It was a beautiful day in Misaki city the birds were chirping and summer was just nearing its end. If you looked over to the street you would probably see a jeep full of 20 something year olds going to the beach to enjoy fun in the sun while they still could. Fortunately for them they weren't students so they didn't have to go to school today. Yukio Okua was walking to his first day of high school he was six feet tall with orange hair and brown eyes wearing the Misaki Municipal High School a black jacket over a white dress shirt with a red tie tucked into gray slacks with brown loafers. Ahead of him he could see his girlfriend Rei Sakai and her brother Yuris Sakai who happened to be his best friend since kindergarten. Rei was 5'9" with blonde hair that went down to her waist and had blue eyes she wore the Misaki Municipal High School's girls uniform a green jacket over a white dress shirt tucked into a plain green skirt with a red bow tie. Yuris was 5'10" had black hair like his mother and grayish blue eyes like his father.

"morning you two" Yukio greeted his friends

"good morning sweetie" Rei said giving him a kiss on the cheek

"morning" Yuris said through mouthfuls of melon bread a medium sized loaf of bread in the shape of a melon with a crunchy edge and a soft inside with a sweet taste.

" you know Yuris melon bread every morning for breakfast isn't exactly healthy" Yukio told his friend

" does it look like I care" he said

" he gets it's from our mom" Rei said

" he gets a lot of stuff from mom" she added

" shut up shut up shut up" he said

" like that" Yukio said

" shut up shut up shut up" he said faster

Both Rei and Yukio laughed in unison them they arrived at Misaki Municipal High School a large modern building with large double doors leading into a room full of lockers for students to leave their street shoes during school and their schools shoes during non school hours. Yuris continued walking past the locker with his name on it

" aren't you gonna put your school shoes on" his sister asked him

" i am wearing them" he answered

" don't you get uncomfortable wearing them all the time" Yukio asked

" not really I've gotten used to them" Yuris said

"Well I've gotta get going seems we have different first periods see you at lunch" Yukio said

" bye sweetie" Rei said giving Yukio a kiss

" see ya" Yuris said as he started walking to his first class,math.

Yuris got to his first class and began to scan the room for an open seat finding one he sat down and put in his headphones and listened to music for the last few minutes before the day eventually started. The classroom was very bland and boring six rows of four desks a large chalk board and a large oak desk in the front for the teacher. Yuris like his mother had many times during her time at Misaki Municipal High School would often be sending his teachers running out of the room in tears from terror at how smart Yuris was. Yuris much like his mother was extremely smart out of the entire first year students at Misaki Municipal High School Yuris had scored the highest on the entrance exam. His sister who was much more like their father but still had some of their mothers genes had scored quite high on the entrance exam but not nearly as high as her brother had.

The first day came to a close sooner than Yuris had expected and now he was walking home his sister had gone over to yukio's house to help him with his mother's birthday present. He walked into a little convenience store that he had been to many times to get more melon bread for the next few days , leaving with 4 bags full of the fluffy dough.

Later that night after Rei had gone home Yukio was walking down to get some groceries for his mother when all of a sudden the whole world around him had turned a red hue everyone around seemed to freeze in place a large spider like creature appearing about 15 feet away from him, the creature looked over at him and began to move with incredible speed towards him

'what the hell is that thing, what is going on' Yukio thought to himself

Suddenly a straight line of fire flew directly past Yukio's head cutting off three of the spiders legs, the spider losing most of its balance collapsed

" Crimson Arrow" a familiar voice called out

" Be mindful the Denizen is not dead just yet" a wise voice advised

" yaya i know alastor" the first voice said

Yukio turned to see someone who looked strikingly like Yuris but he had red hair and red eyes and was wearing a black cloak with what looked like sparks of fire coming off of from the top of his head down the length of his body and a x shaped ring with a red jewel in the center with what had appeared to be embers or sparks inside the jewel itself

" you'd best finish it while it still can't move very well" the voice identified by the Yuris look alike as Alastor said

" ya-ya whatever" the boy said while pulling out a long silver katana with a black handle and green wrapping around it with a lotus shaped black guard out of the coat.

'how did he do that there's no way he could've kept a sword that long in a coat what is going on here' Yukio thought to himself

"I am the Flaming Haired and Blazing Eyed Hunter like my mother before me i am Yuris Sakai know the name of the Flame Haze that ended your life in your final moments" the boy who identified himself as Yuris said

Yuris went to slash the spiders neck but before he could it jumped past him to Yukio and slashed across his chest with one of it's legs but no blood poured out only a large blue light glowing from the cut. Yuris leaped forward and stabbed through the beast's neck it exploded into a blue flame and simply faded away. Yukio fell to the ground and held his hand over the wound

"why am i not bleeding Yuris do something" He cried out to his friend

" calm down Yukio you'll be fine clearly you're a mystes if you're able to move around inside seal just gimme a second" he said surprisingly calm for the situation

He leaned down and created a small flame atop his finger

" ill make you a deal Yukio normally i'm not supposed to heal humans or Mystes's if a crimson denizen has gotten to them before we can save them but there is certainly something very special about you if you didn't immediately burst into flames when that denizen cut you" Yuris said " so how about this I'll heal your wound and stop your power of existence from leaking out on one condition" he added

" what! what do you want!" Yukio cried beginning to panic

" You become a Flame Haze just like me and become my apprentice" Yuris said

Yukio's eyes went wide. Flame Haze? Just what exactly is that? Would that mean he would fight monsters like that one? There was no way he could've taken a monster like that.

" well" Yuris said " what will it be" he added " will you die here a mere human or will you live as a Flame Haze and join me in the crimson world?" Yuris asked as he held his hand out to Yukio.