Chapter Two

Windy Days and Windy Ways

Kai woke first, her eyes slowly beginning to open to the sunlight. That fake sunlight that shone on their fur. She stood up and stretched slowly, yawning luxuriously. Her thin face looked over at the snoozing Kino, her eyes glaring as she threw a rock at the girl. Kino jumped up and looked around, her eyes slightly angered at the fact that she'd been awakened in such a rude manner.

However, regardless of this manner of becoming awake she also stood and stretched. She scratched her head then turned to Kai, "Where the hell did you get a rock?"

The white faced girl looked up, aware of the fact that she did not have to explain herself, but decided to anyway. "I just randomly keep them in my pockets to throw at people. Where the hell else would I get it?" She points to the ground that was obviously now covered in snow.

Kino blinked then grinned. "Okay boss, which way to the next city?"

She glared at the grey wolf, then sighed. "We go to the north. I can smell her coming from that direction." Her eyes looked down, Kino blinked.

"You really can't wait to see her can you? She must mean a lot to you..." The two began to walk in the direction of the exit to the city. Kai stuck her hands in her pockets, while Kino's were covered from the bitter cold by her long sleeves.

"Yeah...let's go. She's waiting for us out there..." the two took off, running like there would never be a tomorrow. As they stopped close by the exit they heard a click sound behind them. The cocking of a gun. The two turned to see a young boy standing with bright blue eyes. He growled at the two.

"You two...you're the ones that hurt my dog last night, ain't you!?" Beside him stood a bright cinnamon colored dog, his back covered with a bandage. The dog growled.

"No kid, we haven't hurt anyone. Now I suggest you go on. You can barely keep that gun straight, how do you expect to actually shoot us?" A gun shot rang out in the city, the bullet flew right past Kai's face, the wolf didn't even flinch. "I told you to go on, but you didn't listen..."

"K-Kai...let's just get going. Obviously this boy can't hurt us," she grabbed her friend's sleeve. "Let him go." Her pleads to her friend acquired no sympathy for the boy. Kai shook Kino's hand from her sleeve and approached the boy with a cruel look of pleasurable anger.

"Look kid, you're lucky that my friend's here, otherwise you'd both be dead. Next time someone tells you to go home...take their advice and go home." She pushed the boy back then jumped up the walls of the houses.

Kino bowed before she followed her companion. "Kai! Wait up Kai!" She ran up behind her friend who stood in the winds of the city.

"Why did you keep me from killing him?" Her voice sounded furious. "Why wouldn't you let me kill him? He tried to kill me and you wouldn't...you wouldn't..." she turned to Kino with eyes of fiery anger. "You...wouldn't let me kill him."

"But Kai...even you said that he had no chance at killing us. It just seemed senseless is all. Senseless killing isn't exactly the type of killing anyone should be done." She tossed a piece of meat she'd snagged from the boy to her friend. "Ration it. We're starting our journey on a new moon, which means it'll almost be another month until we get a full moon to feed off of..." Kai seemed almost distant now, she was obviously thinking hard.

"You smell it too, don't you?" The white wolf turned to the grey one, staring at her friends golden orbs. "You smell what's close by my sister's scent...right?"

"Yeah, the smell of lunar flowers. That smell...its almost intoxicating. It makes me want to run as fast as I can to find it, it makes me want to go wild." She grinned at her friend who was surprised by Kino's answer. "You too, huh?"

"Y-yeah...Kino...you're sure that you want to go with me?" Kai looked at the ground, almost with a hopeless look.

"Of course I do!" The albino turned her head back up, looking in wonderment at Kino. "I wouldn't have followed you this far if I didn't. To tell the truth, I've been looking for a way out of this city for a long time. You just happened to be the first to tell me to go with them." She turned with a large grin, looking at the opening in the glass dome. "There it is, my salvation and your sister...let's go Kai. No more looking back, okay?"

Kai nodded her head slowly. The albino ran forward first and jumped off the building. She soared through the air, then hit the out skirts of the city with a THUMP! Another gun shot rang out, she looked up to see Kino had followed her.

"Un!" Instead of her gentle landing she hit the ground and tumbled over. Her leg had been grazed by a bullet shot.

"Can you run?"

"Not as fast a before, but I can still run!" Kino got up a long side Kai and the two ran. Kai kept her speed slightly ahead of Kino's, but not to much in fear that the wolf would fall behind.

On the roof of another building stood a man in a trench coat. He pulled a flask from his pocket and emptied it into his mouth. A smirk appeared on his ruff face.