Chapter Seven

Secrets, Lies and Danger

Naomi woke up freezing. They had to stop last night because of a combination of the heavy rain and Kouga's injuries, so they had found a place to stay overnight. It was a cave, but it was small and damp, and also very cold, unlike their den. She sat up fast when she realized Kouga's arm wasn't draped over her like it normally was. She looked to her side and there he was, sleeping on his stomach like a baby.

The poor guy was worn out from his battle with the wind sorceress. She closed in the few feet they had between one another and sat down Indian-style and stared contently at his sleeping face.

Now she remembered. He was too badly injured to sleep with her. She laid him down here and helped him with his armor since it was bothering all the gaping wounds up and down his frame. She sat and watched him until he had fallen asleep, and then still a little after, until she could no longer stay awake herself. He hadn't moved and inch since he lied down last night.

Naomi watched as his back went up and down from his steady breathing. Thank god he was still alive. She started running her nails gently up and down his back, avoiding his wounds. She was glad to finally see a peaceful expression on his face. Before she had fallen asleep, he looked pained, from his wounds as well as from loosing his brothers. Now it seemed he was finally sleeping calmly... or at least he was. She noticed a smile creeping across his face as she rubbed his back, his fangs starting to show.

Wondering if he was awake, she said, "Good morning, Kouga." He didn't answer. He was still asleep. She thought about waking him up so he would remember her running her claws over his back, but she didn't because she was worried his peaceful expression would be replaced by the one he wore last night.

She stopped rubbing his back and went to scratching behind his ear. He nuzzled against her hand and his smile grew wider. "Oh, Naomi," he moaned in his sleep.

"Yeah, baby?" she asked, experimenting to see if he could hear her.

"You have the touch of an angel," he responded.

"And it's all for you."

She scratched his ear and his neck for a few minutes before he said anything again.

"Naomi, it's freezing. Are you okay?"

"Fine, I guess. Are you okay?"

He didn't answer. He must have gone back into a deep sleep, but that was fine with her. He needed his rest. She took of her shirt and threw it over Kouga's back and kissed him gently on his temple. She sat back and watched him sleep like a watchdog, never taking an eye off him. She wasn't even sure she was blinking. But she wasn't going to fall back asleep again. Not now. She was going to make sure nothing was going to hurt him, whether it be the little bit of poison he had left running through him or some youkai.

"Naomi..." he murmured.

"Are you awake?" she asked, but with the expression he had had on his face for the past five or so minutes, she realized it was a dumb question.

"Tell me it was all a dream," he said, opening his eyes.

"I wish I could..." she said quietly. She wanted so desperately to make it all go away. "How are you feeling?"

Kouga started to push himself up on his elbows and let out a pained grunt.

"Kouga, don't try to get up," she said, putting an arm under his chest to make sure he wouldn't fall back down. Wanting nothing more than to hold him and make the world right again for him, she scooted closer and helped him turn over and against her. Wrapping her arms around his shoulders, she whispered in his ear, "I'm here for you."

Kouga turned his head so it was resting on her arm and pulled it closer so he buried his face. A single tear trickled down his cheek and then down her arm. "Our tribe has been practically wiped out..." he said painfully. "But..."

"'But' what?" she pushed.

"But it might not be completely gone."

"What do you mean?" she asked entirely lost.

"The good news I had earlier. Naomi, you're pregnant."

"What?! How do you know that?"

"Your scent has changed. I'm surprised you didn't notice... never mind. You can't smell your own scent... I was going to wait for a better moment to tell you, but I don't think we're going to get that moment."

"Oh, my God," she said simply, a smile creeping across her face. "Do you know how many?"

"I can't tell. We'll just have to wait."

"Kouga, this is wonderful!" she exclaimed. "Oh, my God, I don't know what to say."

"How about 'I love you'?" he suggested, raising his hand to run it through her hair.

"I love you," she said kissing him on the top of his head.

"I love you too."

"I'm going to have to go home and get some stuff."

"I figured," he said simply.

"How soon do you think we can go back?"

"As soon as the last of the poison has worked itself out of my system."

"Then I'll ask again: How are you feeling?"

