"Leeba?" Kiba said as he breathed in Cheza and Katsume's flower scent.
"Kiba, I know who you are, little brother. I thought you were gone forever in that fire." Leeba replied, making a vivid memory spring forth in Kiba's head of the day the Indian man had found him after the fire, but Kiba could not remember anything from before then.
Kiba smiled. "We are going to find paradise."
"Do remember that we need to get out of here first." Katsume said, looking over to the door.
"Aren't you cold, just wearing that?" Leeba asked with a small laugh as he noticed what Katsume was wearing.
Katsume never really thought about the fact that what she was wearing, was kind of well..like something you would wear underneath your clothes.
"I guess." Katsume said quietly, now feeling a bit embarrassed as she stood infront of all those young men, (even if they were wolves.) She felt happy to have another female around at these kinds of moments.

"Here." Leeba said, taking off his green army jacket and handing it to Katsume.

"Pretty smooth brother you got there." Hige said, close by Kiba's ear.

"Hey, how did you all get past Jaguara's guards?" Leeba asked, his blue green orbs darting from one person to the next.
"We aren't really sure. There haven't been any sign of them so far." Tsume replied, looking somewhat off in the distance, as if trying to hear any footsteps on the long winding staircase behind the doors.

Katsume watched Cheza as she stared with a cold and sad expression towards Kiba.
She knew that Cheza was having a hard time with what she told Kiba a bit earlier.
Katsume felt a little tug of sadness inside herself that she was trying so hard to hide.
Things weren't really resolved between her and Kiba from before she and Cheza were captured.
Katsume knew in her heart that even if he was the white wolf from her dreams, that she was Cheza's white wolf. And that was just the way it was going to be. She didn't love him, and she wasn't trying to. She just felt something, but in an odd way she also felt something for Leeba now too. Maybe it is because they are related. Or maybe she was dreaming of Leeba all along. She didn't know, because she hasn't seen Leeba in his wolf form yet. All she knew was that she felt like a silly little girl, going from that night in the cave with Tsume, To Kiba, and now to Leeba.

It was like she couldn't make up her mind or something, even though in it's own weird way it was pieces of a puzzle that she was trying to solve.

Katsume sighed and reached out for Cheza's arm, and started to walk away from everyone a bit of ways.

"What is the matter?" Cheza asked earnestly.
"I know you really do not think of Kiba as a brother, and I know that you only said that to try and protect him, but whether or not you show your love for him, there will always be a chance of him getting hurt. So you should just be with him, rather then chance him getting hurt while you try to pretend you don't love him." Katsume took a deep breath and stood still as Cheza stared wide eyed at her.
Then suddenly she threw her arms about her and replied,
"This one is so happy to have the guardian with her."

"I think they forget we can still hear them with our ears." Hige said, his hands stuffed in the pockets of his sweat pants.

Kiba slowly moved towards Cheza, but then suddenly Cheza ran into his arms, whispering a quiet "I'm sorry." To him.
Kiba smiled at Katsume, and then hugged Cheza back.

"Sorry to spoil the romantic moment, but don't you think we should get moving? Jaguara's troops could appear at any moment." Tsume said, gesturing towards the way out.

"Mind if I tag along? It's kind of depressing here." Leeba asked Toboe.
Toboe nodded and smiled at Leeba.

"So, where do we go from here?" Tsume asked, stepping up besides Kiba.
"Out of here." Kiba said sternly as they went out into a long hallway.

As they walked a bit, Leeba noticed Katsume at the back of the group, sort of keeping to herself.
He slowed his pace down next to her side.
"What is your name?"
"Me? Oh, ah..It's Katsume. So you are Kiba's brother, huh?"
"Yeah. Kind of funny how fast things like that go by when you wait for them for years."
Leeba looked up at the wall as they were passing, sort of lost in thought for a moment.
"So," he started looking back at Katsume. "You aren't a wolf, what are you doing here?"
"I'm the flower, er, Guardian of the Lunar maiden and Wolves." Katsume said, stumbling with her words under Leeba's gaze.

Suddenly there was a shout, and all Katsume saw was a blurred vision of her friends worried faces, and then everything turned black.

Katsume stood up.
'Am I still dreaming?' she thought.
Suddenly a white wolf came trotting slowly out of the mist, followed by a gray wolf.
"Kiba?.....and Leeba?" Katsume called to them. But they did not answer. They just stopped infront of her and sat down, their eyes staring up into her eyes.
Then a swirl of gray foamed about everything.

A weird numb sensation caught up with Katsume, and she heard the voice of Sora in her head, telling her to see the truth.
'What truth?' she asked, but got no answer.
Then suddenly it hit her. The things Sora could not tell Katsume, but what she had to figure out for herself.
Kibaâ€..was only a guide, a mere replacement for the real chosen wolf. Leeba. The missing link to her never ending white wolf dream.
But now that she knew, she must keep it secret from strangers, because if Jaguara hears then she will know where to find the real chosen wolf.
"Now that the truth is out, Jaguara must be overthrown." Katsume said aloud in her mind, startling herself as she awoke in someone's arms.
They seemed to be running.
Katsume opened her eyes and looked up to see Leeba's face.

"What happened?" she asked.
"Jaguara's troops found us. We are almost out of here." Leeba replied.

"Wait," Katsume said, struggling to stand on her feet. "We have to destroy Jaguara. We have to go back!"
"Whoa, whoa, hold on a minute. What do you mean?" Hige asked as he and the others stopped running to confront what Katsume just said.

"All this time I thought Kiba was the chosen wolf, but he isn't. He was just a decoy for the real chosen wolf, Leeba. But if Jaguara finds out then she will try her hardest now, more so then ever to breed that higher power from the two chosen and the flower maiden." Katsume said, taking in quick small breaths as she talked.

"What's this all about?" Leeba asked, the sudden sound of footsteps getting closer.

"We'll explain it to you late, but we have to leave now." Kiba told Leeba sternly as he started to run again.
A small bit of warmth was pressed against Katsume's chest as she looked down to realize that her moon stone necklace was glowing.

"The chosen wolf will help me find my wings." Katsume said quickly, grabbing hold of her glowing moonstone necklace as she felt a sudden tingling sensation on her back.

"Kiba, wait!" Cheza called frantically.
Then, suddenly two very large, misty white wings spread out from behind Katsume, but she felt no pain, as if they were ghostly wings.
A cold sensation began at katsume's heart, then edged it's way through her veins, traveling down her arms and stopping at her finger tips, a eerie blue light forming in her hands.
Jaguara's guards rounded the corner and readied themselves to fight, but Katsume knew what to do.
She stretched her fingers out, sending the blue light towards the black swirl of nothingness, and then the all crumpled to the floor, as if inhaling some poison.

Katsume held her hands up close to her face, and stared in wonderment as her wings vanished and a few white feathers slowly floated to the floor.
Cheza smiled as the others stared wildly at the sight that just happened before them.

"She really is the Guardian." Toboe said with wide eyes as he reached out a hand to pick up one of the white delicate feathers.