InuYasha Fan Fiction / Wolf's Rain Fan Fiction ❯ A Wolf's Cry ❯ Meeting ( Chapter 13 )

“There is a Legend

 

that Speaks of Paradise on Earth…

 

But Only Wolves

 

Can Find It.”

 

 

 

A Wolf's Cry

 

Chapter Thirteen- Meeting

 

 

 

 

It's funny how you could forget about all your worries and fears just by being with someone you barley knew. Even if it was just one night in his arms. Everything had become peaceful and Kagome felt that nothing could hurt her. She didn't dream of the time she saw the bodies of her mother and brother, and she didn't dream of the golden eye, which surprised her. She dreamt of nothing.

 

 

 

 

Stretching her arms above her head, Kagome breathed in the scent of pine and flowers. You would think it would make a bad combination, and yet oddly enough Kagome enjoyed it. She smiled as a sudden fill of energy sprang up within her being. She had not felt like this in the longest time, and in the back of her mind, wished nothing had ever happen. She wished her mother and brother were never murdered, wished that none of the destruction that happened in Japan never occurred…a part of her even wished she never fell through the well three years ago. If she hadn't, she would have been with her family and could have possibly helped protect them.

 

 

 

 

She would have never met him either.

 

 

 

 

But those thoughts were in the back of her mind. For today…just today she would let herself forget the destruction of her past and allow herself to be how she used to be with her friends.

 

 

 

 

“Kagome.”

 

 

 

 

She turned and looked at Kiba who had stopped. “Yes?” she asked.

 

 

 

 

Instead of looking at her he stared off into the forest ahead of them. “We only have a few more minutes until we reach camp, are you ready to go back?” he questioned softly before he looked down at her. Immediately her gaze dropped to the ground in front of her. His intense stare made her remember him again.

 

 

 

 

Her eyes narrowed. She needed to remember that Kiba wasn't anything like him and would never be anything like him. They were totally different people and Kagome knew first hand what if felt to be compared to someone else.

 

 

 

 

Meeting his gaze she smiled and nodded her head. “I'm ready whenever you are.” Not needing to hear anything else they began to walk again.

 

 

 

 

The two didn't really speak to each other much on the walk, just enjoying the peace and quiet while it lasted. Kagome imagined that this would be one of the few times she could relax. She sighed lightly to herself; it was the same now as it was then. She should have known her life would be like this.

 

 

 

 

 

Not paying attention to her surroundings, Kagome stumbled over a rock and would have fallen if it had not been for Kiba's strong grip on her arm.

 

 

 

 

“Are you alright?” he asked her once she was steady.

 

 

 

 

“Yeah, I'm okay” she answered, “I was just thinking and I guess I wasn't paying atten-”

 

 

 

 

A large force hit her, instantly knocking the air right out of her lungs as she hit the ground. She felt a cool wetness touch her face. Someone had licked her and was now panting in her face!

 

 

 

 

She opened her eyes and saw a rusted colored fur ball on top of her. It even talked.

 

 

 

 

“Kagome! Your okay! I was so worried, I though a bear ate you!”

 

 

 

 

`Oh Toboe.'

 

 

 

 

“I'm so glad I found you!” he said happily, nuzzling her neck. He rested his full weight on her and she was finding it hard to keep breathing.

 

 

 

 

“Thanks Toboe, but could you please get off of me?” Her prayers were answered as Tsume lifted Toboe off of her.

 

 

 

 

“You really shouldn't act like she is you mate, its almost disgusting,” the silver haired man spoke sarcastically.

 

 

 

 

Toboe's face turned into an angry pout. “I wasn't! I was only checking to see if she was okay. She and Kiba didn't come back at all last night…I was worried.”

 

 

 

 

With the help of Hige, Kagome stood up and looked at Toboe smiling. “I'm sorry to have worried you Toboe, I'll try not to do it again,” Kagome said, patting Toboe's head lightly.

 

 

 

 

“You promise you'll try?” questioned the pup innocently.

 

 

“I promise.”

 

 

 

Stepping away from Toboe, Kagome looked in Cheza's direction. The flower maiden was smiling at her, which Kagome returned. Seeing Cheza, Kagome felt a little unknown weight lift off her chest.

 

 

“This one is happy you are doing fine also.”

 

 

 

 

Kagome had wanted to reply but her attention was ripped away to focus on the hands touching her body. “Hige!” she screamed, slapping him across the face. “What are you doing?!” The female's face was turning beat red out of anger and embarrassment. He was just as bad as Miroku!

