Gomen, I know this chap took a long time to update but I just can't win!!!! (cries furiously) I was almost done writing this chapter--like two sentences away and Microsoft had a problem and had to close!!!!! Their stupid little "we're sorry for your inconvenience" is not enough!!!!!! I'm going to sue!!!! My whole chap, down the toilet!!!!!!!!! (sniff sniff) I may be overreacting but this really, really, really sucks!! I have never had such a problem wrestling the computer to let me write a fic---is this a sign that my story sucks and I should stop while I'm ahead? GAH!! T.T I-it's just not fair!! (cries again)
Ok enough self-pity; I guess I'll write this chapter allll over again--(walks away grumbling, once more I night add)
Before I start, shout out to all you awesomely awesome reviewers!!!
Mayako: Yes, I'm very evil but I didn't intend to be as evil as I feel right now--waiting so long to update. I hope you're not sick!! (hands you some tea and cough drops) Stay healthy! Aww you had to move!? I can sympathize! I'm moving over Christmas--but I've only been in this house for ummn about 7 years. Still sad though so you get a hug and a jug of pocky! (hug) Thanks for reviewing and I hope everything turns out ok!
Thir13en Ghosts- Elemental: (resuscitates your cat) hehe I'm not the only one who does that!! My poor cat has permanent arm prints on his fur from my squeezing him during heart-throbbing fanfics : ) lol they should start a club! (cough) Anyhoo-- hope you like how things turn out in this chapter! Thanks for the review!
Sessy's Girl: B-but I wanna be Sessy's girl!! That man ish soooo damn sexy!! (cough) Back on topic--one good thing, neh? (rubs chin) well, since you complimented my writing (thanks BTW) and said please I shall squeeze in something special (eye glint) Hope you enjoy it! : )
The Planner Conspiracy: I'll get right on it!! Keyboard to the rescue!!! Oh and thanks for reviewing!
Whiskers: (whimper) (checks over shoulder) O-ok, yes ma'm, I'll protect them with my life--or rather protect my life by protecting theirs! Of course I could do something evil if I'm feeling rebellious (cackle) guess you'll just have to read and see (wink)
Toboe's pup: I agree!! I hate it when people just leave a fic hanging in mid-air!! There is nothing I hate worse than wandering into an awesome fic, becoming completely captivated, and then to see that it's incomplete and the last time it was updated was in 2001. Yeah it makes me sad and mad at the same time, now I may be slow to update but if I have no intentions to finish a fic, I remove it. No point torturing people like that! And of course you can have a cookie!! (hands you a jar of cookies) Let it be known that I am not a cookie dictator!!! (dances around like a lunatic, showering her reviewers in cookies) Free the cookies, virtual cookies for all!!!! Hehe --; Thanks for the review!!
Maiden Cheza: I made the mistake of checking my e-mail at church on my cell phone and noticed your review. When I read that "sexy beast" thing I burst out laughing and got well---a few odd looks -.-; LOL!! Anyway, glad you liked the chapter, the tenderness is only going to get mushier and mushier. Let's just put it this way--there is a LOT of fluff planned for this chapter!! (sigh) It makes me so happy and embarrassed to write this stuff (floats away happily)
The painted wolf pup: You're always the first to review the new chaps; you really make me want to keep going with your support!! Thanks so much!! You'll find out what happened to Hige in this chapter or the next I think--and thanks for reviewing every chap of Red Moon, the next chapter is almost and complete and should most definitely be up this week (nod) Thanks again for your support!!
Hope every one likes this chapter--despite the fact that I have to write it all over again so it'll probably suck (sigh) Well off we go---
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Darkness engulfed Hige's being as the sound of his labored breaths drummed through his restless mind. He struggled to raise a hand to his aching forehead, only to be denied the movement with a sharp sting to his wrist. 'W-where am I?!' His tired mind screamed the question over and over until it blurred into confusion, making him feel lightheaded.
"H-Hige," a gentle yet hoarse voice broke Hige's reverie, cleansing his mind with the memory of his previous encounter.
