Chapter4

Morning had come and Sora hadn't woken up yet only Kate and Britt along with Shira and Diego, "morning mom and dad, how did you guys sleep?" Kate asked smiling at her parents "ok and you guys?" Diego answered back while yawning and then smiled at shira who smiled back and licked his cheek, "we slept well, what's that noise?" Brit asked confused then they all looked at the source it was Sora talking in her sleep, "hmmm… Nate… that tickles" Sora said rolling on her back giggling (no she wasn't having a dream like you know what), all of the sudden Sora woke up and yawned she blinked a few times to get her vision, and saw everyone looking at her with confusion, "What" Sora hissed, "nothing we just wanted to know who is Nate?" Kate asked with a small grin on her face, at hearing this Sora's eyes went wide and her heart felt like it stopped beating "I-I… don't k-know what you're talking about" Sora stuttered the words out, this did not go unnoticed by the others but before they could do anything , Sid, manny and Ellie woke and walked over to the sabers and greeted them, 'thank god that they're distracted' Sora thought to herself, "so Sora who is this 'Nate' you were talking about?" Asked Britt in a teasing way, "Like I said before I don't know what you're talking about" the panic in her voice gave her lie away, "We don't believe you" Kate also joined in on the teasing, Diego could see his youngest daughter panicking and decided to intervene, "that's enough, stop teasing your sister, if she says she doesn't know then she doesn't know, ok?" Diego stated calmly and looked at Sora who looked like all the worry left her, and he could see the thanks in her eyes even if it was not much he could see it, Sid came up to everyone stretching "I would ask what's going on but unfortunately it's not my place and it's still too early to worry so… if anyone needs me I'll be eating breakfast, cheerio" Sid waved as he walked out of the camp, everybody glanced at each other and just started laughing, Sora took this to her advantage and started to sneak off, she just was about to exit when she heard her mother "Where do you think you're going?" "out" Sora stated with bitterness, "no you're not, you are grounded and I told you that you are stuck in here" shira stepped forward and picked up Sora and put her by the rest of them, "why do you even care about what I do or where I go!" Sora retaliated back, shira was surprised a bit and taken back, "because I'm your mother and I love you" shira spoke calmly, Sora had a look of disbelief "that's bullshit!" Sora snapped, "What did we say about using language like that!" Shira snapped back "I don't care what you idiots said!" Sora yelled back, "Sora that is enough get to the back right now!" Shira commanded, Sora used a blood thirsty growl that sent shivers up her sibling's spines, and went to the back.

Sora lay down and started to think of Nate, she wanted to see him again, she decided she would sneak out and nothing would stop her.

Later that evening

Sora silently started to make her way out of the camp, making sure no one followed her, she darted into the Forrest, and she ran for about 30 min until she could get his scent, she quickened her pace and soon found his den, her heart started to race and she got nervous and tried her best to shake it off, 'why am I feeling like this', Sora thought to herself, she walked in and waited for her eyes to adjust once they were good enough, she looked around and before she knew it she was pounced on, she was on her back and when she looked at the person on top of her heart nearly stopped, because it was Nate and she blushed at the position she was in with him, "Sora?" Nate asked with a shocked look on his face, "N-Nate, yes its mm-me" after Sora stuttered she turned her head away to try and hide her blush hoping Nate didn't notice, but he did and couldn't help but chuckle, "W-
What so f-funny?" Sora again stuttered and mentally slapped herself, "it's just you look so cute when you blush" Nate answered but blushed right away at saying the word cute, Sora swore she could tell she looked like a strawberry at how red her cheeks were, "you think so?" Nate was caught off guard and quickly let her up "Y-Yes, I actually think you're beautiful, I mean I don't, I mean I do its just…just… I'm just gonna stop talking" Nate said with his ears flat against his head and started to walk away but was stopped by Sora, "hey where are you going?" Sora asked , "to go kill myself before I embarrass myself even more" Nate said in a depressed voice, Sora pounced on him "well I came to see you and this is how you say hi I'm hurt" she put on a fake sad face, Nate licked the side of her muzzle and instantly blushed, "I'm so sorry Sora" Nate pleaded, "it's ok I l-liked I-It" Sora replied staring in he's eyes, they stared into each other's eyes and slowly moved their heads forward they were about to kiss but was interrupted by a loud voice, "Sora!, Sora!, WHERE ARE YOU!?" it was her mother and father, Sora's eyes grew wide and she knew that if her parents found her with Nate they would probably kill attack or even say that she can never see him again, "shit!, it's my parents, I'm so sorry but if they find you with me they will hurt you or worse" Sora said fear in her voice, and in her eyes, "it's ok I understand" Sora got off Nate and started to walk off but gave him a kiss in the cheek, she blushed and left but Nate asked "will we meet again?" Nate asked worried about the answer, "of course but maybe not for a little while because I'm grounded but I will try my best to come again tomorrow night, ok?" "Ok are you sure why can't I come to you?" "Nate my parents" Sora pleaded, just then they heard Diego and shira call again, "I must go and thanks for everything bye Nate" Sora said as she ran off, "bye…" Nate said looking down at the ground sad that Sora had to leave.

