Wolves Blood
A/N:Thanks for everyone's reviews they make me very happy.
Chapter 13
Afternoon
"Nao, wake up it's time to go." Natsuki said.
Nao grunted she was still tired from the training they had hours before.
"Look I'll strike a deal with you." Natsuki said
"I'm listening." Nao said rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.
"If you can walk till moonrise. I'll let you sleep the rest of the way on my back. Deal?"
Nao yawned and said "Deal." while following Natsuki out the den.
"Took you guys long enough." Kiyo-hime said already in her travel form ready to go with some bags on her back.
"Spider here took forever to wake up." Natsuki explained phasing into her travel form.
"Ara, we should go now the sun is setting pretty fast today." Shizuru said.
"Alright, Let's go." Kiyo-hime said walking towards the woods.
2 hours later
"How's everyone feeling?" Shizuru asked.
"Fine" Kiyo-hime said
"Never better." Natsuki said sarcastically.
"I can feel my feet." Nao groaned.
Everyone laughed at that causing Nao to growl at them. The moon was as fully in the sky when Nao spoke up again.
"Mutt it's time you kept your part of the deal."
"Fine, but don't drool on me." Natsuki said stopping to allow Nao on.
"Don't worry I won't" Nao said as she climbed onto Natsuki's back and leaned forward to get comfy. A few minutes later she was out like a light.
"Wow she is knocked out. No wonder it took forever waking her up." Shizuru said also letting out a giggle as she heard a soft snore coming from the redhead. Natsuki grunted and continued on.
"She isn't that heavy is she?" Kiyo-hime asked looking back at Natsuki.
"Ah, no it's not that it's just she is snoring directly in my ear." Natsuki growled.
Shizuru and Kiyo-hime laughed.
Let's go a little bit faster." Shizuru said breaking out into a slight jog.
Kiyo-hime nodded and speed up.
Natsuki bucked and adjusted Nao and followed close behind Shizuru.
Poison Claw Clan Grounds
Kiyo-hime stopped followed by Shizuru and Natsuki.
"Why did we stop for?" Natsuki asked.
"We are here can't you tell." Kiyo-hime asked.
"No, I don't see anyone." Natsuki said.
Shizuru laughed while Kiyo-hime sighed.
"Natsuki no one should be up other than the guards." Shizuru explained.
"So were going to camp here till sunrise?" Shizuru asked noticing Kiyo-hime lay down after placing down the bags.
"Yup, it's a few hour till sunrise. The guards won't bother us."Kiyo-hime said.
Natsuki gently phased back into her human form and moved Nao to the ground. "Wow she is still asleep." Natsuki said siting next to Shizuru who just phased.
"She's only tired because she isn't used to the way we train is all. Plus she has been through a lot in two days." Shizuru pointed out.
Natsuki scratched the back of her head thinking of all the things she had told Nao the past few days. "I understand what's she going though I guess." Natsuki said pulling Shizuru closer to her causing Shizuru to nuzzle into her.
Natsuki also pulled Nao closer so she wouldn't freak out when she would awaken later. "Let's get some rest everyone." Kiyo-hime said closing her eyes.
Morning
Natsuki felt someone shaking her. 'What the...Who's shaking me?' she thought groaning. Natsuki cracked an eye open to see a smirking Nao and a smiling Shizuru.
"Uh, is it time to get up?" Natsuki asked rubbing her eyes after yawning.
"Yea, come on mutt. We gotta go meet the leaders." Shizuru said helping Natsuki to her feet.
Looking around Natsuki asked "Where's Kiyo-hime?"
"What? Why did she leave?" Natsuki asked feeling confused.
"She can only stay for so long. Since Guardian wolves and Maters are connected if the Master isn't using her energy the guardian will disappear." Shizuru explained.
"Uh. I'm hungry. Shizuru do you have anything to eat?" Nao asked.
"Yea, hold on a minute." Shizuru said pulling a the bag Kiyo-hime was carrying and pulled out pouches of dried meat and berries.
"Here you are." She said passing out the pouches to the eager Nao and sleepy Natsuki.
"Did you eat already?" Natsuki asked biting into the dry yet tender meat.
"Yea, I did wake before you both." Shizuru said.
After breakfast the group started towards a large tree surrounded by other trees. "Whats this?" Natsuki asked.
"This is the poison claw clan grounds." Shizuru answered.
"I don't see anyone. Just a bunch of trees...everywhere." Nao said.
Shizuru just laughed and said "Why don't you guys just go on ahead of me."
Trusting Shizuru, both Natsuki and Nao went ahead of Shizuru just to walk through a barrier. Shocked they both gaped as they saw werewolves passed by some old some young. they both saw werewolves their own age wink over at them and laugh when both of their faces lit up.
