CHAPTER 2
The wolf opened his eyes. He sat up, looking about him. He saw that he was on a bed of hay inside a cave. His hand bumped something and he looked questioningly at the carrot and various berries arranged beside him on a leaf. Then he looked at himself. He saw that someone had tended his injuries after he had collapsed from exhaustion who knows where. And that someone was probably the vegetable-eater standing guard at the entrance of the cave.
"Hey." He called out. The wolf watched amused as the rabbit jumped a bit from having been detected. "Did you bring me here?"
"...Yes." The rabbit replied cautiously.
"...Hmmm..." The wolf stared at the blue eyes of the white rabbit. Then he picked up the carrot beside him, grimacing in distaste. "I can't eat this, you know... I'm a carnivore." He tossed the vegetable to the rabbit.
The rabbit caught the carrot deftly. "I-I know that, b-but..."
The wolf's gaze suddenly turned menacing. "I like stuff like rabbit." His fangs gleamed as he smirked.
"!" The wolf saw a quiver of fear race through the rabbit. But the herbivore didn't break his gaze from the predator. He clutched the carrot in his hands as if it was a weapon. The wolf was impressed. /I have never seen such a brave rabbit.../
The wolf chuckled, bewildering the tense herbivore. "Heh, I was just joking. I don't eat the ones who save me. They are not irrelevant to me."
All the nervousness left the rabbit's form at the wolf's words. He watched, blushing slightly, at the wolf's chuckling face. "My name is Yamato. You are...?" The wolf asked.
"...Hibiki..." The rabbit answered a little timidly. /Why is it that even though he's a wolf... I'm not that scared by him... /
/And why is he so... Beautiful...?/