AN: i realized that I forgot the disclaimer last chapter. No I do not own wolfs rain. I only own this story and the oc's that appear in this story.

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The wolves and the flower maiden was cornered. The soldiers were prepared to fire. This was most definitaly not looking good. Kiba was doing some seriously quick thinking. He evaluated the situation, enviroment, enemy, and possible escape routes. He came up with and discarded numerous plans until he found the one that had the best odds. He did all of this in a matter of a few seconds. He then turned to Toboe, handing Cheza to him.

Toboe looked at Kiba with some confusion.

"Toboe, take Cheza and jump on the roof of the building behind us. Then find a safe place to hide. We'll catch up. Don't argue," he said when toboe opened his mouth to speak. "Just do it. Hige and I will hold them off. Now go, and whatever you do, be careful."

Toboe nodded and, taking Cheza's hand, said, "Don't worry Cheza, 'I'll protect you.

Toboe tensed his legs and then jumped for all he was worth.

Tsume gunned the engine and increased speed, pulling ahead of the police that were on his tail. Somehow, they kept on him even after losing sight of him multiple times. Tsume gritted his teeth and kept going. These cops were really pissing him off. He went through some S-turns and came to a straight stretch. cops had the bridge barricaded off. Tsume shifted to the next gear and accelerated so quickly, the front wheel came up off the ground. He brought the bike back down and continued to increase his speed. when he was about at the bridge, the police started firing. Tsume swerved, avoiding the bullets, and whent to the side of the bridge where the bank sloped upward some. He hit the natural made ramp and sailed through the air, hoping he didn't screw up on the landing.

Hige lepted at another soldier, sinking his fangs into his throat. The soldier went down, his cry of pain gurgled with his own blood. Hige leapt up from the soldiers body, looking for his next target.

The battle had not been going well for the wolves. Kiba's legs was shaking from the numerous wounds in his body made by swords and axes. His snow white pelt turned to crimson from all the blood pouring out of his body. He currently was suffering a bullet in his shoulder and his side was grazed as well. Hige was a little better but not by much. He had got grazed in the face by a bullet he was too slow to dodge and has numerous cuts on his flanks and chest.

Kiba stole a glance at Hige as he went for his next target. Hige was barely holding up as was he and there was still at least ten soldiers left.

Kiba quickly took out his next opponent and landed next to Hige. "We need to get outta here!" Hige exclaimed. Kiba looked around and saw an opportunity.

"Hige, if we attack two soldiers next to each other, we can break through that way. Then we can lose them and make our way back around to Toboe.

"Gotcha."

"Okay, on three. ...one...two...THREE!"

The two wolves lept at the two soldiers, quickly taking them down. Quick as lightening, they ran, bullets ricocheting around them and whizzing past them.

"The roof!" Kiba yelled.

The two wolves jumped up and continued running, leaping from roof top to roof top. They eventually lost their pursurers and finally collapsed, their sides heaving as the tried to get their breath. Kiba was the first to try to stand, but his injured leg gave out from under him and he fell again. Kiba just laid there, sides heaving as he tried to get energy back. Hige finally tried to stand and, although he was shaky, finally managed. He walked over to Kiba and leaned against him. kiba looked over at him and, realizing what he was doing, attempted to stand again. With Hige's support, he was successful. They made their way to a roof entrance and, going through it, slowly made their way down the stairs until coming out the door at the bottom of the building. They made their way down the street, trying to find Toboe and Cheza. Hige delicatelly sniffed the air, his mouth slightly opened, his eyes closed in concentration. Kiba might have laughed at the hilarious expression on Hige's face if it wasn't for the seriousness of the situation. Hige continued to sniff the air, and picking up something, led Kiba by still supporting him down an alley. They walked around for another hour attempting to find the others when Kiba suddenly collapsed. Hige turned towards him in alarm and noticed that the blood flowing out of Kiba was a lot worse then before. He had passed out from blood loss.

'Great, now what do I do?" It's not like he could go find Toboe. He would be forced to leave a wounded Kiba by himself. Even though he had only known Kiba for a few days, he couldn't just do that. He could howl for Toboe, but that would mean the police and soldiers would hear it as well and come to investigate. That would be no good. Hige slumped down next to Kiba, trying to think. There was really no other option. He would have to wait till Kiba woke up and then move on to trying to find Toboe and Cheza. He shifted, trying to get comfortable. It was going to be a long wait.

