Memories

By: CyborgAngel22

Author's Note: I know this plot has been taken, but I wanted to give it a try. Again, Toboe has a twin sister. She's not a Mary Sue and she's not a big whiner. There is some Yaoi in this, and anybody who has read any of my other stories ('A Powerful Mind') knows that I'm a bit angsty. You don't like it, then do read my story. Anyway, please read and review, this is my first Wolf's Rain fic.

Disclaimer: I don't own Wolf's Rain! It belongs to Bones so don't sue me for it! I only own my two OOCs!

Guide:

"blah" regular talking

'blah' thinking

"blah" speaking in wolf

Chapter 1: Losing The Way…

Haven's Night was filled with many people. Some were good, some were bad. Nobody could really tell. Only one thing could be told for sure, that people loved the music came out of the club. This club played many kinds of music. Some jazz, hip-hop, rap, R&B, rock…whatever type that the person requested. Tonight was no exception. A girl with hip-length brown hair and yellowish-brown eyes was dancing on top of a bar counter. She wore heavy makeup and she turned at every heavy beat (think of Ciera's "1,2 Step"). Her skirt swished back and forth and it caught the attention needed for the club to stay open. She heaved heavily as she dropped to one of her knees and then jumped back up. Her flexibility and energy was amazing, so she worked her longer than most of the dancers have. Her hair flicked from one shoulder to the other. When the song changed to another tempo, so did her body. Beads of sweat dripped down her body, but she couldn't stop. The music was like a hypnotic melody that couldn't be stopped. Her scent was filled with the smell of testosterone. There were so many men, and their scent was lust. She smirked as she loved the attention.

The pack of four entered the City of Neon Lights, at least that's what the foreigners called it. It was really called Haven City. People were all over the place, and it looked like there was hardly any rest here. Hige scrunched up his nose as he caught an awful smell. Tsume stretched and cracked a few nicks in his back. "Looks like we'd better just cruise on through this city." He said

"What for?" asked Toboe "This place is amazing."

"Yeah." Said Hige, eyeing a girl "Why would we want to leave so soon?"

There was a bunch of yelling and soon people were crowding around a fight. "That's why." Said Tsume, pointing

"Hey it's that dancer girl!" said a voice

Out of nowhere came guys crowding around Toboe. They were all asking Toboe all types of questions and the rest of the guys had no idea what to do. "Hey, what are you all talking about?" asked Toboe

"That's a boy." Said another

The rest of them groaned. "Hey, who's dancer girl?" asked Tsume

"She looks just like that boy, except her hair's longer and she doesn't wear that outfit." Answered another

"Show us where she is." Said Kiba

The other wolves stared at her with disbelief. "Kiba man, are you serious!" said Hige

"I want to see what this girl does that is so fascinating…" said Kiba

The girl signaled for a glass of water. The songs were going faster and she was getting tired. What was happening was the lunar moon was coming out, and she would be running around in wolf form. Haven City was not the best place to be turning into a wolf. Wolf hunters were looking for wolves and their fur was a high price on the market. "Yo! Tomoe!" yelled a voice

She looked down and saw another dancer standing next to the bar counter. "What Mel?" she asked

"Lemme take over! You've been working non-stop for three weeks!"

"I think I should finish up first!"

"You should stop! Koji's lookin' for ya!"

"You sure?"

"Positive."
Tomoe immediately got off and Mel danced in her place. She winked at her co-worker and put on her long overcoat. The last thing she needed was to be stopped by somebody, especially wolf hunters. They could see through her human form. She tied her hair back into a ponytail and tries to brush through the crowds. At that same time, Kiba and the others were going forward through the crowd. Tomoe bumped right into Tsume. "Hey, watch it!" he said

"Excuse me?" asked Tomoe "You bumped into me first!"

"You must be blind or stupid, because you bumped into me first!"
Hige groaned and Kiba rolled his eyes. Toboe held his ears because he wasn't used to the loud music. All of a sudden, a gunshot was heard and people began hitting the floor. Sprawled out on the ground was one of the club bouncers and in came a group of men with three dogs and a couple of shotguns. "Sorry to stop the party." Said the first one "But we're on our usual sweep."

