Note: POV= Point Of View
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The Road is Rough
Ch1. Blood Red Paws
Four wolves ran through a deep snow. Each of them panted heavily. Hige ran between Toboe and Tsume. Kiba ran at the front of the pack. His white fur was shiny from the melted snow that rested on him. Tsume too was shining with wet snow. eventually Hige turned to his human form to complain.
"Hey Tsuma! Your fur is blinding me!" he yelled, then caught a glimpse of Kiba, who's fur looked brighter because he was white, "And Kiba, what did you do? Swallow a light bulb!"
The other three wolves stopped running at the sound of Hige's voice, and turned to their human form when he had finished talking.
"Kiba's fur is bright, but its nothing to complain about." Tsume said roughly, looking at Hige.
"Maybe for you." Hige said crossing his arms over his chest, "But your rear end was getting really shiny."
Toboe gave a short laugh.
"Maybe we should travel like this until it stops snowing." Kiba suggested.
"What?" Hige looked at Kiba with confusion, "I thought you wanted to find parricide."
"I do," Kiba replied, "but we aren't stopping completely, we're still making progress." He adjusted his jacket and continued to walk.
The others followed, Their feet now sinking father into the fresh snow because of their heaver human form. Toboe stared having trouble after a wile. Being smaller than the others, he had to pick his feet up quit high to get through the snow. A few times he fell, only to be ignored by Tsume, glanced at by Kiba, and helped up by Hige.
About the tenth time Toboe fell, Kiba stopped walking and turned around.
"Why don't you go back to your wolf form, that way you won't fall as much."
"Yeah, you won't slow us down that way." Tsume said sharply.
Toboe nodded, and in the blink of an eye a brown wolf was looking up at the others.
"Good, now lets go." Tsume growled and continued walking.
Toboe was now trotting happily beside Tsume, but after a few hours he started to fall behind again.
"Hey can we stop bow? My paws hurt!" Toboe whined.
"Quit complaining, just wait till we find a place to stay the night!" Tsume barked at Toboe.
They walked on, and Toboe could feel that his paws were chapped. They scraped ageist the frozen snow beneath soft fluffy snow. He didn't notice that the pad on his rear right paw had split. Though it hurt much more than the others, he didn't notice it had begun to bleed.
Hige, walking with his hands in his pockets, looked down at Toboe. He saw the snow under was paw was red.
"Toboe will you quit whining," Tsume roared back at the brown wolf,"You're complaining way too loud now-"
"And for good reason!" Hige said cutting off Tsume's rant, "Look at this, his paw is bleeding." Hige knelt down in the snow, and picked up Toboe's paw, "Ow, thats nasty, skin on his pad split, right down the center. See? Just their."
"Move over Hige!" Tsume said with a small growl, and shoved Hige out of the way. He grabbed Toboe's paw roughly, and inspected it. Tsume pushed the fur between the pads aside with a not-so-gentle-touch. Toboe yelped, and pulled his paw out of Tsume's hands when he spreed apart the split in his paw for a better look.
"Ow, don't touch it! Don't touch it." Toboe whimpered, wail spinning around to face Tsume.
"Let him look at it." Kiba said calmly.
"But it-" Toboe started, but Kiba gave him a look, "oh..." He turned around again, trying not to let his paw touch the ground to much.
Tsume grabbed Toboe's paw again.
"Be gentle this time," Kiba warned firmly, and knelt down beside Tsume, "and take a look at his other paws too."
Tsume set down Toboe's paw, and made to pick up his other back paw. Toboe wasn't using his hurt paw to stand, and when Tsume picked up his other one, Toboe toppled over into the snow.
"Toboe!" Tsume started but was cut off again by Hige.
"Wait a minuet, I'll hold 'em up". Hige put Toboe back on his feet, and held his leg, so he wouldn't have to stand on it. Tsume sighed, and picked Toboe's paw up again.
"This one looks ok." he said, and dropped Toboe's paw. Tsume went around to Toboe's left front paw, and picked it up.
"This one looks really bad though..." Tsume reported.
Indeed the pads on that paw were rubbed red and raw.
"Kiba, have you found a cave yet?" Hige asked.
"There is one way over there." Kiba said, and pointed into the distance.
"Can you walk that far, pup?" Tsume said coldly looking down at Toboe.
"Wha- Isn't somebody gonna' carry him?" Hige asked in alarm.
"No." Tsume spat, "and don't try because we won't let you."
Hige frowned, but didn't argue.
