Wolf's Rain Fan Fiction ❯ Love Object ❯ Chapter 1

Title: Love Object

Author: Linkin Fantasy

Pairings: Tsume/Toboe, Hige/Kiba

Disclaimer: Wolf's Rain and the characters of Wolf's Rain belong to their respective owners.

Warning: This story is NC-17. It is not for under age readers.

Chapter One

 The clouds were flooding in over the sky. Dark clouds.... Rain clouds. Kiba felt the hairs pricking up on his arm- that always happened when it was about to storm. Ever since that day, anyway.

A loud boom crashed in the sky. A young boy stood in the forest screaming into the angry sky. "Mmmmooooooommmmyyy, Daaaaaaddy!!!!!!!"

 Another loud crash rushed through Kiba's body, causing him to jump up from his sleep. His face was drenched with sweat however his skin was freezing. Damn it. He cursed in his thoughts. I've got to... I've got to stop this stupid fear of thunder storms before Toboe finds out- Toboe!

 Sliding out of bed, Kiba shoved his feet into his bedside slippers and hurried out of his bedroom. He tried his hardest to be quiet as he walked over the squeeky floor board that was unfortunately right infront of his little brothers bedroom door.

Crea- iiiiik.

 Silently cursing, Kiba twisted the knob of the door pushing it open. Good, he's still asleep. But he was compelled to walk into the bedroom anyway. Crossing the room, Kiba sat himself down beside Toboe's bed in the rocking chair he got him for Christmas one year. What could he do?

Toboe asked for it himself. He said his friend Cheza liked to sit in it and Kiba couldn't say no to that. She was practically the only friend his little brother had!

 Kiba reached out stroking a hand through his little brothers redish hair. I'm sorry Toboe. About everything... But you can never know the truth- I just can't tell you. It would hurt you too much. Moving away from the bed, Kiba crept soundlessly out of the room, closing the door behind him.

 Toboe opened his eyes in his brothers departure and he sighed. He does this every thunder storm. But why? Rolling over on his side, Toboe closed his eyes again trying to fall back asleep but to no avail. "I guess I could watch tv till school later."

 Rolling out of bed, the little red head grabbed the remote control off the dresser and flipped on the television. The light in the room bounced off the wall. Illuminating the colors from the screen all around him. Red, blue, green, white.

 He paused on a channel and blinked. "I wonder what all the hubbubs about?" Turning the volume up only a little bit, he heard that the news people were making a big fuss over some model that just decided to quit, right in the middle of his career. When he had made more money than any model in the agency.

 "People sure report about some weird things." He was just about to change the channel when they flashed a picture of the guy on the screen. Quickly flipping the channel down one. Toboe blushed, changing to another channel. "Ahaha." That guys pretty good looking, I wonder why he would quit all of a sudden?

"Toboe?" He heard his big brother's voice before the door had opened. "What are you doing up? Do you know what time it is?" He asked.

"I woke up and couldn't get back to sleep." Toboe said in his defence. "I just thought I'd watch some tv until I got tired again."

Kiba cocked an eyebrow, but didn't argue with him. "Alright, but when it's time to go to school later, don't think you're gonna use that as your ploy to stay at home."

 "I won't, I promise." His voice sounded huffy. Toboe hated it when Kiba babied him- which was all the time. But he delt with it because, well,  Kiba was all he had. He didn't know what had happened to his mother and father and everytime he asked Kiba never wanted to talk about it.

 It's been that way since he was a little little kid. Around three. At first Toboe just hadn't known anything was wrong until one day, his second grade teacher said the class had to have a parent teacher night. All the other boys and girls had their mothers and fathers there, but for Toboe there was Kiba.

Always and only, Kiba. So after some time he just stopped asking and accepted the fact that wherever his parents were and whoever they were, they weren't coming back. That was that.

"Good night Kiba." He said, letting his brother know that he'd be fine.

"Good night Toboe." Backing out of the room Kiba closed the door, leaving his little brother alone again.

Toboe let out a sigh of relief as he snuggled back into bed. "3:38. I won't be tired." He yawned, closing his eyes.

 Kiba walked back down the hall into his bedroom. He didn't go over to his bed, instead he went over to the window. Sitting himself down on the window seat. The storm continued to rage through the sky, flashes of light and booming sound filled Kiba's ears. He didn't wanna do it, he couldn't call him this early.

With a sigh, Kiba stood up and grabbed his phone anyway. Dialing the number of his best friend and lover, Hige.

The phone rang a few times before the boy picked it up. His eyes were still closed as he did so, so he hadn't realized he had the phone in his hand upside down. "Mm.... Hel- lo?"

"Hige, it's me." Kiba whispered. "Are you there?"

"Huh?" He sat up in bed, trying to wake himself up. "Hello?"

Kiba sighed in a slight frustration, but he had a smile on his face. This happened a lot. "Turn the phone around." He said loud enough for Hige to hear.

"O- oh! Hey Kiba." He sounded more alert now. "What's up?"

 "I just needed to hear your voice that's all." Kiba has been calling Hige as far back as he can remember. It only happened though during a thunder storm. He needed someone and he couldn't go to his brother, because he would start asking him questions again. Kiba couldn't bare them and nothing made him happier than when Toboe had just completely stopped.

"The storm again huh?" Hige asked, bringing Kiba back to earth.

"Yeah, the damn things pop up everywhere in the fall- I'm sorry." He felt bad for waking Hige up, amongst other things- sleeping was Hige's favorite activity- well, next to eating.

"Hey no problem! I like hearing your voice this early, really." He placed his hand over his mouth to shield the yawn.

Kiba was quiet a moment before he said. "Well, I'm kinda out of conversation right now, how 'bout you lead tonight."

"Sure. I can tell you about that time when I lost my tooth at a foot ball game."

Kiba smiled. "That sounds good."

 Hige began his story. Kiba walked over to his bed and crawled in under the blanket. Listening to his lover talk about his happy childhood was a comfort and he hoped that it would help him get some sleep before they had to go to school later that morning. And hopefully when he wakes up, all his storms will have ceased.