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**Pack Born**

I see nothing. I can't seem to open my eyes, or...have I gone blind? My head hurts. Whats wrong with me? What happened?

Oh. Right. We were fighting the wolves, protecting the human. I think... Bankotsu screamed my name...but then what? I remember, blood, and the smell of something burning. There was blood everywhere, both my own and that of my enemy. My head felt like it exploded shortly after I defeated the other wolf.

"Kagome?" I hear someone calling me. Who is that? "Kagome? Kagome! Come on, stay with us Kaggie." Suikotsu. That's Suikotsu's voice, So I can't be dead. Unless...He died in battle too!

"Hey!" another voice joined in, Bankotsu, I realized, "I think I saw her nose twitch!" Oh no, did he die too?

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah I'm sure."

"Maybe she's coming too. Hey, Kagome." I felt the unmistakable feel of Suikotsu's muzzle nudge my head. The gesture felt like needles poking at my brain.

"Stop it." I groaned out, "It hurts." once I spoke, they both let out a loud cheer.

"She's alive!"

"She's okay!" However, I did not appreciate the loud noise assaulting my aching head. So I finally opened my eyes to confront them. Well, I supposed this means I'm alive, I thought wearily as I looked up at Bankotsu and Suikotsu's grinning faces and rolled over so that I laid on my stomach, head between my front paws.

"What happened?" I groaned out.

"HE happened." Bankotsu growled, gesturing with his head behind him. There was the human we saved, He was sitting there, trembling under the tree with his arms wrapped around his legs and his short, chopped brown hair covering most of his face as he mumbled strange words.

"Whats wrong with him?" I asked, finally getting up and shaking the dirt off my fur, then winced at the pain it caused me.

"Well," Suikotsu started innocently, "After you finished off the other wolf, the human thought that we were going to go after him, so he hit you on the head with the damn burning stick he had and so-"

"I bit him." Bankotsu finished rather cheerfully, even adding a little jump at the end.

"Yes, and, well, we growled at him until he put out the stick and threw it away and he sat down started whimpering like a newborn pup, mumbling about god knows what, we can't seem to make sense of the words. We've been waiting for you to wake up since technically, he is your human and thought that you wouldn't appreciate us killing him." I stared at the human and walked closer to him. He saw me moving towards him and flinched away, trying to move further into the tree, as if willing it to swallow him. I listened to the words he was saying.

"He's saying...something about failing his mission...and that master is going to be mad..." I told them, not really thinking about what I was saying.

"You understand what he's saying?" Bankotsu yelped. I turned around to look at their faces, their eyes etched with worry.

"Yeah, why? Can't you?"

"Kagome," Suikotsu stepped forward a bit, "are you sure you understand what he's saying?"

"Or did you get hit in the head harder than we thought?" if not for the seriousness in Bankotsu's voice, I would have called him a jerk.

"I may have gotten hit in the head, but I am still capable of knowing words when they are spoken!" I growled at them. They both looked at each other and then went to stand by my side, and strained their ears, trying to hear the human's words. Bankotsu gave a frustrated sigh.

"I don't understand a single word he's saying."

"Nor can I." Suikotsu admitted.

"But," I started, clearly distressed that only I could understand the words of the human, "he's clearly talking about his mission and the anger of his master!"

"But Kagome-" Suikotsu started, worry laced in his voice.

"He's talking in the human language." Bankotsu finished for his brother. I took a step back from the human in shook, realizing that the human couldn't be speaking wolf if my pack brothers couldn't hear them. But, there is no such thing as a 'human' language! They communicate with strange noises and body movements, I remembered from my studies as a pup.

"What?! But-but, the elders said that they don't have a language." I stuttered. Even if they did, how would I be able to understand it when they couldn't?

"Yeah, well, they also said that your father was a GREAT alpha, and look at him now." he snorted. I looked away from them and stared back at the human in silence. I couldn't argue with him when he spoke the truth.

"What if the hit to your head did more than we think?" Bankotsu asked. I turned on him and growled.

"Don't even joke about this Bankotsu!"

"I'm serious!" he defended himself, and I could tell that he was.

"How is that even possible?" I asked.

"I don't know, maybe the hit rewired your brain and now you can understand the language?"

"I guess it doesn't matter now," I sighed, "what's done is done."

"So...what now?" Suikotsu asked. We stayed in utter silence for a few moments and I thought about what were supposed to do now. I mean, I didn't really have a plan, just save the human.

"Kagome." Bankotsu called me, I nodded my head to acknowledge him "Can you- I mean..can you talk you back?"

