Hai, Hai I'm back once again for another update for this story. I'm really sorry I haven't done POFD yet cause I know I said I would make a chapter for it WAY BEFORE I was gonna write this story. I just can't help it, this is the most fun I've had writing an OC character story since my fairy tail OC story I made a while back ago that was really good.
Yes I got a question already about weather Kagome is coming into the story, yes she is otherwise her name wouldn't be in the character input now would it? They are coming along, I was thinking of doing a chapter of them but it would be an unimportant chapter; probably like a character fill in to show that, yes they are involved in the story and not just hinted at as coming around since I brought in the obvious demons that are involved around the time in the series where Kouga and his pack are introduced.
They will come, I'm telling you this now, they'll either be here 1 or 2 chapters away from this new chapter. As I already said this chapter will be split between povs so try to keep up as much as you possibly can cause it will be a great chapter!
If I don't say this now I will surely break
As I'm leaving, the one I want to take
Forgive the urgency but hurry up and wait
My heart has started to separate
Oohh ooh, be my baby
Ohhhhh
Oohh oohh, be my baby
I'll look after you
There now, steady love
So few come and don't go
Will you, won't you be the one I'll always know
When I'm losing my control, the city spins around
You're the only one who knows you slow it down…
Look after you-The fray
Prevoiusly in the story:
"Kouga help! She's heading for a waterfall!"…
"-She's getting closer to the drop!"…
"I need you to trust me got it?" .."Y-yes!"…
"You ok?-" …
"AAAAAH!"… "-Your in no condition to walk yet!"…
"G-go away! Y-your not human!" …
"Well, I have no idea WHAT you are, WHERE I am, all I know is that I was DRAGGED down through my swimming pool by a Kraken and somehow I survived."…
"-You reek of blood! You killed Uzukaza"…
"Where the hell am i?"…
"Annie's the name. We saw the Chief bring you in-" …
"Your wolf demon's aren't you-….
"What do they call you?"... "Natalia. Natalia Fujimoto-…
"-I am fine on. My. Own!"…
"W-what are they?"... "No time! We have to flee before they find us!"…
"Those demons are called the Birds of Paradise-…
"Theres… a spare room… if... you want… to stick around…?" …
"REALLY?" …
"-Your strong, like a wolf, just like the rest of us."…
Now on to the chapter please enjoy~
Chapter 3: Life goes on…
Tavera's POV
4 months later
I gaze out the back window at the accursed swimming pool, the one thing I've always hated even before what happened 4 months ago… it's been 4 months since Talia's vanishing incident in the pool. The whole thing hit global once my parents found out.
"Still watching the pool?" A voice says over my shoulder. I look over my almond curtain of hair to see Jacob, Natalia's so called 'side-kick' or what I used to call him.
"Jacob… what are you doing here?" I ask once again. Since Talia's friends found out about her vanishing, they've always come by hoping that she pops out of the pool once more. They've almost lost hope since the passing of these 4 months, and I couldn't blame them, even mom and dad have already lost hope that their honey-comb daughter would return.
His face has aged greatly within the 3 months, he's got worrylines now and looks much older. The grief is hard on everyone but majoritly on him because he was the closest to her besides Allie.
"Same old. Still watching the pool?" He takes a seat beside me by the window love seat. I prop my head on my elbow and gaze outside at the pool. When I had first told Jacob and the band of dorks what happened to Natalia they were stunned and horrified.
Zara had crumpled into a mess on the floor with Allie trying to hold her beautiful cousin together while Marko also broke down along with the two girls. Westen and Jacob were just crushed, I had started to cry when the grief was too much in the main room and cried into Westen who was super quiet.
Since then, Natalia's friends became mine as well, as we all hope and prayed for her safe return from where ever she was. "I hope she's ok… where ever she is." I sighed my eyes mositening yet again today.
Jacob gives me a broken smile. "I hope she's safe and happy. Who knows, maybe our world lost her, but some other place gained her wonderful cheerful disposition."
I crack a smile as I look up at him, his hair half covering his eyes. "You sound insane you know that right?" I laugh at him as the door opened to reveal the rest of the gang. Westen and Allie came straight over to us and gave us a kiss. Jacob hugs Allie into his side as Westen picks me up and puts me in his lap as Zara and Marko walk over and sit on the ends of the love seater.