"Shit…." Muttered Tomoe

The three dogs sniffed around and growled. "Who are these guys?" whispered Kiba

"Wolf hunters." Answered Tomoe "I gotta get out of here before-"

Before she could keep talking, a dog jumped on her and knocked her down. She growled and kicked it to the side. "So we've found one…" said another "Let's kill her and get the fur!"
Tomoe squinted her eyes and growled. One of the hunters shot at her leg and she dodged it, going straight for his neck. She bit into it, hard, drawing blood. He slumped to the ground in a pool of blood. There stood Tomoe, on all fours, in her wolf form with blood dripping off her fangs. A dog bit into her neck, causing her to howl out in pain. Another came straight for her and it was fought off by a wolf with black fur and red eyes. "Koji!" she said

"Let's go!" it said

The female ran out of the back of the club, with Kiba and the others following. The black wolf named Koji skidded to a stop in an alleyway. All of them went back to their human forms and Koji gave Kiba and the others suspicious looks. He had long red hair and blue eyes. He wore a pair of jeans, black sneakers, and a dark blue long-sleeve shirt. He had his hands in his jeans. "I've never seen you bunch in Sin City before, you guys travelers?" he asked

"We'll be out of your hair soon." Said Tsume

"So where are you guys headed?"

"Paradise." Answered Kiba

"Are you serious!" asked Tomoe

"What a load of crap." Said Koji

"What did you say!" exclaimed Tsume

"Why bother looking for a place that doesn't exist! It's a waste of time."

"Koji…" started Tomoe

"Face facts Tomoe, your family's gone!"

With that, Koji walked off. Tomoe sighed and gave Kiba and the others a smile. "Sorry, he gets like that." She said

"Sin City huh?" asked Tsume "I thought this was called Haven City."

"Sin City is what we people call it. This place is going to hell, and there's nothing heavenly about it."
She turned and walked away arm stretched. "Do you really believe what he said?" asked Kiba

Tomoe stopped slightly turned to him. "What do you mean?" she asked

"About paradise."

"I dunno…it's hard to believe when you're stuck here."
With that, she ran away.

The wolf hunters kneeled in front of the metallic statue before them. In Haven City (better known as Sin City), there was only one noble. She was Selina, the Iron Queen. No man has ever seen her face, but she flexed her power greatly. She hated wolves with a passion, and wanted to see all of them killed. She gave them all an evil stare as she looked through her mask. "So you let six wolves get away and two of them were living here!" she growled

"Mistress Selina, it wasn't our fault." Said one

Her eyes glowed a menacing red and he was slammed against a wall. She extended on hand and he began ghasping for air. In a matter of minutes he was gurgling up blood and then he went limp. The body slumped and fell in a heap to the ground. The other three looked up in fear. When Mistress Selina got angry, there was no stopping her wrath. At the click of her heels, she turned away and her cloak flowed with her movements. "Idiots…" she muttered

She flung open the doors to her chambers and the doors slammed behind her. Taking off her mask, she revealed to have green hair and red eyes. She flung the mask against the wall and it fell with a loud clatter. "Damn them…" she growled "Damn them all!"

She looked out at the moon and gave a slightly psychotic look. "You can't run forever." She said "Nobody leaves Haven City without my knowledge, not even wolves."

Tomoe sighed as she looked out the window. It was hard to keep her human form during the lunar moon. She flopped a tail and licked a paw. Koji, on the other hand, was flopped on the makeshift bed and trying to sleep. Unfortunately, his curiosity was getting the best of him. He was eager to know why those wolves were searching for paradise. When he tried to look, he almost got himself killed. He looked over at Tomoe, who was still looking out the window. He growled at her. "Will you get to sleep already!" he said

"I'm not tired." She said

"Don't tell me you're not still thinking about those dumb wolves!"

"Well they're out there in Sin City and they could get killed."

"And that's our problem!"

"Koji!"

