Well good morning everyone and hope you had a fun filled night. It's three
in the morning and I can't sleep, so I decided to stay up and finish
another chapter because that's how bored I am... Yes my TV is on the fritz
again... No don't go rubbing it in...
Okay, so we left of in the climatic scene of Kiba somehow recognizing the scent of the woman that's saving his life. He changed for her so she could finish stitching him up and now your awaiting question is answered... DID KIBA LIVE?!?!?!?!?!?!
Well here it is...
Morning hit him too early and Higae turned over in the cardboard box he was laying in. His body was badly bruised and ached terribly from the beating he'd received from the butcher that caught him as he tried to steal a leg of lamb. Of course he got away with a small chunk of dinner, but not before getting the crap kicked out of him.
He licked his lips and tried not to think about the pain, but it kept surfacing in his mind and he jumped up to work the achy, stiff joints.
Just as he rounded the corner of some old abandoned looking building, he caught the wonderful scent of meat roasting in an oven somewhere, and he couldn't help the instant watering of his mouth. He looked up at the curtain less windows and saw smoke coming out of one of them. The window was his goal, and the roast, and whatever else he could get his paws on.
He found the bottom of the fire escape to be very elevated, but managed to leap up high enough to change into his human form and grab the edge of the ladder to pull him self up and onto the platform. 'One floor down, just twelve more to go,' he thought, keeping his mind wholly on the roast and how good it was going to taste when he sunk his fangs into it. He didn't notice he was drooling all over himself until he felt wetness on his yellow sweatshirt. Swiftly he wiped away the mess he made and continued up the fire escape, never taking his eyes off the prize, the window containing the wonderful smelling aromas.
Angel sighed in her sleep, a tiny, nearly incoherent sound, but Kiba heard it and his eyes shot open. He saw the silver haired woman of last night leaning against the arm of the couch, her arms wrapped around his wolf- neck. Again he thought about how pretty she was, but brushed aside the thoughts and looked over at the oven and smelled the good scents of meat roasting in there.
Slowly he pulled out of her light grasp and sunk to the floor, not thinking about his front paw until after the pain exploded up his leg. He dropped to the floor like a rock and made a loud enough thud to wake Angel. She peered at him from her comfortable position on the couch and reached out her hand to pat his nose. Instantly Kiba pulled away, not out of snide dislike towards humans, but to the fact that she would pet him while he was in so much pain.
"You really shouldn't have moved, you know. Now I'll bet your bleeding again. Here give me your paw so I can see." Angel held out her hand to the wolf and he responded hesitantly. He was surprised that Angel didn't make any comment about his understanding her, but knew that somehow she was different and needed to figure out why.
Angel looked her careful stitches over with incredible slowness, not wanting to overlook one detail because it could cost this wolf his life if his paw got infected. "I think you'll be all right, but the next few days will be your judgment days. You have a bit of a fever, that's why you feel so hot, but I don't see any signs of infection. I think I did a good job of cleaning you up if I do say so myself." She yanked a pillow from the couch and placed it under his paw and then lightly set the paw down. She had to be careful because she was afraid his skin would move and pull the stitches free from their holding positions.
"All right now. I'll get you something to eat and you just sit here okay?" She turned to the stove and opened it an inch to check the progress. It seemed to be going fine and she closed the oven to move over to the telephone that sat next to the window.
Kiba watched her with eagle eyes as this woman no older then himself, no older then twenty, as she nearly glided across the floor doing little chores here and there, and tidying up the place while he watched. Finally he was fed up and changed. White fur went to black hair and his golden eyes went blue. "Who the hell are you?" He asked first, quite rudely and was given the most menacing stare he'd ever seen by a young girl who head barely reached his nose in his human form.
"And this is how you thank me for saving your life? Sheesh I'd hate to see the way you greet me if I tried to kill you."
"You have to understand that I am not a creature that is able to just waltz around anywhere and expect everyone knows I'm a wolf, so tell me how you know," Kiba ordered, his tone getting instantly on Angel's nerves.
