Author's Note; I'm sorry about the wait with this update- I lost the suff I'd written. but I found it today and now that I'm on summer holidays, I think I'll be updating a bit quicker, lol!! I want to say thanks to everyone who's kept this fic going with their reviews; thanks everyone, it really does mean the world to me!!

"I don't…can't believe it's actually you…You were that blond wolf at the last city, weren't you?…Karasuke?"

Upon hearing this, the seventeen year old looked back from where she had just stolen a glance around the corner of an old building. Still breathing a little heavy due to having run a bit, the young woman nodded her burgundy tresses, knowing exactly who this new person was, despite her tanned skin and dark hair- her forever cerulean eyes were truly unmistakable, even in human form.

"Long time no see, Blue…"

"You recognize me?"

The shock in her soft voice was obvious and caused the teenager to smirk slightly at the subsequent dubious look upon the older female's face but it had been years since they'd last seen each other, albeit during calmer times and a more pleasant setting. With a nod of her head and a slight smile, Karasuke answered.

"I always knew you were part wolf…is pops with you?"

The awkwardness with which she pronounced the word "pops" was all too much testament that she hadn't planned on asking the question- it had just more or less been blurted out before even occurring to her.

"He…he disowned me when he found out I had wolf-blood. Karasuke…I thought you died when Kyrios…"

Blue trailed off as the young woman she could well-remember as a small child shook her burgundy tresses whilst sitting down on the cracked remnants of what used to be a low wall. The seventeen-year-old sighed heavily as her eyes seemed to become unfocused…when she spoke, her young voice was unbelievably heavy with guilt beyond her years, illustrating just how much of a puzzle her mind was to even herself as she squinted, desperately trying to sort out the shards and fragments of memories that'd been floating about in her mind for years now.

"I tried to go back for Ruse, but the heat- it burned…I got to the house, but Mama pushed me away and told me to find Pops…she went back into the house to get Ruse and then the roof came down…they screamed so loud…and I…I can't remember anything after that- but Mama gave me this when she pushed me away."

Karasuke reached under her top and pulled out the now life-battered and tarnished gold locket, with the initials "R.Y." engraved elegantly into its simple surface. Rasika Yaiden had been the only mother she'd ever known- a modest woman with hazel hair and overall, plain in looks. She was nothing amazingly beautiful, and yet she had raised the small girl as her own and never once even thought of the child as anything else than her own daughter.

"You should let Pops know you're alive…"

These words, spoken by Blue, were successful in snapping the teenager back to reality…trawling her back out of her remorseful memories. With her striking emerald irises alight with stern stubbornness, the foundling shook her head defiantly.

"No way! You've been with him- you know he hunts us!"

"But he doesn't know you're-"

"A wolf? Exactly- he doesn't know, Blue…he never knew. I can jut imagine the reunion conversation; Hi Pops, I'm alive and guess what? I'm a wolf, yeah the same as the ones you've been trying to kill. You don't shoot and I won't bite, how about it, huh- no hard feelings?…I don't think so…"

The cold sarcasm was heavy in the last part of the mock statement as the girl remained adamant about hiding from her father…what else could she do? Maybe it would be better if he never knew…he'd get over her dying but to tell him that she'd been the wolf to bite him…that she'd attacked him?

"You're the old dude's daughter?"

At the sound of naïve voice she immediately recognised as Toboe's, Karasuke spun around to see the four lads to be standing and looking at her with a renewed interest; a couple of new scrapes and the odd bruise or two told of their little brawl with the three men. The four just smirked as they looked at her; life hadn't been even a small bit boring since she'd joined the pack- there was always something new to learn about her and the puzzle of Karasuke just seemed to become more and more intriguing as the days passed. Tsume flashed a smug smile as he spoke in an amused voice.

"So…if you're a wolf, is he?"

"I'm not his real daughter- I'm adopted!"

At the sound of the cold statement, Blue felt her loyalty blowing back into life as she purposefully stood to her feet and walked forward, stopping as she pulled even with her master's little gilr who was once smaller than her, yet now met her; equal in height…illustrating just how much they both had changed since their lives in Kyrios.

"Real or not, it never mattered to him…Pops think he's lost his whole family. He treated you like a daughter, Karasuke- at least have the heart to treat him like a father and tell him you're alive."

The Latino-looking woman then placed her hands deep within the pockets of her tied trench coat and, having said her piece, walked on with her head held high; straight through the four dubious young males as Cheza hummed absently to herself; the child had been preoccupied since the every beginning of the conversation between Blue and Karasuke.

A single tear rolled slowly down the seventeen-year-old's cheek as she suddenly felt overwhelmingly disgusted with herself…but how was she supposed to tell a man who had loved her as his own that his adorable, innocent little girl was one of the race he so relentlessly despised?

As he heard the clicking sound, followed by a metallic sliding, Hige acted fast and moved sideways, pulling the new female with him, just as a bullet whizzed past and ricocheted off of a wall, with new people approaching from around the corners, obviously having been biding their time.

Panic ensued as the armour rang bells of memory…Jaguara seemed adamant in reclaiming Cheza…how could they have found them here? They'd sidetracked and travelled in as abstract a pattern as they could and her troops still managed to find them…it was almost like they were being tracked, but that was impossible…

Evading the bullets was easy enough in her true form, but the thing Karasuke hadn't been counting on came as she saw one of the guards holding a cloth over Cheza's mouth…the girl's eyes dimming as the chloroform took effect.

"Kiba!"

The white wolf was already on his way to the Flower Maiden when she called to him… troop was soon cut down to size…but the blond wolf of the back, with almost transparent eyes seemed to waver as she felt an unbeatable tiredness take hold of her….and then blackness…just the same as Cheza; the only thing she saw was the white blossoming flower and the innocent voice.

"This one now understands…this one has hurt you…this one is sorry you are the key…"

A/n- Well, let me know what you thought, please!! XxxxxxxxxxxxxX