The Golden Touch
Chapter 2 – Sonnet
Eternity?
Eternity seems like such a long time.
Hokuto raised her violin and began to play. The melodic sound were so beautiful, even the busiest of people found time to listen. As she played, it seemed even she got so captivated by what she was doing, that the world stopped to hear the music.
She smiled, placing it back down by her side.
"Lovely," said her father, smiling proudly at his daughter.
"Thank you," Hokuto replied.
"Did Serenity help you?" he asked.
Hokuto raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah, if you call nagging in my ear every five seconds nagging," Hokuto replied.
Her father smiled.
"She's not nagging now?" he asked.
"I'm pretty sure she's asleep, she does a lot of that," Hokuto said, flicking her hair.
"Well, I expect you'll be leaving for school," he said turning.
"Hey, dad," she called.
"Yes?" he replied,
"Serenity, she shares blood with every female in my family, right? So, that means, even my daughter, and my daughters daughter, and, I was wondering, does that mean she's going to live forever?" Hokuto asked awkwardly.
"It's a never-ending cycle, it's part of the lineage. Serenity will be bound to this family for eternity." He replied.
Hokuto nodded, "Wouldn't that be an awful way to liv-"
"I'm quite used to it, thank you," came a weary reply.
"Oh, you're awake," Hokuto said.
"Well, you were banging on so loudly, you were bound to wake me up," Serenity said.
"Do you have to be so offensive all of the time? You are supposed to be an angel." Hokuto snapped.
"Yeah? Well, right now, you're giving me a headache, anyway, you were the one talking about me," Serenity said.
"Well, excuse me fore being a little curious, we only share the same body, why should I try and get to know you?" Hokuto said, placing her hands on her hips.
"Exactly, why should you? We have a job to do, after we capture Dark, maybe we can make friends, although, I highly doubt we'll catch Dark, with your expert detective record," smiled Serenity.
"If you weren't in my body right now, I would walk out on you and slam the door!" shouted Hokuto.
"Well, I am, so you're going to have a little trouble doing that," said Serenity.
"How about we don't talk from now on unless we really, really have to?" Hokuto suggested, lightly.
"Suits me fine," was her reply.
Eternity seems like such a long time.
But if I was to share it.
Maybe time would pass quicker.
Who would be willing to share eternity with someone who will never fade away?
Slowly, time seems to slip through these ethereal hands.
Isn't there someone to stand by my side?
Am I the only one to be kept in the dark forever?
Hold on to me as if a delicate flower.
Help me to grow.
Help me to see.
Help me to live as you have lived.
Help me to break this barrier that keeps me separated from my heart.
If I am to live forever.
Please give me a sonnet.
Please give me words to sing through the rain.
I will share them with that sunrise.
I will sing them with someone who will entwine their fingers with mine..
Let me see the light.
Let me love the darkness.
Let me sing for eternity.
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I walked steadily; I was still refusing to believe that Hokuto was Serenity. That would mean that she was after me. That would mean she could never fall in love with me.
"Trey!" a voice shouted my name.
"Hokuto," I said, trying to keep calm.
"How have you been?" she beamed.
"I've been… okay," I managed.
"Just okay? Why, what's up?" she asked, tilting her head to one side.
"Just, you know, thinks on my mind." I said, trying to smile.
"Well, anytime you need to talk, you know where I am." She smiled, before walking away, flitting her hand in goodbye.
"That's definitely Serenity."
"Dark! Don't just randomly shout things out! I thought you were still asleep," I said, annoyed.
"Relax. Now listen. That was definitely serenity, which means, things just got a little trickier," said Dark.
"Trickier? How?" I asked, getting freaked out.
"Serenity is as great a detective as I am a thief. Which means, she'll have definitely recognised you from last night, and that means she's probably telling Hokuto right now," Dark said, keeping calm.
"But- Hokuto isn't after me, right? It's just Serenity and Krad," I said, reassuring myself.
"I wouldn't be so sure, the Hikari family are bent on tracking me down, which means that Hokuto is probably as determined as Serenity." Said Dark.
"Well, what can we do?" I asked, panicked.
"What can we do? They know who we are, we know that they know, but they don't know we know that they know."
"What?"
"Put it this way, the only thing we can do for now, is wait."
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Kunsuke sighed, dipping the worn feather into ink. The feather was black and old. Kunsuke dropped it on the paper and leaned back.
There was a knock at the oaken door.
"Yeah?" he said, lighting a cigarette.
"It's me," came the female voice.
"Come in," he said, gruffly.
She walked in and sat on the worn leather chair.
"Well Hokuto," he smiled, "You got any important information?"
Hokuto smiled excitedly, "We know who Dark is," she smiled.
Kunsuke leaned forward.
She handed him a photograph.
"The boy's name is Trey Niwa," she smiled.
Kunsuke leant back into his chair and picked up the blackened quill, he smiled, twisting it around in his hands.
"This should be very interesting," he smiled.
Hokuto nodded.
"Very interesting indeed," she replied.