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A full moon above dominated the night sky. Once in a month and a day apart it appeared in its full form. Confident, proud and hopeful. Tsume gazed in wonderment from his viewing spot away from everyone else as usual.

The glowing orb filling him with a new found energy. Others watched also, Kiba basked in the radiant glows yearning for its warm presence. Hige and Toboe laughed and joked as they were overcome with happiness.

Everything seemed perfect, flawless at the moment. Tsume sighed he knew it had to end, he looked over to his companions, they all seemed content. Even Kiba, which was generally an odd thing. He growled as he watched Hige swallow down the last scrap of food they had left. "Why do I continue to accompany this set of fools?" he said to no-one. "What could they ever offer me that I couldn't attain myself?"

Tsume flinched in anger at the loud laughter coming from below. Digging his claws into the earth attempting to calm himself, his eyes fell to Toboe. The youngest of the pack, the weakest. Although Toboe didn't like to hear that. He watched the younger wolf in interest. Possibly the member of the pack he was closest to. Tsume laughed to himself silently. That was definitely something he needed to keep to himself.

"Tsume?" Came a concerned voice from the camp fire. Toboe had stopped joking and abruptly set his attention Tsume.

"What?!" Tsume snarled out in response a lot harder than he had meant to. Toboe jumped a little but continued.

"Are you alright? You seem a little preoccupied tonight."

"Oh god, he's worrying about me again. When will he get the idea no-one cares for me?" He said silently to himself. Tsume opened his mouth to throw some abuse at Toboe, but Kiba intervened.

"We'd better get moving." He started, not wanting to say a large amount of words. For it was Kiba's nature to be strong yet silent. A distinct moaning came from Hige's direction.

"Kiba, already? We've had about two hours rest!" He said leaning further back into the snow." Besides, I don't think chibi could manage another step." He pushed Toboe a little to make his point. Toboe stood up almost immediately to defend himself.

"I'm fine, let's just go." The grin melted off hige's face and turned into a disappointed frown. Tsume looked thoroughly shoked.Kiba smiled, only slightly though. He didn't want to show too much happiness. Tsume agreed reluctantly and they started off on the trail of Paradise once again.

After a while of walking, and countless occasions of stopping to wait for Toboe. The pack arrived at a place they weren't quite expecting. A large intimidating city loomed above them in twigh light of the night. Kiba stopped and turned to his exhausted pack.

"Whatever danger awaits us in there is far too strong for us right now. We should rest and continue in the morning. Two relieved sighs came from Toboe and Hige but Tsume merely frowned. A city... the one place Tsume felt truly in his element. He wasn't going to wait another couple of hours just so the others could rest.

"If we go now we could find food and shelter!" Tsume suggested to Kiba.

"I doubt we'll make it that far..." Kiba replied as he changed to his white wolf form and lay down. Tsume snarled loudly, making it clear to everyone he was displeased. He glared at Hige he referred to as 'the fat one.

'"Aren't you hungry?" he questioned Hige. The tan wolf only gave a feeble shrug. "You're always hungry! Why not now?!" he yelled becoming increasingly angry.

"Tsume, calm down." Toboe said trying to calm the situation. His big golden eyes set only on Tsume. However this just enraged Tsume more. Burning full of anger he started to walk towards the city. Toboe watched him, he wanted to follow him, but was afraid of making matters worse. Hige and Kiba had fallen asleep, a little too close to each other, Toboe thought. But it was quite cold he supposed. He laid his muzzle in the snow searching for sleep, but no matter how hard he attempted he just couldn't find it. The same thoughts flew through his mind

"Tsume, Tsume, Tsume. I wonder where Tsume is."

Not wanting to wait another moment, Toboe threw his tired body into a hard run...

Tsume walked for a quite while through the winter wonderland. Before he turned round to see if anyone had followed. Much to his surprise nobody had. Not even Toboe, which disappointed him a little for reasons he was oblivious to.

