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[Kyle | Rogue | Northern Pheasant Woods]

It had been a while since he'd walked this way. Seasons had gone by and yet the place hadn't changed at all to his eyes. Blue-Grey fur  that reflected the sky fluffed out as the slight cold breeze ruffled it. The Winter sunrise reflected in one pale green eye that observed it from a distance. The tribe lands hadn't changed at all, only those who resided within them. He'd encountered near to no cats on his return, Kyle didn't wish for confrontation till he retraced the steps he once took.

Time was short, he would need to learn the land again and adapt or lose his place all together. The tom continued walking, constantly observing and memorizing.


[Green- Fire | Ruhn | Northern Pheasant Woods]

It just became morning, in the land of Nandryx. The light wind blew snow off the ground and into the familiar grey toms face. His green tattoo glistened under the sunrise as he turned to face the north. He had no clue where to go today. Sunrise walks weren't normally his thing, but being able to wake up with the sun sure felt good.

He had walked these small paths many times before. His large paws kept him ontop of the soft snow as he prowled along. He wasn't looking for trouble- well; what could he find at the break of dawn? No normal cat wouldn't be out right now unless they had the same idea as the green-fire.


[Kyle | Rogue | Northern Pheasant Woods]

The sun continued to shine brightly as it always did this time of season. The slight covering of snow lit up like a white sea below his paws, glowing as the bright light reach out to it. His green eye widened slightly at it, no matter how many times he'd seen this sight it always made him stop in awe.

A gust of cold wind blew a scent in his direction and he turned. Kyle kept his gaze fixed on the tree's behind him, the direction the gust came from. The scent was that of a cat, it reminded him slightly of the Fire-Tribe but he couldn't be sure. He didn't move, choosing to keep his still gaze fixed on the tree's. Who would be out this time of morning?


[Green- Fire | Ruhn | Northern Pheasant Woods]

Nose pressed high up into the sky watching as the colours of dawn emerged above his head; the older tom was unaware of his surroundings. He kept walking- he could only hear the birds waking up and small mice and squirrels wondering around looking for a snack.

He stopped; and looked up at the sky. He attempted to take a breath in- but scented nothing. As usual, the tom ached to smell the snow and to taste the sweet tang of winter. But ever since the rabbit attack back in his apprentice years; he couldn't scent a thing.

His large ears moved back and forth carefully listening to the sounds in the forest. It was so relaxing..


[Kyle | Rogue | Northern Pheasant Woods]

One green eye narrowed as the scent got closer and closer before it abruptly... stopped. The scent was still there but the wind wasn't bringing it any closer and in a moment of curiosity, Kyle flicked his long plume tail behind him and walked in it's direction.

Curled ears twitched at the sound of the snow crunching beneath his light weight. In the distance he could just about make out the prone shape of a cat, perhaps the same height as him or slightly taller. He didn't know if the cat would notice his presence as it hadn't picked up his scent.

Coming to a halt the blue-grey furred tom paused a good few tail lengths away from the other. It would appear I wasn't the only one out this morning... Kyle thought idly to himself before the cat's blue fur caught his eye... a shade of blue like his own.


[Green- Fire | Ruhn | Northern Pheasant Woods]

Slowly closing his eyes to take a few more deep breaths, he let his muscles tense- and then relax again. Something was off though, He could hear some kind of heavier movement going on in the background..

Re-opening his eyes and scan around the large tom craned his neck to see a tint of silvery blue peaking out of the underbrush. "Who is there!" He commanded. Obviously there was something- but he was unsure if it was another feline... Maybe a rabbit? Did rabbits even come in that shade?


[Kyle | Rogue | Northern Pheasant Woods]

'Who is there!'

Kyle snorted at the tone the cat used. Looks like I've finally been noticed. Taking one long stride the former Earth-Triber stepped out of the undergrowth. Now that he could see the cat clearer he could make out multiply scars much like his own.

He could also make out the gender of said cat and his colours. "My apologies. I did not intend to startle you." Short, simple and slightly curt. The tom gave off an air of aggression... but he would have to wait and see if anything was really there.


[Green- Fire | Ruhn | Northern Pheasant Woods]

His blue eyes gleamed under the newly formed sunlight. He grumbled under his breath- the tom had no real sign of a tattoo or remains of a tattoo that he could see- and he was in the wrong place.

