- Chapter 8 -

Uses of another kind.

Part 2.

That damn runt had been following him for days on end now. So irritating, yet he also felt… What would be a suitable word for it…? Maybe pity? First he saved the runt from that huge black dog and the drunken old man, and now he is allowing him to stick around? How ridiculous… Plus those wolves were also in town… The white one bugged him the most! Such a know it all look on his face, also that grey one. Why the hell doesn't Toboe just go with that pathetic pack and leave him in peace? But did he want him to go…?

In a concrete building, with no electricity or furniture, sat a younger boy and an adult man. Or that was the form they were in now. They ate their supper in silence after an argument about that girl Toboe had met earlier and made one huge mistake with. "If you want to go, then go! It's not like I care about ya." Tsume said eventually. Toboe scowled and looked up.

"Then why did you save me then? You could have pretended not to recognize me," Toboe replied silently. "It's not like I'm your friend or anything."

"You're right. You're not my friend." Tsume snarled out and took another bite out of his steak. After the argument ended, Toboe opened the door and closed it without a bang. "I'm sick of friends. Who needs em?" He asked to himself and then frowned. What had he done?

(Break)

"Oh, wait… I've been to this dome before!" I said, with a nervous chuckle and a blonde grin. Drake frowned and tisked me while Hige laughed. Kiba, of course, kept to his usual quiet self. We had been in the dome for two straight days now, but to me it felt like weeks. Months even. I laughed to myself, it sounded like I was thinking about those things known as drugs. And why was I so nervous? I had been here before… So what was wrong now? Maybe Gramps could be here…

"Cheza should be in that building," Kiba pointed at a building that towered over the town. "I can smell her."

"You can smell her, eh? All I can smell are these retched people! They should really take a bath once in a while." Hige snorted and plugged his nose.

"Shut it, Hige. We don't want to start a fight with these people." Drake ordered and then began walking towards the large building with his hands in his pockets. Kiba and I followed him and Hige groaned from where he was still standing.

"Fine, fine. Wait up, will ya?" Hige sighed as he jogged towards us with his hands in his yellow hoodie pockets. We walked up the perfectly carved stone stairs and approached the building's entrance, but just before we could get in, a security guard stopped us.

"Halt, who goes there?" A man shouted as he bounded towards us. I looked at him with an icy glare, which made him stop in his tracks and stammer like an idiot. Drake laughed at this and so did Hige.

"Is this place off-limits or something?" I asked in the sexiest tone I could muster as I smiled sweetly at the security guard. Drake gasped at this and looked from the guard to me with an angry look. Hige also looked confused, but Kiba said nothing.

"Yes it is, now err… Leave please." The guard ordered, but he couldn't hide his timid voice from me. I carried on smiling and then placed a hand on his shoulder.

"Sorry, we're new here. Tell me… What exactly do you people do in there?" I asked with a fake dumb as a doorknob look on my perfect face.

"Well that's where some scientists work on some flower thing. Stole it from the Noble's they did, but I think they aren't goanna get any where with their little experiment. Oh no, they will just waste valuable money on some stupid flower instead of giving the money to the needy town. Heck, my pay check is so little and I have kids to feed!" He frowned at us and scratched his head in annoyance. Hige gave me a 'this-guys-a-nutter'-and-we-should-leave-him' type of look. Drake walked up to the security guard and held out his hand to shake.

"Here's something to ease your trouble." Drake said with a kind expression on his face as he placed a role of money in the man's hands. A shocked look on the man's face quickly turned into a gleeful one as he skipped around and hugged Drake tightly.

"Oh thank you, sir! Thank you so much!"

"Don't go wasting it now." Drake replied and then he stood next to me.

"I won't now, but you may go inside, there's no one on duty because I quit!" The man laughed and then went running around like a mad man, showing everyone his thick role of money. Drake's happy face soon turned into a grim one.

"He doesn't have children and he is going to spend the money on drugs," Drake said to himself thoughtfully and then began to shake his head. "Lets get going, we don't want him to come with his 'needy friends'. He chuckled and then we walked into the building. Drake walked close to my side and then when we were behind Kiba and Hige, he grabbed my waist and held it firmly which scent chills down my spine. "Trying to make me jealous, were you, dear?" He whispered into my ear with a smirk on his face. I tried to control my heartbeat and then felt goose bumps all over my body.

"Just a little." I replied with a grin as I felt his fingers touch my waist and move down slowly which made me breathe in suddenly. He carried on smirking and then his fingers stopped as he reached my shorts.

"Good job, it worked." He carried on whispering and then he cupped my cheek like he did in the dungeon room. My eyes looked into his and then I felt something in my body scream.

"Play hardball! Don't give into his seductive ways! Come on, Gypsy! Fight the urge to kiss those soft… Perfectly sculptured lips…" My conscience said softly like it was in its own dream world and then I closed my eyes irritably. "Aren't helping!" I thought back and then I could already feel Drake's sweet lips near mine.

"Eh, would you two stop playing kissy' face and hurry up already! Seesh." Hige's voice from ahead of us shouted and then brought me out of my dilemma. Drake's eyes looked into mine and then he drew back.

"Come on, let's go." He said silently and then he walked past Kiba and Hige. I followed him and avoided Kiba's knowing sapphire eyes.

"Saved by the annoying fog horn of a bell." I whispered to myself as we walked down corridors and looked for the lab.

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