Firechic240: I hope you enjoy this chapter it took me forever to finish! There's more information given out in this chapter so you can understand the characters more.

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Chapter Six: Bullet Shot

Looking back at the shrinking baker who had fallen to the floor, she stopped abruptly when a bullet was shot at her. She didn't get a good look at her attacker but she dodged it with ease. She jumped up to the roof of a building and changed forms to reveal her slender human form once again. She peered over the side of the building and saw a man holding a gun out at arm's length, ready to shoot at something in the shadows. She caught a quick glance of the figure, frozen in darkness.

For minutes the silence sustained. The man supported his shaking arm with his hand and squinted.

"I know you're there wolf!"
'That must be the man that shot at me just now, so he thinks that I'm hiding in the shadows.'

The gun was shot and Kurune jumped down blocking its line of fire, hitting her in the stomach. She stumbled on her knees and winced. Then her attention was drawn back to the shadows where the figure, a black wolf, transformed into a boy and ran off further into the alley.

"Oh my god what did I do!" the man yelled and rushed over to the girl. "Someone call for an ambulance!" he shouted at the nearest bystander. When he turned back to Kurune, she was gone.

A minute later she found herself lying on the ground with the boy hovering over her. She immediately noticed the trail of fresh blood on the ground, meaning she had been moved.

"Who are you?" She asked ignoring her wound.

"Kiba." Was his short answer "And who might you be? I've never met anyone who risked their life for me."

"Kurune." She answered weakly. "Why were you stealing? It gives wolves a bad reputation. Well it's not like people actually understand us anyway." She sat up and inspected her wound. The bullet hit her head on and was buried somewhere inside her stomach. Her shirt and pants were covered with blood.

Kiba held a knife up to Kurune's throat and yelled through his teeth, "What do you know!"

She cringed from the pain of the bullet and the pressure the boy was putting on her, shoving her against the dimly lit wall.

"I don't know anything, I swear." She shut her eyes, feeling the blade of the knife start to dig into her skin.

"Are you sure!" He yelled hot-temperedly.

"Yes, all I know is that you aren't human, you're a wolf. I saw you in the alley for a brief second and saw your form." Her shallow breathing turned into pants which made it difficult for her to breath.

A moment passed and Kiba loosened his grip on Kurune.

"You're the girl from the baker's shop." He said plainly. "Why did you follow me?" he demanded.

"I knew there was something different about you. I've never seen you around here before and you acted suspicious."

His expression fell flat and his blade returned to his pocket. He turned away and said, "I didn't ask you to help me. If we meet again don't expect anything in return from me."

"If we meet again it will be destiny." She said with her last breath.

"So it will."

She doubled over in pain and passed out from blood loss.

When she came to, she was in the hospital. The doctor informed her that it would take her a few days to heal but she would have a complete recovery. Thankfully the bullet didn't hit any major organs.

She looked around for Kiba, wondering if he was the one who brought her to the hospital or if the officials were the ones who found her.

End flashback

"Well, where did you go Kiba? Were you the one who took her to the hospital?" Toboe asked curiously.

"No. I left, determined to find Cheza. After all I thought I would never see her again. But I did, and it was destiny."

"Enough with the stories," Tsume grunted, "save it for later."

"Yea I'm starving!" Hige wined.

"You just ate barely two hours ago." Kiba stated.

"But I'm still hungry."

Kurune stopped abruptly and looked around suspiciously.

"What's the matter?" Toboe whispered.

"Do you smell that?" Her voice was dangerously low and her hand reached into her pocket, pulling out a dagger.

"It smells like blood."

The wind swept through the trees, moaning and causing an eerie silence to befall the travelers. Everyone looked around and Kurune made the first step toward the right.

The sound of branches cracking made everyone alert. Kurune walked cautiously over to a tree and turned into her wolf form. Everyone else followed, their ears perked up with alert.

The sound of a gun being loaded and heavy breathing made Kurune freeze.

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