"Why are you in Nandryx stranger..." he scowled at the smaller- more swifter tom.  He wondered is their were any muscles under all of that 'pretty' fur.


[Kyle | Rogue | Northern Pheasant Woods]

He didn't like the inspection the cat gave him and liked his tone of voice even less the more he heard it. A scowl met a scowl, he didn't look for conflict not did he get involved in it... but he wasn't going to be given attitude like that for no reason.

"I am no stranger here. This was my home once and will be so again now that I have returned alongside my friend." Kyle gave no emotion away as he spoke, the occasional blink of an eye perhaps. "Though if I am honest... I don't really owe you any explanation now do I? These woods were never part of a tribe's land, and so you can't really tell me what I can and cannot be doing here." The feminine tom flicked his tail with slight defiance.


[Green- Fire | Ruhn | Northern Pheasant Woods]

Ruhn's growled deepened. "Watch your tone..." He had no reason to pick a fight with a stranger- but the tom had basically interrupted his morning. If the cat was smart they'd move right along.

Obviously he wasn't doing that anytime soon/

The darker feline planted his legs in case the strange cat decided to spring at him. His front claws were permanently unsheathed; maybe this gave the other feline fear?

"Don't pick a fight you can't finish." He felt as if this feline was a spy, or quite possibly had something to do with The Golden Butterflies in the past. Did they still exist anyways? They had already taken Kasai away from him and this tom would not get in his way at all..


[Kyle | Rogue | Northern Pheasant Woods]

Kyle narrowed his eye at the tom as he spoke again, he wasn't wrong about the aggression he felt earlier. Whatever had made this cat such a piece of work was beyond him.

"I could finish the fight, but I don't want to waste my energy on something as meaningless as your bad attitude stranger." The blue-grey tom spoke it with honesty, that was truly how he saw it. No point prey coating his words to save the cats feelings or further aggression.

The cats claws eventually caught his attention and it made him want to snort, but then he noticed those unusual paws. Paws with more toes than strictly necessary. Wait a minute... Grey fur like his own, a short stumpy tail and large paws with extra toes? Whisp.

Kyle flicked his tail again, not giving any of his inner thoughts away. This cat being Whisp would explain the sense of familiarity around him. But he obviously has not recognized me yet. At first he wanted to say something, to address his 'brother'... but seeing the cat he'd become he was unsure. Whisp had never shown aggression to everything that moved... yet he remembered the feeling of distance between his brother and him during their young days. As though there was an invisible rock of words not shared when they needed to be.

The former Earth-Triber blinked slowly and moved to walk past the tom opposite. He wanted to see his reaction, was it really his brother or had he become nothing more than a nasty piece of work not worth his time?


[Green- Fire | Ruhn | Northern Pheasant Woods]

The tom let out a last growl before he began to charge the smaller feline. His darker blue eyes didn't show a hint, or even a shimmer of peace. Ruhn's body was boiling with anger. "I will end you!!" he hissed and lept onto the tom. He was much heavier then the stranger and hoped to throw him off balance


[Kyle | Rogue | Northern Pheasant Woods]

The sudden exclamation alerted him to the oncoming attack and a disappointed shake of his head followed in kind. His mentor had been Firo, as if he would be felled by such simplicity. Kyle didn't outright dodge the tom, he subtly braced himself before the full weight of the cat he believed to be his brother barreled into him.

The former Earth-Triber couldn't gauge the weight so it had caused him to tumble to the ground but it didn't take long for him to swiftly move out from beneath that larger cat and away a reasonable distance. He wasn't one for sturdiness or stamina but his agility, swiftness and overall lithe form amounted to him able to escape complex situations far easier than some. A disgruntled snort made it's way from Kyle's jaws.

"You'll end nothing moving like a overfed hare, let alone me. I was trained by the best, it'll take more than that poor display of power to defeat me." A strangled hiss of annoyance sounded in his mind, he wanted to voice it but that would just lead to more fighting. "Besides, I really don't want to waste more time here, I have things to do."


[Green- Fire | Ruhn | Northern Pheasant Woods]

Ruhn's tom shifted over as he attempted to scramble back to his paws- but failed miserably when his over sized paws went in different directions causing him to fall on his face. Without his tattoo- or powers.. Ruhn was just a weak little kit again.