"I've been better," he said with a smile.

"Well, I know that," she said, remembering two nights ago.

After a long pause, Kouga spoke up again. "You're going to have to be more careful from now on."

"I know..." she said solemnly. "Wait, that's why you didn't want me to come with you last night."

"Yeah. I don't care if you can hold your own. I don't want to risk hurting the pups."

"Neither do I, but what are we going to do if we come across a youkai?"

"You won't be out in the open for a while, alright?"

"Kouga, I need exercise, and besides. Nine months is a long time to be stuck in hiding."

"Nine months? What are you talking about?"

"That's just how long it'll take before--"

"Naomi, you aren't human anymore. You're part wolf. It takes more like three."

"Holy shit!" she exclaimed. "...Oww..." she said and looked down at her stomach.

"I think we can go a little later today. How does that sound?"

"Fine."

Kouga and Naomi helped each other down the well and out. Kouga wrapped his arm over her shoulder and she wrapped her arm around his waist as they started down the path to the house. From here, Naomi could see that her mother's car, normally parked beside the house, was gone, so they could safely go inside. After all, she was supposed to be home two days ago.

They stepped inside the house and Naomi didn't hear the familiar sound of the alarm going off.

"That's funny. Mom didn't lock the door or set the alarm," she said.

"If your mom's doing something unusual, maybe we should get out of here quick. This doesn't feel right."

"I feel it too. Okay, why don't you help me so we can get out of her sooner."

"Okay."

"Upstairs there's a bookcase, you remember it. Where I got the black book? There's a book about pregnancy and on two shelves above that, there's a bunch of encyclopedias. Grab the 'W' edition. Go ahead and grab the one that says 'Basic Witchcraft,' too. Then in my room, grab a couple of pillows and head back down here. I'll meet you in the kitchen."

The two went their separate ways. In the kitchen, Naomi grabbed a few hundred dollars out of her family's emergency savings and went to the pantry and grabbed her mothers supply of chocolate, knowing she would be craving it later. Then she went to the closet in the hall and grabbed her book bag and dumped it right there, putting the chocolate and money in outside pockets.

Then Kouga came downstairs, his arms loaded with books and pillows. "Thanks," she said and stepped closer to him and put the book bag under his arms so he could drop it. "Let's get out of here. We need to go shopping for baby supplies." She threw her book bag on her back, took his hand and lead him to the front door, but stopped. "Wait. You need clothes. C'mon." she said and lead him up the steps to her brother's old room. Her mother had kept it the same way since she killed him, half expecting him to return.

Naomi went to the drawers and pulled out a pair of blue jeans, a black, sleeveless shirt, and a blue button up shirt to wear over it. Then socks and a pair of Etnies. "I think you're about my brother's size. If we're going out, I don't want to stand out too much so if my mother has the cops, the FBI, the mafia, whatever, out looking for us, maybe we'll be harder to find."

"Alright." he said simply as she passed him the clothes. She sat down on her brother's bed and waited for him to change, just as he had done for her the last time they were there... only she was enjoying it more than he had. Before, they barely knew each other, so it wasn't as good. Now they were mated, so it was almost like a strip tease for her, only he wasn't focusing his attention on pleasing her. He was more rushed.

Once he was changed, Naomi took a good look at him and smiled. "I think that'll work," she said smiling. "You look good in those clothes."

"Thanks," he said smiling back, but quickly wiped it off his face. "Now let's get the hell out of here."

Out the door, she went down the steps and onto the short paved path to the driveway. There, she stopped in horror. Her mother's car was parked right there, hidden from the back. Her mother had been in the house the whole time. Suddenly, from behind a large tree, two men wearing black suits and sunglasses that hid their eyes came and grabbed them both and cuffed them so neither of them couldn't get away, they throwing the book bag off in the process.

"Hey, what the fuck do you think you're doing?!" Naomi screamed at one of them.

"Your mother wanted you home, Naomi," the guy behind her said. Warning signals flashed in her mind and she recognized the voice, but she couldn't remember who it belonged to.

