A/N: Well, well, well. Another chapter. This one, I like more for some reason. Um, just a little heads up, the city in this chap, totally made up. I'm sure you could have figured that out, lol, but I just wanted to make it clear. Also SPOILERS here and there, so YE BE WARNED. I just wanted to say that... well type that. I did say it though as I typed it. Ha! What do you care! Read and review as usual. Tell me what you're thinking. I wish to know.

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RenTin: Peek-a-boo, where are you?

Orion: Hiding.

RenTen: But why? I just want to write a little.

Orion: Well, I want you to write, but you're going to ask me that question again. I don't want you to ask me that question again. I get tired of having to answer that question again and again.

RenTin: Wow, I'm impressed. That was a lot of "again's"! Very, very impressive.

Orion: (comes out of hiding) Well, I try.

RenTin: (pounces) Gottcha!

Orion:(bleep) Curse you wench! (bleep) You'll be the (bleeping)end of me NOW GET THE (bleep) OFF!

RenTin: Now, now, that wasn't nice. Come on, just a little bit. You know that next week we're going away, so we won't have time to update. Pretty please. Just one more eency weency little chapter? Pretty please.

Orion: (sighs) Fine, fine. Ok, but only one. I'm really exhausted from the last time on the other story.

RenTin: (smiles remembering) Well this time I won't have you change into anyone.

Orion: Ok agreed. I will help you. But before we can start, go ahead. Get it out of your system.

RenTin: Nah, you just say it.

Orion: Wow, I thought you'd put up more of a fight.

RenTin: (shrugs)

Orion: Ok, you DO NOT OWN anything that is Wolf's Rain. AndNEVER will.

RenTin: That was a little harsh don't ya think?

Orion: No! (flatly stated with no amusement) Now on with the show... uh story.

RenTin: Alrighty!

Last time...

Tsume's brow furrowed. He made that clicking noise again and muttered to himself. "I can't stand nobles." He clenched his fist and looked back towards the shrine. The falling snow had put out the fire. He noticed an orange glow floating in the sky. The last remaining embers disappearing into the snow. 'Nothing left behind. What choice do I have, but to move forward.' With that he started to run. To where he wasn't exactly sure. Though he did know he wasn't alone.

'It's cold and that's all I can feel. It's all I want to feel.' Saida kept talking to herself and to the numbness that consumed her body.

Whatever had locked away her anger, her hurt, was keeping her from feeling anything. Anything but the pure biting ice cold air. Not even the chill of the snowflakes that lighted on her, not even as they melted from the heat of her skin at contact, could be felt. No, it was just the cold. It was all the same.

She didn't know where she was going. But she never stopped. The moon had disappeared six nights and still she hadn't stopped.

The two figures following her stayed behind. They rested where she didn't. But they never gave up following.

Sound never pierced the air. The only speaking thing was the blowing harsh wind and their consciences. The inner most thoughts of each individual sounding out, asking things that they could not, would not, say aloud.

Finally, on the seventh night, as the two males stopped once again to rest, the silence was broken.

"Don't you find this odd? Tsume's voice faltered a bit as a gust of wind unexpectedly made him shiver.

Kiba looked at him and then to the flower beside him. It had opened more since they had been moving. It was almost in full bloom now. 'It won't be long.' Kiba ran his hand over the glass.

He found his thoughts sometimes strayed to the flower. He found himself staring at it whenever they stopped to rest. When he wasn't thinking of it, he was thinking of Saida.

'What is driving her? What keeps her going?' These questions he asked himself over and over and his thoughts would always drift to the flower and the voice.

He hadn't heard the voice since the shrine. Since Saida had walked away. He longed to hear it though. He wanted so much to hear her talk to him. He had decided that the flower would serve as a substitute for the time being, until he could find her again.

That's what she had said to him. 'Find me.' And so he would. He had made up his mind. And for now he would continue to follow Saida. She was his only connection to the voice... to "Cheza." Kiba breathed out her name letting the wind whisk it away.

Tsume had been watching Kiba the entire time. He still hadn't answered his question and he was beginning to become impatient. But somehow he knew that Kiba was struggling.

'Still though, I'm getting tired of all this. Especially the not knowing.' Finally Tsume got up and started walking again.

"Tsume, we should rest a little longer." It shocked Tsume so much to hear Kiba's voice that he nearly fell over turning around.

"So, you do remember how to talk. That's comforting to know. I find it a little odd that you never used to shut up before. And now since all this happened you've barely said anything." Tsume laid back down, placing his hands behind his head.

"That life. It wasn't mine. It wasn't yours either." Tsume glanced at Kiba knowing what he meant. He sighed.

