Promises to Keep (Deku)

[Deku]

She huffed and turned away from him. "I am not becoming you. Besides, you don't sleep all day like you did before. At least that I know of." She turned her head to look at him again, trying to catch his unnatural blue gaze. She caught a glimpse just before he looked down the tree at the powdery snow below. She shrugged in response to his suggestion. It seemed to be the logical thing to do since almost all the birds have left because of cold weather. "The snow is deep, and I doubt anything will be outside today." She paused a moment. The way she had said that made it sound as if she wanted to go back. She honestly did. At least, her physical self did. Her short fur was way too short to provide any warmth in this season. However, her mental self stubbornly refused to return. She was determined to return with food, and she didn't really want to give up on this time with the large tom. She answered with no hesitation at his next suggestion. "Training in greenleaf sounds fine with me." She knew neither of their hunting skills really needed work on. Sometimes the snow just drove away any food they could ever have. This however was another opportunity to spend time alone with Nightfox, and she would take every opportunity she could.

[Isilme]

He nodded to her response, she hadn't hesitated at all to agree with the tom idea, for some reason knowing that Sunstar was open to spending more time with him made the black warrior happy, not that he was going to admit it out aloud, no, but it was better than nothing. "I will be going down then." He said and sent her one last look before climbing down the tree, the snow was cold and soft under his paws, he was really luck to not falling into another hole like before, those things annoyed him to no end but he couldn't do anything about it unless trying to be careful, he sat down and looked up waiting for the leader to make her way down. "C'mon, the sooner we catch something the sooner we can go back and sleep!" He said as if to cheer her own and tried waiting patiently, but his tail moving side to side was a indicator that he was not that open to staying still in the snow covered forest.

[Deku]

She simply nodded as he climbed down. The poor tom seemed so awkward right now. What in the name of StarClan did that mean? She pondered on that thought for a little while, and eventually it led to other thoughts. Why had he seemed so flustered earlier? Beetlestrike had never gotten flustered like that, and honestly she hadn't seen a warrior like Nightfox getting embarrassed or awkward either. Did he like her? If he did and this was his reaction... Did that mean Beetlestrike had never liked her like that either? Then again, maybe all toms didn't act the same towards the same feelings even though it seemed as if they would. 'Does he like me?' She asked herself again. Was it even possible?

"C'mon, the sooner we catch something the sooner we can go back and sleep!"

Her friend calling to her brought her out of these thoughts as she leaped off the tree and landing belly deep in a pile of powdery snow. "Sorry. I started thinking." She mewed apologetically. She could tell he was ready to go back. His tail was waving quite impatiently, but she was grateful he at least tried to wait.

[Isilme]

Deku sorry dear got caught up in some stuff >.>

The black tom just smiled when she finally joined him on the snow covered ground, he got up and started walking to where his instincts took him hoping they would be able to come across something that could feed the clan. "What were you thinking about?" He asked looking to the female a little curious to know what had distracted her, the silence was confortable and it allowed him to simple enjoy the scene, because wanting or not the forest was breath taking, and Sunstar company that was the whole point of their hunting trip in the first place, suddenly a small noise caught his attention and he stopped trying to find out from where it had come in the first place. "Did you hear it?" He asked sending the leader a look, he moved a few steps ahead and heard the same thing again, Nightfox waited for the female to say or do something before investigating futher, he didn´t wanted to lose this chance.

[Deku]

She followed behind the larger tom as he veered off in another direction. It didn't seem as if he had anywhere to go. Maybe he was just following the idea of StarClan leading their paws. "What were you thinking about?" Her steps faltered. What could she say to that? She didn't want to tell him, but she didn't want to lie. Besides, there would be no good answer if she couldn't follow up on whatever shot out of her mouth. "I-" A whisper of a sound saved her from answering. She halted in her steps, glancing around for whatever had made the sound. It had sounded like prey, and it definitely wasn't either of them. She nodded, "Yes I heard it? Could you tell what direction it came from?"

[Isilme]

The tom nodded but he wasn´t all that confident that he could approach whatever had made the sound without scaring it away, but he had to try, Nightfox moved careful trying to not make any sound at all as his paws touched the snow covered ground, after a few moments he was finally able to see a small bunny that was digging in search of something to eat, the tom motioned Sunstar to circle the tree so if the rabbit did run she would be able to catch it anyway, he waited until she was positoned and crouched in his best hunting position, his dark fur didn´t helped to hide him at all so he would have to move fast, with a few more careful steps he was close enough to try to pounce at the small creature, he took a deep breath and then jumped, his claws went deep in the bunny thin skin, the poor thing was probably starving and didn´t even put that much of a fight to scape. "I got it" Nightfox said to the she cat a small but clear proud tone in his voice.

Deku

[Deku]

Sunstar waited silently as the large tom attempted to figure out where the noise had come from. It took him a few moments, but finally he did. He motioned for her to move around behind whatever prey was hiding, and she did just that. There was really no need for it though because scrawny rabbit that had been alive didn't even put up a fight. Nightfox simply leaped and snagged it with his claws, killing the small piece of prey.

Purring softly she padded out from the spot she had been sitting. "Great! However, I don't think we are going to find much more out here. Think we should go back with just that rabbit?" She asked, moving to stand next to the male.

[Isilme]

The tom pondered on her words for a few moments, finding the rabbit had been just luck and it probably had run out now, insisting on it would probably just take their time and result in nothing. "Yes, we probably won´t get anything else today so there´s no point in wasting time here." Nightfox said looking to the she cat beside him, he also purred happily for finally having caught something and for her proximity. "Perhaps we can get some sleep now, what you think?" The black cat teased and chuckled softly before taking the rabbit on his mouth so they could start the long way back to Leafclan camp. "Lead the way my fearless leader, I´m tired of all this snow." His voice was muffled by the small animal fur but he hoped she had understood anyway, he poked her with his tail just to make sure she had get his point, who knew if she could understand him talking while holding that rabbit?

Deku

[Deku]

OOC: Should I start the new thread? Or do you want to? I know you seem to be busier with school stuff right?

Sunstar was glad to know that he had agreed with her when she said no more prey was going to be found. She had found that Nightfox could be stubborn when he wanted to be, and she wouldn't have been surprised if he wanted to stay until they had found more. At least he was reasonable considering the size of the rabbit he had just caught. She grinned from ear to ear as he mentioned sleep. "Yes, now we can get plenty of sleep." She mewed, mocking his teasing tone. "Although, I bet you would need it more than I you lazy tom." She added, referring to how he had used to sleep all day.

Despite the fact that his words were sort of muffled she could still understand him. "Alright, but don't worry Nightfox. Newleaf will be here soon. Then the snow will melt for many moons before it returns." She began walking back to camp, however she didn't walk too far ahead. Instead she stayed fairly close to the long-haired tom. She was freezing and it would feel amazing in her warm nest.