Things have became different with Natalia gone, with her words of wisdom from that day gave me the courage to ask Westen out a few weeks ago after we went on a few dates. Jacob finally looked towards Allie and the two started dating, they looked beautiful together especially since Allie had a secret adoration for Jacob long before.
Life has also been difficult without her. I wish things had been different between us, that I hadn't picked on her all the time and acted like a normal older sister. I want to redo things with her if she's ever able to come home.
I sniffle as I lean my head against Westen's chest and played with the locks peeking out from under his baseball cap. Allie, who had taken a seat in her own boyfriend's lap, reaches her hand over and holds my other hand in comfort. Zara and Marko eventually hold onto each other, mostly trying not to break down crying like every time they come over.
Zara sniffles but it's a deep sniffle, like she was suffering from a runny nose. "C-can we pray for her?" Her voice breaks halfway as the words pile out of her mouth. Marko rubs her back while she cuddles into his polo blue shirt.
I take note of what they're wearing. Westen has on a light green jacket with a black shirt under it and grey jeans. Jacob wore a japan t-shirt that had a few more colors to it than it normally would and capri shorts. Allie wore mini shorts and a tank shirt that cuts off at her mid-section. Zara wore similar but with a mini skirt. Marko had a brown polo on with kaki shorts.
I could hear how silent the room or rather, the whole house was. It didn't help with the fact that Natalia would take up the silence with boastful attitude and egnima.
She may have had a bad childhood with being picked on for being called a dog girl and having those weird wolf-like dogs follow her to school every day for years, but it never brought her down nor her level of optimisium, which was always infectious.
I cover my face with my hands and quietly sob, but my lasts thoughts are hopeful and genuine. "Be safe, where ever you are Talia. Just know your home is here and we miss you bunches. So come home if you can…"
Allie squeezes my hand as sono all of them are sniffling or even sobbing into each other. Only Talia is able to bring her friends and I together in her absence. Heh, how ironic. If only she could see this right now she'd think we'd lost our minds.
A/N: Now time for Kouga's POV. I know Tavera's wasn't long but it didn't need to be to show the effects of her sister's absence left on her and their friends which brought them together for support. It didn't need to say anything else. Now onto Kouga's pov!
Kouga's pov
4 months later (from her entrance into the Feudal Era)
"Man, that girl could be mistaken for a wolf demon!" Nero quips as He, Ginta, Hokaku and I watch Talia run across the woods and even through the trees. She must have wolf blood in her somewhere to be able to do all these things which she told me before that she's never done before, how she's not outdoorsy or athletic either.
"Chief!" She calls, hanging from one of the higher branches in a 15 foot tall tree. My gaze slowly goes up the tree and stops at her waving hands in front of her, her legs supspending her body to the thick branch. "How'd I do this time?" She calls loudly, her voice carrying even without her cupping her mouth over her hands.
I chuckle slightly at this. I would be a dirty lying dog if I said that I've grown fond of the boastful she-wolf. I have to call her that because what she did in under 3 minutes is much faster than any human ever done before. She had ran down the mountain and climb up the 15 foot tree.
I call back over to her. "Nice one, Talia! You made it around 1 minute 12 seconds!" I gave her an exact time since Ginta was counting the seconds off and that's what he came up with. The she-wolf howls with giddiness and joy as she pulls herself up off the branch and jumps down each branch to get to the bottom.
Honestly, I never thought she'd make it so far as a wolf demon even though she's just a human girl. She's adapted well besides the obvious factor, her speed is amazingly fast to even keep up with me, even her fighting has done well. She's so much like a wolf that her not even being a demon is hardly noticable by anyone in the tribe anymore.
"She's very fast, Kouga. She almost beat your record." Ginta whistles as the honey hair she-wolf wanders over to our small group. Her eyes light up when she hears Ginta's words. "Really? I almost beat Chief's record?" The she-wolf squeals when Ginta nods and jumps up and down with excitement. Man, just watching her makes me sleepy and ready to curl up for a nap.
"Chief! How bout a race? Please?" She begs me as I start to lay on my back to watch the clouds. "Talia, you just rans down a mountain and climbed the tallest tree in the facinity of our territory, yet your still not tired?" Hokaku exclaims, sweat runs down his face.
"Yup!" Talia dead pans, her voice sounds like the cross between a mouse squeaking and a bird chirping, it's almost like a melody. "You need to rest." I sit back up and pat her on the head lightly. Talia gives me a questionable look. I meet her gaze and stare until she huffs and sits down completely with her legs crossed over each other.
