izakoza osekkyou

Hope you don't mind me! Been wanting to meet your character for a while. I'm also setting this before Leaf was accepted into Swiftcurrent Creek, so she'd still be a lone wolf if that's all right

Leaf was not looking for him. It was not as if she was concerned about a particular big black wolf who had saved her hide from a pack of fox riffraff. No, not at all. She was merely interested in exploring the lands; and having little to no loyalties to the wolves in this land, she felt free to go wherever she pleased. However, it was when she reached the pack borders that she hesitated. How strange that there were two scents here competing for the land. She had believed this was where her acquaintance might be, but it became confused with the scent of another pack farther down. Knowing that this entailed conflict, she moved on. In her present circumstances, it was of little concern to her. In reality, she dearly wished to care for someone else like that. To have someone held in her heart. It was strange how the heart seemed to decrease without this love. One would think that without others that the heart would be wider, free from worrying and planning. That it would have room for even more things. Instead, the heart seemed to shrink with each love lost, and while it grew emptier, it also grew lonelier. Less alive. This was the particular experience of one little red wolf she knew, at least. One wolf whom she should have known best but in actuality knew less and less as she grew older. Surveying the borders once more, she narrowed her eyes and attempted to see if he could spy him out. He was nowhere to be found. Still, she searched.