The Story of a Lonely Wolf Chapter 14: Wolf Attack

Damn, why am I sitting here? Tsume thought to himself as he sat out on the porch, I have better things to do; this is a total waste of time.

"Hey, do you think we should let Tsume in?" Kiba asked as they waited for the vet to arrive.

"Nah, he'll come in when he feels like it," Hige replied as he sat and watched the TV. "Hey, what ever happened to Josh?"

"Umm, I'm not sure. I know he's around somewhere. Last I saw he was still in my room," Cassi said as she sat on the floor next to Toboe. His head was in her lap and she was petting him gently.

"Should I go find him?" Kiba asked.

"No, just leave him be. He'll come out sometime," Cassi replied.

Why am I so nervous? Josh asked himself as he walked around their backyard, Mom is right that dog won't hurt anyone. So why can't I go in there with everyone else? He wondered to himself and kicked a can that was in the yard nearby.

"What was that?" Tsume asked as he looked around the street. He was sure he had heard a noise. "Damn it, stupid people making a racket," Tsume said as he stood up and walked around the house making sure no one was there.

"Huh? Someone is coming…" Josh said as he heard footsteps heading his way.

Now I know someone is there, Tsume thought to himself. He could hear someone walking back there. He let his barrier down and he was ready to attack if needed. There was no one else around so no one would see him as a wolf and if they did they would only think he was a dog anyway.

What is that? Josh asked himself as he began slowly walking closer to the side of the house, The sound of footsteps changed. I could have sworn I only heard two feet, now I hear four. What is this?

"I'm going to get this idiot. He isn't going to get me," Tsume said as he lunged around the corner and on top of Josh.

"Ahhhhh! No, get away!" Josh yelled at the site of the huge gray wolf on top of him.

"What the hell?" Tsume said surprised to see it was Josh he was attacking.

"Josh, what's wrong?" Cassi asked as she, Kiba, and Hige ran out of the house to see what was wrong.

"Mom, help!" Josh cried.

"What is it?" Cassi yelled as she ran toward him.

"It's the dog! The one that killed dad!" Josh yelled.

"Oh my god…" Cassi said at the site of the big dog that stood over her son.

"Oh boy, we are in trouble now," Hige said as he and Kiba saw what was going on.

"Get away from him!" Cassi yelled and grabbed a shovel that sat nearby. "Get off of him!" she yelled again and swung her shovel at Tsume who was still very confused.

What the hell is going on? Tsume asked himself then jumped off of Josh and ran in the bushes before Cassi could hit him.

"Josh, are you ok?" Cassi asked and kneeled next to Josh who was crying.

"Mom, that was the dog that killed Dad," Josh cried.

"Oh Honey, there are a lot of big dogs out here. I don't think that was the same one," Cassi said trying to comfort Josh.

"No Mom, it was. Did you see it? Did you see its chest? It had that scar on its chest. The dog that killed dad had the same scar, Mom," Josh said as he cried.

"What?" Hige asked, "It was the same dog? Are you sure?"

"Yeah," Josh replied as Cassi hugged him trying to clam him down.

"It's ok baby. Everything is fine now, we are all here," Cassi said as she hugged Josh, "Come on, let's go back in ok?"

"K," Josh replied.

"Ok," Cassi said and picked Josh up and carried him in. "Can you guys make sure that dog is gone?" Cassi asked as she walked to the door.

"Yeah," Hige replied.

"She's gone, you can come out now," Kiba said after Cassi had gone in.

"What the hell just happened?" Tsume asked as he came out.

"You just got us in a whole lot of trouble, Tsume," Hige said as he stared at Tsume who was still in his wolf form.

"What was that about, Tsume?" Kiba asked, "Did you kill someone?"

"No, I didn't kill anyone," Tsume replied.

"Are you sure?" Hige asked, "If you didn't then Josh wouldn't have remembered your scar. You're lucky Cassi didn't call the nobles on you. They would come over here and kill you so fast for attacking a kid."

"I was only making sure no one was here, and I didn't bite him, did I?" Tsume replied annoyed.

"That's not the point. You still scared him and he knows who you are," Kiba said.

"He has no clue who I am," Tsume said.

"He will once he sees your scar," Kiba replied.

"Come on, you don't actually think that just because I have a scar that the humans will be able to figure out that we are wolves do you?" Tsume asked.

"They might. You never know with humans," Hige said.

"Hige, remember you said you had a feeling they would find out? Do you think this could be it?" Kiba asked.

"Could be I guess," Hige replied.

"They aren't going to find out. No human is stupid enough to say wolves can turn into humans. Everyone would think they were crazy," Tsume said.

"We should go back inside," Kiba said, "She'll start wondering where we are."

"Yeah," Hige replied.

"Are you going to stay out here?" Kiba asked Tsume.

"There's no way in hell I'm going back in there," Tsume said.

"Fine, soot yourself," Kiba said, "Come on, Hige."

"Ok," Hige replied and followed Kiba leaving Tsume outside alone.

"You really don't think he did it do you?" Hige asked as they entered the kitchen.

"I don't know," Kiba replied. "But I have a hunch he did."

"How's that?" Hige asked.

"He seems to be very angry at this family. I've never seen him get in a fight so fast with one person. He usually just says something mean then brushes them off, but not this family. He is always starting fights with Cassi. Maybe he really did kill Josh's father and is angry about it."

"Why would he be angry?" Hige asked as he sat down at the table.

"I'm not sure. Maybe they did something really bad to him," Kiba replied.

"Well whatever it was. He sure doesn't want us to know," Hige said.

"Hey guys, the vet is here!" Cassi hollered from in the living room.

"Ok!" Hige hollered back. "So what are we going to do about this? I dunno if we should let Tsume stay with us if he killed someone," Hige said to Kiba.

"No, he can stay if he wants," Kiba replied.

"Are you nuts? He's dangerous Kiba. I told you that from the start, and he having killed someone is even more proof of it," Hige said.

"We can't prove it was him," Kiba said, "Maybe he really didn't do it. And even if he did I can't just leave him by himself for it."

"Kiba, he can take care of himself. He doesn't need us to protect him or anything," Hige replied.

"That's not it," Kiba said looking out the kitchen window.

"What is it then?" Hige asked.

"When I first came to this city, Tsume's humans had found me. My leg was injured. Tsume ordered his men to pull me out. They tried, but before they could I had killed both of them. Tsume was the one who told me I shouldn't kill. I saw nothing wrong with it, but he said it was wrong. So you see I've killed people before, even Tsume's own men. So just leaving him here because he killed someone wouldn't be right because I did the same thing."

"But they tired to kill you, right?" Hige asked.

"I didn't know what they where going to do. I just killed them," Kiba replied.

"Well, you didn't know. They could have killed you, you know how humans are," Hige said.

"Well how do we know Josh's dad wasn't trying to kill Tsume?" Kiba asked.

"Uhhh…."

"See… so we can't leave him here," Kiba said.

"Damn Kiba, why do you have to be right all the time?" Hige said with a sigh

"Hige, Kiba, come in here!" Cassi hollered.

"Come on let's go," Kiba said as he went into the living room.

"Fine," Hige replied and followed Kiba into the living room.