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A Wolf's Cry

Chapter Four - Healing

"Is she dead?" Toboe spoke up, looking down at the woman in question. The others shifted uncomfortably as Kiba took the woman's wrist in his hand. "She's not dead. She's still got a pulse but she's injured. We need to help her." Kiba said, looking at her bleeding arm. He brought it to his nose and smelt the wound. "There's gun powder mixed in her scent and her blood. Somebody must have shot her."

The old man stood up and slowly began walking away. "Lets find some shelter so we can heal her, we should hurry, the snow is falling fast."

Tsume, who had been standing the whole time, trudged angrily past Kiba, Hige, and Toboe. "We should just leave her to die! She doesn't mean anything to us and you still help her! You're all pathetic. We should be worrying about getting to Paradise, not some stupid girl we just found!" said Tsume, walking ahead of everyone. "Do as the old man says. We need to get her fixed up before we can leave this damn place."

Both Kiba and Hige grabbed the woman gently by the arms and wrapped them around their necks as they began to carry her. They both noticed how light she was and wondered how she could have survived with her being so skinny. The first thought Kiba thought was, Where did she come from? How did she get here? And, How long was she in the storm? He hoped those questions would be answered once she woke up. Hige was just excited that there was another woman around.

The old man led the group followed by Tsume and Toboe while Kiba, Hige and the girl were bringing up the rear. Toboe turned to Tsume and said, "I know you didn't mean that Tsume. She has just as much right to live as we do. What if you were in her place Tsume?"

Tsume stopped and looked at Toboe. "Like that would ever happen," he said and began walking again. Toboe sighed before, once again following after his friend Tsume.

They walked a short distance before they reached the remaining of a house. There was a roof but it had many holes in it and only three of the four walls were still standing, the other one probably got knocked down. There was a medium sized spot where there was no snow and Kiba and Hige brought the girl over and laid her down on it. Her lips were beginning to turn purple, as were her arms, and she needed to get warm fast.

"I'll go find some herbs for her wounds" Toboe said and ran out before anyone could object. He knew exactly where to get them, he had found them when Kiba was hurt so it shouldn't take him long for him to get there or to return.

Kiba stood up from his kneeling position beside the girl. "I'll look for some fire wood," he turned towards the old man. "It'll take faster if you come with me." The old man nodded his head and they began to leave. Before fully exiting, Kiba turned to Hige. "Make sure she stays alive while were out," he said before they took off into the snowstorm.

Hige inched closer to the raven-haired girl; a grin appeared on his face but was soon replaced with a frown. He glared up at Tsume, the guy always had to ruin his fun. "Why are you here? Aren't you going to leave?" Hige asked, slightly agitated. Tsume leaned against the wall with his eyes closed. He opened one eye to look at Hige. "No." Hige's eyes widened. "Why?" asked Hige, almost desperately? Tsume closed his eye again, trying to hold his temper at bay. "Because I have to make sure you don't molest her you idiot." Hige huffed and crossed his arms over his chest. "Tsume you should really get your mind out of the gutter, you're really disgusting sometimes" Hige said angrily. Tsume growled in annoyance towards the pup, causing Hige to move back into the corner of the wall. "Jeez Tsume, I was just kidding," Hige said with a goofy smile as he scratched the back of his head nervously. "You really should loosen up buddy." Tsume didn't even bother looking at the fool on the floor. "Whatever" he said and ended the discussion. `Why do I get stuck with the idiot?'

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"Where am I" Kagome asked as she let her echo into the dark that was everywhere around her. "Is anyone out there?" Kagome called out desperately. Kagome hoped someone was there, she needed someone to be there, and she was so scared. To her disappointment the only answer she got back was the lonely echoes of her own voice asking, "Is anyone out there?" There had to be an exit out of this place and Kagome began to run as fast as she could, not knowing that she could never escape the pitch-black color that surrounded her.

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"I'm back," Toboe announced as he ran back into the room, an armful of herbs with him. Both Tsume and Hige's heads lifted when Toboe arrived. Their eyes watched Toboe until he went over to the girl. "Is she okay?" asked Toboe, sitting down next to the girl. Toboe began to place the already dampened herbs on the woman's wound. Hige studied Toboe and the woman carefully. "Yeah she's alive still, but she's really cold. Kiba and gramps need to be back soon or she might not make it through the night."

Hige leaned against one of the walls and crossed his arms in back of his head and rested it in his hands. Still standing, Tsume was looking out into the blizzard. "She'll be fine you idiot. Don't you know how to use your nose? Kiba and the old guy are already here."

As if on cue, Kiba and the old man stepped into the run down house with lots of logs in hand. They walked into the middle of the room - first making sure there was some of the roof on top of them- and started to stack the logs in a mini teepee shape. When they were finished, the teepee was a very large size, guaranteed to make this place warm as soon as it was lit. The only thing to do now was to light it. "Does anyone have a match?" asked Kiba as he looked at everyone. The old man pulled out a packet full of matches and handed Kiba one. "Here you can use this." The old man said. Scraping the match on the sand paper on the back of the packet Kiba lit the match and brought it down on a log. He kept it there until it took to the match and started a rather

large fire.

