That was 2 months ago, he reminisced. He could still remember the fresh scent of flowers that very first moment they arrived and vividly distinguish every detail, as though he was living it again. He could never forget that first moment he stepped into Paradise; it was impossible. Basking in the soft sun, nodding off to the breeze, resting on the fresh jade grass, how long he had waited to do that.

He had longed for this moment, for this minute of peace, and he finally had it. And had more than forever to enjoy it. Lying down with his cheek against the Earth, his eyes closed, and the sun beaming down on him, he continued thinking back on the past.

If he had to go through all the trouble, all the suffering and pain to reach this heaven again, he'd gladly do it, the wolf smiled inwardly, letting the strands of grass tickle his muzzle.

If he could only stay like this forever...

"Kiba!" He heard a voice faintly call out but paid no mind to it, knowing the person would find him soon.

"Kiba!" The voice spoke again, this time closer. The white wolf opened his eyes and casually sat up, not at all bothered by the fact that his tranquility was interrupted by the pup who was running towards him.

"Kiba! I've been looking for you everywhere!" Toboe exclaimed as he reached Kiba, who simply looked at him.

"Is something wrong?" Kiba got up, deciding that he'd take up meditation some time later.

Toboe bobbed his head frantically and answered at the speed of light, "There's this group of wolves that wanna fight Tsume and Hige but it's a huge group and they can't take them on alone! You gotta help, Kiba!"

Kiba nodded and began to run with Toboe back into new planes, inwardly sighing. Even in Paradise, there were still commotions.

"Morning wonder wolves!"

"Hi fellas!"

"Hey guys!"

"Top of the morning to ya mates!"

Toboe led the way as they were greeted by everyone they zoomed past. As they gradually began to reach the area where the battle would start, they saw the familiar figures of Hige and Tsume, outnumbered by a pack of entirely gray wolves.

"Zero and his pack again?" Kiba sighed, slightly annoyed by their supposed rival's persistence of trying to be the best.

"This time he really made Tsume mad and you know how he gets!" Toboe added as they came closer and closer to the fight scene.

"Well, well, well. You actually came. Did you come on your own free will? Or did you ask your alpha for permission?" The dark gray wolf known as Zero smirked, casually circling Tsume and Hige.

Tsume snarled, showing rows of needle sharp teeth, ready to rip apart the arrogant creep named Zero. "I have no alpha. Unlike you, I don't need a bunch of loser followers to back me up so I can feel superior."

"Don't make me laugh, Tsume," Zero stopped and chortled with that irritating, nails on board, laugh of his.

"You know you wish you had your own pack, instead of being the lackey in one."

"That's it!"

Tsume pounced on Zero, whom narrowly escaped the wolf's attack, and the fight broke out.

"Tsume come on! Don't fight this loser!" Hige complained, rolling his eyes at the scenario. His comment brought growls and was insulted by the followers in Zero's pack.

"Who you callin' a loser, you bitch lover!" Hige quickly turned around and faced the group who scowled at him. His ocher colored eyes narrowed and he took steps towards the pack.

"You'll...pay...for that..." Hige charged, ready as always to defend his beloved's name while Tsume and Zero tumbled around, both trying to clamp their razor sharp fangs in each other.

"Tsume! Hige!" Little Toboe's voice peeped in as he leaped into the pile of wolves that were on Hige already.

Digging in his own teeth into one of the wolves that had jumped on Hige, he pulled the guy off, pretty strong for a pup, and continued trying to even up the fight for Hige.

"What are you doing here, runt! This isn't a kiddies' game!" Toboe's current opponent growled as another one walked around the young wolf.

"I help out my friends! Unlike you losers!" Toboe's tail went up as it usually did and he took a stance, baring his teeth at both of the fighters. The one who was circling Toboe leaped forwards, his fangs out to bite the kid's head off, but was pushed off course.

By Kiba.

Kiba landed, crouched down on one knee, and glared at the thug who snarled at him. The others seemed to have stopped to look at Kiba, most of them feeling their stomachs drop exaggeratedly. All except Tsume and Zero who were still battling on, practically foaming at the mouth from the desperation of wanting to kill one another.

Like a good extra, one of Zero's supporters started the gang fight again, ramming Hige into a boulder. Yet few followed his cue, for the fierce look on Kiba's face was more than enough to make them back down.

"Tsume! Stop!" Toboe cried out to the raging wolf but dared not to enter his battle.

Hige had managed to take down his opponent, playing his tricks once again. "I'm gonna kill ya!" The somewhat not so bright wolf smirked, seeing he had Hige cornered up against the boulder. Hige looked at him, panting, and got up on weak legs and waited for the moron's charge.

Just as Hige expected, the wolf exposed his fangs and jumped up into the air, heading towards Hige who put on a face on shock...Only to easily move out of the way and watch the sad canine bang his head against the rock.

"Tsume quit it already! You don't have to fight!" Toboe continued pleading, feeling so frustrated at his best friend whom seemed to be not listening.

Taking a glance back at Kiba whom in a funny way seemed to be controlling the other wolves like puppets just by staring at them, Toboe took the initiative to jump into the fight, enough was enough.

Tsume growled at Zero and ignored the injuries caused by him, for the bastard as well was feeling pain. Little did he think that the idiot pup would get in the way!

"Get out of the way Toboe!" The silver-haired man yelled, both enraged and worried. Toboe didn't listen, returning the gesture Tsume gave him and deeply growled at Zero, who looked plain annoyed.

"Move BRAT!"

The kid snapped. So many times being called brat, runt, pest, it was annoying him. And he had to snap sooner or later. "Make me!"

