Konbanwa, ye hearty few who read this fic. It's Kantama again, here to shed a bit more light on the realm of "blind". In case you haven't realized it, this story features only original characters. I don't trust myself much with characterization, therefore I don't write about the characters in the actual show. I can't stand Out-Of-Character fics, so I'm not about to write one.

Also, you may notice in the course of reading this fic that I alternate between referring to Kaze as a wolf or as a dog. I do that based on the character whose view I'm using. If you'll recall when I was writing that bit with Mr. Thompson, Kaze is called a dog. When it's a general view I refer to him as a wolf. It was also mentioned by one of my reviewers (who I cannot thank enough for taking the time to review, as well as the rest of those kind enough to leave comments) that my mentioning sensory details such as the color of Kaze's eyes is out of place, since the story is of a blind woman. Syri is indeed blind, but the people around her aren't. As before, I base those sorts of things on which character is seeing it. I just thought I'd clear that up for you.

Oh, I have a livejournal, by the way. If you're interested in the sundry details of my life, which actually don't tend to be all that pleasant, feel free to go and leave a comment or two, okii?

Kaze was sulking. He was sulking and doing a good job of it. He couldn't help being good at it, really. You have to admit, when anything with four legs sulks it's always those of the canine and lupine variety that do it with the most effectiveness since they do the best puppy eyes.

As to why he was sulking, it was because he was outside. Again. Yes, Nadia had succeeded in forcing him outside for the second time. Her current excuse was that he needed to go away for a bit to give Syri some time to get used to the fact that she had a large wolf for a seeing-eye dog. She had, again, used the frying pan to enforce her point; leaving a sulking wolf on the doorstep with an admirable goose-egg developing on his cranium.

Fortunately for him, Nadia either didn't know or didn't remember that wolves have excellent hearing. As such he was well able to listen in on the two talking, which was thus far proving interesting. At the current moment the women were discussing what he looked like.

"What color is his fur?"

"Grey that lightens to white around his face and underside. It looks a bit stereotypical, wolf-wise, but a person who didn't know better could mistake him for some kind of husky. It's his eyes that puzzle me though. My grandmother told me that wolves don't have blue eyes unless they're newborns, but his are so light blue it's almost white. Maybe he has some dog in his ancestry, I dunno."

"What does he look like as a human?"

"Handsome in a wild sort of way, unsurprisingly. Long black hair, about three inches taller than me, same color eyes. He would blend in with a crowd, so long as he kept his head down so no one could see his eyes. They're so freaky they'd catch anyone's attention."

"Where did he come from?"

Ah. A change of topic.

"He'd have to tell you, I really don't know. I haven't actually talked with him except to threaten him on your behalf."

He could hear Syri softly laughing. "You never change, do you Nadia?"

"Try not to. Anyway."

"Why has he been helping me?"

"Again, you'd have to ask him. I really don't know, nor do I care. Just so long as you're safe and he's neutered, I'm happy."

Kaze turned a bit green at that.

"Nadia! He's a wolf, I doubt he's going to go around breeding every dog in the city."

Actually Kaze didn't do that, but he'd known a wolf that did. No one liked that guy very much.

"It's not the dogs I'm worried about."

Syri made a puzzled noise. "Then why did you say that?"

A prolonged silence followed, with Kaze trying to stifle his snickers. It was finally broken by Nadia saying, "Honey you are the most innocent little thing I've ever met, God bless ye soul. Let's just put it this way, I'm guessing then when he looks human he feels human too. Does that explain it?"

"No...."

"Gah! I am not going to spell it out for you!"

Feeling decidedly evil Kaze called, "Is it okay for me to come back in yet?"

Syri "meep!"-ed in surprise and hastened to answer with a yes she was so sorry she hadn't thought to tell him so sooner. After he got inside he replied that it was okay, he was used to being outside so he really didn't mind.

When he came a stop sitting beside her bed in wolf form, Syri tilted her head. Stretching out a hand, she waved it hesitantly until he ducked his head beneath it. Smiling she scratched behind his ears. He enjoyed this very much, shifting this way and that so she could scratch all the best places.

Nadia gave a conspicuous cough, making the blind woman turn her unseeing eyes towards where her friend leaned against the wall. Kaze did the same, though his eyes narrowed at the expression the dark-skinned woman wore. She was hoping for Syri to kick him out, he just knew it.

"Alright wolf, time to do some explaining."

This will be interesting.