"Isn't the answer so simple? If I know a wolf when I see one, wouldn't that make it very likely that I might be one too?" She picked up the receiver of the phone and placed it to her ear dialing a number. "Hey, Rachel!" She started, after a moment's pause for whoever was on the other line to pick up the phone. "I know I didn't make it last night but I had something...to... what do you mean Ricky replaced me? For how long?" A moment ensued when she didn't speak and Kiba wondered what could be being said on the other end of that phone line.
Angel nodded her head in understanding, biting her lip and staring off into space, she looked close to tears but she refused to let them fall. "All right! I get it, Rachel. Just tell Ricky to have my paycheck ready in half an hour, and if its not, I'm blowing off his head." She slammed down the phone, an angry silence kept Kiba from saying a word.
What knocked Angel from her pity state was the groaning of a voice from below the windowsill and she peered out it to see a boy in his late teens climbing up the condemned fire escape. Instantly she freaked out and opened the window more, "you sadistic moron! What the hell do you think you're doing on that? Don't you know that it's liabel to break at any moment?" She leaned out the window as far as she could and grabbed his arm, hauling him inside before any more damage could be done. What she hadn't expected was the excessive amount of pull she used, sent this teenager through the window and on top of her, the next few moments were spent struggling to get out from under him and keep her cheeks from burning a deep red.
Higae rocketed to his feet in seconds, just before the woman's hand came sailing across his cheek, but in spite of the biting sting in his cheek, he was smiling inside. He'd just touched the biggest boobs he'd ever seen and he didn't even have to pounce on her.
"I'm sorry, miss. I didn't mean to touch you there," he averted his gaze when hers pierced into his, and he looked around the apartment only to see another wolf standing just behind the female wolf in front of him. The male was familiar somehow though, the scent seemed too close to the wolf he met yesterday that he knew he wasn't mistaken.
Kiba leaned back against the wall, suddenly feeling the effects of too much blood loss racing to his head. Everything was going blurry and his feet buckled beneath him, causing him to fall forward. As he hit the ground he saw something he hadn't seen in years, the look of worry in Angel's eyes, a look so familiar to him he wondered how he could have missed it before. This was the wolf he had befriended so many years ago, and lost the night of the fire. Her eyes were still the same deep blue he'd always known them to be, and his last conscious thought was, 'I'm sorry, Luna. Forgive me for not coming back to you.'
Kiba's dreams flashed in sequences before his eyes, going back before he met Louie, before he came t this town, and before the fire. His mind raced back to the night the Lunar Flowers had bloomed in all their wondrous glory.
He was so tired just after they had bloomed, but he did manage to stay awake long enough to see the change that occurred in his friend before finally losing consciousness. Her hair was long and silver, reaching nearly down to her knees; it fanned out around her face and gave her the look of a seraph of the old legends. She was beautiful beyond words, and he wondered one thing through all of this, would she still be his mate when they woke up in the morning? Then he fell asleep, his head resting lightly on her chest and his arms wrapped tightly around her body in an attempt to keep her from getting cold.
Kiba's dream flashed forward to the morning and he saw himself just waking up amidst the endless sea of Lunar flowers. He saw himself as a boy as the child awoke to find that he was still human and sometime earlier Luna had bounded away without him knowing. He turned to the lake side and saw the young thirteen-year old playing in the sand, her fingers carefully picking up handfuls and letting it race through the gaps in her fingers. She laughed as it tickled her hand, before picking up another handful and doing it again.
Kiba cocked his head and tried to run forward, but failed when he noticed that his back legs were longer then his front. "How do you run on these?" He asked himself, catching the attention of the girl by the water's side.
"Just stand up!" She called to him, rising herself with absolutely no modesty at all.
The young male cub blinked and fought to steady his new human legs, but found them to be utterly useless and remained in the flowers right where he was. "If it's so easy, you come over here," he yelled at her, and with amazement he watched her come running to him as if she was born to be human. She tackled him and laughed when he made a crushed groaning sound under her weight.
"You trying to crush me?" He asked when she sat astraddle his lap, at last finally sitting still after wiggling around like some crazed wolf.
Luna laughed and grabbed his shoulders and nuzzled his neck, "of course not! I wouldn't ever crush my mate, we still have to have cubs first before I start the pouncing raids."
