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A/N: I know, I know, I shouldn't be starting up a new story again but... I couldn't help myself. The quotes are from The Titanic; I love that movie and couldn't help myself. This may start off a little confusing, but it'll get better! This is written in the narrator point of view, but the rest won't be! I used to have a story called A Love Like Blood, you might remember it, but this is entirely new just with the same title and Ayame's story instead of Koga's.

A Love Like Blood

Prologue

By: Ashley Dawn Shauf

I know, it doesn't make any sense at all, that's why I trust it.

"Aphrodite, wait up!" a young girl called as she trailed behind her red-headed friend. The slender, well proportioned, girl stopped and turned to the side to view the girl. Her fire-colored hair blazed past her flawless lightly tanned face and her striking green eyes held impatience. She was quick with her temper, but kind with her personality. The clumsy girl tripped, trying to make it as quickly as possible to the perfect vixen that stood beyond her. It was no wonder her name was Aphrodite, after the goddess of love, beauty, and sexual desire.

"Kira, are you okay?" the redhead was by her friends side in mere seconds. She had always been extremely fast with cunning ways and quick thinking; it was almost unreal with her too-perfect appearance. The flustered girl pulled herself together, with Aphrodite helping her up for her black high top chucks to be placed flat on the ground yet again. The younger girl nodded hastily and brushed herself off while Aphrodite allowed a gorgeous white smile to grace her features.

"I'm fine, thanks. So are you busy tonight because I really need some help with my chemistry homework, if you don't mind." Kira bit her lip and gazed at her friend with large eyes. Aphrodite felt bad but had to turn down the small girl.

"Kira... I'm sorry but there's something that I really need to do. I can't go into details, it's a little personal. I'll arrange for Emi to help you out. I promise that I will help you out next time though; you can have all of my notes if that will help you guys. Her strength may not be chemistry but with my notes she always follows along fine." The beautiful teenager explained.

Kira nodded and the two fell into step together. The pavement was old and yellowed, weather worn with cracks and nature taking its course by allowing grasses to grow through. Aphrodite sighed and reached in her pocket, clenching the small necklace with all of her might. There had been a note with it, too. Her mind wondered nonstop and she zoned out, unable to hear any of the actual words that her companion was saying as she rambled on about cute boys.

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Aphrodite peered through the wilderness and peeled back branches of trees that stemmed in every direction. The all over feeling of the woods was eerie but Aphrodite pushed herself nonetheless, her strong will wouldn't have her stopping. She stepped into a clearing and spun around in slow circles, taking in her surroundings. She heard whispers and her senses got on edge as she tried to focus where they were coming from but they seemed to be everywhere.

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She sensed somebody nearby and quickly stepped back at the last second, allowing a wolf to roll right before her eyes, having missed his target. The white wolf growled deep in his throat, towering tall and wide, and a lot more huge than she had ever anticipated one would be. Aphrodite sighed, not one to be afraid. "Great, somebody gives me a stupid necklace and some half assed note so I wander into the woods to get eaten by the big bad wolf. I've had better days."

"Sent?" it hissed and Aphrodite jumped. Never in her life had she heard of wolves talking, other than in movies of course. "Wait, don't be afraid." It spoke quickly in its deep voice. That was one hell of a thing to say, she thought. It slowly transformed back into the body of a human to become a very attractive young man with pale blonde hair, tanned skin, and blue eyes. Suddenly I don't have the urge to run away... she thought to herself. "I'm Kane, I was sent to wait for the princess."

"Princess? What do you mean princess? Like, your werewolf princess or something? Shouldn't you know where she is or something? I mean, that's a pretty high position I'm assuming." The girl raised an eyebrow at the foolish boy.

"I believe you are her." He said, those eyes flashing.

"You're crazy." She rolled my eyes.

"Show me the necklace!" he urged.

She looked at him suspiciously before reaching in her pocket and pulling out the note as well as the necklace. Opening the folded small slip of paper she read the writing. "Venture into the woods, he will find you." She paused and looked up. "It's kind of creepy and weird, but I'm not one to be scared so easily, I'm open-minded."

"Yes you are, princess, now come with me." Kane smiled.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa buddy; I'm not your princess." she replied.

"Yes you are, and I need to bring you back to the tribe." He said and, before she knew it, she was on his back with her hands wrapped around his neck and closing her eyes as the wind whipped her. His human form shaped into that of the wolf again and she clung to the white fur for her life. The strong muscles beneath her were intimidating; she couldn't wait to see those teeth up close and personal! As soon as they started, they stopped. The place was in front of a cave and the wolf slowly slunk into the depths of the blackened caves.

"Isn't darkness a vampire thing?" I whispered.

