I have a thing for WWII, okay?
Disclaimer: I don't own anything.
They just kept getting bigger and bigger didn't they, these wars.
Europe was consumed. Africa and Asia followed. The Americas fell in too.
The world was on fire.
Ichigo turned another page, the thin sheets of a Muggle newspaper that he had snatched back in the city about a week ago when he passed through crinkled, the black print spelling out tales and heartbreak.
Wizards never went this far with their destruction. They had restrictions, secrets to keep, and Muggle sheep to keep innocent. Besides, wizards, even though they had the means, didn't go throwing explosion of burning light and hot death over and over again from the swollen sky when they fought. Wizards were more personal. And more clean.
The children at the school – what few that remained that was, their abilities didn't protect them from ash and rubble – were scared of Ichigo. The younger ones looked at this face and his hair, and knew he was different, not from here. The older ones knew the location better.
Foreigner.
Foreigners couldn't be trusted.
Didn't matter that he had been in this country for centuries.
Foreigner.
The Germans were angry. And tired.
The newspaper page flipped again.
The British spat and clawed away. France rumbled.
Russia was red, red from blood, red from Communism.
Japan swooped and raged.
China screamed and fought.
The Americans were busy in a war they hadn't wanted in the beginning, but plunged in with rage and vengeance.
He turned the page again.
The school might have to accept some other children from devastated parents, wanting to shield and protect their young.
There were already a few children just starting to taste the fear of "orphan."
Wizards didn't know what to do.
Some had been drafted into the armies. Their worlds had shattered and dripped black and red and white.
They screamed.
Ichigo closed the newspaper, finished.
Screams.
Just scream.
Gazing at the lake, Ichigo felt numbness pool through his fingers and his throat.
They just kept getting bigger and bigger didn't they, these wars.
I just can't stay away from dark stuff can I...
Ciao
~dorandsugar