A/N: Thanks for all the reviews sent this way! He-he, I would also like to thank everyone who has read this story, and for those who have been following my works. Thank you very much, you all made me feel like a real writer! (He-he). So here is chapter two of WDW (Wolf Devil Woman). Arigato Weaver-san.
WOLF DEVIL WOMAN
Chapter 2
Shizuru's eyes were wide as the two strangers kept on looking at her what was I thinking? Mikoto would laugh hard if she learns about me being caught in a stupid trap like this! She thought. Shizuru held the young cub in her embrace, a bit thankful that the small animal wasn't the one directly caught by the trap. She looked intently at her captors, appraising them, they might have different clothes from me but I know that these two are females. It's the first time I saw female human hunters…
"I think we've caught the best Chie! Imagine us finally catching not just a wolf pup but also a…" Shizuru heard the red headed female speak, aside from understanding the word wolf, not one from what the red head said was familiar to her I can't even understand them! What were they saying? Are they going to kill us and stuffed us and make us a decoration in their houses? Shizuru thought causing anger to build up inside her.
"Free us! We are not animals!" Shizuru screamed and tried moving about the net. The net was now placed flat on the ground but it was still close and she can't open it without hurting the pup.
"Bad, we can't even understand this woman!" Chie said shaking her head, "I'm sure we can't ask her about where she lives now!" the dark haired woman said and then she raised her hand to scratch her head.
"The heck? We are not going to bring this back to where it came from! We caught them fair and square!" Nao exclaimed while pointing a finger at Shizuru.
What are they saying? Shizuru asked herself, her worry grew more as time progressed especially at this situation where she can't even say anything useful damn language barrier!
"What are you saying Yuuki? We cannot take this woman with us! She's not an animal!" Chie screamed at Nao.
Silence.
Where they fighting over me? And what were they fighting about? Shizuru thought once again but her thoughts were interrupted by the sudden feeling of dizziness. She then looked down at her bent legs and winced when she finally noticed the gushing wound there, I must be losing a lot of blood from this wound.
Chie noticed Shizuru looked down and her eyes widened when she saw the woman's leg bleeding, "She's hurt Nao!" Chie yelled breaking the silence.
Nao looked at Shizuru and her eyes widened as well when she saw the wound, "Fuck!" she cussed and then she crouched closer to the net and inspected it. Nao's touch caused Shizuru to fidget and growl at the red head, "Hey! I'm trying to help you!"
"Free us!" Shizuru screamed again.
"Sorry, but we can't understand you!" Chie said, she raised a finger and waved it sideward accompanied by her head shaking 'no' which was interpreted by Shizuru as don't do that or else…
"Free us!" She screamed once again as she pulled her injured legs forcefully away from Nao's hold.
"Keep still you woman!" Nao screamed back and pulled Shizuru's leg harder. She unintentionally looked at the glaring woman, "Oh my God…" Nao said, her jaw dropped and it looks to Chie like Nao's drooling from something.
"What is it? Was it serious?" Chie asked worriedly as she stepped closer and leaned to watch what Nao was doing, but she almost hit Nao's head when she saw her friend looking at the captured woman in awe, "The hell Na…" she wasn't able to finish her sentence when she too accidentally looked at Shizuru and her eyes met the wild woman's crimson, blood like orbs, "Wow…"
"I…" Nao was almost speechless, "I…think…"
"We caught a red eyed devil Nao…" Chie said her face bears an enchanted expression.
"If devils look like this…then I won't mind catching another…"
Silence.
"Are we drooling?" Chie asked without taking her eyes off Shizuru's intent gaze on them.
Nao nodded her head dumbly, "I think."
"Free us!" Shizuru growled again, crimson orbs narrowed and was followed by the wolf's howling.
"My God…we caught a wolf devil woman Chie…I don't think…" Nao shook her head to free her from the sudden enchantment and then she looked at Chie at her back, "The wound is deep Chie! We need to get medical attention quick!" Nao said hurriedly causing Chie to free herself from the enchantment.