Sora ran to her mother and father and when she saw them they looked at her with anger in the eyes, since her dad was here means her mom must have told him what happened, "Sora you disobeyed me again!" shira was pissed off at Sora again "ok well lets go home then we can talk about this?" Sora said in a nervous tone and smile, this confused both Diego and shira "ok fine are you ok?" Diego asked confused at his daughters change in attitude "yes I'm fine just great but we seriously need to get back" Sora said hastily, and turned around to look if Nate was there or not, both Diego and shira saw this they looked at each other then at Sora, who darted pass them back to the camp, Diego and shira went after her.

When they reached the camp they just caught Sora so they didn't carry her but they were surprised at how fast she was, but they were still pissed off, "OK now start explaining why were you in such a rush?" Diego asked Sora, "I wasn't" "yes you were, now tell us or we will go back there and look" the words hit Sora like a car, she immediately got angry and scared, "you wouldn't!" the words left Sora with a hint of anger and fear in them, shira and Diego both noticed this and decided to push on further, "yes we would now tell us!"Shira yelled getting angrier "THERE IS NOTHING!" Sora yelled back, "fine! Diego lets go look what she doesn't want us to find" shira now spoke in a more calm tone and started to leave the camp, Sora tried to run past them but Diego caught her and put her by her siblings, "Do not allow her to leave do you all understand me?" Diego asked they all nodded in unison, "good" "let me go!" Sora yelled at Ryan and Sam for pouncing on her when she tried to leave "No! Dad said you must stay and you will, now stop and shut up, everybody's tired Sora!" Ryan replied with an in-charge voice making everybody look at him not with fear but more respect for that moment, and this went on for another 2 hours and shira and Diego finally got back, Sora looked at them with wide eyes her heart beating faster and faster she thought it was gonna fall out of her chest, "we didn't find anything, except a scent of another saber and its den" Sora swore her heart stopped, 'please tell me they didn't find him please…", Sora thought to herself, "but when we looked inside the den the saber wasn't there" Diego said, he saw his daughter calm down a lot, but was still worried, he knew this meant that she was with this saber, everybody went to sleep after that even Sora.

