Chapter Three: A Night's Event

Kiba and Oki caught up to the others and they could see that Hige was just barley getting to enjoy himself along with Toboe, but Tsume was leaning against the wooden fence that surrounded the house. The area they were eating on was connected to the path and had four stone seats on the concrete ground, the deer was in the center. Joka was sitting in the middle of the largest stone seat that was in a V- shape in front of where the fence connected from different directions. Yuka and Osa were on opposite sides on the V- shaped seat. Dai and Sato were sitting on the same single stone seat that was a few feet to the side of the V- shape seat. Tama and Kogaku were on the next one.

"Come on, Kiba dig in," Hige politely instructed through a mouth full of raw deer flesh.

"Yeah, it tastes really good." Toboe add with out the touch of food spilling out of his mouth like Hige.

Kiba and Oki walked up to it and knelt down in front of the deer's lifeless body. Oki was on one side of Hige while Kiba was in the middle of Hige and Toboe. The four of them turned into their wolf forms and began to rip at the partially eaten meat. Hige occasionally glanced at Oki eating. After a few minutes Toboe was the first to stop eating.

"Tsume why aren't you eating?" Toboe asked after changing back into his human form and sat next to Yuka.

"Porky made me loose my apatite." Tsume answered as Hige looked up with a blood stained face and growled a Tsume.

"Oh, okay," Toboe said not knowing what Tsume meant.

"Where is Kaya, shouldn't she of been the first to eat?" Tsume asked looking at Oki who had just stood up, back in her human form.

"Hmm, she probably went into the forest somewhere, she started to do that about a week ago. None of use know what she does out there though." Oki said sitting on the empty stone seat.

"That right, we suspect she's seeing someone out of the pack." Kogaku said tonelessly.

"Speak for yourself, I think that she's out saving helpless humans like a good little pet," Tama said in a playful tone.

"Shut up Tama. Just because you don't like humans doesn't mean you have to make fun of her for getting along with them." Yuka uttered harshly.

"You know she right, Tama," Dai said agreeing with Yuka.

"Well all we know is that she takes food with her when she leave's so she's gotta be seeing humans," Sato blandly stated and everyone in his pack looked at him, "What? Am I the only one wh has noticed she takes food with her, jeez you're all dense."

"No, I've seen her take food," Oki said and added, "I've seen her take a bag with her when she leave's."

"I've noticed she smells strange when she comes back," Kogaku said uncertainly.

"Oh and how would you know that, Ko?" Tama asked mischievously.

"Ya know what just shut up. You should just shut up about thing's you don't know, Tama," Kogaku growled blushing slightly.

"Well when she leave's she usually heads in the direction of the abandon cottage on the south side of the forest." Joka said putting in his little comment.

"Yeah an we all know you just have to know where she's going," Osa said sarcastically looking at her nails.

The pack all agreed with a nod of the head and a mutter of "mhuh" making Kiba and the others feel out of the loop. Joka, getting irritated got up and stocked away leaving the others except Kiba, Tsume, Toboe, and Hige in laughter. Kiba and Hige stopped eating now (Hige finished the deer).

"Well he is a little bit over possessive of her," Osa mumbled through the side of her mouth.

"Are they together?" Hige asked taking a seat next to Oki and sitting rather close so Kiba could sit as well.

"No. He's just delusional and thinks he has rightful ownership of her," Oki said looking at Hige and trying to not fall off the seat from him scooting so close; he didn't move even when Kiba leaned against the same fence as Tsume in between two potted bushed.

"Does she not eat with you?" Toboe asked finally speaking after a long time.

"Oh no runt, she just socks up the sun and drinks water like Cheza," Hige sarcastically said rolling his eyes.

"Well she never ate with us, but she stays with us while we eat, usually she goes out later in the evening to hunt something herself. But like I said before about week ago she stopped and started to go somewhere else."

"When will she be coming back?" Kiba asked curiously.

"Probably later on tonight, about 10... I think," Sato said in his bland voice.

It became dark fast; Kiba and the others walked back into the house. For the arrangement of the room they decided that Kiba and Hige would sleep in opposite rooms while Toboe sleep in the middle room. Tsume was going to got sleep on the other side of the house but Toboe didn't want to sleep alone.

"Look, the kid has to get used to being alone sometimes. Kiba you..." Tsume argued.

"Come on Tsume he gets along with you the best," Kiba said knowing he was going to tell him to share his room with Toboe, he wouldn't mind but it might make Toboe uncomfortable since the little one seemed to have a brotherly connection with Tsume.

"Toboe why don't you sleep with Hige," Tsume said hoping Toboe would feel better.

"I don't want to, he snores and moves around too much.

