'' you heard? apparently the elders finaly decided to get rid of the chieftain''

'' he had it coming... a wolf that wants peace! ha! it's in our blood to kill and to destroy!''

a black haired wolf boy heard this conversation, his legs stopped and they started trembling, he slowly turned away with his head looking at the floor, he started walking.

'no... they are lying...' he hurried his pace, he started running, he attracted the attention of many of his clansmen, he didn't care.

'I'll get to home... mom and dad will be there...' he started tearing up, it couldn't be true.

the boy reached his home, the biggest hut in all the village the one reserved for the chieftain, his father.

''you have to take kurokami and go to the grey wolves, grandpa wolfang will take care of both of you...'' the boy, kurokami heard a woman's voice coming from the hut, it was his mother ginokami.

''m-mom... i-is dad ok?!'' kurokami asked his mother, he was afraid, afraid of the awnser he was going to get, yet, he couldn't help it, was there a chance?

''those bastards...'' his mother looked at the side with a disgusted face '' they ambushed us while we were hunting, your father stayed back gaining time for us...'' her eyes seemed to sparkle as a liquid was being generated by them.

''I told your sister to take you to the grey wolves there my father will take care of you'' she wasn't a black wolf, she was from one of the clans of the north, she had a beautiful silver hair that reached her back, she also had a slim figure filled with muscles and a mildly tanned skin, his father kibou met her in one of his 'diplomacy travels' , they quickly fell for the other, his dad loved the powerful and savage nature of ginokami when she hunted and she loved his pursue for a united forest under the wolf's banner, but, that dream ended today.

''mom, you sound as if you weren't coming with us...'' he knew, yet he wanted to see, to see if there was any other way.

ginokami turned her back on kurokami and said nothing, after some painful seconds she moved to the chest in the hut, she always had a pair of shortswords and a short bow in the chest for emergencies, she took the weapons and said coldly '' shirinu take your brother and go to the grey wolves they are at 12h on foot to the north, I'll stay in the village, I will show them why I'm called 'the best huntress in all the forest' it seems that they need a reminder.''

shirinu was a ten years old wolf girl that had a pure white hair, she was kurokami's big sister as he was only 5 years old, she had a ponytail and she usualy played with kurokami whenever he got tired of training.

''mo-'' kurokami tried to weakly call his mother, the mental sock of both his parents abandoning him forever had hurt him greatly, but he was cut of by a word from his loving sister.

''kurokami'' his everloving sister said with a cold voice to kurokami.

''kurokami'' she called out again, trying to get his attention, his eyes still seeing how his mother prepared to die...

''KUROKAMI'' she screamed, kurokami turned to his sister, what he saw was going to be forged in his mind for years to come.

she was crying yet her face showed no expresion, as if the tears were but an illusion, her eyes were unfocused and all the limbs in her small body were tensed, she hated herself for not being able to do more than run, yet she knew, better two sons alive and two parents three feet under than a dead family, that day a big part of her soul died, yet she couldn't show weakness, not in front of her small brother, she was going to protect the last part of family that was left.

''kurokami, take your dagger we will go in a minute '' his sister said without giving him a choice.

''b-but mom a... and d-'' he tried, he couldn't help it, he was already starting to miss them.

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''TAKE. YOUR. DAGGER. we will go in a minute.'' she said looking at him with the unfocused eyes looking at the deepest part of his soul.

[SIX HOURS LATER]

kurokami and shirinu were heading thowards the grey wolves territory with a constant speed, they were kids, they had short legs, they knew that in some moment the clan would catch up...

kurokami's face was filled with tears and snot while shirinu's was filled with seriousness, yet they knew 'they are close' it also meant that the 'distraction' was no longer 'working'.

[THREE HOURS LATER, AT 30min. BY WALK UNTILL GREY WOLVES TERRITORY]

''GET THOSE BASTARDS, LEAVE NO KID OF THOSE DEMONSPAWNS ALIVE'' one of the clansmen said.

''THAT SON OF A BITCH KILLED MOST OF THE ELDERS, LET'S CAPTURE THEM AND USE THEM AS SKINNING PRACTICE'' one of the last elders screamed this at the brothers.

