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"I told you Ginta, I never miss." Rose shrugged maintaining her laid back attitude.
Kouga burst out in laughter holding his stomach and Ginta and Hakkaku just giggled and rubbed they're heads. Rose got up and walked over to them and asked "It's getting late, has Kiba returned?" Ginta and Hakkaku looked at each other, then looked back at Rose and shook their heads. Rose just looked at them in shock then took a few steps back and then ran outside, Kouga got serious and worried about what Rose was going to do. They both ran outside and by then Rose was trying to run down the hill to get down but Kouga quickly caught up and went in front of her and grabbed her shoulders and shook her, " Rose where are going?" He looked into get eyes and watched her trying to catch her breath.
"K-Kouga I have to find her, what if she's running away! I have to go find her, please let me go!" She begged holding onto his arms, he sighed and thought 'She's not going to listen if I say no anyway.' "Fine, you can go, but only if I come with you." She looked into his eyes with slight tears in her eyes, and then nodded. Kouga went back to the pack to tell them he was going for a few days, and for Makoto to keep an eye on things and he made sure that everyone would take care of everything and he let them know where he was going and he would be back In one week.
Even though Ginta and Hakkaku begged basically on their knees, they understood that this was his chance to be away from the pack with Rose. And they needed to sort out things. When Kouga returned back to Rose that was pacing back and forth near the path, she finally stopped when she noticed him coming. "Ready Rose?" Kouga asked she just smiled "Of course!" And together started running down the mountain and as they started running they transformed into their wolf forms and ran until they reached the bottom and got father into the trees. The pack up on the mountain side and sat around being bored. "Man, it's so boring when Kouga and Rose are gone." One of them commented, and in the silence, they heard two distant wolf howls, howling together.
Getting excited they knew who it was coming from, and many ran to the edge and transformed into wolves, others stayed in humanoid form and also ran to the edge, and all at once but a little off sync, they howled as loud as they could, saying goodbye and good luck to their pack leader, and most importantly, their friends. Rose and Kouga stayed until they heard the howls and they looked at each other, and then off they went on their journey to the Southern Demon Wolf Tribe. As soon as they reached the burned down trees, they turned back into their humanoid forms and Kouga looked around shocked at the destruction. He glanced over at Rose but she was extremely quiet and trying as hard as she could not to look around or break down.
When they reached the dens Rose stopped and faced Kouga mans with a big smile she said "Welcome to my old home Kouga, if my pack and parents were here I'm sure they'd be happy to meet you." Kouga just stood there looking at her surprised, 'Even though it is a fake smile, she's trying her best to be happy...' Kouga just slightly smiled and walked over to her and gave her a big hug. "I would have loved to meet your pack, I'm sure they were wonderful." Rose's eyes went wide as she was shocked about the sudden hug. Tears slowly started to form at the corner of her eyes and she tried to break free, she tried pushing herself off his chest but Kouga wouldn't let her move.
"K- Kouga, let me go I'm fine." She said still struggling. Kouga just held her still and with a low voice said "If your fine, then why are you crying? It's okay to be upset Rose; you don't need to pretend to be okay with me." And with just those words Rose couldn't help but break down, she cried and cried until she felt better. Kouga pitied her so bad, and was so angry at the sight of the slaughter. 'She had to come here all alone; right after everything went into chaos, right when she was too late.' He figured she must have felt angry to some degree at herself. He was angry at himself too for not being of any help at all.
Rose wiped away her tears and tried smiling again, "I'm better see? Let's go find Kiba; she should be around here somewhere." He let her go, and followed her around as she checked some places. 'It really is a small place; I thought it would be bigger than this.' Kouga thought a bit puzzled. "Hey Rose, I came to the Southern Wolf Demon Tribe when I was younger. Wasn't it bigger then this? Why does it seem so small?" Rose stopped and sat against a tree. "Kouga I haven't been completely honest with you." Kouga's eyes widened I hear this, "I am part of the Southern Tribe, but I'm banished from the main tribe. My whole pack was banished and the pack leader, my father forbids anyone from going there again." Rose explained while looking off into the scenery half dazed out, like she was remembering old memories. "Rose, what are you saying?" Kouga said angrily.
'She lied to me. She lied to the whole pack.' He took a few steps back in disbelief, "Kouga please try to understan-" "No! I don't understand, why would you lie to me?!" Kouga started yelling in anger. "I had too!" She yelled back, surprised that Rose would yell like that he decided to let her speak. "Look I'll tell you everything okay?" Rose quieted down and sighed. "The main Southern Tribe banished my pack because a group of us had usual powers and a few of them tried to take over the pack with they're power. But there's attempts failed when my father and some of us, and the other pack fought against them, they lost.
They thought our whole pack was out of control and we needed to be executed." She clenched her fists and Kouga noticed rage in her eyes, but he wanted to hear more, he wanted to understand. "But father made a deal with them to ensure our survival. We would be allowed to live in the south but far from the tribe, and even though the weather was always terrible, we were to remain there. One if the conditions were to stay there, never to return, the other was that we were now the guard dogs of the tribe. They called us the attack raiders also known as STAR, Southern Tribe Attack Raiders and we would receive messages by wolves, and any mission they gave us must be done at all costs.
During those missions many of us died so father paired us up. We also completed many of our missions, massacres, robberies, kidnapping, spying, gathering Intel, you name it. So we made a lot of enemies, so I'm not surprised someone came after my old pack, but I don't know anyone that could have killed them all that fast. The STAR's were a secret group that only the higher ups know about, I was not allowed to tell you, but I didn't lie that I was the only one who survived from my pack, I didn't lie about how the Eastern Wolf Demon Tribe is precious to me, and I didn't lie about loving you! Please forgive me Kouga...I didn't want to put the pack in any danger, because what if the higher ups figure out that I survived, and that I was taken in by the Eastern Wolf Demon Tribe. It will be chaos Kouga!" She explained desperately trying to her Kouga to understand. They stood there looking at each other, Rose was very nervous, and Kouga's silence made it worse…