Disclaimer- I do not own any of the Wolf's Rain characters.
ShadowYoukai17- yeah I wrote this late last night and I was too tired to go over it.
PsychopathicBendyStraw- (cool name) Yeah I guess it is a weird way to think of something like this.
MalletWielderofDoom- Yeah Tsume and Kiba are kind of distant to comfort him. That's why theirs Toboe! And by the way, how do you pronounce his name? I forgot for some reason.
Luke Yatsumi- He didn't know a cliff was there, because, well, everything's white so he couldn't really tell. If you have time to look back on that part it shows that he's confused where Hige went after he shoved him.
Lizzie- I'll try to ignore flames if I get any but they help me a little. I guess.
Silver Badger 31- Yeah Toboe will hopefully feel better but I'm not sure yet. I'm not sure yet when I want Hige to get better either. (You're Probley thinking right now I'm an evil person)
Well, I hope you guys all like this chapter. I'll try to make it more interesting then the last one. I had to do a lot of research to figure out what would happen when you're wet and don't get warm soon enough. Oh yeah, I'm not sure but the characters may be OOC. Don't yell at me if they are, just agree and tell me what they might have done instead. Thanks!
Well have fun reading this part!
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"It's all my fault." He said then let the tears fall.
Kiba looked at Toboe unsure what to really do. He knew he shouldn't be thinking that it was his fault because it really wasn't. Honestly it was Hige's fault. He was the one that kept walking and refused to walk back to where they were. But then, he hated to say this, but it was Toboe who pushed him down the hill. But then, he didn't know that Hige was even by the hill.
"It's not your fault." Kiba looked up to see Tsume talking to Toboe. "It was Hige who decided to walk on the lake when I told him not to." He then moved over and sat by Hige and starred at his feet.
Toboe sniffed and wiped his eyes with his hands and looked over at the cave side being embarrassed to be crying in front of them. "Yeah, but...I...pushed ...him."
Tsume looked up from where his eyes were and starred at Toboe with a gentle but stern look in his eyes. "No it wasn't. As I saw you had no idea he stood by a cliff. If you did, I'm sure you wouldn't have pushed him."
He left it at that and looked at Hige's uncontrollable shivering. The next thing he saw was Kiba taking off his jacket and putting it on Hige. Kiba then looked into Tsume's eyes then said, "He needs it more then I do." Then Kiba walked by Toboe and sat down.
They all sat in silence all with separate thoughts. Kiba thinking how they were going to make it to Paradise with a sick wolf. Tsume thinking of how stupid Hige was for not listening to him when he called for him to come back. Then that left Toboe still thinking that it was his entire fault this happened. How everyone was just telling him it wasn't his fault when it really was. They just didn't want him to cry anymore so they had to make up some lie to get him to shut up. He was just a crybaby. Nothing more. He was useless.
All their thoughts were interrupted by a small sound coming from Hige. "Kiba." He kept whispering over and over again. "Toboe." He whispered once or twice, then "Tsume no." He was obviously dreaming. Everyone stopped breathing to hear what he was going to say next. "Not your fault. All mine." Then he shut his eyes tight and made noises as if he was crying then said, "Tsume, please don't leave me here." Tsume understood what he was saying. It was as if everyone was about to leave him here alone. Then he said, "Kiba, please stay with me! Don't leave. Please don't." Then he grew silent. His shivering had eased down after awhile but it was still there.
"He's dreaming." Toboe said out loud.
"You just realized that?" Tsume asked with no hint of humor in his low voice.
"He thinks we're going to leave him. Leave him here all alone or something." Kiba said slowly.
Toboe had a little bit of fear in his voice as he said, "We're not going to are we?" He then looked at Tsume wondering what he was going to next.
"We can't. He'll die here without us. I'm surprised he survived in a city without getting killed off by the humans as stupid as he is."
"He's not stupid!" Toboe shouted at his biggest role model sticking up for Hige. He knew that in ways he was kind of, well, weird, but he wasn't stupid. He may have acted like it once or twice, well maybe more then that, but he wasn't stupid!
