★───☆ZAKURA☆────★
- A tale of Separate Winds part 1 -
The family of Zakura had always known she was different from everyone else, and not just because she had a name, and they didn't. Zakura wasn't what they where, but she was, at the same time. After all, she had ears, a nose, eyes, paws, and when hurt, she would bleed, just like they did. Only Zakura's hind legs where oddly long, and she grew longer hair on her head than her paws. Zakura was useless when hunting, because her eyes and nose didn't work properly, but she was a really handy pup in winter, when the rest of her family cannot reach the higher leafs and fruits. She was just like everyone, but, handicapped, they'd tell her, that was all.
When the others where hunting one day, Zakura stayed behind in the camp, forced to look after the younger pups, together with the weaker and older of her pack. Not that she minded that much, she loved taking care of the smaller ones who would play with her not caring she was different and just the same at the same time. Zakura could not hurt them, since she didn't have sharp claws, but she was big enough to help practicing hunting rabbits, which would help the younger ones to become better hunters. It was on that morning the eldest had called for hunt after a strange scent had entered their domain. A scent everyone hated as much as they loved the One Moon they answered to: The scent of Humans.
Zakura was commanded to look after the pups in hiding, making sure they would not make too many loud sounds. She was to listen to the elders at all times, for she could not smell the humans, but they could. That is the way the incomplete pack waited, hidden in caves and holes in the ground, for their family to return. Yet, after a 3 moons, they had not returned. The pups had grown restless and hungry, and the elders had to leave in search of what food they could find. Winter had long since arrived, and the only available food where some leafs and hidden fruits. It wasn't much, but the pups needed to eat.
And it was on that day, humans found the pack.
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Zakura (One-Shot)
Short StoryA one shot to try and get me out of my holliday-writers-block. Zakura tells the story of a human living among a pack of wolfs, in charge of looking after the pups when hunters enter their territory. Will she be found out?
