Kyoshi sighed and shook his head lightly as he held me to him. He looked over my shoulder and down my back to see fresh trickles of blood running down from where the wings had withdrawn. "I guess my first time was like this too…" He whispered as he got to his feet, lifting me into his arms. He walked from the meadow to a fairly nearby forest and leaned himself against a tree with me in front of him.

He looked sharply up at the sound of a snapping branch and shouted, "Who's there?" He was answered by the sound of rapidly approaching footsteps.

Kyoshi turned, setting me gently against the tree as he got to his feet, glaring around with narrowed eyes. "I said who's there?" With a cry of alarm he dove to the side as something burst from the cover of the trees and slammed into the tree I rested against, showering splintered fragments over my body. With a creak it began to fall and Kyoshi ran towards it, scooping me up and away just as the trunk hit where I had been sitting. "Attacking a helpless girl… Show yourself!" Kyoshi screamed in rage.

"Heh," A figure laughed, emerging from the trees. "You're at fault of the same thing."

"What? Explain yourself!" Kyoshi yelled, glaring him down.

The figure was obviously a demon, similar to me. He had two pointed ears and a fluffy wolf's tail though his was light gray. His shaggy shoulder length hair was pulled back in a loose ponytail at his neck and at his side hung a long, thin sword. He licked his fang as he took a step forward. "Just put some thought into it, you'll see what I mean." He smirked. "You alone in this forest, with this girl who's badly injured. You can't blame me for assuming such things."

Kyoshi snorted indignantly. "You think I'd sink as low as to do something like that? Move along, wolf. You're not wanted here."

"Oh, but I'm not leaving just yet." He replied. "I can't leave a fellow wolf in your care so injured. I must take her with me to help." At his last word eight more wolf demons stepped forward, each grinning wickedly, and ten wolves appeared from the forest as well. "You're in my territory." The leader laughed. "Now get out!"

Kyoshi glared back and placed himself in between me and them. "Make me." He snarled, taking up a fighter's stance.

"Gladly!" He shouted, leaping forward.

Kyoshi dodge the claws that lashed out only to be hit from behind by another of the demons. He cried out and spun around, slamming a fist to the offenders face to send him flying. He spun back around and caught the sword blade that was coming towards his head and easily snapped it in half, plunging the broken tip into the owner's stomach. Two wolves nosed their way under the injured demon's arms and retreated into the woods. Two more gathered up the knocked cold demon and carried him off too. However, there were still six wolf demons left, all circled around Kyoshi. They grinned and smirked at each other and all leapt in union towards Kyoshi with weapons and claws extended.

Seeing Kyoshi was occupied by his men, the wolf leader made his way to my side and crouched down.

I felt something lifting me and slowly my eyes opened. I looked up, expecting to see Kyoshi but instead was greeted by this stranger. "Kyoshi!" I screamed in alarm as the man clamped his hand over my mouth.

Kyoshi leapt high into the air, landing a fair distance from the circle of demons and paused in time to hear my cry. He spun around to face me and a wolf seized this chance and leapt at him, sinking its fangs into his arm. Kyoshi cried out and threw it off, knocking it into several of its pack mates to keep them back. "Kira!" He shouted as he ran full out towards me but the man who held me just smirked.

"See ya." He laughed as he lashed out, flinging dirt into Kyoshi's face.

Kyoshi recoiled, rubbing vigorously at his eyes. When he was finally able to reopen them again, the wolves were all gone and me as well. With a cry, he slammed his fist into the nearest treein frustration before he ran off, deeper into the forest towards where he assumed we had gone.