"Okay, Chief…" She pouts slightly which makes me pat her head again, this time one of her eyes closes automatically. "What did I say about you calling me 'Chief'?" She poutes even further at this. I bonk her on the head this time. "Baka, why you pouty?" The she-wolf just smirks which leaves me wondering, what she always smiles at.
"No reason." She inputs. Today her hair has a lighter glow while being in a side pointy tail, which I never figure out why she likes it that way. "Tali!" I look up to see Annie and Yukaza, her fem-wolf friends. Annie grins as she almost skips over to us with Yukaza keeping up in the rear. Yukaza has long and I mean long mahogany colored hair with sideswiped bangs which complement her gray/bluish eyes.
"Yukaza, Annie!" The two girls soon going our group as we all chatted up. Nero has this sideswiped hair kind of look but it's more unkept and yet it doesn't look like a complete mess at the same time. His build is about the same as mine yet he always wants to do better. Matching all of that up with sea green eyes as well.
I don't take my eyes off of Talia to know these things about my family. Talia, which we all later found out, isn't even from this time. It was quite the show when we found out.
6 weeks ago
"Where are you from, Talia?" A much older wolf by the name of Genfuki asked one night during dinner. Talia looked hesitant and tries to put her words in a careful meaning. "I'm not from around here."
"How could you be not from around here if you ended up in that river?" Hokaku asks, his voice full of dismay. Talia looks down and away from everyone. "I'm…not from this time… which ever time this is." She says her voice dropping as she speaks.
"What!?" All the wolves cried out while I had nearly choked on a chunk of boar meat. The girl nods slightly.
Pretty soon Tali was swarmed with questions. "whats it like?" "what do they wear?" all those simple questions. Talia begins to tell us all about her time, how 'school' works, what transportation is used, what they wear and how the world looks in particular.
I couldn't believe how that one incident in her swimming pool has gotten her landed here. There must be something about her. I would ask her later on the subject. Talia still continued to pester me about racing her as the day went on into the mid afternoon and the rest of our little group headed off back to the cave. Talia and I just soaked in the sun as much as we could.
"Hey, Talia." I ask while I was laying on my back in the grass. "Hmm?" She hums not taking her eyes off the clouds. "What did you mean before when you said kids called you 'Dog girl'?" I was curious about that factor ever since she mentioned it and how she had blood on her nails with no wound.
"It's because they said I smelt like a dog of sorts, they didn't know which one. Why do you ask?" She looks over at me, curiosity fills her spring green eyes which matches the shade of grass we are laying on.
"You mention that dogs would follow you to school?" I point out as well. She nods. "They looked like wild dogs, they reminded me of wolves and that's how I got invested with them." I blink my eyes in realization.
"She was followed to school by wolf-like dogs, smelt like them, had killed Uzukaza where the blood came from on her nails and why she reeked of blood. There's no way she could be-." "Chief-?" She says to me. "Chief? You ok?" I blink my eyes again and look over at her.
"I'm ok, Talia." I give her a semi-fake smile. I start to get up which she does as well and we both head back towards the caves. Luckily for me, Talia gets pulled aside by her friends which leaves me to talk to the elder who was staying with us for the time being.
"Genfuki? Genfuki!" I urge at the sleeping elder wolf after I entered his room. "Wha-?" He wakes with a start and looks at me. "Oh, Kouga-san. What brings you here, child?" He greets me kindly as he normally does. I bow my head in respect as I sit in front of him.
"You seemed troubled, young Alpha." He inquires depicting my nerves. I nod my head. "Yes, Genfuki. I think I've found something unknown even to Natalia herself." Genfuki nods as he cleans his glasses on his fur sleeve. "What is it that involves Dear Natalia?"
"it's not what involves her…more like a secret that was hidden from her." I reply, Genfuki runs a hand through his light aging gray hair which still has its original color to it. "Go on, son." He insists. I clear my throat and meet his calm brown eyes.
"I fear that she may not be Human like she says she is." I state which makes Gefuki's eyebrows raise. "What makes you say that, Young Alpha?" His mouth quirks into a semi smile. I look away for a second to breath before looking at the elder wolf.
"She told me she was made fun of for smelling like a wild dog. Wild dogs would follow her to school, dogs that weren't the size of actual dogs. She reeked of blood and had blood under her nails after I pulled her out of the river." Genfuki hums in acknowledgement of the possibilities.
