Hi everyone, Nova Spirit Wolf here. A big thank you to everyone who reviewed my story. Sorry this chapter took so long but here it is finally!
Black Wolf Of Dreams: Thanks for pointing out the spelling mistake last chapter; I fixed it so it should be all right now.
Inuyasha-Is-The-Best-Show: I read what you said about the summary and you were right so I went back and fixed it up. I hope its ok now!
Ok onwards with the story!
"Since when did you have a sister Tsume?" Kiba asked curiously.
"Since when she was born you idiot that's when!" Tsume replied sarcastically. He finally turned back to Nova and studied her carefully, taking in her many cuts and bruises.
"You've changed' he stated simply. Nova just laughed.
"'Course, you cant expect me to stay 14 forever do you?" Tsume looked over her many earrings disapprovingly. Nova saw the look on his face and laughed again. Her laughter sounded like a bark.
"Wow Tsume, guess if you don't like them you wont like my tattoos then" she joked. His eyes widened in shock and he exploded.
"What!" Nova sighed and then lifted up her shirt to reveal a tattoo of a wolf howling on her lower back.
"There, are you happy now?" Hige liked what he saw so he asked where the other one was. She turned her wrist over and pulled down her bracelets to show another tattoo written in Latin meaning, 'were words fail, love speaks'.
"Cool" said Hige satisfied. Tsume on the other hand was not a happy camper.
"Aren't you a little young to have tattoos Nova?" Her eyes narrowed and she glared at Tsume before replying.
"I don't think you have the right to tell me what to do after you left me all by myself when I was 14 god damm years old Tsume!" Anger was written across her features.
"And besides, I'm 17 and I can take care of myself, thank you very much!" she added.
In all the commotion and yelling no one noticed Hige fall over and black out from blood loss, everyone had forgotten about his wound in learning Tsume had a sister.
"Umm guys?" Toboe started and then paused before continuing. "I don't want to break up the happy family reunion or anything, but Hige just collapsed and now he's bleeding all over the floor." Everyone turned to look and saw Hige sprawled on the floor with blood leaking from his shoulder. Kiba quickly took charge.
"Tsume can you pick him up and put him on this bench over here and Toboe can you get some bandages to stop the bleeding." Tsume and Toboe both nodded and went about their tasks while Nova stood around anxiously.
"Is he going to be ok?" Kiba turned to answer her.
"Yeah it's a full moon tonight so he'll be back on his feet in no time." Nova went to sit next to Hige's sleeping form and watched him as he slept.
Nova was just drifting off to sleep when she felt something next to her stir. She looked down and saw Hige just beginning to open his eyes. At that moment Toboe's voice could be heard yelling at Tsume and Kiba to get up.
"Hey get up, Hige's awake. Come on, get up!" They grumpily complied, still desperate for sleep. Tsume turned to Nova.
"Well now that everyone's awake, why don't you tell me what the hell you're doing in this town when I told you to stay with the pack!" She seemed taken back for a moment before she cleared her throat and replied.
"Fine, you don't have to get angry, it's not my fault you know."
"Well the day after you left Tsume, we were travelling through some kind of forest and then these soldiers came out of nowhere and started shooting everyone." She paused and looked a bit uncomfortable before continuing.
"I got scared so I ran in the other direction and hid but by then they had set fire to the forest and that's all I remember before I woke up the next day." She looked on the verge of tears and seemed to be trying really hard not to break down and cry. The group looked shocked, particularly Tsume. Nova looked up with tears starting to spill down her cheeks and stammered.
"I'm a coward…nothing but a coward… I left them all there to die and ran off to save myself… I should have stayed to fight… but I was so scared and those soldiers were so strong… I'm a coward and now they're all dead because of me!" And with that she leapt up and ran out of the warehouse and disappeared into the night.
Wow a cliffy! Hope you guys like this chapter and don't forget to review coz all those nice comments encourage me to write more chapters! Bye for now.
Nova