Chinmoku no Angel
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Author's Note- Sigh... I would have updated this fic a while ago, but gave me some problems and deleted pretty much everything I had saved... which ticked me off... So... Here's chappie 3 of Chinmoku no Angel, please leave a review at the end, it heightens an author's self esteem.
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Demeter
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Tsuki awoke with a start, unable to clearly remember where she was, only noticing that her head was pounding angrily. She closed her eyes with a heavy sigh and sat up, glancing around the mostly dark cave.
In the corner was that bastard who tried to beat the shit out of her. That thought caused her to blink in surprise, she'd fought him? If she did, she didn't remember it. All she could remember was meeting some boy out near the falls.
Tsuki scrambled to her feet and glanced behind her. Three dark shapes were curled up there, all breathing in near perfect unison. Tsuki cocked an eyebrow and carefully stepped over a pair of legs to her the cave's exit.
She stepped into the murky darkness and grabbed the bag that awaited her outside the door. She glanced behind her at the cave full of sleeping people and took a step into the night, a step into total oblivion.
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A few hours after Tsuki left, a pair of golden-brown eyes opened, observing the quite cave, barely noticing the place that was empty.
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Tsuki sighed again and crouched by the giant evergreen which stood beside the cliff she was currently scaling.
"Stupid sonofa-" she cut short the curse that wanted to see the light of day as her footing broke away and tumbled down the cliff side. Only ten feet or so from the top, Tsuki made it up without any more mishaps. Once at the top, she glanced down the hill, only now realizing that it would have seriously hurt it she had fallen.
She grinned and turned her back to the open air, taking quick strides to put the heights behind her. A couple minutes later, she came upon a clearing in the midst of a grove of trees. In the middle of the said clearing, a silverish lump twitched violently.
Already thinking she knew what it was, Tsuki raced forward and dropped to her knees beside Demeter's spasm-wracked body. Demeter looked at her with dull gold eyes, a silent plea passing between mother wolf and her 'daughter'. Tsuki hugged the wolf, uncaring that she was bleeding slugishly from her chest and side.
Tsuki thought of Demeter as her mother and knew the wolf felt the same, "Awww, please don't die mom! What'll the pups do without you!?"
The wolf whimpered at the thought of leaving her pups alone, but nudged Tsuki's knee, assuring her in a motherly way that everything would be okay.
This caused Tsuki to break into hysterics. Her voice sounding slightly shrill in the air that was devoid of bird song, "Mom! Please! Please don't die mom..." her voice broke and she hugged Demeter lovingly.
Demeter turned her head to grin at Tsuki, a couple words that seemed to come from nowhere whispered across her mind, "Take the bag on my back with you. For the answers you'll seek..." Tsuki blinked in confusion and hugged Demeter closer, unsure what she'd just heard
And when Demeter's body spasmed once more, a deathly chill began creeping over the mother wolf's body. Tsuki turned her head upwards and let out a body-chilling cry fill the night.
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Back at the cave, everyone awoke out of their slumber, the back of their necks bristling with fear and sadness at the lost and lonely cry which shook everything all the way up to the heavens.
Toboe glanced at Kiba, his eyes wide, "Is there another wolf nearby?"
Kiba shook his head in confusion, "It's not a wolf..."
Blue opened her eyes and looked at Kiba, "It's not? Then what is it?"
Toboe looked around and finlly noticed who was gone, "Hey! Tsume and Tsuki aren't here!"
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Tsuki let out one more mournful howl, unaware that she'd been noted as missing. Unaware that she was all alone in the clearing except for Demeter's lifeless body. Only aware that there was a giant hole in her heart where a loving presence once stayed.
Sometime later, Tsuki stood up, her long black and red hair hanging over her face like a veil. She ran a hand through it to make life a little bit easier for when she started the trek down the cliff side. She undid the bag which was tied to Demeter's back and tied it around her own waist before picking up the female wolf, dragging her to the edge of the cliff.
Tsuki pulled up the rope and tied it to Demete before slowly lowering her down the cliff. Once the mother wolf had reached the bottom, Tsuki grabbed the rope in a gloved hand and slid down.