"We have no emergency kit and it's already dark Nao!" Chie said.
Nao sighed, "Then there's no other way but to bring this woman to the Kuga Mansion! That's closer than any of our houses!" Nao said.
What are they saying now? Have they decided what to do with us? Shizuru thought and then she closed her eyes, why should I care now? In my state, I wouldn't even last an hour if I try to fight these hunters, I'll just have to accept my fate…Nay, Mother… Thank you very much for everything that you've given me, my life, a family, and loving sisters. I am sorry I can't even say my last farewell to you…I'm sorry for all the misdeeds I've done and I'm sorry Nay for bringing with me this pup, I am very sorry… Shizuru felt her tears run down her face and then she felt them moving. She didn't open her eyes, afraid of what she might see sorry Mikoto, please be safe… her last thought before darkness claimed her. She didn't felt the wolf's wet tongue on her face as if trying to wake the woman up.
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The hunters with Arika and Nina was trailing the forest for long but was forced to stop when the sun crawled down from its pedestal, they hurriedly went back to their village and they were greeted by a very angry Chief and a very worried Viola.
"Have you found them?" Kruger asked as she approached Tomoe, "Why wasn't I informed of this earlier?!" she screamed, a large vein could be seen pulsating on her forehead, the group kept their head bowed down and was silent. Arika and Nina were both crying, "Answer me!" Kruger screamed once again. Everyone who heard the chief scream cringed at the deathly tone she used.
"Kruger…" Viola patted the chief's shoulder lightly trying her best to pacify her wife.
"I can't just relax Viola! Shizuru and Mikoto are missing!" Kruger said after she turned around to face her lovely wife.
"We can't jump into conclusions Kruger, the two must be playing around and lost track of time." Viola reasoned out to convince Kruger, but it was more like Viola stating something light to convince herself that her eldest daughter wasn't missing, that Shizuru will be returning later in the evening.
Tomoe, Arika and Nina flinched, "I…I don't think that's what happened." Tomoe said, her voice was coarse from screaming and her eyes were red from crying, "We saw pieces of their clothes torn and covered with blood…"
Viola turned her head swiftly at Tomoe, "You're lying!" she yelled, "Tomoe! Tell me that you're lying or hallucinating!"
"Tomoe is saying the truth Mother!" Arika said followed by a loud crying, "We all saw it, the pieces of clothes, the trails of blood and trails of tiger's paws! We saw it all!" Arika screamed, the younger HiME was hysterical.
"Arika…" Viola sadly called out and she stepped closer to her daughter and embraced the girl. Nina stepped closer to them and joined in the embrace.
"Mother, Ate is just lost…she's alive, she must be alive." Nina said as she buries her head on her mother's shoulder.
There was silence, only the sound of crying girls can be heard.
"Gather all the hunters! Leave a few to overlook the village, I want everyone to leave their lights on and keep vigil for Shizuru and Mikoto!" Kruger instructed, "Ein! Hallard! Armitage! Tomoe! All of you get a torch and you will come with me," Kruger said looking at the concern HiMEs, "Huit ! Mayah! Sarah! You three will group together and look on another part of the forest away from where they vanished. Rosalie, Carla and Raura will take another part of the forest, the rest stay here and open your eyes!" Kruger finished her instructions and the people called out started making their exits to gather torches and soon the hunters went out to find Shizuru and Mikoto.
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Mikoto was lucky to have found the trail left by Shizuru's blood, as a hunter, the smaller, more agile woman could go on for a longer time than usual hunters without food or water. But Shizuru wasn't that far from her now. She saw her friend stepped on a trap and was captured along with the wolf pup, she was about to come to their rescue when she noticed two females she assumed to be hunters watching their prey. Mikoto was so angry she wanted to jump out and fight, but like Shizuru, she too was injured and she saw the hunters carrying some weapons she knew to be much dangerous than her dagger.
