Chapter four
They reunite in Scar in the Wasteland
A/N: Forgot to put disclaimer in first chapter so here! Me no own Wolf's Rain, I only own the characters I made up. I shall only say this once, so remember.
On with the story!
Snow fell gently on the ground, which was covered in two sets of wolf paw-prints.
The Packs of four and five ran for days, trying to cover more ground.
They finally had to find shelter when they were hit by a blizzard, the Pack of five in one and the Pack of four in another.
"Aw man. I sure am hungry." Toboe whined, Hige agreeing.
"Yeah you can say that again." He said, looking dead-tired and starving.
"How long has it been since we ate anything?" Toboe asked.
"I don't know," Hige tried to think," I guess it's been three days or so."
"We've gone that long without eating?" Toboe said in surprise.
"Yep. Not a bite."
"How much longer til we get any food?" Toboe asked again.
"I have no idea," Hige said,"Another three days I guess."
"Will you to quit your whining already?" Tsume popped in with annoyance."It's only been three stupid days."
"Yeah but if we hadn't left the city, we would be having something to eat right now." Toboe commented.
"We can last a lot longer, if we bask in the moonlight." Kiba piped in, as he stared out into the night.
"Me and Teru traveled a full month once, when we did that." He added, making Hige's eyes widen.
"Did you say a month?!" He yelped in shock.
"It should stop snowing any time now." Kiba kept talking,"Once it does and the night draws closer, the moon will be out."
"Well if worst comes to worst we can always eat each other." Tsume said with a smirk, getting wide glances from the other three.
"We can start with the runt since he's gotten so weak, and of course, there's always little Porky over there." He said, making the other to flinch.
"Wait a second, how come Kiba's not on the menu?" Toboe growled, while Hige gave him a deadpanned look.
"Cause the guy's totally full of crap, that's why."
The two wolves stare each other down, while Toboe stood up to try to stop.
"Come on, cut it out! You don't me it, you're just saying stuff like that cuz your hungry!"
Hige eyes widen as he took a sniff of the air, then said a "Ah!"
He stood up and ran outside the cave, the other three staring after him in confusion.
In the Cave of five, it was going in similar ways, Draco complaining, Walker making bad suggestions, then Teru ran out.
They finally caught up to Hige, when they found him by a deer carcass.
"I wonder where it came from, I mean it's all by it's self out here." Toboe wondered.
Hige leaned in and gave it another sniff, Tsume looking at him in disgust.
"You gonna eat that?"
"Yeah, aren't you gonna?" He said in shock, before opening his mouth wide and leaning forward again.
The other three joined in, while Tsume blinked as he looked to the side where he thought he saw a flash of black.
"You know what this tastes pretty good." Toboe commented, "It's only a little bit tougher than hamburger."
"Hey! Come on Tsume, have some! There's still a long way we have to go."
He held up some more to take another bite, when Tsume asked.
"Go? Go where, exactly? To that Paradise place?Off in the direction you smell the Flower?"
"Tsume..." Toboe stole a glance at Kiba.
"Come on Kiba. Tell us, what's Paradise really like?"
"It's an amazing place." Hige said instead of Kiba,"The Flowers are always in bloom and there's food everywhere! Oh and there's beautiful babes all over the
place~" He said with a lecherous look.
"You mean it?!" Toboe said excitedly.
"Of course there are...ehehehh..." Hige chuckled, before looking at Kiba, "I hope so anyway."
"You don't know." Toboe pouted in disappointment.
"Paradise is just a totally, unfounded fairy tale." Tsume said,"And if it isn't it's probably just some idiot's dream."
"So then why the hell did ya come with us?" Hige asked as Toboe stood up.
"We'll never know unless we look for it."
"How far you gonna let this guy string you along?" Tsume asked,"How far are you gonna follow this guy in pursue of a place that doesn't exist to began with?"
Kiba merely stared him down, making a snarl appear on Tsume's face.
"That's it, I can't put up with you losers anymore." He said, turning around.
"Tsume!" Toboe stood up.
"Hey, where do you think you're going all by yourself?!" Hige asked.
"To look for Hell, I guess." He responded, til Kiba called out.
"Suit yourself." Making Tsume look back.
"Kiba..." Toboe looked at the white wolf in shock, whose eyes narrowed.
"But remember," He said,"Those set of rules you have, don't apply out here."
