white man mumbled: “Yes, yes, where love falls.” Then Hige grumbled back: “And just hearing that from you!” It almost sounded like a budding argument but both knew that it was just harmless silly things. Denis, Tsume, Toboe and Pazuo also knew that, but Kai put his ears back restlessly, he already sensed an argument. Yuuki wanted to stir the whole thing up. But Tsume solved the supposedly bad mood by saying to the younger ones: "And that gentlemen is the problem with the opposite sex.Once they have one, nothing but trouble. In response, he received vehement protests from Hige, Kiba and Pazuo. Denis also raised objections. Strangely, there was also protest from Kai, even if not as loudly as from the older generation. Kiba, Hige, Tsume, Denis and also Toboe exchanged a lot of telling looks, all four had noticed what was simmering there. All five grinned to themselves, but none of them said anything. Pazuo, who was walking next to Kai, smiled to himself, which confused the horror next to him hopelessly. And he looked just as confused from one to the other. And Yuuki, he didn't notice anything. It wasn't until quite a while later, when it was already getting dark and the boys trotted back to the waterfall full and satisfied, Kai seemed to light up. Horrified, he opened his eyes and looked at the wolves in front of him in horror. But they didn't notice, and if they did, they didn't show it.

When the eight wolves finally returned to their pack in deep darkness, none was awake.The girls lay each for themselves, but still in such a way that they could protect each other, there was danger. The pups, with the exception of Fye, who still liked to benefit from his parents' body heat at night, were all in a heap in the middle. The boys stopped for a moment and even Tsume, although he would never have admitted that, couldn't help smiling. Then they crept silently to the girls. Kiba lay down next to Cheza. She woke up briefly, grinned at him and laid her head on his back. Kai would probably have liked to lie down next to Sheeta, but didn't dare to right and so he curled up a few meters away. As usual, Tsume and Toboe were a little way out. As in the last few weeks, Yuuki was even further away than Tsume and Toboe. Pazuo snuggled up to Keiko and Denis lay a quarter of a meter away from Meilin. Hige also crept up to Aki absolutely silently, but before he even started to lie down, Aki stirred.Hige was not confused and snuggled against Aki's back. She only grumbled, but without waking up, and snuggled closer to Hige. Before he fell asleep, Hige mumbled: "You see girl and nothing happened to me." Then he put his big head on Akis and slept too.
When Aki woke up the next morning she was surprised at first. Although she had realized that the boys would have to come back at some point, but that she had overslept, she was surprised. Careful not to wake Hige, Aki pulled her head from under his. The brown one growled and lay on his side, but otherwise nothing happened and Aki put her head to his and fell asleep again.