Kiba looked at Toboe smiling a little. "He didn't mean it that way runt. He meant it in how he didn't listen to his yelling to come back. He's stupid in the manner how he doesn't listen what others say. I hope he learns his lesson from this all." He said then his smile widened a little thinking of how he would deny every word said to him when he woke up when ever he did. Sure they would give him a little sympathy but they might as well make him remember how to listen to others.
"He's waking up." Tsume said. Looking at Hige, he could tell he was in a great deal of pain. Not physical pain, but emotional pain. His eyes opened and he looked as though he was all alone in the world.
He whispered something nobody but Tsume could hear saying, "Sorry." He then looked as though he were going to cry. He spoke louder saying, "You wouldn't leave me would you guys?"
Everyone knew what he meant then all spoke 'of course not.'
Hige looked up at the rock ceiling saying, "Some people say trust your dreams when you have one. I'm not sure if I can trust it or not."
Kiba looked at Hige not really knowing what he was saying. "What do you mean?"
Hige turned his head away as if he were going to cry but didn't. "In my dream, well the one I just had, you all left. I'm a burned aren't I? Making everyone wait for me after something I did. Not listening to Tsume after he directly told me to come back. Tsume decided that I should be left behind. He made Kiba follow and Toboe killed himself saying it was his entire fault everyone left me. I didn't know what to do. I tried to make you stay but you each bit me and said I didn't deserve to be a wolf."
Tsume looked down a Hige feeling a little sorry that he had to have such a bad dream. Not even he, would want a dream that terrible. Especially when all your friends turn on you and try to hurt you. Another part of it is when you're completely defenseless and can't defend yourself.
Hige tried to sit up but found himself unable to do so. Without thinking what he was doing, Tsume put his hand on Hige's back and supported him so he could sit up. He caught himself holding him their and was about to drop him but found he didn't have the heart to do that. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Kiba starring at him confused as to why he would help someone like Hige.
"Thanks." Hige said then used his own hands to support himself as he carefully balanced himself. He was still too weak to sit up on his own and had to use his hands for support but them too were slowly wearing out. "Damn this sucks!" He shouted to himself over his own weakness. He wasn't even able to support himself in sitting up.
"Maybe you should have listened to Tsume for once Hige." Toboe spoke up thinking of the way Hige completely ignored Tsume when he told him to come back to where he was.
"Shut up runt!" Hige yelled.
Tsume looked at Hige then said, "Actually, I think he's more responsible then you are. You should be called the runt as far as I can tell."
Hige grumbled a few words to himself such as 'stupid lake' and responsible my ass' before he shut up to everyone starring at him.
It was just then when Hige looked down he noticed a coat on his lap that had rolled down when he sat up. "Kiba?"
Kiba looked up at what Hige was starring at and turned away. "If it was going to keep you alive I was willing to give it to you."
"I never knew you would actually care that much."
"I'm not caring. I'm just doing what it takes to keep a pack alive."
Hige smiled to himself and scooted himself to the end of the cave. "Thanks."
All of them looked at the ground in silence as they thought about what was about to happen. When would Hige get better? Would he get better? The snow on the outside stopped once again and the moon came out showing it was night.
"I'm going to hunt." Tsume said then left the cave without another word coming from his or anyone else's mouth.
After a few hours of, Hige shaking, Toboe whining, Kiba arguing and Tsume being gone, he finally came back with eight rabbits on his shoulder. He threw two to everyone and sat down himself and started eating.
Toboe ate his two faster then lightning judging how hungry he was while Tsume and Kiba slowly ate theirs. Hige just starred at his and smelled it. Ugh! He was not in the mood for eating. His stomach ached each time he brought it to his mouth making him pull it back down.
"I can't eat. I feel like I'm going to be sick." He spat out.
Tsume looked at him with a gentle glare. "Eat it. You need energy because like it or not we're leaving tomorrow." He then went back to eating not bothering what Hige would say next.
"But I can't---"
"Eat runt before I shove it down your throat!"
Hige took that as a warning and took a few bites grimacing at how bad his stomach felt. He ate slowly not wanting to throw up all over the cave. Why did his appetite all of a sudden change?
