DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU HAVE NOT FINISHED WOLF'S RAIN!
Thank you for reading this, I want to make a few clarifications: The human form is just an illusion. I only watched the dubbed (I don't have enough time to watch dubbed and subbed, so I pick dubbed because there aren't many translation flaws in the dubbed as opposed to fansubs.) so Cheza will talk in her wierd third person way like in the dubbed anime.
"words" = talking
"words"= wolf-speak or some other form of communication not commonly heard by humans
'words'= thoughts of the person whose point of view it is
wordswordswords=(italics and non-italics reversed) flashback
Sorry if some of my povs are ooc, I have never written first person fanfiction before. And I have no romance writing experience so the HigeBlue stuff may be a little akward.
This chapter was very hard for me to write because I had to re-watch all of the saddest parts of wolf's rain up to three times each. The result is very good details, an exact copy of Tsume's goodbye to Toboe(english dubbed), and a very depressed me. Of course listening to Maligno Ton Negro Lo (Toboe's theme) the whole time I was writing this didn't help either, that song is so sad that I was teary-eyed the whole time I wrote this.
Disclaimer: The Roses Wilted, the Violets are Dead, I own neither of these anime, that is a fact I dread.
Toboe P.O.V.
I woke slowly, as if I were awakening after a long dream. I was in a hallway of some sort.
"How...long was I out?" I asked myself. I realized that I wasn't in any more pain. Nothing. "Must have been a while if I'm all healed," I mused. "Where am I...and where are the others?" I asked to no one in particular. A voice started sounding in my mind, Tsume's voice.
"Look at you, I didn't realize how big you've grown. When I first met you...I don't think I'd ever seen such a scrawny little pup."
"Tsume? What are you talking about? Where are you?" I called in the silent language of the wolves.
"I knew...sucker you were when it came to humans..." His voice started fading, and I couldn't hear some of the things he said. "Never really understood how much they meant...don't know, maybe I was jealous."
'Tsume...is jealous because I like humans? Why?' I thought to myself.
"...you listening Toboe?...once asked...scar on my chest...remember? This mark...reminder of my sin." His voice got even quieter, farther away. "I ran...friends...abandoned them...knew...banished me..."
'No, Tsume! Why are you telling me this? And why are you so far away?' I shouted in my mind.
"don't need any friends...never trust...I...betray..." I refused to believe what I was hearing. He was lying. "until...met...you" I felt a wetness on my cheek. "wanted...take you to paradise..." The tears were flowing freely now, I didn't bother to wipe them off. "you...brought me...little kid...goodbye..."
"NOO! TSUME! don't leave me!" I screamed at his unhearing voice.
"Old man...take care...runt...see ya." The voice disappeared. I sat there crying silently...howling in my spirit.
'His voice is gone, he must be far away...why did he sound like he was saying his final goodbyes? Does he think he is going to die?' Confused and sad thoughts kept spinning in my mind, until I was snapped from my thoughts by the sound of human voices.
In a panic I shifted to my human disguise and noticed that my human form was wearing a strange dark blue outfit, which is weird because my human form didn't have clothes to change; it was an illusion. However, I didn't spend too much time thinking about it.
As I turned to walk in a random direction I returned to my previous train of thought, 'Did he say that because he thought Darcia III was going to kill him?Or maybe Darcia already gave him a fatal wound! I have to help him! I have to find Tsume and the others!'
"TSUME!" I shouted in my voice that could now be heard by humans. I ran down the hallway, "TSUME!...POPS!...BLUE!...HIGE!...KIBA!...CHEZA!...INSPECTOR!" I continued to yell for them as I sprinted. I hit a stairway and went up, in hopes that from the top of the building they could hear me. I passed a few humans on the way who probably gave me strange looks, but I didn't pay any attention to them.
When I opened the door to the roof and took in my surroundings I was astonished. Nearby there were many small buildings creating what seemed to be a little town, but it wasn't in a dome. The sky was real, but what amazed me was what lied beyond the domeless town, trees. An enormous forest, stretching farther than my wolf eyes could see. But it wasn't just the size, it was the color. The forest was a vibrant green; the sky clear blue, and the buildings were a light brown color that suggested warmth and comfort, rather that dirtiness.
'Is this paradise?' I thought to myself, 'No, paradise would have lunar flowers and wolves, so this isn't it...but it is beautiful.' It took a few minutes before I got back to the task at hand, finding the others.