The group followed Kiba in the direction of the cave. All the wile Hige looked uncomfortably down at the snow behind Toboe. They were all still in their human form, (except Toboe) because the snow was still falling lightly.
Half way to the cave, Hige noticed great amounts of blood in the snow under Toboe's left front paw. He could hear Toboe muttering to himself.
"Ow, ow, ow..."
With every step he said this. Then one wrong step with his front paw and...
"OUCH!" Toboe fell forward when he suddenly picked up his hurt paw. Hige knelt down to the young wolf, and inspected his front paw.
"Oh. Hey guys! This looks really bad now!" Hige called to the others as he looked up from Toboe's paw. Tsume and Kiba walked over to see as well. Tsume, once again pushed Hige out of the way. Hige's hands were covered in blood from Toboe's bleeding paw.
Kiba sighed, "Turn to your human form."
Toboe did so, and in a moment A brown haired boy was sitting in the snow.
"Now take off your shoe, and your sock too." Kiba ordered him. Toboe obeyed, though his left hand was bleeding, and hurt a lot. Hige helped him with actually getting his shoe off his foot. Once Toboe's shoe and sock was off, Tsume sighed and picked him up. Hige, now happy that Toboe was being carried, walked behind the group, holding Toboe's shoe and sock.
They reached the cave a wile later, and Toboe was set down inside. Hige came to him with some snow in his hands. He sat down next to Toboe, who looked up at him.
"It burns..." Toboe said, and Hige noticed that he was holding his wrist, as though to make his hand stop hurting. Hige pressed the hand full of snow, that he was planning on eating, into Toboe's bleeding palm.
"Ow!" Toboe exclaimed loudly at the coldness of snow in his hurting hand. Kiba turned quickly from what he was doing.
"Hige no!" Kiba yelled, and ran over to Hige and Toboe, "Hige, do you know if that snow is clean?" Hige blinked.
"Um, no. I didn't think-"
"Toboe come with me." Kiba picked Toboe up and carried him out of the cave. Toboe let the snow fall out of his hand. Kiba carried him to a small stream, and set him down at the waters edge. Toboe was sitting on his knees in the snow. The stream was covered in a thin layer of ice, and Kiba wasted no time in breaking it. He took Toboe's bleeding hand, and submerged in in the freezing water. Pain surged suddenly through Toboe's hand.
"Ow, no!" Toboe pulled his hand out of the water, still covered in blood.
"Toboe, we have to clean it out." Kiba said calmly. He looked at Toboe, who had tears in his eyes, "I'll do it slowly." He said with a small smile.
Sniffling, Toboe allowed Kiba to guide his hand slowly into the cold water.
"Ow, ow..." Toboe pulled his hand slightly, but Kiba held his wrist firmly. Toboe continued to whimper as Kiba cleaned his hand. When Kiba had finished, he brought the crying Toboe's hand from the water.
With out the blood, Kiba thought it actually looked worse. The skin was riped and torn, and looked as though it were simply rubbed off in some places. Kiba tried to act as though it was nothing serious, and took Toboe's foot. Compared to his hand Toboe's foot was nothing. Even though the skin was split from the ball of his foot down to his heel. It had already begun to get hard. Kiba splashed water on the bottom of Toboe's foot, and a good amount of blood ran out from the wound. When Kiba was sure he was finished, he picked Toboe back up, and hugged him.
"Now that wasn't so bad now was it?" Kiba asked, and seemed to loose his rough leader like quality.
"It burns..." Toboe said again in a small voice.
"I know." Kiba said, "And it will for a wile, but I don't know what to do with it. Your hand is so bad... I don't want to wrap it because it would get in the wound. I can wrap your foot, but you might not be able to walk on it."
Toboe hugged Kiba, and burst into tears. Kiba, wail completely surprised by this, just continued to walk back to the cave.
Toboe's POV
((POV starts from when Kiba carried Toboe out of the cave))
I don't know were he's taking me, though I suspect He's going to try to clean me up. That snow Hige put on my hand is cold, and it hurts, so I drop it. Then Kiba sets me down by a stream, and the snow melts and makes my knees wet. He breaks the ice with his fists, then takes my left arm by the wrist and puts my hand in the water. The water is really cold, and it hurts my hand.
"Ow, no!" I pull my hand back, and my eyes begin to fill with tears, but I don't want to cry in front of the leader. Kiba tells me that he has to wash it out, and that he'll do it slower this time, so I let him take my wrist again. He slowly slips my hand into the cold water, but, "Ow, ow.." I try to pull away again. Kiba has a firm grip this time, and holds my hand under the water. It stings the entire palm of my hand, and unwillingly I whimper. A few tears run down my cheeks. Finley Kiba is finished cleaning my hand, and takes it out of the water. He looks at it, and I can tell he's trying to act cool about it. I know it looks bad, gross actually.
