I apologize before hand for the short chapter. Sadly, it seems that most of them will be short...


Chapter 2: The Den and a Run-in with Toboe

Cheza and I walked along a small, rickety, chain-link fence, looking for the hole we made. We soon found in and crawled in. As I walked along the budding plants and trees, I remembered when I first came to this city and walked along this same land. I don't know the exact path I took, because when I walked along here the whole place was covered with snow. Cheza ran off ahead, but I walked slowly, enjoying the scents. Cheza called to me, so I started to run. I caught up with her. She was sitting inside the cave we found that we nicknamed, 'The Den'.

The Den was a rather small cave that was in a hillside. The growing plants around the cave attracted lots of mice and other small creatures, so there was a lot of food for me. There was a little pond only a 3-minuet walk away, so there was a place for Cheza to get her food. Sadly, some really old man 'owned' the place, so we couldn't spend much time at it.

We sat in the den, my head in Cheza's lap. Even though she was petting me, she seamed distracted. Before I could ask her what was wrong, she said "Kiba, this one saw that man. This one thinks we should leave." She got up and left and I followed.

We found ourselves back in the city. I kept a look out for any of my friends, desperately wishing they were here. Then, I saw something that took me aback. A wolf in human form was trailing us. I stopped walking, put myself in-between the other wolf and Cheza. He stopped walking and carefully sized me up. "You got a problem?" I said, more than ready to take him on. He took a step closer. I bristled my fur and bared my teeth, growling as fiercely as I could. The other wolf took off running with its tail between its legs.

I resumed my human disguise and the two of us continued to walk. Then something darted out of an ally and almost hit me. It was Toboe! And he looked terrified, holding on tightly to the small white kitten in his arms. He stopped at stared at me. "Are you ok Toboe?" I asked, trying to think of something that would have him so scared. "There's a giant sewer rat after me! It's HUGE! And white and...and...THERE IT IS!!" He shouted pointing at something emerging from the shadows. He was so scared he fell to the ground and didn't get up. When I saw the 'giant sewer rat' I laughed out loud. But to the poor opossum, my laugh sounded like a howl and it froze in fear.

Cheza got onto her knees and beckoned it over as I turned to Toboe and explained what it was to him. "That's an opossum, not a rat. They're fairly harmless and it probably came after you because they like cat food and you have a cat." I said, helping him up. "Wow. I don't know that! Your really smart, Kiba." He said, smiling at me. He froze when he saw Cheza, though. She stood up and returned his gaze. "Hello Toboe. Don't you remember this one?" She said, cocking her head to one side. His eyes went blank. "Come on Cheza, I think we should go." I said, remembering when my memories were awakened. We headed back toward The Den.

"This one does not think leaving Toboe was a good idea." She said, crawling into the hole in the fence as I waited. I sighed. "If he really remembers, he'll know where to go." I replied. I waited until Cheza was in front of me before stating to walk. "Stop right there!" I voice from behind us shouted. It was the man the 'owned' the land. "This is privet property! Leave now!" He shouted, pointing a gun at Cheza. That was it. I dropped my disguise and growled angrily at him. The man froze, then ran off screaming. He dropped his gun as he ran off and it lay there in the dirt. "This one does not think that was wise, ether." She said before heading off to The Den. "Whatever you say Cheza." I said, trailing behind, "Whatever you say."