At the bottom, Tsuki readjusted the bags and picked up Demeter's carcase, taking long strides to get back to the waterfall before it got too dark. And the whole way back, Tsuki's eyes were misty with tears that wouldn't fall.
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Hours later, Tsuki glanced carefully before stepping into the clearing at the edge of the waterfall. Loud yips made her attention swivel to where three fluffy furred wolf pups played. A soft whimper of pain came from Tsuki' mouth. The pups looked up and then turned their attention back to their game.
Tsuki dropped her heavy burden and walked over to where the land met the water near the crevice. With a head held high, she started hacking away at the ground, bound and determined to bury her dead in a proper manner.
After what seemed like hours, Tsuki stood back up to admire her work. Then she dragged herself back to Demeter, picked up the body and dragged herself back to the shallow grave. With remorse, she called the pups over to her with a sharp whistle.
All three came bounding over and stopped on a dime at her feet, looking up at their 'big sister' with wide blue eyes that still hadn't changed color. Their obvious curiosity of the hole in the ground and why their sister was holding their mother made tears fall from Tsuki's eyes.
Tsuki crouched down and looked each pup in the eyes saying slowly, "I'm really sorry, but mom got hurt and she died." The pups all looked at her curiously making Tsuki sigh unhappily, "Demeter isn't ever coming back. Something happened to her, and this is all that's left." Tsuki showed the pups the body.
Then realization must have dawned on them. Each pup in turn stepped forward and rested their muzzle on their mother's bloody chest fur. Then with dignity unnatural to her, Tsuki lowered Demeter's cold body into the ground. All three pups sat there silently as Tsuki poured the dirt back into the hole.
When their mother's body was finally out of sight, Tsuki grinned uneasily at the pups who slowly turned away, trying to return to their game. When they couldn't clear their mind enough to do so, they scrambled back into the warm shelter that their den provided from the outside world.
Tsuki sighed and started walking, walking to get away from it all. She stopped when she reached an old flowering dogwood. Pink surrounding her instead of the shadows of the oaks and evergreens. She sighed and sat down, deep in thought.
Tsuki was so deep in her thoughts that she never noticed the approaching footsteps. When another shadow covered her, she glanced up into Tsume's brown eyes.
She exhaled sharply, "What do you want." It was more of a statement than a question.
He looked at her, "Why are you crying." Oh, touche'... As was that.
An angry glare was shot at him, "I wasn't crying!"
A smirk was the reply, "Whatever." She flicked him off, silently returning to her thoughts. Tsume growled dangerously and grabbed her shirt, slamming her hard against the tree trunk.
Tsuki sighed, her voice nearly cracking, "Just leave me alone."
Tsume, still ticked that Tsuki felt like she won earlier, grabbed her by her throat, holding her against the tree with light pressure on her neck.
With a half cough half sigh, she kneed him in the groin again. And when Tsume dropped, she started walking away. Tsume tackled her from behind, not even seconds afterwards. She stared at him, her shoulder throbbing form where it now rested against an upturned tree root.
Tsume grabbed her by her throat, his voice heavy with danger, "Stop makign ways to fight me. I'll always win."
Tsuki, falling back into her past while staring into his eyes listlessly suddenly sharpened her gaze into daggers, her fighting spirit once more returning, "Leave me alone. Just leave me the hell alone."
Tsume grinned and tightened his squeeze, no words replied to her, but his eyes did. The anger and tiny amounts of paranoia mix together behind the brown eyes. Tsuki stayed silent as the grip on her throat tightened again. Silently, she watched Tsume with dead blue eyes.
He looked at her, his gaze questioning, "Why aren't you fighting. I'm going to kill you."Tsuki's dead blue eyes met his questioning gaze and made him shiver internally with a hint of fear.
Her voice still rang out strong even though his grip was tight on her throat, "Because. I'm not going to fight because Demeter would know and she'd feel sad. She'll always know." Tsume's grip relaxed slightly as Tsuki continued, her eyes still dead and drifting, "And now that she's gone, I have nothing to live for. Death is calling me, so finish it's job."