The wind roared in his ears as he sailed through the air. Time seemed to go in slow motion. His ponytail was whipping behind him. He felt as well as saw the descent of the other side of the bank coming towards him. Tsume bent low over the handle bars as the tires impacted with the bank. The back tire slid back and forth in the mud from the previous days rain. Tsume fough the bike, trying to regain control. He finally got it going in a straight line as the cops got over their shock of his stunt and began firing on him. Tsume gunned the bike and lit out of there. He was quickly ahead of the cops and continued going. he arrived in downtown Lowstrom and cut up and down alleys and roads until he lost them. He continued to travel towards the outskirts of the city. After about fifteen minutes, Tsume heard a comotion a little ways ahead of him. He picked up the scent of another wolf and a...a ...flower? Tsume shook his head to clear his thoughts. As he was nearing an intersection, he heard gunfire and men shouting.

Toboe hid with Cheza behind some parked cars. The gunfire continued at a relentless pace. Toboe knelt down, grimacing at the pain in his leg where a soldier had sliced him with a knife earlier. The humans was starting to surround their hiding area. Toboe starting backing up just as a soldier poked his head around the corner. Toboe dove at him just as he released a barrage of bullets. Unfortunatelly, he couldn't get the gun up in time and the bullets hit the sidewalk under Toboe as he was sailing through the air. Toboe's fangs came down on the man's arm with a sickening crunch. The soldier screamed as he dropped his gun. Toboe's weight, as he went down, drug the man down with him, rendering him unconscience. Toboe let go of the man's arm and quickly got back behind the cars again just as more bullets ripped past him. All the while Cheza stayed crouched behind the car she was hidding behind, a look of fright and concern on her face. Toboe was about to suggest they run for it when the gunfire suddenly changed direction. The men started screaming, and above the ruckess, Toboe heard sounds of loud growling and snarling. Toboe poked his head out from behind the car just in time to see the last man fall.

Standing over the last dead soldier was a gray wolf with blood dripping off his muzzle and his fangs. He had several superficial wounds on his flanks. He slowly turned, his grey fur rippling in the breeze, the "X" shaped scar prominate on his chest. He shook the blood off of him and then shifted into his human form. Toboe looked in awe at this wolf. He had seen him before and had even talked to him. He had tried being friends with him before but Tsume would always run him off. Now, Tsume looked at him with a mixture of shock and annoyance in his eyes. He slowly walked over to him and Cheza.

"What the hell is going on here runt? And who the hell is this?"

"Tsume, the soldiers have a way of seeing us for what we really are. Me and the others have been on the run for half the day now."

"Others?"

"Yeah. Have you seen them? We kinda got seperated."

"Well, who are they?"

"Well, you got Hige. He's a bigger brown wolf who loves to eat. And you got Kiba. He's very quiet and doesn't talk much, but he's nice. he's pure white with golden eyes."

"A white wolf huh? I had a run-in with him a day or two ago."

"So have you seen them?" he asked with eyes full of hope and fear. Tsume just looked at him with mild amusement. Then the wind shifted and both he and Toboe looked at each other and spoke a single word at the same time.

"Humans."

"Ah holy hell!" Tsume exclaimed. He ran back over to where he parked the bike and jumped on it, firing it up as he did.

"Tsume, where are you going?"

"To take care of some business. Take freak girl and get outta here."

"Her name is not freak girl. It's Cheza." Toboe said indignatly.

"Don't have time for details runt, just get the hell outta here. NOW!"

As Tsume peeled away, toboe took Cheza's hand and began running the other direction, back towards Kiba and Hige.

"Cheza, can you sense Kiba or Hige. I can't even pick up on their scents.

"Cheza stopped running and Toboe stopped and turned to her. She had her head tilted up to the sky with a look of concentration on her face.

"Cheza?" Toboe said. he stared at her, unsure of what to do or even say. Cheza continued staring at the sky for another couple of minutes and then turned her head to the left.

"This way."

They started running down the street where Cheza indicated. They ran for about an hour when Toboe finally picked up on the scent of his friends. He also picked up on another scent. Wolf blood. Particularly, Kiba and Hige's. Toboe ran faster, continuing to hold Cheza by the hand to guide her. They came to an alleyway and Toboe stopped. The others scents were coming from that alley.

"Kiba, Hige?" Toboe yelled as he and Cheza ran down the alley.

"Runt?" Hige sounded suprised to hear his voice.

Toboe got to the end of the alley and saw Hige sitting on the ground leaned up against the wall. Beside him laid Kiba in his wolf form. Toboe then noticed the many wounds on the two of them.

"Oh no, Hige, are you two okay?"

"Yeah, not bad for being a diced up wolf," he said with a small chuckle.

Cheza went up to him and started trying to heal his wounds. Hige shook his head and said, "No Cheza. Do Kiba first. He got it worst off then me. I've already got the bullet out of his shoulder.

Cheza nodded in understanding. She turned her attention towards Kiba and started petting him, running her fingers through his fur. As she did so, she found several injuries on him and started to heal them. When she got to the bullet wound on his shoulder, she spent a good amount of time on it. When she was done, she moved on to Hige's injuries. As she was finishing up on Hige, Kiba was starting to wake up.