He was helpless.

He starred up at the lithe tom- attempting his best to look intimidating from the earth. His large ears flicked in annoyance as he gave up trying to scramble to his paws again.  

"You're just quick. I could sit on you and you'd break.."

I'm a kit again..

His thoughts began to overweight him and he felt himself getting choked up in his thoughts.

"I'd b-break you."

He stumbled and gave out a sigh of defeat. He hauled his large body off the ground and gave an awkward twitch to shake off the dust and earthy substances from his pelt.


[Kyle | Rogue | Northern Pheasant Woods]

Awkward flailing and tripping withdrew a snort from Kyle, it certainly was fun to see how far the mighty had fallen from his cloud moments earlier. He hadn't expected such a quick look of defeat to cross the toms features but it had. If these cats still had there tattoo's would they have more fire... It was something he'd wondered when watching how cats were coping without them.

The tom's word made one pale eye narrow.

"Really now?" He managed to ask amused.

"You needn't worry, I believe it all right." It didn't take much to be heavier than Kyle. His long fluffy and well kept pelt made him look for heavier and larger than what he actually was. It was all fluff.

For a moment he wondered if he wanted to give himself away, Ruhn hadn't recognized him yet but what harm could it do? He wasn't afraid of the hate he would be faced with from his family. And he could easily deal with his brother if it came down to it. He may act tough but in reality he's still the same kit I knew in the nursery. Or at least, he'd believe that.

"Lay off the hares Whisp."


[Green- Fire | Ruhn | Northern Pheasant Woods]

Whisp Ruhn froze. His body seemed to gain weight and he starred at the tom with wide eyes. The pale shade of grey, the long strands of fur- how could he not recognized him. How could he be go- ignorant and not notice that this tom was simply passing by.. Why didn't he think! Why didn't he try! Why didn't he-

Stop...

He kept a frozen position starring at his brother Kyle. It had been so long- so incredibly long. How easily did Kyle realize who he was? Why didn't he fight back? Didn't Kyle hate Ruhn? Ruhn was weak and defenseless back in the day; he was too busy falling and tripping over his short stubby paws to keep up with everyone else...

It had been so long...

Ruhn stepped forward a bit and gave a short, curt smile at the shorter tom. "Kyle.." His voice was shaky. Was the lighter tom mad at him? What was he doing here anyway? Kyle had been hiding for moons upon seasons so why did he come back-??

Why was he- here?


[Kyle | Rogue | Northern Pheasant Woods]

Kyle.

Where was the anger and rage? Where was the accusations and shame? He'd left them all and yet his brother's expression was mixed with many things but none from what he could tell were anger. Watching his brothers sky blue eyes was like watching waves of water crash against each other, so much going on in one motion.

Where is the anger?

There were some things he wouldn't take the anger or blame for, but for leaving? That he could because it was something he did and a choice of his own. If Whisp was angry at him for leaving he'd not blame him.

They had both changed in so many way from the outside and though he couldn't speak for Whisp, the inside too. The moons that passed showed clearly from both of them now that he looked closer... they'd both changed. Kyle kept his one eye fixed on the tom opposite him.

"It's been long... brother."


[Green- Fire | Ruhn | Northern Pheasant Woods]

Ruhn didn't even move a muscle at his brother's words. He just starred at him- wide eyes shaking as if he just witnessed a cat's death. As if- something in him just died.

Or exploded

or-

Was born

He shook his head and stepped back some. "How- Why?? You were- But you weren't!!" His voice grew louder and louder in a mild panic to figure out why the tom was here- alive.

"I-" He ducked his head down to his paws in shame, shaking awkwardly in the snow. Tear streamed down his face and trickled into the cold snow.

"Why did you leave..." His voice was bland- and emotionless.


[Kyle | Rogue | Northern Pheasant Woods]

Kyle stood motionless at his brothers reaction. There was so much going on the the atmosphere and toms expression the former Earth-Triber didn't know which emotion to go with.

The words spoken confused him even more.

He weren't... what? Supposed to be here? Be alive?

Trying to pinpoint what exactly was meant to be said was near impossible with how quickly things changed. One moment his brother was angry and looking for a fight, the next shocked and now crying?

