Chapter 3:

Lilly and Hige had been talking the whole time that they were there. Tsume was growing annoyed at the fact that they were hiding again. He wondered who that girl was and what she really was to Hige.

"So... You don't remember what happened to you?" Lilly asked Hige.

"Nope. I just remember waking up in a different city." Hige replied. Then he looked at Lilly and saw the sad look on her face. "Hey. It's OK. I'm here now, and everything's gonna be alright."

"I know. But I have nowhere to go now. That was my last chance at a normal life. Well, almost normal. But now this is the last place left for me to go, and if they find me here-"

"Shh..." Hige said as he placed a finger on Lilly's lips. "It's OK. I'll make sure they don't get you."

Lilly smiled a little bit. "Thank you." She whispered before hige embraced her in a hug.

"Don't worry. Nothing's going to happen to you." Hige said as he stroked Lilly's back, trying to get her to calm down. Then he pushed her away gently. "So what's been happening since I left? You look great. I mean, were you able to find someone else to travel with or anything?"

"Noting much, thanks, and no." Lilly replied with more of a smile on her face. "I was hoping to run back into you so we could travel together again."

"Well, I got these guys now." Hige said. "So you wanna join us?"

"Why not." Lilly said as she stood up. "But you wanna introduce me to everyone. I mean, I've met Kiba and Toboe. But who's that guy?" Lilly asked as she pointed to Tsume.

"Oh! That's just Tsume. Heh." Hige said.

"Oh. OK. Well umm... should I show you guys around?" Lilly asked.

"We're not staying here." Kiba told her.

"Excuse me?" Lilly asked.

"Come on Kiba. Let's just rest here for the night." Hige said. "Then we can leave tomorrow. I mean, when are we gonna get to sleep under a roof again after this?"

"He's right Kiba. And you need to rest anyway." Toboe said.

"There's enough room for all of you if you wish to stay." Lilly told them.

"Let's stay. It'll be a nice change to stay somewhere other than in the cold for once." Tsume commented.

"Fine. But just one night. Then we leave." Kiba said.

"Yay." Lilly said sarcastically. She really didn't think she was going to like Kiba. He didn't seem to like her very much either. But why did he seem so familiar to her? He had to have been from her past. But she couldn't be sure.

"Alright! Now there's five of us!" Toboe exclaimed happily, and Lilly had a flashback.

Flashback

Lilly was with a pack of wolves. Her mother, a beautiful black wolf, like Lilly, was laying down, watching as Lilly played with the other young wolves. There was a white wolf who kept tackling Lilly, the yellow orbs that served as his eyes never leaving her blue ones. He tackled her one last time before he licked her on the cheek.

Lilly heard her mother call to her, and she ran away from the white wolf. Her mother wanted to speak with her.

"That white cub seems to be fond of you." Her mother said.

"I suppose so Mother." Lilly replied.

"Darling. Soon you will have to choose a mate. I want you should choose someone to grow close to very soon, or it will be hard for you to find a mate." Mother said.

"But Mother, I don't want a mate yet. I wish to be wild and free, like we are supposed to be." Lilly replied.

"You must mate. All the females must mate." Mother replied.

Lilly glared at her mother. She didn't want a mate, not ever. She was tired of the male wolves. They never left her alone. Especially the Five, which were five young wolves her age that caused all the trouble. Rafe, Willem, Finn, Gregory, and Ulf were there names. They all wanted Lilly and the pack knew it. The white wolf kept fighting her, but still left her alone when she wanted. And it wasn't long before the Five started to come towards her, and her mother walked off to her father.

"Hey Lilly." Rafe said. He was a gray wolf with blue eyes, basically the leader of the Five. He wanted Lilly the most.

"Go away." Lilly said before she changed to her human desguise, a black tail still showing, the tail she could never get rid of.

"No need to be so dismissive Lilly." Willem, a brown wolf withyellow eyes,said after he changed to his human desguise, slipping an arm around Lilly's waist and giving it a gently squeeze. "We just want to hang."

Willen was the twin brother of Finn, who looked just like Willem, like twins should. Though Willen had always been Lilly's favorite of the twins, since he was always more gentle than his brother. Though some of his inocence had left within the past year when the Five killed a human to prove Axel, one of their own,hadn't killed another human. But Axel had been killed by a hunter about a month after the whole dillemma.

"You are such a puppy." Lilly said as she removed Willem's arm from her waist and stompling off, the Five following her. "Leave me be! You hear?" She yelled at them before the backstepped and she stomped away into a cave where most of the rest of the pack was sleeping, leaving in the Five out in the snow.

End Flashback

"Lilly?" Toboe asked as he waved his hand in front of Lilly's face. She blinked and looked down at the young wolf in front of her. "Are you OK?"

"Yeah. I'm fine." Lilly sound quietly, as if she weren't paying attention to Toboe at all. The Five. She remembered them. Her mother had wanted her to mate with one of them. But what happened to them? She couldn't remember anything. Her head started to pound and she let out a yelp of pain as she fell to her knees.

"Lilly!" Hige exclaimed as he rushed to her side. "Are you OK?"

"I-I remembered something." Lilly said. "The Five. They were five wolves that were in my pack. They never left me alone. All of them wanted me to be their mate. My mother had also wanted me to be with one of them. They caused trouble for out pack. But that's all I can remember."

"It's OK." Higa said, both of his hands on Lilly's shoulders.

Hearing of the Five had caught Kiba's attention. There had been a group known as the Five in his pack. He remembered that much. Had Lilly been in his pack? But he soon pushed that thought to the back of his head and sat down in front of the small hut while Tsume sat next to him.

"Do you really think we should let the girl come with us?" Tsume asked. "She has the army after her."

"I don't know. Hige seems to know her pretty well, and I think..." Koba drifted off into his own thought.

"You think what?" Tsume asked.

"Nothing." Kiba said before standing up and heading towards the bushes. He needed to be alone for a moment.

AN- Well, well, well. A flashback. And were Kiba and Lilly in the same pack at one time? You will only know when I decide to put that in a chapter. But I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Took me a while to write. And I have decided to throw a little bit of Blood and Chocolate, a really good book about werewolves, into this fic. The Five, yeah, they're from it. And so will a few things in the future. If you haven't read the book and you like Wolf's Rain, you just might like that book. So next time you go to the library, you may want to check it out. It's not scary at all. So... Plz R&R. Thanx! TTFN!