Chapter 3-The gang
ODST: ok here's Chapter 3! Enjoy!
Hige: are we in this one?
Toboe: yeah really we haven't been in the last 2!
ODST: keep your pants on I'm getting there!
Kiba and Tsume laugh in the background
Hige throws his shoe at Kiba
Kiba dodges and it hits Tsume
ODST: --; this is gonna be a long day..
Last time..
Rena swam to the surface to breath. That's when she heard voices. It was all male voices to make matters worse. She swam behind a boulder and sank up to her lips in water.
'At least my clothes are hidden.'
Two of the voices were bickering over something. A third deeper voice was yelling at them to shut up. A fourth was just laughing a little.
The group came around the corner, and as Rena had heard there were only four of them. One was being held in a head lock, he had a red shirt with green army pants on, and seemed to be the youngest. The one holding him there had a dog collar on with the number 28 on it, plus a yellow hoodie and blue jeans. The one laughing had beautiful blue eyes, an open jacket and a white shirt underneath. He also wore blue jeans. The last one who had been yelling at the two goofing around had a scar across his chest that was shaped like an "X". He had silvery eyes and cropped hair to match.
Rena's worst nightmare, for the moment, became a reality. They stopped and started to get into the water. She sank just a little farther into the water, as her heart rate sped up a little. The two that had been goofing around fell in with a splash and began to dunk each other under the water. The other ones just walked in and relaxed with a sigh.
"Would you two knock it off?" "Scar boy" growled as Rena had nicknamed him. It sounded more like a demand than anything. Rena giggled to herself at his annoyance.
"Heh, sorry Tsume." The one with the collar laughed, "Kiba? What's wrong? You're thinking too much. You scare me when you think too much."
"You don't think enough Hige!" The one who was in the headlock laughed out.
There was a splash, with a big wave, then laughing from everyone but Tsume. Rena grinned inwardly as she figured out what had happened.
Kiba finally spoke up, "Nah, I smelled something. Like a wolf almost. It's pretty faint though. Pretty close too."
"Yeah now that you mention it, I do smell something. Yep definitely a wolf." Hige nodded grinning, "I think it's a female too."
"Damn Hige! Your tail wags at every girl you smell." Tsume rolled his eyes.
Rena's eyes widened in horror as they began to follow her scent, straight to her. 'How could I have not figured out that they are wolves! I didn't pick up a scent.'
She ducked down and swam below them, twisting slightly so she could see where they were. Rena sat on the bottom of the lake figuring out her next move, 'I don't personally want them to see me in what little I have on, but I can't stay down here forever!' She grinned and started to swim up behind Tsume towards the bank. Her plan was to swim up behind him, then jump out grab her clothes and run back to the camp before they even realized what would happen. It was fool proof.
Unfortunately for Rena, Tsume swam backwards and closed the gap unknowingly she needed there. 'Oh SCREW it! I need air too badly to stop now!' She thought. She heard a "What the heck!" from Tsume as she broke surface.
He yelled, "OVER HERE! She dove back under just now!" and then he dove down after her. The others soon followed after her and searched underwater.
She would have been perfectly hidden, except her long hair floated out from behind the bush she was in.
Tsume swam towards her and she kicked back and swam the other way. Kiba got in her way and she got a hysterical "Oh Shit!" look on her face and swam up to the surface. She must have figured out that the guys had her pinned.
Rena broke the surface and gasped for air. As soon as Kiba broke the surface, she planted her feet against his chest and pushed off shooting straight to the bank.
Tonight was not her night, Tsume reached up and grabbed Rena by the ankle and slowed her down. Instead of stopping she spun vertically and kicked him off then finished the swim.
She climbed out and grabbed the black hoodie and pulled it on, then dashed for the woods.
Tsume, Kiba and Hige were out shortly followed by Toboe as they ran through the woods, gracefully jumping off of each tree at high speeds.
Rena was doing something of the sort but a lot slower. They would catch up in a matter of minutes if she didn't figure something out quick.
Then it hit her, no literally it did. She ran face first into branch and fell over backwards half laughing. "Ow, damn that hurt." She coughed as she got up and began running again.
"Hey! Wait!" she heard from behind, but didn't bother to stop and hid safely behind a group of boulders.
"We weren't going to hurt you." A voice said calmly.
Rena didn't buy it and just crouched lower watching them from a crack.
Someone tackled her from behind and yelled, "Guys I got her!"
"Dammit get off of me!" she yelled and started to squirm. Tsume had been the one to pin her and she tried to kick him off.
"It's going to take a lot more than that." He growled in her ear.
"Tsume." Kiba's voice came, and Tsume got up lifting her with him.
She squirmed and tried to throw Tsume off of her arms and even tried kicking him. No luck.
"Dammit! I said let go!" she tried one last time and tried to lunge from his grasp. Tsume's grasp only tightened and she started to loose feeling in her arm.
"We aren't going to hurt you, unless you try to hurt us." Hige smiled.