Tsume frowned deeper,"It really pisses me off when a smug kid like you has that know-it-all look on his face, when he's actually clueless."
The two stared each other down, while Toboe looked back and forth between them.
"Hmph." Tsume turned and kept walking, making Toboe call out his name again sadly.
"Come on, don't leave now! We've finally made some friends!"
"Play with your buddies all you want," Tsume yelled back,"I'm out of here!"
As they watched him leave, Hige commented, "If ya ask me, the only one acting like a kid around here is him."
"Don't say that,"Toboe said,"I like Tsume, he's really nice."
Kiba stared at him in surprise and confusion, wondering how the hell the gray wolf was 'really nice' in the younger wolf's perspective.
"Just wait here. I'm gonna go get them." He said, running after the gray wolf.
"Hey!" Toboe called out as he caught up to him,"Wait for me, Tsume."
"What are you so mad about, huh?" He asked him,"Come on, come back and join us okay?"
"Shut the hell up!" Tsume snapped.
"You know it's dangerous to move around alone." Toboe accused him.
"It doesn't matter, does it? We're always alone!" Tsume clarified him.
"But wait I-" Toboe reached out and touched his arm, the final straw and Tsume turned around with a snarl.
"Stop bothering me!" He knocked him to the ground, then froze in surprise, then saying,"And don't follow me." Before running off.
Toboe sat back up and watched him leave, the wind blowing his hair slightly.
Tsume had walked for a while, the sun setting behind him as he crossed a wasteland, ignoring the younger wolf's calls of his name.
"Tsume! Tsume!" Toboe kept turning in each direction, still calling out for him,"Tsume!"
He then stepped on something which made a loud clanging noise, causing him to stare down in confusion.
Lifting his foot up, all he saw was a small hole in the ground, making him blink in confusion some more, before humming and looking around cautiously, before
calling out to the wolf again.
"Tsume! Heeey! TSUME!"
Tsume walked slowly in an dilapidated building, kicking a can as he tched.
Toboe howled for his name again, making him turn around, seeing his wolf's shadow appearing on a wall.
"Tsume! Tsume! Heeey, Tsume!"
Back where the spot that Toboe stepped at, a small object shot out of the ground, then a bright light followed.
It then became a robot rebutting back to life, looking around.
Large smoke clouds formed in the sky, making Toboe stop in his howling.
The robot looked around some more, it's sights going past then going back to land on a wolf.
Tsume went to go out of the building, having seen the smoke as well, when a small flash of light caught his attention.
He narrowed his eyes some more, then gasped as it became a gun to a robot, noticing who it was aimed at and he ran towards him.
He got to him right when the robot fired it's ammo.
Tsume staggered slightly as he limped, blood droplets falling from the wound, Toboe following him in worry.
"Are you okay?" He asked.
"Stay away." He growled, pushing him away again.
He stopped, seeing as they' reached the end of the bridge.
Hearing the robot still on their tails, he yelled,"We're gonna have to jump!"
"But..." Toboe tried to object.
Tsume grabbed him by the arm and jumped down right as the robot shot it's ammo again.
Tsume groaned in pain as he landed, messing with the wound.
They ran and hid behind a tall piece of metal, Tsume peeking around the corner to check.
"What the heck is that thing?" Toboe asked him staring at the robot as well.
"How should I know?!" He replied back.
The robot looked around then pulled back from the end of the bridge.
Tsume grunted in pain again, making Toboe look at him.
"Tsume." They both stared at where was hurt, a gash on his left back leg.
Toboe gulped.
"Dammit." Tsume cursed with a snarl,"The stench of this place is starting to make me sick."
Tsume stood up and limped away, Toboe following to help him, though Tsume kept shrugging him off.
Hige and Kiba laid on top of a building, basking in the moonlight.
Hige turned to Kiba with a frown,"Ya know, I was thinking. We should go ahead and ditch that guy. I mean it's not like he has to tag along with us or anything.
It was happenstance that threw us together, so they just ended up with us, that's all."
"The same goes for you." Kiba said as he closed his eyes."
"I don't know, that Tsume guy has been giving me a real dangerous vibe from the start."
"He's just different from us, that's all." Kiba said, making Hige blink in surprise.
"He's always had someone else to blame. It's pretty darn lucky if you asked me. Give him a break, he'll come around."
Hige sat up and stared down at the white wolf.