"Oh boy? Something to look forward to?" He felt the light nip of her sharp teeth as they bit into her shoulder. "Hey! What was that for?"
"For mocking me!" She sounded rather irked that he had to ask, but quickly it was replaced by more nuzzling that sent Kiba in the grass and flowers.
"Whoa! Slow down there, isn't the male supposed to be on top?"
Luna seemed to stop to think about this for a moment, but shrugged and laid her head on his chest. "Changing the rules never hurt anybody," she sighed. Her eyes closed and she drifted off for a moment, but came back at Kiba's insistent attention, "what?!" She yelled out at last, finally answering after he'd bugged her out of her wits. "I was trying to sleep."
"What do you think the clan is going to say about us being gone all night?"
She blushed, her cheeks turning so deep a pink Kiba wondered if she'd turn purple. "Early mating you think?" She answered.
Kiba shook his head vigorously, "your father would bean me so hard up side the head, I don't think I'd be able to see straight for the rest of my life. Then I'd be cross-eyed, and would you want a cross-eyed mate searching for your dinner?"
Luna seemed to think for a moment, her silence making Kiba's face scrunch up. "I suppose if he was cute, strong, and a good mater, I don't think I'd care if he was cross-eyed or not."
It was his turn to blush and he pinched the soft skin of her belly before reaching up and licking her cheek. "You have mating on the brain all the time. Any chance your thinking about how we're going to stay out of trouble from the family?"
"You could tell them I hit you over the head with a rock and dragged you away to go and m-" before Luna could finish, Kiba hit her on the head with his fist.
"Forget it! We're so in for it when we get back that I don't think we'll be able to see much of each other for weeks, maybe even months." He sighed and fell back into the grass, watching her out of the corner of his eye.
She looked over to the hill they had come over the night before, and speculated if her father was going to be mad at her for leaving the cubs with Jekel, it may have not been the smartest idea because he wasn't the best babysitter, but then again he did promise to take as good care of them as he could. She did trust her cousin and decided the cubs would be fine with him and stopped worrying.
"You think we should go back?" Luna asked few hours later. Their morning had consisted of learning to use their new legs and tumbling around in the flowers together until they were so tired they couldn't move.
Kiba looked at the white clouds in the blue sky, not really thinking about anything but how funny his stomach was feeling right now. Like something was crawling around in there and he couldn't stop it. He wondered if this was what 'butterflies in the belly' meant. His mother had said it awhile back, but he never really listened to her because she wasn't all right in the mind at times, but suddenly as he was thinking about her, he badly wondered what he was supposed to do about the butterflies and how to make them stop.
Luna crawled on him and the butterflies seemed to get bigger and move down in his stomach. "You're not listening to me, Kiba," she announced and made a circle with her finger on his chest, distracting him and making him shudder uncontrollably.
"Sorry, just thinking."
"About what?" She was such the innocent wolf who talked big but never really understood what she was talking about.
Kiba lightly pushed her to her knees. He couldn't take it any more and he had to get her to move a safe distance away or he was going to pounce on her. He had too many feelings raging around on the inside that his thoughts were beginning to get all messed and he was afraid he was going to say something he was going to regret later.
"Kiba? You look pale, is something wrong?"
He never got a chance to answer because just as he opened his mouth, something hit his senses like a hammer. Smoke filled his nose and he coughed wildly to get it out of his lungs. Next to him he heard Luna wheezing, but she sounded more labored and he knew he had to get her out of there quickly. "Change!" He shouted at her, the noise of a crackling fire beginning to become louder in their ears.
"I don't know how!" She cried back, gripping to his arm. She refused to let him go, afraid she'd lose him if she did.
The smoke was so thick around them that that they couldn't even see each other even though they weren't a few inches from each other's faces.
Kiba pressed her to the ground and under the smoke, and she seemed to get better as she gasped for breath and clutched him tightly. "I'm scared," she mumbled in his ear as he laid on her a moment to catch his breath.
"I know. But we'll be all right. Now I need you to change for me, Luna. Go back to being a wolf."
"I don't know how to, Kiba. I've never been human before," she whimpered out.