Then he cleans my foot, it doesn't hurt nearly as bad. He only splashes some water on it to get the blood and dirt out. When He is finished he picks me up to take me back to the cave. He hugs me and tries to comfort me, but all I say is, "It burns..." Kiba tells my that he can't wrap my hand, but he can wrap my foot, and that I might not be able to walk on it for a wile. I don't know why, but all of the sudden I clung to him and cried...
Kiba's POV
((POV starts as same point as previous))
I pick up Toboe to go wash out his wounds. I'm almost angry with Hige for not thinking. I notice that the snow Toboe had in his hand was stained with blood, and I quicken my steps. I set Toboe down on his knees by a stream, and break the ice that covers it. Taking Toboe's wrist, I plunge his hand into the freezing cold water. I guess it hurt him because he yelped and pulled his hand out of the water.
"We have to clean it out." I tell him, then I see that he is so close to tears, "I'll do it slowly this time." I reassure him, and he lets me take his wrist again. 'Slowly this time' I remember, and ease his hand into the water. I know it still hurts him, because he still tries to pull his hand away, but I don't let him. I can hear him whimpering behind me, so I hurry up and finish cleaning his hand. When I take his hand from the water I nearly choke on my own spit. It looks horrible, but I don't want to worry Toboe, so I pretend it's not that bad.
Next I take his foot, it looked bad, but not as bad as his hand. All I do is splash some water on it to rinse it out.
When I'm finished cleaning him, I pick him up again, and hug him. I'm no good at comforting people, although I like to think that compared to Tsume I'm as good at Toboe's dad.
"Now that wasn't so bad was it?" I say, trying to comfort him, but he tells me that it burns, "I know." I don't want to tell him that theirs nothing more I can do for his hand, and that he might not be walking for a wile. I say it any way, the kid has a right to know. At this Toboe hugs me tightly and cries. He gets my jacket wet, but I don't care about it at the moment. I'm to busy whipping a tear from my own eye.
End of chapter one
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Disclaimer: I don't own Wolf's Rain... Now on with the fan fic.
The Road is Rough
Ch1. Blood Red Paws
Four wolves ran through a deep snow. Each of them panted heavily. Hige ran between Toboe and Tsume. Kiba ran at the front of the pack. His white fur was shiny from the melted snow that rested on him. Tsume too was shining with wet snow. eventually Hige turned to his human form to complain.
"Hey Tsuma! Your fur is blinding me!" he yelled, then caught a glimpse of Kiba, who's fur looked brighter because he was white, "And Kiba, what did you do? Swallow a light bulb!"
The other three wolves stopped running at the sound of Hige's voice, and turned to their human form when he had finished talking.
"Kiba's fur is bright, but its nothing to complain about." Tsume said roughly, looking at Hige.
"Maybe for you." Hige said crossing his arms over his chest, "But your rear end was getting really shiny."
Toboe gave a short laugh.
"Maybe we should travel like this until it stops snowing." Kiba suggested.
"What?" Hige looked at Kiba with confusion, "I thought you wanted to find parricide."
"I do," Kiba replied, "but we aren't stopping completely, we're still making progress." He adjusted his jacket and continued to walk.
The others followed, Their feet now sinking father into the fresh snow because of their heaver human form. Toboe stared having trouble after a wile. Being smaller than the others, he had to pick his feet up quit high to get through the snow. A few times he fell, only to be ignored by Tsume, glanced at by Kiba, and helped up by Hige.
About the tenth time Toboe fell, Kiba stopped walking and turned around.
"Why don't you go back to your wolf form, that way you won't fall as much."
"Yeah, you won't slow us down that way." Tsume said sharply.
Toboe nodded, and in the blink of an eye a brown wolf was looking up at the others.
"Good, now lets go." Tsume growled and continued walking.
Toboe was now trotting happily beside Tsume, but after a few hours he started to fall behind again.
"Hey can we stop bow? My paws hurt!" Toboe whined.
"Quit complaining, just wait till we find a place to stay the night!" Tsume barked at Toboe.
They walked on, and Toboe could feel that his paws were chapped. They scraped ageist the frozen snow beneath soft fluffy snow. He didn't notice that the pad on his rear right paw had split. Though it hurt much more than the others, he didn't notice it had begun to bleed.