When she was still in her own village, her father has taken her to guide some of this hunters, it's what they do mostly for a living. Hunting in their village wasn't much lately because their people have depleted their own forest with animals. Their ancestors were great hunters and they live vicariously with it so when the time comes for them to live, there were little to none that they can hunt, some of their elders thought that the animals already knew about them so they stayed away from their forest, and because of that barter trade wasn't easy for them. This reason brought them to their situation, as guides for these hunters, so Mikoto could understand some of their words.
Mikoto might not get everything the two female hunters were saying, but she got the gist that they wanted to take the wolf and Shizuru somewhere, and from reading their expression, she assumed that they were worried about their captive, and she smiled when the taller of the two untied the net and carried Shizuru in her arms while the smaller one with brick-red hair started tying a clean piece of cloth on Shizuru's leg after pouring something over the wound Mikoto assumed to be cold water. At the sight, the smaller hunter remembered her own wound and looked at her injured arm. She sighed when she saw clotted blood over it good thing my wounds weren't that deep she thought and then returned her focus on the women in front of her Shizuru must have collapsed for her to not fight when she was free from the trap already…her eyes widened, perhaps Shizuru lost much blood, so her wounds were deeper…Shizuru don't die please? You're my only friend and Kruger will kill me if I let you die! She thought.
Her thoughts were disrupted when she saw the two hunters stood up, the taller one still carrying Shizuru and began walking away from the trap. The Wolf's injured leg was mended as well and it was being carried by the smaller woman. So the hunter waited for the two to walked farther before she make a move and started trailing them.
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"Can you feel it?" Nao asked Chie who was walking ahead of her.
"Feel what?" she asked without either stopping or looking back at Nao.
"I can feel someone is watching us." Nao replied in a near whisper.
Chie stopped and then she looked at her right and left, "I don't feel anything Nao, so can we please move on a bit faster? This wolf devil woman is heavy you know!"
Nao frowned, "Okay! I told you I'll carry her but no…Chie wanted to be the hero and carry the devil than the wolf!" Nao said bitterly.
"I am taller and stronger than you and I can feel how heavy this devil is what more if it was you who's carrying her?" Chie asked, panting a little bit from exertion.
"Okay! Stop whining now because I could see Tokiha's hair already!" Nao said.
"I am so not whining!" Chie exclaimed indignantly, "You were the one whining, from the moment we arrived at the place and until now non-stop!" Chie corrected.
"I don't whine!" Nao shouted.
"Yeah…and Kuga doesn't whine!" Chie screamed back.
"Don't you dare compare me to that Kuga!"
"Then stop whining and walk fast!" Chie said before she stomp her feet and hurriedly walk to where Mai was. Nao followed huffing.
Mai was frowning when her two companion's head appeared, her frown was replaced by shock when she saw what Chie was carrying, "You…you killed a woman?!" Mai screamed, her face paled.
Nao and Chie stopped their bickering when they heard what Mai said, "WHAT?" they both screamed at the fiery red head.
Mai was moving her mouth but there was no words coming out from it except some gargling sounds, she was drastically pointing her index finger at the woman on Chie's arms as her legs kept on prancing like someone who has to relieved herself but can't find a proper place.
"Oi! Speak! We can't understand what you were saying if you keep doing that!" Nao said but Mai was still speechless and kept on pointing at the collapsed woman, "Mai look!" Nao screamed suddenly pointing at Mai's back, "Kanzaki Reito! He is going to hug you!" she added.
Mai's eyes widened more at this and she screamed, "WHAT?!" before she turned around and made a defensive pose but there was no one at her back so she turned around to see a laughing Nao and Chie, "Nao!" she growled.
"That serves you right! First of all…what the heck were you talking about?" Nao asked and Chie nodded in agreement.
"What am I talking? You two killed a woman! That was what I'm talking about!"
"Whoa!" Chie exclaimed, "We didn't kill any woman Mai!" she said frowning.
"And what is that in your arms?"