"Don't mention those hysterical jokes." He warned, and she knew, without seeing, that he was baring those mighty teeth. Fire from the walls lit the path with a soft yellow glow once a little ways into the cave. The sound of water dripping off the rock was torture to my eyes at its constant persistence. It was dimly lit, cold, and wet. Her warm spring clothes were no competition. She shivered and huddled closer to the warm fur but was soon ordered to get off.

There was an opening, with an opening in the top of the cave for sunlight to stream down through like a golden white river flooding into the darkness, along with the fire lamps. The people all jumped to attention, hostility in their eyes. The wolf jumped up to speak on behalf of the gorgeous girl. "This is the princess, I've found her."

The people seemed to become overwhelmed with shock as they studied her. An old wolf limped towards Aphrodite, his right front leg critically injured. "Ah... so is it. Ayame... granddaughter, I haven't seen you in ages, since you were a baby and your parents tried to rid you of this life. I have a lot to explain."

'Granddaughter? What was this old wolf talking about? And Ayame? That's not my name!' the girl thought, perplexed. She followed as the old man order her to sit down. He laid down in front of her, while she crossed her legs on the rock she was seated.

"Your mother and father died a long time ago, due to vampires. They were the ones the vampire league was after, furious and serious. They figured if they adapted to a normal lifestyle, that of humans, that the vampires would forgive and forget but they never did. They passed their legacy through you, who was given to a human. The vampires couldn't find you and they never did, not yet. We let you go, thinking you'd be happier with that human life but we can't hold out any longer Ayame. You have a power that we need... you have your father's power as well as your mother's power and it will only work for you. Our pack has diminished so much... we're moving to live with the brown wolf tribe and we need you to come along." His old voice strained.

"I may not completely believe in everything you're saying but I'm in no position to let people down, I simply can't do this. If I am who you say I am then I have no right to turn down my people. As a princess, I refuse to do so. Your story is crazy and far-fetched, but I believe you and agree to go. I'll tell my parents and change schools but join this pack." She acknowledged.

"We will wake your powers tomorrow night, when we leave." The old man said and the girl, Ayame, agreed. The whole time she'd been living a lie, living under another sheltering than her bloodline, living under a different identity (name and everything). The story was hard to believe, but something inside her heart said that the man wasn't lying and it was only right for her to obey.

And so it was. She informed her adoptive parents, who told her the truth about her not being their real child, and demanded to leave. They complied, not wanting to hold her back from anything or anyone, and the next day she informed the school, and all her friends, that she was moving and wouldn't be coming back. She met with the wolves and awakened her powers.

Koga

Koga paced back and forth in his bedroom of the large Victorian house with its oversized basement, where a majority of the pack stayed. He was in completely human form, like usual, with black hair pulled into a perfect and high ponytail that trailed down his back. His eyes were an impressing blue that would stun a person on their own, without needing him to do anything. He was tall, lean, and muscular with tanned skin from the sun's rays.

They had said that the white pack's princess would be found and coming as well, but he had his doubts. They hadn't heard or seen the girl since her birth and it would be next to impossible to figure out who she was now, yet they had one of the most impressive psychics around and he was in no place to argue with a prophet. He felt no need to dress up for her or the tribe, since he was taking them as guests and not the other way around.

"My Lord, the white pack is on their way, they should be here by tomorrow morning. They've found the princess, surely, and they'll be bringing her with them. We must warn you though, she's not used to wolves and was raised like a fragile human so take it easy on her, will you sir?" Ginta asked politely, having just talked to the white pack.

Although they were wolves they were up to date with the technology and used vehicles and dressed, staying in there human form much of their time. They were free to wonder about and attend schools and parties as long as they were kept a secret and no harm was done. There was plenty of meat to go around these days, they didn't need humans.

"I'll think about it." He shrugged, rudely.

"Perhaps, master, you'll get a mate." At that Koga gritted his teeth, he was not the slightest bit ready to mate and he didn't want anybody to try to convince him into it with the spring and mating season being around. "I heard that she's the most beautiful girl you will ever see."

"Or, perhaps you my friend will get lucky and be able to mate with her instead?" Koga suggested even though he knew stronger wolves would fight for the hand of a princess, just for position if not for anything else. Koga had been lucky to get the position of pack leader, although most tried to throw a mutiny against him. His mother was of the brown pack, and his father was a lone black wolf (the rare color) on a search for more of his color. His father did not mate his mother for life, shunning an existence between the black and brown packs. When half human, his tail was colored brown, but when fully transformed he changed to a magnificent black wolf.

"One can only wish." Ginta sighed.

"Wishing... dreaming... it gets you nowhere and it never will. Remember that, mark my words. Strength, killing, trying, that's all you have. The things you're going to do you focus on, not what you want. People all too often get caught up in what they want. Now, leave!" he demanded and Ginta scrambled away.

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