A/N: Well in our last Chapter I was a mean person and left ya hanging so now you get to find out what happens... there's a lot of... how do you call it...um, I think its called angst but it kinda may not be cuz I really don't know what exactly real angst is... oh and there um is kinda some swearing so sorry about that but the characters need anger management heh, heh, heh, (lame joke I know) but yeah... enjoy the read even though its kinda sad just to warn ya!
Chapter 11: Spite Unto Thy's Soul
Kaya stared in shock tears starting to form in her eyes and began to walk toward the front of the house. Kiba and Tsume ran into the front yard of the house and stopped dead as they saw Kaya slowly bending down to Joka and she said in a barley hearable voice, "He's dead." then eyes widening she ran into the house. Kiba and Tsume followed and stared with wide eyes as they saw Osa's scared and bloody body in the right entrance living room, half of her body in the living room and the other on the entrance hallway floor. Walking into the hallway they saw there was blood everywhere. Kogaku's body lay propped against the wall with his eyes still open displaying a large wound in his chest and further down the hall against the opposite wall was Tama, his left arm broken and his throat cut. As the two got all the way down the hall they saw Kaya standing tears trickling down her cheeks as she stood looking at the clutter of the right hall Sato's body lay, bloody staining his back with a cut straight down his back and it seemed as if something had been impaled into him. Sato seemed to be on top of another as if it had been trying to shield them the attacker. Tsume lifted his hand about to touch Kaya's shoulder but twitched as Sato's body moved a little. Kaya ran over to it and turned it over and found Dai coughing looking half dead. Kaya grabbed him and held his upper body in her arms, her tears flowing even more.
"Oh Dai thank..."
"Kaya... lis-listen... Shita... a-and Oki... t-they were ta-taken... by the... by that human guy... he attacked us... I heard him say... som-something about being on th-the..." Dai coughed spitting up blood and coughing some more before continuing, "H-he was go-going to th-the we-western side of the for-forest. You ha-have t-to he-help h-her."
As Dai stopped talking Kaya felt his body lay still in her arms and his breathing halted to a stop. Kaya bent her head down her hair falling on Dai's color drained face and began to sob quietly, muttering to herself. Kiba and Tsume stood there not knowing what to do then Kaya set Dai's body on the floor gently and stood up. Kaya had her head down and she was facing the wall as her breath became erratic in patter from trying to hold in her tears. After a moment she punched the wall in her anger, expression showing that she was ready to kill the one who did this horrible thing.
"Kaya?" Kiba asked walking towards her and she mumbled something, "Kaya, are you alright?"
"I WILL NOT LET THAT FUCKING ASSHOLE GET AWAY WITH THIS!" Kaya said in a loud voice as she punched the wall in the same spot managing to make a nice little dent.
"Kaya stop!" Kiba said as he grabbed her hand from hitting the wall for a third time.
Kaya looked up at him tears still in her eye and then she quickly looked away from him when she saw how worried he was about her. Kiba slowly turned Kaya to face him and held her tight. Tsume watched his temper rising but he knew better than to start something with Kiba when the atmosphere was like it was. A noise came from across the hall and Tsume and Kiba both jerked their heads in the direction of the sound while Kaya pushed herself away from Kiba with her head hung low still. It was Hige, he looked battered and he had injuries but they were at a minimum. Hige stumbled as he walked over to the three and coughed a little.
"Where were you." Tsume asked in a pissed off tone.
"I was fighting and I got knocked out in Oki's room." Hige answered and then as he felt a sharp pain grabbed his right shoulder where he had nice long and deep cut, "Kaya. I-I'm sorry I couldn't help... I tried my best to stop him but it didn't really work out."
"No problem..." Kaya quietly mumbled her hair covering her expression but she looked deadly, "I'm.. Ganna Make... That Bastard... PAY. You three go help Yuka and Toboe I'm going after Darcia."
"I'm going with you."
"No its my responsibility. I have to save Shita and Oki."
"Nope... your not the only one worried about them, ya kno. So I'm going."
"Fine... You two meet us at the southern part of the forest."
Tsume and Kiba nodded and then the four were off in their desired directions.
Tsume and Kiba ran along the dirt road on the outside of the forest. They weren't too far from catching up to the trucks that had Toboe and Yuka in their wolf form. When the trucks were in sight they saw that the two pups were in a cage on the last truck. Toboe's eyes widened in relief.
"Yuka. Yuka , look. They came for us." Toboe stated pointing in the direction of Kiba and Tsume.
"Huh..." Yuka said as she looked where Toboe was pointing.
