Mowatte Mabase
Chapter 6: Dormant
-Skeleton Lair-
.:."This is it." Naota thought. He dropped his bat and slumped to the grown. The grass was cool and wet with morning dew, but why would he care? No one else did. Not about him. Haruko plain out used him, Mamimi strung him along and now when it was, what he thought her time of need, but was really his, she had disappeared. Life didn't seem to be worth it anymore. Anymore? Hell, now that he could see what was really going on this whole time, he saw no point to it. He never had found true happiness and he was sure at this point that he never would. His only moments of sanity seemed to be when he was unconscious, sleeping fitfully but with no dreams. Maybe that's what was bothering him. He knew there was a yearning for something more inside of him, yet no images of his former lover plagued his dreams. Although he had insisted that he loved her and begged her to stay with him forever, he wasn't constantly thinking of her even in his torpidity. Maybe it wasn't true love after all? Maybe he had been wrong, and made a fool of himself trying to prove something to someone who could never feel for him. Something that never even existed. These thoughts bounced inside his head, making it ache as he fell back onto the grass and, in resent, knowing that what was ahead of him was only dark and shadowy (not unlike his future), lay down to rest. It pissed him off that all he could do was think, and even more so that these thoughts lead him nowhere. Just before he drifted off into his small, fringed world1, he decided that this would be the end.
1: Reference to a Pillows song. The Pillows sing the FLCL theme song and (about) all the music on the soundtrack.