Hige, walking with his hands in his pockets, looked down at Toboe. He saw the snow under was paw was red.
"Toboe will you quit whining," Tsume roared back at the brown wolf,"You're complaining way too loud now-"
"And for good reason!" Hige said cutting off Tsume's rant, "Look at this, his paw is bleeding." Hige knelt down in the snow, and picked up Toboe's paw, "Ow, thats nasty, skin on his pad split, right down the center. See? Just their."
"Move over Hige!" Tsume said with a small growl, and shoved Hige out of the way. He grabbed Toboe's paw roughly, and inspected it. Tsume pushed the fur between the pads aside with a not-so-gentle-touch. Toboe yelped, and pulled his paw out of Tsume's hands when he spreed apart the split in his paw for a better look.
"Ow, don't touch it! Don't touch it." Toboe whimpered, wail spinning around to face Tsume.
"Let him look at it." Kiba said calmly.
"But it-" Toboe started, but Kiba gave him a look, "oh..." He turned around again, trying not to let his paw touch the ground to much.
Tsume grabbed Toboe's paw again.
"Be gentle this time," Kiba warned firmly, and knelt down beside Tsume, "and take a look at his other paws too."
Tsume set down Toboe's paw, and made to pick up his other back paw. Toboe wasn't using his hurt paw to stand, and when Tsume picked up his other one, Toboe toppled over into the snow.
"Toboe!" Tsume started but was cut off again by Hige.
"Wait a minuet, I'll hold 'em up". Hige put Toboe back on his feet, and held his leg, so he wouldn't have to stand on it. Tsume sighed, and picked Toboe's paw up again.
"This one looks ok." he said, and dropped Toboe's paw. Tsume went around to Toboe's left front paw, and picked it up.
"This one looks really bad though..." Tsume reported.
Indeed the pads on that paw were rubbed red and raw.
"Kiba, have you found a cave yet?" Hige asked.
"There is one way over there." Kiba said, and pointed into the distance.
"Can you walk that far, pup?" Tsume said coldly looking down at Toboe.
"Wha- Isn't somebody gonna' carry him?" Hige asked in alarm.
"No." Tsume spat, "and don't try because we won't let you."
Hige frowned, but didn't argue.
The group followed Kiba in the direction of the cave. All the wile Hige looked uncomfortably down at the snow behind Toboe. They were all still in their human form, (except Toboe) because the snow was still falling lightly.
Half way to the cave, Hige noticed great amounts of blood in the snow under Toboe's left front paw. He could hear Toboe muttering to himself.
"Ow, ow, ow..."
With every step he said this. Then one wrong step with his front paw and...
"OUCH!" Toboe fell forward when he suddenly picked up his hurt paw. Hige knelt down to the young wolf, and inspected his front paw.
"Oh. Hey guys! This looks really bad now!" Hige called to the others as he looked up from Toboe's paw. Tsume and Kiba walked over to see as well. Tsume, once again pushed Hige out of the way. Hige's hands were covered in blood from Toboe's bleeding paw.
Kiba sighed, "Turn to your human form."
Toboe did so, and in a moment A brown haired boy was sitting in the snow.
"Now take off your shoe, and your sock too." Kiba ordered him. Toboe obeyed, though his left hand was bleeding, and hurt a lot. Hige helped him with actually getting his shoe off his foot. Once Toboe's shoe and sock was off, Tsume sighed and picked him up. Hige, now happy that Toboe was being carried, walked behind the group, holding Toboe's shoe and sock.
They reached the cave a wile later, and Toboe was set down inside. Hige came to him with some snow in his hands. He sat down next to Toboe, who looked up at him.
"It burns..." Toboe said, and Hige noticed that he was holding his wrist, as though to make his hand stop hurting. Hige pressed the hand full of snow, that he was planning on eating, into Toboe's bleeding palm.
"Ow!" Toboe exclaimed loudly at the coldness of snow in his hurting hand. Kiba turned quickly from what he was doing.
"Hige no!" Kiba yelled, and ran over to Hige and Toboe, "Hige, do you know if that snow is clean?" Hige blinked.
"Um, no. I didn't think-"
"Toboe come with me." Kiba picked Toboe up and carried him out of the cave. Toboe let the snow fall out of his hand. Kiba carried him to a small stream, and set him down at the waters edge. Toboe was sitting on his knees in the snow. The stream was covered in a thin layer of ice, and Kiba wasted no time in breaking it. He took Toboe's bleeding hand, and submerged in in the freezing water. Pain surged suddenly through Toboe's hand.
