Chapter 1

"Gukokuro."

"Eh?"

"Go."

"Light can be only be seen through darkness. Darkness can only be seen through light." The door shut behind, the man by the window taking a sip of wine holding the wine glass at his side. He was standing at the large window in the room with a paper in his left hand. The window in the center of the room was sending in a dim gray light into the dark room, the man walked closer to the window, bringing the wine glass to his face.

Music was playing quietly through the radio, a man sitting in his car at the side of the interstate highway. It was early in the morning and he began taking a sip of coffee while flipping through documents in his hand. His short gray hair was lowering slowly into his eyes, his mouth hidden by the tall collars of his coat. He then put down the document sipping his coffee.

"Kokoro..."

The man turned off his radio letting out a deep yawn and started up his car. Driving onto the highway slowly.

"So you've come after all."

The man in the dark room closed the window shutters; he sat at his desk as the door opened in front of him. Two men with their faces hidden in shadows entered.

"It's over."

The men then began to search their coat pockets pulling something out. The man at the desk laughed as he stood up from his chair. The men with their faces hidden pulled out two handguns firing instantly killing the man at the desk. He fell slowly to the ground as the smoke from the firing of the gun filled the room, the two men left leaving the doors open. The man fell onto the ground with a smile on his face, as blood spread around him. He opened his mouth slightly.

"I guess...it is..."