Toboe looked over at Kiba as he was starting to stir.

"Kiba, you're awake. Are you okay? You had us worried there for a minute."

Kiba's eyes opened and he stared at Toboe for a minute. His eyes finally opened fully and he groaned as he tried to sit up.

"Stay still Kiba. This one has healed you but you need to rest now."

Kiba tried sitting up again. "No time for rest. We have to get out of this city. The longer we delay, the quicker it will be for the humans to capture us.

Toboe and Cheza gave each other a worried look. Hige was going to try arguing with Kiba about his safety but saw the determination in Kiba's eyes.

Kiba struggled until he was standing upright. He looked at the rest of them and said, "alright then, let's go." And with that, he took off down the alley and towards the street.

"Does anybody know which way the gates to the city are." Toboe asked.

"Not really. I just say keep running and we might even get lucky enough to find it." Hige exclaimed.

They ran through the streets, ducking down alleyways every now and then to avoid soldiers and police. They were heading down another alley when Kiba held up a hand and stopped.

"I'm going to get a birds eye view. Be right back." And with that, he jumped to the nearest roof and did some looking around. What he saw gave him chills. In nearly every direction he could look , he saw chaos and anarchy. fires raged eveywhere. He continued searching until he finally found what he was looking for. "There," he said. He spotted the city's gate about five miles out. Kiba jumped down from the roof to report his findings to the others.

"We can escape the city by heading that direction . Only problem is, there's riots going on all over the place. and there is also police and military swarming all over the place. We're going have to be careful."

Hige thought for a moment and then asked, "Are you thinking of sneaking past them or creating a diversion?"

"No Hige. That wouldn't work. The only thing I can think to do is try to go around. It will take a lot longer, but is also safer."

Hige nodded and turned to Toboe. "You ready?" Toboe nods his head.

"Yep, let's get outta here."

Kiba looks at Cheza. "Let's go."

Cheza smiles. Kiba takes her hand and they all start running. They decided to head east and circle around the riots and comotion and then head back south to get to the gates safely. They sneaked through alleyways and by the time they were heading for the gates, it was well past midnight. They crept down the street, four shadows moving through the night. They wasn't far from the gates when a bright light flared on, blinding them. They threw their hands up, trying to shield their eyes. At that time, lights and sirens came on. They heard booted feet running towards them. By the time their eyes had adjusted, they were surrounded by soldiers and military vehicles. Kiba snarled and shifted into his true form as did Hige and Toboe. It would do no good trying to stay human because the humans already knew them for who they were.

"Shit they got us surrounded," Hige swore. He looked around, trying to find some escape but every route was blocked off. They even had snipers on the roof tops. Hige swore under his breath and got himself ready.

"Get out of our way!" Kiba yelled. "We don't want no trouble, we're just trying to leave."

One of the soldiers stepped forward. He held a megaphone to his mouth and was assumed to be the commander. "Surrender and there will be no blood shed. We only came after the flower maiden. Let her go into our custody and you will be spared."

Kiba bared his fangs, looking like a ferocious ghost to all observers. "You can have her when my cold dead body is lying at your feet. Come anywhere near her and you will die."

Hige looked at Kiba in shock. He leaned over to Kiba and whispered, "Uh, Kiba. I kinda don't want to die today.

Kiba looked over at Hige. "Losing your wolf pride, Hige?"

"No. I still have my wolf pride. It's just it wont do you, me, or even Cheza any good if we're both dead you know."

At this time, the commander held the megaphone up to his mouth again and said, "You have till the count of three to release the flower maiden or we will open fire."

Kiba looked at Hige and Toboe. "ready to attack?"

"...ONE..."

Hige answers, "Hey, what's the worst that can happen, we die? Hah, I don't think so."

"...TWO..."

Toboe spoke up. "I don't want to die. But I won't let them take Cheza. She's important to Kiba and I won't be scared off by a bunch of humans.

"Well spoken runt. Let's show these pathetic humans what we can do."

"Here we go," Kiba said.

"...THREE, men, open fire.

Gun barrels started flashing as bullets ripped into the night. the wolves dodge out of the way while Cheza hid behind a parked vehicle. As a unit, the wolves started ripping into the humans with fangs and claws. Toboe wasn't as strong or as fast as the other two, but he made up for his short comings with determination and attitude. Fangs and claws found their mark more often then not as the wolves continued the battle for freedom. But they were starting to tire out. At this time, the battle had been going on for a while now and over half the soldiers had dropped by this time. Kiba sensed something behind him and ducked left as a bullet came wizzing by him, grazing the side of his head from his eye to his ear. He yelped in surprise and looked around for where the bullet came from. He then noticed the snipers up on the roofs.

"Hige, hold them off."

