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"I'm hungry" Hige moaned.

"Shut up" Tsume snapped.

"TSUME!" yelled Blue,"BE NICE TO HIGE! YOU KNOW I LOVE HIM!"

Tsume smirked. "Saved by your girl friend, eh porky?"

The porky one beamed. "Better than you will ever get, eh 'I ride around with humans and steal food I could never catch myself?"

Tsume just grinned. "I think I struck a nerve" he sneered.

Toboe interrupted before he could continue. "Tsume? Where's Kiba? Shouldn't he have come back by now?" the pup's lip trembled with fear.

Tsume shrugged. "Whatever that nut-job does with his time is none of my concern."

Blue rushed back into the den. "I hear gunshots! I hear gunshots!" she then collapsed into the arms of a surprised Hige. He pressed his hand to her neck. "She's out cold" he said.

Tsume lifted his eyebrows. "Must be your charming personality"

Kiba chose that exact moment to crash through the dirt walls, a dead stag in his jaws and a hail of bullets following close behind. As he skidded across the floor, the gunshots stopped, unseen snipers losing sight of their target.

"What happened here?" he inquired, giving Hige a knowing look. Then he really looked at the scene before him, with Blue in Hige's loving embrace, Tsume looking as if his eyebrows were about to fly off of his head and twirl sinister spirals of death around it, and Toboe's lip quivering so fast it was a blur.

"Actually-" explained Hige before Tsume interrupted.

"It's exactly what it looks like, Kiba. Its-" again, Hige took control of the conversation "-a long story."

Kiba scowled. "We don't exactly have time for long stories. Darcia has arrived."

The jaws of the three (conscious) wolves dropped. Even Blue murmured in her sleep. It was a dramatic moment for the wolves, until Tsume smiled his rare, wolf smile. "You kidding? You all look so serious. We killed him months ago. That punk's old news. Me'n Kiba have been planning that one for days. Also, Blue's stopped breathing, Hige. I think you killed her."

Hige stopped mid sigh. "Blue?" he checked for a pulse. None. "Blue!"

"Whadiyawant?" she screamed "A girl's got to get her beauty sleep! And I refuse to eat that pig! I refuse! I know my rights! I will not be taunted by the court of law! Need to find the water closet! Need to find…" by now, all of the wolves were cowering in the corners, well away from the spitting she-wolf.

"And I told you, I like pepperoni on my pizza, not sardines! Never sardines!"

"Blue?" asked Hige timidly, "are you okay?"

Blue turned. "Of course I'm okay, Hige. I was pretending I had rabies! It's Halloween, one of the best days for practical jokes in the world! And you all just got what was coming to you!" Toboe giggled girlishly. "Blue, if you were just pretending, then why are you foaming at the mouth?" Blue grinned, showing all of her forty-two wolf teeth.

"Happy Halloween."

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Thanks for reading! Also, this is the 'updated' version of this story, as I previously had experienced a problem with my formatting. So, thanks for your patience!

Ivywolf