章 12: Prodigal pianist

Walking into the sound proof room my aunt uses for her work in the music industry I close the door behind me. I walk over to the piano and sit down before pulling out the book.

Opening the book on how to play the piano, I activate my sharingan and flip through the pages asborbing all the information in seconds.

After a few minutes I finally close the book and place it ontop of the piano.

I ready my hands and place them over the keys sliding my hands slowly across to accustom myself with them before stopping them on the starting keys for the song I have in mind.

Processing through the memories in my mind I find the song I'm looking for.

'Moonlight sonata'

Taking a deep breath and closing my eyes I start playing pressing the keys along with the sheet music that appeared in my mind.

I make a lot of mistakes pressing wrong keys and wrong timing on key presses after finishing the piece I play it again this time with fewer mistakes.

I continue this for the however many hours I was in that room halfway through the time I was here I no longer made any mistakes but continued on to imprint the perfected piece in my mind.

I glance at my wrist watch noticing the time.

'6:30 I have been playing the piano for around two and a half hours now.'

My fingers ache slightly and my key presses feel weaker noticing this I shift some mana into my fingers to increase their strength and alleviate my exhausted hands.

Deciding to play it once more I placed my mana infused hands back on the keys and close my eyes.

As I start playing the song each key press harmonizes with my very soul every chord sending waves of... emotion? overwhelming thoughts of sadness pulse through my mind as I play the song, a melancholic aura descending on the room with me at the centre.

Deep down in my mana pool I sense a change that echoes throughout my whole body if I had to describe it... it was like a qualitative change to my mana and a sense of finally opening my eyes after being in a coma for years. Is this... an awakening?

A single tear involuntarily forms in my eyes as I blink it away and suppress my emotions and stop playing the song three quarters through.

I try to collect my thoughts on what just happened but I am distracted by the sound of crying behind me.

Looking back I spot the small figure of Hikari at the door crying while looking at me noticing my gaze she quickly collects herself and wipes her tears away.

"Hikari? what wrong? why are you crying?" I get up and walk towards her asking her about why she is crying.

"Saito I didn't know you could play piano so well... such a sad song it made me feel sad listening to it."

Hearing her words I start to understand what just happened.

'I think I just awakened... but isn't it rare to awaken twice?'

I have an idea of what my new awakening is...

Double awakening isn't unheard of, it's just rare for someone to awaken a new ability that isn't the same as their parents.

Coming to a realization I smile.

'Having more than one ability wouldn't hurt.'

"I only just learning how to play the piano today... well I'm done her anyway let's go it should be dinner soon."

"Saito I'm not a kid to believe that."

Hikari says amused.

Grabbing Hikari's hand I walk her out of the room causing her to blush.

'This new ability is interesting...'

An look of intellectual curiousity appears on my face at the opportunities this will bring me.

'Seems my plans will be easier to carry out than I thought they would be.'

Thinking this I head off to eat dinner with Hikari and Kirime.

Dinner is just cup noodles and a few other items from the convenience store since our aunt can't cook besides she isn't even here she is with one of the top pop stars right now being the ceo of the top talent agency in several countries.

Looking down at the prepared cup noodles I make a note to learn how to cook... we can't be living like this...

"Kirime eat your food."

I say after noticing her looking at the noodles confused at what to do with it, as a vampire she doesn't really need to eat normal food and it's just a luxury but she needs to eat it or it will bring unneccessary attention later on in the future if she doesn't eat.

Watching as she listens to me and start eating I do the same.

"Brother you should show aunt your piano skills! aunt is famous in the music industry."

Hearing this I smirk slightly and nod not speaking with my mouthful.

'Already ahead of you... I just need to get aunt under my vampire gaze and she can help me become a legend in the music industry.'

But I don't really care about that, I don't have such illusions of granduer, what I want is money to fund my experiments this recent awakening has given me some ideas.

'If abilities can be inherited then it must be related to genetics...'

I inwardly smile while thinking such things.

Hero academy won't be for a while... until then I have alot of time to increase my chances of being accepted.

I have unlimited patience thanks to all I have endured in my past life.

I can wait as long as it takes to satisfy my ambition and take what I was denied in my old life.

Being a vampire I can outlive all these so called 'heros' I can't help but think of myself infiltrating Hero Agency becoming it's chairman... those overpowered monsters they call Heros are too dangerous after all, even though I am a vampire I am not truly immortal a stake to the heart can kill me or utterly annihilating my whole body.

The safest place I can be is among them though I must be careful of anyone who can see through my true motives I mustn't let my guard down.

Like that elf that was part of that group that raided the devils workshop who I am very certain was suspicious of me it must have been an ability for her to see through my acting.

Finishing my noodles and throwing away the container I stop Kirime who is currently in the process of trying to eat the cup after finishing the noodles.