Yuka quickly sat up and smiled triumphantly. "Good." Yuka said and began to try and bit her way through the bars of the cage. Toboe looked at her and began to do the same. Tsume and Kiba ran at top speed in wolf form catching up to the truck. They both jumped on the back of the truck. Kiba began to chew at the bars in an attempt to let the two out. Tsume looked at Kiba and the others and said, "Better hurry. I'm ganna do some damage" before he ran on top of the roof of the truck and then onto the hood making the driver begin to swerve. Kiba, along with Toboe and Yuka in the cage fell off the truck as it swerved too much on its side resulting in it falling to the ground. Toboe and Yuka were freed and ran away from the cage with Kiba but stopped as two other tucks parked in front of them. Tsume ran over to the three other wolves and smirking at Kiba asked, "Got a plan for this, smart ass?" There were about fifteen soldiers surrounding them now. Kiba backed up to Tsume and answered, "Yeah... don't die..." making Tsume chuckled a little as he retorted, "Works for me..." Kiba and Tsume ran in opposite directions as they attacked the men. While the men where distracted Toboe and Yuka made there way away from the fight to so they wouldn't get in the way. The man being attacked by Tsume shot at him but wasnt fast enough, Tsume killed him with one swift move. Kiba did the same dodging every move until he bit down onto the neck of the soldier. Kiba and Tsume fought together as a team as Yuka and Toboe stood next to the cage they had been in a while ago. Yuka made a huffing noise as if she decided something and began to walk towards the fight.
"Yuka no... you'll get hurt." Toboe said as he pulled at Yuka's tail gently with his teeth.
"You don't expect me to just stand here, do you? Cuz I'm not." Yuka said tuning her head to look at Toboe.
Toboe let go of her tail and after a moment he nodded to say no to answer her. She smiled and said, "Alright" before she ran in the direction of the fight again. Yuka ran at a man who had his back to her and she jumped on him making him fall to the ground with her on top of him. He made a grunting noise as his head hit the ground. Yuka growled and bit at his helmet trying to pull it off his head. Another man noticed this and was about to attack her when Toboe ran at him biting his leg and pulling him off balance so he fell. Toboe bit deeper as the man lay on the floor. The man tried to hit Toboe with the back of his gun but Toboe moved away and then jumped on the man bitting down on the exposed flesh of his neck. Toboe looked at Yuka who was now attacking another man. Seeing that Yuka was okay Toboe made his way to attack different soldier. The fight wasn't taking very long with all four wolves fighting, five soldiers where left now. Kiba ran at a man closes to him after snapping the neck of the previous one and Tsume was being backed up to against a truck by one of the soldiers. Toboe was being shot at by one of the soldiers and Yuka ran at the man attacking Toboe knocking him over and bit his neck with a crunch. Toboe was about to thank her when he saw that she was being kicked in the side by another soldier and was about to be shot. Toboe in his panic attacked the man with full force ripping a chunk out of the mans neck as they both fell to the floor with a thud. Toboe ran to Yuka as she changed into human form.
"Are you alright?" Toboe asked as he turned into human form.
"Yeah I'm fine." Yuka answered trying to get up but fell back down.
"She seems to of hurt her leg." Kiba said as he came up to the two, already transformed into a human.
"We'll have to fix that quick... I have a bad feeling about the others right now." Tsume said as he knelt down to look at Yuka's ankle, "Its fine just needs a... bandage."
Toboe went and grabbed a piece of cloth from the ground and gave it to Tsume who wrapped it around Yuka's ankle.
"Lets go I want to get to Kaya as soon as possible." Kiba said turning to see the direction they needed to go.
"Yeah... I'm worried about her too" Tsume said to Kiba his eyes expressionless.
"She'll be alright. She can take care of herself." Yuka reassured the two as she stood up.
"Yeah... she'll be fine and when we get to her we can help her with what ever she needs." Toboe added as he stood next to Yuka and she leaned on him for support.
Hige and Kaya ran along the forest. Hige was a little behind Kaya following her at a distance. He thought Kaya was a nine on the pissed of scale from one to ten. Kaya made a turn and Hige did the same and he almost crashed into her for she had stopped all of a sudden. Hige was about to ask why she had stopped when he saw what she was looking at. Darcia stood in front of them. He had Shita in one arm and in with his other hand there was a gun aimed at her head. Kaya growled her face contorting into pure hatred and anger at the sight. Hige backed up a little away from her as she looked ready to blow.
"Let. Her. GO." Kaya spoke each word at a time as she tried to restrain her anger.