"Ara, Still not seeing anything Nao? Natsuki?" Shizuru asked in a teasing voice.
After Shizuru walked passed them Nao turned and whispered to Natsuki while hissing "Mutt! Your girlfriend is evil."
"I know what you mean." Natsuki hissed back, not noticing Shizuru's ear twitching she said "I heard that Nao, Nat-su-ki, and don't worry you haven't seen evil yet.
Both Nao and Natsuki shuddered at Shizuru's last words. A few minutes later the group stopped in front of one of the larger trees.
"Natsuki grab Nao. We are going to have to jump to the top." Shizuru said.
After making sure that Nao was safe enough to jump, Natsuki and Shizuru jumped branch to branch going higher and higher till they were at the top where a Den was located.
The Den was made from the inside of the large tree, the roof was made from leaves and clay.
"Let's go in then." Shizuru said walking toward the doorway.
Natsuki placed Nao down on the branch in front of her and started towards the door behind Nao making sure she wouldn't fall.
Inside they found Shizuru talking to a couple wearing the same type of clothes as Shizuru except a very dark purple were as Shizuru's was Dark red. The one who turned and noticed them was a short brown haired girl and the one still talking to Shizuru had blue hair like Natsuki.
"Hello there. I'm Yumi." The brown haired one said.
"I'm Nao." Nao said bowing slightly.
"I'm Natsuki." Natsuki said also bowing.
"Nice to meet you both. Are you the one Shi-chan was talking about? Yumi asked Nao.
"Yes, I am. Are you the clan leader here?" Nao asked.
"Yes, I am one of the clan leaders. My mate Sachiko is the other leader." Yumi said pointing towards the blue haired female still talking to Shizuru. Upon hearing her name Sachiko turned around and smiled at Yumi.
"Shizuru has told me about your situation Nao. I can assure you we can break the seal. That is if you want us to." Sachiko said.
"Yea, I want the seal off. So I can be with my best friend. Plus it's not like I have anything to return back to." Nao said.
"Alright since your mind is made up we have to check to see if our best healer is available." Sachiko said.
Yumi clapped her hands twice and suddenly a guard with shoulder length blond hair appeared wearing Dark purple leather armor with a black quiver on her back. "Ma'am." The guard said on one knee.
"Haruka, we have been through this you don't have kneel. Your a close friend you and your mate." Yumi explained once again with a sigh.
"Sorry, I forgot." Haruka said standing up straight. "What did you call me for?"
"Yes, We need you to get Yukino prepared for Nao's arrival." Yumi said.
"Yes, Ma'am." Haruka said before she disappeared.
After Haruka left Yumi and Sachiko offered the group a room to relax in, Accepting the offer the group is now relaxing in a room full of soft and thick furs.
"I wonder if I'll get to wear armor like that?" Nao asked out loud .
"Most likely, but you have to participate in the games to earn the right to earn the right to wear you clan's armor." Shizuru said.
Nao and Natsuki shared twin smirks with each other. "What type of games?" Natsuki asked fully interested now.
"Well The games test your skill in what your clan specialize. For example my clan specializes in close combat. So we do war games like sword play and wrestling." Shizuru said.
"I wonder what my clan did." Natsuki said feeling slightly sad for being the only one left in her clan. "Well mother said that the Ice Wolves did the same thing as we did. Because both our clans wear metal armor you have to prove you are strong enough to wear it." Shizuru said.
"So Ice and Flame wear metal. And Poison wears leather. What does the other clan wear?" Natsuki asked.
"Lightning Fang clan also wear leather." Shizuru explained.
"Why leather?" Nao asked.
"Because unlike Ice and Flame who rely on Strength and Power. Poison and Lightning rely mainly on speed."
"Ah, that makes sense. You don't want something heavy like metal slowing you down." Nao said.
"So when are the games?" Natsuki asked.
"The games are every three full moons. So... They are next week." Shizuru said and then laughed when both Nao and Natsuki jumped into the air and high five'd each other.
"You know what that means right mutt?" "You know it Spider." "Training Time." The both yelled out loud.
"You guys are going to train for less than a week and hope to win?" Shizuru asked in disbelief.
"Yup, if there is one thing me and spider are good at doing is preparing for something in a week or less." Nao nodded her head in agreement.
"Well if there is anything you want help with feel free to ask." Shizuru said.
"Shizuru have you earned you clan armor?" Nao asked while sitting back down.
"Yea, I got lucky enough to get to win against the craziest person in my clan. The person I went up against was someone who was very... what's the word?" Shizuru asked.
"What do you mean? Was she a stalker? Or did she like you a lot?" Natsuki asked feeling a bit mad.
