Recap:

Upon waking up, you inhale and are instantly afraid. The air is humid and thick with the scent of blood. Wolven blood.

Breathing heavily, your eyes dart side to side, and you notice the bodies of Tsume, Hige, Toboe, Kiba, and Cheza.

Tears sting at your eyes as you see them in this condition. You know that Kiba and the others must have come after you, and were caght and demolished by the golden eyed man. Darcia, as Cheza had called him. Lying closest to you was Kiba. Looking at youself, you noticed that you were drenched in blood, but it wasn't yours.

It was Kiba's.

Tears couldn't hold themselves in for any longer, and they streamed down your cheecks, hot against your cold, pale face. You crawled over to the other, and placed them around you. None of them stirred. You feared te worst, as you burried your face in Kiba's hair and, like you never had before, you cried.

As she cried, Tsuyu noticed Cheza's eyes flutter open softly.

"Cheza..." She whimpered, her fists loosening its relentless grasp on Kiba's hair.

"This one is alright, but..." Cheza looked around her as she sat up, "but, the wolves are not alright..."

Tsuyu stroked Toboe's hair, though still clutching Kiba's. Memories flooded her mind as she began to recall the time that she had first met Toboe, and that his curious self couldn't help but follow her into the human's lab... and how kind the woman Cher had been, and how she had threatened her in return... How Tsuyu first met Kiba, and how he attacked her... and how Tsume had never really accepted her, and trusted her... while Hige had welcomed her to the pack with open arms...

The sliver wolf burried her face into Toboe's hair and sobbed uncontrollably.

"You... you are... so... weak... dry... your face, girl..."

Tsuyu gasped and shot her head up at the voice that spoke to her. She looked around, and realized that it was Tsume who was speaking to her.

"Tsume..." She breathe, almost unable to believe it, yet relieved that it is true.

"You're alive..."

"Don't go getting all teary-eyed on me now. I don't want your sympathy."

His voice was cold and harsh as always, but she smiled all the same, detecting a hint of calmity in his voice.

Her eyes scaned over the limp bodies of the other wolves, her gaze holding a look of sadness and a newfound hate in them.

Right now, she had only one solid plan in her mind:

Revenge.

"I wouldn't worry so much about their well-being right now," Tsume snapped loudly, jerking Tsuyu from her thoughts on revenge.

She gazed over at Tsume, and saw him eyeing Cheza's wounds.

"You should cover her wounds. Kiba would be livid if anything happened to the girl."

Tsume dozes off on the tree trunk behind him, leaving her to tend to Cheza's wounds alone.

'Damn Darcia...,' Tsuyu cursed to herself, tearing off cloth from her pantleg in order to cover Cheza's gashing leg wound.

'Why he didn't just take Cheza? Not that I'm complaining... But the next time that I ever lay eyes on Darcia, my hands will be drenched in his blood... this is not just a threat to you, Darcia, you loathesome bastard. This is a promise, an oath. I swear it. Hige, Toboe, and Kiba... you all will be avenged-'

Tsuyu jumped when she felt hands on her sides.

Her gaze shot behind her to see a weak smiling face greeting her, dispite the wounds scathing his cheerful complexion...

"Jumpy much?" He asked, snickering.

"Hige!!" Tsuyu exhaled, flinging her arms around his neck. She accounted him flinch and wince slightly in pain, so she retracted her arms.

"What about the others...?" She murmured, fearing the worst.

"Now I know that shrimpy here is wake, I heard him talking in his sleep a second ago..."

Hige poked Toboe with his index finger, which caused Toboe to groan in pain and coil up into a ball. Toboe clenched his fists until his knuckles were white. A tear trickled down his cheek. He whimpered in his slumber, curling into a tighter ball.

"He's having nightares... he gets'em all the time, it's nothing that you should worry about..."

Hige flashed her a reassuring grin, but she couldn't find it in herself to return it, as one member of the pack was still down...

She crawled over to Kiba, having tended to Cheza's wounds, and stroked his hair gingerly.

Hige watches her, as Toboe sits up groggily. The tan wolf cub rubbed his eyes groggily and attempted to stretch, when he groaned out in pain, remembering his wounds the hard way.

"I'll go get some grub," Hige announced, struggling to stand, but his legs buckle horribly, and he collides clumsily back to the earth.

"No, I'll go get it," Tsuyu insisted, tearing away from Kiba's motionless body.

Standing, she glance at Tsume, who had been blessed over with slumber.

"Watch them, Hige," She requested, before taking off into the forest.

Tsuyu returned three hours later, but all she could manage to hunt in that time period, being in her injured state, is a single deer and a few rabbits.

"I'm sorry, this is the best I could do..." She whispered healf-heartedly, silently cursing her weakness.

"It'll do," The awakened Tsume growled, savagely ripping the hind leg of the deer from its corpse.

Hige and Toboe each feast on seperate rabbits, while Tsuyu took the third, making her way over to Kiba.

Tsuyu pleaded the heavens for his survival as she waved the rabbit temptingly over his nostrils, hoping that he would inhale its scent and awaken to feast on its lavish flesh.

"Don't waste your energy," Tsume snapped as coldly as ever.

Tsuyu recieved the hint in his tone, especially after no one replied to him, and she could have sworn that she heard Toboe sniffle slightly.

"He's not dead," Tsuyu whispered hoarsely, after trying to hold back on coming tears. Appearently, she wasn't loud enough to be heard, or everyone thought she was full of it, as no one answered her.

"Kiba... please..."

"I told you," Tsume scoffs icily.
"Kiba's gone. He has no pulse, no signs of living at all."

He paused, before continuing,

"Tomorrow morning, we leave."

"But, what about Blue?" Hige demanded, deserting his rabbit.

"We promised to stay here until she came back from Pop-"

"Promises are always made to be broken," Toboe sniffs, his tears falling onto the remainder of his rabbit.

Tsuyu ceased her swinging of the rabbit, and everyone's eyes turned to Toboe, including hers and Tsume's. His head was bowed and his face hidden by his auburn curtain of hair, but it was beyond evident how he felt.

"Kiba's alive!" Tsuyu screamed in anguish.

Tsume glared at her, and Hige blinked at her. Toboe didn't move.

"He's alive in there, he just hasn't come to yet..."

Tsuyu mentally decided that she would feed Kiba herself.

She propped him up against her arm for support. Then, she took a bite out of the rabbit. It felt a little awkward to her, but if it was the only way to keep Kiba alive...

After she had chewed the rabbit thouroughly, she placed her mouth on Kiba's, and with her tounge, she pushed the food into his mouth. She poured little precious water into his mouth, easing the meat down.

Cheza, who Tsuyu hadn't seen since she returned from hunting, showed herself from behind the same tree that Tsume had fallen asleep on.

"I think that this wolf is still alive," She murmurs.

Tsuyu smiled half-heartedly.

"I know he's still alive. That's why I'm feeding him. I'm not ready to give up on him just yet."

She chewed up more of the rabbit, feeding it to Kiba again and again like the first time. After the rabbit was completely gone, with the occasional bite Tsuyu took out of it herself, she rested Kiba back onto the earth, then lied down herself, exausted with a sense of defeat.

She slipped into the world of dreams, and had nightmares of Darcia, the others, and of Kiba's demise...

That's all I've got. Remember- Five reviews until I update again.