Chapter 7:

"One trouble with trouble is that is usually starts out like fun"

– Anonymous

Shatters of the Past


"Are you chronically insane?" Came the words rushing from the pup's thinning lips. "Did you get dropped in the head a few too many fucking times!" Kaoru was beginning to hyperventilate in appearance, but if the alpha had known better he would have realized that the girl was in no way afraid of his declaration: oh no, she was pissed. And if he had known, he would have been smart to have left the room.

Old Kaoru started to crack through with the rage seeping from her body, and slowly blazing sapphire rose to take a crack at the smug man at the end of the room. He was in for hell, especially with the realization that Kaoru's wolf was in fact not as submissive legends had rumored, hidden and fearful, the wolf was in the girl's eyes, joined beside her human side as she ventured forward.

"Who the hell do you, or they for that matter, think they are!" She shrieked.

Something far deeper then he had anticipated had happened to Kaoru as she had grown up, Battousai realized. The submissive hadn't willingly accepted her wolf, but because of circumstances it had become her way to survive horrors he couldn't begin to fathom, she was the legendary submissive. But the petite woman followed none of the details in the story, only a few stray signs that made it obvious of her stature; otherwise, Kaoru was completely the opposite of things he had heard.

"No Kaoru!" Shouted a voice across the room: Gabdeus.

But it was too late, the pup moved forward and with a fist slammed it into the arrogant alpha's startled face. His body didn't stay in the room, flying down the stairs that had been strategically placed to make it harder for someone to come up or go down without making noise.

"I'll kill all of you before I am forced into something I have not agreed to again!" She screamed, the feral wolf strengthening her body. There was no stopping an angry Kaoru, her foot slammed into the side of the bedpost and sent the wood cracking away from the bed, falling like a log.

Immediately the girl picked up the fallen piece, it wasn't a boken or sword, but it would do for her intent. Ignoring the protest in her hands she moved forward and out onto the stairway, makeshift weapon ready to strike whoever decided to come after her.

She heard the pack downstairs, trying to figure out why Battousai had fallen so abruptly from his own room. He was growling orders, trying to get up to face his oncoming opponent. She was a submissive by legend, but Kaoru would be damned before she became submissive by nature to any moron who thought he could walk over her.

Gabdeus had followed her down the stairs, alongside him Alexander watched with what appeared to be silent amusement. If she could take a swing at him by all means the girl would have done so.

However, she'd rather spend her energy swinging at someone she was positive she was going to hit: the alpha.

Eyes ablaze she stepped into the room with the pack, staring at the alpha dead in the face. "I'm leaving now or I'm taking this stick and shoving it down your throat." It was a warning that they should let her walk out the door.

Battousai stood with his legs apart, a smile on his face as he held up both hands as if preparing to fight her. He wasn't afraid, she realized. The man wanted to take her up on the challenge she so boldly had presented him. Blood trickled down the side of his lip reminding her that she had gotten in a shot, and could do so again.

With a cry of anger she dashed forward and swung the post, watching as it collided with his arm in a block. He swung out to wrap an arm around her neck but Kaoru was faster, letting her body fall to the ground and swinging one leg out to knock him off his feet. Unfortunately, the alpha was just as quick as she and simply jumped to avoid the aimed kick.

She was going to stand when a foot in her stomach sent her flying onto her back. It wasn't Battousai who had done it, it had been Gabdeus. His angry form hovering nearby as he looked at her with more then sadness in his ghostly eyes.

A foot suddenly obscured her vision of the ghostly ancestors and Battousai stood above her with an arrogant smile. He hadn't one that day, not by himself.

"It seems you're too clumsy to win this fight, submit." He spoke with that same arrogant tone she wanted to burn.

"Get off," was her only response to his order. The foot seemed to press down harder until the oxygen in her body started to slowly seep out. Battousai wouldn't kill her, but the alpha would knock her out to make a point.

"Submit," he ordered again.

"Fuck you!"

The foot was harder yet on her sensitive throat, and Kaoru knew that if she wasn't the legendary submissive he would have already snapped her neck like a twig. How she hated old legends!

A blurry figure suddenly removed the foot from her throat, and Battousai from her line of vision. She heard the sound of loud growling and made to sit up when another bundle threw themselves on top of her body with a squeal.

"Don't you ever treat such a delicate creature in such a manner idiot!" A strong voice ordered in the room, causing Kaoru to freeze. She knew that voice, hadn't heard it in years but knew exactly who she was dealing with.

