I do not own Wolf Children. All characters within this story belong to Mamoru Hosoda and Madhouse Studio. Please watch the original film, Wolf Children before embarking on this work of fictions.
Be aware that this story takes place one year after the film ends during the Summer Holidays following Yuki's first year at Middle School.
I do not own the artwork used as the cover image. The author is from Deviant Art known as LaestusNix.
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Kyoko Monosha
She wore a long, black coat of which draped down past her knees and opened at the front to expose her formal, buttoned-up, white shirt. Her brown hair neatly parted at the front and ended down her back in a long, luscious ponytail. Her pail skin dotted with freckles that made her emerald eyes stand out against the monochrome colours of her attire. To our two protagonists she was but only a stranger, but to the major populace to Tokyo she was a well-known, notorious special agent of who handled… rare occurrences. Her name was Kyoko Monosha.
Monosha lead a special tasks force that went by name shrouded in mystery, as no one knew. The purpose of this task force was to extract, research or eliminate anything or anyone against the norms or reality. This included the half wolf – half human abnormals known Ame and Yuki of whom they had captured this fine and victorious morning.
"Feeling well kids?" she spoke ecstatically, poking her head through the bars of the cell that she had locked them away in. Her glasses flickered in the light as the setting sun raked through the small corner window decorating the top left of the bland stonewall of which surrounded them.
Ame said nothing, but instead he let out a low, aggressive growl as his eyes flashed yellow. He showed no emotion but how pissed he was. His hands had been shackled behind his back with a small chain leading from his cuffs to the wall. He was helpless and for the first time in his life. He wasn't free to do what he wished. He was at the whim of a crazy lady and this tore him down.
To his left, sat Yuki who was depressingly in the same position as she was. He couldn't deny that he was definitely conflicted about what was happening. It pained him to see his sister in such a helpless state, but more so it tortured him to not be able to her in any way. With that he turned back to their captor and eyed her down, "What do you want with us?"
Kyoko did nothing but giggle before blatantly answering the young boy's inquiry, "We merely want to research you," she smiled, "You're quite interesting you know, not everybody possesses the ability to transform into a different species at will."
Ame couldn't deny that he expected this but what forced shock to spread fear throughout his juvenile body was that he had not the slightest clue how they found out. Their uniqueness was always kept a secret from anyone for years and years, no one knew. This curiosity swelled throughout him until he couldn't take any more mystery and he lunged forward despite the shackles holding him back.
"How do you know about that?!" demanded Ame as his voice became croaky from his grinding anger. He wild eyes piercing right through the guard of Kyoko and struck some form of fear in her as she jumped back from the bars.
However Kyoko didn't express her fear of him like most people would by screamed and running away. Instead she only further displayed her insanity by laughing uncontrollably at him and his question, "Now why would I tell you that dear Ame? That's my little secret and the cause of my success," she answered him and stared at him with unflinching eyes, "And I must say that you look precious when angry – Maybe I'll induce that for you?"
Ame did nothing but grit his teeth and tear his glare away from the hysterical figure before him only to be met with the look of distraught from his older sister. His heart sunk upon seeing this and he muttered only his next few words, "I'm sorry Yuki…" he sulked.
Yuki merely shook her head and looked down to the bare stone that they called flooring, "No Ame," she disagreed sorrowfully, "It's my fault. I couldn't fight them off. I got caught even though I was given plenty of chances to run off and warn you," tears began to swell in her eyes as she admitted the truth to his riddled brother, "I made a mistake and now here we are…" the moment she finished explaining her story she allowed herself to break down into tears and choke on her sorrow.
Ame wanted to comfort her, despite what she had said. He didn't believe a word of it and refused the think that this was all her fault. After all such a catastrophe couldn't be limited to one single cause – he had lived in the forest long enough to figure that out.
He sighed and looked at the troubled Yuki and said, "It's not your fault. I can't have been your fault. I'm the one who left you there," he shifted the blame onto himself in order to comfort her, "I wasn't there to protect you and I let my guard down. You only just got better, you can't be expected to fight every battle on your own."
Yuki opened her mouth but then immediately paused to think of the best thing to say, knowing that a situation like this could make or break a carefully built bond.
She sighed deeply and tried to hide her face in her long black hair and disregarded everything that Ame had said to her by simply replying to him with, "I'm sorry…"
"Okay," he said. He figured it would be futile to try and convince her right now, he knew that she was stubborn and that nothing would change her mind or stray her opinion.
Behind the bars of the cell Kyoko stood there, watching the too make amends and come to terms with what was happening. She grinned and found amusement in their words, as she turned to another man adjacent to her, "Prepare the testing chamber," she said crudely and took her leave.
