Hello, and Merry Christmas! This is my first fic, so please be gentle. I like crossovers, so this is a Harry Potter/Wolf's Rain. Constructive criticism is welcome.

I own neither Harry Potter nor Wolf's Rain. I only own that which I create (duh).

This is, I'm afraid, AU. Rating cuz of some language and future situations. BTW, this will most likely develop into Slash (and possibly mpreg). Don't likey, don't read.

People (and wolves) are gonna be OOC. Why? Because I like it. It's no fun when you are constantly having to work to follow the plot and keep people in character. That's why fanfiction was created—to give the characters a break from their usual personalities. grins anyway, just consider yourselves warned. R&R, eh?

Chapter One

Five figures, hunched forward, tramped onward through what was probably one of the worst snowstorms the lands had seen in many years. The two tallest, who were close in height, led the way while the other three followed. The third seemed to be only a few inches shorter than the first two, but the remaining two seemed to be kids. One of the leaders lifted his head and stopped.

"What is it?" his companion had to yell to make himself heard over the howl of the wind.

He just shook his head and waited for the others. Once they caught up, he yelled, "The storm is getting worse. We should find a place to bed down and wait it out."

"We're doing fine. We'll lose too much time if we stop," the second yelled again.

"Look at the cubs!" the one who had been with the kids finally yelled. The other two looked at the children and saw them shivering and hugging themselves. "If we don't camp soon the cold will kill them. They're not used to this weather."

The first nodded in agreement. "Hige's right. We should stop, if only for the cubs."

The second finally agreed and the third, who had been identified as Hige, nodded enthusiastically. "There are some caves just ahead. We could stop there."

"Right."

They found a cave that could hold the five of them and sat down. Now that they were out of the storm, their faces could be seen clearly.

The tallest of the five, who had previously objected to stopping, wore black leather pants and shirt with many rips and tears, black boots, had bleached-white hair just long enough to be tied in a small pony-tail, and had brilliantly golden eyes.

The next tallest wore jeans and a pullover shirt, tennis shoes, had slightly long thick dark brown hair, and deep blue eyes.

Hige wore tan cargo pants and a dark colored cardigan, tennis shoes, had shaggy light brown hair, and his eyes had a strange pinkish-tint.

The 'cubs' were huddled together. One had brown hair that fell onto his forehead and the other had shoulder-length black hair. He had piercing black eyes while the first had soft amber eyes. They were both clothed in worn jeans and pullover shirts.

Hige looked at them and grinned. "Hey, guys, you hungry?"

They looked at one another and nodded.

"I'll see what I can find," the white-haired man moved toward the exit.

"Tsumai, wait. I'll go with you. Hige, you stay with the cubs."

"Keeba, I am perfectly able to hunt on my own," Tsumai growled.

"I know that. I'm going anyway," Keeba replied calmly.

The boys looked up. "You guys don't have to go out," whimpered the light-haired boy.

"Yeah, me an' Toboe can make it," agreed the other.

"Nonsense. We're all hungry, we just didn't say anything," smiled Keeba.

"Yeah, I'm starvin'!" exclaimed Hige.

"Ah, you're always hungry," the black-haired boy smirked.

"Shut it, Severus. You don't know nuthin'." Hige plopped down beside him and pushed his shoulder playfully.

"I agree with you," Severus pushed him back.

"You do?" Hige was surprised. Usually Severus wanted everyone to think that his was the superior intellect.

"Of course. 'I don't know nuthin'.' Means I do know somthin'." At Hige's baffled look he continued, "Double negatives, moron."

"Come here, you!" Hige growled and pounced. Severus laughed and jumped out of the way. Hige twisted around to face Severus, putting his back to Toboe. Since you couldn't fight one without fighting the other, Toboe leaped onto Hige's back and held on. Hige was startled by Toboe, giving Severus a chance to jump on as well. The two of them, although much smaller, wrestled Hige to the ground.

Keeba and Tsumai laughed and left to find food, ignoring Hige's exaggerated pleas for help.

"I swear, Hige acts almost as young as they are," Keeba smiled fondly.

"He nearly is. Five winters, six at most, separates them."

The two men transformed into large wolves. Tsumai was grey with a star-shaped scar on his chest, and Keeba was solid white. They searched for a while and finally managed to find several rabbits. They returned to human form and carried their findings back to the others.

They entered to find the three of them lying flat on their backs panting as if they had been running all day.

"'Bout time. Cubs were getting worried."

"Were not."

"Yeah, Hige was the one getting worried. Me an' Severus knew you'd be back eventually."

"So, what'd you find?" Hige ignored the boys.

Later that night, Hige and the boys had already gone to sleep, but Tsumai and Keeba were still awake.

Keeba stood and joined Tsumai at the cave entrance. "Thinking?" he asked quietly.

"A bit," Tsumai sighed.

"What about?"

"The cubs. Or, rather, one of them." He sighed. "It's Severus. He will be leaving soon, and I worry about him."

"I know what you mean. Perhaps separating him from Toboe is not a good idea."

"Can we not send them both to the same place? It would do them both good."

"I'm not sure the old man could handle the both of them," Keeba smiled. "However, I'll see what I can do."

Tsumai nodded in relief and Keeba gave the cubs one last look before returning to bed. He wasn't as protective of them as Tsumai was—well, not to the same extent—but he loved them as if they were his own since they had found them. The pack had consisted of just Tsumai, Hige, and himself back in those days. One day they had been traveling in the forest country and had discovered a village. It had been ravaged by Lady Jaguda's troops. Jaguda was on some kind of quest to purge the earth of wolves, and every time a wolf was discovered she would send troops to destroy him. There had been only two survivors of the attack—the two cubs. They couldn't just walk away and let the cubs die, so they had let them into their pack.

Wolves were attacked and killed every time they were spotted, but they are ingenious creatures. They had gone into hiding in the one place Jaguda wouldn't think to look—among the humans. They had learned ancient magic, enabling them to cast a spell over humans to cause them to see the wolf as a human and could talk to them. Sometimes, however, a human would not be fooled by the spell. They could still understand the wolf if they were open-minded, but wolves generally avoided such humans. Usually the human who could not be fooled was either old or young, or was in extreme stress, pain, or on death's door.

Keeba rolled over and started drifting off to sleep. His last thought before sleep was 'Goddess, have mercy on Hogwarts.'

TBC…

Did you like it? If any one is interested I will continue it. Even if it is for only one person! So, did you like it or did you not? And, in case it is continued, I have no beta. Any takers? Drop me a line and let me know. Tootles!