"Look, this paradise stuff is none of our business! We tried and failed!"

Tomoe squinted her eyes and turned back to her human form. She went for the door and placed her hand on the doorknob. "You can stay here and mope all you want, I'm gonna go find them." She said

With that she left. Koji 'humphed' and turned on his side, staring at the wall. After ten minutes, he growled and kicked a box. "Dammit!" he yelled

He shakily turned to his human form and ran out the door.

Toboe shook and rubbed his shoulders. Around the four wolves were people, sitting around trash cans and some sleeping under newspapers. From what they've tried, there seemed to be no way out of the city without some kind of passport, and none of them had one. Stealing one wouldn't help since they had no picture to show. Toboe shivered again and Hige embraced him. "I don't want you to die yet runt." He said

Toboe rolled his eyes. He looked up at the moon. It was changing their forms back and forth, but none of the humans seemed to care. Kiba looked at the slightly shivering Toboe and the looked up at the moon. "They look so much alike…" muttered Kiba

"What are you talking about?" asked Tsume

"Nothing…we should be leaving soon."
A loud crash caught their attention. Three guys surrounded someone. Whoever it was, they knew from the looks on the men's faces they were pissed off. "I told you I don't have any money!" shouted at female voice

Tsume raised an eyebrow. "I know who that is." He said

One man laughed at her 'tough act' and leaned down into her face. The girl scrunched up her nose. "This is cute. Why don't you try to hit me in the face." He said

She gave a sly grin, bit her bottom lip, and punched the guy, knocking him over. "Wow, you got knocked the hell out!" said a guy from a distance

The girl cracked her knuckles. "Anybody want more?" she asked

The other guys opened up room for her and she merely walked away. Hige gave a slightly nervous look. "She's kinda rough…" he said

"She's just a runt with a bit of a bite." Said Tsume

"I wonder where Tomoe knew how to fight…" started Toboe

The other guys just gave him an awkward look. "What?" he asked

"There you guys are!" said Tomoe, walking up

"Well what do you want?" asked Tsume

"Tsume!" said Kiba

"Come on, we don't have much time before our we go back to our wolf forms." She said

"So?"

"These guys may not care what we look like, but Selina will."

"Who's Selina?" asked Hige

"Psycho Noble, she'll stop at nothing to see us wolves dead."

"We've handled Nobles before, this one shouldn't be different." Said Tsume

"Selina shouldn't be taken lightly." Said a man with a cane approaching "I've seen her take out packs of 20 or 30 of you youngsters."

"Yeah right." Said Hige

"It's true." Said Tomoe "Some of the wolves I've known for years, were hunted down, skinned, and their carcasses were hung throughout the city."

Hige's eyes widned. "That smell…!" he started

Tomoe closed her eyes and nodded. Tears threatened out the corner of her eyes and she quickly wiped them away. "I watched…as they were killed….and I felt so weak…I couldn't…let's go."

She quickly turned on her heel and began walking away. They others looked at each other. "Should we follow her?" asked Hige

Kiba stood up and looked over his shoulder. "Come on." He said

Tsume made a low growl and shook his head. "Childish…" he muttered

Tomoe had turned back to her wolf form and she looked back at them. "You can stay with me and Koji for the time being." She said

She began running off and the wolves followed. When they heard a howl, they all skidded to a halt. Tomoe's eyes widened as she knew what kind of howl it was, and who it came from. "Koji…" she whispered

She turned back to the others, who were all in wolf form. "We have to save Koji." She said

"Is he your mate or something?" asked Toboe

"No, it's just that…come on, he'll be dead if we don't stop talking!"