Miss Monosha was heading to the previously mentioned testing chamber to oversee the upcoming research. She sat down with a cup of coffee and stared out the large windows giving her vision into the chamber. She waited.
When the two children were finally brought into the room she perked up and changed from slouching to uptight and brushed her fringe out of her face. They were escorted in by two taller suited men similar to the one who jad managed to kidnap them. Once in the large, empty room of which was painted white then they were placed in the centre of the room. Kyoko reached for a pen and clip board as she paid close attention to their actions. She smirked mischievously at the thought of the 'tests' she had put together, and relished in the expectancy of their eventual screams.
With that in the forefront of her mind she leaned forward and spoke clearly into a microphone, projecting her voice into the chamber below.
"First thing's first we need to confirm that our information about your 'gift' is true – demonstrate you're abilities to use," she ordered with a stern tone and sat back to watch the show.
An intrigued smile of satisfaction formed and her crystal eyes widened in gratification as the two children demonstrated their transformation before them. "Wonderful," she bellowed, "Absolutely wonderful," she began to clap and leaned forward to speak to them once more, "You two really are the pinnacle of biological research this country can accomplish."
With that she began to eagerly write down every little detail, from the sharpened teeth to the patterns of their fur and even the change of eye colour. Everything was important to her and every detail was to be further investigated in future tests. She leaned forward once again and articulated clearly into the chamber, "Now we would like to witness your hunting capabilities,"
She proceeded to press a button that initiated the turning of gogs as the back wall of the camber began to be pulled up in order to reveal a large forested habitat for the two.
Ame scoured the environment with only his eyes, knowing that the entirety of the environment was quite obviously was fake as plants needed sunlight to live, and there was no such thing in this room. Ame then turned back to Yuki whose face was expressionless now, either she was trying to hide all her emotions or she was just trying to get through this. It was probably both but no matter how you put it she would need to be comforted, and that was a luxury that had been mercilessly denied them.
His though process was interrupted when the brutalising speech of Kyoko spoke once more, "There are two rabbits in that collection of trees before you, one for each of you. You have to both successfully hunt one rabbit each and bring it out for us to see," she spoke with her firm voice she had demonstrated a few times already, "You may begin when ready."
Like two willing slaves the two wolf children charged into the forest, leaping over roots and weaving through the foliage. Naturally Ame was more skilled at this as he had had two years of experience when it came to hunting and tracking animals. There was no doubt that he was going to get to the rabbit first, but he was strongly considering hunting for Yuki as well and giving her the rabbit.
He stopped, this habitat was bigger than he expected and his eyes weren't going to help him out too much. He placed his head down and began to sniff the flooring as he walked in any direction his could. Within moments his caught a scent and bolted towards it with nothing to block him from his path and the moment the white critter came into view he pounced and sunk his teeth deep into it's flesh, causing blood to drip from the newly dead carcass.
The moment his turned around he saw the second rabbit and Yuki was nowhere in sight. If he were to strike it down then now would be his best chance. He held the previous rabbit in his mouth as he crept up on the second one by hiding in the foliage of the bushes and rocks. He grinned and when the moment arose he pounced up it. But instead of sinking his teeth into it he simply claws it to death and dragged it behind him as he searched for his sister.
He had taken the lives of both the prey and trusted that his instincts had guided him well. He hauled the game until he found Yuki and dropped one rabbit in front of her, "I did the work for you, just return it and say you did it."
Yuki simply nodded and picked up the rabbit with her mouth as she walked with her brother back to the test chamber. If only this was an actual forest then they would be able to run away from this nightmare and live a good life again. But this past month had gone from bad to worse for her. She was started to wonder if spending her holiday by coming back to the countryside was such a good idea. So far it had lead to nothing but trouble for her. Never the less she was here now and she might as well just do what she's told until the moment arises for them leave, whether it would be escaping or being released she was willing to be patient until then.
She looked back to Ame. She trusted that he would try his hardest to keep her safe the best he could as he had done for weeks now. She decided that she would do the same, after all she was hi Onii-chan.
Once arriving back in the testing chamber the two of them dropped the dead rabbits and reverted back from their wolf form to the recognisable human form. And glared up at the window that Kyoko hid behind. The glass was tinted so no one could see through it and the crazy lady spoke again, this time she seemed aggravated.
"How dare you interfere with the testing process Ame!" she scowled, "I specifically told you that you were supposed to kill a rabbit each. Instead you disobeyed this order and decided to be greedy, for that you will need to be punished," he voice was bitter cold and her threat pierced right through him, "You will pay for your defiance… juvenile wolf!"
