-My True Identity-
Chapter nine
By a Midnights Dream
Disclaimer: All characters, items, places and themes mentioned within this story have been created and are licensed by Bones Productions, Kieko Nobumoto, and Toshitsugu Iida. So if you're with SOPA then get off my ass.
**Credit goes to ChocoPokkin for giving me this idea**
I focus all of my energy into putting distance between me, Tsume, and this forest. But after a while I start to feel discouraged. A couple times I glance over my shoulder to see the black brush not as far behind us as I'd like it to be.
I don't know where we're going. We're all just following Kiba, like we usually do. But I'm worried because we can't keep running for much longer or else…Tsume'll…
I shake my head. Now isn't the time to be thinking about that. I need to be strong for Tsume. He's rescued me so many times over the past few days. Now it is my turn…to be his hero.
I guess I didn't realize how gigantic this forest was until I got outside of it. We've left Mai's main territory behind us, but a long stretch of it off to our left has been following us for miles and miles. It's like it doesn't have an end!
Eventually I think Kiba realizes that we're not going to get away from the woods entirely, so he calls out for us to stop and rest. And it's a good thing too. Tsume's usually tan skin is starting to look ashen and he seems a little cold. I'm really worried.
We find a dry section of ground that doesn't have snow on it and I let Tsume down gently. He's not trying to act tough anymore—thank god—and he welcomes the cold, frozen ground as he sits.
"What should we do?" I ask for what must be the hundredth time today. I swear it feels that way.
Though Kiba's response is less than helpful : "I don't know. But we should at least rest for now."
"Hey, ya know what?" Hige interjects with an excited smile. "I bet if we got some food in your gut it would make ya feel better. Whatta ya say?"
"I say it sounds more like you want some food in your gut, Hige." Kiba says, crossing his arms over his chest.
Hige's cheeks hint a faint pink and his mouth purses into a pout. "Aaaw lay off, would ya? I'm just tryin to be helpful, that's all."
"If you wanted to be helpful you could shut your mouth and go find us something to eat, porky." Tsume growls, though his voice is weak.
Hige opens his mouth to make a retort when all of a sudden his features freeze. His nose twitches and he spins around on his heel to face the long stretch of woods that's by our side. Hige smells something, I'm sure of it. A corner of his mouth pulls up into a lopsided grin. "Well, well. What've we here? And just in time too."
I lean sideways to get a look around Hige and see a small Lynx peering at us behind the safety of a tree. But when I blink again, I see a young girl with brown hair and wide purple eyes peering at us instead. She's seems afraid but…curious too.
"We were just saying that we needed some food didn't we?" Hige says licking his chops and goes to advance toward the girl. The child's eyes go wide and she takes a step back hesitantly.
Before Hige can take another step forward Kiba puts his paw in front of him, stopping his advance. "Wait. Don't, Hige."
"Aaaw, c'mon! Why not?"
"Just trust me." Our leader says and Hige reluctantly stops with an exasperated sigh. Kiba turns his attention back over to the Lynx girl and shows her one of his rare but genuine warm smiles. "It's alright. We won't hurt you. You can come out."
But I don't think she's buying it. Not after what Hige said anyway. I honestly don't blame her. Who in their right mind would trust a pack of wounded, hungry wolves? Despite Kiba's kind words she does not budge from her spot in the trees. I see her purple eyes shift over to Tsume and they flicker with concern.
"You…You came from the Schatten Wald?" I'm astonished to hear her voice. It is small like a child's, yet it holds a trill of such wisdom it shocks me. Also, the accent on her words is rough…kind of like German, I think.
Kiba looks just as surprised as any of us that the girl has spoken. "Schatten Wald?" He repeats. "You mean the woods?"
The girl nods her head.
"Yes." Kiba answers. "Do you live here? Do you know of a safe place to stay?"
But the girl remains silent. She is staring intensely at Tsume and it is apparent that she is struggling to make up her mind about something. Her small, delicate fingers are tapping against the bark of the tree as she thinks. All of a sudden she mutters. "Your friend…he is hurt. There are herbs at the waterfall. This way!" Without waiting a second she spins around on her heal and flees into the forest.
"Hey! Wait!" Hige calls and pursues after her. "C'mon, Kiba. We gottah go after her!"
"Toboe." I glance up as Kiba addresses me.
"Uuuh, yeah?"
