He could smell burning, just like he had all those years ago; burning flesh and wood, and soon he saw it. In the dark of the night, he could see the light of a large fire in the distance, along with heavy smoke.
Yukimura had barely made it out, gagging and coughing on the ground outside the orphanage, night shirt still smoldering. He was dazed and in pain, arm burned from his hand up to his neck and face. He had been forced to jump from the second story of the building from his bedroom window, the rest of his room already up in flames and keeping him from leaving that way. Once he had cleared most of the smoke from his lungs, he struggle to his feet, staring in horror at the destruction the building was suffering.
The children. He made a break for the front of the building, not bothering to put out the fire still eating at his shirt and burning his flesh, his only concern being the children he could hear still trapped in the fire.