February 19, 2005
 I just fixed a few grammatical errors in this chapter... mainly spacing.

Hello people! I'm so glad that some of you readers liked this story! And I'm really grateful to those who put me on their fav list! It means a lot!

Thanks to my first ever reviewers: lovendreamz, Quickstar, dbzgtfan2004, syaoran-sakura-forever,Cutie Moon, and loverofallthingsgreek. You don't know how important your reviews were.

Anyways, some of you in the last chapter (or should I say the first) had a question about the last sentence: "But...how?". I guess I didn't write that really well. What I meant was that Syaoran was wondering how it was possible that the certain something was the start of all his confusion. I'm sorry if I didn't make that clear.

Disclaimer: I don't own Card Captor Sakura.

The Love of a Wolf

By Luckyducky7too

Chapter 1: Confusion

The morning was dreary. The sky was overcast with gray clouds; the blue sky hidden from mortal eyes. The previous night's hunt went very well and yet the dawn woke to find these particular wolves in a drowsy state. Many were still fast asleep, full with the night's feast.

Syaoran, however, was one of the few that always woke with the dawn. He spent these early hours of the day running and collecting himself for the oncoming day. For this particular morning, his early dash was quite useful. He had spent a good part of the evening thinking on his dilemma, which was becoming bigger and bigger the more he thought on it.

The wind was somewhat comforting; flowing past his body and calming his mind. He was almost unable to hear the echo of running paws that were following him through the trees. Now fully aware of the unknown being following him, he slowed his pace to a mild run. The follower did the same. After several minutes he finally decided to stop and confront the pursuer, making sure to give himself a means of escape. Better to be a one-time loser than dead. However, as luck would have it, this precaution was not needed. Syaoran immediately relaxed his guard, walking over to the slightly smug wolf stepping from behind the trees.

"How could I have possibly thought that you were a threat?" He shook his head feeling somewhat foolish and relieved.

"How could you have not? I am quite the adversary."

"Right. And I can fly."

"Well, I should hope not. Then you would be some freak animal. You wouldn't even be a wolf."

While Syaoran relaxed, the other wolf, Eriol, pondered on the distracted state of his friend. It was very unlike him to be quiet and...thinking... Not saying that he didn't think at all, just...not this hard or this long. 'Well, let's see...what could possibly be making Syaoran this melancholy? Ok, it's either: a) he's finally got his ass beaten, b) female problems (Hahahahaha!), or c) he's reminicing about Wei...

"Syaoran...?"

At first, he got no reply, but he knew that Syaoran had heard his question and was still conscious. Syaoran was never one to sleep so easily. And when asleep, he was always on the alert. It was his light sleeping that had once saved them from human beings. It was not a big thing, but getting mixed up with humans is only asking for trouble. Of course, Eriol knew that all too well.

"Are you thinking about Wei again?"

Syaoran slowly started to open his eyes and looked up. His half-lidded amber eyes still held the confusion from the night before, but with the gossamer veil of sleep making them slightly duller. He gave Eriol an inquisitive stare, silently asking "where the heck did that come from?". However, his only verbal answer was a quietly muttered 'no'.

Knowing that Syaoran was always comfortable talking to him about Wei, which was surprising since he never confided to him about anything else, Eriol crossed out that option.'I guess it's onto the impossible...'

"...Is it a girl?" Eriol payed close attention to Syaoran's amber eyes. If anything was different it would definitely show there; as they say: eyes are the windows to a person's soul, or in this case a wolf's.

And in that next second, he saw embarassment, confusion, and even fear in Syaoran's eyes. This greatly surprised and amused Eriol. Syaoran had finally gotten his first crush, but from his current state Eriol could tell that there was something wrong about it, and it wasn't refusal of his love.

Ok. So this chapter is REALLY late. A thousand apologies on my part, especially to loverofallthingsgreek who I told that this chapter would be up by last friday. (whoopsie...) Please review (even if it's to yell at me for how lazy I am). I'll have the next chapter up whenever I can. I'm too unsure right now to say a certain date. Oh, and this chapter is almost 300 words longer than last chapter. I'm trying to make my chapters longer.

For those who are bored or want a good story to read I recommend checking out Rozefire. Her stories are really good. I personally like Bottled Genius. It's an Inuyasha fanfic andif you love a good humor story with romance I suggest you read this story.