"Stay here with Tsume until we get back. Make sure nothing happens, understand? We're counting on you."
Kiba's final words settle on me like a lead weight. So much pressure…what if something happens? What if I have to fight? Will I be able to defend Tsume? I clench my paws into fists and swallow my fear. No more running away, I tell myself firmly. It's time to make myself useful. "Right." I confirm my leader's order by dipping my head in a curt nod.
"Good." Without another word Kiba turns and bolts after Hige and the Lynx, leaving me and Tsume alone.
"Tch…God damn Kiba." Tsume growls, shifting into a more comfortable position. "Who the hell does he think he is? Assigning the kid to babysit me; just what does he think I am, helpless?"
"Well…I mean you are hurt Tsume." I mumble, trying not to be offended, and instantly fall quiet when Tsume shoots me an irritated glare.
Who am I kidding? He's right. If I had someone like me to protect me when I was hurt…well, I wouldn't feel too confident about it either. I shake my head again to get all of the bad thoughts out. That's enough. I say to myself sternly. You're never gonna stop doubting yourself if you keep thinking those things. Tsume's hurt, and I have to protect him, even if it means having to fight. I exhale and try to stay calm.
Things are quiet between me and Tsume after that…it's starting to make me feel a little uncomfortable. I feel like I should say something, like maybe apologize for getting Tsume caught up in all this…no, I can just tell that would make him angrier. Suddenly an idea strikes me that makes my entire face light up. I know how I can help Tsume.
"Hey, I know Tsume. Why don't I clean your wounds for you?"
"No, Toboe. That's alright." He says softly, his golden eyes shutting.
My face falls. "Hunh? But why not? Don't they hurt?"
"I said it's alright, Toboe." He says, this time a little bite in his tone.
I decide to take a different approach this time. "But if we don't clean them then they could get infected and you could get sick." I shift closer to Tsume reach out to him. "I don't wanna think about what would happen if-"
"I said I'll be just fine!" He snarls, swatting my hand away.
Any trace of a smile I have left slowly fades into a small frown. Likewise, I feel the happy excited feeling I have in my chest fizzle out to leave disappointment and confusion. I don't know why he doesn't want me to get close to him but it still hurts my feelings all the same. My amber orbs fall down to the frozen earth and I mumble a "fine" as I go back to my place beside him. I stare down at my hands in my lap and keep my legs crossed, making sure I keep all my extremities away from his personal space.
Silence falls over us again and I'm convinced that he's mad at me now. Stupid. Stupid idiot, why did I have to be so insistent on cleaning his cuts? I should have given him more room. I shouldn't have kept pestering him like that. Now he's even angrier at me…haaw…But still, I can't help but be worried about Tsume. I peek an amber eye out to glance side long at him. I can see that his wounds are still oozing, and there is blood over his leather jacket that's both fresh and dried up. I feel a seed of worry sprout in the pit of my stomach. Whether he wants me to be near him or not, his wounds aren't going to get any better if we don't clean them. Then of course my worrisome mind goes off on a tangent.
What if Tsume does get sick? What if we're not able to help him and he gets worse? What if he…he…I can't bear to even finish the thought in my mind. I try to calm down and bring myself back to the moment at hand. I open both eyes to look at Tsume sitting beside me. There, see. I tell my self-conscience. Tsume's sitting right there and he's fine. So stop worrying about everything. But then my worrisome mind makes an excellent point yet again. But…then again…When someone dies of an infection nobody expects that it was going to happen. So even though he looks fine now…
Well, whether the threat is real or not, it is possible that this could be the last chance I have to talk to Tsume: alone or otherwise. Knowing that, I decide to try strike up meaningful conversation.
The silence that's been around us feels so thick and permanent, it's hard for me to speak up at first. "…You know, Tsume." I start off quietly. "The first time I met you back in the city, I was just so surprised to see another wolf other than myself that I wasn't sure of what to say. I mean, I had grown up all alone with granny inside her house…so I never really thought about there being other wolves, ya know?…"
I dare a glance sideways at Tsume to gauge his expression, but he is just staring straight forward with an unreadable expression. Well, at least I know he's listening, I think before I continue. "If I'm honest, I'd have to say I was a little scared of you the first time I saw you. I'd heard all these mean things about you from the crows and cats near the trash heaps that…I wasn't really sure what to think. And then to top it off you looked all mad with your sunglasses on and we were alone in an alley way." I chuckle softly and then fall quiet. "But then…but then you came back and you saved me from that guy and I thought…maybe you weren't so bad. Maybe people were just jealous of you so they made up mean stuff about you."
