Akazukin-chan


She was stunning in her red, hooded cloak and the clean plain dress. He had been following her, as usual, telling himself that he was watching out for her. He watched the interesting little female walk through the quiet park, late at night, surrounded by the five wolves that were her companions. They followed her like docile, perfectly trained show dogs. Was she a trainer now? It seemed like it. She leaned down and pet each one and then placed a sweet kiss on the nose of the white one with the strange, amethyst colored eyes.

She looked out across the park with her glowing golden eyes and spied the observer. He saw her familiar face. Was that Kyoko? A sick feeling roiled in his stomach as she pointed to him and five pairs of lupine eyes focused squarely on him. He felt the dire need to flee immediately, remembering what he had said to her, remembering that wolves were dangerous animals and she had full control. He heard the longing howl of the white one and felt all of the blood leave his body. He had seen enough nature shows to know that was the sound that signified a hunt.

Shotaro Fuwa quickly turned on his heels and started to run. The howls and growls from his pursuers assaulted his ears from every direction. He could swear that he heard a sinister laugh and a male voice. "We will gnaw your bones for your sins toward our Akazukin-chan." Where had he heard that voice before? Another chimed in. "Our mistress deserves to be treated as a queen, you common trash." The three others seemed to laugh playfully.

"NO! No, I'm sorry Kyoko! I didn't mean it!" He sputtered out breathlessly as he tried to run faster, feeling the heat on his back from the first male wolf, the white one. He fell to the ground, lungs aching and muscles screaming for rest.

"Did you really think it would be so simple, Sho? If apologies were enough, there would be no reason for Hell." A familiar voice told him as a sixth and final wolf approached, a silky black female with golden eyes and a red leather collar. He could swear he saw it smile at him.

She leaned in and sniffed his neck near his ear. "Fear smells delicious on you Sho." She licked his neck and he screamed.

"Please don't eat me!" He begged.

She turned up her nose at him and the others laughed. The white one nuzzled her neck. "He's not worth your time, My Love. He will only upset your stomach." The white one snickered as he nodded towards the others.

One by one, all but the black female wolf, walked up to him as he lay on the ground whimpering in fear and urinated on him, then kicked dust onto him.

Reino licked her ear gently. "Pfft... Not even close to being alpha material." He scoffed and nipped at her backside. "Let's go find some dinner, Beautiful. He's too plain and boring to entertain us." And the six wolves left a shivering, terrified Shotaro Fuwa laying on the cold sand of the playground where he had finally fallen, covered in his own and their urine, listening to the now distant howls of the hunting pack of wolves in the wooded park at the center of Tokyo.