He slugged on through the half melted snow, awaiting the entry to his city paradise. It came soon enough, and Tsume was thrilled by the chaotic atmosphere beckoning him in. He breathed in ghastly car fumes and embraced the warm city heat. Everything there intrigued him, the tall, deserted skyscrapers, the wild raging traffic, everything was to his liking. This truly was a place where he belonged.

His stomach reminded him that he hadn't eaten for the past day and a half. Many stalls bearing exotic new scents lured Tsume in to discover what was behind them. And sure enough the answer was food. Piles and piles of strangely shaped meats. A large balding man watched over his stock carefully incase thieves lurked about. Tsume watched him closely, waiting for the appropriate moment to make his move. A small woman approached his stall timidly.

"Excuse me, sir?" she asked shyly. Tsume grinned, now was his chance. Crouching down in his wolf form he slowly made his way underneath the stall, paying great attention to the conversation going outside. He bumped his head suddenly, on a hard tray of circular shaped food. He sniffed at it inquisitively; it smelt good in a weird sense. Like meat, but it certainly didn't look or feel like meat.

"Alright Miss, glad I could of service to you." the shopkeeper had finished his sale and went back to his hawk eye watching game. Crap! Tsume thought to himself. He had only one choice. Quite abruptly he rammed his way from underneath the stall and ran with as much speed as he could muster. Of course this didn't go unnoticed by the shop keeper.

"Get back here you disgusting mutt!" a roar erupted from the shopkeeper's mouth. Tsume didn't hear it, he was too far away. Atop a skyscraper where he could be totally and completely alone...

Meanwhile...

Toboe had entered the city only a few hours ago, but still no sign of Tsume. He'd received many frightened stares from the city's inhabitants since he was in his wolf form. But he was too tired to change back to his human form. Some passerby's attitudes were different though. A few had stopped to stroke him, which he found thoroughly pleasurable.

He'd also had a close encounter with a dog warden on the other side of town. He wouldn't be back there in a hurry. He wondered what the others were up to, it was nearly morning now. They could possibly be looking for both him and Tsume.

"We'll find each other eventually..." he whispered.

"There you are! Thought you could escape Mr. Stinger, did you?"

Toboe raised his head and jumped back in fear. The warden had returned, covered in the remains of litter that Toboe had managed to knock him into and escaped before. He bore an evil slim grin on that wrinkled old face.

"Ohhh, scared you, didn't I?" He got closer raising the gun from underneath his arm." Come here... Come... I won't hurt you."

The young brown wolf backed away growling slightly, he wasn't going to be afraid of one pathetic human. Still the human persisted, gradually coming closer and closer with each stride. His smirk broadening every time he saw Toboe back away. He couldn't take it anymore. Swiftly turning around Toboe ran at full pelt, after only a few seconds he collided with a wall. It was a dead end. He was cornered.

Tsume watched in amusement as a brown speck was finally captured. "Stupid dogs..." he said out aloud."Stupid creatures..." he laughed.

A sharp missile in bedded itself into Toboe's fur, it didn't hurt that much but still it made him feel so strange. He noticed a pipe just about big enough for him to fit through. Mr. Stinger, who currently looked like he'd been given all the dogs to torture in the world, grasped a clump of Toboe's hair.

"Arghhhh!" Toboe yowled, sinking his teeth into Mr. Stinger's scabbed plagued hang. It seemed like most of his victims had the same idea.

"Oh! Now this IS getting interesting." Tsume said deviously from above. He much wanted to see this dog slaughter that pest of a human. To his disappointment though, it attempted to run away. Balancing on only its front paws while it dragged the back two.

"Tranquilizer." Tsume stated he knew the dog wouldn't make it. Sighing Tsume changed to his wolf form and jumped down onto Mr. Stinger.

The world around Toboe was blurring and shaking, he felt as is he was caught in great gust of wind, but his destination still remained clearly in front of him. His back legs seemed to have fallen asleep. Toboe longed to fall asleep himself but knew he had to escape. From out of nowhere a grey blur attacked Mr. Stinger, giving him the chance to run. And he did...

Chapter 2 coming soon depending on response