Hope you guys like it! It's my first chapter story~

Prologue

In Those Scornful Flames

"...Sirens appeal to the spirit, not to the flesh..."

-'The Ker as siren'

Karin would love to watch fire. From the time she was seven, she could stare into a cackling fire as time stretched on slowly behind her. In fact she would sit forever observing the electrifying blue turn a startling black that would fading to the brightest white burning to orange, that finally made a heated red. The flames and shadows of the wall alike would flicker and dance in a way she would call beautiful as a child, but now, at the age of thirteen reflecting in her wide steel colored eyes, she urged them to stop.

She couldn't move.

The warmth radiating from the giant mass of fire engulfing her middle school seemed to paralyze her, as she stood outside the school ground. The sounds of distant sirens, the cries from parents watching in pure horror could be heard. But were all dulled to her ears which only heard the memory playing back in her head.

Her sister and she were fighting. What they were particularly fighting about was something they were beginning to argue more and more as time passed. Yuzu has always known; Karin was hiding something. A burden that Yuzu wanted to help her sister carry, but Karin wanting to leave it be, would disregard it as nothing.

At first the soft spoken Kurosaki would trust her sister's judgement and all would be left unresolved, but further and further on in time Yuzu would watch her sister crawl out of their window at all times of night, while she feigned sleep. She wouldn't question why she would disappear during their lunch period at school or be late when she knew Karin didn't have or even attend soccer practice.

It first began a month's time before, the two where sitting in their room comfortably just after dinner, chores done. Then a sudden pain brought Karin to the floor clutching her head together as if it would split in two from the agony alone. When she attempted to come closer, Karin panted to stay away, biting back a scream. Yuzu had only stood there, frozen, watching her sister in pain before it slowly subsided and told Yuzu not to tell their father or brother before Karin fell into a deep sleep.

Thankfully Karin awoke the next day, but acting as if nothing had happened. That was the last straw for Yuzu.

With their father and Ichigo left in the dark, Yuzu and Karin fought. The two grew apart fast in that small time Karin saying it was for the better, and 'for her safety' she would mutter when she thought Yuzu couldn't hear.

But now there would be no fights, hidden arguments, or cold shoulders. Because Yuzu was in the building, burning before her eyes, along with her friends.

'...Karin-chan, please...just tell me!' desperate pleas.

'...Karin-chan, I'm just worried... I love you.' reassuring words.

'...Karin-chan, you can tell me anything...' wrongful truths

'...Karin-chan...' so very happy

'...Karin-chan...' so very sad

'...Karin-chan...' and so very gone.

"You did this." a raspy, voice croaked. Karin blinked, the paralyzing warmth setting her free only for he to the face behind her. The voice was from an old man, frail and weak with his arms, thin enough to see his bone and purple veins easily, shaking while holding onto his wooden cane with dents and nicks in it. His head had not a hair on it, all on his chin, making a sliver beard that ended at his chest, even longer for his back was hunched over. The man's eyes were a bitter old black, that reflected a soft red from the flames behind her. Something about him, brought something in the pit of her stomach. Fear.

He stepped- limped- closer to her, when she realized he was barefoot. He wore an old tattered beige jacket that hid his shirt that went to the knees of his pants. "It was you," he said, shakily pointing a bony finger at her. She involuntary took a step back. "You were the one to create this. Normal people shouldn't see the dead," he said, making her think how in the world this strange old man knew about her and her ability, "and now, with that strange force emitting from you, you kill innocent lives!" he shrieked. "You evil, vile-"

"I didn't do it!" she yelled. She couldn't have! Never would she-

"Are you convincing me!" he said, his voice rising as he limped closer to Karin. She tried to back away, her usual self awareness and strength withering, no- being pushed away. Stripping away her shields, leaving her exposed. He grabbed her chin to make her stare right at his wrinkled face "Or maybe yourself?"

"No!" she said, grabbing the old man's thin wrist trying to pry him off of her. He screeched in pain, and she watched in horror as a sizzling smoke came from under hand, on the man's skin. Karin let the man go, and he stepped back before falling on the ground, holding onto his wrist where a burnt mark now was. The still wind picked up, howling and making the trees around her whirl. Karin's eyes widened, her raven hair spinning around her and stepped closer. The man screeched once again.

"You murderer! You evil little...!"

His voice faded away, as did the once paralyzing warmth, behind her as she ran. Because all she could do was run.

A silhouette of the old man was on the grass outside of the school grounds. It flickered and moved as it walked, it's back straightening, beard disappearing while hair grew and morphed to long silky hair that reached mid-back and combed by manicured nails on delicate hands. The shape formed to one with a curvy shape, walking smoothly.

The woman maneuvered through the crowd of frantic people, a smile playing her lips stretching more with each pained look her green eyes observed. She flipped her brown locks behind her shoulder that was covered by white 'V' neck shirt with purple hemming, a long faded brown tattered coat on her tan arm.

Her eyes twinkled eerily as she looked at the shadow in front of her. In her shadow was not whole,a hole of light shown in the middle where her stomach should be. Another few clicks by newly formed black shoes on the pavement, and she was gone.

But to only those who could see her in the beginning.

Should I continue this?

I have many ideas about other stories if not, but this is the one I have planned the farthest(: Tell me what you think! Leave a review or just put it under story alert! It's going to be my first chapter story, so sorry if it's not the best:b

I don't have a beta, so I'm sorry if my spelling/grammar is wrong!

Thanks so much for reading~

-NanaGoesBlehh(:b)