Tsume's expression is still blank and he is staring straight ahead. I don't know if any of this is really sinking in but it feels good to get all these things off my chest. "Then after you told me to get lost—the second time I mean—all I can remember thinking was if he didn't care then why did he save me? I mean to be honest to this day I still don't know…"
Tsume is silent.
Well, I've said all I had to say. I don't expect Tsume to feel the sam-
"I was just so stinking tired." Tsume suddenly starts and I actually stop breathing to listen to him speak. Mostly from surprise but also because I dare not make a sound for fear that he might remember I'm sitting here and stop actually telling me how he feels. "I was just so god damn tired of all the lairs I'd surrounded myself with in my old life. Everywhere I turned, there was someone just waiting to stab me in the back. They were all nothing but superficial, two-faced, human bastards…I knew I couldn't trust them anymore. But then I ran into you and you were…different, I guess."
I can tell that this must be getting a little difficult for Tsume because he never, ever openly tells someone how he feels. Ever. I try to make things more comfortable for him by staring straight at the ground and by training my face into an emotionless mask.
"After all the deceit and lies I'd dealt with from my pack—I mean…my gang— I just…haa, I don't know." He growls and faces the other way. "I guess I just found you kind of…refreshing."
I'm powerless to try and stop the brilliant smile that stretches across my face.
Tsume notices my overly happy look and sticks his nose in the air. "I guess you could say that's why I let ya stick around for so long." He says trying to sound detached but I know better. He sighs and shakes his head. "I thought you'd have to be some sort of idiot to not be scared of me. Or much less want to follow me around." His brow furrows while he speaks, as if he's thoroughly confused. "You were different from the humans in my gang. You were wolf, sure, but you were also…"
"Annoying?" I dare to joke, a smile quirking one side of my mouth.
"Honest."
My amber eyes go wide. I didn't expect him to say that.
"You were so honest with yourself. And to me, a stranger you hardly knew…That honesty was something I hadn't felt in a long time, Toboe. And it was…refreshing." He closes his eyes and says the last word breathlessly.
I feel my cheeks heat up and a little tightening in my chest. I…I don't know what to say. All this time I thought he never really acknowledged me until he discovered that I was a girl. But to find out that I actually affected him like that when we first met…I don't know. It touches me somehow. I enjoy my little taste of bliss for a moment when I'm suddenly reminded of Tsume's welfare. I hate to ruin this moment, but it seems to me that now might be a good time to try and persuade Tsume since he's in a good mood. "Tsume…please. Won't you let me clean your cuts for you?"
He sighs. "I'm not sure that's such a good idea."
"But why? You're gonna get sick Tsume if we don't. We're gonna have to clean it at some point-"
"Alright fine." He relents with a low growl and I blink in surprise at his tan slender fingers quickly undoing the buckle and zippers to his leather jacket. I was trying to be persuasive but…I didn't think it would work. "Just be quick about it."
Tsume winces as he peels his grey undershirt away from his blood crusted skin. I know I should feel sorry for him but I…I'm just too busy looking at him. My amber eyes are lost drinking in his evenly tanned skin. Lean, corded muscles shape his arms and shoulders in a delicious manner, making my mouth go dry. His shoulders are so built and they look strong. I see other small white scars littering his skin on his arms and ribs, but none are as big as the one in the middle of his chest. Not for the first time I wonder how he got it. The planes of his chest are wide, flat and smooth…it makes my mouth water. Well, besides the whole bleeding part of it. His abdomen ripples in well developed muscles that end above the hem of his pants. I scowl down at that particular piece of his clothing. Hello, I was looking at that.
"Toboe." Tsume murmurs gently, snapping me out of my oogling. I feel my face heat up in embarrassment. "Quit fooling around."
"Erm, right!" I was so sure of what I had to do a minute ago. But now…aaaagh, I don't know where I should sit, what side of him I should be on, if I should be human or wolf—for crying out loud. Ever since Tsume took his shirt off I…I'm just so flustered I can't think straight!