"Fine, I'm home! Now let us go!" she yelled and tried to free herself from the man's grip. However, he pulled a knife from his back pocket and put it to her neck and she froze, and suddenly, she realized who this guy was.

"Hey, mother fucker, get that knife the hell away from her!" Kouga yelled, baring his fangs. He kicked the guy holding her in the neck and he released her, disoriented. Naomi took the opportunity to get out of their reach. "Naomi run!" Kouga told her.

"What about you?" she asked.

"Just go, dammit!"

Remembering their children, she started to run for the well.

"James! Go the fuck after her!" yelled the guy holding Kouga to the one on the ground.

"Yeah, I'd like to see you function right after that guy hit you," he said taking off after Naomi.

"Naomi look out!" Kouga called and tried to get free of the man's grip, but he smacked him hard in the face, knocking him unconscious.

Naomi turned and looked behind her and she saw the rat bastard James following her; the same guy her father had bought drugs from, and then was killed by. "Shit!" She tried to run faster up the hill but it was hard with her hands behind her back.

"Naomi, get the fuck back here!" he called as she reached the well. She jumped in and she was free.

James trudged defeated back down the hill after searching the well.

"Did you find her?" the second man asked him.

"No. She got away," he said.

"Dammit, you know we won't get payment unless we get her home!"

"Hey, I'll do it, okay. I just need some time. That bitch is fast."

"Whatever. Just get him in the car," he said pointing to Kouga, unconscious, laying against the steps. "The military will pay big bucks for this guy."

Another tear fell down Naomi's face. She hadn't moved from the well. She knew full well that she could have saved the two of them, but she had run. But Kouga had ordered it. He was trying to protect her and their cubs... assuming it was more than one. Oh, excuses be damned! She was going back there. Naomi unlocked the cuffs using her claw like a lock pick and threw them off.

She went back through the well and ran to the front just in time to see the bastards drive away. "Kouga..."she muttered. Then she turned to the house. "Mother..." she said angrily.

Naomi burst through the door. And immediately went to her mother's safe in the next room and put in the combination. It unlocked with a click and she opened the door. The first thing she noticed was that one of the guns was missing. The Luger Pistol. The second, however, the S&W .357 Magnum, was there in its place. Her mother could never tell which one was more powerful.

She took the magnum, slammed the safe shut and stood up. "Mother!" she yelled and started searching the house. The first place she looked was the family room, where she had killed her brother, she found her.

"Please honey. There's no need to yell," she said as she took a swig of beer. Looking at the gun she had in her hand at her side, she continued, "Or violence."

"Mother, do you even know what the fuck you've done?"

"Of course."

"Then why the hell did you get that gang into this?"

"Oh, honey, they've been in it from the very beginning."

"What the hell are you talking about."

"Sit," she said, gesturing to the recliner with her beer bottle and took another swig. Naomi sat down and put her finger on the trigger, expecting her mother to pull hers at any second.

"The reason I remarried your father was to get him over here. I wanted him dead for what he did to you, so I found a local gang and struck a deal. Actually, they're in the mafia, but that doesn't make much difference. I'd pay them five G's if they got rid of him for me, so they came up with the idea. I told him about a good place to get his illegal drugs: that gang. I told them they were cheep, and a random, monthly price that wasn't even remotely close to the high price. Then all I had to do was wait. The poor bastard never was good at math either. When the end of the month payment rolled around, he couldn't pay up and they killed him on the spot. That was when I started acting like a nervous wreck. If I didn't, you see, you would have figured it out. However, your brother was smarter than you. He figured it out that day you were out at the mall, so I killed him and acted drunk when you got home. Stupidly enough," she laughed, "you covered for me when the cops got there." She took another swig of her beer.

"Damn you, mother." she said standing up. "You couldn't just seek revenge the normal way and call the cops? You knew what he did was illegal. What was wrong with just letting him rot in jail?"

"It would take too long."

"I hope one of them kills you," Naomi said coldly, heading for the door.

"They wont as long as I'm fucking their boss, but now you know too much. I'm going to have to kill you too." Her mother took aim, but before she could pull the trigger, Naomi, shot her in the wrist and ran. "I'll get you Naomi. You can run, but you can't hide!" she called as she ran out the door.