He took slow bites until he had one rabbit finished then looked at the other. Just looking at it made him gag. Without knowing what was happening or what he said he kneeled down so his nose was only inches away from the floor. "I'm going to throw up." Kiba looked at him with a bad look then yelled, "Hige don't!" But it was too late.
Hige had thrown un-digested food all over the floor coughing and hacking as hard as he could. "I told you." He mumbled.
Everyone's eyes were on him as they frowned from the smell and sight of what lay on the floor.
Tsume looked at him then said, "Great! Now what do we do?" He looked away from Hige not wanting to remember what lay only a few feet away from him. Everyone grumbled as Hige sat with his hands on his bare stomach not wanting to think about food.
"I'll clean it up." Toboe mumbled getting up. -------------------------
Hige lay once again next to the fire still feeling as if he was going to throw up. A had ace had actually developed making his head feel like it was throbbing in tons of places. Every time he moved the muscle would scream telling him not to do so. Now he was really regretting ignoring Tsume.
Everyone had fallen asleep leaving Hige alone thinking of how tomorrow he would suffer the consequences. Not only would he have no energy, he would most likely have a headache and sour stomach making him not want to go. There was no possible way Tsume would want to stay another day even with Hige's condition. He would just have to bare the consequences of not listening. ----------------------
The next morning he woke to the sound of Tsume putting the fire out. He could hear Kiba and Toboe talking about Paradise. He tried to fall back asleep but felt someone drop some clothes onto his chest.
"Put them on they're dry." The voice was Tsume. He finally put the fire out but looked back to Hige and found him asleep again. "I said put them on!"
He still ignored the voice that was making his head only pound worse. "You're not too weak are you?" Toboe asked.
"That's it." He then felt two strong hands lift his armpits that picked him up into a sitting position. Before he knew what was happening he felt the clothes being slipped into his body with his arms still inside the shirt and sweater. "Now do the rest runt." Hige opened his eyes and looked up to see a deadly glare looking down upon him.
Normally he would smile and try to make a joke about it but found himself too weak to move. He slowly put his hands through the sleeves making him feel much warmer. Too warm. Before he knew it, he was sweating uncontrollably. He didn't shiver as much anymore for he had slowly developed a fever from the cold water.
"Lets go Hige." Kiba's voice rang in his ears. He managed to stand up following Toboe who walked a few feet ahead of him.
His head would not stop throbbing. It felt as if he was going to die this moment on. His stomach wasn't as bad as his head though but he knew he still couldn't eat if he tried. Toboe's voice kept ringing in his ears making him want to scream to tell him to just shut up for once.
He held himself back for a few minutes until he couldn't help it anymore, "Toboe shut up!" Everyone stopped and looked at him as though he had just killed someone. He picked up some snow that lay on the ground and put it to his head trying to make his headache go away and to cool himself down.
The people behind him continued to walk but remained quiet for they didn't want to disturb him anymore. But Toboe agreed different. "Didn't get sleep last night?"
Hige turned around and glared at him then said, "Exactly." Then continued on. "Oh well I could tell because you're in such a GROUCHY MOOD!"
Hige completely stopped now feeling the temperature inside him rise a few hundred feet. Now he was really pissed! "I'm starting to wish my dream would have come true and you could just go away and leave me alone Toboe."
That sentence caused everyone in the pack to stare at him with a stunned look. Toboe took it especially hard and almost started to cry. "You... don't...mean it do...you?" He asked.
"Yes I do! So just go away." He then continued to walk on. Toboe looked at him for a second then with all his might ran as fast as he could and jumped onto Hige sending him down on his knees. From then on they got into a huge fistfight with Tsume and Kiba trying to break the fighting teens up.
In the end Toboe ended up with a bruised cheek while Hige had lots more damage for he was too weak to defend himself. Toboe refused to look at Hige as he walked in the front of the group with Tsume behind him. Kiba walked side by side with Hige making sure he wouldn't boil too bad on the trip.
All Hige wanted to do at the moment was stop and cry for he had never felt to emotionally hurt and physically hurt in his life.
