Wolf's Rain Fan Fiction ❯ The Moon's Tears ❯ Scent Of Lunar Flower ( Chapter 2 )

Authoress: I can't use the internet on weekdays until my grades improve (or until I go to my mom's house, my parents are divorced) so most the of the updates for this story will happen on the weekend so about 1-2 chapters a week. Thanks for the reviews!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!^-^ *hugs everybody*

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Chapter 2 of The Moon's Tears: Scent Of Lunar Flower

Khota woke up on the hard cold cement floor in the abandoned and rundown tenement with Aki, Baku and Rayne curled up close next to her, who were still in a deep sleep.

She opened her eyes slowly and carefully sat up as though not to disrupt the others. She got onto her feet and stretched in the dead silence of the night as she heard the faint chirping of crickets outside. Khota paced quietly over to the room's window and sat on the sill looking out at the black sky with it's endless number of stars and bright glowing white crescent moon that brightened up the dark sky a little.

She remembered when she was little, she used to try to count the stars as she sat next to her brother who was busy trying to get her to play with him.

This memory caused her to take out her locket and look at it. She traced her fingers over the heart and opened it with a faint 'click' sound as she smiled at what was engraved inside. "I'll always love you, from your brother, Hige." a tear rolled down her cheek, she remembered the day he left her and gave her this. She recalled how she stood and read what was written in it and how sad it had made her.

She leaned on the sill's frame and sighed. She wanted to see Hige again so badly, so missed him so much and she wondered if he missed her as well. After all, the were brother and sister.

She pushed a stray lock of her hair out of her face and closed her eyes lightly as a gentle breeze wafted by, lifting her thin hair off her shoulders a little. It felt cool on her face as she opened her eyes slowly.

"Hige…" Khota whispered putting her chin in her hand. The name seemed almost foreign to her, like it wasn't familiar at all.

Her heart felt heavy as she continued her plain gaze at the night sky. He promised that they'd see each other again and now she realized she had been childishly foolish to believe him. He never meant for them ever to met again. She hated being lied to, it was as if someone had stabbed him in the heart with the sharpest knife and was twisting it around to make her suffer.

She blinked quickly to stop a tear from escaping her eye slouched where she sat. Then she saw something that she had not seen since she was little and living with her brother. A flash of light streaked across the sky and she recalled what her brother had told her about shooting stars. "If you see one, any wish you make on it will come true." she repeated verbatim. She tilted her head to the side and smiled slightly, "I wish to see my brother again…"

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Khota woke up the next morning still sitting in the window sill. She rubbed her eyes and yawned as the sun felt like it was burning her eyes, she didn't remember when she had fallen asleep.

She glanced over to Aki, Baku and Rayne and shook her head when she saw that they were still sleeping despite the fact the sun's light had filled the room. Not leaving one crevice untouched by it's radiant rays.

She stood up and walked over to Rayne and knelt down so she hovered over him. Khota stroked his silky black fur with her hand softly. She felt him shift a little and whimper as she scratched his ear. Rayne unconsciously snuggled his head against her hand in dreamy pleasure. She had always liked how smooth his hair was, it felt velvety, not coarse or rough.

He opened his eyes leisurely and looked at her, "Had trouble sleeping last night?"

Khota frowned a little, "No." she withdrew her hand a little bit and looked at him, "Why?"

He lifted his head up into her lap, "You've been having trouble for the past few nights is all."

Khota scratched his neck, "That means nothing." she whispered not wanting to disturb Aki and Baku who were starting to stir restlessly in their sleep. Khota sighed and looked at him, "Can we please change the subject?" She didn't want to talk about her sleepless nights because it had to do with something personal that he and the others would never understand.

"Sure." Rayne said. "So what do you want to talk about?"

"Anything." Khota said mildly in response.

"What do you think?" Rayne asked.

She furrowed her brows, "What do I think about what?"

"Paradise." Rayne stated simply.

"Oh…" she said silently, "I don't know…why?"

"You said to talk about something else." Rayne sighed heavily. "Isn't this a better topic of conversation."

Khota put her chin in her hands, resting her elbows on her knees, "I guess. What do you think about it?"

"Sounds cool, if it even exists I mean." Rayne maneuvered himself so he was laying on his back and staring up at the cracks on the cement ceiling. "I wonder what it would look like if it was real."

"Well…it is Paradise, so I imagine it looks like it would in dreams. Beautiful multi-colored flowers, endless fields of them with green grass, crystal clear lakes, huge forests and absolutely gorgeous sun rises and sunsets." Khota said as if painting a picture of it in her mind as she went. "And lots of other animals too besides wolves perhaps." She added.