"Yeah, you might be able to communicate with him." Suikotsu agreed wholeheartedly.

"What am I supposed to say to him?" I practically yelled, " 'Hey, listen, I know you hate us wolves and all, but can you help us out?' Yeah, I'm so sure that would work."

"Just try to talk to him." Suikotsu asked me with a sparkle in his eyes. I sighed and stepped a bit closer to the human to try to talk to him, it hopeless to argue with Suikotsu. He could convince you to jump off a cliff if he so choosed. I looked to the human and took the chance to study him further. Recalling my human studies, his cloths seemed a bit odd, we were told that they wore a strong, silver, and almost impenetrable sort of skin around their bodies that was supposed to protect them. This human, however, wore brown, flimsy articles of clothing covering both his top and bottom. He was also dirty: mud, leaves, and twigs stuck to him in various places and there on his left arm was the unmistakeable wound from Bankotsu's jaws. I would have felt sorry for the guy...if it wasn't for the fact that he knocked me unconscious.

"Hey...hey, can you hear me?" I asked softly, not wanting to scare him further. Scared humans tend to do stupid things. The human didn't seem to hear me, he just started mumbling his strange words even louder than before, I looked back at the two brothers.

"It didn't work, I understood what you said and if your talking to the human, I shouldn't be able to. Concentrate on the words hes saying and respond to it." Suikotsu advised, "Concentrate." Huffing in annoyance, I turned back around and listened closely to the words, closing my eyes as I did so. The words sounded rough yet smooth, the punctuation nothing like my own language, yet I understand it. How can I make his words into words of my own? Concentrate...concentrate...

Suddenly, it all seemed to click in my head somehow. Slowly, I opened my mouth to talk.

"Hey. Can you hear me?" the words were foreign on my tongue,but not exactly unwelcome. The words smooth as water and just as flowing. I could hear faint gasps behind me, but my sole focus was on the human, who snapped his head up to look at me, his eyes wide with surprise and fear. His eyes, I thought in amazement, what a pretty shade of green, emerald even. My amazement was ruined when he opened his mouth and screamed.

"Your talking! You can't talk! You can't be talking to me! Go away! Go Away!" his voiced echoed through the thick trees and even startled the birds into flying away, swishing through the treetops. My concentration broke, and I jumped back, unsure of what to do, and both Bankotsu and Suikotsu got into a crouch in front of me. Of course they didn't know that the human screamed out in fear and surprise, and wasn't going to attack me.

"Wait! He understood me! Hes only scared and screamed that I shouldn't be able to talk to him!" I yelled over their growling, which only served to make things worse with the human, "Just, let me calm him down." I told them. Eventually, they stood down and allowed me to approach him again. He shook with such fervor, I was worried if we have scarred him mentally or emotionally. I focused once again, and started talking in the strange language.

"Ssshhh," I soothed, "Its okay, its okay, you're okay. I promise we're not going to hurt you. Do you understand?" It seemed to be working, because he started shaking less and less until it stopped completely. Then he looked up at me. His emerald eyes sparkled with tears as he looked into my own.

"How?" he asked me weakly, voice slightly trembling.

"I don't know." I shook my head, "We think maybe because you hit me too hard in the head and it messed with my brain." His eyes made their way over my shoulder behind me, to Suikotsu and Bankotsu. "They won't hurt you. I promise." and his eyes went to the top of my head. I could only imagine how terrible my fur looked. Matted with blood and dirt, and possibly a bit burned from the fire. I almost cringed at the thought.

"I'm sorry. You and those two were trying to save me from the other ones. The bad ones. And I hit you. I'm sorry." He apologized. I couldn't help but smile at that, he sounded like a pup.

"Its okay. But, we do want to ask you some questions. Is it okay if they come closer?" he nodded. I gestured for them to come closer and they trotted their way over to me and each sat down besides me without saying a word, they seemed to understand my need to keep my concentration in order to keep talking. Keeping my concentration for the language, I started asking questions.

"What is your name?"

"Sho." he answered.

"Nice to meet you, Sho-kun. My name is Kagome. This," I tilted my head to the right, "Is Bankotsu, and this, "Is Suikotsu. They are my pack. Next question, what were you doing here in wolf territory? Don't you know that its dangerous for humans?" For a while he stayed quiet, thinking about how to answer.

"Master told me to come find the plant of Samu. It is a plant that is said to grow only in these parts of the forest and when brewed into a tea, it restores your health. My Master needs this because he is ill and I am afraid that he will die if not given the tea." as he explained, I nodded in understanding, then, a I got an idea.