---------------- I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I had fun writing it at least. Review what you like!
ShadowYoukai17- yeah I wrote this late last night and I was too tired to go over it.
PsychopathicBendyStraw- (cool name) Yeah I guess it is a weird way to think of something like this.
MalletWielderofDoom- Yeah Tsume and Kiba are kind of distant to comfort him. That's why theirs Toboe! And by the way, how do you pronounce his name? I forgot for some reason.
Luke Yatsumi- He didn't know a cliff was there, because, well, everything's white so he couldn't really tell. If you have time to look back on that part it shows that he's confused where Hige went after he shoved him.
Lizzie- I'll try to ignore flames if I get any but they help me a little. I guess.
Silver Badger 31- Yeah Toboe will hopefully feel better but I'm not sure yet. I'm not sure yet when I want Hige to get better either. (You're Probley thinking right now I'm an evil person)
Well, I hope you guys all like this chapter. I'll try to make it more interesting then the last one. I had to do a lot of research to figure out what would happen when you're wet and don't get warm soon enough. Oh yeah, I'm not sure but the characters may be OOC. Don't yell at me if they are, just agree and tell me what they might have done instead. Thanks!
Well have fun reading this part!
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"It's all my fault." He said then let the tears fall.
Kiba looked at Toboe unsure what to really do. He knew he shouldn't be thinking that it was his fault because it really wasn't. Honestly it was Hige's fault. He was the one that kept walking and refused to walk back to where they were. But then, he hated to say this, but it was Toboe who pushed him down the hill. But then, he didn't know that Hige was even by the hill.
"It's not your fault." Kiba looked up to see Tsume talking to Toboe. "It was Hige who decided to walk on the lake when I told him not to." He then moved over and sat by Hige and starred at his feet.
Toboe sniffed and wiped his eyes with his hands and looked over at the cave side being embarrassed to be crying in front of them. "Yeah, but...I...pushed ...him."
Tsume looked up from where his eyes were and starred at Toboe with a gentle but stern look in his eyes. "No it wasn't. As I saw you had no idea he stood by a cliff. If you did, I'm sure you wouldn't have pushed him."
He left it at that and looked at Hige's uncontrollable shivering. The next thing he saw was Kiba taking off his jacket and putting it on Hige. Kiba then looked into Tsume's eyes then said, "He needs it more then I do." Then Kiba walked by Toboe and sat down.
They all sat in silence all with separate thoughts. Kiba thinking how they were going to make it to Paradise with a sick wolf. Tsume thinking of how stupid Hige was for not listening to him when he called for him to come back. Then that left Toboe still thinking that it was his entire fault this happened. How everyone was just telling him it wasn't his fault when it really was. They just didn't want him to cry anymore so they had to make up some lie to get him to shut up. He was just a crybaby. Nothing more. He was useless.
All their thoughts were interrupted by a small sound coming from Hige. "Kiba." He kept whispering over and over again. "Toboe." He whispered once or twice, then "Tsume no." He was obviously dreaming. Everyone stopped breathing to hear what he was going to say next. "Not your fault. All mine." Then he shut his eyes tight and made noises as if he was crying then said, "Tsume, please don't leave me here." Tsume understood what he was saying. It was as if everyone was about to leave him here alone. Then he said, "Kiba, please stay with me! Don't leave. Please don't." Then he grew silent. His shivering had eased down after awhile but it was still there.
"He's dreaming." Toboe said out loud.
"You just realized that?" Tsume asked with no hint of humor in his low voice.
"He thinks we're going to leave him. Leave him here all alone or something." Kiba said slowly.
Toboe had a little bit of fear in his voice as he said, "We're not going to are we?" He then looked at Tsume wondering what he was going to next.
"We can't. He'll die here without us. I'm surprised he survived in a city without getting killed off by the humans as stupid as he is."
"He's not stupid!" Toboe shouted at his biggest role model sticking up for Hige. He knew that in ways he was kind of, well, weird, but he wasn't stupid. He may have acted like it once or twice, well maybe more then that, but he wasn't stupid!