I can see that Tsume is becoming increasingly irritated as I poke around. Well no wonder; He must be frigging cold. In the pressure of the moment I decide that sitting on his lap would be the best place to sit. I feel my face heat up as I straddle his waist. Tsume stiffens under me but otherwise makes no move to shove me off. What am I doing? I think to myself as I size up his wounds. This feels so dirty, sitting on top of his lap like this. I give myself a mental slap and try to stay focused. Would you stop thinking of naughty stuff for once and just be helpful? Right. Putting all things sensual out of my mind, I lean forward and begin cleaning.
I flick my tongue out between my teeth tentively to taste the warm tang of blood. Tsume breathes in a tight breath through his teeth and I make a note to try and be gentler. I close my eyes—unable to stay focused while looking at his chest—and slowly and gently lick along his deep cuts. I hear the frozen earth crack below me as Tsume digs his claws into it. His breaths are coming out in short huffs through his nostrils, making his chest rise and fall in a fast manner. I move up to the shallowest parts of his injury. Maybe if I start with the easy stuff it won't be so hard for him. But instead he produces a tight 'ngh' sound and furrows his brow. I feel so bad. I really am trying to be as gentle as possi-
And then I feel it. Something as hard as bone throbs to life beneath me and pokes the underside of my sex.
Oh…so that's why he's panting.
"Aaah…Damn it." He growls, his eyes shut tight. I can't tell if he's embarrassed or really turned on. "I knew I shouldn't have…" But he can't seem to finish his sentence.
Could he be…enjoying this?
"Toboe, hurry it up, will you?" He snaps irritably, totally disregarding the fact that it is indeed his boner that's poking into me.
But he's not talking to me anymore. He's talking to my overly confident, instinct driven, sex drive that's not about to take orders from a man she has pinned down beneath her. No…I don't think I will, She smirks.
My naughty tongue strays away from the gore on Tsume's chest to lap away the dried up blood on the planes of his chest. Tsume sucks in a small gasp in surprise. Now I'm not just using the tip of my tongue. I hungrily press my tongue flat against his skin and lick upwards, coming close to touching his even tanner nipple.
"Toboe…" Tsume warns, but who is he fooling? He knows he wants this; I know he wants this, so why is he trying so hard to not participate? "Aaah damn it, I knew I shouldn't have let you be the one to do this."
Oh? So was that why he was being so short with me earlier? What a dumb reason. How could he possibly think I wouldn't enjoy this? Or that I would be offended if he got turned on?
"It's not that…"He says in a tight voice and I flush a dark shade of red when I realize I must have just said that out loud. "I just…I'm afraid that I won't be able to stop myself like last time."
"But…" I feel the butterflies in my stomach start to do summersaults at what I'm about to say. "What if I don't want you to stop?" I look up at him through my thick, brown lashes and I can see that two separate halves of his mind are battling for dominance right now.
My body is moving of its own accord now. My fingers reach up and play over the lean muscles of his biceps. They're so firm and smooth. Feeling him like this makes that place deep inside of me heat up and clench with longing.
I hear Tsume take in another surprised breath and a moment later his skin crinkles with goose bumps beneath my fingers.
My breaths are coming out in soft, excited pants now. Since Tsume hasn't stopped me yet I don't see a logical reason to stop. I play the tip of my tongue across his angular collar bone upwards towards the crook of his neck.
His breathing gets harder and his head tips back a little. "Toboe…knock it off." He growls, and I feel the muscles in his arms clench with restraint. He really thinks that he's going to hurt me doesn't he?
"But Tsume…" I whine and bring my lips up to brush against his while I speak. My brows shoot upwards and I feel my face heat with color as I say. "I…I really like you."
All of a sudden his hand shoots up behind me really fast and pushes the back of my head forward to connect my lips with his. His slender fingers fist in my honey brown hair. His kisses are fierce and hungry: They connect together, briefly molding into one another before he departs and kisses my mouth at a new, delicious angle. "Fuck it…" He growls ferally against my mouth, his golden eyes shining. "Do whatever the hell you want to me."
His words make something inside of me snap and suddenly, I lose my restraint too. Despite his wounds, I press my front flush up against him and groan into his mouth as I grind against the lump straining against his pants. I gasp into his mouth as the sensation that blooms down there. Aaaw the friction is incredible and…he's so hard. The space between my legs aches so badly. It feels wet and hot. I want him in there so bad that it almost is unbearable.
Tsume gasps at the grinding sensation too. He makes a low rumbling sound in the back of his throat and slides his hands under my shirt and up my back. His fingers are so rough and cold.
"Aaah…" They're really cold. But it brings me goose bumps and I like it.
