Kouji and the wolf Girl chapter 9

The truth unveiled, Mamori's past revealed!…

"Are you sure it's this way little brother?" Oki asked Darkrai as they ran through the forest. Oki was an unusually colored wolf. He had black fur that went from his muzzle and along the bottom half of his body with the top of his head and along his back was a crimson red. He had red eyes and large fangs and also a large body. He was bigger than most wolves as he had the extinct dire wolf blood running through his veins. He was a rare fighting breed of wolves.

"I'm sure this is the right trail brother…oh no…" Darkrai's eyes widened in fear as the smell of fresh wolf's blood entered his nostrils. The blood entered Oki's nostrils as well.

"It's Mamori's blood being spilt!" Oki ran faster, the dirt literally being kicked up as he ran, snow flying on the sides of him as he picked up speed towards the cliff. "Go brother! Go!" Darkrai yelled getting left behind in the dust as Oki took off.

Oki jumped over the logs and through the snow drifts, past the turn of a run off cliff, whence he came to the cliff. He slid to a stop, dirt piles formed around his claws when he stopped, small dust clouds picked up around him. He looked down and seen Mamori over on the bank.

"Mamori!" He yelped as he ran over to the other side of the rocky cliff and jumped down on the smaller edges towards the bank.

Kouji looked up towards Oki. He jumped out of the way as Oki ran over to Mamori.

"Wake up Mamori!" He barked. Mamori didn't move. He was breathing hard, a fury was building in him, along with the sorrow for Mamori. He looked up at Kouji, he started to growl. "Who are you?!"

Kouji growled back. "I didn't do anything, if you want to know who did it, it was that Dan guy!" Kouji growled.

"LIAR!" Oki growled jumping at Kouji! He was to angry to be stopped. The death of his best friend clouded his judgement.

"Die!" Oki yelled, but was stopped by a tug on his tail. He looked back and seen Mamori biting his tail. He stopped what he was doing. Kouji exhaled his breathe into a sigh. Mamori didn't let go though, Oki's eyes widened in fear. "No…" Oki jerked his tail away. "Get out of here boy!" He rammed into Kouji's side pushing him away from Mamori! Mamori's eyes were shadowed, you couldn't see them. Her fur rose up. "The cursed dire blood…" Oki's first thoughts were. "Wait Mamori! You can fight it!" but it was too late. Mamori looked up, her eyes were blood red and glowing.

Dark maroon lines appeared on her fur, taking the shapes of stripes on her cheeks, two of them, and red stripes along her back and arms and legs. Her fangs got longer and curved. Her claws sharpened and got bigger. She growled as her white blood stained fur, got longer and spiky. She looked up, her fangs showing.

Kouji was rammed out of the way by Oki right into Darkrai. "Run away you two! NOW!" Oki growled.

Darkrai took off into the forest, obeying his brother obediently, Kouji shook his head, a bit dazed from the ram, but took off after Darkrai.

Oki growled at Mamori. She opened her mouth wide, white knife like fangs going straight for his neck. He went straight back at her, but she was more powerful and pinned Oki to the ground! Oki gasped for breathe as she gripped his neck with her fangs. Oki growled, an inch near death, BOOM! Mamori was knocked back with such force, she had tumbled backwards, sliding on her back. She shook her head, dizzy from the tumble. She growled, blood trickling down the sides of her mouth. Kouji was a bit late. Oki's neck was scraped by her fangs, but at least he was still alive. Oki shook his head and stood up.

Mamori looked around, her vision seemed to be blurred, feeling only the will to kill, smelling nothing but blood, the wolves that she once called comrades, were now her enemies.

"We are not trying to hurt you Mamori, stop this right now" Oki said calmly. Mamori blinked, she saw a glimpse of Oki, but it soon disappeared, she growled and leapt from her spot right at him!, but this time John had appeared and leapt out towards Mamori who was in midair at the time, WHOOSH! They slid in the snow, John pinning her to the ground.