Naomi ran to the car ready to go after the mafia and stopped before she got in as she realized she had no idea where she was going. She couldn't make out his scent over the urban pollution, and she didn't know where they had taken him.

Just then, her mother ran out the door, shooting off the gun like mad. She pointed it straight at Naomi and shot another few bullets. She ducked behind the car before she was shot though. "Naomi!" her mother yelled.

"Tell me where they've taken him!" she yelled back as she shot from the hood of the car and ducked again.

"Let me take you to him," she said and shot again.

Fear rushed through her as she realized what she meant. They had killed him. No! She wouldn't believe that. "Tell me!" she yelled again, and shot at her yet again.

"Where do you think people take alien looking things?"

"Mother, incase you haven't noticed, I look like him too."

"Yes, but one specimen will be enough. You I just want dead."

Naomi went to take another shot and her mother pulled the trigger, too. She didn't miss. Naomi was shot in the ear, the tip blown off.

"The military's got him, don't they," she said, ducking behind the car, finally realizing.

"They pay the most."

Naomi pulled out from behind the car and quickly shot her mother in both of her legs. She fell to the ground, dropping the gun. Naomi ran up to her and grabbed the gun before she could. "Oh, and by the way, mother, congratulations. You're a grandmother, and what a grandmother you'd make."

"Dammit, I knew you were fucking him!"

"So what?! You're fucking James!"

"And Sykes. Just in case, you know?"

"Mother, you're fucking drunk. Why don't you try going sober. Maybe then you'll realize how damn stupid you've been all your life."

"Oh, just shut up and shoot me, Naomi."

"You think I'm going to shoot you? No, mother, I'm not like you. Killing a bunch of people isn't what makes me happy. It doesn't solve my problems. Now if you don't mind, I'm going off to save my love."

"You called him that just to make me mad."

"So what if I did?"

"They're going to get you, Naomi. They basically do what I say now. They'll find you and kill you. You won't be running for long," she called as her daughter went back to the car.

"I'll call you on that one after I shoot a couple holes through their heads." Naomi got in the car and drove down the driveway, headed for the military base two miles away.

Kouga woke up with a headache. The blinding lights in his face and the white room weren't helping. His hearing, sense of smell and sight felt like they had been amplified twenty fold. All of it was killing his head. What happened? He tried to sit up when he realized he had been strapped down. His neck, his waist, his wrist and ankles, he couldn't move.

Suddenly he realized how much his body hurt. He felt as if someone had cut him up into a million pieces. Maybe that was just from the battle from Kagura... But as he started to remember what happened, he knew it wasn't from yesterday's fight.

Scenes flashed through his mind; Naomi and he getting captured and her getting away, being knocked unconscious, a dark place, the cold table, the sharp knives... Naomi! What happened to her. Did she get recaptured, or had she been able to escape?

Just then, he heard the metal door open. A man in a white coat walked in, closing the door behind him. "Let's see what we have here today... Oh, my god he's awake!" he exclaimed and spoke into some device on his wrist. "I need some backup in C17. Repeat, backup in room C17!" The man stepped against the wall and pulled out a metal device and pointed it at him, sliding towards the door.

Naomi sped into the base's parking lot and got out, pulling on a jacket, noticing two guards by the door. She put her guns in the inside pockets on either side. She was going to blow the whole damn place up for Kouga if she had to.

She walked up to the door and entered, no alarm going off. Stupid. She noticed a woman pass by headed for the bathroom in a white lab coat. Lucky for Naomi, she looked something like her. Naomi started following her being as inconspicuous as possible as she entered the bathroom. Once the woman was in the stall, she checked that they were the only two in there. No one. Naomi came around to one side of the door to the stall the woman went into and prepared herself. When she walked out of the stall she frowned, not recognizing Naomi, she said, "Oh, hello." Naomi slugged her, knocking her out. Taking off her jacket, she took the woman's glasses, jacket and id card and put them on, putting her guns on the inside pocket as she had done earlier. As she was headed for the door, she heard the wrist walkie-talkie she noticed she was wearing go off. "I need some backup in C17. Repeat, backup in room C17!" She ran out the door and to the map at the front door, knowing it was Kouga.