My heart is beating so loud I can hear it hammering in my ears. His lips disconnect from mine with a soft smooch noise. A string of wetness still connects the tip of his tongue with my now rosey bottom lip. With a groan he burries his face into the crook of my shoulder and starts doing so many things at once: At first, I shiver from just feeling his hot breath fan against my skin. Then I feel the sharp bite of his fangs and then the gentle caress of his tongue. It sends electrical waves of ecstasy shooting down my side and flock to the place between my legs, stock piling the effect from the grinding earlier.
I fist my fingers in his short silver hair and pant. "Aaah haa…Ts-Tsume." Even I blush at how breathless I sound. It was almost like a moan.
His mouth leaves my shoulder and he takes my head between his hands. He exhales a shaky breath and presses his forehead against mine. "Toboe…don't say my name like that."
In my adrenaline, and hormone induced high all I can do is blink in confusion. "Hunh? But…why not? You don't like it?" My fuzzy mind can't piece it together.
"No, you idiot." He growls. "If you keep moaning like that I'm gonna lose my damn mind."
Maybe I want to see what happens when he loses his mind. When he loses all his restraint and does what I've been wanting him to do to me since he put me under his spell in those woods so many nights ago. But my omega instincts kick in, telling me to keep my mouth shut…for now.
Before my brain can even get back up to speed I feel his cold fingers slip under the collar of my shirt. I take in a sharp breath from feeling just how cold they are, but I suppose he has been sitting out here for a long time. His fingers trace over my collar bone while his lips find their way to my throat. I feel just the very tips of his fangs brush against the large vein on my neck. It's such a dominant thing to do, it makes my omega blood sing and makes me shiver. Oh god, it's getting so hard to be quiet. To not say his name when that's all I want to say. I faintly hear the buttons to my shirt go snap…snap…snap as he undoes them painfully slow. He leans down and runs the tip of his nose across the pale, soft skin above my bound breasts. I shiver again.
"God, I just wanna get rid of these…" Tsume growls against the apple of my throat, tugging on a strand of my bandages.
My mind feels like it's wrapped up in hot cotton. I can't think, see, hear or even smell straight. All I'm aware of are of Tsume's hands exploring me…slipping under the back of my shirt and down my back…under the hem of my pants to squeeze the globes of my ass.
"Aaah…Tsume…" I finally can't take it anymore. I have to say it.
All of a sudden Tsume's hands fly up to my hips and hold me in an iron grip. I whimper slightly from surprise, but also from his claws digging into me. I start to pant as he grinds his hips upwards into the soft mound between my legs.
"Didn't I tell you not to say my name like that?" He growls against my open, panting lips. His golden eyes are hungry and leering at me. "This is what happens when you don't do as I say. Is this what you want?"
"Aaah-Tsume!…"I cry out, uncaring how embarrassing I sound. God he's so dominant, so strong, so hot. I just want to feel him everywhere on me-
"Uhm…eh-hem."
We hear a voice clear their throat above us and we literally scramble off each other. Well, it was more like a jump on my part. My mouth gaping in shock, I look over to see Kiba and Hige standing a few feet away from us. Both male's cheek bones are dusted with a light blush, but their expressions couldn't be more different: Kiba seems uncomfortable and is trying to look anywhere but at us, while Hige is watching with eager brown eyes and a goofy grin on his face.
"Oh no. By all means continue, you two. I was enjoying the show."
"Oh would you just shut the hell up?!" Tsume snarls, but I can see that he's blushing too. He's moved to sit in an awkward position to try and conceal his erection but…well, I mean it might as well be on his frigging forehead if it were any more obvious.
"We followed that girl into the woods to get you some herbs…" Kiba says, still refusing to look at us. He reaches into his pocket and produces a handful of dark green, shiny leaves as proof.
"But apparently it seems that you're doin just fine anyway." Hige finishes where Kiba left off.
Oh god. Oh my GOD! I've never been more embarrassed in all of my life. How long were they standing there? Were they…did they listen to what Tsume was saying? And my shirt is all hanging open and I was frigging moaning for crying out loud…god I'm sure my face is redder than my shirt right now.
Our group falls into a heavy awkward silence that I don't know how to break. Kiba, of course, is the one to break the uncomfortable spell and steps forward to kneel next to Tsume. "Here." He says, offering Tsume some of the herbs. "Put these over your wounds and apply some pressure. When they wilt replace them with new ones."