"Ahg," Tsume said in frustration, he might as well, "Fine, we'll share the middle one but when I say it's lights out for you, you better go to sleep."

"Aw, but Tsume..." Toboe whined but quickly said, "OKAY," when Tsume growled at him.

The four of them went into their rooms. In his room, Kiba sat down on the bed and looked out the window, there was a half moon in the clear sky. Hige laid down on his bed in his room, he liked being in his own room it felt nice but he thought he was missing something. Hige wanted a little company other than the three other wolfs he usually traveled with and to that thought he fell asleep dreaming happily. Tsume sat down he looked at the door from his spot on the bed in the room Toboe and he were sharing. Toboe looked at Tsume; the beds were next to each other separate by a table that had a lamp on it. Toboe wanted to know what Tsume was thinking so he asked.

"Huh, nothing just go to bed," Tsume answered with a dazed tone.

"Tsume are you okay, you're acting weird?"

"I said it was nothing. Now what did I say about me telling you to go to sleep."

"Common, we barely got into the room."

"Look get some sleep we're probably going to leave in the morning anyway," Tsume said sifting himself and turned off the light.

"Alright, good- night, Tsume."

"Yeah, g'night."

Kiba heard a door open, he got up and walked to the door and opened it only to a crack. Tsume's back was what he saw walking down the hall. ' Were's he going?' Kiba thought and decided the best way to find out would be to follow. When Tsume went around the corner Kiba came out of the room. He saw that he wasn't the only one to want to know were Tsume was off to; Hige came out of his room as well. Hige turned around and smiled. He gave Kiba a shrug to say "What can I say, I'm curious" and in response Kiba gestured for them both to follow together.

Tsume felt like he was being watched ny two pairs of eyes, but he ignored the feeling. He was following the sent of a hour later fresh kill. The sent was leading him away from the house, but it wasn't very far for he found what he was after fairly quickly. Tsume stopped a few feet from the fully eaten rabbit body. He looked around. There was no sign of the one who had been eating it, the only surroundings was a large pond with bushes around it. Tsume turned and was about to leave when he heard something in the water move.

Hige's and Kiba's jaws dropped at what they saw; Kaya head popped out of the water(she is in human form) and she began to swim closer to shore.

"Never thought of you as the 'Peeping-Tom' type, Tsume."

"Heh, you're still the same playful little Kaya I used to know," Tsume chuckled as he watched Kaya swim to the shore and stop in a spot that allowed her to still be covered by the water.

"Really, I'll just take that as a complement, now could you be a gentleman and turn around?"

Tsume turned and crossed his arms over his chest as he waited for Kaya to dress. Unlike Hige, Kiba looked away as Kaya got dressed out of respect. When Kiba noticed Hige was still watching Kaya he grabbed Hige and forced him to look away. Thankfully Hige didn't put up a big fight so they weren't noticed as they watched from behind a bush. They both looked up when they heard talking.

"Why did you come out here?" Kaya asked as she put on a black trench coat.

"I wanted to talk to you alone," Tsume said walking up to Kaya.

"There's nothing to talk about," Kaya said not looking Tsume in the eyes.

"Yes there is, I need to talk about that day you left."

"There's nothing to say about it, I left that's it... end of discussion." Kaya said pushing past Tsume.

"No," Tsume grabbed Kaya and slammed her against the nearest tree, "Why did you leave? You knew I wanted to go with you. When I came back to go with you all I found was your blood on the floor, I thought you were dead. What happened to you?"

"Nothing, but you should of just left it that way. Why are you making this a big deal. You should just forget about me and leave with your new pack,"

"I don't want to do that. I don't want to abandon you again."

"Why not it's not like you really feel anything for me now, back then we were just pups."

"How can you say that?" Tsume said angry and frustrated that she could say that.

"The past is the past, we both have new lives so why would you still..."

Hige muttered a "go Tsume" as Kiba and him watched Tsume roughly, but tenderly kiss Kaya. Kaya squirmed trying to get out of Tsume's grip, but after a minute of futile struggling she stopped and shortly after Tsume let her go. Tsume looked away from her as he took a step back, Kaya watched him carefully as he did this. Tsume's voice sounding a little hurt said, "I do still love you, but I guess you don't love me as strongly anymore," and then he began walking away. Kaya watched, her mouth opening and closing as she tried to speak. Finally when he had left she said in a faint, but clear whisper, "I do still love you... I think."

A/N: Yeah, um at the beginning I was kinda a little descriptive with the meal...sorry about that and I think this chapter was a little dramatic but oh-cha-wellziez. Anyhoo, I hope you liked the chapter. PLEASE GIVE A REVIEW. If you have questions they will me answered on my review page, that is if I can answer them. -