Light Violets & Dark Midnights

~Chapter Seventeen~

It felt as if I was floating in water...

My mother walked me back to my bedroom and told me to take a rest. But half an hour later Kagaya walked in. In his arms, he was carrying a box and a sketch pad. He pulled up a seat right next to me. And began to draw.

"What're you doing?" I asked with a tilt of my head. He looked up at me, smiled and messed up my hair. "I'm drawing you. All these other drawings that I drew that are put up all around your room are getting old." My eyes widened in amazement.

I got up from bed and looked at all the works. "You drew all of this?" He nodded his head. "All of this, for me?" I picked up a canvas. On it was him, Kurai and me. Both of them holding each of my hands.

I sat down on the bed and Kagaya joined me. He was smiling at me, smiling at the drawing. "It's beautiful. Was it only you who drew this?" I asked. He chuckled, "You may be surprised, but Kurai drew half of it for me. When we were younger, mother and father gave us lessons. The performing arts brought them together." He explained to me. "Tell me, how did they fall in love?" I asked.

"Now, that's something you have to ask father about."

I didn't really talk to father that much. The last time I saw him was at lunch. The sun started to set and Kagaya started drawing again. I stayed still like he asked me to.

All of a sudden, he put down his pencil and sketch pad. I sat up and leaned my back against my bed frame. He came on the other side of the bed and did the same so too. He put his arm around me and lightly pushed my head onto his shoulder.

"I remember when you were still a toddler. Whenever you had nightmares and mother, or father weren't home, you would come to my room and sleep with me." My head started to pounding a little again. I started to remember.

But before I new it, Kagaya was snoring softly and fell asleep.

I decided to go to sleep.

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I woke up,and Kagaya wasn't laying right next to me anymore...

I felt something in my hand,and in it was a paper. It was a drawing of me sleeping. At the bottom of the paper, it said, 'To my dearest little sister. You didn't change one bit..." I hugged the drawing and rested it upon my vanity.

I decided to go speak to my father. I ran into the plump, little lady with pointed ears and freckles in my hallway.

"Banphrionsa! Tá mé chomh brón orm, mar sin tá brón orainn!" She was bowing her head deeply towards me. "No, no, no. Tá sé mo leithscéal." I shook my hands. She bowed and started walking away.

I began again, but then it occurred to me. How did I do that? How did I speak her language? It must be one of the powers dragons posess. Earlier she said, 'Princess! I'm so sorry, so sorry!'

I said, 'No, no, no. It's my apologies.'

I ran back down the hallway towards her. I tapped her shoulder and she turned around. She had a name tag, it said, 'Caitriona Breckenridge'. It's a pretty name.

"An Rí, mo athair, tá tú ag feiceáil air?" I asked her where my father was. "Tá sé sa ghairdín." Caitriona said he was in the garden. I then started to make my way there.

I found my father sitting on the edge of the water fountain feeding the fish. He looked at me. "Hikari, come. I was expecting you." I sat along side him. I looked into the water fountain and found two cat fish circling around each other.

One was black with a white spot. The other was white with a black spot. My father noticed me staring at them. "We named them Ying and Yang." I understood,and shook my head.

My father stood up and brushed off his robe. He extended his hand, "Take my hand, Hikari. I want to show you something.

"Provate la migliore per farlo durare
Mostra, ci vorrà per il nostro passato."

Suddenly,it was black,but I still felt myself holding onto my father's hand.

Then some smoke started to appear and form into an image.....

*Banphrionsa! Tá mé chomh brón orm, mar sin tá brón orainn! - Princess! I'm so sorry,so sorry!
No, no, no. Tá sé mo leithscéal. - No,no,no. It's my apologies.
An Rí, mo athair, tá tú ag feiceáil air? - The King,my father,have you seen him?
Tá sé sa ghairdín. - He's in the garden.