Tsume takes them from our leader without a word, staring into the distance.
I look down at Tsume who has his gaze firmly fixed on the herbs in his hand. I wonder…is he embarrassed too? I don't think I've ever seen Tsume embarrassed about anything before.
I don't think I've ever been in my pack for a moment where I didn't want there to be silence. But oh god I…I'm so flustered and the silence is so uncomfortable I pray for something—anything—to happen to take our minds off of it.
A twig snaps to our left and it would seem that my prayer has been answered. It is the Lynx girl again. This time she is brave enough to stand clear in front of the trees and stare us all valiantly in the eye.
"It's you again." Hige murmurs.
"Thank you for showing us where the herbs were to help our friend. But…why did you help us?" Kiba doesn't waste any time beating around the bush.
He raises a good point: Not only are we a potential threat to her but if there's four wolves instead of three her odds are even worse. So why…?
The child is silent as she turns to fix her purple gaze on the Schatten Wald we've left behind us. When she turns back to look at us, her brow is furrowed in determination. "Any enemy of that wretched witch is a friend of mine." Is all she says before she spins around on her heel and flees back into the trees.
Things are uncomfortable between all of us for a while after that. We realize that our spot out in the field is a little too obvious, so we reluctantly move into the stretch of trees to our left. But this time we have taken extra precautions: No one is to go off into the woods alone and someone is to always be up standing guard while the others sleep.
We do this for three days until Tsume's cuts start to heal over. Those herbs are really something: Usually injuries like Tsume's would take five or more days to heal. But regardless, I'm just glad that Tsume is doing better.
Another day or so later Tsume is doing just fine and I couldn't be happier. He's as good as new and we can finally start up our journey again! Although…as of late, I have to admit: I'm starting to have my doubts about searching for paradise. Don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't believe in it. I just…it feels like we aren't getting anywhere. We've been to a lot of places since we've left Freeze City in search of paradise but…I don't think we've found anything that's brought us significantly closer to it. And I don't think I'm the only one who feels this way…
"C'mon, runt!" Hige calls over his shoulder.
I snap out of my daze and realize that I've yet again fallen behind our group.
"Get a move on or we'll leave ya behind!" he calls and I rush over to our pack. The last thing I want to be is alone in these woods again…
I can tell that Hige and certainly Tsume are starting to have their doubts too. Only Kiba seems confident of where we're going. But he's always like that about everything.
All of a sudden I hear a wretched noise shrill in the air. My hands rise up to cover my ears instinctively. It sounds like a bunch of loud cicadas mixed with a whole bunch of other obnoxious sounding machinery.
"It's an air ship…" I hear Hige murmur beside me. His head is cocked to the side as he listens to the awful noise. "It must be one of the noble's."
"Ugh, I hate that sound."I mutter and feel my brow furrow.
Kiba and Tsume don't even have a chance to say anything before we see a large flash of red light and then the crash that follows from one of the ship's laser beams striking the ground.
"Wah!" I cry and instinctively cling on to Hige. "What's going on?!"
"Wow, they're really goin' at it." He says.
They? I look up to the sky and realize that there's another smaller ship that's desperately dodging the bigger ship's laser beams.
Everything is happening so fast. The next minute we hear a terrible explosion and now the small black ship is plummeting out of the sky. My first instinct is to run away from this plummeting ship, because I think it's a safe bet that this thing's going to make a really big explosion upon impact. But leave it to Kiba to be the only one running towards the crashing air craft. What on earth is he doing?
"Kiba!" Tsume yells and takes after him. Me and Hige quickly follow suit. Really, what has him so worked up? His blue eyes are fixed on the sky as he runs full speed through the forest. He's not even looking where he's going. If that were me, I would have tripped the first second in.
He leads us through the forest and up the sheer face of this really high cliff thing. Normally I wouldn't have followed him at all but…Ever since that air ship crashed I've been able to sense something. It's not really like a smell, but at the same time it is. It's more of a feeling, you know? It's kind of hard to describe but I realize that whatever it is, it must be the same force that's been driving Kiba on all this time. And I desperately want to find out what it is.
We finally reach the summit of this cliff and I feel this heart pounding, mind tingling anticipation feeling course through me. It's so strange. What is making me feel this way? I have to know. The scent of flowers is getting stronger and I know it must be a Lunar flower. But there's…more than just the flower scent. Even more than the scent of that noble mixed in with it.
