AN: This is my first Wolf's Rain fanfic so please bear with me here. If anything or one seems OOC please try to let me know so, I can try to improve!

In addition, this goes without saying but you know I have to say this little tiny tid-bit of a news flash: I DO NOT OWN WOLF'S RAIN, nor am I ASSOCIATED with anyone who does. I also do not own any characters except my OC's who as of right now I do not plan on have appearing in this story. So all canon character I am just using, they fully belong to their rightful owners.

I would also like to say that I wrote this story for all my friends because they are what drive and inspire me to write these things. Mostly Kera and Sarah. Because Kera likes wolves and Wolf's rain so much and Sarah is a fun person to be around, she also loves Hige as much as I do.

With that out of the way ON TO THE STORY!

The wolves had settled down for the day by a small lake and a big cave. They had been traveling for a few days and have finally stopped to rest. Tsume was lying down up on some big rocks by the lake on his belly, his paws crossed and his muzzled tucked under them in his wolf form. In his current form, his human form, he appeared on his back with his arms sprawled out over his face shielding them from the evening sun that was slowly fading away lower in the sky, swallowed by the mountains below.

Kiba and Hige where out getting food, originally only Kiba was to go out and it was for a walk but Hige and his stomach where like always complaining so Hige tagged along in hopes of finding his next meal.

Now it was only Toboe and Tsume at the wolf's camp.

Lately Tsume had noticed that Toboe was starting to ask more and more questions than he usually did, and instead of it being relevant to what they were doing his questions where about all kinds of things.
He had reached what Kiba had called a 'curiosity phase'.

The three older wolves knew for sure it would pass eventually as the pup grew out of it, that's just how pups are after all, but until then they all had to put up with and answer all the pup's questions about god knows what.

"Tsume?" Toboe asked in a quiet tone coming up and sitting next to the older wolf. With a sigh, Tsume removed his hands from his face and sat up looking over to see Toboe now seated next to him.

"What is it runt?" He asked with a hint of annoyance in his voice. The pup looked up at the older wolf.

"Well...uh…" he started trailing off not really sure how to start off what he wanted to.

"Out with it runt!" Tsume practically shouted getting impatient with the pup. Sure, he cared for him, but Toboe could get annoying at times. This was going to be one of these times. Tsume could just tell that it was because of the persistent look Toboe had on his face.

That persistent look meant that Toboe would not leave Tsume alone until he humored him by giving in and did what the pup wanted, and right now, it seemed, as he wanted to strike up a conversation when Tsume just wanted to be left alone and relax in peace and quiet for a little while. He should have known that was not going to happen as long as Toboe was around.

"Well…um…first can I ask you something?" Toboe asked.

"Fine go ahead, but make it quick." Tsume answered with a bit of a growl, putting a hand on hid temple in human form out of frustration.

Toboe nodded. "Okay so… um can wolves fall in love? You know…um…like the human do?" the pup asked blushing some in his human form.

Tsume shrugged. "Do you mean like with a human or with another wolf?" he asked. 'Great all I wanted to do is relax now I have to talk about love with a kid.' He added to himself as an afterthought.

"Love in general I guess" Toboe said with a shrug. He followed it with "both" in order to clarify it.

Tsume sighed, "It's not natural for a wolf or any animal to 'love' a human, but hell after some of the 'unnatural' things I've seen I guess it's possible." He said.

Toboe nodded. "What about with another wolf?" He asked.

"Have you seen Hige? As soon as he sees a girl he goes tail over ears trying to flirt with her ASAP."

"Yeah but that's not real love, that is what I think humans call 'speed dating' and that's not what I mean! I mean like real love." Toboe said

Tsume sighed. "This chat isn't leading to where I think it is…is it?"

Toboe looked up at him in confusion. It took him some time to realize what Tsume meant. Tsume was almost ready to say what he meant… In a more blunt way, But right when he was about to say it Toboe blushed and spoke up nodding as he did so. "Yeah I guess it is...and well I have other questions…."

Tsume silently cursed to himself. 'Damn it, why me? I can't do this…I can't talk to him about that I guess someone should though I mean he is a pup who's getting to be around mating age, and did live with humans his whole life, hell he never seen another wolf before till he met me…..' He thought to himself.
"Kid out of all the wolves here, you have to ask me about this stuff...why?" Tsume asked.

"It's because I look up to you and you are the one I'm most comfortable around." Toboe replied.

Tsume sighed "Okay then Runt…you sure you want to hear about this stuff?" Tsume asked, Toboe nodded, "Okay then…ask your questions." He said

'Great my quite relaxing day alone has turned into a sex ed lesson…oh god I'm going to have to have a 'birds and bees' talk with the pup…if Hige put any of these things into his head I'm going to…go up to him and...Strangle him…" Tsume growled to himself as Toboe started to ask one of his questions.

AN: here is the first chapter! What else should Toboe ask? What is on his mind? Does Hige have anything to do with it? Let me know; just answer these questions in a comment to let me know what you want to read.

Also like I said in the AN at the beginning of this, let me know how I did keeping everyone in character if you see anything OOC please let me know so I can improve it.

I plan to have the next chapter to be 'What is heat?'(that is the name of the chapter along with one of Toboe's many questions) that is kind of self-explanatory, if you can think of a different question for Toboe to ask let me know, it might be in the next chapter or in another future chapter.

I was hoping for a 25-chapter story with twist and turns along the way but it may be longer/shorter depending on what feedback I get from you people.

SO as always:

Thanks! Love you all my wonderful readers and reviewers

See you at the next chapter.

- Alley

((Final word count for this chapter is about 898 of the actual story, 379 for Author notes, and 1276 total.))