"...I had my own reasons." He didn't intend to stand there and explain them all so he'd leave it at that if he could. Kyle couldn't tell if he wanted to go comfort his brother or keep his distance increase the feelings and emotions currently running high changed drastically again.


[Green- Fire | Ruhn | Northern Pheasant Woods]

He looked up and scowled at him. Had his reasons?? His stumpy rabbit like tail twitched in frustration. "Mom left to find you. Did you know that?" He forced himself to sit down, knowing now was not the time to yell nor attempt to force an answer out of his brother.

Ruhn couldn't even be mad at him for leaving, Kyle had left seasons before Ruhn did so he'd be the biggest hypocrite to say how stupid it would be.

The tom in frount of him, caused him so much grief and pain in the past...Did Kyle even know that?


[Kyle | Rogue | Northern Pheasant Woods]

One curled ear twitched as Ruhn put that response his way. He'd heard about it and despite what other though it angered him. I never wanted to be found.

Kyle's pale green eye flicked away to the side for a split second before focusing back on his brothers larger form.

"That was a choice she made. And it was her's alone."

If his siblings were angry he left he'd accept it, he'd take that and accept it as he would prey from a friend. However, he wasn't going to take the blame for a decision made by another cat, they had their own minds.

"I will not take the blame for it."

The former earth-triber gave no emotions away as he said the words in a almost 'matter of fact' way.


[Green- Fire | Ruhn | Northern Pheasant Woods]

His body twitched in anger as his brother spoke. Not Kyle's problem? He ran away, he couldn't even face his parents and say that maybe, just maybe he cared about them.

"You gotta be freaking kidding me. Not your problem!?" He let his booming voice echo through the forest. "Ma risked her LIFE for you, and you didn't even give a shit!"

He stepped closer to the tom. "Mom abandoned me and the others when she left for you- Does that even cross your mind!!" He hissed and snarled at the tom. "I was the one who found her alone in the forest, I was the one who brought her home."

He let the words slide off his tongue. He felt nothing but anger in his over sized paws. "You don't even belong here Kyle!!"


[Kyle | Rogue | Northern Pheasant Woods]

Ruhn's words hit hard, despite him not showing it. He did care about them in a way, but he never asked them to look for him, he'd not asked anyone to look for him. Nor did he force anyone too.

'You don't even belong here Kyle!!'

A long tail lashed for a split second despite his face not showing his inner emotions filled with rage at that comment. "I don't belong here? I belong here no more or less than you brother... and from what I've heard your reasons for 'leaving' weren't so pure either." He'd heard some tales along the way... perhaps he had left, but he never claimed that what he did was completely right, or judge others on it.

"Had I know she was out there 'risking her life' i'd have confronted her and told her to go home, as I would have any of you." Kyle's green eye narrowed as he continued to speak.

"Don't stand their and judge me as if you know or understand. You no longer do." He cared deeply for all of his siblings... but sometimes thing would get in the way and threaten their closeness.

Curled ears drew back as a cruel, almost a smile like expression made it's way onto the sky coloured toms features.

"What did you do to make her stay here worth while brother? Nothing."

Kyle lived with the guilt of what he put his family through, what he put Iris and Coud through and he'd still live with it. So why not be the enemy and make the hate his brother felt have a true reason that he would understand, rather that one he did not.


[Green- Fire | Ruhn | Northern Pheasant Woods]

The green-fire tom puffed up and stared his kin down with his icy blue eyes. "I left- because I wan't helping anyone. I didn't HAVE a place because the place I did have was taken away from me, by you!!"

He grabbed onto the ground to keep himself from leaping at the tom. "Don't you dare forget what you did to this family and don't you DARE think for a second that I'll EVER accept any apology that you give me. You're a waste of space Kyle- and I'd be so happy to see you broken apart dragging your ass on the ground for help."

The tom was emotionless. He loosened his grip and turned away from the tom.

"Don't you DARE show your face to me ever again. Don't you EVER come visit me or mom, or else I will tear you limb to limb. You're such a drama queen and I-"

He turned around and screamed at his brother,

"I HATE you Kyle!" He turned back around and began to walk off keeping a constant scorn across his face.


[Kyle | Rogue | Northern Pheasant Woods]

"I took your place? Pathetic." Kyle's cold and effortless tone surprised even him. "Only you see it that way, how could I have taken your precious 'place' here if I wasn't even here myself to take it?"

