Chapter 1: The Girl with a Red Hood

Black.

That was the only thing Kunihiro saw, he also heard a painful ringing in his head. 'It's so hard to think' he thought. 'What happened? All I remember was a successful mission, then returning home... But that's all I can gather...'

As the ringing started to subside, Kunihiro slowly opened his eyes to the light. He then looked around the area, a normal lush green forest, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary, except for his teammates were nowhere to be found. 'Hope they're ok...' Kunihiro then shook his head at the thought. 'No. They're all capable warriors, they'll be fine.' Smiling to himself, he then got up, taking a step forward... only to fall flat on his face. 'As I hope I will too..' just as he was back up on his feet again, he heard a inhuman growl coming from the bushes.

At that sound, everything in Kunihiro's body was on edge, grasping his sword tightly he looked around. "Who's there?" Cautiously asked Kunihiro, suddenly a very large shadowy figure came out of the bushes, it was a large black wolf glowing red eyes and a white bone mask to match the plates and spikes on its back, taking his sword out of it's sheath, Kunihiro took a few steps back in intimidation but nonetheless stood his ground.

The creature growled and started to circle around the boy, as if measuring his strength. The creature then lunges at the blue eyed warrior with a ferocious roar, Kunihiro just barely moves away in time to avoid its teeth, the creature snarls, getting ready to lunge again. Kunihiro made an uneasy grin, the creature then ran and went to slice at him but he jumped and swung his sword downward, cutting down it's arm. Roaring in pain, the wolf grabbed Kunihiro's leg and threw him into a tree, splintering it, and knocking out his sword out of his hand. Groaning and shakily getting up, Kunihiro looked up to see a claw about to slash at his face. Kunihiro shut his eyes and braced himself.

Bang!

A gun shot rang through the air, and a roar of pain was heard, then silence. Kunihiro opened his eyes, looked up and saw a red hooded figure, holding a red gun (he thinks..) 'Mutsunokami would love to see that' Kunihiro thought humorously. It reminded him of one of the stories he heard Ichigo tell the Tantous about a girl in a red hood and a big bad wolf. He chuckled breathlessly, feeling as if the story had a twist to it.

"Hey, are you ok?" Asked the red hooded figure. Taking off her hood it revealed a pale, short black haired girl with red highlights, she looked rather young, but ironically, so did he. "Yes I am." He finally said, standing up using the cracked tree as leverage. "Oh that's good! I heard a roar and so I went ahead to check it out." Explained the girl.

"U-um, by the way," she continued,fidgeting with her weapon, "my name's Ruby. Ruby Rose." 'She doesn't seem like the most social of people..'Kunihiro smiled and took his hand of the tree "my name is Horikawa Kunihiro" then bowed his head slightly "nice to meet you, Rose-San."