Rena just stared angrily at them; she figured even if she took Tsume out, she couldn't take the rest on. She sighed and shook her arm from his grasp, "What do you want from me?"
"Nothing, just wanted to see who you are, I mean you don't come across wolves everyday ya know." Hige grinned goofily, "especially not a female."
Toboe kicked him in the shin and laughed, "Hige like Tsume said earlier, you wag your tail at every girl you meet."
"Hey, OW that hurt! That's not fair." He grabbed Toboe around the neck and gave him a noogie.
"Yeah can I go now?" Rena asked starting to walk off.
Before they could answer she had leapt off and began to run back to the lake. She looked back to see if they had followed. 'Good, no sign of them.'
Her pants were where she had left them. She pulled those on along with her boots and ran back to the camp.
The fluffy, green, sleeping bag was where she had left it. She sighed and laid down on her side and fell into a restless slumber.
She was back at her house, but while it was burning. Flames surrounded her and Fay's half decayed, and burning body stood in front of her.
It screamed at her, "Rena why!"
"Why what?" she whispered.
"Why did you do this to me?"
"Fay I didn't do this! You know I didn't! You know I wouldn't!"
The zombie leapt up into the air, and crashed down on top of her and began to choke her.
"Fay! I didn't do it! I swear on our family's graves! I would never do this!"
Rena felt a pair of arms surround her body. They were warm but not burning like Fay was. She scooted closer to the warmth and felt safer than ever.
Her eyes flashed open, and she started to shake.
She looked up and saw Kiba. "Are you alright?" he asked.
"I'm fine." She mumbled and blushed, sitting up.
Tsume was leaning against the tree staring at the stars. Rena found herself staring at him. He must have felt her stare because he broke his gaze and met her eyes. She blushed and acted like she had been looking at something else.
"If your face gets any redder you wont have enough blood for the rest of your body." Hige laughed.
Rena picked up a stone and chucked it at Hige and it struck him in the middle of the forehead.
"BULLS EYE!" Toboe yelled laughing.
Kiba grinned, and Tsume scoffed, as usual. Rena unzipped her sleeping bag and wrapped it around herself and stared at the fire.
"Kiba? Why were you holding me?" She asked still staring at the fire..
"I was just trying to keep you from falling in the fire. You were only a foot from the fire pit ya know."
She thought about that for a while wondering if that was his real answer.
Rena finally fell asleep again a while later, a safe 5 feet from the fire.
The next morning she heard the guys talking. She guessed they hadn't figured out she was awake yet.
"We can't stay here forever, I wonder if Rena wants to go with us."
"Oh great! Someone else to watch out for!"
"We should ask her if she wants to come. Is that ok with you Kiba?"
"Yeah, we should ask as soon as she gets up."
"If she goes she's not sleeping this late everyday."
A gun shot rang out in the distance and someone scooped Rena up. She opened her eyes.
"What was that?" she asked.
Tsume had picked her up, which had kind of surprised her.
"It's probably that crazy old guy again." Hige yelled from behind.
"Yeah, most likely." Kiba rolled his eyes and hopped from tree to tree.
"Tsume you can let me down now." Rena more asked than anything.
"You'll just slow us down! Until we are safe you're riding with me." He growled.
Rena peaked around him and looked at Kiba and shrugged. He smiled and rolled his eyes. She cocked her head to the side, slightly confused, but held onto Tsume's neck anyway.
Hige got that look on his face that made Rena wanna throw another rock at him, but decided to wait until later.
They finally stopped when Kiba gave the signal. Tsume let Rena down finally and she began to chase Hige around.
She finally ran out of breath and just kicked a rock up and threw it at him. It hit him in the forehead again.
"BULLS EYE AGAIN! Wow, she's pretty good!" Toboe laughed at Hige.
Rena bowed low, and laughed a little. "Well I guess I AM coming with you guys after all." She smiled, "Ok are we gonna set up camp here or what?"
"Nah lets keep going for a while. We only went about 15 minutes." Kiba said.
"Alright, as long as I'm allowed to walk on my own." She looked at Tsume who blushed.
The other three laughed at him and they began to walk. Rena held her necklace in her hand as she walked. 'I guess I can never go home now. I'm not really sure if I would want to if I could.'
"What's wrong Rena?" Hige asked.
Her thoughts must have put a grim expression on her face. "Nothing, I'm alright really."
Tsume watched her from behind, and rolled his eyes 'Like hell you are.' He thought.
'I really need to put this behind me,' she took a deep breath and yelled, "Come on you slow pokes! As I always said 'Why walk when you can run!'" and without another word she broke into a full sprint.
ODST: Ok that was a little shorter than I wanted but oh well.
Hige: Ow! My head hurts! Why did you do that!
Tsume, Kiba and, Toboe laughing in the background
ODST starts running and hides behind Tsume
Kiba: -.-; now now children.
Tsume: PLEASE HELP ME! Oh and review!
A/N: Just ignore those odd comments. I must have thought it was funny at the time.