Kiba looked at Toboe smiling a little. "He didn't mean it that way runt. He meant it in how he didn't listen to his yelling to come back. He's stupid in the manner how he doesn't listen what others say. I hope he learns his lesson from this all." He said then his smile widened a little thinking of how he would deny every word said to him when he woke up when ever he did. Sure they would give him a little sympathy but they might as well make him remember how to listen to others.
"He's waking up." Tsume said. Looking at Hige, he could tell he was in a great deal of pain. Not physical pain, but emotional pain. His eyes opened and he looked as though he was all alone in the world.
He whispered something nobody but Tsume could hear saying, "Sorry." He then looked as though he were going to cry. He spoke louder saying, "You wouldn't leave me would you guys?"
Everyone knew what he meant then all spoke 'of course not.'
Hige looked up at the rock ceiling saying, "Some people say trust your dreams when you have one. I'm not sure if I can trust it or not."
Kiba looked at Hige not really knowing what he was saying. "What do you mean?"
Hige turned his head away as if he were going to cry but didn't. "In my dream, well the one I just had, you all left. I'm a burned aren't I? Making everyone wait for me after something I did. Not listening to Tsume after he directly told me to come back. Tsume decided that I should be left behind. He made Kiba follow and Toboe killed himself saying it was his entire fault everyone left me. I didn't know what to do. I tried to make you stay but you each bit me and said I didn't deserve to be a wolf."
Tsume looked down a Hige feeling a little sorry that he had to have such a bad dream. Not even he, would want a dream that terrible. Especially when all your friends turn on you and try to hurt you. Another part of it is when you're completely defenseless and can't defend yourself.
Hige tried to sit up but found himself unable to do so. Without thinking what he was doing, Tsume put his hand on Hige's back and supported him so he could sit up. He caught himself holding him their and was about to drop him but found he didn't have the heart to do that. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Kiba starring at him confused as to why he would help someone like Hige.
"Thanks." Hige said then used his own hands to support himself as he carefully balanced himself. He was still too weak to sit up on his own and had to use his hands for support but them too were slowly wearing out. "Damn this sucks!" He shouted to himself over his own weakness. He wasn't even able to support himself in sitting up.
"Maybe you should have listened to Tsume for once Hige." Toboe spoke up thinking of the way Hige completely ignored Tsume when he told him to come back to where he was.
"Shut up runt!" Hige yelled.
Tsume looked at Hige then said, "Actually, I think he's more responsible then you are. You should be called the runt as far as I can tell."
Hige grumbled a few words to himself such as 'stupid lake' and responsible my ass' before he shut up to everyone starring at him.
It was just then when Hige looked down he noticed a coat on his lap that had rolled down when he sat up. "Kiba?"
Kiba looked up at what Hige was starring at and turned away. "If it was going to keep you alive I was willing to give it to you."
"I never knew you would actually care that much."
"I'm not caring. I'm just doing what it takes to keep a pack alive."
Hige smiled to himself and scooted himself to the end of the cave. "Thanks."
All of them looked at the ground in silence as they thought about what was about to happen. When would Hige get better? Would he get better? The snow on the outside stopped once again and the moon came out showing it was night.
"I'm going to hunt." Tsume said then left the cave without another word coming from his or anyone else's mouth.
After a few hours of, Hige shaking, Toboe whining, Kiba arguing and Tsume being gone, he finally came back with eight rabbits on his shoulder. He threw two to everyone and sat down himself and started eating.
Toboe ate his two faster then lightning judging how hungry he was while Tsume and Kiba slowly ate theirs. Hige just starred at his and smelled it. Ugh! He was not in the mood for eating. His stomach ached each time he brought it to his mouth making him pull it back down.
"I can't eat. I feel like I'm going to be sick." He spat out.
Tsume looked at him with a gentle glare. "Eat it. You need energy because like it or not we're leaving tomorrow." He then went back to eating not bothering what Hige would say next.
"But I can't---"
"Eat runt before I shove it down your throat!"
Hige took that as a warning and took a few bites grimacing at how bad his stomach felt. He ate slowly not wanting to throw up all over the cave. Why did his appetite all of a sudden change?