"She just may, but if I were you Kouga, I would observe her especially if she gets into danger and watch how she reacts to getting out of danger. Like our kind, we have a instinct that protects us in a time of crisis, but that comes out even more when our life is being threatened.
"If you truly believe that Natalia had killed Uzukaza the Demon Kraken with her bare hands, then observe her and do it well. If she does react like one of our kind would, then her inner instincts are being sealed to an extent." I bow my head once more to the elder wolf. "I shall do my best to observe her and find out if it's true."
Genfuki bows in return to me. "I know you shall, Young Alpha. But remember this, if she is, do not tell her. If you do, she may lose herself. We have to handle this safely in order to keep her mind in tact and not to drive her into insanity because of what she can do."
Xxx.
I sit on top of the ledge and look down at all the wolf demons. I smirk when I see all the children playing around with Natalia. She was teaching them new games, ones that she played back in her time. The pups are smart so they learn them very quickly as I notice. I hop down from the ledge and walk over to her. "What you teaching them this time?" I saw that the pups were against the wall while Talia was standing a few feet away.
"Teaching them Red light, Green light. Wanna play?" She asks me. The little pups all cheer and beg. "Please, Alpha." "Play with us, please?" I groan at their insesive begging and I cave after a minute. "All right, how do you play?" Talia claps her hands together and hops on her feet. "You'll like this game, it's about speed but you can't use your demon speed you have to walk quickly over to me. Here's how it goes, you stand over there with the children.
"When I say 'Green light' you make your way over to me by walking quickly. When I say 'Red light' you have to stop in your tracks, no matter if your about to take a step or not. The first person to touches my hand wins and the role gets switched." Alright it sounds simple enough. "Ok, let's play." I walk over and stand beside one of the pups.
"Everyone ready!" We all nod as Talia starts calling out signals for us to respond to. This goes on for a while and soon even the older wolves played along to the point Talia had to bring in another game which is one kids play in her time called Simon says. This game is more thought out because Natalia can have us do anything mostly body movements. It's also tricky because you have to be listening to what she says cause unless she says 'Simon says', your out of the game.
As the mid-afternoon draws into night time things quiet down. Talia actually made the pups so tired, they passed out before dinner was even ready. "I didn't think about how quick little ones get tired. I should've stopped after the first game." She sweat drops.
"Nah your good, I think it's good that the pups can get some energy burned off." Ginta points out as he tears apart a chunk of meat from the random animal the hunting party got. I nod as well. Things maybe different within the pack, but many things also haven't been settled.
I heard rumors about the Shikon Jewel coming back into this world and that it was shattered. They had been true when almost 3 weeks ago Talia and I went out in the woods and came across a lowly demon, one that shouldn't even be a threat for Talia. Talia had attacked it and got thrown back because of its strength. We both attacked it together and killed it. It had two jewel shards in it.
"What are those, Chief?" Talia had asked me when I picked up the jewels. I showed them to her in my hands. "Their jewel shards, they have an amazing power to them." She looked up at me from the shards. "Is that why that demon was so strong?" I nodded to her at her quizitive nature. She thought for a moment before gasping. "You should use them, Chief!" The honey she-wolf grasped my hands which held the shards and held them in her grip along with my hands. I flustered at this action she's never done before.
"If you use them, we'll be able to defeat the Birds of Paradise!" She urged as I had laughed at her ethusiasium. I saw her point now, if I used them we could be rid of thos demon birds.
xxx…
I look down at my legs where the jewel shards are at, this will help with my speed even though I'm faster than anyone in the pack other than Natalia. I look over at her while she was talking with Yukaza and Annie, her smile is blinding like a personal sunset.
Natalia blinks and looks my way a smile slowly forming on her face when she sees its me. "Chief, get over here!" She whines which makes me smile. One thought runs through my mind as I walk over to her small group. "I know one thing for sure, I'll never regret having her stay with us."
Annnnnd done! Wow, can't believe I've finished off another chapter just a few days after the last one.
Just so you all know I'm not following the norm for the next chapter which involves the Birds of Paradise and the next being when Kagome and the crew come in. it will go how I think it should plus you guys will enjoy what I have instore for you.
I've already set up an idea of Natalia getting into a verbal fight with Inuyasha when they first meet the group which will be hilarious especially cause Natalia can be over the top sometimes but's more on how I see it if it's different to you then that's fine.
Everything is gonna go how I explained in an earlier chapter so don't worry thank you all so much for reading please review and have a great day :D