She located 'C17' on the map. Floor C, room 17. She grabbed the map and located the elevator. She pressed the button for a lower floor, and after she decided it was going too slow, pressed it a few more times. "C'mon, dammit!" she said as the doors slowly opened. She ran in and pressed the 'doors closed' button to speed things up and then the 'C' button. With a ding, the elevator started going down. Naomi pulled out the map and found and memorized the way to 17. Left, right, right, left, down that hallway, pass the double doors, second room on the left.

The doors started to open slowly and she squeezed through and she was in a hallway. She turned left out of the elevator and, nearly running into a man in a lab coat, turned right. "Hey!" he called, but she ignored him. She kept running. Right, left... In a long hallway now, she saw one guy running out of the doors she intended to enter. "Jennifer, thank god!" he called. He stopped her and looked into her eyes horrified. "The werewolf woke up!" The man shook her violently and pointed to the door.

"Alright, alright... Joe," she said, reading his name off his id card.

"Wait, you aren't Jennifer," he said after hearing her voice. Thinking quickly, Naomi pulled out one of the guns from the lab coat and put it to his head.

"Is there a combination or lock for the room?" she asked.

"K-Key pad c-c-combination," he stuttered.

"What is it?"

"16156201"

"You put it in. I don't trust you."

He turned and put his hands in the air and started walking towards the door. He punched in the number and the door opened. "Thanks," she said simply, and hit him hard in the head with the side of the gun, knocking him unconscious.

She ran in the door and immediately, she saw Kouga strapped to a table. She noticed the sharp objects for dissecting next to him, and a few stitches on different parts on his body, along with the lack of clothes. "Kouga!" she exclaimed with concern and ran to him, beginning to unhook the straps holding him down.

"Naomi?" he asked, still a little disoriented.

"Yeah. My, god are you okay?" she asked, finishing unhooking the upper body straps.

"Fine, but I told you to run away."

"I did that, but then I felt guilty leaving you to those two guys, and from the looks of it, I did a smart thing coming to find you." She finished with the straps and went back up and kissed him full in the mouth, tears streaming down her cheeks. "I am so sorry," she said and hugged him tight.

"I'm just glad you're safe."

Naomi let go and let him sit up. He looked over his stitched body. They had cut into him everywhere. His arms, his chest, his stomach, his sides, his legs... the shards. He looked over and saw a small table that held knives and a bunch of other utensils, along with the two shards. He reached over and grabbed them and shoved them in his legs through the stitched up gashes. There was one good thing about going there though. The gash he got in his arm from the Bird of Paradise and the ones from the battle with Kagura had been stitched up along with the other holes.

"No. We shouldn't have come back here. It was a dumb idea. The mafia is after us, the military might be in a second here, I've found out way too much from my mother... I probably could have gotten away with what we have back at the den for the cubs."

"If you really feel that bad, you can make it up to me later... say after the cubs are born, huh?" he got off the table and hugged her tightly. "I thank you, though."

"Why wait for three months? I can repay you tonight," she said smiling.

"We can't have intercourse while you're pregnant."

"Who said anything about intercourse?" She looked around the room for his clothes. They were in a pile behind the table. "Why don't you get dressed so we can get out of here, huh?" she offered, walking over to his clothes. She passed them to him and sat down on the table and waited for him to get them on.

"Kouga?" she started as he finished dressing

"Yeah?" he asked, turning to her.

"My mother... I... she... I'm sure you're fine with it, but can we never come back here again?"

"Sure, Naomi," he said, obvious concern to his tone. He walked over to her and she slid off the table. He wrapped his arms around her again and she hugged him tightly. He wanted to know what had happened so badly, but he also didn't want to see her crying again, so he just stood there.

"Code 18. Lock-in mechanism activated. All employees evacuate immediately," came a computer voice from the intercom as a red light started flashing and an alarm sounded. "Code 18. Lock in mechanism activated. All employees evacuate immediately. Code 18. Lock in mechanism activated. All employees evacuate immediately."