"Yes, she liked me a lot. The night before our battle she came to me and asked if I would be her mate. I humbly declined her offer by saying I didn't feel connected or attracted to her at all, but she insisted that I become hers." Shizuru's voice starting to crack.
But once again I said No. After I said that she tackled me to the ground and tried to mark and mate with me, I pushed her away and ran to my mother's den. Te next day I had to choose which war game we did. So I chose sword play. I was sure I had the advantage since it was mainly just disarming the opponent. After disarming her I swear that I saw her snap when she smiled at me. She turned to me and smiled then phased into her fight form and charged at me. It took Me, Kiyo-hime, and both my parents to stop and bind her down. She was exiled from our clan for endangering me and a lot of people.
After she was chased out of our clan grounds my mother asked if anything happened to make her at like that. I told her and Mama immediately and Mama wanted to hun her down and skin her alive." Shizuru said laughing at the last part.
"Shizuru. you have been through a lot haven't you?" Nao asked.
"Yea, she has been through a whole lot more than we have." Natsuki said pulling Shizuru onto her lap and wrapped her arms around her.
1 hour later
After having a quick yet restful nap the group was awoken by Yumi and lead them down from their den two trees across from there current location.
"Where are we going?" Nao asked clinging to Natsuki as she jumped to the last tree.
"To remove that seal of yours. The healer is available for you now." Yumi said to Nao without looking at her.
Entering the Den the groups saw a short and smart looking brunette talking to Haruka.
"Yukino,we have brought you Nao." Yumi said motioning towards the red head.
Yukino moved from Haruka's side and moved towards Nao. "It's a pleasure to meet you Nao-san." Yukino said bowing.
Nao bowed back also. "May I see your seal Nao-san?" Yukino asked in her soft voice.
Nao nodded and rolled up her sleeve to her left arm.
Yukino moved closer for a better look. "Hmm, I can have this off in a matter of minutes." She finally said after studying the seal.
"Well that's a good thing to hear." Natsuki said from her spot next to Shizuru.
Yukino whispered "Diana." Causing a bright green light surrounded her. When the light finally faded next to Yukino was a equal in height female with with long brown hair and dark blue eye's in a dark purple robe. Turning to her master Diana asked "Yes, master how may I assist you?"
"Diana I need you to help me remove this seal." Yukino explained. Diana looked at Nao's seal.
"Master, that's a very high level seal. I can see why you summoned me." Diana said.
Yukino nodded and said "We will now begin."
After saying the Diana was once again surrounded in a bright green light to come out wearing light green leather armor. Yukino moved closer to Diana and kissed her cheek saying "Unleash your full power Diana, The Pure."
Diana focused her attention on Nao and held both of her hands out in front of her causing green energy to start surround Nao. 'Man this feels weird.' Nao thought.
"Seal break." Diana said causing Nao to feel different.
Natsuki whispered to Shizuru "Wow, Nao actually looks good as a werewolf."
Shizuru whispered back with a pout on her face "Ara, I hope I'm not going to loose you to Nao."
Before Natsuki could respond Nao said "Don't worry about me taking Natsuki from you. She is more of a sister to me nothing more."
Natsuki turned to Nao and said "You heard us?"
Nao rolled her eyes "No, mutt these ears are just for looks and the tail is a bonus." She said while looking at herself in the mirror located in the back of the room. Turning slightly she down remembering she has a tail now. Nao unbuttoned her pants slightly and moved her tail out. "Heh my tail matches my hair color." Nao said wagging her tail slightly.
Looking down at her hands Nao noticed her nail's are longer and slightly curved inward. She also noticed something else with her nails. "Hey what's up with my nails?" Nao asked.
Yukino instantly moved a cloth over Nao's nails and said "You are producing poison from your body at a fast pace. It should stop in a few minutes." Nao sighed and leaned against a wall.
After a few minutes her nails finally stopped leaking poison. "Hey, my nail's stopped leaking poi-"
*Howl!*
'Woah! What was that?' Nao thought while looking around.
"Did you guys hear that?" Nao asked Natsuki and Shizuru.
Shizuru looked at Natsuki sharing the same look as her. "Hear what Nao?" Natsuki asked.
"It was a howl. Someone is howling in pain out there." Nao said.
*Howl!*
A/N: Haha I felt leaving it off there :D Call me evil if you want.
I would like to start introducing a few characters from the last couple of chapters. Mainly The guardian wolves. I'm going to start with two this chapter.
Kiyo-hime, The swift
Master: Shizuru
Likes: Teasing, Joking around, Fighting
Dislikes: Sitting still, Boring People
Description: Long Shoulder length purple hair w/ Red eyes
Diana, The pure
Master: Yukino
Likes: Helping People
Dislikes: Nosy People
Description: Long Light brown hair w/ Dark Blue eyes
That's all for now R&R.