The first meeting of Shirou and Shiki wouldn't turn into a fight, I'm sorry for that. But something else important will happen in this chapter, so stay tuned. The timeskip will be filled in in the future chapter.


An unexpected meeting

September 1995

"Damn it. Touko made me buy her cigarettes late at night. When I denied, she used her other persona to threaten me. Argh! I wish I could just… Even though there's a murderer out here somewhere, she still made me do this." Shirou was grumbling to himself angrily. Then he stopped as he saw a red puddle on the ground.

He crouche to inspect it.

Blood.

"What the… The murderer is here?"

He followed the blood trail and saw tire tracks on the ground.

"No. It must have been an accident…" This reminded him of the day his parents died and he was the only one survived.

He kept following the blood trail and saw an image.

An image that engraved into his young mind.

A girl - seemed to be a teenager – wearing light blue kimono with bloodstain, using blood of the dead man to paint her face, smiling.

He fell to his back.

Due to her standing under the shadow and the blood, he couldn't see her entire face. The girl looked at Shirou, her smile creeped him out, then turned her back and walk away.

"Wait!" He stood up and tried to chase her.

But she disappeared.

He looked around to see if she was anywhere, but it was in vain. Then he looked at the corpse. It seemed that he was hit by a truck but survived, then sat here and died of blood lost. Shirou took out his cellphone (he begged Touko to buy one for him) and called the ambumlance. He then walked back to his home, tempting to tell Touko about this.

"Man, this is one heck of a day. I would never buy anything for Touko at night anymore."

He had a feeling something was off, but shrugged it away.


January 1996

It was New Year. Shirou had a party with his friend and came home late. He was walking back home, passing by a alley. Then he stopped to look at the alley. He felt something was luring him in. He took caution, but his curiosity still made him to walk into the alley. He only saw an old woman dressing in black, wearing a hat with blue flowers on the side of the hat and a net in front of her face.

"Welcome." She said "Do you want to read your fortune, boy?"

"What is this? A fortuneteller? Guess I'll try my luck to see how I will do in this year then."

He walked to the woman.

"Can you read my fortune, please?" He asked her, raising his hand to her.

She inspected his hand. Then she stopped.

"What's the matter?"

Her face showed a shocked expression.

"You, the person who controls time itself, asking me to read your fortune?"

"Huh? What are you saying? Me, controlling time? That's impossible. But, what do you mean by that?"

"You will find out soon. For now, let's just say that your future will have too many possibilities for me to see, but I'm certain you will have an interesting life, boy."

"Erm…OK?" He then search his pocket.

"No need to pay, young man. You have shown me something interesting today."

"Thank you. There's a murderer out in about right now, so you have to be careful and take care of yourself."

The fortuneteller laughed.

He then turned his back and walked out of the alley.

"He's trully a special person, isn't he?" She mumbled to herself.

After Shirou had gone out of the alley, he was still thinking about the words of the old woman.

"You, the person who controls time itself…"

"What does she mean by that?" He thought, "Does it have anything to do with my Origin, I wonder?"

Because he was lost in his thoughts, he bumped into someone and fell to his butt.

"Ouch…" He looked up and saw a boy-ish girl wearing a yellow kimono and a red jacket outside.

"Are you ok, kid? Here, let me help you up." She raised her hand to Shirou.

He grabbed it.

Then, he jolted back.

"What's the matter?" She asked.

"Nothing!"

He proceeded to grab her hand again, she pulled him up.

"Watch where you are going next time kid." Then she walked away.

He looked back at her and then to his hand.

"What was that? Ok, there are too many weird things happening right at the start of the year. What would happen to me for the rest of this year?" He groaned.

He then felt a similarity between the girl he saw last year and this girl, but decided to just put it all away until he get home. He admitted that she (the girl he just met) looked beautiful, though.

The girl, however, were last seen walking into the same alley he just came out of.


This would be the last chapter from me for now. I'll have to stop writing for a while to study for upcoming test, so sorry about that.