"Mamori calm down, it's just us." He bit his arm, blood oozing out of the newly cut wound. The fresh demon blood scent of her comrade filled her nostrils with an iron scent, yet unique in a way that it calmed her down. Her eyes stopped glowing red, her fur turning back to normal.

Mamori's head finally layed at ease on the ground as she passed out, exhausted from the overwhelming power of herself. Kouji stood in his spot, Oki trotted over to them.

"She'll be fine now…" John said sitting down, breathing in then out a sigh of relief. Oki did the same.

"Hey, thanks back there, what's your name?" Oki asked Kouji.

Kouji came over and looked down at Mamori. His eyes half closed, he stared down at Mamori.

"Kouji…" Mamori said in a whisper. The three boys had been startled, not knowing Mamori would still be awake.

"You shouldn't talk you have to…" but John was cut short as Mamori started to speak again.

"Can you two…leave us alone for a while?" Mamori asked. Oki and John looked at eachother.

"Alright" They said in synch. Both stood up and walked away, Oki sort of limping as he walked, a bit of blood coming down his neck, although he showed no signs of pain.

Kouji walked over to the bank and sat down. He stared out at the lake.

After a few minutes he finally asked,

"So when did you plan on telling me you were a wolf?" He asked, his tail curled around his body as he sat there. Mamori stared at the ground for a while longer. Finally, she struggled to her feet and faced the other way.

"I…I wasn't" Mamori replied. Kouji's gaze shifted downwards. "You were never suppose to find out about this. I was thinking that if you didn't know, then you wouldn't be in any danger." Mamori added.

Kouji didn't know how to respond to her response. "Why though?" He finally asked. "Why did you go this far for me? To try and save me even though you were told to kill me, risking your own life to save mine. Why?" He asked, standing up and turning around towards her.

Mamori stayed in her spot, her gaze shifted to the sky. "My mother loved humans." Kouji made a confused face, as he didn't know why she was going to bring her mother into the conversation. He waited for her to continue.

"She was always so different from the pack. The wolf mate she was with was not really her true love. She had fallen in love with a human boy, but the clan wouldn't allow it and told her she would be punished if she was caught with this man, but she didn't listen." Mamori got up and walked over to the bank, a few feet away from Kouji.

He looked over at her, waiting for her to continue. Eyes filled with interest, mouth a bit open showing the tips of his fangs. Their pelts, being brushed by the small wind that passed through the white bare trees. Mamori kept a steady gaze on the lake, golden eyes half closed.

"She had run off with the human to some place called Japan and had me and my brother, Ichigo" Mamori had said, trailing off.

Kouji knew the pain of not having a mother. As he had though he mother died, but was lucky, because he found his brother Kouichi. Although, Mamori seems not to be as lucky.

"When I was born, my mother and father were killed in a fire. After that, it was just me and my brother. We had no home so traveled across the lands even at our young age, not knowing of our wolf powers. Although we had found we could last for a month without food or water and run without stop all day long. We faced against so much together, until we were tooken in by the pack that our mother use to live in."

"How did you get across the ocean?" Kouji asked.

"That? That was easy, we just stored away on a ship." Mamori said laughing abit. Kouji's face did not change.

Mamori went on.

"Anyway, as we grew up with the pack, we had learned how to transform, as our mother did not teach us. The older we got, the stronger we grew. He was older though meaning he was stronger. We would always argue, but always made up, until that night, when I lost him…" Mamori said. Kouji's eyes widened with shock. Mamori turned her head to the side away from Kouji.

