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Chapter 4: Unwanted Emotions
The sun rose from the horizon and gave light to everything in its path. A small cabin just outside a forest was one that received such attention from the sun. Inside the cabin, the wolves were waking, first there was Kiba and Tsume, the Hige. Cheza didn't really need to sleep so the pups were the last to be up. As soon as Toboe and Shadow woke up Kiba and Tsume left to go find food for them, so that left the lecherous Hige with Toboe and Shadow, along with Cheza.
Two hours passed with both Kiba and Tsume gone, so when they got back, the sight that greeted them was a smiling Cheza, and Toboe, Shadow and Hige all wrestling and laughing with each other(mind you the pups were winning by the way!). This brought a smile to both Kiba's and Tsume's faces, though no one else saw it. Shadow looked up from her place on top of Toboe just in time to see her big brother walk in the door with Tsume bringing two rabbits and a deer back for them to eat. She was just about to run to him when all of a sudden, Hige lifted her up and spun her around in circles. They were both laughing and giggling when Toboe jumped on Hige, bringing Hige, Shadow and himself down on the ground with Shadow buried underneath. Kiba saw this and quickly dropped what he was holding to go dig Shadow out from the pile. He started running when all of a sudden he heard giggling coming from underneath Hige. Hige stood up pulling Shadow with him, and making Toboe fall to the ground on his butt. "I think I am going to be sick," Shadow declared, making sick noises and laughing along with Toboe and Hige. By this time Kiba and Tsume made their way over to the laughing trio and set the food down, waiting to eat.
After the wolves ate their meal, they left the cabin with Cheza and headed off on their journey to Paradise. Shadow had no idea that they were searching for Paradise, so she was pretty confused. She ran ahead from her spot with Toboe and headed up to Kiba. "Bro, where are we going?" she asked, a sweet smile on her face. "When we stop to rest later CiCi, everything will be explained to you, I promise" Kiba told her, his face softening at her confused gaze. "Um, alright" Shadow replied and fell into line with Toboe at the back once more.
"Hey runts, keep up," Hige yelled to both Shadow and Toboe. Shadow and Toboe, being very similar in age(both pups) got along very well. They were currently at the back of the pack, laughing uncontrollably. 'He is so funny' Shadow thought to herself, looking at Toboe's smiling face and laughing herself. When Hige yelled, both pups looked up but didn't pay him any attention, which earned them a growl from Hige. "Would you two grannies stop giggling and hurry up already!" shouted a very annoyed Tsume. He looked at both Pups, and gave them a glare that even Kiba would run from, yet Shadow only looked at him a gave the sweetest smile ever, which made Tsume's heart start doing summersaults. That confused him to no end. 'Here I am yelling at them, and she smiles at me. Why am I feeling so warm all of a sudden, what's going on?' he thought to himself. He quickly shook his head to get rid of all unwanted thoughts and ran ahead to Hige, Kiba and Cheza. "We need to stop, Cheza needs water and we need rest," Kiba announced, suddenly making Hige a very happy wolf. Shadow and Toboe didn't even hear Kiba's announcement because they were so engrossed in conversation.
"Why is he like that?" asked Shadow. "Who" answered Toboe. "Um........I think his name is.....I can't remember his name. The cute dude in black with silver hair," after Shadow said this, she clamped her hand over her mouth and started blushing like crazy. Toboe looked at her with the goofiest grin he could plaster on his face and started teasing her. "You like Tsume, hahahhahaa, this is great hahahahaa" He was bringing so much attention to them both that the wolves stopped what they were doing and turned around to stare at Toboe rolling on the ground laughing and a very flushed Shadow. The then turned back on their way, continuing. "You have to promise not to tell, please," " I won't, but its nice that you like him. Tsume needs someone to love, I can't get through to him, but maybe you can" "Oh" was all that came out of Shadow's mouth. "Tsume is complicated. There is not much about him that we are meant to understand. He is usually grumpy and mean the entire time, but he has a good heart, he just hides it from everyone else for fear of getting hurt," Toboe said to her. "oh" was all that came out of her mouth again. They then ended their conversation and headed over to where to others were to rest.