Lupus and Lupin
Chapter 1
Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach.
Eleven-year-old Rukia wandered through the forest aimlessly. The sun had set some while ago and she strolled through the forest savoring the slightly chilly wind blowing through her hair. She loved winter and chilly weather as long as she could remember. As she decided she still had some time before returning home, she wanted to take her time.
Home she thought a bit apprehensively. She felt like she was captive in that place. If it were not for her sister, she would not be in there in the first place.
And it's not like anybody is going to miss me, she thought playing and fiddling with the pendant that her brother gave. It had a blood red stone flower with five petals with intricate metal design around it.
This is the only thing that ties me to the Kuchikis she thought miserably. The Kuchikis acted weird around her. She hardly saw them during the day. Most of the meetings and gatherings were held at night. She hardly ever saw her brother on daytime as well.
He's always busy with clan duties she thought.
She noticed that her atmosphere quieted suddenly. Noting this, she became aware of her surroundings. While she was busy with her self-musings, she came to a part of the forest that she had never ventured before. She suddenly became alert and her sixth sense seemed to kick in.
A loud snap was heard and she turned her head to that side. Her gut instincts told her to run away as a shiver ran down her spine but she was transfixed to her current spot.
She commanded her feet to run away but her feet had grown a mind of her own and took her to the place from where the sound was first heard. She heard a low animalistic growl as she neared the bush from where the sound came.
Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid she chastised herself as her shaky hands parted the bush and what she saw made her gasp.
There in the bush was a large wolf growling at her. The wolf looked like it was wounded badly. Even though it did it looked badly wounded, it did not stop growling at her threatening her as she invaded its personal space.
She maintained eye contact with the large animal and slowly approached it.
Rukia did not know what made her do it, till today, she could not fathom what made her do it but she coaxed the large animal and went near it. After thoroughly examining the girl, the wolf seemed to conclude that the girl was harmless and went at whimpering.
Rukia sat in front of the wolf and patted it. She was sure that if the wolf had not been wounded, it would have pounced on her. Its fur reminded her of ripe hachiya persimmon and of burnt orangish hue of setting sun. It has been a long time since she saw sunsets.
After making sure that the wolf would not attack her, she sat near it and examined it. It must have been in a fight she concluded as she took it the bite marks and the claw marks. She thought for a while and looked at her hand.
She opened the cap of her bottle and poured some water in her hand. "Here", she cautiously offered her hand to the wolf and looked in its amber eye. "It's going to help you," she offered when the wolf did nothing but glared at her with those beady amber eyes. "It's not poison you know", she added on when the wolf did not make any movement other than glare at her.
The wolf, after eyeing her for a while, moved its head towards her hand without breaking eye contact. She saw its snout quiver as it sniffed at her hand and licked. She poured on more water to her hand and let the wolf lick on it.
Another snap was heard somewhere and the wolf, with its bleeding wound, stood on all four. Rukia stood as well and turned her head trying to fathom from where the sound came from. She noticed that the wolf's hackles were raised and suddenly, the wolf limped forwards and threateningly growled at something in the front. She gasped as she saw another wolf approach.
From what Rukia could tell, she knew that the wolf had to be of dark color as she could see nothing but its eye moving around and eyeing them. The new wolf paced around them in half circle and suddenly charged in towards them.
Rukia shrieked as it jumped at her baring its teeth and ready to attack her. She slowly moved backwards but yelped as she fell backwards as her foot tangled in a root. To her surprise, the wounded wolf pounced towards the charging wolf and blocked her attack.
The black wolf mercilessly bite on and on the already injured wolf but the permission color wolf did not back down and clawed and bit back at the other one. The fight was inhumane and bloody.
Rukia suddenly realized where she was, stood up heather scattered, and ran forwards without looking back. She did not know who won but she never felt like knowing.
She only stopped when she reached her house. She hurriedly opened the gate, and just as she was about to knock on the door, and got it as soon as it was opened by her brother. She was surprised as her brother never answered the door and he opened it before her knock. He eyed her suspiciously.
"Rukia" he asked. "Yes Nii sama?" she replied, "I am sorry I was late, I was a bit caught up while walking through the village" she added hurriedly only realizing her mistake later.
His eyebrow twitched a bit as he looked at her. She knew that her brother was telling "How many times will I have to tell you to not walk through the forest Rukia?" chastised her brother with impassive look.
Rukia bowed her head and said "I am sorry I wanted to hurry so I took that road. It will never happen" she replied guiltily. However, the look he gave her told her that he was unconvinced and she felt like he knew what happened back there, he knew what she did.
He suddenly stopped and turned back at her. "Pendant?" he asked. Rukia gasped and looked at herself. She did not have the pendant in her and felt frozen
"Come, we need to talk" he said and walked towards their living room and Rukia silently followed him in que keeping her head bowed. She felt guilty.
If Rukia had stayed back then she would have seen that the wolf that won stood high on the battleground with scar wounds marking its body. He limped back to the previous hiding place and sniffed around. Something shiny took his attention.
He went near it and sniffed at the pendant and thought back at the lupin-eyed girl. He took the pendant in his mouth and walked back at where his pack awaited his return.
Author's Note: I am trying to finish Spin Around you but this plot came in my mind and just wouldn't go.
I can't believe that I have actually finished this story. This is a three shot (are there three shots or should it be three chaptered story?)
I am sorry that it took me time to upload my stories. I have been busy as my life, these years, have been in a rollercoaster with twists and turns and more downs then ups.
I have posted two chapters and will be posting the third and last chapter this coming week.
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