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With furious yells, Weed's pack headed downhill and towards their Leader, Tesshin, and the defanged Thunder and Lector.
"You guys again?" Ken demanded.
"Please forgive us," Thunder pleaded. "Hougen forced us to do all of this!"
Kagetora gasped in realization. "The Leader?!"
Tesshin shook his head "no" while Weed confronted the Dobermans. "Where is my Father?" he asked.
Thunder and Lector looked at each other and finally Lector spoke. "They went to Ohu," he told Weed. "Hougen took him."
"Shit!" Weed swore, lowering his head. "I was too late."
While every other dog had bowed their heads in irritation, Thunder and Lector tried to sneak away, but were stopped by Rocket and Kyoushiro.
"Don't think you can escape!" the white Kishu warned.
"Please spare our lives!" Thunder begged.
"Quit joking with us!" Kyoushiro retaliated. "Scum like you are better off dead for the sake of this world!"
"I'm begging!" Thunder proceeded to whimper. "Please don't kill us!"
"Shut up!" Kyoushiro had enough and was about to do something, but Weed stopped him.
"Stop!" the Akita puppy ordered. "That's enough. Just let them go."
"What?" Kyoushiro demanded. "Let them go!?"
"Yes," Weed answered.
"Don't be stupid!" Kyoushiro growled. "You're joking aren't you?!"
"I'm not joking," Weed ordered. "I'm serious." He looked at Thunder and Lector. "But in return for this, you must promise you'll never fight for Hougen's clan ever again."
For a short millisecond, Thunder and Lector looked at each other hesitantly. They did not want to return to Hougen empty handed, as they both knew what he was capable of doing. And the continued insubordination from his past followers resulted in them getting killed without mercy.
However, they both had lost their all four of their canine fangs, the very characteristics which made them a deadly duo. They had their assassin abilities, but all would be futile when they both lost their fangs. Fangs were the main weapons of any dog . . . and they had all but lost them forever. Even if they did return to Hougen, they would be killed within a millisecond.
Either way, it would be a lose-lose situation for both of them.
Having mentally discussed this, Thunder and Lector both bowed their heads in submission towards Weed. "We'll follow your every word, Leader," they both whimpered, rolling on their back, tucking their paws in, and showing their bellies.
"We have nowhere else to go," Thunder said.
"Please let us come with you," Lector equaled his submission.
Weed was beyond shocked. He had a feeling that they would do such a thing, but didn't expect for the Dobermans to look to him as their new Leader. He had to accept it, as even he could see the real submission and willingness to follow him in both of their eyes.
"Alright," the Akita leader finally said, looking at the rest of his pack members. "Thunder and Lector have been reformed and agreed to follow me as their new Leader. Are their any objections to such a thing?"
Kyoushiro immediately growled in disagreement.
Hiro smirked, saying, "We could use the extra help."
Ken and Kagetora instantly agreed.
Rocket hesitated, but found himself smiling, as he too was from Hougen's pack and was redeemed thanks to Weed, now having became a valuable ally and scout to the Akita Leader. "I vote yes," he added.
Tesshin nodded. "Just as I would expect from the Leader of Ohu," he said. "Showing mercy towards even towards enemy assassins, just as Gin with Sniper and my father Kurojaki. Thunder and Lector would make wonderful allies."
GB scowled, but remembered how Rocket had saved both him and Weed from falling off a cliff. He, too, eventually smiled in agreement.
Jerome's eyes widened in realization, as he too was an assassin and was sent to kill a monstrous Shepherd named Kaibutsu. Even when Weed didn't even know him back then, after helping him from a large lake, he'd specifically said to him, "No! I won't let you die! I absolutely won't let you die before me! Jerome, you survived! There has to be a reason for that!"
Weed's final pack member, his best friend and mentor, eventually nodded and said, "I'll accept them into the pack, but if I catch even the slightest bit of treachery, I won't hesitate to kill them."
"We've no more purpose to be here!" Weed announced. "Let's follow Hougen and go to Ohu!" That being said, Weed and his pack (Thunder and Lector included) raced away from Hougen's temporary location.
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