Crystal Rain

A Wolf's Rain Fanfiction by Kyukutou Sakura

Disclaimer – I do not own any Wolf's Rain paraphernalia, but I hope to get some this Christmas.

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And now – on to the story! D

Chapter 2 – Sapphire Skies

Suzette looked back to her home, the abandoned city an ominous splotch on the horizon. "You okay, Suzu?" Toboe asked her, his voice breaking through her concentration. She chuckled a little at her new nickname. "I'm okay. Just saying goodbye is all." She said, smiling in her human guise. Toboe quirked an eyebrow suspiciously, but let it slide. They were on an adventure to Paradise after all. This was not the time for silly head games. The black-coated female trotted a little faster, her lanky legs straining slightly to keep Kiba's rigorous pace.

Tsume growled at Suzette as she passed ahead of him. "Stay back there, pup. I don't need to smell you scent all the way to Paradise." He grumbled, snarling a bit as Suzette rolled her eyes and fell behind a little ways. "You don't need to worry about smelling me the whole way Gramps – Just keep the pace." She replied, her voice rumbling with a barely controlled growl. He snorted, and walked a little faster, placing himself further away from the young female.

The wolves had been traveling for nearly six hours, and snow had begun to fall nearly three hours into leaving Suzette's city. Toboe bit back whimpers as he trudged on, leaving bloodied paw-prints in the snow behind him, ice cutting into the fleshy pads of his paws. Suzette gritted her fangs and walked next to Toboe, moving on instinct to keep him warmer. "You okay?" she managed, the icy wind chilling her to the bone, even through her thick black coat. "I'm fine." He answered, his jaws chattering slightly. 'Liar'. She thought dryly, and bristled her ruff in order to find more warmth. She was not one to give up so easily, but it was damn cold, and so was she. "Hey Kiba, can we stop until this storm passes? It's getting almost too much for even us to travel on." Suzette called ahead to the white wolf, who turned to converse quietly with Cheza. She caught wisps of their conversation, and was pleased when they stopped where they were and began burrowing in to the snow.

An hour had passed, and the storm had let up very little. Suzette had burrowed near Toboe, because she knew he was horribly cold, though he'd never admit it. "Toboe, scoot over, you're sitting on my tail." She grumbled, half-asleep. He scooted over a little, freeing her bushy plume. Their breath mingled as they curled by each other, becoming icy exhalations of mist with each breath. "Let's sleep for a bit, then we'll hunt maybe." She yawned, revealing her puppy fangs to the cold air, making her snap her jaws shut with a metallic click. Toboe closed his eyes gently, Suzette being so close reminded him of his Grandma, and even of life before that. A litter of puppies rumbling and tumbling over each other in the forest faded into view as he snored quietly, memories he had long since forgotten.

Suzette slept, but it was an uneasy sleep of memories past. She dreamt of Sarah finding her that one day outside the city, she had been scrounging for scraps in the trash pile of a Chinese restaurant, chop suey noodles hanging from her velvety muzzle as she looked up in surprise. Her legs twitched in her sleep as she remembered running wide open in the park before it had died, the enormous trees slowly dying, turning brown in their deaths, before men appeared with their axes, chopping the huge oaks into firewood for the coming winter. The grass had been burned in the final freeze of fall, the individual blades crunching unhappily beneath her young paws.

Tsume snarled as he shook snow from his heavy gray coat, standing stiff-legged to wake up from his drowsy state-of-mind. Grumbling about stupid wolf pups and the snow, he padded over to a small hill that hid the annoying girl-pup and the runt. Digging into the snow with his muzzle, he found a scruff and hooked his fangs into it and pulled up, Toboe bursting from the snowy mound in a flurry of kicking legs and a spray of snow. "Tsume, that was mean." The runt whined, sitting down to shiver unpleasantly. He growled, before digging Suzette from her slumber by grabbing her scruff as well, yanking a little too hard, making her yelp out in pain, leaping from her lying position to full-standing in an instant. "Dammit Gramps, let sleeping wolves lie!" she growled out, shaking snow from her tail, her pale honey eyes narrowed in sleepy anger.

"Let's move." Kiba said suddenly, standing up to begin walking. Toboe stretched out, before trotting over to trip over Hige. "Ow.." the wolf pup grumbled, from his spread-eagle position on the snowy ground. Hige yawned in his lazy way, standing up to shake the snow from his body in a leisurely manner. There was a moment's pause, then the four lagging wolves leapt into action, trotting after Kiba who had begun to shrink into the horizon. "Wait for us Kiba!" Toboe cried out, stretching out his lithe body to lope after the older wolf. Suzette followed, running at nearly her top speed to catch up with the single-minded drive of the white wolf, Tsume hot on her heels.

"Let's go you guys – let's go to paradise." Toboe grinned, piping a thin howl to show how excited he was. "Pipe down, runt." Tsume growled, thumping Toboe in the back of the hand impatiently. "Ow, Tsume, don't be so mean!" he whined, nursing his wound. "Oh, both of you can it, make this a quiet trip, please?" Suzette growled out, and everything resumed to normal – or, as normal as talking wolves could be.

Oh hell yes, this is my longest chapter yet! I am so proud, that took only twenty minutes to type, I hope it's good. Til next time,

Sakura