Hige looked exasperated. "What the hell do you think I'm doing?"

Kiba broke through the ranks of soldiers and went down an alley. He jumped, leaping from one wall to another until he was on the roof. He found the first sniper and took him out, spilling his blood all over the roof. He continued form roof top to roof top in this fashion, taking out snipers along the way.

"Meanwhile, on the street, Hige and Toboe was back to back (or haunch to haunch as it were) trying to fend off the soldiers. Hige sank his fangs into another soldier. while he was pre-occupied with that one, Toboe spotted another soldier about to get the jump on Hige.

"Hige, look out," Toboe called out as he ran over to the soldier, bowling into him. As he did this another soldier got the jump on him. Toboe suddenly felt himself flying through the air as a boot connected with his ribs. He yelped as he landed, pain coursing through his side. He tried to stand on shaky legs as a soldier bared down on him. As he was about to deal the final blow, a streak of white flew by the soldier. The soldier stood there in shock for a second and then a spurt of red fountained from his throat. The soldier gurgled in agony and then fell to the ground, dead. Toboe looked up and saw Kiba standing there. He slowly turned around and gave toboe a kind look.

"Are you okay?" Kiba asked him.

"I'm fine Kiba. Just a little shaken up. Ribs hurt but I'll be okay.

Kiba continued to look at him with that piercing gaze for a moment and then nodded his head. "Let's go help Hige."

Toboe smiled and, following Kiba, went back to the battle.

The fight raged on for the longest time. fangs and claws finding their mark more often then not. fur and blood flying and splatering on the ground. The wolves fought bravely but was quickly getting overwhelmed. Soon the soldiers had them backed up to the building and the wolves were making their last stand.

"Well guys, we tried our best. But it looks like this is the end of the line." Hige said remorsefully.

Tsume, at this point in time, was coming up on the scene with the wolves. He stopped as he saw what was going on in front of him. He saw the predicament the wolves were in. He turned his bike around and started driving away, leaving the wolves to their fate. as he drove away, a nagging feeling was itching at the back of his mind. He thought about the white wolf who had saved his life. He thought about the pup who for some unknown reason looked up to him. Him, Tsume. A broken down wolf with nothing but alcoholism and regrets. And this kid looked up to him. Almost without even realizing it, he had spun the bike back around and was gunning it for all it was worth. Without even stopping and thinking about what he was about to do, he popped the cap on the gas tank of the bike, took out a shop rag and stuffed it in, and replaced the cap to hold the rag in. He pulls out a zippo, lights it, and catches the rag on fire. He gives a loud long howl as he barrels down the street, warning the other wolves of what was to come. As he came up onto the scene, he jumped up and placed his feet on the seat of the bike, riding it surfboard style, all while gunning the gas. As he got closer to the parked military vehicles, he yelled, "jump!" At this time, he jumped off his bike towards the gates. The bike had caught on fire at this time and ran straight on into the military vehicles, creating a massive explosion.

Darkness. All around there was nothing but never ending darkness. He opened his eyes as dust swirled around him. The darkness soon turned into blurry images. As everything came back into focus, he noticed that fire was raging all around him. He lifted his head and looked around him. Bodies of soldiers was laying all over the place. Soon he saw someone running over to him.

"Hige, are you okay?" It was Toboe.

"Oww." That's gonna leave a mark." Hige slowly made his way to his feet. As he tried to steady himself, the world started spinning really fast and he found himself back on the ground again. He tried once again and managed to finally make his way to his feet. He looked around and saw that there wasn't many soldiers left. Kiba and a gray wolf was finishing them off.

"Hey runt, did you happen to get the truck of that license by any chance?" Hige asked with a woozy voice.

Toboe looked at him in confusion for a moment. "What?"

"Never mind." Hige looked around to see if there was anything he could do to help but saw that Kiba had just taken care of the last soldier. Hige shook his head, trying to clear the cobwebs.

Kiba ran up to Hige after the last soldier dropped. "Come on you two, we got to get going before more soldiers come."

Toboe ran up to Tsume. "Hey Tsume, why don't you come with us. We can't hide here now. Our only hope is leaving."

"Yeah, and where are you going anyway?" Tsume scoffed.

"Paradise." Kiba replied evenly, his golden eyes boring into Tsume's.

"Yeah, and I guess your little flower maiden is supposed to take us there?"

"Exactly." said Kiba.

"You have got to be joking. You mean to tell me that you actually believe in that fairy tail?"

"I don't know, but Lately, it's getting more dangerous living with the humans what with them hunting us and all." said Toboe. "I just think it would be better than staying here."

"I've made a life for myself here and now you're asking me to give it up? Well you can forget it. Have fun with your little journey kids. I'm outta here." And with that exclamation, Tsume started walking off, muttering something about ruined bikes, when sirens were heard in the distance.