Tsume's grip seemed to spasm and Tsuki dropped. She just lay there, watching Tsume with her dead eyes as he backed away in slightly fear.
Tsuki grinned, "Not quite the believer when someone wants death? Watch this and believe." Tsuki tugged her bag around so it was facing her and pulled out her. Then with calm hands, she pulled out her hunting knife.
She then turned and grinned at Tsume, "Death in a blade." She placed it on her wrist and lightly pulled it to her elbow. Then she started to do the other the same way. Tsume paled slowly and he slowly backed away, knowing that he had partly caused this.
When he was gone, Tsuki glanced down at her sluggishly bleeding wrists and shrugged. She leaned back against the tree, waiting for a slow death to claim her.
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Slowly, once Tsume had walked off, Toboe stepped into the clearing, his eyes wide with surprise, he walked up to Tsuki and curled up next to her. Toboe sighed when Tsuki didn't react in the least.
Slowly, he stood back up and walked back to the cave where an unsettled Cheza was talking with an uneasy Blue, "This one still believes the other one is hurt."
Blue sighed, "She'll be fine. Remember, she did almost take down Tsume." When his name was mentioned, Tsume gave a grunt, almost like he'd been listening to the conversation.
Toboe walked over and plopped down next to Tsume, just now noticing how wide Tsume's eyes were, "What happened to Tsuki?" Toboe looked into Tsume eyes, trying to discover the truth from lies.
Tsume adverted his gaze when Toboe looked at him, "She lost me in the woods after I went looking for her."
Toboe was silent, trying to discover the lie in that, "Why was she on the ground crying?" When Tsume stayed silent Toboe tried another one, "Why was Tsuki crying, and why was her wrists all bloody? Did someone hurt her?"
Finally Tsume shoved Toboe backwards, his eyes wild, "Leave me alone brat."
Toboe ducked his head and walked back over to where Blue, Hige, and Cheza were sitting, "I think Tsume's mad at me..."
"Why?" asked Blue.
"Because I kept asking him what happened after he followed Tsuki. And he got angry and yelled at me."
Blue sighed and wrapped her arms around Toboe, her eyes distant with memories, "If she's not back tomorrow, I'm going looking for her."
Hige nodded, his voice unusually quiet against the darkening sky, "Toboe and I'll help you." Blue grinned at Hige and pulled him into the hug too.
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And somewhere in the night, Tsuki shivered, her lips blue with descending memories that sucked the strength and life right out of her. She shivered again, letting out a whispered sentence spill from her mouth, "Will I lose my dignity? Will someone care? Will I wake tomorrow from this nightmare? There's only now, there's only here. Give in to love or live in fear. No other path, no other way. No day but today..."
And with that, Tsuki fell into unconsciousness.
Author's Note- Heya all, thanks again for reading. And here's the replies form the wonderful reviewers form the last chappie.
FaithfulReviewer- Thanks, I'm glad you like my stories. And of course you don't get them, this one's not a Naruto fic. It's a Wolf's Rain fic. Lol.
BlueroseS.S- Here's the next one hun. Thanks for the nice review. I'll try to update more often for ya. .;;
Mint Pizza Queen- Thanks for the review. It helped make my day. And if what you said about the fight scene was true (I don't know how it could be) then I'm getting better! Woot! And if you liked that they were in character last time, then kill me now, I made almost everyone except Tsuki way OOC.
Mazuma- Wow, someone else who liked the fight scene. I'm sorry if the next chapter disappoints you, but I'm on the verge of writer's blcok on Wolf's Rain stuff. And yes, I'm keeping my word, Tsume's going to have someone to cuddle with... if he doesn't get freaked out first, lol. Thanks again!
JadeWolf- Glad you liked it, so thankies again for the review. Here's my update, looking forward to hearing form you again!
gabriel- I don't know why you find it hard to believe that I think most of my stories are dark. And they DO NOT all have happy endings. Geeze... Thanks though, it was nice hearing from ya!
nemadragon31- I've updated! Thanks for liking my story. I hope to update again soon! w00t!