Chapter 2 (TWO WEEKS LATER)

Disclaimer: I do not own Wolf's Rain or any of the Characters associated with it. Later on though, I do own some character, but not Toboe(I think), Tsume, Hige, or Kiba.

Author's note: Thank you everyone for reviews, I really enjoyed reading them. Just so you know, my grammar and spelling are really bad. Please forgive me. The only thing I am happy about is the fact that there is spell check. This chapter is really long, so without any more further or due let me present Chapter 2.

Everyday, the urge to move on greatened, but something kept pulling me back. Money held up for two weeks because I only ate every time I was hungry so as to keep my weight down and girly body parts from growing. Slimness was the only option until my wolf skills improved.

When my money ran out, I went to scrounging through garbage pails. I communicated with the crows to find out news and information. They told me about Tsume, another wolf who befriended humans. I thought it kind of odd because of the way the crows described him. He sounded fierce and ruthless, but who am I to judge someone before I know him or her. In other words, if someone saw me, they probably would laugh at my befriended birds. Everyone would assume that the birds were my pets, but that was not what they were to me. They were my friends…my only friends.

We had a two-way relationship. They told me about food and incoming trouble and in return, I knocked over trashcans to get them food and kept the cats away, even though that was a little hard. See the thing was… I was…I am afraid of cats. Laugh all you want because I know that it is funny, a wolf afraid of cats.

Well, when you are ready, I shall continue. Good.

Anyway, one day, while I was searching for food, a girl younger than I, though looked the same age, came past the ally I was located in. She dropped a potato, which rolled my way. I went over to eat and was about to eat it when she came over toward me.

"You don't want to eat that, boy. It won't taste good," she said as I backed away. She picked up the potato, then reached into the bag and pulled out a link of sausages. As though they were an offering, she slowly reached out her hand with them in it. I slowly moved forward, sniffing very cautiously. "It's okay boy. They're not poisoned."

I ate them. They tasted so good compared to the food I had been eating for the past few days. I started following when I finished gobbling them up. Her reaction, though, was not one that I was expecting. "You can't come with me, boy. I won't be able to take care of you." I sat and looked at her with the biggest puppy dog look I could conjure up. "I am sorry boy." I continued to look at her as she started at me with complete puzzlement. "It is almost like you can understand me." With those last words, she ran of to go catch up with her father. I watched as she got into the car. I followed the car with my eyes, then my body as it drove away.

I raced after it, trying to find out where it was heading. My paws pounded against the man made ground while the blood pulsed though my veins. Only when I started to reach my full potential did the car stop. Her father got out of the car closely followed the girl and they entered a small house. I watched as she and her dad sat down for a dinner. I watched as the two of them enjoyed each other's company.

After sometime the girl left the house to go for a walk. I ran ahead and shifted to human form. While leaning against the wall, the girl started to walk past me. I waited for a second before calling after her. "Hay," I yelled as she turned around to face me. When I caught up, she continued to walk. We walked side by side for some time just chatting. "Thank you for back in the ally." She gave me a pure questioning look, as though calling me crazy. "…the sausages, I mean."

"Oh, that beautiful dog is yours?" I nodded as she said that. Pride spread across my face. "How did you hear about that?"

"The lady at the store told me that you fed him. I called him Toboe by the way. What's yours?"

"Leara. Call me Leara. So, what's your name?"

"Toboe." When I said that, her face turned to pure confusion again. "I named the dog after myself because we are alike in many ways. Both stranded and alone."

"Oh," she said as her face turned to compassion. She did not know what to say as we stood there in the street. "I better go." Like fleeing pray, she walked away. Humans always confused me even though I had lived with one for so long. Still, judging is not my best thing because perfection is not something I am.

After the little chat, I headed back to the city. I was happy that I had made a new friend. I wasn't even angry that she fled. What a naive kid I was and still am. At any rate, I bumped into another wolf. "Watch it kid," he said.

