Chapter Twenty-Three: Stay

Here is the next chapter for you all.

Sorry about the delay on getting this chapter out. The last couple of weeks have been a wee bit crazy busy.

I hope you all enjoy and have a Jesus filled day.

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Previously:

The red eyed wolf gave a playful growl pulling his ear free, "Really? Why can't I call you that?" Kiba scoffed and turned to face the other way, "Mommy's boy."

"I take that as a complement Daddy's boy."

The two continued to banter in their wolf forms as the others around them watched amused. Kristi looked at Quent watching with a raised eyebrow, "They do this often."

He looked over seeing the female white wolf take on her human illusion. "Seems like it."

Now:

Once Kiba and Mark (1) were done bantering and the white wolf felt better the group was now able to make plans concerning getting the wolves into town without seeming suspicious. "We could say our families are friends and we came to stay with you for a short time?" Kristi (2) suggested quietly so the neighbors didn't hear, "Besides it will only be four of us really walking in the other are acting like dogs."

Hubb nodded, "That is true with less of you really it does seem like you are just kids of a friend coming to visit."

"To make it more legit we could have Kiba parents be my friends and he will visit me. It is just coincidence that we live in the same city." Quent suggested as he leaned back petting Blue softly. She was now awake and happy that Kiba had some of his memories of her and Pops.

The blued eyed brunet nodded, "Seems legit. That way it separates the group a bit." He looked at Quent, "I take that you have a smaller place."

Quent nodded, "Yep. It's just me so no need to worry about a lot of people visiting me. I just got there not too long ago so not a lot of people know where I really live unless they have a valid reason to look it up in my records. You would be safer at my place than over Hubb and Cher's."

Mark laid his head on the brunets lap closing his eyes. He let out a soft sigh currently all but Kristi, Mark, and Kiba were in wolf form. Quent, Hubb, and Cher were gifted with the ability to hear them talking. Not many humans had this ability but even so wolves were careful when it came to talking around humans if they were near the packs. Hubb frowned, "That is true." He wished it wasn't but him already going to have three 'teenagers' in his house would already get people interested in what was going on. Having the very brunet that the nobles were looking for would be dangerous. No one would think to look at Quent's place. He was known for having stray 'dogs' go near his house. Why not a stray kid? "It's better to be safe then sorry." It would also help that it was harder to get to Quent's place than theirs.

"Sounds like a plan. So what's the story we are going with."

Quent smiled, "I knew his parents before the left the town I lived in before it got burnt down. They sent mail saying they needed me to look after their son Keith (3) while they went on a small trip." Kiba smiled amused making the man raise an eyebrow, "What?"

"Keith is my dog name." He and Mark were chuckling along with all their friends. "It's going to be weird for me to hear that name while in human form."

Quent smirked, "And your nickname will be Key." Kiba held a hand over his mouth while he and his friends laughed quietly or snickered. "Let me guess your friends call you that from time to time." The burnet nodded in confirmation not trusting himself to be quiet with his laughter if he tried to talk.

Hubb chuckled amused with his wife, "Cher knows Kristi's mom through a family friend while I know Spencer and Levi's parents as past friends. Their kids wanted to visit Dome city for a while and they called sent us a letter asking us if we could look out for them while they visited." Cher nodded in agreement.

"How long did you have to be here?" Spencer (4) asked peering up lazily. The laughter had slowly died down.

"We actually leave in a couple of days." Cher replied with a smile, "The three of us need to get our reports together to turn into our respective bosses."

Kiba looked at Quent, "I take I'll be staying with you the rest of the time here?" The man nodded making the teen chuckled, "Okay."

Quent stood up putting a leash on Blue, "Alright I'm going to go. I'll see you two later. I got to get Keith and I to the apartment. They got to know I have a kid staying with me in addition to my dog."

The teenager stood up Mark going back to wolf form. "See you all soon."

Kiba followed Quent outside the apartment. He gently bet Blue's head, "So you know my parents. What was it like knowing them?"

The man smiled, "Met them in Kyrios. They lived on the edge of town so not a lot of people visited them." In his mind he couldn't help but smirk, 'And people can hear this all they want but they can't get any records due to everything being burned down by that crazy noble chick.' He frowned as he remembered his family had also died in the fire. It was the fire that caused his and Blue's memory to come back. They were lucky that Cher and Hubb had remembered them when they got to Dome City. He didn't know what he would do without them. His fist tightened then looked at the teenager looking at him concerned. He could see those blue eyes had a vague idea of what happened but was keeping his mouth shut. It was almost like he understood. "Don't worry kid. I've had time to get over their death." He placed a hand on Kiba's shoulder in a way of telling him that they could talk in more depth when they got to the house. However he felt the need to say, "Your parents are good people everyone in town loved them."

Kiba smiled at him and continued to follow Quent to his house. As they walked Mark and Blue talked. "So what was it like growing up with Kiba?"

"The best." Mark replied his head high allowing his 'master' to scratch him gently behind the ears. "He's fun, crazy, and super intelligent. Our pack could fall apart easily without him. I'm more there to ground him and help him when he doesn't have any idea to figure out a problem."

The female half wolf gave a small laugh hearing that, "That is so different from when I knew him." She glanced at Kiba walking next to Quent. He looked more peaceful and happy from when she knew him. It was actually nice. "Though that said, I think I like this version of him much better. He's so much happier and full of life. It like he has something he wants to live for instead of his calling."

Mark looked at her. The way Tsume, Hige, Toboe, Blue and the humans described his best friend it was foreign to him. The person they described was so different. The old Kiba sounded nothing like the one he grew up with. Half the time Mark didn't even want to think about how Kiba really used to be like. But hearing about the old Kiba from the others… Mark's ears went down, 'That Kiba sounds like a depressed person with only one reason left to live. That's so depressing.' He looked away from Blue who looked at him concerned, 'Why do I get the feeling that it will happen again?'

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(1) (Mark (Male): Mable and Author's pup/child. Black wolf with light red eyes. Human short dark brown hair with green eyes, tan, casual with fingerless gloves (lost his two sisters to his previous packs slaughter)) (very empathetic, sweet, friendly, energetic)

(2) (Kristi (Female): Is the child of Jack and Rosslyn. Is a white furred wolf with blue eyes. Human short pale blond hair, green eyes, tan, and wears cool attire.) (funny, chatty, happy a lot of the time)

(3) Keith is Kiba's dog name

(4) (Spencer (Male): Is Corey and Mary's child. Is a grey furred wolf with yellow eyes. Human short black hair, pale blue eyes, tan, and biker attire.) (easily angered, serious, playful with his friends)