"Humans you think?" Rayne asked.

Khota bit her bottom lip thoughtfully, "Maybe…not that we would probably want them there." She glanced over at the sleeping form of Aki, "Why do think she doesn't believe in it?"

Rayne shrugged slightly, "She's older than us and to her that means she can't believe in fairy tales like that."

Khota frowned, "Baku is only a little younger than she is and he believes in it."

"That's because before Aki and I met him, before we met you, that was what he was searching for. After he and Aki's first argument the next day he dropped the subject until yesterday and you heard how that goes…" Rayne trailed off.

"Oh," Khota mumbled, only having heard half of what he had said, "Do you believe in it then?"

Rayne was quiet for a few seconds before answering, "I don't know, it doesn't really matter anyway."

"Why doesn't it matter to you?" Khota asked.

"It just doesn't besides, some wolves have wasted their lives away in pursuit of it. I'm happy with what I have right here and now." He answered truthfully.

"And what's that?" She asked looking at him strangely.

"What's what?"

She sighed, "What do you have that makes you happy?"

"Three great friends."

"That sounds so corny," she muttered biting on her nails.

Rayne smirked, "To you it sounds corny but I bet you're happy with the same thing."

"Perhaps…" she said. She wasn't truly happy with them for they couldn't replace the one thing she really desired in her heart, but it was better than being all alone in the world with nobody. It was odd though, the entire time she knew Rayne he had never mentioned that being with them made him happy. He was always the serious type, but over the time she knew him, he had gotten much more happier with things and probably the same went for herself as well. "You've changed a lot over the time we've known each other."

"Is that a compliment?" he asked smiling.

"If you want it to be one."

Rayne rolled his eyes sarcastically, not hiding the grin on his face.

A draft of wind floated through the air in the tenement, making the smile on his face disappear. "Crap." he said sniffing the light breeze that had come in through the building's window.

"What is it?" Khota asked sniffing the air herself.

"Humans, can't you smell them?" Rayne said narrowing his eyes.

"So? The city's full of them." Khota said feeling a bit bewildered. It was normal to smell the disgusting scent of humans in the city.

Rayne crept over the window sill and peered out carefully and cautiously. "Not just any humans, police."

"Eh? They're police in every city." Khota countered

"Sometimes it surprises me how dense you are." Rayne said with an annoyed tone. He went over to Aki and lightly shook her.

She yawned and opened her eyes, "What's up?"

"They're police outside the building." Rayne whispered.

Aki's eyes widened like saucers, "You don't think-"

"It's likely." Rayne cut her off. "They have guns and everything out there."

Aki rubbed her eye and nudged Baku, "Wake up idiot!" she hissed.

Baku lazily looked at her, "What?"

"We're getting out of here now, just in case." she informed them. "You never know with these humans."

They all stood up and turned into their human forms and slowly exited the room, trying not to make their footsteps in the cement hallway heard or the footsteps as they went down the stairs.

"How do we know they're after us?" Khota spoke softly.

"We don't." Aki replied gently, "But we're not taking chances."

Rayne nodded in agreement, "It's always better to be cautious with them. You never know what they might be up to and it's quite possible they found out about us."

"How?" Baku inquired, "We were careful about erasing our footprints and everything behind us."

"Jagara isn't a stupid noble, she knows how to track us wolves." Aki said she stepped off the last stair.

"A smart noble who knows how to find us." Baku said through gritted teeth, "Great, just great."

They went over to the exit and Rayne slowly opened the door which lead to a desolate alleyway and leaned outside, then finally stepped outside. He beckoned for them to follow, "Hurry up."

They followed him as they walked through the alley and onto a busy street packed with people.

The four wolves brushed past people hurriedly, but Khota stopped in her tracks as a flower scent filled her nostrils, "Do you smell that?" she asked the others.

Aki sniffed the air and nodded, "Yeah, smells like lunar flower."

"It smells nice." Khota concluded. "I like it, can we follow it?"

"No." Aki said firmly.

"Why not?" Khota demanded.

"Because the last thing we need to do is chase some flower smell around the city. Especially if we don't know if the cops are after us or not." Rayne said.

Khota sighed, but continued walking feeling somewhat distraught. Suddenly she bumped into someone as she was walking and fell onto the ground. "Sorry." she said hastily scrambling to her feet and she looked at who she bumped into and froze.

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Authoress: End of chapter 2. Cliffhanger…