"Shit!" she exclaimed, looking up at him. "Kouga, we've gotta go. They know I'm here."

"Okay," he said and they ran out of the room and for the double doors. However, metal shutters closed over top of the two normal ones before they could reach them and they slid into them.

"Fuck!" Kouga exclaimed and pounded his fist on the door in irritation.

"Wait, look," she said, pointing to a lock beside the door. "We can open the door if we have a card key." She turned to the guy she slugged earlier. "He might have one," she said and ran back to him and quickly searched his coat.

"Find one?" Kouga asked, coming up behind her.

Naomi searched the guys pockets and she found his wallet. She opened it up and found a blue card marked 'Employee Key Card.' "Got it," she said, standing up. The two ran back to the door and she slid the key through the reader. "Please enter eight digit verification code now," a little computer voice said from a speaker beside the reader.

"Dammit!" she yelled, but then it hit her. "Oh wait a second..." she entered a number--16156201--and the door opened.

"How'd you know that?" he asked as they started down the hall.

"The guy gave me a pass code for the room you were in. I figured it was the same, and apparently it was."

As they neared the elevator, Naomi thought they were in the clear. They weren't going to get captured. However, as they were about ten feet away from it, about twenty-some-odd guards rounded the corner and started shooting.

"Shit!" Naomi yelled, narrowly dodging a bullet. They turned and ran to the nearest door. Slamming it behind her and Kouga, they noticed they had ironically found the stairwell. No one was coming up it either. Using her claw as a key, Naomi locked the door. "We have to go up. Three levels. And let's hope to god none of the guards come down.

They started up, Kouga following Naomi, but as they reached floor A and started going up the last flight of stairs, a group of guards came up, obviously from the floor she had attempted to lock off. "There, there!" Naomi screamed, pointing back to the door to floor A as the guards started shooting.

They had gone too far up the steps to dodge the hundreds of bullets flying at them. Luckily, though, the guards either had terrible aim, or didn't want to kill them so they could study them. Naomi was hit in the arm a couple of times, and Kouga in the side once. They made it to the door wounded, but alive. From there, Naomi recognized the layout of the floor was like floor C. The elevator was to the right, no one was coming, and they made a mad dash for the 'up' button.

Naomi pressed it once. It was going too slow. She hit it again and again, and then, the guards came out from the stairwell. "C'mon, dammit!" she yelled at the elevator doors, pressing the up button again. The doors opened and they rushed in. Suddenly, she felt a sharp pain in the back of her neck, and the world went black...

"Naomi..? Naomi?" Kouga shook her gently, trying to wake her. Her eyes slowly opened, coming to focus on Kouga's worried face.

"What's wrong?" she asked groggily.

"You passed out. Are you okay?" he asked concerned.

"Fine... what hit me? I felt something hit my neck."

Kouga reached down on the ground beside him and picked up a dart.

"Tranquilizer," she said simply, looking at the dart.

"Are you sure you're okay? You've been out for about an hour now," he asked again.

"Fine. Those aren't supposed to hurt anything." Naomi sat up and she looked around. She didn't recognize where she was. "Kouga, where are we?"

"About five minutes into the woods away from the military place. I don't know the way back too the well."

"Oh. Then let's go," she said, standing up, but as soon as she did, she knew it was a dumb idea. She got dizzy and fell back in Kouga's lap. He caught her so she wouldn't fall back further. He laughed and kissed her gently. "Still in your system?" he asked jokingly and kissed her again.

She rubbed her right temple and agreed. "I guess so."

"Well, we need to get out of here either way. I heard someone snooping around here a little while ago." He stood up with her in his arms and gently set her n her feet. "Get on my back," he said turning from her. She jumped on and wrapped her arms around his neck, her head killing her now. Kouga held her by her thighs to keep her up and took off out of the woods, stopping behind a tree before the parking lot of the military. "Naomi, where do you go to get out of here?"

"The exit out of the lot is to the right. From there... you know what. I have a better idea, safer. Go to the third car from the end there. I'll drive."

"Uh, 'kay." Kouga went to the thing he assumed was her car and let her off. They went to either side and got in. Naomi turned the key and started the car. When Kouga finally understood what she was going to do, he took her hand off the wheel. "Naomi, I don't think you can do that..."

