young... No ID required...

Somehow Kagome smiled. She was 17– almost 18– therefore, she'd have no problem. She suddenly felt the need to do this, as if it would help her move on with her life!

... She went straight to the address on the flyer....

And found herself in the back of an alley, though a neon sign– that happened to be off at the moment, since the club wasn't open– was there. She walked up to it, looking up and seeing that it read "Erotic Pleasure". She only sighed, trying to put on a fake smile so they wouldn't automatically send her away for being too down.

When she felt the smile might reach her eyes, she walked in. Immediately, she was greeted by a woman with long blonde hair and green eyes. She wore a black shirt with a plunging neck-line and some tight, hip-hugger black dress pants, with a belly chain. "Ah, a schoolgirl! Perfect! Hi there, I'm Tsubii!"

Kagome just looked at the cheerful woman, forcing her smile to widen, then bowed her head. "Hello, I'm Higurashi, Kagome."

"No need to be all formal! Geeez, smile for real! C'mon!" Tsubii tilted her head slightly, smiling at Kagome in a friendly manner.

Kagome sighed, raising her head and looking up at her with liquid brown eyes. "I'm sorry..."

"You seem shy... you sure you're up to this? What's your motive anyways? You don't seem like the sluttish type..." Tsubii said slowly, looking her up and down.

'I want to forget someone...' Kagome thought. She sighed and decided to instead say, "I need the money... real bad... I.. I can't find another job... please..."

Tsubii's eyes softened and she smiled slightly, resting a hand on Kagome's shoulder. "It'll be alright.. I'll give ya a go and see what you can do! Do you do stripping -and- lapdancing?"

Kagome smirked slightly, though she had never done either, and nodded. "Hai, both."

She had gotten the job.. Well at least so they could see how good she was at it. She was shy by nature when it came to this stuff, so she wondered if she'd be up to this. She sat at her desk at home, a bowl of oden in front of her. Her mother wanted her to eat, but understood what had happened, so stopped asking her to come down to the table.

Kagome had shut herself down... Off from the world.

All because of what happened...

She shook the thoughts from her head and focused on the oden in front of her, reaching a shaky hand to the spoon. 'Will I ever move on..?'

No... It's impossible to forget someone you truly loved.

It's impossible to heal a broken heart– unless it's healed by the person that broke it.

So, she waited... Maybe somehow he'd come back? He'd heal it?

Maybe... But she was just fooling herself. He had Kikyou now, so no matter how much she cared for him...

...Her love can't reach him anymore...

A warm tear fell into her oden, and she hurled a pillow into the side of the wall. 'I should've known this would happen! That Kikyou would get him in the end! But I didn't want to... see.. him..d-.. No! Don't think of that!'

But it's hard to forget... It's impossible to forget...

You'll always remember the pain. There's no escaping heart-break!

....That's why they call it "falling" in love.

Because your feet aren't on the ground, and you're so happy that you couldn't give a care! Then, you finally hit the ground.. And the longer you fell, the harder the hit. And when you finally hit... it was all over!

She had been falling for over two years... She was emtionally dead inside.

She raised the spoon to her lips and let the now cold oden slide down her throat. A sob caught in her throat and she choked, just about throwing up what little food she had in her system. More tears fell as she shoved the bowl away from her, not hungry at all.

Memories flashed in her mind– because, afterall, you'll NEVER forget that person...

She saw herself throwing her arms around Inu Yasha from when he had sealed the well...

She saw them embracing before he had hurled her in the well..

'No...'

She saw them sitting around a campfire with Inu Yasha in human form. She saw Sango, Miroku, and Shippou's smiling faces.

'I.. I miss my friends... no..'

She saw herself clutching the fire-rat haori close to her as Inuyasha's human form lay weak on the ground, his blood all over the haori... She heard herself saying that it didn't matter that it was covered in blood.. Because it was -his- blood.

'Inu..Yasha...no..'

She saw many happy moments. Like when they walked along holding hands, when they'd embrace after she thought he died, when she was getting a cold and he draped his haori over her, when she'd bandage his injuries...

Then she saw Kikyou... when she was behind the tree and Inu Yasha and Kikyou were kissing.

"No.." she whispered aloud, two more tears falling at the stab in her heart.

She remembered crying under the Goshinboku because she had realized she loved him..

She saw all the times Inu Yasha had run off to Kikyou...

"No.."

It all lead up to this... To what happened... Inu Yasha had went chasing after Kikyou's shikigami and when he didn't come back, she went to check on him. She hid behind a bush, listening in on their conversation. Kikyou said it was time... Inu Yasha said he.. He... lo–

"No," she said stronger than a whisper.

He kissed Kikyou... and Kikyou rested her head on his shoulder, looking past him to Kagome.. Looking directly at Kagome, and smirked! Kagome had started to back away, tears forming in her eyes, but not wanting Inu Yasha to smell the salt in her pain.

"No!" she slammed her hands on her desk, willing the images away, as her mother burst through the door.

"Kagome..."

"Mamma..." she whispered, sobbing. Her mother came over and hugged her daughter close, letting her cry on her shoulder.

"It.. hurts so bad..." Kagome whispered through her sobs.

"I know, Kagome..." her mother whispered back, feeling tears come to her own eyes. Her little girl was in pain because of a broken heart, and she hated to see this.

They stayed like that until Kagome cried herself to sleep. Kagome's mother looked over at the virtually untouched oden and a tear escaped her eye. "Kagome dear..." she whispered, "at this rate, you're going to kill yourself or starve..."