AN: This is going to be a bit AU Things will not be like they are in the show.
The four main wolves of Wolf's Rain (Kiba, Toboe, Tsume and Hige) are brothers that live with their Mother and step Dad. They live normally as humans. They go to school, and all that.
Their human forms are not like they are in the show. unlike the anime where the human form if you touched them as humans you were still feel fur or if they grab something with a hand it really in their mouth, these human forms are, still not real but more 'solid' if you touched them when they looked human, you would feel skin. And they can grab, carry, use, things just like humans so they use 'hands' not their mouths.
Disclaimer- I do not own Wolf's Rain
On with the story:
Introductions
It was just before dusk. The small family home on the corner of Market and Union was silent. The only person there now was a woman about in her mid-thirties. Her children were at their father's house this weekend. He should be dropping them off soon.
The sound of the front door being unlocked was heard fallowed by it creaking open as the children entered and the sound of the second to youngest son's preadolescent voice was heard. "Mom where home!" The curly, light-brown haired boy called as he dropped his overnight bag to the floor by the couch and went to the kitchen in search of something to eat. The others entered the house and went their separate ways.
Other than him, there were three other boys and a girl. One boy had reddish brown hair and big brown eyes he appeared to be the youngest of the boys. Then there was a boy who looked a bit older than the both the red headed boy and the light brown haired boy. This boy had brown hair as well but it was much darker, and his eyes where blue. The last of the boys looks to be the oldest out of everyone. His skin is slightly darker than his brothers, his eyes are golden and his hair of grayish white was kept in a small ponytail.
Then there was the girl. She was younger than any of the boys. Her hair was just above shoulder length and was a beautiful shade of reddish pink, her eyes matching.
"I'm in the back room dear!" A woman, obviously the mother of the bunch, called back to her children "I'll be up in a little while, after I finish cleaning up." She paused and with a laugh is said, "Dinner is already all made up, and it's in the fridge so help yourselves no need to wait for me!" She knew her children all too well. "Kevin will be working late tonight so he won't be home till later, be sure to leave him some."
As the light-brown hair boy got himself a plate of food, The red headed boy went up to the room he shared with him. He pulled a new notebook out of his overnight bag, which he had placed by the closet, and then he went over to a desk that was pushed over to the corner of the room.
He grabbed a pen from the cup that was filled with pens and pencils then he opened up the notebook and began to write.
'June 30 - Entry 1- A new journal.
HI journal - this is kinda wired to say…I don't know if I'll make the greeting a normal thing but this is my first time writing a journal so I'm doing it this time.
Here I go:
So I got this new journal. My dad bought for me while I was over his house this weekend. It's the first weekend in summer and I have nothing to do so I guess should probably introduce myself and all that other good stuff.
My name is Toboe, I am ten years old, I have three older brothers and a younger sister. My brothers' names in order from oldest to youngest are Tsume, Kiba and Hige. They are fourteen, thirteen and twelve. Our sister's name is Cheza and she is eight years old. She will be turning nine on July 3rd.
We all live with our mom and step-dad Kevin in the city of Junehill, Pennsylvania. Our dad lives in Paveway, New Jersey. Unlike mom he is not yet remarried, and lives alone. Not counting his cat Casper. Casper usually hides when any of us visit, I don't know why but I don't mind it. Cats always kinda creep me out, Tsume and Hige tease me about it sometimes.
We kids go up to see him often enough, I suppose for how long of a drive Paveway is from Junehill. It's about a good two and a half hour drive from here. We go and spend every other weekend with him and every major holiday. We also spend about a week or so with him in July.
It has been this way for as long as I can remember. I think was only about four when they got a divorce. None of us really remember how things where before then. We were all really young then .Except maybe Tsume who was eight years old at the time. However, I doubt I will ever hear him talk about it. He hates to think about back then. None of us like to talk about the fact that our parents are divorced anyway but he is the worst of us, almost getting angry if one of us brings it up around him. Anyhow, we are all use to it by now. Next month will make about six years of it like this. It's just how our life is; we do not think anything of it. '
His writing was interrupted when his brother came bursting into the room. The older boy went and sat on his bed legs crisscrossed with a plate of warm pasta and chicken sitting in his lap as he grabbed the remote and flipped on the TV. "So, what are you doing there runt?" Hige asked between bites of his meal.