The two looked at the woman and then they returned their eyes on Mai, "This is a wolf devil woman and she isn't dead! As a matter of fact, I cleaned her wound and bandaged it with a piece of my precious shirt!" Nao explained.
The explanation caused the fiery red head to deflate and she nervously laughed at the two, "He…sorry about that." She apologized, "Do you want me to prepare your food…"
"Sorry Mai-chan, but we need to go now and bring this woman to the Kuga mansion, she collapsed and we think that she might have lost a lot of blood from her wound." Chie said and then she smiled, "And the wolf devil woman is really getting heavier by the minute!"
Mai nodded her head, "Okay, then I'll pack the food I made and you two could head on to the truck already, it's better we have food with us just so you two and this…" Mai looked at Shizuru's pale face, "…this wolf devil woman can have something to eat on our way."
The other two nodded their heads and turned around to head up to their truck with their loot in their arms.
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"SHIZURU!"
"MIKOTO!!"
The hunters kept on shouting, hoping that their voices be carried by the wind and let the two missing hunters hear them and finally bring them back. They have lighted torches in hand accompanied by daggers and spears as preventive measures just in case some wild animals decided to grace them with their presence.
"SHIZURU!" Kruger's voice was trembling, the great white wolf wanted to cry, but her stubborn personality just won't allow her especially with her in the company of other hunters. She looked back to see Tomoe crying her eyes out while screaming for Shizuru's name I can't believe that my dear Shizuru will end up like this…no Shizuru cannot be dead, she is as strong as me and Mikoto, she might not be a hunter but she knows how to fight and she have a survival instincts…she'd survived the wilderness at a very young age, she can survive this trial…oh Shizuru, be well my daughter…
They decided not to stop, not until Sun King wakes up, as long as they can, they will not stop.
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Mikoto was panting as she ran as fast as she can in her injured state to follow the track where Shizuru and the wolf pup were boarded. Hidden along the forest trees, the young hunter tried her best to not lose her friend, but considering her current state, she was tired, injured and hungry, she felt herself slowing down and if this goes on, she will lose Shizuru forever, so finally deciding, Mikoto used her last strength to overtake the slower truck, she was scaling the forest through the tree branches above and stopped when she was two meters ahead and waited for the truck to arrive.
The road along the forest was bumpy, Chie who was driving have to slow down to prevent their captive from injuring herself further. The woman was lying at the passenger seat at the back, her head resting at Mai's lap as the fiery haired girl occupied the position. Nao was at the side passenger seat, the injured wolf pup nestled on her lap.
"Chie, this wolf devil woman has a fever. Her wound must be infected so can you at least hurry up?" Mai said a bit freaked.
"I can't Mai! The road is too bumpy I don't want my tires to get busted by driving fast." Chie replied and then she cringed when they crossed over a large pothole, "See what I mean?"
"Besides, we should be thankful that she's having a fever that means her body is fighting whatever infection sets in her wound right?" Nao said. The red head was straining one arm as she held on to the truck's security bar while her other arm protected the wolf from a possible fall that could lead to another injury, "You know, this pup has wounds on its neck, and the wound looks like the one that woman has on her leg." Nao said all of a sudden.
Mai frowned, "Then, does that mean this wolf devil woman you're calling is actually the savior of that pup?" Mai asked.
"Probably, that woman's wound was quite deep and I think there were deep leg veins that were hit." Nao said.
Mai and Chie sighed, "Well we can't argue with you, you're the expert when it comes to things like this." Chie said smiling.
"If that is the case, isn't it better to take this woman to your house Nao and let your mother inspect her? Himeko-sama is a doctor, and a very popular vascular surgeon at that."
Nao frowned, "Wouldn't it be better if we take this devil woman to the closest house for first aid treatment and then I can just call my mother to look at her once she's settled?" Nao said.
"But there's no one that will give her first aid at Kuga's mansion! Saeko-sama is a businesswoman, not a doctor!" Chie said exasperatedly, her eyes not leaving the road ahead.
"Baka!" Nao yelled, "And what do you think I am for?" Nao asked angrily, "I can do simple first aid measures like wound dressing! Baka!"