"Blue? What happened--where are we?" He asked impatiently as he slowly opened his dreary maroon eyes to the damp gray surroundings and whipped his head around until his sight fell to his lover's delicate profile. Blue sat in the middle of the small prison type room, arms and legs both chained tightly around a faded wooden chair.
"I'm not really sure--sorry." Blue gulped, trying desperately to hide the regret lacing her voice, she turned her head to the moldy cement ceiling, blinking back bitter tears. "We got captured, somehow--I-I really don't know what happened. I just remember talking to you and the next thing I knew," Blue took a heavy breath as she forced herself to continue. She was strong, she had to be strong. "The next thing I knew I found the two of us chained to this empty prison."
Hige's eyes fell to his hands at Blue's enlightening words, noticing for the first time the chains digging into the flesh of his arms and legs, flakes of blood tracing the veins of his wrists where the shackles were bound too tightly. "Don't be sorry, Blue, it's not your fault." His heart pounded heavily in his chest making him shift uneasily. The tips of his fingers prickled in longing to touch the supple skin of the depressed girl, to embrace her comfortingly and comb their way through her flowing black hair.
'Now's not the time for those kind of thoughts!' Hige mentally chastised himself, biting his lip in attempts to squelch his immoral thoughts with pain.
"Are you okay, Hige?" Blue inquired, tilting her head slightly to the side, she couldn't help but giggle quietly. She knew that face, the scrunched up nose, the lip biting--both habitual quirks of her stocky lover. Quirks only presented when he was feeling particularly uncomfortable or embarrassed, needless to say Blue herself had seen this face displayed numerous times before.
"Y-yeah I'm okay," Hige nodded hastily, not wanting to upset the injured girl over his internal struggle. "How about you?" He asked in concern, Blue's voice sounded weak and if possible even more rasping than before; the wet atmosphere of this place probably wasn't helping her poor condition either.
"I'm fine, don't worry about me, Hige." Blue sighed, staring despairingly to her chained wrists, longing to lay her pounding head in her warm palms.
"You're not fine!!" Hige tried to raise his voice but was forced to his formerly calm state by a sudden wave of dizziness. 'I guess I'm not as fine as I thought,' his mind throbbed, darkness creeping in on the corner of his docile claret eyes. "You don't have to lie to me." He continued after a few shaky breaths to calm his now churning stomach.
"I----I'm sorry, Hige. You're right, I'm not well, but---but there's nothing you can do and--and I'm not the only one who's lying anyway!" Blue's calm voice turned to an angry one as she stared miserably to her lover's hanging head.
"What do you mean?" Hige asked dryly, refusing to draw his eyes to hers for fear of her reading his every emotion.
"What do I mean? Hige, I know you better than anyone! I know when you're lying, and it doesn't suit you." Blue ran her tongue across her lips, contemplating what more she could say. "I-I love you, Hige, we--we have to be honest with one another, don't you think?" She finished, shifting uneasily in her chains as heavy silence filled the air, broken only by the occasional drop of water falling from the dark cement ceiling.
"That's the first time--" Hige started, before letting his voice drop to a throaty whisper and digging his nails in his pallid palms. "The first time you've ever told me you loved me." He finished, breathing heavily in a manner that Blue knew to be an attempt to draw back tears; tears of warmth, tears of happiness, tears of love.
"I love you too," Hige gulped, embarrassed by the quaking his usually strong voice gave and the soft shaking of his muscular shoulders. "I've always loved you, since the first time I met you, I wanted you to be mine. It hurt when you were away, like a void. I didn't know if you were safe, if-if you were well, and I wanted to always be with you. But I could never say it, I thought I was too strong but now, now I see I wasn't strong at all. I was weak; weak like I am now, weak like when I let those soldiers shoot you, and the same weakness when I let us get captured. But not anymore, Blue. I'm gonna be strong now, for you and only you, I'll learn to be strong."
Hige gave a soft sniff and turned his glistening crimson eyes to his lover's warm face, mentally capturing this moment, their re-birth as a couple, no longer weak but strong.