Toboe look up at his older brother and shrugged "Nothing much just writing in the new notebook dad brought me."
"What are you writing?" Hige mumbled with a mouthful of food.
"Nothing interesting… you'd probably make fun of me if I told you..." Toboe stated, it was obvious he was nervous to tell his brother that he was starting a journal.
"I wouldn't do that…..much…." Hige reassured.
Toboe hesitated but decided to tell Hige anyway, he was his older brother after all. He knew Toboe just as well as he knew himself, he was the one Toboe came to for help or comfort about anything and even if he did tease Toboe it wouldn't be that long till he got bored with it.
"I'm going to start a journal." Toboe admitted.
Hige let out a laugh "Why would you want to that?"
Toboe ignored the laugh and shrugged "I don't know I just want to I guess. Besides I got nothing better to do anyway." He said with a smile.
Hige laughed as he stood up, his plate now empty. He as he went to go get seconds he stopped by Toboe and put him in a brotherly headlock. "You're something else, you know that kid?" He laughed as he let him go and ruffled his hair. Smiling he left, heading for the kitchen.
"I'm not a kid! I'm only two years younger than you!" Toboe laughed getting up and heading down the steps to get some food for himself.
"You're younger than me so you're a kid!" Hige shouted already downstairs.
"Whatever you say Hige!" Toboe laughed as he came down the stairs and entered the kitchen.
Toboe made himself a plate of the chicken and pasta as Hige warmed up his own food in the microwave. Toboe had his plate ready to go into the microwave just as Hige's food was done, Hige took his food out, got a can of root beer from the fridge then made his way back to the room.
Toboe put his food in and set the microwave for a minute and thirty five seconds. He poured himself a glass of freshly made lemonade while he waited.
When the microwave beeped to signal the time was over, Toboe pulled the door open and took his now warm plate full of food. Unlike Hige, he will not go eat upstairs in their room.
Their Mother did not like it when they ate or drank things in their rooms; she said that it only helped dirty and stain any blankets, sheets and in Hige's unfortunate case the carpet. Therefore, it was a house rule that they were not allowed to eat thing in their rooms unless they were given permission to do so. However, they all knew better than to ask because mother would just about always say 'no'.
Hige never listened to this rule and broke it constantly no matter what, and on rare occasions only when mother was not, home to catch them doing it Tsume and Kiba might break it as well. Toboe didn't know if his sister fallowed the rule or not but he always saw her eating somewhere other than her room , he never saw her in her room eating and she always followed the rules so he amused she never broken it before just like him.
So with that rule in mind Toboe went and sat down at the table that was in the small kitchen.
When he was done with his meal, he put his dirty dishes in the sink, after he made sure they were rinsed off so nothing would harden on them. Then he made his way back up to his bedroom.
The house was not that big but it was bigger than most houses in the area. It had a basement but it wasn't finished it was all musty and damp. Then the first floor had a living room, dining room ,a bathroom, and the kitchen. Upstairs they had a bathroom and five bedrooms. One belonged to their parents then Cheza had her own room, Tsume and Kiba shared a room, then Hige and Toboe shared the fourth one.
The last room was a spare that was used for guests but Tsume was currently trying to convince their parents to let him have it as his own room, because him and Kiba both needed their own space and he was to old in his opinion to share a room with his younger brother. The two oldest boys did seem to argue and fight a lot. Toboe thought that it would be good for them it have their own rooms.
Toboe did not mind sharing a room, Hige was not a bad roommate. The two boys got along well. Toboe would never admit it but when he had nightmares he was happy that someone of so close by, and Hige was the one that would comfort him the best, and out of all his older brothers Hige was the one who would not tell the others about it.
Toboe entered his room and glanced over at his brother, who was asleep stretched out on the bed half eaten plate of food resting on top of his stomach. The snoring boy was still in his day clothing and was not even under the blankets of the messy unkempt bed.