"Why don't me and my friends help you find the plan? We can't really go back home, they would most likely kill us since we helped a human." Sho looked down again in guilt.

"I'm sorry."

"Its fine, its fine," I assured, "Its all in the past. Nothing we can do to change it now."

"Are you sure you want to help me?" he asked.

"Why not? We don't have anything else to do and leaving you here to defend yourself after we went through the trouble of saving you once is just ridiculous. Besides, we know of the plant your talking about and know where its at. We wolves call it, the healing plant. Not very original, I know, but it gets the point across."

"I cannot thank you enough Kagome-san." Sho then got on his knees and ducked his head. I wasn't sure what he was doing, some sort of weird human custom I suppose.

"Please," I told him, "Call me Kagome."

"Kagome-chan." he responded with a straight face. I felt my eyebrow twitch at his sudden stubbornness, but accepted it nevertheless. Wasn't he shaking in fear non to long ago?

"Right, just follow us. I won't be able to talk to you for a while though," at his confused and hurt look, I explained, "See, I have to concentrate to talk in your language, which means I cant talk to Bankotsu or Suikotsu, but I have to catch them up to speed now."

"Understood Kagome-chan. I am just to follow?"

"Yup. Just follow the wolves!" I responded cheerfully, and he thanked me one more time before I broke concentration and talked to my pack.

"We're going on a short trip guys!" I told them.

"What?" They simultaneously asked. I explained to them the situation. Suikotsu seemed to accept it enough, but Bankotsu did not like the idea. Not one bit.

"What if its a trap. There could be humans there, just waiting to kill us." he said.

"Oh please brother, we're not worth that much that the humans would go out of their way to trap us." Suikotsu rolled his eyes.

"Still."

"Oh come on! Just look at him, he looks so innocent!" I cried.

"Your a sucker for his eyes aren't you?" Bankotsu taunted.

"You know me so well."

"Are we going or not?" Suikotsu pitched in, "It shouldn't take long to get there. Five or ten minuets at the most."

"Fine, lets go. The sooner he gets the healing plant, the faster we can go home."

"Bankotsu..." I started, even I could hear the slight waver in my home, "Where is home?" The two brothers looked at one another, and I could see the guilt in Bankotsu's eyes.

"Lets not worry about that now Kaggie," Suikotsu told me seriously, "We'll help the human and worry about that after, alright?" I slowly nodded but that lumpy feeling in my stomach wouldn't go away. This is my fault. They can't go home now because of me. I'm sorry, I thought to myself, knowing they wouldn't accept a verbal apology.

"Come on," Bankotsu nudged my shoulder, "Lets get going." I looked back at Sho and gestured my head towards the south, signaling that he should follow us now. Sho nodded and stood up on two leggs, using his hands to dust off some of the dirt on him. Lucky, I thought, glancing down at my own dirty coat. Sho was short, I realized, not as tall as I would think a grown human male should be. Bankotsu, also looking at Sho, commented on his size.

"Hes a pup. What do the humans call them? A-a.."

"A child." Suikotsu finished for him.

"Why would they send a pup in the woods? He could have been killed. No wolf would ever knowingly send a young one into a dangerous situation." I said, shell shocked.

"Don't forget Kagome, they're not wolves. They're human." Bankotsu spat in such a way, I could only nod my head so as not to tempt him into saying anything else if I protested.

"Alright then, come one, we're wasting time." Suikotsu began walking in the direction of the field which grew with healing plants, Bankotsu following after him. I waited until Sho was next to me, and we caught up with them. This is going to be a long five to ten minuets, I thought, sensing the tense atmosphere. I looked up at the sky and wondered: when our job was done, where would we go? Will we ever truly find somewhere we can call home? What will happen to father and the pack? I don't like these questions, they take me to a dark place. So instead, I'll think about the soothing thumps of our paws and soft thudding of Sho's feet hitting the ground. The swishing of the leaves overhead, and the calls of nearby animals. For now, I should only think about the present, not the past or the future.

We continued to walk for a while, until finally, after about eight minuets, we reached fields covered in healing plants.

And there is chapter four of Pack Born! What do you think of this one? This is a long chapter, I'm sure, though It sort of felt...off...

*Ahem* Leave a review to tell me what you think of Sho and everything else that has happened so far! Once again I'm sorry for taking so long to update and please remember that when I write the chapters, I do not plan anything ahead of time, I make all of this up as I go.

Thank you for reading chapter three and I hope you tune in next time to read chapter five!