"We had gotten into a fight. I told him that he shouldn't bring a human to the pack. Humans were weaklings after all. They were useless creatures that killed for sport, killing our comrades off by the dozen. He said I was wrong and told me not to be acting like I wasn't a human. I would be just as cold hearted as they were if I thought like I did. I got mad and started a fight with him, we both fought, but he threw me down showing me he was still stronger. We are half-breeds. Not human, nor wolf. We are the ones who should no better than any of them that humans and wolves can live in harmony if they just put aside their guns and fangs. Their differences would not matter if they could only open their eyes. Why can't you? Were his last words to me before he left." Kouji sat their in silence, staring at Mamori.

"He had brung the human to our pack, which was a bad idea because the human was a hunter. The pack members were able to get away, but just barely. When he had come back to the pack, he was punished then banished for showing his human companion the wolves. They told me he had been killed by the hunter in his wolf form, just a few days after he was banished." Mamori said tilting her ears back, flattening them against her head as she closed her eyes.

"I never trusted humans again, but, when you came, doing research on wolves to help protect them, I-I just never knew a human like you who could think like you do. What was more is that my brother said I was chosen to do something no other half breed was able or meant to do."

Mamori looked over at Kouji with a bit of a peaceful sincere look in her eyes. Kouji turned away a bit, blushing, but it was noticeable luckily.

"Ah how sweet, a mutt and a pitiful excuse for a wolf have fallen in love." A familiar evil voice said, lyrics low and scratchy. Mamori and Kouji turned their heads around looking back at the same blue and yellow eyed, indigo wolf from before. Mamori growled angrily at the wolf.

"Dan…you should be one to talk, you transformed into a wolf using the forbidden power of the northern lights…I'll rip you to shreds with my fangs you bastard!" Mamori growled angrily. Mamori stood up, her tail held high, she puffed up, looking even more fearsome than ever before.

"Wait mamori your too weak, you can't fight an impossible battle!"

"Shutup!" Mamori growled at Kouji.

"He's the hunter who killed my brother, he won't get away with this" A red aura glowed around Mamori, her cuts healing faster than before, her strength returning. Kouji's eyes widened, his jaw dropped at the sight. When the process was done, the aura faded and Mamori was back to her normal self again.

"Ah it seems I was not the only one using the forbidden power, only yours is from the twilight hours of the sky. Kouji, your power of light will soon be mine to use to open the gates of the heavens…" He replied. Kouji gasped, Mamori's eyes narrowed.

"My power?" Kouji was in a confused state, not knowing his power was what the wolves seeked.

"Of course Mamori, you already knew this, and is to why I must kill you, because of your sworn duty…" Kouji shot a glance towards Mamori.

"She knew all this time...why didn't she tell me she knew?!" Kouji's mouth was open, his eyes wide with shock.

"I knew yes, but I did not tell you because if I told you, you would of left. If you left, then I would not be able to protect you…This is my destiny, to protect you Kouji Minamoto!" Mamori ran at Dan, full power, her fangs clenched tightly together as she went in for the attack, mouth opening, fangs shimmering in the now dusk light, the northern lights shinning above their heads.

He growled right back, an evil smirk appearing on his face, his grin widened when she was coming in for the attack. He ran back towards her, both attacking at the same time, landing on opposite sides. Kouji could only watch as the two went at it, until it was not before long he shook out of his shock and ran in to help Mamori!

"STOP Kouji!!!" Mamori growled between her fight with Dan. Kouji slid to a stop.

"You must get away! You have to get away from Dan! It's the only way my life will be of any use! Just as long as your safe then I don't care about my own life!" Kouji hated that she was risking her life for him.

"I can't leave you!" Kouji yelled out of nowhere. He didn't expect himself to say that, but it was true.

"Just go kouji! Please!" Mamori yelled towards him. Kouji narrowed his eyes, he nodded once and took off up towards the hill. Dan's eyes widened.

"NO!!" Dan growled loudly.

He clamped his mighty jaws down on Mamori! He bitten her on the back of her shoulders and sliced her fur with his fangs as she hit a rocky wall, falling to the ground as quickly as she was hit. Dan pushed his paw down on shoulder blade and opened his jaws.