"TSUME! POPS! BLUE! HIGE! KIBA! CHEZA! INSPECTOR! ARE YOU THERE?" I shouted, but no response came. 'Maybe they're inside and can't hear me,' I thought. I ran through the building floor by floor, going through all the halls. I did the same for the smaller buildings, and even ran along all the main pathways outside. I was shouting for them the whole time, begging that someone would respond.
Nothing.
I ended up on a small bench on the outer edge of a courtyard. I held my head in my hands and shivered in fear. The fear of being alone.
Hige P.O.V.
"Hige! Hige! Wake up!" I heard the voice of an angel beckoning me to awaken, so I opened my eyes and saw that it was not just any angel, it was my angel. It was Blue. She saw I was conscious and held me tightly to herself. I could tell that she had been worried about me.
"So where are we?" I asked.
"I don't know, maybe we're in paradise," she responded.
"No," I replied, "Paradise is for the living. We are dead. I remember asking Tsume to end my life, and I know he wouldn't try to spare my life with the condition I was in."
"So we really are dead," she said, "What now?"
"We could try to find Toboe, and your Pops, and maybe that inspector and the lady scientist. I mean, they're dead too right?" I said.
"I would like to see Pops again, but I think Toboe would have gone to a different place than the rest of us," she said.
"Yeah..." I agreed, "Toboe was so young and childish and...pure that he would deserve better than us." We sat still for a few minutes and thought about being dead before silently agreeing that it was time to search for Blue's Pops. It was then that I realized we were on top of a one story building surrounded by other buildings, and there was a large forest in the distance.
"We should start by getting off of this roof," said Blue, "Then we can search the surrounding buildings in this little town, and after that the forest." Just as she finished we heard a door open and slam closed. A figure was approaching us, a figure with a large weapon.
"Oh hey!" the male figure said loudly, "I found some targets!" he said threateningly as he pointed his weapon at us.
I growled and stood protectively in front of Blue, but I kept my human form. I could see Blue preparing for a fight as well.
Figure P.O.V. A minute beforehand
I was walking up the stairs grumbling about the stupid mission Yuri-ppe had given us, and the consequence for failure.
FLASHBACK
"I am now commencing a new mission called...Operation Vacuum!" announced Yuri-ppe.
"I hope it doesn't suck as much as it sounds," said someone.
Yuri-ppe narrowed her eyes at the speaker, Takamatsu, and said, "Your stupid pun did not make you look any smarter so be quiet, and it is called Operation Vacuum because we are going to suck people into class SSS if they like it or not!"
There were many doubtful mutters around the room.
"Let me explain," She said, "You all have one week to find a human among the NPCs and convince them to join us. This Operation will be ongoing, and you must do it on your own time. Anyone who fails will not be told the new password to HQ until a week after I change it. Also, you will be responsible for introductory briefing and training of the human you find."
A very long train or thought started rolling through my head. 'I do not like this mission at all. I have forgotten to say the password before, so I know how painful that hammer is. I should start looking right away...but where to look first...I could get on a rooftop and look for a human from a birds-eye view. But not on the main building. I don't want to go near those classrooms if I can help it, so I'll start looking from the top of the cafeteria.'
END FLASHBACK
As I walked onto the rooftop I saw two people. A boy and a girl, most likely they were NPCs, so I decided to give them a little scare
"Oh hey!" I said loud enough to be sure they heard me, "I found some targets!" I then pointed my ax at them in a threatening way.
To my surprise they didn't start shaking like a scared NPC should. Instead they got into fighting stances. 'They're human!' I thought.
Blue P.O.V.
The ax-bearing man suddenly relaxed and got a blank look on his face, as if his mind were processing some data. His mind must be a very old data processor. It took him twenty seconds to process and react to his information.
"JACKPOT!" he shouted as he slung his ax back over his shoulder, "I found two humans!" 'Not likely.' "And in less than an hour too! Yuri-ppe will be so happy!"
'What is this guy on?' I thought. The look on Hige's face told me that he was thinking something similar. Suddenly the man pointed his ax at us. I think it was his equivalent of finger pointing.
"You two are coming with me," he said.
"And if we don't?" I asked.
"Then you can go get yourself obliterated by Angel," he replied, "But if you want to fight and survive you can come with me."
I exchanged glances with Hige. Fight or die? Is that the law if this afterlife? I decided to wait and ask one of his comrades, like this Yuri-ppe person he mentioned. I didn't want to ask him because based off his thinking speed he would probably be bad at explaining and just confuse us even more. I turned to Hige.
"We should follow him," said Hige.
"But after that we look for Pops," I said I turned to the weird stranger, "Ok, we will go with you."
"Good," he said, "Oh yeah, I'm Noda."