Zero, up to his boiling point, made only one growl and dashed towards Toboe, ready to teach him a lesson. Toboe, being quite brave and stubborn, charged at Zero, deep down inside hoping he'd make Tsume proud.

"Toboe!" Tsume yelled out, frozen for a second.

Kiba rammed his body into Zero's, as the gray wolf leaped into the air. Zero slammed into the ground, rolling to a stop in a cloud of dust. The beaten wolf made a rumbling noise deep in his throat as he slowly got up, not expecting that move.

"Leave. Now." Kiba's predator eyes glared at Zero, silence engulfing them.

All Zero did was narrow his green eyes and wished silently that one day he could annihilate the entire pack of "wonder wolves" as they were called in Paradise.

"This isn't over, Kiba. I will kill you and show the world how weak you really are," Zero turned his eyes to Tsume, "All of you."

With that said, he whistled, rounding up his pack and ran off, heading back to his territory.

There was that silence that always came when the victors watched their defeated enemies leave, as if they were recording everything that had happened in their minds.

But it only lasted for some few moments.

Tsume growled and stomped towards Toboe, who turned around in perfect timing to be pulled off the ground by his collar and get yelled at.

"When I tell you to get out of the way, you get the hell out of the way!"

Toboe flinched at Tsume's harshness and stammered out a reply. "I was...I was just t-trying...to help...help you." His tawny eyes whelmed up in tears but he blinked them back, knowing how much Tsume hated to see him cry, he'd think he was weak.

Tsume threw him aside and glared at the boy who landed on his feet. "Don't you ever...EVER, get in my way again." Having said that, Tsume turned around and began to walk away, fuming like never before.

They watched him leave, his hands in his pockets, his aura radiating nothing but anger.

Toboe couldn't feel any worse, seeing the person he tried to defend and prove that he wasn't weak just...leave. But leave after looking at him with eyes full of anger and despise. His bottom lip quivered a bit as he looked at Kiba and Hige who sent him condolences through their expressions. He couldn't speak, really. But it wasn't necessary, his face said it all.

Kiba, knowing it was better to just stay quiet then tell the kid everything was alright and have him break down after he was trying so hard not to, turned and followed Tsume's footsteps.

Hige walked up to Toboe and gave him one of his goofy smiles as he ruffled his hair. "Don't worry bout it, chibi. To me, you did great, standing your ground against that slime." He placed his arm around Toboe's shoulders and began to walk after Kiba and pulled out his jokes, feeling it was his duty to cheer up the kid.

In the distance, you could still hear Hige, trying to get a smile out of Toboe as they walked back to the populated area they would later name Curious City.

"Hey, you know what? I'm gonna tell Blue all about your little fight. How you're growing up to be a cute little punk!"

A/N:

Muse of the Stars: The best? Nah :blush: just trying to represent my favorite couple out there lol. Thanks again for reviewing :smile:

Jacko: Lol you love it, that's good! I suck at descriptions some times but thanks, I'll try to keep the nice details going. :smiles: I've noticed that I can't make my cute little smiley faces here, so I have to write when I smile :pouts:

Whiskers: Aww! Thankies! You have no idea how much I pounded my head into the desk trying to come up with descriptions for Paradise lol

Kawaii Ed:blush: seems like a lot of people think my paradise ish pretty, Thankies Ed :smiles brightly:

A Person: Mr. Or Mrs. Person you're back:D Lol :takes a bow: thank you, I'll try to keep doing a good job for you guys.

Toboe's Pup: XD! I think they'd be a bit insulted but who cares :D Thanks for reviewing! ...:looks at your pen name: ;; Toboe...:hugs Toboe plushie:

Kazuko Aeko:blush: me feel so special! Thank you for thinking it's cute, and I'm super happy you love it :smiles:

Miyo86: O.O my story? Tear-filled? Awesome? Prone to hook people to it? COOLIEZ! Thankies for reviewing Miyo :D

You guys have no idea how much your reviews mean to me. :sniff: knowing that I got fans just makes me feel all fuzzy and warm inside:hands out pocky to everyone:

Thank you so much for waiting you guys, I'm really super sorry that I took so long just for this update which to tell you the truth is disappointing to me. I promise that the next chapter will be up way faster and it won't be so...so blah. My stupid writer's block just got super-sized this entire month and last month but I tried at least. Really sorry...

I apologize for this...retarded chapter, but I had to get it out of the way, somehow I had to write this. You know when you don't know how to start off the real story and you try to form up a good chapter but it just comes out like so...mediocre?

That's what happened to me :glares at computer: I had the perfect chapter written and then...BOOM! this stupid son of a--- this stupid computer decides to not save my work and I have a nefarious temper that I'm known for and I just exploded. :snarls: not to mention I have short term memory loss and couldn't remember jack shit of what I had previously wrote so I got frustrated and that was the cue for my stupid writer's block to come in and just kill all of my ideas.

:sigh: with so many impromptu situations going on and stupid teen crap, I haven't had time to even conjure up a friggin brain cloud!

But I promise that I will make a better, super way better chapter and our lovely ladies, Cheza and Blue will appear. And of course there are others for our other men :wink:

Why do I tell you my surprises:whacks self: curse my weaknesses to reviews XP

Well, enough chatter, I am off to try to write either Bloom Again's next chapter or Much Needed Sunlight's chap...

O.O Btw did you guys see Wolf's Rain's last episode?...I wanted to shoot either:

A. Myself

B. BONES

or

C. The specific man who decided to end my show like that!

I could hurt someone...But before I do, I'll be taking my leave :forces a smile:

:leaves, cursing and damning BONES: