"Kiba…"
"Cheza? Is that you? I can't see you.."
"That's because you're not the one."
"Who are you? Name yourself!
"Give time, you'll find out sooner or later.
"Do you have Cheza?"
"Maybe."
"Tell me now!"
A scream echoed, and Kiba's eyes snapped open as he quickly sat up. Seeing nothing but his friends Tsume, Toboe, Hige and Blue, he sighed, relaxing and ran a hand through his hair.
Similar dreams plagued Kiba night and even day. If they had been the same, he'd have no need to wake, but they always found a way to change to keep him awake, always dark, always the same voices.
"Again?" A hard voice asked. Kiba lowered his hand and raised his head to see Tsume eyeing him.
"Yeah.." Kiba muttered softly, looking down towards the ground.
"You're not getting any funny ideas about them, are you?" He asked, almost annoyed.
"What do you mean by that?"
"You don't think they are like, omens, or anything?"
Kiba fell silent.
"You can't be serious. Kiba!"
"Then you explain why these dreams keep repeating every time I fall asleep." Kiba spoke sternly as he turned his icy-blue eyes onto Tsume, cold.
"You said they change each time!"
"They do, but all of them basically lead to the same meaning."
"Man, do you two hate sleep or what?" Hige intruded as he sat up, yawning. Toboe had also woken up, rubbing his eyes as Blue peered over Hige's shoulder.
"Sorry." Kiba told them as Tsume turned his head away defiantly.
"You didn't get any sleep again, did you?" Toboe asked as he leaned forward a bit.
"No." Kiba answered plainly.
"Well, you're Kiba, I'm sure you can handle it," Hige spoke as he folded his hands behind his head, lying down, "If it were me I'd go crazy."
"I'd say he already is…" Tsume growled. Kiba looked over at him and glared daggers.
"What do you think they mean Kiba?" Blue poked as she crawled over and sat next to Toboe, not too far from Kiba. Tsume rolled his eyes.
"Whenever my dream begins, it's dark. I can't see anything. Then Cheza calls my name. I call back, but I always get a different voice, a male voice. The things he tells me, sometimes don't make sense. Like tonight, when I asked Cheza why I couldn't see her, he said it's because I'm not 'the one'." Kiba fell into a thoughtful silence.
"And?" Blue persisted, both her and Toboe leaning forward a bit like kids at story time.
"I think that it means Cheza is hidden somewhere, and that's why I can't see her. I don't know what he means by 'the one', but I have the idea that he means someone is, well, the answer to finding Cheza." He finished.
"I think that's a load of crap." Tsume barked.
"Maybe, maybe not. I just have an odd feeling about them." Kiba said.
"You have an 'odd feeling' about a lot of things."
"And how many of them have been wrong?"
Tsume growled in silence as he knew he had lost that fight.
"It does make sense, in a way…" Hige spoke up.
"So what's the plan?" Blue questioned.
"There is no plan. There isn't anything we can do right now." Kiba explained as he got up and looked out the cave entrance.
"We're going to sit around here and do nothing?" Tsume howled with anger.
"What can be done, Tsume? We have no leads." Kiba responded calmly.
"So we travel around aimlessly until your so-called 'omens' tell us what to do?"
"Got any other ideas?"
Tsume fell into another angry silence.
"Kiba," Toboe intervened as he yawned. "What about you? You need sleep too you know…"
"I'm fine. You guys stay here and rest, I'm going to see how far it is to the next town." Allowing his wolf form to be seen, the white wolf ran off into the snow, and it didn't take long before he was out of sight.
((Author's note: For now, italic either means thoughts, dreams, or flashbacks, or a word spoke in a different way.. Like, sneered or something. Anyway, thanks for coming and reading! I hope you like it. :3 It shall be updated again soon~ Sorry it's so short to begin with.))