With a sigh and a quiet laugh, Toboe went over and placed the plate from his brother's stomach to the nightstand table next to his bed to prevent it from falling to the floor or onto the bed and making a big mess.
Once the task was done, Toboe went to his desk, sat down and began to finish his thoughts.
'We maybe wolves but we still live our lives as humans. We are not even able to drop our human illusion and become are true wolf selves until we are older. Tsume already can. He has been able to for about two years now, Kiba can also but he has only be able to for about six months…maybe a year.
Hige and I have yet to be able to do it. Hige should be getting the ability to do so soon. He is old enough after all. He is twelve going on thirteen. His birthday is in early August.
I am still too young. I have a year or two still to go until I am older enough and even then I might not be able to do for at least another year. I will be eleven in the spring of next year since this spring just passed. April 20this my birthday to be exact.
Wolves cannot drop the human cloak and become their real selves until after they reach puberty. That's just how it is, the way wolves' bodies work.
I do not mind right now but once Hige is able to change, I will be the only one of us boys who can't drop form.
In fact, I'll be the only one of us siblings that has yet to be able to change because Cheza was adopted from the humans. She as far as we all know is human.
I'll try not to let it get to me, I mean it will happen to me some day in the near future so there is nothing to be upset about.
That's about it for now, I don't know if I will get a chance to write again or if I will want to but for now I plan to. I think this was a good first journal entry so later from
- Toboe'
When Toboe was done with his journal entry he signed his name at the bottom, put his pen down and decided to put his journal away somewhere safe.
He slipped it into the bottom draw of his desk, then stood up and stretched. He flipped the switch for the room's light so the TV was the only light in the room. How Hige slept with the light or noise Toboe would never know. It was even more puzzling when he knew for a fact that his brother was one of the world's lightest sleepers.
With a shrug about his brother's unusually sleeping habits he like always went to get ready for bed, Toboe slipped off his red t-shirt then made his way across the room to his dresser. Pulling out a pair of black sweat pants. He pulled off his old blue jean that where hand-me-downs from Hige who had gotten them from Kiba and Kiba in turn at one point got them from Tsume. If Toboe remembered right, this pair was Tsume's when he was about elven.
Most of his clothing was hand-me-downs from his three brothers. One of the disadvantages of being the youngest boy in the house is the he rarely saw new shirts or pants of his own. The only new thing clothing wise that he got on a regular basis was underwear and socks. Shoes he got new on rare occasions, but for the most part he shared with his brothers. They all took the same size currently. In the past, if it was hand-me-downs or new ones if he was not anywhere near the size shoe of any of his brothers.
Once Toboe had, his jeans off he tossed them off to the side, not caring where they landed and pulled on his sweat pants. These where somewhat new, being only a few years old they were not hand-me-down s like most of his others, these where a Christmas gift from his dad a few years back.
One he was dressed for bed he went left the room to go across the hall to the bathroom to brush his teeth before bed. Once he brushed his teeth, he left the bathroom he went down the hall to say good night to Kiba and Tsume, who stayed up late, then on his way back to his room checked on his sister. She may not be their biological sister but they all loved and cared for her as if she was. They were all protective over her
Glancing in her room, he saw that Cheza was sound asleep. With a smile, he slowly and quietly pulled her door shut. He then made it back to his own room. He shut the TV off, and then made himself comfortable in the bed. Once comfy he closed he eyes, ready for his night's rest.
As much as he liked being over his dad's house it always tired him out. He could not get good sleep there. He didn't know about his siblings but he was happy to finally be home after a long weekend. Today was pretty long too, them not getting home till late.
No of the kids had unpacked their things yet. The only thing to leave Toboe's travel back was his new journal.
Tomorrow will definitely be filled with unpacking and most likely meeting up with friends that they haven't seen since school let out and then went to their dad's to start off summer. With those thoughts of tomorrow in his mind, the human looking pup fell asleep for the night a smile on his face because of his pleasant dreams. He was in a long deep sleep.
He would not wake until elven thirty the next morning.
AN: Hope you enjoyed it. Please review! The next 'chapter' will be coming soon.