 

 

 

 

“I was only checking to see if you body had gotten any scratches or marks,” replied Hige innocently, hand rubbing his cheek. She had hit him harder than he expected and it stung like hell.

 

 

 

“Well you could have just asked me!” she growled. The tension in the group grew as they watched the scene play out.

 

 

“Hige, you'll think of any excuse to touch a women!” Toboe said angrily at him.

 

 

Letting the pups words go in one ear and out the other, he turned to Kiba…who was strangely glaring at him. The collared wolf suddenly turned a little nervous under Kiba's gaze. “Hehehe…which way do we go now Kiba?”

 

 

The group had turned silent once again and everyone stared at the two.

 

 

“We are going to keep heading north.” The reply came low and deadly and Kagome was thankful it wasn't directed at her. She might have had nightmares if it was.

 

 

Hige took this as his warning and silently hoped he wouldn't touch Kagome again…well at least not in front of Kiba that is.

 

 

Without notice Kiba turned and started to walk, taking Cheza's hand in his own. Toboe stuck his tongue out at Hige as he and Kagome passed him to follow the white wolf and the flower.

 

 

Feeling something hard hit his head, Hige cried out in pain. “Oww! What the hell was that for?!” He grabbed his throbbing head in pain, trying to make it stop.

 

 

“You idiot, Kiba could have just killed you! I'm ashamed you call yourself a wolf. Don't you ever think before you act?” Tsume barked at him.

 

“It's not like she's claimed or anything!” Hige answered quickly.

 

 

“Do you actually think I care about that?” Tsume made sure he emphasized `care' darkly. He let out a rough sigh. “Forget it, lets just go before we lost their scent.”

 

 

`Dammit, what have I gotten myself into?' thought the gray wolf before stalking away, not caring if Hige followed or not.

 

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Traveling by foot was somewhat peaceful. Kagome and Toboe made light conversation about their surroundings and some things they both liked. It didn't take much time at all to come to the outskirts of a village that looked busy and somewhat decent.

 

 

The group stood where they were, surveying the surroundings and looking for danger.

 

 

“There doesn't look to be any thread but don't be so surprised if you see a few soldiers walking about,” Kiba informed before turning to look at the flower maiden. “Cheza and I will be by the stream not far from here. We'll be staying there tonight.” Not needing to hear anyone agree, he turned to leave with Cheza. The group watched them until they disappeared in the forest.

 

 

“Well I don't know what everyone else is doing, but I'm going to go and check out the town!” Kagome announced to everyone. “I'll be back after dark probably so don't worry about me.” She smiled down at Toboe and patted him on the head. “Stay out of trouble okay?” He nodded before Kagome set off down the tree-infested hill towards the village.

 

 

The three males left standing there headed in their own direction.

 

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Kagome arrived at the village entrance maybe a half an hour after she left the males to do what they wanted. All Kagome knew she wanted was some oden and water. It felt like she hadn't eaten in forever, but it didn't really feel like she needed to eat either though. What she did know though was that she was following her nose toward that lovely smell of oden.

 

 

She dug her hands around in her pickets and found a couple of dollars she didn't know she had. Her nose lead her to the steps of a small restaurant. Heading up the three steps, she pushed open the door and let all the delicious scents absorb into every fiber of her being. She knew this could be the last time she would ever have the luxury of having something so tasty as oden.

 

 

 

Kagome found herself at the ordering desk within moments and asked if they had oden. She all but screamed with happiness when she found they did have some. With the money she found in her pocket, she bought two bowls full of her favorite food.

 

 

 

Quickly moving to a table, she sat down and almost drowned in the smell of her lunch and probably dinner. Grabbing her chopsticks, she took her first bite.

 

The food tasted so good she almost cried.

 

 

Although a lot of things changed for Kagome, her love for oden did not.

 

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The female wolf now found herself looking sadly down at two empty bowls. Even though she was stuffed she felt like she wanted to cry. She had tried to take her time eating, she really did, but she just couldn't do it. After the first couple of bites, she practically inhaled it.

 

 

Looking down at the bowls one last time, she stood up and straightened her clothes out before leaving. Once outside, she sighed as she looked at the sky. By the time she would get up the hill, the sun will have almost set.

 

 

`I'm not sure I want to go back just yet.' She felt her feet walking and decided that she would go somewhere in the woods before she would go back to the others.

