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My Place to Belong
Ch 1: the place that they meet

Ginta and Hakkaku were on duty again.....well.....Ginta was on duty.....Hakkaku fell asleep again. Ginta was about to push him in the water for falling asleep the third time that week when....."I SAID GET AWAY!!!!!!!! LEAVE ME ALONE!!!" cried a girl who was running straight for the falls. This of course woke Hakkaku up. He jumped to his feet while screaming "Gah! What's happening? Where's the enemy?" and looking frantically left and right. Ginta poked him on the shoulder to get his attention. Hakkaku looked at him. Ginta was looking upward, so Hakkaku looked up to see a girl at the edge near the waterfalls.
The girl was looking toward some bandits who had there swords out facing her. The bandits started to form a semi-circle around the young lady. "just come with us with out no fuss and ya won't get hurt" said one of the bandits who had a half bald head and was missing most of his teeth. "I would rather slit my throat burn in hell before I would come with you" She practically hissed the words. She almost seemed to growl. Her long brown hair was blowing in the wind blocking any sight of her face from the two wolf demons. She looked to her left to see the falls, then turned back to the bandits before turning back around and jumping down the falls.
Hakkaku ran to tell the leader of the tribe the events that had occurred a little bit before she had jumped. Hakkaku and Kouga, the leader, came out next to Ginta to see the girl dive into the freezing water. The bandits had seen the wolf demons, when they were about to fire arrows where the girl had landed into water, and took of running. The three demons looked into the water. She did not come up. They went down next to the water bed as more of the tribe came out. "Where did she go?" Ginta asked scanning over the water. "I bet she drowned. She was only human" Kouga said. Then a voice was heard from a little down stream "just cause I'm human doesn't mean I'll drown in the water!" She said while wringing out her hair. She was wearing boys jean shorts and a green T-shirt. She started to walk up the tribe. "so...." she said eyeing the wolf demons suspiciously "what are you that would make them turn tail and run?" Kouga stepped out of the group and walked up to her "we are the wolf demon tribe and you should do the same as those bandits and run" he said looking down at her considering her was almost half a foot taller than her. "who are you anyways? You dress like almost no human I've seen before" she looked at him straight in the eye before saying "I'm not supposed to give my name out to strangers" The whole tribe anime fell. "but if you introduce yourself then you won't be a stranger anymore" she said while her arms were crossed. Kouga got back up and extended his hand "my name is Kouga. I am the leader of this tribe" she slightly smiled the grabbed his hand "my name is Ai and.....well can't think of any fancy title for me that's true! ^^;;"
A little while later the whole tribe and Ai where talking in the cave. "so you guys really are wolf demons? That's awesome. Wolves are my favorite animal" Ai said while petting a wolf that happened to like her company, the others weren't that sure yet. "yup. We've lived here for about a hundred generations" Ginta said factually. Ai just listened to everything they had to say about themselves chipping in on her self when she found a similarity. Hakkaku looked over at Ai. She looked back at him and smiled "yes I am sitting here, in front of you, at this moment." she said giving him a warm smile that told him if he needed to ask something just ask. "oh um sorry.....it's just that.....you're completely different from any other human any of us had probably ever met. Where are you from anyways? And how do you know how to swim so fast? You swim as if you are a demon yourself" Hakkaku said giving her a weird look "well.....I don't know how to explain it.....ummm.....all I know is that one day I'm taking a walk and I fall through the ground if that makes any sense. The next thing that I know is that I'm in a forest. A little while after that those bandits showed up and started to chase me for reasons I could not hear. All I know is that it was not going to be ending good for me" Ai paused to look up at them all "and then I came here and jumped off into the water and met you guys who were insulting me by saying that I probably drowned" she said with a bit of a smirk. "there's just one thing about your story that you haven't told us it seems" Kouga said looking at her shoulder "when did you get wounded? I can smell the blood. It seems slightly old" Ai looked down "I was ambushed by a few people in whom I thought were my friends. I had just recently moved to a new area.....I was forced to go to this stupid prep school as well" the demons didn't know what this 'prep school' was but they didn't want to interrupt "I didn't fit it. I wasn't all into wearing so much makeup you could peal off a layer at the end of the day. And I couldn't stand the uniform that the girls were supposed to wear, so I decided to wear a boys uniform. The only difference was the pants. Everyone would talk behind my back knowing that I could hear them, they had made up a reputation for me. Spreading rumors and all. I distanced myself most of the time. Then, some bitches thought it would be funny to pretend to be my friend. They were just trying to trick my into coming to a special place where them and a few others hung out. When I arrived there, at this private club of theirs, it was pitch dark. Then I felt this sting in my shoulder and moved immediately . One of them had barely got my shoulder with a knife. The last thing I heard them say I ran was 'Run! You don't belong here, freak!' I had been an outcast no matter where I went." Ai had tears just about to fall from her eyes. Most of the demons could hardly believe that there were actually humans more heartless than some demons. Kouga broke the awkward silence "you could stay here for a while" Ai looked up at him with wide, tearful eyes. The tears started to flow freely as she leapt forward to embrace Kouga who had been so kind. "let's get that wound bandaged up. Ok?" he asked as he looked down at her with a bit of a smile on his face. Ai nodded and followed Kouga to get the bandages.

End of ch 1 A/N hope ya liked it and please review. Because if you review I know that people are reading and I will type more! ^^