..::.. chapter one ..::.. saying goodbye ..::..
His raven hair flew around his pale face as he sat on his perch. His dark eyes searched for a purpose in the dismal place as he sat on top of the gym, contemplating his position in life at the moment. He took a long drag from his cigarette, exhaling slowly as he thought about his new development.
'Why does life always seem to fall apart on you, just when you think you've got it all put together? When you think you've got all the little pieces put in the right places, you come to find out you've been looking at the picture wrong anyway. Why does life do that to you?' He thought morbidly. He took another long drag and watched the smoke fly away in the early morning wind. He squinted his eyes against the sun, newly rising over the darkened school grounds. He thought back on his past three years at this prison, and contemplated at how his senior year would be spent at a brand new hell hole, possibly worse than this one. His eyes traveled quickly over all the memories he held here, and he thought bitterly about his past.
'Fucking mother. Does she just enjoy doing this to me? Does she get some sort of sick, twisted kick out of it? She thinks she knows what's best for me, that she's been there. What the hell does a fourty year old woman know about being a seventeen year old guy?' He thought quietly of how in a few hours, his few friends would realize he was gone, probably for good this time. He sighed and held his head in his hands as he continued thinking his bitter thoughts in the early dew of the morning.
'Does she happen to realize that she's pulling me away from the only place I've ever called home? Not that I honestly want to spend the rest of my miserable life here, but what will happen when I leave? Sometimes it's like I'm the only thing holding this place together. Am I really supposed to just let it fade away without me?' The boy tossed his cigarette off the roof and leaned back on his elbows, enjoying his private moment of thought, something so precious to him. He sighed once again, but his thoughts came to a startling and screeching halt when his mother pierced them with her incessant yelling.
"Inuyasha Hanyou! Get off that roof this instant! We need to leave now dammit!" He grumbled incoherently, rubbing his hands over his eyes as he shook his head.
"What ma?" He yelled back, trying to maintain some sort of motherly respect for the woman.
"Are you through with your packing? You know you start that new school today." He nodded his head before hopping off the roof, brushing the dirt off the back of his jeans as he stared at his mother.
"What in God's name were you doing up there at this time in the morning anyway?" Inuyasha shrugged and took one last look around the place before replying.
"Nothing ma. Just . . . saying goodbye."
This will be the only disclaimer I do for this entire story, because it's way too freaking long. I do not own any characters, nor songs, unless I specifically note that I do. There will be a few poems written in later in the story, and those are mine. I will be highly upset that they're gone. And for any of you who knew Faded Wings when it was on Animespiral, or when it was on here, here it is, refreshed. I'll finish updating it, and then put up the sequel, I know you're all excited for it, so Enjoy!