2 weeks later

It has been two weeks since she last slept well, 2 weeks since she last talked to him, 2 weeks since she last saw her crush, Nate, Sora had been grounded for a whole month and she had gotten even more depressed as she couldn't see Nate or hear him, she wondered what happened to him, Sora had started cutting her wrists, and even eating less, "Sora, you haven't eaten anything for days now, Sora?" shira asked as she walked in the camp with 3 dead rabbits in her mouth, Sora just laid down and ignored her mother, "Sora please eat I can't stand to watch you like this, please Sora" shira asked setting the rabbits down on the floor a few feet away from Sora, shira walked closer to Sora and smelled something after sniffing a bit she realized it was blood fresh blood, she quickly went up to Sora and saw some blood by her chest, "Sora are you bleeding?" shira asked while moving her daughter out the way, Sora let out a low growl which sounded more like a groan than a growl, when shira looked she couldn't believe at what she saw there was old dried blood and a big puddle of fresh blood, "she looked at her daughter and nearly had a heart attack, Sora's wrists were covered in blood and they were still bleeding, shira quickly started to lick her wrists to stop the blood, she could see and feel the cuts were deep, she quickly ran outside and fetched some leaves, she ran back in and applied pressure Sora yelped at the pain, "sorry but I have to" shira said quickly after a while the blood stopped shira removed the leaves and licked her wrists again which now stung like a bitch, "Rrrrrgh" Sora hissed at the stinging feeling, after shira finished Sora couldn't move properly because of all the blood loss, and shira knew she wouldn't make it unless she ate food, "Sora baby please eat you have to eat or you could die" shira said with some tears in her eyes, she went over and brought all the rabbits and dropped them in front of Sora after that shira laid next to her daughter, Sora's back was pushed against Shira's side so she could eat properly, after she ate, she immediately fell asleep, shira laid there in a protective way for warmth and love for her daughter and also soon fell asleep.

It was now sunset and the rest of the herd made it back into the camp, they all smiled at the scene of shira and Sora sleeping together, but also dropped it when they saw the blood, Diego walked up to them and nudged shira awake, "what happened?" Diego asked worried, shira looked down at Sora sleeping form and got up slowly to make sure she didn't wake up she told Diego to follow and went to the rest of the herd, "Sora has been cutting herself" shira said with tears in her eyes, everyone gasped at this, "what! They all asked in unison, shira nodded her head and cried into Diego's shoulder, "its gonna be okay, don't worry" Diego said in a soothing tone, and also added 'sshh', shira cried for a few more minutes and the sniffled and said, "she almost died if I didn't bring the food she would have bled out to death", shira started to cry again, only then did they notice shira covered in blood, "we have to talk to her, Alex, Sam and Kate, stay with your mom and Sora, Ryan and Britt, we need to go get some more food for your mom and Sora" Diego said looking at them they all nodded, Diego and ran along with Britt left, while the others started to clean the blood, after they were don shira picked the still sleeping Sora up, and went to go wash the blood off her and clean her wounds, Sora woke up after feeling water being thrown on her fur, she tried to look around but was still a bit dizzy, once she felt better she tried to stand but fell back down due to the pain in her legs, "OW!" Sora yelped, shira quickly checked her daughter, "are you okay?" shira asked worried, Sora only nodded she couldn't remember much except being angry, "where are we?" Sora asked looking around confused she then looked at her arms and saw the cuts and remembered everything she quickly washed all the blood off then got taken back to the camp by her mother.

When they got back the food was waiting for them and the rest of the herd, "hey welcome back" Diego said with a smile, shira set Sora down gently and smiled back at Diego and licked his check, "thanks, how was the hunt?" "Very good, how's Sora?" Diego asked with a sad voice, they both looked at her she was sleeping again, "she is very tired but need to wake up to eat?" Diego nodded and went to Sora who was actually awake just very tired to move or eat, "Sora?" "yes" the word sounded cold and uncaring, "you have to eat" "I'm not hungry", "Sora you have to eat so that you can heal" Diego said again, "well I don't want to heal so leave me alone", Diego was shocked at what she said and so was shira, they wanted to be angry but they were too scared to be, "Sora please you need to eat" shira pleaded, Sora stopped talking and just started to think of Nate, wishing, hoping, praying that she would meet him again, but little did she know that Nate has been around the whole time spying on them to try and see Sora again.