"I will. In do time... that is, if you do me a favor." Darcia said an evil smirk on his face.
"Like what?" Kaya asked glaring at Darcia.
"I want you to take me to Cheza."
"NO, Kaya... don't listen to a word he says... you cant give..." Shita began but stopped as Darcia pushed the gun painfully into her head.
"No... Let her go and I might actually consider the offer."
"No..."
"Shita be quiet. I made a promise to protect you and I will not go back on that." Kaya said as Shita looked at her desperately to not do anything she'd regret. Kaya looked around for her other friend, "And where is Oki!"
"Do you mean her?" Darcia asked pointing to his side where a large square shaped cage sat next to a tree.
Kaya and Hige both looked at Oki who was looking at Darcia with pure malice in her eyes. Hige moved to help her but Kaya told him no as a click brought her attention to Darcia.
"Don't move unless you want this disgusting human's head to be blown off."
"Fine you said you wanted Cheza..."
"Kaya..."
"Shita I already said..."
"No Kaya... if you give him Cheza all will be lost. This world will be corrupted with evil and if that happens you wont be able to forgive yourself."
"I don't care... as long as I keep you safe it'll be alright."
"No Kaya.. I'm sorry but I wont let you do that to yourself... you've taken care of me enough... now its time for me to save you."
Shita gave Kaya a little smile and Kaya felt her blood run cold as her eyes widened, 'N-no... s-she cant'. As if in slow motion Kaya watched as Shita with quick reflexes elbowed Darcia in the stomach making him release her and she quickly bent down and grabbed a knife that was hidden within her shoe and made a move to slice Darcia's neck open but it was no use. Darcia recovered from getting the wind knocked out of him faster than Shita expected and he pulled the trigger on the gun, hitting her in the chest above the heart. Shita fell to the floor with a loud thump and lay bleeding on the ground. Kaya ran up to her and grabbed her.
"No... no Shita... y- you cant leave me."
"K-Kaya... thank you... you've always been so good." Shita coughed up blood and some of it trickled down her mouth, "Kaya... I want to see your real form one last time..."
Kaya looked at Shita and layed her on the floor and changed into her wolf form. Shita smiled and patted her gingerly on the head. Then put her hand on the side of Kaya's face scratching her fur as she muttered a quiet "Thank you" before her hand slipped slowly down Kaya's face, hitting the ground gently. Kaya whimpered hunching her head with pain in her heart at the sight of another friend dead in front of her because she couldn't help them in time. Hige looked at her and wondered 'I don't get that human... she gave her life to save Cheza and now Kaya is in pain because of it... I just don't get it'. Hige looked at Kaya's form quivering with anger and sadness and then his attention was brought back to Oki who had all of a sudden shouted, "YOU FUCKING SHIT HEAD! LET ME OUT OF THIS SO I CAN FUCKING KILL YOU!" at Darcia. Hige began to run at Oki but stopped as he almost got shot by Darcia who said, "I don't think so." Hige growled and moved to attack Darcia when Kaya made to differ.
"Hige. No. You help Oki... I'll take care of him."
Hige looked at her and saw that she wouldn't agree to anything else so he nodded at her. Kaya made a chuckle and stood up on all fours still in her wolf form. As Darcia looked at Kaya he aimed his gun to shoot Hige again if she made a move on him. Kaya ran at him as fast as she could and bit down hard on his forearm making him scream in pain and drop the gun. Kaya bit down harder and he threw her against the tree that was behind him making Kaya lose her hold on him and she slid down the tree. Hige moved to help Kaya but she shouted, "I SAID HELP OKI!" at him as she lifted herself up slowly and ran at Darcia again for another attack. Hige ran to Oki and he was about to bite down on the cages bars but Oki told him, "Go help Kaya, I can get out of this myself."
"No I cant do that. I'll get in her way if I do."
"Uhg... fine. Then hurry so I can get that bastard." Oki said as she changed forms and bit down on the cage bars.
Hige began to do the same.
A/N: Yeaaaaaah thats it for now... heh... kinda sad (I think) lots of death and grr-ness and all... I left ya hanging again but at least it isn't as bad as the last one was... heh... well its ganna kinda get a little better on the sad front but its still ganna be a little "angsty" and uhg... the dreaded fight scenes... they are all alike, I hate that! Oh n to explain my title which was kinda weird its suppose to mean To Pain Your Soul but I wanted it to sound fancy-shmancy in a way so I made it like that... heh sorry I'm a little eccentric, well anyways hoped you liked it and till the next chapter called; Truth of Betrayal. PLEASE REVIEW!