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chapter 1

Tsunami Sawada was ten years old when her whole life changed forever. It started as a normal weekend with her hiding in her room reading manga when her mother came into the room. "Tsunami sweetie I'm going to go grocery shopping do you want to come with," her mother Nana Sawada asked

She looked around her room and her eyes drifted to the homework she should be doing before they drifted to the manga she was reading. It was the last one she had of the series and she had already read it twice so she wanted to see if the next one had come in yet. With all that in front of her she said, "Sure thing mama just give me a minute to get ready." She quickly put on her jacket and made her way down the stairs. When she reached the second to last step she tripped on thin air and fell face first to the floor.

"C'mon dear stop playing around and lets go," Nana said with a shake of her head.

Tsunami slowly got up while rubbing her face and said "yes mama." She then made her way to the door and the two left the house. The two had arrived at the outdoor market checking out several of the stores. Tsunami kept looking behind her even as she had gotten the new manga she had wanted, because something in the back of her mind was telling her she was being watched. When the two were done they started to make their way home. On their way home they started to walk along an empty street when a stranger appeared. He had grey skin and had a sword attached to both of his arms. He had his face twisted in a smile showing an array of sharp teeth.

He had charged at the pair and they were both frozen at the sight. At the last moment Nana pushed tsunami to the side as a pair of blades penetrated her body the stomach. Tsunami could do nothing except back away till her back was against the wall. She watched in horror as the monster in front of her pull out a blue sphere out of her mother's chest. It then ate the weird sphere whole before it turned its attention to her. She was terrified right now and wanted to do nothing but run away but her legs weren't listening. She saw the monster charging at her and the only thing she could think was that she did not want to die. Unknown to her the desire to live from this situation was enough to break a lock that was placed on her potential years ago. With the lock broken orange flames started to surround her and lunged at the creature when she stuck her arms out with a yell of, "NO." the flames hit the creature sending it backwards and into a wall. Tsunami suddenly felt a wave of exhaustion hit her and collapsed on the ground.

The monster started to get up from the wall it was launched towards. It had severe burns along its arms and its chest and was having a hard time walking straight. It knows it should run now but it just can't ignore the smell the little girl's soul is giving off. It had never smelt a soul that was so delicious. It started to head towards the girl with the full intention of eating the girl. It would never get the chance since it suddenly felt a small knife enter the back of its skull before it body disappeared and left only a red sphere that seemed to be hardening in some places.

The knife that killed it suddenly transformed into a woman wrapped in bandages with sky blue eyes. After eating the keshin's soul she went over to check on the little girl. She passed a brief look at the other figure on the ground but she could tell that she was dead. She checked the girls pulse when she heard her partner ask, "How is she Mira?"

"She seems to be okay physically Sid," Mira answered. "I'm not so sure where she is going to be mentally after watching something like that. Especially since I suspect the other one was her mother."

"Dammit why didn't I train my soul perception more we could have found the kishin and prevented this rather than have gotten lucky with that weird fire," Sid said angry with himself that the little girl lost her mother.

"Don't beat yourself over this Sid soul perception has never been your specialty and even if you trained more it probably wouldn't have made a difference. Speaking of that fire do you have any idea where it came from," she asked.

"I don't know for certain but I do have a guess," He said. He looked at the area his partner was in a noticed how the ground seemed to be burned in a protective circle around the girl.

Seeing her partner's eyes she looks around and notices the same circle. "Do you think she is a witch?"

"I'm not sure but if she is then she must have been a late bloomer to awaken her magic this late most awaken it earlier. Let's bring her to the hospital and we can ask lord death about this," he said as he picked the girl up and ran to the hospital.

An hour later

"I see," said Lord Death through the mirror in the Namimori hospital men's bathroom. "So you suspect the girl may be a late awakening witch?"

"Or something similar," said Sid. "I may not be the best at soul perception but if she is than her soul looks different than any witches I have ever seen."

"Oh how does it look," Asked Lord Death.

"Well it actually looks orange and seems to have a fire burning in the middle of it," Sid said.

"Oh if that is the case she is not a witch. She is what is known as a flame user," Said Death.

"Flame user," asked Sid he had never heard of them.

"It not that surprising that you haven't seen one before considering that they tend to keep to themselves. You see in Italy there stands a group of individuals who are capable of summoning a unique type of fire called dying will flame. These flames are ignited by the strength of the persons resolve and the power of the soul. The stronger the two forces the stronger the flames.