He bared his teeth and sunk them into her neck. Her reaction was instantaneous, she bucked beneath him in a futile attempt to get away from the pain, and in turn caused her wolf instincts to come out, instantly she changed into her old form.
"YOU HURT ME!" She screamed at him as loudly as she could, but the yell was in vain as he couldn't have heard her if he tried to, the howls of dying wolves was too deafening.
Kiba glanced up at the ravine edge and saw the silhouette of many men standing there and glaring down at them through the smoke, they of course couldn't actually see Kiba or Luna, but their piercing gaze made him think so. These men were real humans, not a wolf was among them and in those moments of staring at real live humans, Kiba knew true fear of becoming the hunted after being the hunter for so long.
Angel growled when Higae attempted to get near her oven without her permission. "I said you could stay and have something to eat, but if you try to steal it, I won't hesitate to throw you out that window, you get me?"
Higae nodded and let the female wolf go back to rinsing out cold washcloths to put of Kiba's head. "So..." he muttered, "what's his name anyway? I mean, I met him yesterday, but I never caught his name."
"That's because he never told you and you didn't ask," she said as a matter- of-factly.
"Right. You're right. I didn't ask, I was too busy trying to keep away from the humans and get something to eat before I passed out."
Angel rose and eyebrow, "you know, if you were truly hungry, you should have read my scratch mark signs. I only put them on every street corner to tell all wolves that I was the information both teller of this town."
Higae sat speechless on the floor, honestly he hadn't seen any scratch marks on the street corners because he hadn't been looking for them, but now that he knew to look he was going to check and see. "Well, you haven't answered my question."
"Hm?"
"What's his name?"
Kiba opened his eyes and sat up, the end of his dream slowly coming to a close and leaving him more then just a little unsteady. He had let Luna fall into he river and she floated away, that was the last he saw of her, but now here she was sitting in front of him and cleaning his wounds with no hard feelings what-so-ever.
"My name is, Kiba," he answered for Angel, before turning to her and looking her in the eye, his recognition of her instant. "And this is my mate, Luna."
Angel fell backwards at his words, there hadn't been a doubt in her mind that this was still her Kiba, but she hadn't expected him to remember her after nearly eight years of not even knowing whether she was alive or dead.
"Aw, all the pretty ones are all ready spoken for," Higae muttered, trying to lighten the mood. He succeeded and Angel smiled brilliantly.
"I'm not sure I'm still taken. You see, we were cubs when we made that promise, and as you full well know, children are in no way capable of making life-long decisions for their lives. So technically we are not mates, right now we're not even friends. The only reason I found you, Kiba, is because I needed a guardian dog to look after my apartment while I was at work, and I just seemed to recognize you." She made a face at him then, "and if I do recall correctly, you were dangling on barbed wire and yelping like a beaten pup."
"I was not!" He yelled indignantly, but Angel just shook her head and went to the oven to take out the roast.
"So little cub. You know our names, how about yours? And while we're eating, why don't you tell us about yourself?"
Thanx for reading and I hope the chapters stay interesting for you... I'm starting to think I should add little footnotes in there to tell you about the part when they were first humans in the Lunar Flower field. Well for all you sick minded people out there, yes they were naked and yes Luna was sitting IN his lap, but NO! No action was getting on for Kiba. Number one reason I did that scene was because being human first means they hadn't collected any human clothes yet, so of course they're going to be naked, but it just shows how innocent in nature wolves are, especially when they're young. And the only reason Kiba WASN'T getting it on with Luna was because they had just started learning to walk in their human forms, so what makes you think they'll be getting all hot and heavy in the first few hours of becoming humans. And I'll warn you now; the chapters will begin to get a little steamier between Angel/Luna and Kiba due to the fact that this story revolves around them, so if you have a weak constitution for either blood or sex, I demand you quit reading now. Oh and I forget to mention that in real life, wolves are very social animals with their pack, and they love to nuzzle each other, especially the females to the males, that is why you'll see the rough and tough Luna feeling her way up Kiba. Number one, it's natural to her, like an instinct, but also because she loves him very much and don't you girls out there show your men how much you love them by giving them a little "attention"? Well thanx again for reading and I'll expect some reviews or I'll have to stop typing because I'm spending too many nights up writing when I SHOULD BE SLEEPING!!!!!!! Please review and catch yall later!
