KAnu: I don't own anything. So thanks for all the reviews. I'm sorry to tell everyone but most of the chapters will be short, mostly because I have midterms in two weeks and my mean little friends take up most of my free time trying to find me the girlfriend I don't want! Sorry, life is getting weird for me..

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Haruka slowly stepped into Shizuru's bedroom; she didn't want to startle Shizuru. She had no idea what kind of state her best friend would be in. Shizuru sat on the edge of her platform bed, staring out the window. She was naked; her long light brown hair covered her breast, yet relieved her smooth back. She was so still, never moving as Haruka approached. "Shizuru?"

Haruka sat down next to her. Their naked bodies never touching. They just sat for a while, but the need to know finally got to her. She mustered up her courage, calling on her wolf to do what she had to do next. She knew she would be in here all day if she tried to ask her out right. Haruka did the only thing she could to get the answer herself.

She slipped her hands lightly down Shizuru's right arm, taking in the softness of her skin. Shizuru finally looked at her, and Haruka leaned in closer. And for the first time in almost 20 years, Haruka kissed Shizuru. It was a small kiss, soft and almost freshly untamed. But the response Haruka got back was all she needed to know. "SHE IS YOUR MATE"

Shizuru sat back from Haruka, and stared at her like she had lost her mind. Yet Haruka knew. She had all the proof she needed from that kiss. She could deny it all she wanted to, but Shizuru had found her mate. "Haruka, my sweet, it has been my experience that the screaming doesn't start until other kinds of lips meet."

Haruka couldn't help the blush that spread all over her body. "Cut the crap. Since we hit the hormone rush, no matter what kind of shit you got us in, even the time we had run our naked asses though the sewers in New York, your lust for me has been strong. Don't try that shit. She is your mate." Haruka stood up and walked to the window, a mixture of happiness and envy hitting her.

"I always knew you would find yours, but the thought never crossed my mind…." Haruka heard Shizuru stand. "…she really is my mate?" it was a question. A dumb one, but one filled with a longing that Haruka had never heard from her friend.

"She is. You can mark her to make sure." Haruka turned around and smiled at her best friend. Smiled because she knew it was what her friend needed. "You could mark your mate."

Shizuru laughed as placed her hand on her best friends back. "I will see her again first. Just to make sure. If she is than I will make her mine." They began to walk to the door, and as Haruka reached for the door when Shizuru spoke. "And by the way little wolf, we were in that sewer because you punched that male lion in the face because she was teasing Aoi about her mark…" they both growled low as the memory fully came to them.

Haruka remembered that night now. Shizuru, Chie, Aoi and herself where living in the same door room back then. Chie had marked Aoi because she was sick of all the male shifters, a male lion shifter in particular, hitting on Aoi. Yet Aoi wanted to have a say in the way her life was going. Aoi had taken it hard. She didn't talk to any of them, mainly because it was mostly Shizuru's and Haruka's idea to get Chie to finally make "an honest woman" out of Aoi. Since Coyotes picked their lifemates just like many of the other shifters. But to be fair, they didn't know Chie would bite into the lynx neck that night. Aoi got them back too. Nothing was worst that an angry cat. They started finding out that when she put laxatives in their food, slashed up their clothes, hell she even replaced their shampoo with Nair, even shifted they were bald for weeks. To end to rampage, they had made up a law to see that it never happened to any of them again.

They both stared at each other. And at the same time, fear came in their eyes and they reached for their own hair. "Simul Pack Law, no one is to mark their mate without the others consent." Shizuru sighed as she backed up until she could sit back on the bed.

It had been one of the few rules that kept the Pack going. A rule the first four had made up. "Aoi will have your head if you break that rule." Haruka could feel the panic rising in her. "This could get complicated Shizuru." Haruka walked back to the bed, her eyes with mischief behind them as an idea hit her. "Of course, you could always woo her."

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Mai would have been in awe at the beautiful mansion the Simul Pack called home if she was so worried about her little sister. She carried the painfully still Nao into the room; it was huge, with high ceilings and beautiful red wood floors. The only furniture in the room was the two large long tables, each with about 20 chairs around them.

Mai placed her sister on the spot on the table that the female lion pointed to with her paw. The lion never shifted, even when the white wolf had commanded her to. The others did, but she stayed lion the whole time, just watched her with her unblinking eyes.

"Is she alright Mai?" the question came from her brother. Takumi was taller than her, his hair cut short, his shoulders broad. Quite the big man now. Yet he was always kind, caring and protective of his two sisters. Because of him, Nao had lived through the attack. She knew his back has deep bite and claw marks from where there enemy had tried to tear him off of the helpless Nao during the attack. He looked like her was in so much pain.

"She should be fine once she sees a doctor. What about you?"

He smiled, "no worries here, my wounds are already beginning to heal." All their injuries were. It was one of the perks that came with being a shifter, you were a fast healer. The only problem was that healing hurt like all bloody hell.

"Sit down Takumi. Let me look at your wounds." This came from Takumi's mate, a lovely girl that was more lethal human than wolf. Her long black hair was never cut, and her cold eyes never shifted from its wolf gold. Akira was one of the best in her field, and without her they would have been in deeper shit that just a few already healing injuries.

Mai looked away from them and back to Nao. Her sister was breathing heavily, but steadily. Good that at least was a good sign. "May I take a look?" the voice came from behind her. She turned and nodded at the woman, a bear from the smell of her, and took a step back. "Don't worry, I have been stitching up this pack for almost eight years now, she will be in good care."

Mai watched for a minute before turning completely away. She needed to talk to her alpha before the other wolves came back. She needed to say she was sorry for getting them all in this mess. Most of all, she needed to get away from her family before she burst into tears of guilt for all the trouble that she had started.

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KAnu: so sorry for all those that want Nao and Mai to be together but I have Mai already fixed up with a very hot lion. Nao will have her mate in the next book so will Mia wants she sees her mates human form. NO PROMISES. Lol. Pm me if you have any ideas. Keep up with the reviewing, it helps me write faster