The wolves kept running and Tomoe blinked some tears out of her eyes. 'It's just like before…' she thought

Koji slumped to one side as the blood dripped out of his mouth. There seemed to be no end to Selina's wolf hunters. They kept surrounding him and attacking him with dogs or with the butts of their guns. His neck throbbed from the bites of the dogs, and right hind leg was starting to give in. The wolf hunters seemed to be getting closer from what he could see. "This one's almost dead." One said

"Let's kill it now." Said another

A wolf hunter aimed his gun straight for Koji. The black wolf growled and all of its fur stood on end. Out of nowhere came brown fur and it bit the wolf hunter hard in the neck. Blood dripped down her mouth and out on the snow. Kiba bit one in the leg and he immediately toppled over. Tsume bit one in the arm and fired off some shots; one of it's bullets shot Kiba in the arm. The white wolf growled out of pain and Tomoe shot Tsume a slightly annoyed look. Toboe pushed Tomoe out of the way as a long sword came down. The two wolves looked up to see a soldier in full armor, waiting to attack. "Crap…" muttered Koji

He slumped to the side and Hige held him up. "What's going on?" he asked

"Selina's top soldiers." Answered Koji "We need to get outta here before she shows up."

"We'll we're kinda busy saving your ass!" said Tomoe, biting into a hunter's arm.

"Quit it with the smartass remarks and lets go!"

Tomoe turned and nodded. She turned to her human form and grabbed Toboe by his wrist. The others followed and she jumped up on ton a rooftop, with the others still following. Toboe huffed a breath of air and Tomoe smacked him in the back, nearly knocking the wind out of him. "Well that sure was a perk for my day." Said Tomoe

Koji gave her a death glare. Tomoe just gave him an innocent look. "What?" she asked

"Don't say another word or I swear to God I'll kill you." He said

She merely shrugged. "Whatever…" she said

He growled a bit and Hige made a small laugh. "You should at least thank us for saving you." Said Toboe

"Koji thanking us?" scoffed Tomoe "That'll be the day."

"Why did you come for us?" asked Kiba

"Eh?" asked Tomoe

She placed her hands in back of her head and shrugged. "I dunno…" she said "Just seemed like something good to do."

"You mean that you were actually going to let them stay with us!" exclaimed Koji

"Yeah, you got a problem with that!"

"We don't need be babysitting any noobs, especially that runt!"

"I'm not a runt!" said Toboe

"You look like one!" said Tsume

"Hey I take that as an insult!" said Tomoe

"It was a nice offer, but we're leaving soon." Said Kiba

"No you're not." Said Koji

"Why not?"

"Sin City sucks people and wolves in." said Tomoe, looking up at the moon "It's easy to come in, but it's hard to leave."

"We need to keep looking for Cheza." Said Toboe

"Did you say Cheza!" exclaimed Koji

"Yes why?" asked Hige

"We've smelled her before."

"What!" exclaimed Kiba "Where!"
Tomoe turned and pointed to the castle in the distance. "Koji and I have smelled the scent of lunar flowers coming from there." She said "We've wanted to go in there….but…"

"You're too afraid to go in." scoffed Tsume

"No, it's just suicide to go in there. I've seen wolves go in, but never come out."

"I don't care if it's dangerous or not." Said Kiba "I'm going to that keep either way."
Kiba cringed as he felt pain from his bullet wound. "Not with that injury you're not." Said Tsume

"I don't think any of you are capable of going anywhere." Said Koji, sighing "Look, we'll lead you to a secret entrance, once I get better."

"Really!" exclaimed Toboe

"Sure runt."

"Koji!" said Tomoe

Selina placed her hand on the glass. Inside the glass and water was Cheza. She had her men capture the flower maiden and she gave a psychotic smirk. Inside, Cheza was sleeping, her body was a bit limp, and her hair was a bit disheveled. "My dear Cheza." She said

A servant came in and she looked over her shoulder, squinting her eyes. "Milady, we've found the white wolf." He said

"Is that so?" she asked "Well this deserves a celebration. I'll finally be rid of those damn wolves and then…then maybe I can rest."

She turned fully around and pointed to the servant. "Send out the soldiers!" she said "Flush out every slum and find them! Lock out every port and train station. Let nobody pass without their identification!"

"Yes milady." He said

With that, he left quickly. Selina pulled off a glove and fingered her scar on her arm. "You gave me this dear brother." She said "Now you'll pay. You'll never get your precious paradise."

To Be Continued…