A Girl's Best Friend

By: Xia Mizuki

Preface

The dark haired homunculus casually walked through town, with his hands casually inside his leather pant pockets. He hummed softly under his breath, full aware of the rain pouring on his dark colored head, but it didn't bother him. He kicked a few rocks out of his way, and stopped to peer into an alley, hearing something or perhaps someone.

"Someone there?" he asked, a normal person would've walked off. Called the cops, just run back home, but Greed wasn't a normal person. He was a homunculus. The dark haired man even had his ultimate shield, there really wasn't too much that scared the young looking man.

He received no response, but he heard a small groan and possibly a whimper. Feeling the curiosity take over himself, he walked straight into the alley. Not really worrying if there were some psycho ninjas on the loose ready to cut his head off, it's not like it would kill him anyways.

The cocky man stopped in front of a small red lump of cloth, but quickly realize there someone underneath. It was a rather small looking girl, but maybe she just looked small because of her current state, and she struggled to sit up. The dark haired girl coughed, again she struggled, this time to keep her large dark brown eyes open.

"Wh-what do you want dude? Just leave me alone!" she struggled to slur, trying her best to sound fierce and tough. It wasn't working.

"What happened here?" the homunculus' purple orbs wide in shock.

The girl was lying in her own pool of blood, some of the crimson liquid trickling down her cheek. Struggling to keep her eyes open, she somehow managed a scowl onto her features.

"You don't need to know!" her voice cracked then though, the dark haired girl trying to stand to her feet, but finally decided on just sitting there while clutching her red sweater.

"Look kid, I'm not going to hurt you. I want to help you." whispered the homunculus that never uttered a lie, while squatting down to meet her gaze. The girl's eyes were full of hurt, agony, sadness, confusion, and worst of all a crushing loneliness. All of which Greed recognized, and suddenly he found himself greedy for the girl's secrets. Why was she so beat up?

"Liar. You all lie. This world is made up of lies! Just let me die here, just…." her voice wondered off, starting of harsh and ending softly and sadly. She looked away from the man's purple orbs and turned back to look at them with tears forming in her own, yet none slipped through. "Just let me be. I don't want to… I just don't want to go on anymore. Just….. Let me give up sir, please let me give up."

Greed was quiet, but ignored the girl's wishes. Instead he decided to pick the girl up as carefully as he possibly could manage. He had noticed her ears, and knew she wasn't normal. He had seen her part of her arm, and he knew those weren't normal tattoos.

"My name is Greed, and I'm not going to let you off so easy and let you die here."

The dark haired girl coughed up the last of the blood she thought she had, her vision going even more blurry by the second. Yet she felt happy, happy that at least someone would know about her death. And maybe, just maybe at least one person would care about her death. At least she wasn't completely brushed off to the side.

"I'm Mizuki. It's nice to meet ya Mr. Greed." was the last thing she whispered.

It was midnight when she lost consciousness.

Oi, I already have two other ongoing stories on here XD But this is a story that I'll be working merely for either fun, or during spare time when I'm extremely bored ^^" Still, if I get many people liking this story, I'll defiantly try to update more often. :D This isn't much of a romance, well I'm not planning for it to be but it might turn into a romance if you want it to be ^^