"I'm Hige and this is Blue." said Hige. With that he went down the stairs and we followed him.
Tsume P.O.V.
"...subtract the negative x from both sides and you get y=(-5/x)..."
My eyes snapped open. I was in a room with lots of people a little younger than me all sitting in miniature tables; I was at a table too. I was in human form, and for some reason my leather clothes had been replaced by a dark blue monkey suit, like the kind that inspector would wear.
'Where am I? Am I dead, or not? I'm moving so I must be alive right? What is this place? These people look too polite and obedient to know anything, I should leave and find a person who looks like they know what's going on.' I started to walk out of the room. The older man at the front of the room turned to me.
"Tsume get back in your seat, class isn't over yet," He said. I was stunned inside by the fact that he knew my name without me telling him, but I continued walking toward the exit. The older man tried to stand in my way, big mistake. I grabbed him by the collar.
"I don't care how you know my name, but if you get in my way again I won't hesitate to kill you," I growled. I relaxed my grip and walked out of the room 'Why didn't I just kill him? Probably because the runt wouldn't like it. Man I've gotten soft.' I walked down a flight of stairs and outside into a large courtyard that looked like it extended all the way around the building. A bell rang and people started exiting the building I had just been in. 'I would like to say that this is paradise, but paradise shouldn't have this many idiotic humans.' I grabbed a random person who walked in front of me.
"Where am I?" I asked.
"School, obviously," the kid responded.
"And what is this 'school'?" I interrogated.
"You are joking right? Teachers, lessons, clubs, and poisonous lunch food. School," he said. I had no clue what any of those words he said even meant, except for poisonous and food. "Speaking of," he said, "you should get to the cafeteria before if fills up." I let go of him and continued walking.
I continued asking people and never once got a comprehensible answer. The area got a little less crowded and more of the people had food in their hands. After about twenty minutes the area was full of people going back into the building. At that point most of the people I tried to get information out of just said something about getting to class on time.
Then I saw it. A head of straight bright red hair. It bobbed along in the sea of faces, heading in the opposite direction of the flow of people.
"Toboe!" I gasped. I ran toward that beacon of red. "Toboe!" I called pushing against the wall of people "TOBOE!" I yelled dodging in and out of the crowd, "TOBOEE!" I shouted with all my strength.
Cheza P.O.V.
This one woke in a strange place, not knowing where she was. This one looked around dazedly. Kiba was not near her. 'Where is Kiba? Where are the wolves this one must guide?' This one was still confused as a human with purple hair approached her.
Yuri-ppe P.O.V.
I was looking out the window in HQ with a pair of binoculars. 'this window has a nice view of the sports fields.' I thought as I gazed out the window. It was then that I saw the girl. She was looking around with a confused gaze. 'Obviously she is a new human arrival, NPCs never have that look on their face. I should go down there and say"hi", and of course recruit her.'
Cheza P.O.V.
This one turned to the human. "In what place is this one?" this one asked.
"Hi! My name is Yuri," that one said, "and I don't understand what you just said."
"Where is Kiba?" this one asked Yuri.
"I don't know anyone by that name, but if you come with me I might be able to help you find him," said Yuri.
"Ok," this one said, "this one will come with you." Yuri then took this one to a room in a building.
Yuri-ppe P.O.V.
Takamatsu, Shiina, and Hinata were in HQ when I entered, "Found a new recruit, but I can't understand her," I said.
Hinata decided to get straight to the point, "You know you're dead right?" he asked the girl.
"This one is aware that she has passed," said the girl, "but then why is this one moving?"
"See what I mean?" I said to Hinata.
"I didn't understand her either," said Takamatsu.
"Well duh you idiot!" I said, "I wasn't expecting you to know anything useful, all you know is trivial things that have no real importance in this world."
"This is so stupid," said Shiina.
"This one is wondering when these people will help her find Kiba," said the girl.
"The only thing I know is that she is looking for someone named Kiba. Other than that I have no clue what she is saying." I said.
"Oh I get it!" said Hinata, "She is speaking in the third-person."
"I was just about to guess that," said Takamatsu.
"Yeah right," I said sarcastically, "So Hinata can you translate?"
"You mean as a child you never spoke in the third-person?" asked Hinata. I shook my head no. "Well," he said, "When you speak in the third-person you say your name instead of 'I'. For instance, if I am hungry I would say 'Hinata wants food'
"That is so stupid," said Shiina.
"Oh I get it!" I said, "so is her name 'this one'?"
"No, her way of speaking in third-person is slightly different from normal," said Hinata
"So what is her name?" I asked.