 

 

 

Kagome found she wanted a little more time to herself and to relax alone before she and the others needed to be on their feel again, following Kiba. She briefly wondered if Paradise was real. Could there be only a place that existed with wolves and no humans? It almost seemed unheard of. This task…it almost seemed like they were wasting their time but…many thoughts came rushing to her head but she ignored them and sadly remembered that she had nowhere else to go. Plus she had already grown somewhat attached to the group so she couldn't leave them.

 

 

Kagome made it up the hill just as the sun was setting which was her prediction. She headed off in no particular direction. She didn't need to be back at a certain time so she didn't really feel like she was going to get in trouble.

 

 

 

She kept walking through the forest until she came to a stream. She figured the rest of the group was up stream since she couldn't smell any other source of water around the area.

 

 

Quietly sitting down on the floor Indian style, Kagome let the tension in her body and her aching muscles relax. A firefly landed on her leg, catching her attention. She studied it, watching the light from the small insect go on then off before it flew away.

 

 

Letting herself fall to the ground to lie on her back, she stretched her legs out in front of her. The soft flow of the water relaxed her as she closed her eyes. The forest was relatively quiet aside from the crickets. Their songs were also somewhat calming.

 

 

A rather large twig snapped and Kagome leapt to her feet. Her heart was pounding in her chest, a little forest animal couldn't have made that large of a sound and Kagome expected the worst to happen. Her eyes searched desperately for where the sound came from. She caught some movement out of the corner of her eye from behind a tree and watched as a lone figure came out from behind it.

 

 

“Kagome-chan?”

 

 

Instantly Kagome's threatening demeanor turned to shock. She recognized that voice. It was…

 

“Hojo? What are you doing out here?” she managed to get out. He wasn't wearing that weird uniform like the last time they had run into each other. He was now wearing a rather nice coat with long dark pants.

 

 

“I saw you coming out of a restaurant and decided to follow you so maybe we could talk since the last time we didn't get a chance to.” He looked innocently at her and he walked towards her.

 

 

If her heart rate could have possibly sped up more, it did. Kagome was consumed with fear, she knew she could possibly hurt Hojo, or worse, kill him. With every step he took her mind flashed with sickening thoughts of her attacking him.

 

 

“There's nothing to talk about” she said quickly, taking a step back every time he advanced.

 

“But Kagome, we haven't seen each other in a while.” He held his hand out and it would have touched her shoulder if she didn't have moved.

 

 

“Don't touch me,” she said threateningly, hoping he would get the message and listen.

 

 

To her horror he didn't and she closed her eyes as she braced herself. “Kagome I-”

 

“Don't touch me!”

 

Time seemed to stop in that instant and Kagome opened her eyes to look at Hojo's saddened face. She turned her head away from his direction and strangely noticed that there were many fireflies out. The light emitting from them was captivating.

 

 

Reluctantly, she turned back towards Hojo who was still staring sadly at her.

 

Before she could say something, a large, snarling white blur dropped from the sky in front of Kagome and landed on Hojo's chest. Kagome's eyes widened when it finally registered that it was Kiba on Hojo and it looked like he was going to eat him alive.

 

She looked to see Hojo almost traumatized as he tried to get the white wolf off of him, but he wouldn't budge. She watched in morbid fascination, as spots of blood appeared where Kiba was digging his nails into Hojo's chest.

 

 

Kagome shook her head violently. “Stop! Don't hurt him! Please!” She screamed, tears coming to her eyes. “Please…don't kill him,” the tears started to flood down her face as she dropped to her hands and knees, squeezing her eyes shut. Minutes that seemed like hours passed for Kagome until the growling stopped and she looked up to find Kiba standing in front of her looking down at her.

 

 

Using his head, Kiba nudged her to stand up gently. Her gaze immediately went to Hojo and found him looking at her. She couldn't imagine how scared he must have been. She noticed the frightened look in his eyes before Kiba started to insistently push her away from Hojo with his head. She kept looking in his direction even after he disappeared from sight.

 

 

The last thing Hojo remember seeing before he passed out, was a white wolf pushing a reluctant black wolf out of view with Kagome nowhere in sight.

 

 

 

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OOO Another chapter =) and this one is actually pretty long in my opinion. Sorry for the long wait, I haven't really had the time or energy to write this chapter but here it is. Enjoy and please review ~

 

 

Dark Paine