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CHAPTER 2 IDENTITY UNVEILED
As the wolves, carrying the strange new girl, approached the cave where they had left their younger companions, the girl began to stir, but she did not wake up. When they arrived at their destination, Hige and Toboe lost their appetites to pure curiosity.
"Who is this?" "Where did she come from?" "Is she alive?"
Kiba and Tsume were bombarded with questions coming from both directions. Finally, Tsume lost his nerve and yelled "SHUT UP! Everyone just shut up." Kiba carried the little girl into the cave and laid her down near the back; then, he took his jacket off and wrapped it around her to keep her warm. He hoped she would wake up soon; he could not stave off all the questions for long.
A few hours later, as the pack was finishing their supper and the last fleeting rays of sunlight filled the cave the girl awoke with a start. Her eyes were large and staring, and all four preoccupied wolves, in human form, looked at her, and somehow knew that she was destined to be part of their pack.
Kiba was the first to go and greet her and ask questions.
"Who are you?" he asked in a friendly tone.
"My name is Shiggaru," she answered shyly.
"Do you know where you are Shiggaru?" To this she shook her head slowly, while making eye contact with only the floor. Toboe started to get up, but Kiba waved him back down. Shiggaru didn't need anymore questions than he was going to ask her.
"Alright Shiggaru, we're going to play a game. I will ask you a question, then you ask me a question, that way we both get information on each other." She seemed to like this idea, and looked up to see who she was talking to. It was then that Kiba noticed, that the girl had two different colored eyes. One was a deep blue, with just a tinge of gray, and the other was the golden brown of a wolf, but he would have know if she were a wolf; he would have felt it.
"I already asked my question, so it is your turn."
"My question is are you going to eat me, yell at me, call mean names, or spit at me?"
"No! Of course not. Why would you think that we would do things like that?"
"Because you are wolves and that is what all of the wolves do to me." All of them had been listening, and now all of their mouths dropped open in pure amazement.
"Why would you think that we are wolves. Wolves are extinct," said Hige coolly.
"I just know. You smell like a wolf ."
"How could you smell something that vague," asked Tsume, abnormally interested. She just shrugged and answered vaguely, without too much enthusiasm.
"Don't know, but I have been able to since I was born."
After this comment, she noticed something that she hadn't before; the boy sitting near the back, with a yellow sweatshirt on, was wearing a collar that she remembered faintly, from somewhere a long time ago. She stood up and walked over to him, and asked the most unlikely of questions.
"Where did you get that collar from?" she inquired sweetly.
"I've had it since I was born. My mother had some kind of a strange obsession with human accessories, that I could never figure out."
"I don't remember very much of my mother," Shiggaru said sadly. "The only thing I remember is when she was killed by hunters, the pack wouldn't let us come back.
"Who is 'us'?" asked Kiba.
"Oh, I have an older brother. When we were exiled, he promised that he would never let anything happen to me. Then, while we were in a forest somewhere, there was a big fire and we got separated. I've been searching for him ever since."
Hige suddenly got very pale and he stared at her not believing what he had just heard. Toboe saw the strange look on Hige's face and had to find out what was going on.
"What is the matter Hige?"
"I had forgotten," was all that he said.
Ahahahahahah.... I love being mean! Sorry this one took so long to write, but school is killing me. I'll do better next time, I promise! Please R&R!