"Hige," Blue mouthed, finding her voice at a loss she let the pearly tears streaming down her flushed cheeks be her response. Her agreement. She was his and would always be as such. No matter the miles between them their hearts would be together, beating in unison, strong and alive by the love that connected them.
Hige's hands trembled wildly in their restraints, he wanted so bad to touch her silky, blushed cheek, to wipe away the glistening tears cascading from her captivating sapphire eyes. He bit the inside of his cheek and pushed his shoulders against the chains, struggling to remove their hold.
"What are you doing?" Blue managed to squeak through her sobbing as she lifted a shoulder to wipe away the cold tears dripping from the bridge of her nose.
"I'm getting us out of here," Hige snarled simply, he continued to bite heavily on his cheek as the copper taste of blood filled his mouth.
"It's useless, I've tried, these chains are too strong. Please, Hige, I don't want you to hurt yourself."
Hige continued to struggle against his shackles, grunting angrily as he raised his legs against the wall and pushed outwards before allowing himself to fall huffily to his original position. A few stones rained sparingly from the ceiling, clouding the two lovers in a momentary cloud of earth before settling once more on the prison floors.
"I almost got it," Hige wheezed and coughed uncomfortably, leaning his head softly to the wall behind him.
"What happened, why'd ya have to stop?" Blue asked curiously, trying to hold back the laughter threatening to escape over the smears of dirt covering her lover's sweaty brow.
"Damn chains cut off my windpipe, could've gotten it too." He snapped back in mock anger as he studied the ceiling to assess the damage.
Blue opened her chapped lips slowly to give a response, but snapped them closed as gruff voices and brisk footsteps echoed through the cold cement walls, plunging the two wolves in an uncomfortable silence.
"Blue, have you seen our captors yet?" Hige whispered quietly, not daring to raise his voice any further as he bawled and recoiled his fists in both anger and worry.
"No, not yet." She managed back, chest pounding angrily in fear as soft clack resounded through the prison and stale light flooded its sepulchral walls.
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"This one senses him that way." Cheza's airy voice sounded through the cold winter's wind as she stretched out her pale arm, pointing intently to an alleyway.
"Yes, yes I can smell liquor, it must be him." Kiba's wry voice answered back distastefully as he shifted under the flower maiden's weight. They had been searching for some time, or at least long enough for him to worry about her freezing her delicate feet through the thin material of those garish pink boots.
'Quent better know where you are, Hige.' Kiba snarled to himself. 'We're not going to be able to look much longer.' He suddenly stopped his pace before hesitating and regaining his brisk steps. What was that emotion laced through the depths of his thoughts? Was it, it couldn't be---worry? But why should he worry? His whole life people had abandoned him, and he had abandoned others in return. This was a wolf's life these days; you can't let people slow you down. Paradise is the objective and compared to it no one else matters, and so, in this manner emotions are useless. Happiness, anger, sadness---love, they are worthless. What can they do for you? Nothing, yes this was the only answer acceptable, they served to slow you down, to make you weak, and nothing else.
"Kiba, this one hears Toboe and Tsume." Cheza's wispy voice interrupted the boy's reverie, plunging him once more into the cold air of reality.
"Hn, maybe they had the same idea as us." He told the girl, turning his head he watched as his companions ran gracefully through the snow, muscled contracting deeply at each stride.
"K-Kiba," Toboe huffed as reached the messy-haired boy's body. Turning to his human form he clutched a hand to his chest and leaned on a wall of the alleyway, struggling to catch his breath. "W-we caught you." He gasped, straightening a little while a bead of sweat trickled down his flushed cheek.
"Seems like we need to get a move on, the runt's getting out of shape." Tsume laughed through his own shallow breathing as he knocked the pup lightly on his head.
"You were looking for us--?" Kiba's metal azure eyes stared placidly to Tsume's form as he bent down slowly to let Cheza down from his back.
"Yes." Tsume simply nodded before continuing. "You're looking for -him-, aren't you?" Tsume asked, quickly dodging Cheza's slender body as she shuffled to Toboe's side.