"Screw the tranquilizer. This would be the fastest and safest way back. Tinted windows. Unless they saw us get in, they don't know who's in the car." Kouga let her hand go and she put it back on the wheel. "Hang on," she said before flooring it. She pulled out of her place and drove around to the entrance. The gate had been put down so no one could exit, a camouflage colored jeep sat near it as well as ten or so guards, standing in front of the gate, all holding machine guns. She put on the breaks fast, coming to a stop. "Kouga..." she started, putting the seatbelt over her and fastening it tightly. "Put your seatbelt on and tighten it. Right there is the only way out."

"Naomi, you're not," he said, pulling on the belt.

"I have to... it's the only way out. After we get through there, that truck might follow us," she explained, passing him the two guns in the lab coat she had stolen. "I want you to shoot out the tires. Do you know how to use them?"

"Not really."

"See this right here?" she asked, pointing out the trigger. "Aim at the tires of the jeep and pull that. We don't want them following us if we can help it."

"Go," he said, holding the guns at ready to aim and fire.

"I'm going," she said, and floored the gas again. The guys at the gate started firing. Miraculously, the tires never got shot out, but the windshield busted and they both ducked, trying to avoid the glass. Naomi sat back up shortly after though, so she could se where she was going. "Stop!" she heard a lot of the men yell, but she ignored them. She continued on and the guys all moved out of the way as she burst through the gate.

"Ha! Beat that you little mother fuckers!" she yelled as she sped away from the base.

Naomi pulled into the driveway at home. They had gotten away fairly easily. Kouga shot out the tires of the jeep after seven shots, and after that they were home free. However, there was the little matter of her mother. She had no idea what she might have been able to pull in the time they were gone. The mafia could be all over the place.

The two got out of the car and Naomi noticed that there was a puddle of dried blood where she had shot her mother, but she wasn't there. She could have managed to get inside and call her lovers to come and kill them, though, there was no way to tell.

Kouga passed her the magnum and they started up the hill towards the well. As they figured, the two mafia guys, followed by one they hadn't seen before, stepped out from behind trees, guns aimed.

"Naomi. You've been a bad girl, you know that don't you?" James said.

"And bad girls must be punished..." Sykes said after.

"Bullshit," Kouga said before they both started shooting at the guys. They dodged behind the trees, avoiding the bullets. Kouga and Naomi made a run for it, leaping in the well before they could get shot.

"Go! The well!" James yelled. The three ran up to the well and peered down. "Dammit!" he yelled after realizing they were nowhere to be seen. "This is exactly what happened last time. Kate is going to have our heads!"

"No need to worry, boys," Kate, Naomi's mother said making her way up the hill on crutches. The three moved to her so she wouldn't have to go any further. "When they come back, we'll be ready for them. I've ordered something for you over the black market that you might like." She took out a blue liquid contained in three layers of reinforced glass and shook it, bringing all focus on it.

Congratulations! You've reached the end of Part One (or Book One as I called it earlier)! Yay! Wasn't that long? Oh, I'm so sorry if you don't like long fanfiction like that, but that's the way I write. So... Interested in things still to come?

Next Book: Kate's Final Revenge (In Production) - Everyone's 'favourite' mother is out for revenge on Kouga and wants to kill her own daughter. What little plan has she conjured to destroy them both?

Third Book: A New Beginning (Planning) - Naomi and Kouga finally make it back to the feudal era, ready to go about life as it did before... but something happened to them in the present that will make it impossible to live as they did before.

Sequel: Only After midnight - This one I absolutely can't tell you. Yes, I have written a lot of it already, but I'd really rather not spoil it. That won't be nearly as long as the first one was. I'm aiming for twenty or thirty pages, but I can't trust my over-active imagination to let me do that...

If I do manage to write anything after that, you can look me up in a mental institution. I slaved my summer away over this story. The next one may take longer because I've started school now. All I'm saying is, don't expect it any time soon. So sorry...

P.S. Please review. If I don't get many, I won't waist my time on a second one of these things... my e-mail address is up at the top.