A New Companion

Disclaimer: I don't own Wolf's Rain

A/N: Again I apologize for saying Tsume was black. I didn't think to look in my magazine before I typed that chapter. Oh yes, Angle538 (I hope I got your name right, I'm offline so I really can't see your name right now) thank you for giving me your ideas, I will gladly use them. Thank you so so so so much.

Angel sat back down on the ground in the sewer and leaned against the wall once more. Hopefully a rat wouldn't crawl behind her again. She began to get an immense headache. "Where were you?" Tsume said looking over to her.

"Do you feel that that's your business Tsume?" Angel said crossing her arms. "I don't think that it is."

"Well, I'd like to know because everyone was worried."

"You've known me for like a grand total of a day and you feel it's your business to know where I am every second." Angel arched an eyebrow. "You're like an over protective boy friend."

"Just go to sleep." Kiba said cutting in to the conversation and shutting them up.

Angel closed her eyes but didn't go to sleep. She didn't want to stay with Tsume if he was going to treat her like the way he was. Of course she got along with everyone else but him. She opened her eyes and stared around to everyone, they seemed like they were sleeping. Now for the runaway. She thought getting up and looking one last time before she left.

Angel climbed up the ladder and opened it as quietly as she could and climbed out. She picked it up and laid it back onto the hole in the ground. (Just so you know I've never been in a sewer so if I don't describe it right I'm sorry, but I don't really feel the need to be in a sewer if you know what I mean.) Angel pulled her jacket closer as the snow began to fall from the sky. It had gotten even colder since earlier that night. Was there a rest stop in this town? "I hope there's a rest stop." She mumbled.

Something touched her back. What if it's one of those thugs, or rapist or, murderers? She thought slapping her hand to the object behind her. Then she saw who it was. "Hige, god you scared the crap of me." Angel sighed in relief.

"Where were you going, I mean no one leaves in the middle of the night when you're going to sleep." Hige said. He rubbed his cheek. "Gosh you have a hard hit, I mean I can still feel you slapping me." He smiled. "Do you want to talk?"

"No." Angel answered bluntly.

"I think you should talk about it with somebody. When you hold all that stuff in it starts to get to you." Hige said resting an arm on her shoulder as they walked.

"I guess it couldn't hurt." She said plopping down on a bench.

"I want to ask you a question first." He said staring into her eyes.

"Shoot." She said smiling stupidly.

"Why were you crying earlier?"

"I was crying because...well I ran into my ex boyfriend from my last pack. And I found out his girlfriend was pregnant with a child before I even dated him. They just started dating two months ago though. It just really hurt me to even know that." Angel wiped a dangling tear that wouldn't fall from her eye. "I'll tell you about my past, as long as you promise to tell none of the others."

"I promise." Hige said truthfully.

"Well when I was a cub my parents were slaughtered off by man so I vowed to take revenge upon humans. Naturally that never happened but, I met others that the same thing that happened to them and together we formed a pack. That was when I was about fifteen though. I had lived for about ten years as a stray though, but everyone did think I was a dog. I passed pretty well on that test. Of course on the other hand when I turned seventeen I wanted to go look for paradise, I had heard so many stories of how beautiful it was and everything. Everyone in my pack disagreed they were too afraid to take the risk of traveling there and seeing it." Angel smiled pitifully. "So after a while they disowned me, and then you guys found me. I know it's not much of a past but that's about all that ever happened during my life."

"I'm so sorry, such a tragic past."

"No not tragic. Just sad." Angel responded. Tears began to well up in her eyes. "I never actually got to know my family." She felt like water was flowing down her face. Angel reached her hand to her cheek; sure enough there was water trailing down it.

Hige raised his hand to her face and brushed away her tears. Angel just collapsed into tears. Hige just held her in his arms letting her cry. "I think we should get back." Angel said wiping the last of her tears off of her face.

"Yeah, I agree." Hige said smiling.

Angel and Hige walked back to the sewer hole. "So are we heading out tomorrow?"

"Of course."

"The sooner, the better." Angel mumbled crawling in to the sewer again. This time around she actually went to sleep.

Violent shaking in her dream woke her up. Angel's eyes fluttered open. "What?" She said rubbing her eyes.

"Time to leave." Toboe said getting up from beside her.

"Well thank you for informing me Toboe." Angel smiled and got up. "Kiba where are we going?"

"Paradise." He said sarcastically.

"You mean, no rest stops?" Angel bobbed her head to the side. "I mean sometimes people do have to go pee."

"I'm aware of that, that would be the only reason we would stop." He said rubbing his head as though he had a headache.

"Okay." Angel said, "Now turn around, I'm changing into jeans."

Everyone turned around. Angel dropped her skirt to the ground all though she didn't mean to. Then she slid into the jeans. "Okay I'm done." She said slapping some of the goop off of her skirt onto her jeans.

"Come on." Toboe said grabbing her hand and leading her to the ladder.

"Thank you Toboe." She said climbing up.

Tsume stared over to Angel. "I hope you don't expect us to do that every time you change." He said rolling his eyes.

"Actually I do." Angel said.

"Well, I'm not going to." He stated back to her.

"What's your problem?" Angel burst out. "Do you have to say anything and everything possible to annoy me in any way at all?"

"Maybe." Tsume smirked, he liked seeing her angry, it was amusing.

"If that's how it's going to be I'm leaving and don't bother to come looking for me." Angel yelled running across the street if you could call it that, it seemed deserted.

Angel wiped the tears from her eyes. (I'm sorry I make her cry soooo much, but tell me if it annoys you and I'll try to stop.) "What's his problem?" She growled. "Oh, I just can't stand him."

A hand clasped around her mouth and threw her into an ally. She howled (actually) with pain as her arm was thrown on to a knife. "Help me." She cried trying to regain wolf form.

A/N: I'm not so sure about that ending but it works for me. Anyways hopefully you all know what to do. Oh yes if I do put people out of character I sincerely apologize.