"I don't know," said Hinata. He turned to the girl, "What is your name?" he asked.
"This one is called Cheza," she said. She started walking toward the exit, "This one must now leave to find Kiba. This one must guide Kiba and the others to paradise."
I grabbed Cheza to keep her from leaving. 'Paradise? Does that mean heaven? Is she taking someone to heaven? Is she an angel then? Are there now two angels? Can I make this one take me to god? I could try.'
"Cheza, what is this paradise? Can you take me there?" I asked.
She looked at me "This one is unsure exactly what paradise is, but it is said to be a land ruled by wolves," She answered, "This one also does not know if humans are allowed inside."
"So you don't know where heaven is, and you can't take me to god?" I asked to confirm it.
"This one does not understand what heaven means or what god is," said Cheza, "This one must now search for Kiba and the others."
"Since you are looking him Kiba must be a wolf right?" I guessed.
"Yes." She said.
"Well this is an afterlife for humans, so I don't you will find them here." I said.
"You do not need to worry, they are very much like humans," she said, "Anyway, this one senses some of them nearby."
"One more question and we can go look for your friends." I said, "If you don't know god you aren't an angel, so what are you?"
Cheza turned to me and said, "This one is a flower." I was still little shocked about talking to a flower when I heard the smash of the giant hammer trap. 'One of the many idiots must be back,' I thought.
Kiba P.O.V.
I woke in a small clearing in the woods, and the leaves were so green. 'The others are dead, I know that but...did I make it to paradise? It's so green this must be paradise, The paradise Cheza created. It's so beautiful, I want to run.' I thought. So I got up and ran.
It was exhilarating. 'This is how a wolf is supposed to live!' I heard running water and ran toward the source of the sound. The river was a beautiful pure blue, and when I lapped it up I found it to be the best water I had ever tasted. I then picked up an odd sound downstream. It sounded like the river, but louder and deeper. He went downstream to investigate.
I found myself on the edge of a cliff, the river water ran off the cliff and into the air before crashing into the small lake below. From the small lake the water continued to flow downstream. I didn't know the word for it, but it was magnificent. Something inside me was screaming to jump over the cliff with the water's flow.
I took a few steps back dashed forward, launching myself into the air. It was indescribable, the feel of falling freely like that. However as I neared the water I saw something in the corner of my eye that made all of my emotions turn sour.
A Human.
'The paradise Cheza created would not have humans,' I thought. I crashed into the water, and while still beneath the surface I changed into my false form.
Human's P.O.V.
I was doing one of my special trainings in the mountain. I was punching a large tree next to the waterfall when I heard a loud splash. I looked over and saw a guy about my age swimming out of the water. I was surprised to see a person besides myself out here.
'This guy must be a human otherwise he would be in the school, but I have never seen him before, and I know the faces of all the SSS members. If Yuri-ppe were here she would tell me to recruit him, so I guess that is what I'll do.' I walked over to the guy.
"Hey!" I said, "I'm Matsushida. What are you doing out here?"
"Kiba. Not sure, I just woke up here, so I'm trying to get my bearings. You aren't a wolf by chance are you?" he asked.
"Uh no, I'm a human like you," I said. For some reason he seemed disappointed by that fact.
"Then this isn't paradise." he muttered to himself.
"It's the afterlife," I said to him. His eyes seemed to get a little brighter when I said that. 'Is this guy happy to be dead then? Does that mean he committed suicide? Yuri-ppe probably wouldn't want a suicide case on the SSS, even if he's human."
"Tsume said we would meet again in paradise, but maybe we will be able to meet sooner than that." he said to himself. I didn't know what he was talking about, so I just assumed he had a friend that died or something,
"Well I'm not all that great at explaining the afterlife to possible recruits, but If you want to come with me I can take you to Yuri-ppe. She is good at recruiting and explaining." I said.
"Sounds good," replied Kiba.
That is the longest chapter I have ever posted. I would say R&R, but if you are at the bottom of the page you have probably already read it. So please review. Do not be afraid to criticize, I love constructive cricicism because it makes me write better. Even a simple "good" or "bad" in an anonymous review would make me very happy!
Oh in case you were wondering why Blue and Hige were together, but everybody else is seperated it is because Hige was touching Blue's body before she died and while he died so they were basically together in death (plus that is how the story was written in my mind, I wanted so-and-so to happen, and that couldn't happen if A and B were together at the start...you will see my master plan and understand how it fits in the next chapter). And Toboe could hear Tsume because I believe that the soul leaves the body slowly, so some of Toboe's soul was still there listening to Tsume, that is also why it started fading out.
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