Okay, so we left of in the climatic scene of Kiba somehow recognizing the scent of the woman that's saving his life. He changed for her so she could finish stitching him up and now your awaiting question is answered... DID KIBA LIVE?!?!?!?!?!?!
Well here it is...
Morning hit him too early and Higae turned over in the cardboard box he was laying in. His body was badly bruised and ached terribly from the beating he'd received from the butcher that caught him as he tried to steal a leg of lamb. Of course he got away with a small chunk of dinner, but not before getting the crap kicked out of him.
He licked his lips and tried not to think about the pain, but it kept surfacing in his mind and he jumped up to work the achy, stiff joints.
Just as he rounded the corner of some old abandoned looking building, he caught the wonderful scent of meat roasting in an oven somewhere, and he couldn't help the instant watering of his mouth. He looked up at the curtain less windows and saw smoke coming out of one of them. The window was his goal, and the roast, and whatever else he could get his paws on.
He found the bottom of the fire escape to be very elevated, but managed to leap up high enough to change into his human form and grab the edge of the ladder to pull him self up and onto the platform. 'One floor down, just twelve more to go,' he thought, keeping his mind wholly on the roast and how good it was going to taste when he sunk his fangs into it. He didn't notice he was drooling all over himself until he felt wetness on his yellow sweatshirt. Swiftly he wiped away the mess he made and continued up the fire escape, never taking his eyes off the prize, the window containing the wonderful smelling aromas.
Angel sighed in her sleep, a tiny, nearly incoherent sound, but Kiba heard it and his eyes shot open. He saw the silver haired woman of last night leaning against the arm of the couch, her arms wrapped around his wolf- neck. Again he thought about how pretty she was, but brushed aside the thoughts and looked over at the oven and smelled the good scents of meat roasting in there.
Slowly he pulled out of her light grasp and sunk to the floor, not thinking about his front paw until after the pain exploded up his leg. He dropped to the floor like a rock and made a loud enough thud to wake Angel. She peered at him from her comfortable position on the couch and reached out her hand to pat his nose. Instantly Kiba pulled away, not out of snide dislike towards humans, but to the fact that she would pet him while he was in so much pain.
"You really shouldn't have moved, you know. Now I'll bet your bleeding again. Here give me your paw so I can see." Angel held out her hand to the wolf and he responded hesitantly. He was surprised that Angel didn't make any comment about his understanding her, but knew that somehow she was different and needed to figure out why.
Angel looked her careful stitches over with incredible slowness, not wanting to overlook one detail because it could cost this wolf his life if his paw got infected. "I think you'll be all right, but the next few days will be your judgment days. You have a bit of a fever, that's why you feel so hot, but I don't see any signs of infection. I think I did a good job of cleaning you up if I do say so myself." She yanked a pillow from the couch and placed it under his paw and then lightly set the paw down. She had to be careful because she was afraid his skin would move and pull the stitches free from their holding positions.
"All right now. I'll get you something to eat and you just sit here okay?" She turned to the stove and opened it an inch to check the progress. It seemed to be going fine and she closed the oven to move over to the telephone that sat next to the window.
Kiba watched her with eagle eyes as this woman no older then himself, no older then twenty, as she nearly glided across the floor doing little chores here and there, and tidying up the place while he watched. Finally he was fed up and changed. White fur went to black hair and his golden eyes went blue. "Who the hell are you?" He asked first, quite rudely and was given the most menacing stare he'd ever seen by a young girl who head barely reached his nose in his human form.
"And this is how you thank me for saving your life? Sheesh I'd hate to see the way you greet me if I tried to kill you."
"You have to understand that I am not a creature that is able to just waltz around anywhere and expect everyone knows I'm a wolf, so tell me how you know," Kiba ordered, his tone getting instantly on Angel's nerves.
"Isn't the answer so simple? If I know a wolf when I see one, wouldn't that make it very likely that I might be one too?" She picked up the receiver of the phone and placed it to her ear dialing a number. "Hey, Rachel!" She started, after a moment's pause for whoever was on the other line to pick up the phone. "I know I didn't make it last night but I had something...to... what do you mean Ricky replaced me? For how long?" A moment ensued when she didn't speak and Kiba wondered what could be being said on the other end of that phone line.