Chie grinned, "Gomen, I forgot about you having background on first aid. He-he,"
Their discussion was halted when they suddenly felt something fell at the back of the truck, "What the hell…" Nao exclaimed, she actually ducked from her seat thinking that it was some debris or branch from a tree, "Tokiha! Look at it!" Nao instructed.
"Jeez! I can't, the devil's head is on my lap!" Mai reasoned.
"Incompetent woman!" Nao growled, and then she moved her body after lifting the sleeping wolf from her lap and handing it to Mai, "Hold the pup for me, I'll go inspect whatever it is!" She said. The fiery haired girl reached out and took the wolf to her and laid it beside the sleeping woman. Nao stood up slowly, her knuckles turning white from her tight hold of the truck's safety metal bars and then she started walking on the truck's outer step bars slowly to look at the truck's back.
Mikoto gasped when she landed on the truck's back and grunted when she hit her injured arm on the edge. The she heard the commotion made by the passengers inside so slowly and stealthily, she climbed off and slid to the side making sure to cling onto the railing outside so she won't fall out. Her eyes were directly parallel to an opening so she could actually see what's happening inside and sighed in relief when she saw the woman with brick-red hair peeked inside.
"Nothing's here!" Nao confirmed, "It must be some log or branch falling off one of a tree!" Nao added before she walked back to her place beside Chie and took the injured pup from Mai.
It was at that moment that the unconscious woman mumbled a name, "Who or what is Mikoto?" Mai asked.
Nao and Chie just shrugged their shoulders, "Mai, make sure to wrap the devil woman well into that blanket Nao gave you, we don't want to make a scene at the Kuga Mansion." Chie said as she saw the large mansion ahead.
"Have you called anyone there about this?" Mai asked.
"I called Miyu and told her that we brought presents for Natsuki and that ojou-sama should not see it before her birthday." Chie said smiling wickedly, "I asked Nao here to call Miyu but I thought she'll collapse from blushing so I decided…"
"I didn't blush Harada!" Nao said indignantly.
Mai laughed, "Okay so you didn't but you are now." She teased.
"Tokiha!"
"I think our little red headed hunter finally found her match in Miyu!" Chie said laughing.
"Continue on saying that Harada and I swear I'll put an x-mark on your face!" Nao warned.
"Oh…denial much?" Chie added causing the fiery haired woman to snicker.
Nao looked back at Mai, "Go on Tokiha laugh, once Kanzaki comes to ask for you, I will never ever hide you again! I'll even tell him all your secrets!"
"Vengeful ne?" Mai said smirking, not a bit appalled by Nao's threat, "It's not as if I wanted to impress that Kanzaki, I don't care if you tell him my secret."
Nao smirked evilly, "So what secret do you think I'll be spilling?"
Mai harrumphed, "What else? Me being a lesbian! The beautiful, voluptuous and kind Tokiha Mai loves girls not boys." Mai offered.
"Hah!" Nao exclaimed, "That isn't a secret anymore, Kanzaki knew about that already, but he doesn't know about you collecting used underwear from your fan girls at school!" Nao said and then she laughed heartily.
Chie's eyes widened at the information, "You…you collect used panties?!" Chie asked turning her head around to look at Mai in surprised.
"Nao!" Mai screamed angrily.
The action of Chie caused the truck to swerved, Chie returned her gaze on the road righting the truck.
"That was close Harada! We almost turned over!" Nao said nervously.
"Then stop saying things like that!" Chie angrily replied, "But are you serious? Tokiha do that?"
"Don't you believe Nao Chie! It was a total lie!" Mai screamed.
"I am telling the truth!" Nao turned her head to look at Chie, "And I am serious as a heart attack!"
"Liar!" Mai screamed, the fiery haired girl's face was red and her eyes began tearing up, "You're a liar Nao! I never do such thing!" Mai said her voice trembling.