To stunned to form real sentences, I stuttered, "You…you're…you're like me." The meeting was cut shot when a hunter and his blue-eyed dog showed up. The other wolf took off into the air, leaving me cemented to a spot by fear and confusion. I could not understand what I had done wrong to deserve this. It was as though all that I had known in my life had shifted. I always thought that people who love dogs, loved wolves too because we are from the same group. Still, even with this new discovery, hope still say in my heart. There was always a chance that he would not fire.

Out of he sky the other wolf came back and knocked the gun out of the man's hands. He then yelled at me, "Jump!"

"I was getting ready to," I yelled back. Up I leapt. On top of buildings and onto a bridge, I followed his path. Even though a trust bond was not completely formed, part of me felt that should follow him.

"Thanks for saving me back there. That hunter almost killed me. My name is Toboe. I am assuming you are Tsume. The crows told me a lot about you. They say that you befriend humans…" I just kept rambling on and on with no care in the world. I could not stop, because as I talked, my eyes took in his full form. There was just something about him that lured me and made me think 'very sexy.' I mean really, you had to see this guy. He was about 18 or 19 years old and wore tight clothing that fit his form like a glove. Every shape and form of his body was visible. He had black leather pants; a black leather jacket with the shoulders ripped and fell just above his belly button, and a tight gray sleeveless shirt that also stopped at the belly button. On his chest, visible for all to see, lay a cross-shaped scar. It fascinated me greatly. "…I was wondering, can I come with…"

"Get lost kid. I don't do babysitting. Try finding someone else to bother," he cut me off in with an attitude.

"But…"

"I saved you and that's it. So, get lost." With that said, he turned around and continued walking. He seemed trouble in such a way that the girl in me wanted to stay and comfort him. Still, he made it clear that he did not want any help, so off I went on a search to find Leara. At least she would be able to help me in ways no guy could.

When I got to the house, she was at the window with a hawk on her arm. She was letting it fly out of the window. A part of me wanted to catch it for her and take it back so as to make her happy. That is what I did. When it landed on the ground to grab it's pray, I launched at it in hope of just catching it. Only when I had brought it to Leara did I understand the full consequence of my actions. I had taken the one precious thing that the world had to offer. It's life.

Of all creatures in the world, the bird is the only one in which its life is worth living. They have the ability to spread their wings and fly high in the air. They can travel over the crowed and polluted streets. They can sore where the clouds are and where buildings cannot reach. It is the one creature that I never would want to take the life of especially since it not only brought pain to it or me, but also to Leara.

Just seeing Leara sad, made me feel even guiltier. The wolf in me came out, because the tears of a human were not permitted. I shifted into my wolf form right in front of her and howled. I released every emotion in me right then and there. I howled for the bird and for Leara. I howled for myself and for the world. I howled for the longest time. Actually, for just a few minutes, because I was cut short by a strong, muscular arm that grabbed me and pulled me away. Really, it picked me up by my baby fur and ran me away.

It scared me a lot that a man was trying to kidnap, wolf nap, me. After some time, an idea came to me. We were entering a room when I shifted to human form, causing my predator to lose his balance. This gave me a chance to escape, and that is what I did. I got out of his grip and stood a good distance away in human form. It was the only possible form that I could hold up so as to keep my identity hidden.

I glanced around the room, trying to take in my bearings. The room we had entered was a small rundown apartment with a window in cove in which the guy sat in. As I noticed the guy, I realized he was no kidnapper or hunter. It was…

Author Note: Before I tell you who it is, ducking flying chair , I forgot to inform you that there is a small sent of lunar flowers wafting though the air. Sorry, it is just that it will come into effect later. Sorry for the interruption, I mean that sincerely. So, where was I?…

As I realized that it was Tsume, relief flowed over me. Still, confusion started to follow. Tsume never did portray any affection or even showed any attention to me. Instead, he had always given me the cold shoulder. This caused the questioning part of me to surface.