Then she turned her attention to the bundle in her arms, the shirt she was wearing becoming wet with the tears shed. She knew the top of that silver hair, of the little hands that were sweet and soft. Six whole years and now he was eight, and somehow she couldn't help but keep the small tears from edging onto the brim of her eyes.

"Saichi," the girl breathed out, arms instantly wrapping around him to bring her little brother close to her chest. Her only anchor of sanity, the only thing that had been keeping her alive so many years, he was finally back in her arms. Uncle.

Turning on the ground she looked at the two men who stood glaring at each other. The black haired one didn't look as if he had aged a day in his life, looking like the exact same amusing man who had tried to make her leave alongside her little brother.

"You are no longer leader of this pack, you can't control my actions." Battousai growled up at the black-haired intruder, his eyes the molten lava that Kaoru at times feared, and other times wanted to punch away.

"I can easily take this pack back if you are handling them this way, besides; she is not part of the pack. She hasn't been on the run of the full moon with any of you yet." He then turned his back on the alpha, as if unafraid of getting attacked.

It was only the sincerity she saw in those eyes when he gazed at her disheveled form that had Kaoru finally breaking down. She sobbed openly, clutching her brother to her as she rushed forward into the open arms of her one trusted friend, Hiko.

The man had been her second father, always bringing her treats as a child. He was close friends with her deceased father, and had always promised to take care of the children if something were to happen to the man that had dejected her in the last days of his life.

His strong arms wrapped around herself and her bundle and lifted them into a bear hug, glad to see his girl almost unharmed. "What happened to you Kaoru? Why are you so small?" He questioned after placing her away.

"Sister!" Shrieked Saichi from her arms. "I gotta show you all of my new abilities! And I lost a tooth, you gotta see it!" He grinned at her excitedly, clapping his small hands to use the source of energy on something other then jumping up and down.

Turning her attention away from her brother she didn't want to inform her uncle that the man he had befriended had left her mother awful opportunities. Hiko probably didn't know that her father was even dead, judging by the stern look that reminded her that he had often scolded her father for neglecting Saichi.

"He's gone," she whispered softly. Her brother would hear her but it would be words he wouldn't catch onto at his age.

Hiko looked down at the ground for a minute before turning towards Battousai, "what are the plans for today?"

"We have another alpha coming who wasn't at the meeting the other day to meet Kaoru," was all he explained before turning to look at the distracted submissive, who was looking at her brother with pride. He attempted to his in his growl but failed miserably. "Why does it smell like Enishi?" he finally got out.

Hiko looked at the alpha with furrowed brows, but didn't answer. He had met Enishi once in his life but had never before noticed the alpha's scent until then.

Grabbing her hand Kaoru didn't hear the rest of the conversation, her brother leading her away from the two males without receiving protest from either of them. She did notice that Misao had made to follow them, smiling carelessly as she watched the two siblings catch up. Well, Kaoru catch up and the little one wave his hands around as he told of his adventures with 'uncle' Hiko.

Her brother wanted to go the front yard, had led them there to show Kaoru his new agility in running. It was the moment they stepped outside she knew she could make a run for it and not be stopped easily, but knowing that the man she trusted was inside the house made the submissive sag on the stairs to watch her happy brother run.

For several undisturbed minutes Kaoru and Misao watched the child run with the agility only wolves should have. His sweet gaze falling on Kaoru once in a while as he chattered away his life in the one sitting.

However, the play was done when they smelt something heading in their direction, Kaoru immediately jumping up and taking a hold of her excited brother. Misao ran inside to warn the alpha of the oncoming creature. The males of the pack had just barely made it outside when three people froze in front of Kaoru's hunched form on the stairs holding the squirming Saichi.

Everyone was prepared for the inspection of the silver alpha's inspection of Kaoru, no one was prepared for the recognition in both their eyes.

"Kaoru," he breathed.

"The alpha from the basement," she spoke in disbelief.

And Enishi's startled eyes turned to look down upon the bundle in her arms, the bundle he recognized. The one, who strangely enough, looked exactly like him.

Hello Again!

Sorry if it seemed like a rushed chapter, it wasn't, I just need to introduce more characters to get this story moving. And yes, there is more to Enishi and Kaoru's relationship then anyone is into. How are ya'll like it?

Well, until later! Thanks for all the reviews!