Shirahime-syo
CLAMP
Garou-no-yama
All thoughts are indicated by italics.
Fubuki: I wonder how many days have gone by since I came to these mountains.
Am I really facing the summit of the mountain?
With the snow, I can't see or hear anything.
Not even his far-off barking.
Fubuki's mother: You're going no matter what?
Fubuki: Yes.
Father was killed by the wolf that lives in the mountains.
A wolf the color of darkness. A man-eater.
Fubuki's mother: Will you win against the wolf that your father did not?
Fubuki: Even if I won't, I'm going.
He loved you so much. I'm going to avenge him.
Fubuki's mother: Well, then, go on.
You are your father's child. He was braver than anyone else.
You won't let anyone stop you.
This was your father's.
It will protect you.
So of course, of course, you will come back.
Kill that wolf, and come back here.
Fubuki: The wolf?
It's him!
No...it's not him.
It's a wild dog.
It's a pack of wild dogs.
If it was just one, then I could handle it,
But not this many...
It's no good.
I've lost.
Father...Mother...
That distant barking...is that him?
It's him.
A wolf...the color of darkness...
I'm...alive?
Why did that pack of wild dogs...?
This is where that wolf...!
Here! He's here!
The wolf the color of darkness who killed my father!
Ugh--
The injuries I got from the wild dogs--
Even though the one my father faced is before me...
And I won't be able to keep my promise to my mother...
Beaten by the wolf that killed my father...
Mother...Father...
Fubuki: You--
Why?
How many days have passed since then, I wonder.
And he hasn't made any kind of advance.
Where can he be getting food from,
Just sitting and staring like that?
My injuries are considerably better.
Maybe now,
I can kill him.
Wolf--
Man-eater.
With eyes the color of blood.
Blood-colored...
I'm doing it.
You killed my father,
Damn you!
You killed my father!
One of the dogs from before...
He saved me...?
A human...?
The wolf the color of darkness--
Eyes the color of blood--
Why? Why did you save me?
......
Why did you save
The one hunting you?
Weren't you the one to kill my father?
Or was it those wild dogs?
Fubuki: You're late!
Hunting in winter's
Got to be difficult, even when you're a good hunter.
Even so, every day, you come back with something.
How is it that you're catching things?
Have you always been living like this?
Was calling you a man-eater a lie?
The snow's heavy this year.
Shirahime's really crying.
Shirahime is the goddess of the snow.
My father told me that the snow is Shirahime's tears.
It's..all right
If you were the one to kill my father.
It's all right if you were my father's foe.
A wolf the color of darkness.
A wolf with eyes the color of blood.
It must be lonely, not having a name.
So I'll give you one.
Inuki.
You're Inuki.
My name's Fubuki.
Fubuki: Ahahaha!
Inuki!
Over here!
Waaaugh!
Today's the first clear day in a long time.
Shirahime's tears have stopped.
Inuki--
I want to live with you forever.
I want to be with you.
Inuki! Come chase me!
Inuki...?
Inuki!!
Inuki!
Fubuki's mother: You weren't killed by the wolf.
Fubuki: He was nice to me...
He saved me...
Fubuki's mother: That was the wolf that killed your father.
This is a man-eating
Demon
Fubuki: We lived together...
We were together...
From now on, too...
Fubuki's mother: It's a dream.
Fubuki.
Your father's killer saving you,
That you lived together...
It's an evil dream.
Fubuki: No! It wasn't a dream!
Fubuki's mother: Maybe this wolf knew
That you were the daughter of the one he had killed,
And so he didn't kill you.
Maybe it's intention was, one day, to be killed by you.
Fubuki: Inuki! Inukiiiiiiiiiiii!
Fubuki's mother: Snow...?
Shirahime...is weeping.