"How'd you guess?" Kiba inquired sarcastically, letting a cold sneer move across his lips he shrugged slightly and turned back to the alley. "He's close, the smell of alcohol is stronger than ever." The boy called, not bothering to turn his head to the group behind him as he walked unflinching into the shadows of the passage.
"Do you really think he'll know where Hige is?" Tsume asked gruffly, tones of cynicism snaking his heavy voice.
"Hige's somewhere in this city, I can sense that much. As to where his specific position is, well I think he's be our best bet to finding out." Kiba explained, pausing his footsteps a moment to reply before shoving his hands in his pockets and continuing his long walk forward. "He's with Blue, she means more to him than we do."
"You don't intend to stay a day longer do you?" Tsume asked angrily, partially for his stocky companion and for the emotions he knew would arise in Toboe's gentle soul if their comical friend was left behind.
Kiba remained silent, letting the wind dance through his hair in ribbons of auburn swirls. He couldn't tell Tsume his true feelings. The views he had let himself resign to--every wolf should live only for his own well-being. Yes, that was the truth the endless nights of bitter death and despair had taught him, but they had taught him something else, something of even more consequence. For in his well being, to maintain his sanity, the security of his friends and the relationship they shared was necessary. He had no intentions of leaving without one of them, they were his pack, they were his being.
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Ok that's the next chapter---not as good as the first time I wrote it but ooo well. (sigh) Ummn yeah, you've probably figured out who the pack are looking for, it's soo sooo obvious but you'll no for sure in the next chap. And you should find out why Hige's in such poor health.
Well thanks for reading, I really appreciate it and should be a lot quicker with the next chap--especially because the meager bout of writer's black I was facing has dissipated almost completely (sigh of relief)
Oh to Sessy's Girl-- did you catch the good stuff? It might've been hard to pick out but it was all the Hige and Blue fluff. Yep, not much but c'mon they were happy at least for a little while, right? I really wanted to let them kiss but alas, the chains prevented it. So I suppose I'll have to save their first kiss for another chapter--oh well, all the more to look forward to, right?
Anyway, Hope everyone enjoyed this chapter and I'm still living up to the others, I'm trying really really hard!!! : ) Well once again, thanks for reading. Please review!! They not only inspire me but make me work much more quickly!
Thanks to all you supporters out there, you guys rock hard!!!
Ciao :D
Ok enough self-pity; I guess I'll write this chapter allll over again--(walks away grumbling, once more I night add)
Before I start, shout out to all you awesomely awesome reviewers!!!
Mayako: Yes, I'm very evil but I didn't intend to be as evil as I feel right now--waiting so long to update. I hope you're not sick!! (hands you some tea and cough drops) Stay healthy! Aww you had to move!? I can sympathize! I'm moving over Christmas--but I've only been in this house for ummn about 7 years. Still sad though so you get a hug and a jug of pocky! (hug) Thanks for reviewing and I hope everything turns out ok!
Thir13en Ghosts- Elemental: (resuscitates your cat) hehe I'm not the only one who does that!! My poor cat has permanent arm prints on his fur from my squeezing him during heart-throbbing fanfics : ) lol they should start a club! (cough) Anyhoo-- hope you like how things turn out in this chapter! Thanks for the review!
Sessy's Girl: B-but I wanna be Sessy's girl!! That man ish soooo damn sexy!! (cough) Back on topic--one good thing, neh? (rubs chin) well, since you complimented my writing (thanks BTW) and said please I shall squeeze in something special (eye glint) Hope you enjoy it! : )
The Planner Conspiracy: I'll get right on it!! Keyboard to the rescue!!! Oh and thanks for reviewing!
