Hitomi no Hikari

(Eyes of Light)

Shugo…I'll be waiting for you

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"Surely you know what a kiss is?" she asked, aghast.

"I shall know when you give it to me," he replied stiffly, and not to hurt his feeling she gave him a thimble.

— J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan, 1911 (I love that book xD)

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(I'm sorry about the whole Zephie/Zefie thing.)

"If you are near to the dark

I will tell you 'bout the sun

You are here, no escape

From my visions of the world

You will cry all alone

But it does not mean a thing to me

Knowing the song I will sing

Till the darkness comes to sleep

Come to me, I will tell

'Bout the secret of the sun

It's in you, not in me

But it does not mean a thing to you

The sun is in your eyes

The sun is in your ears

I hope you see the sun

Someday in the darkness"

I know that song…

I walk over to Morganna where she lies on some grass she materialized for herself. My eyes look over the uneven rocky ground around my sister's patch of grass. This place needs a cleanup, I think to myself. Net slum isn't pretty, but it's tolerable for raising my child. I sit beside my lazy sister, trying not to touch her long raven-black hair.

"You sang that song to me before my 'awakening'."

Morganna lazily nods. I look over to her sternly. That song is so…depressing? Obviously, the writer of that song was not in a good 'I love life' moment. No wonder I'm so messed up. The song messed with my brain as I was still in data progress.

My body gets up to walk closer to Zefie's orb. "I forbid that song to be sung around these premises."

I hear Morganna make a noise of disagreement. "What? Aura, why?" she wined. My aqua eyes look upon hers with a pensive glace.

"It's for personal reasons."

Morganna growls with discontent. "For my own personal reasons, I quite like that song." My sister gets up and stands in a way of being …hmm, cocky with her one-sided smile. Her glossed red lips are a contrast to her shining pearl teeth.

I feel a vain pop out of my head as I close my eyes, trying not to succumb to my anger. "Well, sing another song you like. Just not…that song."

"And so why is that song so unnerving to you dear sister." I note the word 'unnerving' is greatly emphasized. I see to it as an offence on my behalf.

"You're the one that's unnerving."

Morganna walks angrily to my figure and turns me around with a great force so I stand right in front of her much bigger, and more womanly shaped per-say, dark figure. "Well, your being too 'high and mighty' miss I'm-the-Mistress-of-the-World. You should remember who took care of you-"

Restless cracklings of confused data chips interrupt my sisterly bickering. Without a moments notice, I quickly look to my daughter's orb to see to the problem at hand. Morganna sighs out some hot air and touches the sphere.

"She is restless. I was calming her by singing, but you interrupted me in my line of work."

I turn back at her twice as annoyed as before. "Well, by what it says here, it didn't help much."

Morganna throws up her arms as if in defeat. "Why doesn't it calm her?"

"For one, the lyrics is depressing and two…your singing isn't the best thing I've heard." I said this while trying to fix the knotted data. My keen senses could feel my sister's raging anger beginning to grow.

"BAKA! You have no taste. I mean, come on! Don't you remem…"

From that moment on, I stopped listening to her pointless ranting. With a whiff of my hand, a familiar bear materializes in the sphere and beside my precious daughter. When things started to calm down with both my sister and my daughter's data, I started to hum a tune soft and slow as my mother sang to me.

The song caught my sister off guard. "Its mother's song, isn't it?"

I knew the words by heart, yet not wanting them to be set loose as if they would fly away from my memory.

Willst du immer weiter wandern?

Do you want to wander further on?

Sollst du mein auf ewig sein

You shall be mine eternally.

Kahr' zuruck,

Come back,

Zur Fruhling treu und lieb

To the spring, faithful and tender,

Kahr' zuruck,

Come Back

Das Gluck ist immer da

There is always happiness.

Is there always happiness? It must be a frivolous dream. My eyes lock onto my slumbering daughter who cuddles fondly with my childhood bear. I hope, Zefie, that I'll never loose you. I want to give you happiness forever. Damp pristine liquid slides from my cerulean eyes. I wish I'll never leave you like my mother left me. My tears won't stop now. Even with my full effort, I cannot stop my human emotions. I feel thousands of hands wipe my still present tears that fall from the world. It always puzzles my mind at how I keep hearing and feeling things that do not exist in my 'World'.

"Aura…" Morganna's arms wrap comfortingly around my somber figure. "Aura, do you feel them?"

I nod with a blind mind.

"They are the hands that help you and restrain you. They are the key to your 'reality'."

To my Reality…Could I really be real? Why am I here for then? Why can't I live in the 'Real'?

I feel a tender kiss on my cheek. "Mother used to kiss us when we were sad, remember?"

Soft Calming Lips

I do remember.

"Do remember, Morganna, she kissed us before we went to sleep." I smile up to her and opened a space in the sphere. I reach for my daughter and brushed her forming golden hair, "Guntenacht (Goodnight)," and kissed her forehead.

Zefie, my precious daughter

Shugo, will you love our daughter as I have? I know that the CC Corp. will soon recognize my deeds of copying myself so I would have to come to a possibility of sending my daughter away to a safer place. I must put you to the test. Will you bring back my daughter for me?

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'Gotta be strong, so I can meet that girl again.'

Bring back my daughter for me…

"What? Whose there? Aura…is that you?"

His ocean blue eyes looks about him in frenzy.

'I must be thinking too much.'

"Shugo? Staring off into space again?" She smiles and he grunts in dissatisfaction. "Come on, we're going to be late for bed!"

'Aura, I promise I'll see you again.'

I know you will. I smile in the bamboo tree watching as he walks away to the portal. I have faith.

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Well, time to go to bed for me! Smiles! Ah, heehe, sorry for being late and being short. I had some writers block and other stuff. But now I'm back on it (and knowing what I write next). I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOO SORRRRY! (Imitates Ritsu-kun. Kawaii)

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