Okay…. Well… this is my first Wolf's Rain Fanfiction. And it's probably going to suck. So please don't hate me! –Cowers in corner- lol, well I better get started.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything, no one in this story belongs to me. Except for Aya, and Masuki… Her pet cat!

Flying Without Wings

Chapter 1

As she walked to work, she watched the people walking bye, their lips moving, but the sound not reaching her ears. She sighed sadly and looked down at her feet, kicking a rock along the ground as she walked. Something caught her eye and she looked across the street. Meeting gaze with a large dog, sitting in the alley. Blue met crimson. She studied the collar around his neck. She looked back up at his eyes and was caught by surprise when she saw that he seemed to be studying her as well. She shook her head and blinked a few times but the dog had disappeared. She shrugged it off and continued to work.

"Knock Knock." A man wearing a navy work suit knocked on the doorframe of Aya's office, knowing she couldn't hear it, but hoping that she would see him. Aya looked up from her work after seeing shoes enter her office door and smiled.

"Good Morning Hoshi. How are you?" She gave him a lopsided smile, her r's and s's not sounding quite right.

Hoshi nodded. "Fine thanks. Why the long face?"

"I don't have a long face… I have the same face as everyday." Her lips moved down his face to his lips and watched them as they moved.

"No… You're normally wearing your 'This day'll fly by fast' face. Today you have your 'something's wrong with me… I need someone to talk to' face." He said with a hint of sarcasm in his voice that she couldn't hear, but could see in his expression.

"Whatever." She said, shrugging and looking back down to the work on her desk. "There are ups and downs of having a best friend who knows everything about you…" She smiled at him, waiting for a reply. He simply shrugged and pulled an envelope out from behind his back.

"Do you have those reports? Boss wants him and you know how he gets when his reports are late." He said laughing and putting the envelope down on her desk.

"Yeah." She smiled and opened the bottom drawer. "Just finished them last night. Glad I did too…" She handed him the envelope and smiled. "Now shoo… I got some work I need to get done." She said, waving her hand to the door. Hoshi nodded and took the envelope smiling.

"Thanks, for a 17 year-old, you get a lot more work done than anyone else around here!"

"Thank you for the compliment and I would like to keep it that way!" She said, waving her hand again.

"Alright! Alright, I'm going!"

Aya smiled and looked back down at her work.

Later on Aya looked up at the clock on her desk. 5:45 She looked out into the rest of the office and saw it completely empty except for the janitor vaccuming one of the cubicles. Guess I better go… She sighed and put everything away and grabbed her coat, walking out of her office and locking it behind her. She exited the front doors of her office building and walked down the street opposite the one she had walked to work on.

"I guess its pizza again for dinner tonight…" She sighed and smacked her forehead. "Oh no. Masuki! I completely forgot…" She picked up her pace mentally punishing herself for being so neglectful to her cat. Twice this week… She's going to be ignoring me for a month… She thought to herself remembering her cat's prissy attitude.

She was suddenly pulled from her thoughts when she tripped over something. She looked over her shoulder and saw a dog pulling itself up from off the ground, closely resembling the dog she saw this morning. The dog looked at her and backed away the bracelets on its right leg clinking quietly.

"I'm sorry… Don't be scared. I won't hurt you." Aya said softly, holding out a hand. He stayed planted to its spot and she sighed. An idea occurred to her and she pulled out the other half from her ham and cheese sandwich from lunch. She tore a small piece and offered it to the dog setting it on the ground. "There you go… You look hungry…"

He slowly lowered his head to the ground, sniffing the piece of sandwich and keeping his brown eyes on her, watching her intently. She smiled gently as he ate the bit of sandwich shyly and held out the rest of it.

"Here… You can have it…" She set the rest of the sandwich down and stood up, smiling down at him. "I have to go now… It was nice meeting you." She turned around and smiled, walking home quickly, realizing how much more Masuki was going to dislike this sudden curfew change.

He stared after her and picked the sandwich up in his mouth and eating it happily, licking his chops.

"Toboe!" A boy standing in the alley way looked at him, his hands in his hoodie pockets. "Get over here!"

The dog looked up and trotted over playfully and with the blink of an eye, was suddenly replaced by a young boy in a red shirt and green pants. "Hige! That lady was so nice! She gave me some of her ham and cheese sandwich!"

Hige sighed and looked at him. "That's nice. We've been looking all over for you for who knows how long, Tsume even went downtown looking for you!"

"Oh… Gee, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to cause any trouble. I just thought I'd go out and look for some food for us tonight…"

Hige's disappointed expression changed and he smiled, ruffling up Toboe's hair. "Just don't do it again without taking someone with ya. Got that?"

"Mm hmm."

"Alright, let's go home."

Alright! How do you like it? I thought this up as I typed. In case you haven't noticed, Aya is a 17 year old girl having to work for herself to make a living. She's also deaf and can lip read. Alrighty! R&R, so I know if I should continue!