"Sounds like they would be good miester's why have I never seen one before," Sid asked if the strength of the soul an resolve were the factors to awaken these flames then most meister's would have awaken theirs by the time they graduated.

"Well you see while everyone has flames most people just are not capable of awakening flames. Even if they have the strength and resolve to awaken them they just won't awaken. Sometimes a flame active might help a person awaken but that is rare. I have tried in the past to convince them to become meister's but they always said no," Said death in a defeated tone. He had tried for years to convince them but they were stubborn in their ways and following the mafia example of Vongola family.

Thinking about Vongola reminds death of the closest he ever came to getting a flame using meister. Giotto almost did join him but had to back out due to the increasing violence and corruption in Italy. Giotto had told him that while he wished he could help he could never look himself in the mirror if he left these people to suffer. Death accepted the reason and the two parted on good terms.

"So do they hide in a different dimension like most witches do," Asked Sid. He was getting interested in hearing more about these flame users.

"No they are actually in Italy under the guise of mafia families," Death said.

"Wait mafia, I have had a few run in with them but have never seen a soul like the girls or abilities you described," Asked Sid confused.

"That's because you mainly deal with soul or normal mafia and never a true mafia," Answered death. Seeing the look of confusion on Sid's face he decided to elaborate. "You see Sid in the criminal underworld the crime families' whether they are mafia, triad, or yakuza can be split into three groups. The first group are the ones we tend to deal with soul families. They are families who aim to get more powerful by consuming souls and becoming kishin. Normal mafia is the one everyone knows. They are the ones that movies like the godfather and Scarface are based off of, and what most people think of when they hear mafia. Now the true mafia is where you would find flame users. They have their own code of secrecy called Omerta and a police force to deal with criminals. For the most part they are entirely self-sufficient and the public very rarely hears anything about them that they don't want them to hear."

"I see. So what should I do with the girl," Sid asked.

"Try to contact the father if you can flames tend to run in families so he may know about them. If you can't then I leave it in your best judgement," Said death. "Have a good day." Death image disappeared from the mirror.

Sid then made his way out of the bathroom to find the room the girl was in. as he was walking he was listening in on the conversation and could not help but frown at what he was hearing.

"Did you hear dame Tsuna was attacked by a kishin," Said a female voice.

"Yeah but of course she is even no good in getting herself killed," Said a female patient. Hearing that Sid had to stop himself from yelling at the woman.

"Well it is dame Tsuna what do you expect," Replied the first person.

As he walked he kept hearing more of the same. He had to try to hold in his temper hearing this. As he walked into the room he saw Mira resting on a chair next to the girl's bed. He slammed the door closed with a bit too much force. Luckily the sound didn't wake the girl up who was suffering from severe exhaustion.

"What's wrong," Mira asked.

"The people in this town are just as bad as some of the monsters we have run into," Sid said. "I was listening to some of their conversations as I was walking back here and they all made it sound like it was her fault that they got attacked and that the Kishin should have killed her as well. There is one thing for certain if we can't find her father she is not staying in this town. Leaving a child in an abusive town like this is just not the type of man I am."

Mira gained an angry look hearing about some of the things people were saying. She pulled her anger back before she acted on it and asked, "So what did lord death say?"

"She is not a witch apparently she is part of another group that try to stay unnoticed called flame users," Sid said. "I'll tell you more later right now I am going to see if I can find some contact information for her father and let him know what happened." Sid left the room as Mira took one last look at tsunami laying in her bed. She is not sure how but she has a feeling that girl is going to do big things in the future.

Well here is the first chapter of Flames of the Soul. Please hold your hate comments for what I did to Nana. It was necessary for tsunami's character development. I hope you guys liked my explanation from lord death about flames and the different types of mafia. I might use the true and normal mafia in the future with soul mafia being a soul eater exclusive. Also for the time line this pre soul eater cannon and Sid is still alive.

As for the soul perception thing Sid never really showed using it as much as other characters like Stein, kid, and Maka did. So I just reasoned he focused on his other skills over training in that area.

just so you know I plan on most of her guardians being soul eater character with the possible exceptions of Hibari, and Mukurou. Hibari since I'm not sure who could be a good cloud substitute except for maybe Crona but not sure if that is the root I want to take. With Mukurou I just cant seem to find any good Mist that could take his spot and I don't think her becoming a miester would deter him from coming after her.