Angel nodded her head in understanding, biting her lip and staring off into space, she looked close to tears but she refused to let them fall. "All right! I get it, Rachel. Just tell Ricky to have my paycheck ready in half an hour, and if its not, I'm blowing off his head." She slammed down the phone, an angry silence kept Kiba from saying a word.
What knocked Angel from her pity state was the groaning of a voice from below the windowsill and she peered out it to see a boy in his late teens climbing up the condemned fire escape. Instantly she freaked out and opened the window more, "you sadistic moron! What the hell do you think you're doing on that? Don't you know that it's liabel to break at any moment?" She leaned out the window as far as she could and grabbed his arm, hauling him inside before any more damage could be done. What she hadn't expected was the excessive amount of pull she used, sent this teenager through the window and on top of her, the next few moments were spent struggling to get out from under him and keep her cheeks from burning a deep red.
Higae rocketed to his feet in seconds, just before the woman's hand came sailing across his cheek, but in spite of the biting sting in his cheek, he was smiling inside. He'd just touched the biggest boobs he'd ever seen and he didn't even have to pounce on her.
"I'm sorry, miss. I didn't mean to touch you there," he averted his gaze when hers pierced into his, and he looked around the apartment only to see another wolf standing just behind the female wolf in front of him. The male was familiar somehow though, the scent seemed too close to the wolf he met yesterday that he knew he wasn't mistaken.
Kiba leaned back against the wall, suddenly feeling the effects of too much blood loss racing to his head. Everything was going blurry and his feet buckled beneath him, causing him to fall forward. As he hit the ground he saw something he hadn't seen in years, the look of worry in Angel's eyes, a look so familiar to him he wondered how he could have missed it before. This was the wolf he had befriended so many years ago, and lost the night of the fire. Her eyes were still the same deep blue he'd always known them to be, and his last conscious thought was, 'I'm sorry, Luna. Forgive me for not coming back to you.'
Kiba's dreams flashed in sequences before his eyes, going back before he met Louie, before he came t this town, and before the fire. His mind raced back to the night the Lunar Flowers had bloomed in all their wondrous glory.
He was so tired just after they had bloomed, but he did manage to stay awake long enough to see the change that occurred in his friend before finally losing consciousness. Her hair was long and silver, reaching nearly down to her knees; it fanned out around her face and gave her the look of a seraph of the old legends. She was beautiful beyond words, and he wondered one thing through all of this, would she still be his mate when they woke up in the morning? Then he fell asleep, his head resting lightly on her chest and his arms wrapped tightly around her body in an attempt to keep her from getting cold.
Kiba's dream flashed forward to the morning and he saw himself just waking up amidst the endless sea of Lunar flowers. He saw himself as a boy as the child awoke to find that he was still human and sometime earlier Luna had bounded away without him knowing. He turned to the lake side and saw the young thirteen-year old playing in the sand, her fingers carefully picking up handfuls and letting it race through the gaps in her fingers. She laughed as it tickled her hand, before picking up another handful and doing it again.
Kiba cocked his head and tried to run forward, but failed when he noticed that his back legs were longer then his front. "How do you run on these?" He asked himself, catching the attention of the girl by the water's side.
"Just stand up!" She called to him, rising herself with absolutely no modesty at all.
The young male cub blinked and fought to steady his new human legs, but found them to be utterly useless and remained in the flowers right where he was. "If it's so easy, you come over here," he yelled at her, and with amazement he watched her come running to him as if she was born to be human. She tackled him and laughed when he made a crushed groaning sound under her weight.
"You trying to crush me?" He asked when she sat astraddle his lap, at last finally sitting still after wiggling around like some crazed wolf.
Luna laughed and grabbed his shoulders and nuzzled his neck, "of course not! I wouldn't ever crush my mate, we still have to have cubs first before I start the pouncing raids."
"Oh boy? Something to look forward to?" He felt the light nip of her sharp teeth as they bit into her shoulder. "Hey! What was that for?"