Whiskers: (whimper) (checks over shoulder) O-ok, yes ma'm, I'll protect them with my life--or rather protect my life by protecting theirs! Of course I could do something evil if I'm feeling rebellious (cackle) guess you'll just have to read and see (wink)
Toboe's pup: I agree!! I hate it when people just leave a fic hanging in mid-air!! There is nothing I hate worse than wandering into an awesome fic, becoming completely captivated, and then to see that it's incomplete and the last time it was updated was in 2001. Yeah it makes me sad and mad at the same time, now I may be slow to update but if I have no intentions to finish a fic, I remove it. No point torturing people like that! And of course you can have a cookie!! (hands you a jar of cookies) Let it be known that I am not a cookie dictator!!! (dances around like a lunatic, showering her reviewers in cookies) Free the cookies, virtual cookies for all!!!! Hehe --; Thanks for the review!!
Maiden Cheza: I made the mistake of checking my e-mail at church on my cell phone and noticed your review. When I read that "sexy beast" thing I burst out laughing and got well---a few odd looks -.-; LOL!! Anyway, glad you liked the chapter, the tenderness is only going to get mushier and mushier. Let's just put it this way--there is a LOT of fluff planned for this chapter!! (sigh) It makes me so happy and embarrassed to write this stuff (floats away happily)
The painted wolf pup: You're always the first to review the new chaps; you really make me want to keep going with your support!! Thanks so much!! You'll find out what happened to Hige in this chapter or the next I think--and thanks for reviewing every chap of Red Moon, the next chapter is almost and complete and should most definitely be up this week (nod) Thanks again for your support!!
Hope every one likes this chapter--despite the fact that I have to write it all over again so it'll probably suck (sigh) Well off we go---
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Darkness engulfed Hige's being as the sound of his labored breaths drummed through his restless mind. He struggled to raise a hand to his aching forehead, only to be denied the movement with a sharp sting to his wrist. 'W-where am I?!' His tired mind screamed the question over and over until it blurred into confusion, making him feel lightheaded.
"H-Hige," a gentle yet hoarse voice broke Hige's reverie, cleansing his mind with the memory of his previous encounter.
"Blue? What happened--where are we?" He asked impatiently as he slowly opened his dreary maroon eyes to the damp gray surroundings and whipped his head around until his sight fell to his lover's delicate profile. Blue sat in the middle of the small prison type room, arms and legs both chained tightly around a faded wooden chair.
"I'm not really sure--sorry." Blue gulped, trying desperately to hide the regret lacing her voice, she turned her head to the moldy cement ceiling, blinking back bitter tears. "We got captured, somehow--I-I really don't know what happened. I just remember talking to you and the next thing I knew," Blue took a heavy breath as she forced herself to continue. She was strong, she had to be strong. "The next thing I knew I found the two of us chained to this empty prison."
Hige's eyes fell to his hands at Blue's enlightening words, noticing for the first time the chains digging into the flesh of his arms and legs, flakes of blood tracing the veins of his wrists where the shackles were bound too tightly. "Don't be sorry, Blue, it's not your fault." His heart pounded heavily in his chest making him shift uneasily. The tips of his fingers prickled in longing to touch the supple skin of the depressed girl, to embrace her comfortingly and comb their way through her flowing black hair.
'Now's not the time for those kind of thoughts!' Hige mentally chastised himself, biting his lip in attempts to squelch his immoral thoughts with pain.
"Are you okay, Hige?" Blue inquired, tilting her head slightly to the side, she couldn't help but giggle quietly. She knew that face, the scrunched up nose, the lip biting--both habitual quirks of her stocky lover. Quirks only presented when he was feeling particularly uncomfortable or embarrassed, needless to say Blue herself had seen this face displayed numerous times before.
"Y-yeah I'm okay," Hige nodded hastily, not wanting to upset the injured girl over his internal struggle. "How about you?" He asked in concern, Blue's voice sounded weak and if possible even more rasping than before; the wet atmosphere of this place probably wasn't helping her poor condition either.
"I'm fine, don't worry about me, Hige." Blue sighed, staring despairingly to her chained wrists, longing to lay her pounding head in her warm palms.
"You're not fine!!" Hige tried to raise his voice but was forced to his formerly calm state by a sudden wave of dizziness. 'I guess I'm not as fine as I thought,' his mind throbbed, darkness creeping in on the corner of his docile claret eyes. "You don't have to lie to me." He continued after a few shaky breaths to calm his now churning stomach.
