Title: Learning His Place

Disclaimer: I don't own Wolf's Rain

Pairings: Kiba/Hige mention of Tsume/Toboe

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Hige sighed they had been running for hours without stopping to rest. He was cold, exhausted and hungry and he knew he wasn't the only one for the last past hour ,their runt, Toboe had been lagging behind.

"Hey Kiba hold up!" Hige yelled running faster trying to catch up to him.
"Now what do you want Porky." Tsume growled as Hige ran past him.
"Kiba we need to take a break the runts falling behind." Hige panted having trouble keeping up with Kiba's fast pace.

Kiba glanced at Hige then turned his head and looked behind him to see that in fact Toboe had fallen behind. He sighed he really didn't want to stop they still had a lot of ground to cover but he new that Toboe would only end up falling more behind as they continued. Plus Hige was probably hungry. He heard Hige's stomach growl.....yup definitely hungry.

"Fine we'll stop to rest." Kiba said as he slowed his pace.
"We need to find some shelter and something to eat." he added glancing at Hige.

"Hey watch it!" Tsume snapped as Toboe bumped into him.

"Sorry" Toboe said having finally caught up with them.
"Why'd we stop?" he asked.

"Hige's getting tired." Tsume said clearly disgusted with Hige's lack of stamina.

"Will you shut up already." Hige said glaring at Tsume he was really getting tierd of getting picked on by him.

"Wanna make me Porky." Tsume growled baring his fangs.

"Come Tsume stop." Toboe pleaded not wanting them to fight.

Both Tsume and Hige ignored him and continued to growl at each other.

"That's enough!" Kiba said grabbing Hige by the scruff of the neck in mid air as he had been about to pounce on Tsume.

"Hey look! There's a cave up ahead." Toboe said sounding happy about his discovery.

"Lets go then." Tsume said walking past Kiba and Hige but not before giving Hige a hard nip to the ear causing Hige to yelp.

"Tsume" Hige growled while trying to squirm out of Kiba's grasp.

Kiba who still had a hold of Hige starting to walk towards the cave.

"Kiba let go!" Hige wined not happy that he was being carried like a pup. He couldn't even reach the ground. It wasn't fair that Kiba was bigger than him he thought.

"If your going to act like a pup then I'm going to treat you like one." Kiba said not loosening his hold.

"But that's not fair Tsume started it!" Hige said sounding outraged.
"I don't see you telling him anything." he added not sounding happy.

"He does that to get a rise out of you. You need to show respect, Tsume is older than you." Kiba said as he walked into the cave.

"Respect! That jerk doesn't deserve my respect." Hige growled angrily.

Kiba finally let Hige go but stood above him and put his paws on Hige's shoulders pinning him to the ground.

"You need to learn your place in the pack. Your not that much older than Toboe....pup." Kiba said.

Hige was pissed what right did Kiba have calling him a pup. Yes he knew he was only two years older than Toboe but that didn't mean Kiba could act all high and mighty and think he had the right to call him a pup.

"Yeah pup show some respect." Tsume said grinning at Hige.

"Tsume" Kiba said giving him a warning look to back off.

"Hey why don't we go and see if we can find something to eat." Toboe said looking at Tsume.

"Fine I'll go" Tsume said "But only because Kiba needs to show puppy here his place." he added giving Kiba a knowing look.

Tsume and Toboe were already mated to each other and he knew Kiba had a thing for Hige. It would do the pup good to have Kiba as a mate to protect him and keep him in check.

Tbc