"For mocking me!" She sounded rather irked that he had to ask, but quickly it was replaced by more nuzzling that sent Kiba in the grass and flowers.
"Whoa! Slow down there, isn't the male supposed to be on top?"
Luna seemed to stop to think about this for a moment, but shrugged and laid her head on his chest. "Changing the rules never hurt anybody," she sighed. Her eyes closed and she drifted off for a moment, but came back at Kiba's insistent attention, "what?!" She yelled out at last, finally answering after he'd bugged her out of her wits. "I was trying to sleep."
"What do you think the clan is going to say about us being gone all night?"
She blushed, her cheeks turning so deep a pink Kiba wondered if she'd turn purple. "Early mating you think?" She answered.
Kiba shook his head vigorously, "your father would bean me so hard up side the head, I don't think I'd be able to see straight for the rest of my life. Then I'd be cross-eyed, and would you want a cross-eyed mate searching for your dinner?"
Luna seemed to think for a moment, her silence making Kiba's face scrunch up. "I suppose if he was cute, strong, and a good mater, I don't think I'd care if he was cross-eyed or not."
It was his turn to blush and he pinched the soft skin of her belly before reaching up and licking her cheek. "You have mating on the brain all the time. Any chance your thinking about how we're going to stay out of trouble from the family?"
"You could tell them I hit you over the head with a rock and dragged you away to go and m-" before Luna could finish, Kiba hit her on the head with his fist.
"Forget it! We're so in for it when we get back that I don't think we'll be able to see much of each other for weeks, maybe even months." He sighed and fell back into the grass, watching her out of the corner of his eye.
She looked over to the hill they had come over the night before, and speculated if her father was going to be mad at her for leaving the cubs with Jekel, it may have not been the smartest idea because he wasn't the best babysitter, but then again he did promise to take as good care of them as he could. She did trust her cousin and decided the cubs would be fine with him and stopped worrying.
"You think we should go back?" Luna asked few hours later. Their morning had consisted of learning to use their new legs and tumbling around in the flowers together until they were so tired they couldn't move.
Kiba looked at the white clouds in the blue sky, not really thinking about anything but how funny his stomach was feeling right now. Like something was crawling around in there and he couldn't stop it. He wondered if this was what 'butterflies in the belly' meant. His mother had said it awhile back, but he never really listened to her because she wasn't all right in the mind at times, but suddenly as he was thinking about her, he badly wondered what he was supposed to do about the butterflies and how to make them stop.
Luna crawled on him and the butterflies seemed to get bigger and move down in his stomach. "You're not listening to me, Kiba," she announced and made a circle with her finger on his chest, distracting him and making him shudder uncontrollably.
"Sorry, just thinking."
"About what?" She was such the innocent wolf who talked big but never really understood what she was talking about.
Kiba lightly pushed her to her knees. He couldn't take it any more and he had to get her to move a safe distance away or he was going to pounce on her. He had too many feelings raging around on the inside that his thoughts were beginning to get all messed and he was afraid he was going to say something he was going to regret later.
"Kiba? You look pale, is something wrong?"
He never got a chance to answer because just as he opened his mouth, something hit his senses like a hammer. Smoke filled his nose and he coughed wildly to get it out of his lungs. Next to him he heard Luna wheezing, but she sounded more labored and he knew he had to get her out of there quickly. "Change!" He shouted at her, the noise of a crackling fire beginning to become louder in their ears.
"I don't know how!" She cried back, gripping to his arm. She refused to let him go, afraid she'd lose him if she did.
The smoke was so thick around them that that they couldn't even see each other even though they weren't a few inches from each other's faces.
Kiba pressed her to the ground and under the smoke, and she seemed to get better as she gasped for breath and clutched him tightly. "I'm scared," she mumbled in his ear as he laid on her a moment to catch his breath.
"I know. But we'll be all right. Now I need you to change for me, Luna. Go back to being a wolf."
"I don't know how to, Kiba. I've never been human before," she whimpered out.
He bared his teeth and sunk them into her neck. Her reaction was instantaneous, she bucked beneath him in a futile attempt to get away from the pain, and in turn caused her wolf instincts to come out, instantly she changed into her old form.