Kiba dropped the match into the fire then looked at Hige and said, "Bring her close to the fire. It should warm her up pretty fast."

Hige did as he was told to and picked the unconscious girl up from the floor, brought her over to the fire and set her down. Toboe walked over and sat next to Hige who was by the fire. "I guess all we do now is wait," said Toboe, stretching his arms above his head and let out a yawn. They kept watching the girl as her skin slowly changed from the dark purple to her regular skin color. Hopefully she would wake up soon.

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Kagome kept running as fast as she could. She couldn't believe it, there was a light at the end of the hell tunnel. Only a few more minutes and she would be out of the darkness. It seemed to be getting bigger with every stop she took. Finally reaching it she hesitated before stepping through, waiting to see what would be on the other side.

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Suddenly the girl began to stir on the ground and both Toboe and Hige gathered around her while the others looked on.

Kagome slowly opened her eyes as she stared right into two different sets of wolf eyes. She panicked for a few moments and blinked her eyes a few more times before she realized it was just two guys that were really close to her. `There just human, not wolves. I must have been imagining it.' She accidentally pushed up on her bad arm. A gasp escaped her lips as a sharp pain shot through her. `Ouch! I guess I forgot about that.' Fully sitting up she sat Indian Style on the ground, clutching her wound to herself as she looked at everyone around herself. "Who are you all? How did I get here?" Kagome asked no one in particular but hoped for an answer. One of them spoke up first. He seemed to be a little younger than Kagome but seemed very sweet by the way he talked. "Well I'm Toboe,' He pointed to himself than pointed at an older guy with silver, white hair.

He reminded Kagome of Inuyasha and she tried not to look surprised. "That's Tsume, and those three over there are Kiba, Hige, and gramps" Toboe said, pointing to them also as Kagome looked at them. Each had nodded there heads when their name was said so Kagome know who was who. Kagome looked at Toboe again as he began to speak once more. "And the answer to your second question is that we brought you here. Hige and Tsume watched over you while I went to go get herbs and Kiba and gramps went to get fire wood."

Kagome looked surprised and looked down at her wound. "So you healed me. I'm thankful," she said looking at him. Toboe seemed to blush at her comment and turned away. "Well it wasn't all me, don't forget Kiba and grandpa got the firewood!" Kagome smiled at him for a minute and turned to Kiba and the old man. "Thank you also for healing me."

Kiba seemed to be looking right into the depths of her blue eyes; they seemed to go on for forever. All different kids of emotions were swirling around them. They were so alluring and so beautiful that he had to force himself to not look at them when he said `Your welcome' to her. Kiba spoke up. "Why were you out in the snow? What caused you to be out there all by yourself? Don't you have a family?" He noticed he seemed to have a hit a tender spot at the last question as he noticed her shirt uncomfortably. Sorrow and anger filled Kagome's eyes as she began to speak. "I came home one day and I found both my mother and brother killed. It was horrible, their blood was everywhere and I hadn't been there to save them. It was…it was a wolf and an old man that killed them and soon they tried to kill me as I found out soon after." She paused for a minute to see what their reactions would be before continuing. "He called me a wolf and began shooting at me. One of the bullets got my arm and all I could do was run out of the city and into the snow. I kept walking and walking until I couldn't take it anymore and collapsed." Kagome let out a long deep breath that she was holding and looked down at her injured arm.

The fire felt nice against her skin and it made her feel safe. The man named Tsume stared at her intently. "You say the old man called you a wolf. Why are you offended? You are a wolf after all, I can smell it." Tsume stood up and walked over to Kagome. "What's your name?" he asked kneeling down next to her. She looked up at him with wide eyes. "Kagome," she answered simply. "And I'm not a wolf, how can I be?!" Kagome began to panic now. "I'm just s regular girl not some animal!" Tsume growled down at her. "We're not animals! If you really think we are, I'll show you what an `animal' can do!" Tsume's growling became louder as he grabbed Kagome by the shoulders. Her eyes were shut tight, not wanting to see what he looked like tight now. Suddenly and arm wrapped around her shoulder and her back was pressed against someone's chest and she heard a voice speaking, it was Kiba's.

"Stop it Tsume!" Kiba yelled as he pushed Tsume away from Kagome. "She might not have known that. She could have been shielded from it!" Tsume, who had landed on the ground, stood up now. "What idiot of a wolf doesn't know its a wolf?!" Ignoring Tsume's question Kiba turned and looked down at Kagome. "Do you have anywhere to go?" He asked quietly. Kagome nodded her head slowly and he continued to speak.

"Then you can come with us, to Paradise."

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