'' THAT WHORE KILLED MOST OF OUR HUNTERS, LET'S CUT THEIR LIMBS'' this was said by the second best unter in the clan.

'' I JUST WANT TO RAPE THE GIRL THEN YOU CAN DO WHATEVER TO HER BODY!!! HHEHEHEHEHE!!!'' this was said by the fattest and ugliest clansman of the whole forest.

kurokami and shirinu were runing, they started runing half an hour ago when the one that usually gave them bread free every day recogniced them and then he called the clan.

kurokami was almost gasping for air, even if he was a wolf-kin he was only five years old and he had only started training a year ago, sprinting was taking a lot of him.

shirinu had it better, she also started training at four so she had quite the quantity of energy left, but, both brothers realiced something... one before the other.

the one to notice this was surprisingly kurokami, he realiced that even though shirinu still had a lot of energy left, she was slowing down, they were slowly catching up, he was a deadweight, so, even with his cowardly nature h decided to do something.

'run? no stamina, taunt? only made things worse, jump? why would that help...' he then had a new idea, yet he didn't like it.

shirinu felt something slipping from her hand, it was kurokami's hand, he stood there in the middle of the forest.

''KUROKAMI, TAKE MY HAND!!'' shirinu screamed, she couldn't lose another one, much less his brother,

''shirinu... live a good life, please...'' this was of course what was on kurokami's head, the actual words were:

''SHI-SHIRINU!!!! *snif* *cough* L-LIV- *snif*-LIVE A GOO*blergh* *cough*A GOOD LIFE!!!! * crying sounds* '' he was afraid, but he knew that this was the best way, even though only one would survive at least that made more survivors than expected if they continued just runing.

''KUROKAMI WHAT ARE YOU SAYING!! COME!! TAKE MY HAND!!!''

''do you want the both of us to die *sniffff* o-or you prefer one of us living *cough*, I'm a deadweight, I have no talent, I have no friends, my parents just died, my sister is under mortal risk, my clansmen wich I tought as family are chasing me till I die... a great birthay, right shirinu?'' he looked at shirinu with a smile, It was true, everything started yesterday night, now It was another morning, today it was suposed to be kurokami's sixth birthday, were he could eat for his first time recently hunted prey, it was suposed to be a great and happy day, but, well.

shirinu felt as if the sea was being generated in her eyes, she knew that keeping him might have killed them both, yet she refused to let him die, now she could decide, stay with her brother and try to kill a great number or survive to tell the tale, inform the allied clans and seek revenge, I will just say that her soul was right now but a mere eco from what it used to be.

''you better survive...'' she mumbled while crying and she ran, faster than ever before, even faster than the adults.

''LOOK, THE LITTLE PUP THINKS HE IS A WOLF! HAHAHAHAH!!!'' that was the first victim.

kurokami might have been a mere kid, but he was still the son of two of the best wolf-kin while he had no talents compared to shirinu and his parents he was still quite powerful himself and more with the transformation of the animal-kin , his tear and snot filled face changed to look more feral, his hair grew and it had a silver sheen, his claws grew and his teeth sharpened, he had trnasformed.

the transformation only lasted 5 minutes and it ereased every bit of conciousnes of the user and it made the body work by instinct.

kurokami charged to the guy who talked and he jumped to his throat biting it off and filling the clansman face with snot, the second one expected him, but he didn't spect a claw to his testicles while passing under his legs kurokami ripped his head off, and this murder spree continued for five more minutes leaving the forest with 45 new corpses.

after the transformation he only killed one and then six came to 'put him in his place', what followed was a beating that even made gods feel insecure in their personal heavens, the boy no longer had the healthy white color of skin, it was now red with purple and black, then the clansmen threw him off a clif to finish the deed.

yet he survived the fall and this were his thoughts 'I SWEAR TO EVERY EXISTING GOD THAT IF YOU SAVE ME I'LL BECOME YOUR BEST FOLLOWER!!!'' he kept doing this for 1h straight , he then discarded everithing and just accepted his death, not without thinking 'if I had power, I could have saved my family, or helped us scape, or helped my sister when they catched up' this and many other thoughts fused together creating a pure energy entitiy that had no especialization, no domain, power was his objetive and power will be his means.