"YOU HURT ME!" She screamed at him as loudly as she could, but the yell was in vain as he couldn't have heard her if he tried to, the howls of dying wolves was too deafening.
Kiba glanced up at the ravine edge and saw the silhouette of many men standing there and glaring down at them through the smoke, they of course couldn't actually see Kiba or Luna, but their piercing gaze made him think so. These men were real humans, not a wolf was among them and in those moments of staring at real live humans, Kiba knew true fear of becoming the hunted after being the hunter for so long.
Angel growled when Higae attempted to get near her oven without her permission. "I said you could stay and have something to eat, but if you try to steal it, I won't hesitate to throw you out that window, you get me?"
Higae nodded and let the female wolf go back to rinsing out cold washcloths to put of Kiba's head. "So..." he muttered, "what's his name anyway? I mean, I met him yesterday, but I never caught his name."
"That's because he never told you and you didn't ask," she said as a matter- of-factly.
"Right. You're right. I didn't ask, I was too busy trying to keep away from the humans and get something to eat before I passed out."
Angel rose and eyebrow, "you know, if you were truly hungry, you should have read my scratch mark signs. I only put them on every street corner to tell all wolves that I was the information both teller of this town."
Higae sat speechless on the floor, honestly he hadn't seen any scratch marks on the street corners because he hadn't been looking for them, but now that he knew to look he was going to check and see. "Well, you haven't answered my question."
"Hm?"
"What's his name?"
Kiba opened his eyes and sat up, the end of his dream slowly coming to a close and leaving him more then just a little unsteady. He had let Luna fall into he river and she floated away, that was the last he saw of her, but now here she was sitting in front of him and cleaning his wounds with no hard feelings what-so-ever.
"My name is, Kiba," he answered for Angel, before turning to her and looking her in the eye, his recognition of her instant. "And this is my mate, Luna."
Angel fell backwards at his words, there hadn't been a doubt in her mind that this was still her Kiba, but she hadn't expected him to remember her after nearly eight years of not even knowing whether she was alive or dead.
"Aw, all the pretty ones are all ready spoken for," Higae muttered, trying to lighten the mood. He succeeded and Angel smiled brilliantly.
"I'm not sure I'm still taken. You see, we were cubs when we made that promise, and as you full well know, children are in no way capable of making life-long decisions for their lives. So technically we are not mates, right now we're not even friends. The only reason I found you, Kiba, is because I needed a guardian dog to look after my apartment while I was at work, and I just seemed to recognize you." She made a face at him then, "and if I do recall correctly, you were dangling on barbed wire and yelping like a beaten pup."
"I was not!" He yelled indignantly, but Angel just shook her head and went to the oven to take out the roast.
"So little cub. You know our names, how about yours? And while we're eating, why don't you tell us about yourself?"
Thanx for reading and I hope the chapters stay interesting for you... I'm starting to think I should add little footnotes in there to tell you about the part when they were first humans in the Lunar Flower field. Well for all you sick minded people out there, yes they were naked and yes Luna was sitting IN his lap, but NO! No action was getting on for Kiba. Number one reason I did that scene was because being human first means they hadn't collected any human clothes yet, so of course they're going to be naked, but it just shows how innocent in nature wolves are, especially when they're young. And the only reason Kiba WASN'T getting it on with Luna was because they had just started learning to walk in their human forms, so what makes you think they'll be getting all hot and heavy in the first few hours of becoming humans. And I'll warn you now; the chapters will begin to get a little steamier between Angel/Luna and Kiba due to the fact that this story revolves around them, so if you have a weak constitution for either blood or sex, I demand you quit reading now. Oh and I forget to mention that in real life, wolves are very social animals with their pack, and they love to nuzzle each other, especially the females to the males, that is why you'll see the rough and tough Luna feeling her way up Kiba. Number one, it's natural to her, like an instinct, but also because she loves him very much and don't you girls out there show your men how much you love them by giving them a little "attention"? Well thanx again for reading and I'll expect some reviews or I'll have to stop typing because I'm spending too many nights up writing when I SHOULD BE SLEEPING!!!!!!! Please review and catch yall later!