"Why did you grab me and bring me here? I was doing fine on my own."

"Ya right," he said with such a sarcastic tone that I held my ground in human form. Nervousness was starting to surface along with fear. Still, even with these negative feelings, part of me still wanted to tell him what I was. If I did, then he would let me curl up in his lap and his strong arms would rap themselves around my body. No longer would I have to run. I would have finally found a home.

The sad part was that those were just girly dreams. No guy, especially him, wold want a girl with a troubled past and hides her identity just to stay safe. It even sounded crazy to me and I am the one doing it. Plus, if I told him, he may even use that against me. There was no way to tell.

So, I stood there for some time just watching him. He was just sitting there and starring out the window. His golden eyes paraded across the scenery.

Tsume's POV

I never really know why I do the things I do. Maybe it had to do with this guy's sent or the fact that he reminded me of myself at his age; naive yet trying to be strong at the same time. Either way I saved him twice.

The sent that lurks around him is that of a girl. What is there to say about that? I assumed at first that it was the human girls, but other things seemed strange about him. There is the fact that he does not go into wolf form and is always on his guard. Now, do not think that I am a stalker or anything because I am not. Sometimes when I look though my window, I watch him move about in the allies. He sleeps most of the time in human form and almost always walks around in human form. His wolf form is almost like a ghost around the streets.

I know people, when they first see me, sometimes get the impression that I am ruthless and cold hearted, but that is not true. This kid is only a pup and could use some looking after, still how does one like myself get mixed up with these things. I guess in a way, part of me took on the role to be this pup's guardian. Who knows what goes on in my head? Still, something about this pup just keeps nagging at the back of my head.

Toboe's POV

I started to back away very slowly, even though I knew that he knew I was leaving. A part of me assumed that he would allow me to leave without a problem. I guess it was the naive part. It was as though fear was dragging me to the door, while curiosity was pulling me toward him. My legs were going in different directions, causing me to lose my balance and almost fall. It was around then that Tsume spoke up from his dreamlike state.

"Here, eat this," he said, throwing a hamburger at my head. I was not sure whether to catch it or duck it, so I let my body chose. I caught it, but before eating it, I sniffed it. "I didn't poison it, but if you ain't going to eat it, then just throw it back over here." He did not even turn around when he said that. He just continued to stare out of the window as though the world outside was more interesting.

"I was just smelling it because I have never had anything like this before." I took a small bit out of it just to get the taste of it. It was good, just not as great as a fresh kill; a kill in which the blood is still warm and flows out onto the tongue as soon as you bit into the carcass. Still, it was food.

I took a seat on an old mattress. The sent of his was partially on it. I assumed that he probably slept on it at night. In a way, I guessed it was better then sleeping in an old beat up box in the ally way

Silence was all around us. It was starting to get on my nerves. "Are you going to tell me why you pulled me away from Leara or am I going to have to force it out of you?" I asked. After the words parted my lips, I realized how stupid they sounded. The fact is, I was and still am smaller then him. There is no other way to put it. He could easily break ever bone in my body or can he?

"Oh really, and how do you plain to do that one, kid? You are only a pup." He turned around with wonder written across his face as he said that. He had a large smirk plastered on his lips, which were about to be erased. His eyes twinkled with confidence and glee.

I realized at that moment that Tsume is not as he seems. That he still can be confronted with a problem. So, me with my stupidity, continued to stare at him with a glimmer in my eye and the most angelic face known to mankind. When I was positive that I had his full attention, I whistled; just a short blow that made a short simple sound. This only confused him more until…

Author's note: Well, I know this part was not in the show, but I just had to put it in. It is always fun to just play around with scenes that are only shown for a short amount of time. The truth is the show never shows you a lot about the meeting between Toboe and Tsume in the room. Well, I sure hope you enjoyed the story so far. Hopefully the next chapter will be up soon. Smirking wildly