Nao's eyes widened when she saw her friend crying, "Oi! What the heck are you doing? We are supposed to be exchanging words and no one should feel embarrassed and cry!" Nao said.
"That was below the belt Nao!" Mai said as she sniffed.
Chie gave Nao an angry glare, "And I almost believe you!" Chie said frowning and hurriedly returned her focus on the road.
"Hey! And who told you that I wasn't telling the truth?" Nao said.
"Nao!" Mai screamed again.
"Hey! It was that Munakata girl who told me that you approached her asking if you could have one of her used underwear…" Nao was trying to explain when even before she finished her sentence Chie started laughing, "What the hell were you laughing at Harada?!" she asked.
"You…you mean that secret you were telling us was that shit-report you got from Munakata? Munakata Shiho?" Chie asked laughing and trying hard to get them back to the mansion safely.
"Yes, so?" Nao frowned.
Mai stopped crying but she was still sniffing, "Tell me Chie, do you know something about it? It was a total lie!"
Chie nodded her head, "Oh that was really one heck of a lie. It was the most hilarious fabricated story I've ever heard in my entire career as the school's official editor!"
"Fabricated? Then that Shiho just made fun of me?" Nao asked now angry.
"Oh yes she did!" Chie tried her best to calm herself to tell the story, "Remember that boy Yuuichi?" Mai and Nao nodded their head.
"Who will forget that useless man, if he was a man?" Nao said, "And isn't that Yuuichi the same man who vied for Mai's attention along with Kanzaki?"
"That's him." Chie agreed, "Aoi and I was busy gathering information for the graduating class when we suddenly passed by a bush somewhere in the university garden, we overheard Yuuichi convincing Shiho to tell one of the students about that fabricated story."
Mai frowned, "But why would he do it?"
"Remember that was the same month you turned him down? He didn't know about you being gay until he approached Kanzaki and asked if he was turned down as well, he said he was and that is because you like girls not boys. I think he was so angry that you demean him by liking a girl over him so he made that story up." Chie narrated.
"So how come I've never heard of it?" Mai asked.
"Well, I approached Shiho and told her that I heard their conversation, Munakata cried at me and told me that she is in love with her Onii-chan and she doesn't want to disappoint him but she doesn't want to ruin you either, so I suggested that since Yuuichi just asked her to tell one and only one soul about it, maybe he thought that just one student is enough as the news will spread by itself, I told her to go to Nao and tell her."
Nao's eyes widened, "The hell! Why did you ask her to approach me?"
Mai realized what Chie did and nodded her head, "I think I get why Chie did that. If Shiho was to tell you, then you will never let anyone in into that secret, so Shiho will be fulfilling her Onii-chan's wish and at the same time not ruin me."
Nao scrunched her forehead as she thought of the situation and she smiled, "So I wasn't played at all?" Chie shook her head.
"We all knew that we will not do things to jeopardized any of us right?" Chie said smiling, "Finally! We are near the mansion's gate!" Chie exclaimed.
Mai didn't said anything, she was looking at Nao, "Arigato Nao!" she suddenly said.
Nao looked back, "What for?"
"You kept it from spreading, so that Yuuichi did not succeed." Mai said smiling.
Nao nodded her head, "Well don't get your hopes up, Yuuichi will be attending Kuga's birthday celebration tomorrow. Kanzaki told me about it."
Chie stopped the truck when they arrived at the gate entrance, Mikoto whose arms was already numb from holding on tight on the railing let go and scampered on a nearby bush to hide herself I could just get inside this wall later… Mikoto thought as she keep her eyes on the mansion's opening gate, then at the truck that made its way inside, wait for me Shizuru.
Nao, Chie and Mai had an evil aura in their faces after they've learn about Yuuichi's underhanded tactic, they all decided to let Natsuki in the story and plan for their revenge..
Once inside the mansion, they were greeted by Miyu, stealthily they asked the blue haired woman to get the devil at the truck, Nao was still holding onto the pup. After some time, Miyu arrive with Shizuru hanged over her shoulder, she approached the three ojou-samas and waited for their instruction.