"Okay, so what the hell is up with you anyway?" He asked,"I mean you always talk like to have an answer to just about everything."
"What happened to you before all this?"
"Nothing much." Kiba answered,"Nothing much at all."
(Flashback xD)
An old Indian man sat chanting in front of a fire as Kiba sat watching the fire.
A Lunar Flower bloomed as Teru walked up to him, laying down and curling around the white wolf, who snuggled closer.
He then lifted his head up to stare at the moon, which glowed down at him with it's red orb.
Tsume and Toboe had gotten far, walking through the snow.
Toboe stared back, seeing that the robot had found them and was slowly giving chase far behind them.
It stuck a spear into the ground, making Tsume look back with a gasp, as it shot the icy bridge they were crossing, making them yell as they fell into the gorge.
Toboe howled loudly for help, making Kiba's head lift up in surprise, the wind blowing his hair, making him turn back to the wasteland, Hige turning back as well.
Teru lifted his head as well, having gotten his Pack farther than Kiba by a drop, as he heard the howl as well.
"Boss?" Draco asked, as everyone had turned towards the howl, watching their Pack Leader.
"We need to get back." He only muttered, before running back to the wasteland, the others letting out yells of surprise and shock, before following.
I own that kid anyway. He knew I was hurt that day me and Tsume fought.
Hige stared, before calling out with a frown,"Hey!" He took large whiffs of the air.
"Hey Kiba, do you smell that?" He asked, making the other turn around.
Kiba took a whiff as well, making his eyes widen as he realized it was the scent of Lunar Flowers, flashbacks appearing in his mind.
He went to go forward when he stepped on something then looked down.
"What's that?" Hige asked as he and Kiba looked down at it,"Hmph, maybe there use to be a military base around here."
Kiba stood back up and headed back to the wasteland, Hige calling out to him.
"H-Hey, Kiba! Wait!"
He stared the other way, before smacking his head with a frown.
"Ugh, what a drag!" He complained, before following him. "Whatever!"
Tsume woke up and stared around in the cave, groaning in pain. Til he heard licking noises and stared in surprise as Toboe licked his wound.
"Stop that!" He snapped, pushing the boy away. "Don't ever touch me."
Toboe looked down in sadness, making Tsume frown more, before asking"What's it doing?"
"It's not after us, looks like we gave it the slip."
Tsume laid back down, making Toboe look at him, his expression slowly becoming awe.
"Whoa...You're covered in scars." He commented.
"That one." He pointed out a specific one,"On your chest, man it's really cool!" He exclaimed happily.
Tsume turned on his side, making Toboe sigh in sadness.
"I wonder what happened to Kiba and Hige?" Toboe wondered,"I bet their pretty worried about us by now."
"I don't trust anyone." Tsume said suddenly. "And because of that, no one has to trust me."
"That way, it keeps things nice and simple."
"I don't care, I still like you anyway, Tsume."
Hearing a commotion outside, they gasped, as they saw the robot climbing down the side of the gorge.
"Ah,damn!" Tsume cursed, going to stand when Toboe pushed him back.
"Forget about it Tsume! You'll get yourself killed!"
"Well, at least then you'll finally have something to eat!"
"Don't be stupid!" He moved and stood before him. "I'll act as a decoy and distracted so you can get away!"
Tsume's eyes went wide,"Don't do it!"
Toboe stopped at the entrance,""You can trust me, it's okay!" He reassured him.
Toboe ran out the cave, the robot instantly shooting ammo at him, til a hand reached out and grabbed him from behind, making him yelp.
Turning around, he blinked as Teru place a finger to his lips and pointed, showing Draco,Walker, and Taka running towards the machine.
"Hey ugly!" Draco called out, causing the machine to turn towards him, where he flipped it the bird and they scattered, the machine turning this way and that,
shooting rapidly.
"Hey!" A female voice called out, making Tsume look up as a blonde haired teen stood before him. "I was sent to help you move, so don't complain."
"I don't give a-" "Teru's orders." She said simply, making him freeze, before allowing her to help him walk out of the cave.
The robot, noticing something else, turned it's sights back the other way, showing Tsume and Tama getting halfway from the cave, making Tsume tch, before
they ran, Tama trying to lend most of the male's weight on her, as the robot crawled down the rest of the way and gave chase.
