D.C: Yes, your eyes have not deceived you. This is now officially the sequel to 'It's just the way things are. The other one just wasn't working out. I have no idea how you guys manage to put up with my writing some times. I mean seriously, some of it I think of as 'dishing you out crap' but then again I never said that my writing should win an award.

Without further ado, well unless you count the next few sentence's…if you have any questions, suggestions, constructive criticism, or telling me how hard you laughed, cried, and ran around screaming "FINALLY!" then please tell me! People I'm really starting to feel like I'm boring you to death. Honestly I get so many reviews that say 'nice job' basically and well I feel like my time was wasted ( by writing a new chapter) Seriously I did not stay up for hours writing a chapter just to get "Nice job,". BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH to the one's who review, esp. to the ones that add flavor to their review.

Btw, I'm opening up in Toboe's POV (Point of View)


The chilled wind cooled my sweat covered fur; to say it felt nice would be the understatement of the year. But, I refuse to submit to my body's whims. Two moons have gone by since our departure of Freeze city. Only our scent was left to taunt the wolf hunters that desired us so; including Quent.

Our pace was neither a trot nor a flat out run, but rather in the middle. Kiba made it well known that we desperately needed to distance ourselves from Quent. Even without his stead fast companion Blue, he was still a force to be reckoned with. But as you can imagine blue and Hige's pup, Riza, has put limitations our pace. Along with the pups that are ever so slightly developing inside of me.

"Toboe," Kiba's masculine voice ripped through the night air; demanding my attention.

His white profile intermingling with the white landscape about 100 yards away. With Tsume hot on his heels, twenty feet behind him was Hige and Blue, with Riza firmly placed in her mother's jaws.

'Falling behind again,' her mind nagged.

I was exhausted…spent if you will. But I could not allow my conditions to hamper our search. Slowly I found the strength in knowing that my pups needed me to go on, to find shelter. Inch by inch, paw by paw, I made my way towards them; head down.

But having a mate most defiantly has its advantages. Tsume quickly made his way over to me; shifting back to his handsome human form. Gently he lifted me from my burden, placing me on his back, and securely holding me down with his clawed hands clasped around my legs that were sticking out on both sides of him.

"Take it easy for awhile. KIBA obviously doesn't know what it's like to travel with pups," Tsume stated with his face turned slightly to his right so he could see her through the corner of his eye, before shifting his gaze back to Kiba. Noticeably his back muscles tightened as if he was preparing for a fight. Toboe knew Tsume enough to know that he was defiantly pissed off at Kiba to push her so hard.

"Thank-you Tsume," I whispered into his ear softly before nuzzling into his neck; at least for awhile I was protected from the world. A slight nod of his head was his reply.


--Quent's POV--

(Jail)

'Do they honestly think, or dare to hope that they could hold me back from what I want with merely bars?'

And what he wanted was to feel the hot liquid of wolf's blood running down his fingers. In his hysteria like fantasy there was so much of it that it collected in a pool in front of him…yes that was his fantasy. Many would cringe if they only knew what he had planned for the wolves once he managed to find them.

But one thing at a time, right now escape was first. Lucky for him the idiots thought him to be so drunk that he was intoxicated enough to proclaim that there were wolves, and that he needed to kill each and every one of them. Naively they believed that since he was so supposedly 'drunk' that he wouldn't be able to manage to escape, plus needing the guards in other cells for more 'qualified criminals' they left him in a barren cell save for a bunk bed, faucet, and a can, without a second thought.

Their first and last mistake; if they dare keep him from his mission…by all means necessary.

And that night, he did indeed manage to escape.


"Tsume?" Toboe asked hazily, from just being roused from her light sleep.

Unexpectedly she found herself slipping off of her mate's back. Thinking that his grip had slipped she grasped his leather jacket with both fist.

"Toboe," Tsume snapped.

"What?" she asked; confused at the urgency in his voice.

"I need to catch up with Kiba for the hunt, and if I don't hurry they'll catch our scent!" And with being said Toboe released her death grip on his jacket and slipped down his back until she felt the ground beneath her.

And just like that he took off at a heart stopping run, yelling over his shoulder for her to stay with Hige and Blue.

"He must really be hungry," Toboe stated when Hige and Blue sat down bedside her on the snow packed earth. All resuming their beloved forms; forming a small circle around Riza.

"Who isn't?" Hige snapped at Toboe, not eating in awhile was really starting to take a toll on his behavior.

"HIGE!" Blue barked, fully penetrating him with her sky blue gaze.

"Control yourself, your scarring her and Riza," she implied before gently nuzzling her pup. Reassuring her that Hige wasn't going to hurt anyone, but was instead a bit grouchy.

"He's hungry, but he also sense's your fatigue. Well all do, but him more so, since you're bonded. Its instinct for the male to feel the need to hunt for the female," Blue stated, answering her unanswered question.

When blue first started conversing with her, Toboe wasn't quiet sure what exactly she was talking about. But that quickly changed as she continued her explanation on why Tsume had snapped at her in his urgency to hunt for her.

"Oh," was all Toboe replied, until she decided to say more, uneasy with the silence that was slowly creeping upon them.

"Tsume never explained all that,"

By then Hige decided to reenter the conversation.

"It's just like the guy to mark her and not tell her anything," he scolded, while facing the direction that Kiba and Tsume has went in.

"To be truthfully honest I don't think he even knows of all the commitment and evolvement it entails," he continued.

"He tires…I can tell," Toboe said, quickly coming to Tsume's defense.

'She's utterly devoted to that creep,' Hige thought.

Inexpediently Hige's stomach growled, announcing to everyone that he couldn't wait too much longer. Taking up the task of deciphering if the two males were making any progress in killing anything Hige took a quick sniff before quickly registering the smell of blood. But much to his dismay it didn't fit under the right category, in fact quiet the opposite. It was then that his honey iris's dilated.

"Blue do you smell-," Hige started before quickly being cut off by blue's quick response

"Yeah!" Before grabbing their daughter by the scruff of the neck with her powerful canine jaws; heading towards the forest.


"What is it? Can't you see that I've got guest?" Snapped Ms. Suzuki.

Honestly, the staff she had hired weren't exactly the brightest bunch she had ever hired for a project.

"It's urgent Ms. Suzuki," her specimen observer Mr. Sato stated.

"Excuse me, I'll be right back," Ms. Suzuki quickly apologized to her guests, a slight flush making its way across her face. Her emerald gaze quickly taking one last look at the occupants in the room; two of were of noble blood.


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Chapter 2:

--Quent--

Even if he wanted to turn around and give up there was nothing left to go back to. Hunting them was his way of life…his purpose.

--?--

"What is it?" Mrs. Suzuki asked impatiently

"Word of our project has some how managed to leak out. If you took note of the two nobles you know of what I speak," he replied back, pushing up the glasses that had managed to slightly move from their spot.

"Wh- But how?"

"Don't know, but I'll stall, while you get her out of here,"

--Can't leave a spoiler for our wolves side of the story…sorry but it'll give too much away!--