"Ow, no!" Toboe pulled his hand out of the water, still covered in blood.
"Toboe, we have to clean it out." Kiba said calmly. He looked at Toboe, who had tears in his eyes, "I'll do it slowly." He said with a small smile.
Sniffling, Toboe allowed Kiba to guide his hand slowly into the cold water.
"Ow, ow..." Toboe pulled his hand slightly, but Kiba held his wrist firmly. Toboe continued to whimper as Kiba cleaned his hand. When Kiba had finished, he brought the crying Toboe's hand from the water.
With out the blood, Kiba thought it actually looked worse. The skin was riped and torn, and looked as though it were simply rubbed off in some places. Kiba tried to act as though it was nothing serious, and took Toboe's foot. Compared to his hand Toboe's foot was nothing. Even though the skin was split from the ball of his foot down to his heel. It had already begun to get hard. Kiba splashed water on the bottom of Toboe's foot, and a good amount of blood ran out from the wound. When Kiba was sure he was finished, he picked Toboe back up, and hugged him.
"Now that wasn't so bad now was it?" Kiba asked, and seemed to loose his rough leader like quality.
"It burns..." Toboe said again in a small voice.
"I know." Kiba said, "And it will for a wile, but I don't know what to do with it. Your hand is so bad... I don't want to wrap it because it would get in the wound. I can wrap your foot, but you might not be able to walk on it."
Toboe hugged Kiba, and burst into tears. Kiba, wail completely surprised by this, just continued to walk back to the cave.
Toboe's POV
((POV starts from when Kiba carried Toboe out of the cave))
I don't know were he's taking me, though I suspect He's going to try to clean me up. That snow Hige put on my hand is cold, and it hurts, so I drop it. Then Kiba sets me down by a stream, and the snow melts and makes my knees wet. He breaks the ice with his fists, then takes my left arm by the wrist and puts my hand in the water. The water is really cold, and it hurts my hand.
"Ow, no!" I pull my hand back, and my eyes begin to fill with tears, but I don't want to cry in front of the leader. Kiba tells me that he has to wash it out, and that he'll do it slower this time, so I let him take my wrist again. He slowly slips my hand into the cold water, but, "Ow, ow.." I try to pull away again. Kiba has a firm grip this time, and holds my hand under the water. It stings the entire palm of my hand, and unwillingly I whimper. A few tears run down my cheeks. Finley Kiba is finished cleaning my hand, and takes it out of the water. He looks at it, and I can tell he's trying to act cool about it. I know it looks bad, gross actually.
Then he cleans my foot, it doesn't hurt nearly as bad. He only splashes some water on it to get the blood and dirt out. When He is finished he picks me up to take me back to the cave. He hugs me and tries to comfort me, but all I say is, "It burns..." Kiba tells my that he can't wrap my hand, but he can wrap my foot, and that I might not be able to walk on it for a wile. I don't know why, but all of the sudden I clung to him and cried...
Kiba's POV
((POV starts as same point as previous))
I pick up Toboe to go wash out his wounds. I'm almost angry with Hige for not thinking. I notice that the snow Toboe had in his hand was stained with blood, and I quicken my steps. I set Toboe down on his knees by a stream, and break the ice that covers it. Taking Toboe's wrist, I plunge his hand into the freezing cold water. I guess it hurt him because he yelped and pulled his hand out of the water.
"We have to clean it out." I tell him, then I see that he is so close to tears, "I'll do it slowly this time." I reassure him, and he lets me take his wrist again. 'Slowly this time' I remember, and ease his hand into the water. I know it still hurts him, because he still tries to pull his hand away, but I don't let him. I can hear him whimpering behind me, so I hurry up and finish cleaning his hand. When I take his hand from the water I nearly choke on my own spit. It looks horrible, but I don't want to worry Toboe, so I pretend it's not that bad.
Next I take his foot, it looked bad, but not as bad as his hand. All I do is splash some water on it to rinse it out.
When I'm finished cleaning him, I pick him up again, and hug him. I'm no good at comforting people, although I like to think that compared to Tsume I'm as good at Toboe's dad.
"Now that wasn't so bad was it?" I say, trying to comfort him, but he tells me that it burns, "I know." I don't want to tell him that theirs nothing more I can do for his hand, and that he might not be walking for a wile. I say it any way, the kid has a right to know. At this Toboe hugs me tightly and cries. He gets my jacket wet, but I don't care about it at the moment. I'm to busy whipping a tear from my own eye.
End of chapter one
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