Kiba, allthough he knew Toboe was watching, blushed and turned around. Toboe's eyes shot open- he became dazed.

"What? I wasn't watching you!!" Toboe said defensively

"It's okay...It's just, I didn't know that you felt that way about me." Toboe buried himself in the covers, embarrassed beyond belief. His life seemed to be at it's end.

"Look, if you think I care, I don't. It really doesn't matter to me." Kiba sat down, rubbing the stubble hairs on his chin. Toboe, however, remained buried.

"I'm going to give you some time to think." Kiba transformed into his wolf-form, then darted out of the shack, snow flying from his paws as he exited. Toboe was still in shock.

"No, no, no, no, no..." Toboe refused to believe this. He wasn't ready to have such a raw emotion out in the open- it was a problem he had no wish to discuss.

"How did he see me?" Toboe uncovered himself, and walked to the open window from which he had been standing when he watched Kiba. The gentle wind blew his long, brown hair into his face as he rested his arm on the window sill, hand curled and placed on the side of his face. He watched as Kiba dashed over the snowy hill, his white fur flowing gracefully as he went.

"I..thought he would be angry with me.." Toboe's thought echoed within his mind.

"But...It's like...he knew all along." Toboe's foot stirred the ground. "Sometimes," he looked up, "I wish I had never been born!" Toboe shed a few tears, his face quivered slightly. Suddenly, Kiba appeared, Back much earlier than Toboe had begun to expect. He was in his human form now, his black hair swaying in the wind.

"Hey! That's no way to fucking talk about yourself!" Kiba dropped what he was carrying.

"Can't I keep anything to myself?" Toboe cried like a boy who had just lost his parents, finding out later that he was adopted, and that his real parents died 4 years ago from a car crash. He had practically lost it.

"Toboe, listen to me. now." Toboe sat down, looking pale and frightened.

"No matter what happens to us, we'll always be a pack. No matter what we are, do, or say,- we are still part of the pack.I am a little creeped out, It's like I thought I knew you, then this whole other side of you is revealed. I don't quite understand why you have these feelings for me, but..." Toboe started to cringe. "if you have feelings for guys, so what. It's natural. Just make sure you understand me, You'll always just be Toboe to me."

Toboe started to tear up, his face had a nice smile.

"...Are you listening to me?" Kiba inquired. Then, without warning, Toboe hugged Kiba's waist.

"Th..thank you, Kiba" Toboe was joyous that his leader hadn't rejected him. In fact, Kiba didn't even see anything inferior about it. He seemed, in fact, to almost smile at the fact that Toboe thought he would be hated for the rest of eternity. Kiba could think of nothing else to do at that moment but to pet Toboe's head, mulling over many new thoughts living in his head. The sun outside was dimming now, the wind drifting away. The night encroached as Toboe rested his head on Kiba, and fell asleep.