"Where can we put this two Miyu? We don't want Natsuki to see this." Chie whispered loud enough for the others to hear.
"We can bring them on my room, Natsuki ojou-sama will not know about them if they were there." Miyu answered and then she looked at Nao who has a permanent blush on her face. Mai and Chie noticed it and snickered.
"Good, we need a first aid kit Miyu-san, Nao needs to clean the woman's wound." Mai added.
"I will get it." Miyu said, "I can feel that this woman has a very high fever, I'll also get some paracetamol for her."
"That…that'll be good." Nao stuttered.
"Wow, I can't believe Miyu is the only one that can make Nao ojou-sama stutter like this." Chie teased causing the servant to blush as well.
"I'll go ahead Chie ojou-sama." Miyu said, bowing her head and walked passed the three.
"Come on! We need to hurry and Nao needs to call her mother too." Nao frowned but nodded her head at Mai's suggestion, then the three followed the taller servant.
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Mikoto stealthily climbed the wall and almost fell face first, the hunter was feeling dizzy so she decided to look for a place where she can rest I can take Shizuru tomorrow after I rest… she thought and smiled when she saw an open barn not far from the mansion that's a good place, that's probably warm too…it's getting cold .
The hunter made her way to the barn and was glad that there was no one there. She made her way on a pile of hay and let her body dropped on it wait for me Shizuru… her last thought before her body give out from extreme exhaustion.
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The HiME hunters came back sadly, they didn't find Shizuru and Mikoto. Kruger was greeted by her crying family, as Tomoe went home with a broken heart. They found evidences of struggle and fighting, but there was no body, they tried not to think of the two being killed but instead they were just lost in the forest and soon will make their way back home.
"Come back to us Shizuru." Viola whispered in the air.
"Shizuru…please come back, I promise that if you come back to us, there will be no competition for your hand and you shall have your say regarding your marriage." Kruger prayed, she was looking outside their house beside her wife, she looked at her wife and smiled when Viola nodded in agreement with her prayer.
"Shizuru…"
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It was late in the evening, Chie, Nao and Mai decided to spend the night in the mansion. Himeko told Nao that she'll see the patient in the morning before the party. Miyu decided to room in with Fumi and let the injured woman sleep in her room. The wolf was left with Shizuru.
Natsuki was jerked awake by howls. When she concentrated to decipher where the sound was coming, she found herself getting up and heading down to the maid's quarters. She became surer that she was hearing the howl as it became louder as she approached one of the room.
She stopped in front of the door where the howls were the loudest and frowned when she found that she was at Miyu's room. So slowly and silently, she tried the door knob and smiled when it opened, so she slowly open it and her eyes widened when she saw a white wolf pup lying on a made-up bed at the floor. The wolf stopped howling when it focused its deep blue eyes on Natsuki. Natsuki cautiously stepped closer to the pup and smiled when the pup leaned its head on her. She winced when she saw one of the pup's paws bandaged. She massaged the wolf's head but stopped when she saw the woman on the bed.
"This is not Miyu." Natsuki whispered, so she stood up and approached the bed. She smiled when she saw the most beautiful face ever, and it was liked she was enchanted by the beauty so she stepped closer and sat beside the beautiful stranger. She raised an arm and started caressing the woman's chestnut hair.
She stopped her ministration when the woman suddenly stirred from her sleep and slowly, she opened her eyes. Natsuki looked in awe as two crimson orbs locked with her emerald ones, "Beautiful…" she whispered .
"Nay…"the stranger whispered before her eyes closed once again.
Natsuki was about to touch the woman's face when she felt something hit the back of her head, causing her to lose consciousness.
-end chapter two-
Next chapter is Natsuki's wacky birthday party. Mikoto will gate crash, Natsuki will fall in love, Mai will be entranced, Nao will have her first kiss and Chie will have the courage to proclaim her love. Yuuichi will get what he deserved and Reito will find his perfect partner. Okay that's it for this chapter!