"I----I'm sorry, Hige. You're right, I'm not well, but---but there's nothing you can do and--and I'm not the only one who's lying anyway!" Blue's calm voice turned to an angry one as she stared miserably to her lover's hanging head.
"What do you mean?" Hige asked dryly, refusing to draw his eyes to hers for fear of her reading his every emotion.
"What do I mean? Hige, I know you better than anyone! I know when you're lying, and it doesn't suit you." Blue ran her tongue across her lips, contemplating what more she could say. "I-I love you, Hige, we--we have to be honest with one another, don't you think?" She finished, shifting uneasily in her chains as heavy silence filled the air, broken only by the occasional drop of water falling from the dark cement ceiling.
"That's the first time--" Hige started, before letting his voice drop to a throaty whisper and digging his nails in his pallid palms. "The first time you've ever told me you loved me." He finished, breathing heavily in a manner that Blue knew to be an attempt to draw back tears; tears of warmth, tears of happiness, tears of love.
"I love you too," Hige gulped, embarrassed by the quaking his usually strong voice gave and the soft shaking of his muscular shoulders. "I've always loved you, since the first time I met you, I wanted you to be mine. It hurt when you were away, like a void. I didn't know if you were safe, if-if you were well, and I wanted to always be with you. But I could never say it, I thought I was too strong but now, now I see I wasn't strong at all. I was weak; weak like I am now, weak like when I let those soldiers shoot you, and the same weakness when I let us get captured. But not anymore, Blue. I'm gonna be strong now, for you and only you, I'll learn to be strong."
Hige gave a soft sniff and turned his glistening crimson eyes to his lover's warm face, mentally capturing this moment, their re-birth as a couple, no longer weak but strong.
"Hige," Blue mouthed, finding her voice at a loss she let the pearly tears streaming down her flushed cheeks be her response. Her agreement. She was his and would always be as such. No matter the miles between them their hearts would be together, beating in unison, strong and alive by the love that connected them.
Hige's hands trembled wildly in their restraints, he wanted so bad to touch her silky, blushed cheek, to wipe away the glistening tears cascading from her captivating sapphire eyes. He bit the inside of his cheek and pushed his shoulders against the chains, struggling to remove their hold.
"What are you doing?" Blue managed to squeak through her sobbing as she lifted a shoulder to wipe away the cold tears dripping from the bridge of her nose.
"I'm getting us out of here," Hige snarled simply, he continued to bite heavily on his cheek as the copper taste of blood filled his mouth.
"It's useless, I've tried, these chains are too strong. Please, Hige, I don't want you to hurt yourself."
Hige continued to struggle against his shackles, grunting angrily as he raised his legs against the wall and pushed outwards before allowing himself to fall huffily to his original position. A few stones rained sparingly from the ceiling, clouding the two lovers in a momentary cloud of earth before settling once more on the prison floors.
"I almost got it," Hige wheezed and coughed uncomfortably, leaning his head softly to the wall behind him.
"What happened, why'd ya have to stop?" Blue asked curiously, trying to hold back the laughter threatening to escape over the smears of dirt covering her lover's sweaty brow.
"Damn chains cut off my windpipe, could've gotten it too." He snapped back in mock anger as he studied the ceiling to assess the damage.
Blue opened her chapped lips slowly to give a response, but snapped them closed as gruff voices and brisk footsteps echoed through the cold cement walls, plunging the two wolves in an uncomfortable silence.
"Blue, have you seen our captors yet?" Hige whispered quietly, not daring to raise his voice any further as he bawled and recoiled his fists in both anger and worry.
"No, not yet." She managed back, chest pounding angrily in fear as soft clack resounded through the prison and stale light flooded its sepulchral walls.
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"This one senses him that way." Cheza's airy voice sounded through the cold winter's wind as she stretched out her pale arm, pointing intently to an alleyway.
"Yes, yes I can smell liquor, it must be him." Kiba's wry voice answered back distastefully as he shifted under the flower maiden's weight. They had been searching for some time, or at least long enough for him to worry about her freezing her delicate feet through the thin material of those garish pink boots.
