My Paradise (Wolf's Rain Fan-Fic)

Chapter 14

Yuna's P.O.V.

I snarl and bite at the pole connected to the string around my neck. Everytime I struggled against it, the string got tighter and tighter. I'll die before I work for these idiots. Clearly biting at the pole did nothing, so I focus on the human instead. His leg was the closest, so I snap at it, making him dodge me, which in turn made him lose his balance, in the process he accidentally let go of the pole. I ran as fast as I could, dodging other humans, all my attention was on them, which meant I wasn't watching where I was going, and ended up cornering myself. The pole and string was still stuck around my neck. I snarl and bear my teeth at the humans who surrounded me, there was only a few, but I still had no way out. I try to come up with a plan of escape as the humans closed in. I notice a flash of white out of the corner of my eye. Kiba was awake and was charging at the harnessed wolves, but Zali comes out of no where, and stops him. Though I understand Kiba's actions, the wolves here chose to pull those loads, it's not like they were forced. I turn back towards the humans surrounding me. Now how do I get out of this? I quickly glance at the pole attached to me as an idea comes to mind. I swat at the pole with my tail, which brings it up off the ground, just enough for me to catch it in my mouth. I lock my jaw on it and swing the pole at the humans' legs, knocking them over. I jump over them and run off the tracks. The damn pole was still attached to my neck, but I ignored it, and kept running. Tsume, Hige, and Toboe come running from my left side, unaware that I was there, until they ram into me. I yelp from the impact. "Yuna?! Where the hell did you come from?" Hige asks rubbing his head. "Yuna!" Toboe yells happily getting up off the ground. I try to get up but something was caught on the pole attached to my neck. "What the?" Tsume says sitting up and picking up the pole from under him. I struggle against the pole, which makes the string around my neck get tighter and tighter until I start struggling for breath, and collapse onto the ground panting. I whine and place my head onto my front paws and continue to pant. "Hige, Toboe, go get Kiba. I gotta get this off of her." Tsume says. They nod and start running again. Tsume turns back to me. "Stay still." he says and starts to slowly pry the string from around my neck. I continue to pant and whine. Inch by inch, the string lets off slack, until finally he's able to remove it. "Better?" he asks. I get up as a human. "Yeah...thanks." I say. He nods. Hige and Toboe return soon after, supporting an injured Kiba between them. "Zali got him pretty bad." Hige says. "Lets go back to the graveyard. Before any more trouble starts." I say. Once there, we bandage Kiba's wounds, and soon after, Zali and the rest show up, carrying the old man. Once he's burried, Zali and the rest of his pack leave. "Well, at least he let us stay longer." I say rubbing my neck. "Yuna...are you sure your neck is ok? You seem to be rubbing it alot." Toboe says placing fresh leaves on Kiba's wounds. "I'll be fine." I say and walk away.

Tsume's P.O.V.

"These should hopefully help his wounds heal a little faster." he says. "It's typical, he never thinks first. Damn Kiba." Hige says. "He couldn't watch that, without doing something about it." Toboe says. "Still, he shouldn't have butted in." I say. "Tsume.." he says looking at me. I roll my eyes and look towards Yuna, who had stopped a few yards away, and leaned against a tree. Somethings wrong, I can tell... "Let's just go, get the hell out of here." I say looking back at the other two. "But...we can't move Kiba now!" Toboe says. "Which is exactly why we should have gotten out yesterday!" Hige says. "Whatever happened to living here had alot more going for you than you thought?" I ask. He looks away. Kiba wakes up. "Lets go." he says trying to sit up. Toboe pushes him back down. "No wait, you're not going anywhere with these wounds and an empty stomach!" Toboe says. "Well, I know sombody here who has a stuffed gut." I say looking at Hige. "Hey! You were the ones who didn't eat, Cole was nice enough to bring us food and you guys had left! It's rude to let food waste! I had no choice but to eat it all myself, someone had to do it!" Hige defends himself. "You could have left us some." Toboe says. "Well you were the ones who wandered off by yourselves, not me!" Hige says. "Did you have a nice time on your date?" I ask sarcastically. He sighs. "I don't know, there was something about her, that seemed kind of lonely." he says. "So what do we do? We gotta do something..." Toboe asks. "Oh! Like imposing on Cole's hospitality for a while?" Hige asks excited. "No, like you getting us something to eat by yourself!" I say. "By myself?!" Hige says shocked. I just stare at him. "Eh! Alright, I'm going!" he says and walks away. I look back at Yuna, who still leaned against a tree, a few yards away. Toboe sees this and gets up. "I'll go find more herbs for his wounds." he says and runs off. I look back at Kiba. He'll be fine, he's not going anywhere. I walk towards Yuna.