A week has passed since the 'incident' and there has been someone with Sora every day, keeping a eye on her and she has gotten worse she eats and sleeps, and that's it, she hasn't seen Nate in over 3 weeks, it was midday and Sora was in the camp and just lying down doing nothing except for scratching the back of the cave wall, nobody was around today and she only had 1 week left then she wouldn't be grounded anymore, she was bored out of her skull when she smelt blood fresh, she figured it was just her mom or dad bringing her food that she wouldn't eat, she forced herself not too until it becomes too much, she smelt it coming closer, she could hear the blood dripping on the floor, and the paws of her mom or dad, "I told you guys I'm not gonna eat anything" Sora said with a huge sigh, "and leave me alone I hate you all!" she yelled the last bit pure anger in her voice, she heard the dead animal drop to the floor "even me?" the words came out gently almost like a purr and Sora's eyes grew wide she slowly turned around to see who it was, "N-N-Nate?" Sora asked with disbelief and her face expression showed just how shocked and confused she actually is, Nate chuckled at how shocked she is, "well who did you think kitty" Nate said with a big grin on his face, the next thing he knew he was on his back with Sora on top of him crying tears of joy in his chest she was laying on top of him, he wrapped his paws around her and hugged her and then out of the blue licked her forehead to calm her down which it did, she looked in his eyes, dark blue meeting violet ones the whole world stopped for them they were lying like that for about 40 minutes just looking at each other for them it seemed like 5 minutes after that she slowly got up or tried but Nate pulled her back down, "where do you think you're going?" he asked smiling showing off his pearly white fangs, "I-I umm… j-just…" Sora was lost for words and she blushed so much Nate could see it, and when she stuttered and she saw his smile grow even wider she nearly fainted of how close she was to him and of embarrassment, "I missed you so much Nate" tears started again and before she knew it she was sobbing again, Nate sat up but still held her in his arms, crying in his chest he just licked her head and stroked her back, after a few minutes she stopped and just laid there in his muscular arms feeling warmth and love, she could stay there forever, I missed you also Sora more than you will ever know" the words were gentle and filled with so much love that they felt as if all the worries in the world left, Sora didn't care what happened as long as she was there with him in his strong warm arms she felt safe, the one thing Nate never thought he would see was Sora purring, he didn't stop stroking her back, or slow down or speed up, he kept in the same pace, he leaned his head forward a bit and nuzzled her neck lovingly, causing her purring to become louder, they just stayed like that for what seemed like forever her eyes closed and his, they were definitely in love, but that moment ended when Nate stopped and slowly let go of her, Sora disappointed tied to stop him, "what are you doing?" "Sora you need to eat a bit please you can die" he half asked half commanded, Sora didn't object she quickly ate almost not swallowing, "easy …easy Sora, don't choke, wow this is de-ja-vu all over again, when we first met" a big grin on his face after recalling the memory of the best day of his life, "yea sorry about that" embarrassment all over her face, Nate just gave a nod, "now tell me why have you been torturing yourself" this caught Sora off guard, "wh-what do y-you mean..?" "come on Sora I know what you have been doing" "look I… wait, how did you know?" "Because I've been here the whole time Sora" after saying this he saw ager build up inside her, "WHAT! You've been here the whole time, why didn't you come here or say something!?" Sora yelled at him, "because your parents have been patrolling around here, and after everything you did it was hard to try and get close to you without anyone finding me, and don't change the subject and get angry at me!, you're the one hurting yourself, starving, why Sora! WHY!?" the words came out harsher than he wanted but they were the truth, after hearing this she flattened her ears against her head and a few tears came down her cheek, Nate walked up to her and used his paw to wipe up the tears he then hugged her tightly but not too tight, "why would you want to hurt yourself Sora after everything why?" he was also close to tears, "I-I'm s-s-sorry… Nate… I-I was just s-s… so sad that I thought I would never see you again, that I lost you" she looked up at him "hey you will never lose me, I will never let you go at all ok, never let you go", he looked down at her and slowly moved his head forward she did the same and they're muzzles connected in a long passionate kiss, they're hearts started to race and they felt like they were melting, but in a good way, Nate's tongue begged for entrance and she allowed it, their tongues danced around each other's mouths for 10 minutes then they pulled away for air, "wow" was all Sora could say, "Sora..I-I love you" Nate used all the confidence in him to say the those three words, Sora's eyes grew wide, "Nate I love you to" she smiled and kissed him again also tackling him to the ground, after they kissed Nate got up walked to the entrance and Sora walked up with him, "I have to go, I wish I could stay here with you, but I will come back tomorrow and please take care of yourself, I would die if I lost you" he gave her one more kiss then left, while dashing away he looked back and smiled, 'best day ever'.