He took slow bites until he had one rabbit finished then looked at the other. Just looking at it made him gag. Without knowing what was happening or what he said he kneeled down so his nose was only inches away from the floor. "I'm going to throw up." Kiba looked at him with a bad look then yelled, "Hige don't!" But it was too late.
Hige had thrown un-digested food all over the floor coughing and hacking as hard as he could. "I told you." He mumbled.
Everyone's eyes were on him as they frowned from the smell and sight of what lay on the floor.
Tsume looked at him then said, "Great! Now what do we do?" He looked away from Hige not wanting to remember what lay only a few feet away from him. Everyone grumbled as Hige sat with his hands on his bare stomach not wanting to think about food.
"I'll clean it up." Toboe mumbled getting up. -------------------------
Hige lay once again next to the fire still feeling as if he was going to throw up. A had ace had actually developed making his head feel like it was throbbing in tons of places. Every time he moved the muscle would scream telling him not to do so. Now he was really regretting ignoring Tsume.
Everyone had fallen asleep leaving Hige alone thinking of how tomorrow he would suffer the consequences. Not only would he have no energy, he would most likely have a headache and sour stomach making him not want to go. There was no possible way Tsume would want to stay another day even with Hige's condition. He would just have to bare the consequences of not listening. ----------------------
The next morning he woke to the sound of Tsume putting the fire out. He could hear Kiba and Toboe talking about Paradise. He tried to fall back asleep but felt someone drop some clothes onto his chest.
"Put them on they're dry." The voice was Tsume. He finally put the fire out but looked back to Hige and found him asleep again. "I said put them on!"
He still ignored the voice that was making his head only pound worse. "You're not too weak are you?" Toboe asked.
"That's it." He then felt two strong hands lift his armpits that picked him up into a sitting position. Before he knew what was happening he felt the clothes being slipped into his body with his arms still inside the shirt and sweater. "Now do the rest runt." Hige opened his eyes and looked up to see a deadly glare looking down upon him.
Normally he would smile and try to make a joke about it but found himself too weak to move. He slowly put his hands through the sleeves making him feel much warmer. Too warm. Before he knew it, he was sweating uncontrollably. He didn't shiver as much anymore for he had slowly developed a fever from the cold water.
"Lets go Hige." Kiba's voice rang in his ears. He managed to stand up following Toboe who walked a few feet ahead of him.
His head would not stop throbbing. It felt as if he was going to die this moment on. His stomach wasn't as bad as his head though but he knew he still couldn't eat if he tried. Toboe's voice kept ringing in his ears making him want to scream to tell him to just shut up for once.
He held himself back for a few minutes until he couldn't help it anymore, "Toboe shut up!" Everyone stopped and looked at him as though he had just killed someone. He picked up some snow that lay on the ground and put it to his head trying to make his headache go away and to cool himself down.
The people behind him continued to walk but remained quiet for they didn't want to disturb him anymore. But Toboe agreed different. "Didn't get sleep last night?"
Hige turned around and glared at him then said, "Exactly." Then continued on. "Oh well I could tell because you're in such a GROUCHY MOOD!"
Hige completely stopped now feeling the temperature inside him rise a few hundred feet. Now he was really pissed! "I'm starting to wish my dream would have come true and you could just go away and leave me alone Toboe."
That sentence caused everyone in the pack to stare at him with a stunned look. Toboe took it especially hard and almost started to cry. "You... don't...mean it do...you?" He asked.
"Yes I do! So just go away." He then continued to walk on. Toboe looked at him for a second then with all his might ran as fast as he could and jumped onto Hige sending him down on his knees. From then on they got into a huge fistfight with Tsume and Kiba trying to break the fighting teens up.
In the end Toboe ended up with a bruised cheek while Hige had lots more damage for he was too weak to defend himself. Toboe refused to look at Hige as he walked in the front of the group with Tsume behind him. Kiba walked side by side with Hige making sure he wouldn't boil too bad on the trip.
All Hige wanted to do at the moment was stop and cry for he had never felt to emotionally hurt and physically hurt in his life.
---------------- I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I had fun writing it at least. Review what you like!