Noticing the distraction didn't help, Toboe and Teru ran after the machine, Teru leaping on top of it then in front of it, yelping as if in pain and turned the robot's
attention back to him, shooting it's ammo at him, as he dashed around a corner, making the robot pull forth it's bazooka shooter and shot the missile, hitting
the ledge Teru had ran around, causing him to fall forward.
Teru groaned and tried to stand, turning in fear as the robot stood before him, two wounds from the blast that got on his shoulder actually keeping him from
moving, as the robot aimed it's bullet launcher at him. Til a familiar howl broke through the night, as a white flash dashed forward, turning it's attention from
Teru to Kiba as he jumped at it face first, the black wolf staring in surprise.
"K-Kiba?..."
Unbeknownst it was his mate, Kiba sunk his fangs into the robot's 'eye' causing it to spin around then throw the white wolf, who landed back, snarling, before
leading it's attention away from the other, as he ran up the side of the gorge.
The robot threw it's launcher off and drove after him, while Teru still stared, frozen.
"Hey!" A voice called out, making him look up, seeing a male pointing up, along with the others. "This way!"
The robot kept shooting at the white wolf who kept running higher up the gorge, then shoot a grenade at him when he stepped on a rock, who grabbed a
frozen piece of rock and dived towards the machine.
The robot kept shooting, getting Kiba in the leg, who sunk the piece of rock into the shooter before dashing off, the machine malfunctioning.
Kiba jumped on a ledge and watched as it fell to the bottom into a heap at the bottom, before rebutting a gain and standing back up.
It unleashed another gun and shot at the wolf, making Kiba jump and run along the side and up the side of the gorge.
It then heard a sound and turned towards it, seeing a large amount of water heading it's way, sending it away for good.
The robot finally sprung forth from the snow, seeing Kiba as it tried to rebut, before finally cutting off for good.
Kiba turned and headed back for the others, noticing Hige and Toboe talking to twin blondes and an older, darker red wolf, while a lightish dark brown wolf and
Tsume sat away from them.
"Hey, you okay?" Hige and Draco asked, before the dark red wolf blinked then rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.
"Sorry, I'm use to asking Boss that, and you're so much like him."
"It's only a scratch." Kiba said, making the teen twins laugh.
"Yep! Definitely like Leader!"
"Yeah right! Ever since I met you guys, nothing but trouble." Hige complained, causing the twins and Draco to laugh.
"I knew, while I wasn't sure, I knew you guys would come for us." Toboe said, making Hige turn to him.
"Well don't get to use to it, kid!" Hige said.
"I didn't ask for help." Tsume growled out, making the others stare at his back.
"Why would you do that? Risk your life for me?" He asked."And don't try telling me, it's because we're friends."
"It's because-" Tama went to tell him, but Kiba stopped her with a shake of his head.
"That's easy. It was just instinct." Kiba said.
"Ugh, instinct my ass!" Walker complained as he stood, stretching his arms over his head. "Hey, Boss! Can we leave now?"
"Why are you asking me such a ridiculous question?" A familiar deep voice asked, making Kiba freeze as footsteps came closer.
He turned around slowly, seeing his mate, both wolf and human form, who smirked mischievously while holding his shoulder slightly.
"It's been awhile...my love." He purred, making the others, except Tsume, blink.
"You mean..." Draco said, but Hige finished.
"...That's your Mate?!" He yelled, though Kiba wasn't listening, for he was running, running like his life depended on it, knocking black wolf over as he began
crawling all over him, licking his face repeatedly while nuzzling him, as Teru made grunts of approval while the white wolf kept whining, mumbling he missed him
over and over with each lick.
"Okay okay~" Teru said as he sat up, though winced as he put pressure on his shoulder.
"Your hurt..." Kiba murmured, and Teru grunted in reply,"Just a scratch or two." Making the others sweat-drop.
Yep, their difinitely alike in more than one way!
After Kiba made sure his mate's wounds was cleaned, he stood up right when Tsume did, who staggered til Toboe grab his arm and wrapped it around his shoulder.
Tsume looked back at the others, before they began walking forward, Teru who had stood up then nudged his mate forward and grabbed his hand, making the
white wolf look away in embarrassment as they followed them, causing the others to trail after them silently.
The End x3
Yays, Teru and Kiba are back together, now people will stop throwing things at me xD *dodges TV*
Until Next Time in Chapter five, Fallen Wolves.
I say I should about half of that with Kiba and Teru making up time lost, what do you think?
