"Mommy! ... Where are you?" A rather young Naoto cried in the rain. She was alone originally looking for an adventure in the forest near her house in the Southern part of the village. The village of Shiruba Mun was the place she had always been told never to enter Okami's forest as it held many dangers and cruel secrets. She had lost track of time once her watch had broke and as a result of this lost track of how long she'd been wondering the forest. For her age she was already surprisingly intelligent as she already had a small understanding of time... Yet didn't have the intelligence to listen to the rumours of the forest. She cried helplessly and fell to the ground. The fact that she was still too young to do much without getting too tired didn't gain anything from the harsh weather. She collapsed to the floor utterly exhausted shivering violently as another strong gust of wind buffeted her small body.

"Mommy... Where are you..." she mumbled as she slowly closed her eyes and was about to drift unconscious when suddenly...

Woof!

"Hmm..." A dog? She then noticed a grey figure getting closer and closer but before she could see what it was her consciousness finally faded...


Silver ran towards the small buddle on the floor and recognised it immediately as Naoto Shirogane a 4 or 5 year old from her home village. She stopped as she now got close enough to gently nudge her with her muzzle. The child only groaned weakly. The white wolf like creature quickly nipped the child's jacket from the back of the neck and slowly dragged her into a small opening under an alder berry bush. It was the best shelter they both had at the moment so it would have to do! She curled up protectively around the child and gently liked her forehead in an attempt to warm her.
"Ugh... this isn't working!" thought the snow white wolf cub annoyed at herself. She sighed and pushed a lilac button on the orange leather collar she wore around her neck.


"Ugh... hmm?" Little Naoto opened her eyes slowly. She felt much warmer the before and had to blink a few times before she could see anything clearly again. The heavy breathing of something soundly sleeping nearby scared her slightly before she realized where she was of course... and what was keeping her warm. A white wolf cub that appeared to have laid a wing over her to act as a blanket of some sorts, with an orange collar that held silver tags to it. The buckle to the collar was on the first hole which left much of the collar spare and jutting out of said collar.

"Who... you?" she question still half asleep. The cub's fluffy fur making it to easy to almost fall asleep again. After a few moments without a response Naoto yawned sleepily and leaned over gently tug the cub's ear. The cub looked up after a few moments in which Naoto then repeated her question.

"I'm Silver!" she replied merrily making Naoto jump at the sudden change between being drowsy from sleep to wide awake in mere seconds. The Wolf's lilac gaze not helping the shock either.

"Um... I'm Naoto..."


"Hi Naoto!" Silver squeaked merrily. "How old are you?"

"Ummmm... I'm 4... And you?" In reality Silver could easily tell that all conversation would be limited to how exhausted the kid really was. She smiled in delight when she noticed that she was older then herself. Of course only doing this because she didn't really know any better and just wanted to make a new friend...

"Hey that's older than me!" she spoke as she looked out at the rain filled sky threw the narrow gap between the ground and the Alder berry bush.

"Hey Naoto? Do you remember where you live?" though she may only be a cub she probably new more words then the kid as cub's aged slower but learned quicker than humans did.

"I'm lost..." she replied tiredly whilst snuggling deeper into Silver's soft fur.

"Oh well when the rain goes ill take you to the village! We can find out where you live then." She looked again at the kid. She wore a light blue dress with small flowers sown at the straps, dark blue leggings and black school shoes. The kid's long dark blue hair rested over a deep blue jacket. To Silver she reminded her, a lot of blueberry... except more skinny... especially when the kid's ocean gave met her lilac eyes.

"What... are you..?" she questioned clearly forcing herself to pay attention. Silver calmly thought of a way to explain.
"Um... I'm an Arourus! A wolf with wings!" she answered hesitantly. "Why don't you go back to sleep? You look tired."

"Where's ...mommy?" the kid looked up at her as her eyes started to close.

"Mommy? Oh... um... we'll go see her when the rain goes away. Don't you worry Naoto!" and with that she fell asleep followed shortly by Silver resting her head on her paws. The two breathed in perfect sync with each over as they slept peacefully under the shelter of an Alder berry bush.


"Naoto..." a gentle voice suddenly interrupted her dreams of silly mysteries in a forest full of secrets.

"Wakey Wakey!" The voice called again.

"Come on Naoto! Mommy will be missing you!"

"Nghhh..." she groaned and opened her tiredly opened her eyes to see the white wolf again.

"Hey sleepy head! The rains stopped! We can go home now!" Silver gazed excitedly at her a licked her fore head to completely wake her up.

"Mommy? Silver?" Naoto mumbled as she remembered what the wolf had said before she fell asleep.

"Yeah that's right!" the wolf smiled at her amusingly while Naoto returned a more excited grin. Silver nudged her threw the gap between the bush and the ground. Once outside she quickly followed. They both yawned in unison whilst Silver stretched her legs before motioning with her head to follow her. The two were practically the same height and almost the same age (well with Silver's age in months instead of years), walking in unison towards the village of Shiruba Mun.