Laws of the Wolf
Warnings: Not much in the prologue this is a darker fic than what I normally write. There is a little blood but other than that it is safe.
Disclaimer: I do not own the Rurouni
Prologue: Thinking of Escape
The packs new leader strutted through the long line of wolves waiting for his command.
The old alpha Koshijiro Kamiya had been killed by this wolf. The wolf that was now
walking through the rows of wolves bowing their heads in respect, most of them were
being forced to bow by the new alpha’s command, but there was one stubborn soul that
did not bow even after being order to, Kaoru Kamiya, the off-spring of the old alpha. The
new alpha smirked at her show of defiance after all she was just one small female, yet she
was the strongest and in human form the most beautiful of all the females in the pack and
soon she would be by his side whether she liked it or not. He was going to tame her and
force her to cater to his every whim.
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Kaoru stared in disgust as the new alpha, Enishi, walked among the pack in wolf form.
Enishi had killed her father to become alpha, she was sure the council would remove his
claim on the pack, after all it was against the lycan law to take control of a pack by killing
the current alpha, unless one had a good reason, since the dark times. They would not
allow him to take the pack, not without a good excuse, hopefully they would sentence
him to death but that was unlikely. Kaoru knew that now there was only one way for
Enishi to keep his claim on the pack and that was if the off-spring of the old alpha either
mated or accepted the new alpha. Kaoru was not a fool she saw the intent in his eyes and she would not let him get what he wanted from her. She had a plan, she was going to
make sure that he never got the chance to claim her or her fathers pack. She smiled
inwardly as she went over the plan in her head, soon it would be time to escape Enishi
and time to escape the pack, forever.
The pack had started to notice how Kaoru was refusing to cooperate with the new alpha,
most had hoped that because Kaoru was the strongest female she might have been
stronger than Enishi. Even when Enishi used his magic to command her, Kaoru was able
to resist. Every wolf in the pack was baffled but Kaoru wasn’t, she knew why she was
able to resist Enishi as her alpha, it was so simple and if the rest of the pack took a step
back and took a look at the bigger picture they would see it to. The ties that once held her
to the pack were gone, once her father and only living relative in the pack was killed she
was no longer bound to the pack. Now all she had to do was wait, the blue moon would
rise soon and the beginning of the claiming of power ceremony would begin. Enishi
would be to distracted by the ceremony to notice her absence.
Kaoru thought about the night Enishi had taken her fathers life. No one had challenged
Koshijiro to the fighting ring in years, and even then it was more for play and
entertainment than a real fight. Enishi had acted as if it was going to be for fun, he had
not made his true intentions known until after her father had stepped into the ring in
acceptance to the challenge. The fight had been a trap to steal the power of the alpha
away from her father. Kaoru could still smell the metallic smell of her father’s blood
through her memory. She could remember his lifeless eyes staring at her through the
crowd of wolves that had encircled the ring. She remembered how time seemed to slow
as she watched the blood spill from the first wound Enishi had inflicted upon her father
followed by a second and a third, finally Enishi went for her father’s throat. She had
wanted to jump into the fight, to get Enishi off of her father but the rules did not permit
interference and she would have disgraced her father, not to mention that she would have
been punished by breaking the rules. At the time disgrace and punishment seemed
intolerable but now that her father was dead, her ties to the pack severed, disgrace and
punishment didn’t seem so bad.
Now the only thing she could do was leave, become a lone wolf even though it is
dangerous for a female to d so, it is her only chance and the best thing she could do for
herself and for the pack. Kaoru watched the darkening sky tonight the blue moon would
rise, tonight Enishi will formally announce his claim, tonight the other alpha’s will know
of his betrayal and tonight Kaoru would make her escape.