He'd accept all the hatred his siblings threw at him... for so long now he'd though that the family's falling apart was on his shoulders. But he wasn't going to stand there and be told it by the likes of a cat who ran away. "You left because you was weak. If you was as strong as you're making out to be- like you could destroy me in an instant- you would have stayed and fought for it." It was strange... speaking like this was something he'd not done in so long.

"I left to find my place. I left because there was something calling me beyond this place. I was strong for leaving, for being able to leave everything behind to go and find it. Where you were weak for giving up I wasn't, don't blame your lack of acknowledgement by others on me. Try harder and stop whining like as if you've never had anything."

Being the bad guy is so much easier than showing my true feelings.

Kyle froze as his brother screamed hatred in his direction. Anger. It was the first emotion that hit... not because Ruhn hated him, but because he dared to stand there as if he was blameless for anything. As if he was so much better than the rest of them.

You're such a girl Cerul!

One eye blinked.

"Drift... Remember her Ruhn? Our sister who you failed to protect even though you were right here? I wouldn't apologize to you even if I was dragging my sorry corpse across the ground-" The emotions he felt towards his brother had plummeted as he'd stood there preaching hypocrisy.  "But Drift? I'd apologize as many times as it took for her to forgive me. I didn't get to say goodbye to her... but I'll never forget when we met in the wilderness again. And Lapiz. I'll never blame her and even though I know she'll hate me for sure... I'm going to be right there by her side when she's in trouble, because I won't fail her like you fail Drift."

How did everything go so wrong for all of them? Was it really his leaving that did this. No matter how much blame he put on himself for it he couldn't help but think... wasn't it because they all didn't try hard enough? Wasn't it because they'd not had the chance to be a true family?

Kyle's gaze narrowed as he stared coldly at his brothers retreating form. "Kyle... It's a name you shouldn't speak. I have so many names now, Ghost, Haze... and King. Because during my time away I wasn't sat in a pool of pity, I was doing what I left to do. That's why nothing you say will make a difference, because I never ran from my problems."

If you have a reason to hate me... I'm sure I'll be able to live with it.


[Green- Fire | Ruhn | Northern Pheasant Woods]

That hit him- hard. It shattered him. Like he was just a piece of glass and his brother threw it- far across the forest and watched it shatter into tiny unfixable pieces.

He froze in his tracks- he didn't dare to turn around, or charge the tom. He didn't dare to speak another hateful word towards his brother because he knew the tom would just reflect it.

Icy hot tears streamed down his face, tracing the scar that ran over his muzzle. He felt empty- for once in his life.

He knew he screwed up. He screwed everything up. He was emotional, he was yelling and screaming- at his own brother.

Because he screwed up...

He didn't know what to say, and he didn't want to say anything..


[Kyle | Rogue | Northern Pheasant Woods]

What else was there to say as silence overtook them? The snow felt ever the more colder as it melted into his pelt and paws, the silence stretched on for what could only be described as moons.

And in one swoop of a hawks talon he felt guilty. Kyle felt emotions that radiated around them so rife moments before dissipate under the veil of soundless white snow. Could he truly just stand there and blame Ruhn? Perhaps his brother had left... maybe the amount of hate he radiated wasn't fair...

But I'm the one who didn't say goodbye in the first place.

If he had would they all still have been on good terms? ...Would they still be family.

These words that I have spoken... these cruel things that I've said are a justified reason to hate me Whisp, keep them close... you hating me is easier that me hurting you again in the future.

Kyle let his one eyed fading gaze linger for a moment longer before he too turned to walk away. They were brothers... no matter what they did wrong. No matter if they clawed the pelts of each other, it was a fact nothing could change.

A sad smile appeared on his face as he began trudging through the cold snow as he had been earlier. A quiet murmur making it's way from his jaws.

"I'll be watching out for you too Whisp..."


[Green- Fire | Ruhn | Northern Pheasant Woods]

Snow blew over his large pawprints as the green-fire slowly began to walk away;

Tears streaming down his ever so broken face- not hesitating to turn around, or to say anything...

Just remaining empty.


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OMG, the feels, why you do this to us, I'm sobbing my eyes out, and I still am, no matter how many times I read this, over and over, and the dialogue between the two is just amazing, so well written and their personality would perfectly fit their response, just so amazing and sad ;W;