"What happened? At the end?" Kiba hadn't been expecting the question and gasped, quickly averting Tsume's gaze.

He clenched his eyes shut and reached into the snow and grasped the cold mesh. "You know what happened."

Tsume flung himself upright. "The hell I do. I know we all died. All of us. And you, you went after Cheza." Kiba snatched his head up at the mention of her name. Tsume continued. "The next memory I have is as a child. A human child. But I'm not human. I don't understand it."

Kiba sat staring straight through Tsume. It was like watching a volcano erupt. The molten lava flowing from it, devouring everything in it's path. Being unable to stop it. The images of the last moments poured into his mind, slowly and excruciatingly.

The utter helplessness that he felt when she faded, leaving behind her true form. Leaving behind the seeds that would remake the world. The seeds that did remake the world.

The truth is Kiba didn't know what had happened any more than Tsume. But he would find out. She would know. 'Cheza would know.' His thoughts strayed to the flower and the maiden once more.

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Saida's shoulders were shaking uncontrollably now. She hadn't realized it though. Her whole body ached. It ached for nutrients; it ached for sleep. "I can't stop. I have to keep going, no matter what." Those simple words entangled with her thoughts, kept her going. Kept her on her feet.

The night passed away and the sun shown brighter than it had in days. The snow had finally subsided and the haze it left had lifted.

Saida waited for her eyes to adjust in the new light. Blinking several times, she walked towards the horizon. The big orb of fire drawing her in.

The closer she got the warmer she felt inside out. It was like a blanket of light was being wrapped around her. It was all hers. For once, something, other than herself, was taking care of her.

She tilted her face towards the sky, never pausing once in her stride, not even when she closed her eyes. 'It's not enough. I need more.' Her mind was dancing with this warm feeling. She couldn't get enough of it. It reminded her of something, but she couldn't quite remember what.

It was happening. She couldn't stop herself. Her face spread into a smile, albeit a small one, but it was something she hadn't done in days. Something she thought she would never do again.

The thought of not remembering wasn't so hard to cope with as long as the sun was shining down on her. It seemed to fill the void inside of her. The void she had gotten once the flower was no longer with her.

Her smile faded though as she became shadowed. Her eyes opened to mere slits and saw that the sun had disappeared behind a dome. Her forehead creased, while eyeing the atrocious thing.

This was all she needed, more human contact. She sighed. "It's the only way to keep going. I have to go through to get to the other side." With that last thought she found the road that led into the city.

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"You know, we've been following her for what, eight days now, and we still can't catch up to her. Maybe we should just go our own way. She obviously doesn't want to be around us. So I don't..." Tsume's words were cut off as he bumped into Kiba. "What the hell did you stop for?"

It didn't take him long to follow Kiba's gaze. "Another city huh? This must be Glacier." Tsume took in a big breath and let it out dramatically, bending over as the air expelled from his lungs.

"She's there." Kiba started to walk towards the round bubble. Tsume following in step.

"I hear this place isn't not so great, rather a crappy city, with hardly any food. I've also heard that the people here don't like outsiders. You sure you want to go in there?" Tsume stopped and watched Kiba as he kept walking.

"I guess that's a yes then." He mumbled to himself. "She better be worth it." Shoving his hands into his pockets he trudged along side Kiba.

"She is important to us. I can't explain it. But she holds the answers." Kiba gripped the jar tighter keeping his head forward.

Tsume side-glanced him, eyeing him to gauge his expression, to see if he actually believed his own words. "All the answers huh? I have my doubts, but whatever. I am curious as to why she left the flower though. It seemed so important to her." He shut up quickly as the words left his mouth.

It wasn't like him to care so much, well at least to show that he cared. 'But wait, as a human I had no problem at all showing it. I had friends. I had family. I was cared for and I cared.' He snarled at his own thoughts. 'Damn her.'

Kiba finally looked at him. He was upset. Kiba smiled to himself. It was just as hard for him to remember who he was, and who he is now.

But who he used to be before the wolf and after the world had been reborn, was stuck. It was neither a part of his past life or who he was now. His human self would never fit in with either side.

"Do you think she knows how we can be human's one minute and wolves the next? Because that one really has my hair standing on end." Kiba actually chuckled at Tsume's words and the shake he made as he said them.

Kiba put a hand on his friends shoulder and looked at him smiling. "That's why we need to find her." That was the last thing that was said as the entrance of the dome came into view.

A/A/N: Phew! Ok as before... REVIEW. Good? Bad? Indifferent? Questions? I want to know. As I said I want to know what you're thinking. Yes, because to know would make me all powerful! (laughs evilly) Mwa-ha-ha! MU-AH-HA-HA-HA! Yeah, so ok, review. Until later ;p