We come out through the line of trees and my mouth pops open at what I see. An unintelligible noise passes through my lips as I look at not the beautiful garden, not at the cascading waterfalls, or even at all the beautiful flowers blooming near the water's edge. No. Across from us there is a maiden garbed in a light pink suit perched on a rock in the middle of a spring, basking in the moonlight. She perks up, as if sensing our presence, and turns to smile at us with all red eyes.
That feeling I've had since the beginning of the air ship crash exponentially explodes to a hundred times stronger and I take in a loud gasp of breath.
"It's her…" I hear Hige say beside me.
Without knowing why, I know that this person is the very reason I set out on this journey. She is the one we've been searching for all this time. It's her; the flower maiden. And without even speaking a single word she has left me dumbstruck and completely breathless.
Kiba shuffles forward away from the safety of our group. His blue eyes are fixed upon this maiden as if he's completely mesmerized. Despite Tsume's hushed warning he continues toward this strange but beautiful girl standing in the water until they are standing but a few feet from one another. Under his breath, I hear Kiba mutter a name I've never heard him say before. "Cheza…"
I see a warm smile slowly register on the girls face and she kneels down in the water to hug Kiba while he's in his splendid white wolf form. Over the gurgling of the water, I hear her utter these words in a soft and gentle voice: "We meet at last."
Uuuuugh sorry I know the ending wasn't all that great but that's what happens when I have to switch back and forth between writing and watching the wolf's rain episode. To be honest, that's what I've been dreading about bringing in more characters :/ because then I would have to conform with what happens in the anime episodes and either paraphrase what happens make my writing look crappy or write out word for word what happens. Ugh. Just…no. Do not want.
But anyways this is chap nine and I don't know if I'm going to have a chance to write any more of this before school starts: I'm an honor student, attending college full time, and I have a part time job soooo….once the semester starts I might not update…as much or even at all :[.
Personally I'm a little self conscious of the whole smexi scene between TxT but if you thought it was good and you wanted more let me know. Or if you hated it and thought it was too much let me know. Any feed back at all would be nice.
Please review if you read to the end. I always do for your stuff and I'd appreciate the same courtesy.
And now an excerpt from my crazy-ass dreams
So a couple nights ago on 8/…14?/12 I had this dream that I was Maka Albarn from Soul Eater and I was out walking in the woods alone. I don't know why—training I guess?—but I didn't have my scythe with me. Anyway I came across this hole in the ground that was ringed with white stones, almost as if someone had placed them there for decoration. I can't really explain how, but for some reason every fiber of my being was screaming at me to jump in to that hole. There was just something drawing me to it. So I did, I jumped in the hole, and when I came out on the other side I was in this dream world place (a dream world inside a dream world? Dreamception) or maybe it was more like a fairy realm? Whatever. Ok so I guess in order for a person to stay in the dream world you would be presented with a challenge when you first entered. And if you won then you could stay there forever but if you lost…well, ya died. And it wasn't a clean or simple death either. I mean like REALLY creative deaths. So when I went into the dream world for the first time I came to this Amazon area and a park ranger that worked there was like "Okay so for your first challenge you gottah jump in this here river and scoop out all the poisonous snakes that are swimming in there!" We were standing on a bridge above this really wide and fast river in a jungle some where and when I looked down I could see yellow and black striped snakes squiggling in there. And I was like how in the fudge! But before I could even finish she jumped in there and grabbed a handful of snakes and was like "There! It's easy. Now you try." But I still wasn't ready to try so I made this fat kid in front of me go first. Well…needless to say he wasn't a very strong swimmer and got washed away with the current and then all the snakes ate him. Then I was like Uhhm…could I maybe have a different challenge? So then all of a sudden Soul was with me (as my scythe) and I was pitted against Justin the Guillotine guy who's like a major villain psycho guy in the manga. But for some reason I wasn't scared at all when I was fighting him. I was like Yeah bitch! Bring it on woooo! Probably cuz I was Maka :/ So then I beat the shit out a Justin and I chose to live my life in the dream realm. But my redhead, over protective, father in the real world wanted me to come home and I was like but if I go back to the real world I'll have accomplished nothing there and I would have just wasted all this time. I had like a family and everything. But then I tried crossing over to see what would happen and me and my family were all transported to the real world.
And then I woke up to an ordinary day.