'Quent better know where you are, Hige.' Kiba snarled to himself. 'We're not going to be able to look much longer.' He suddenly stopped his pace before hesitating and regaining his brisk steps. What was that emotion laced through the depths of his thoughts? Was it, it couldn't be---worry? But why should he worry? His whole life people had abandoned him, and he had abandoned others in return. This was a wolf's life these days; you can't let people slow you down. Paradise is the objective and compared to it no one else matters, and so, in this manner emotions are useless. Happiness, anger, sadness---love, they are worthless. What can they do for you? Nothing, yes this was the only answer acceptable, they served to slow you down, to make you weak, and nothing else.
"Kiba, this one hears Toboe and Tsume." Cheza's wispy voice interrupted the boy's reverie, plunging him once more into the cold air of reality.
"Hn, maybe they had the same idea as us." He told the girl, turning his head he watched as his companions ran gracefully through the snow, muscled contracting deeply at each stride.
"K-Kiba," Toboe huffed as reached the messy-haired boy's body. Turning to his human form he clutched a hand to his chest and leaned on a wall of the alleyway, struggling to catch his breath. "W-we caught you." He gasped, straightening a little while a bead of sweat trickled down his flushed cheek.
"Seems like we need to get a move on, the runt's getting out of shape." Tsume laughed through his own shallow breathing as he knocked the pup lightly on his head.
"You were looking for us--?" Kiba's metal azure eyes stared placidly to Tsume's form as he bent down slowly to let Cheza down from his back.
"Yes." Tsume simply nodded before continuing. "You're looking for -him-, aren't you?" Tsume asked, quickly dodging Cheza's slender body as she shuffled to Toboe's side.
"How'd you guess?" Kiba inquired sarcastically, letting a cold sneer move across his lips he shrugged slightly and turned back to the alley. "He's close, the smell of alcohol is stronger than ever." The boy called, not bothering to turn his head to the group behind him as he walked unflinching into the shadows of the passage.
"Do you really think he'll know where Hige is?" Tsume asked gruffly, tones of cynicism snaking his heavy voice.
"Hige's somewhere in this city, I can sense that much. As to where his specific position is, well I think he's be our best bet to finding out." Kiba explained, pausing his footsteps a moment to reply before shoving his hands in his pockets and continuing his long walk forward. "He's with Blue, she means more to him than we do."
"You don't intend to stay a day longer do you?" Tsume asked angrily, partially for his stocky companion and for the emotions he knew would arise in Toboe's gentle soul if their comical friend was left behind.
Kiba remained silent, letting the wind dance through his hair in ribbons of auburn swirls. He couldn't tell Tsume his true feelings. The views he had let himself resign to--every wolf should live only for his own well-being. Yes, that was the truth the endless nights of bitter death and despair had taught him, but they had taught him something else, something of even more consequence. For in his well being, to maintain his sanity, the security of his friends and the relationship they shared was necessary. He had no intentions of leaving without one of them, they were his pack, they were his being.
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Ok that's the next chapter---not as good as the first time I wrote it but ooo well. (sigh) Ummn yeah, you've probably figured out who the pack are looking for, it's soo sooo obvious but you'll no for sure in the next chap. And you should find out why Hige's in such poor health.
Well thanks for reading, I really appreciate it and should be a lot quicker with the next chap--especially because the meager bout of writer's black I was facing has dissipated almost completely (sigh of relief)
Oh to Sessy's Girl-- did you catch the good stuff? It might've been hard to pick out but it was all the Hige and Blue fluff. Yep, not much but c'mon they were happy at least for a little while, right? I really wanted to let them kiss but alas, the chains prevented it. So I suppose I'll have to save their first kiss for another chapter--oh well, all the more to look forward to, right?
Anyway, Hope everyone enjoyed this chapter and I'm still living up to the others, I'm trying really really hard!!! : ) Well once again, thanks for reading. Please review!! They not only inspire me but make me work much more quickly!
Thanks to all you supporters out there, you guys rock hard!!!
Ciao :D