Full Metal Alchemist: Breaking Limits. By. KiddoShinobi
Chapter one: The Freelancing Alchemist
I do not own FMA or any of its characters. The only ones that are mine are:
-Shinta Kentaka
-Cloud the fluffy dragon (His back in action!)
-Tomoyo Taylor
And all those other characters that don't appear in the actual Anime or Manga.
Pairings: Not saying!
Summary: Shinta is a skillful alchemist that wants to protect those close to her, even if the people are a bastard colonel that keeps pushing her away, a one digit IQ alchemist, a shrimp and a suit of armor.
Hey guys! This is Kiddo with another great fanfic, but I think this one will be a little less serious and a lot more humorous then The Demon Within. Anyway, I will continue working on the Demon Within and get it done. Well Enjoy!
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"Grandma…" The thirteen year old girl whispered as her handheld on as tightly as it could to the seventeen year old black haired man next to her. "She's really gone…"
"She's in a better place now, Shinta" The girl with ash brown hair whispered in comforting tone as she took her dear friend's other hand. "With your mother, your father and your grandpa."
Shinta looked down at the grave as her eyes became clouded with sorrow but not a tear came out. "But…I'm all alone is this world…" she mumbled, causing the young man to hug her.
"You're not alone in this world, Shinta." He smiled as her other friend with brown eyes gave her a warm smile too.
"Roy's right, Shinta" She smiled as her friend looked at both of them. "We'll always be with there for you, even if you don't think it. You still have us."
"Tomoyo…Roy…" Shinta mumbled in surprise, hugging both of them. "Thank you…"
"I'll always be there for you." Roy promised as he held Shinta close to him.
"You promise?" She asked as he placed her baseball cap on her head.
"I promise" He smiled as a fluffy white creature with big, floppy, black ears plopped onto her head.
"Chu!" The little creature cheered as he began to flap his tiny wings.
You said we'd be together forever…but instead…you walked out that door…you promised you would come back alive…you said you would never leave…
Eight years later
It had been a long train ride from the Ishbalan Dessert, but the car ride to East City was murder.
"Are we there yet?" The young man whined in annoyance as they took another turn.
"Almost, sir" The driver replied as he looked in his rear view mirrior at the skilled alchemist.
A well built man with short cinnamon brown hair that was neatly tucked under a blue base ball cap, with his blissful green eyes that told a peaceful story while at the same time remained a mystery that pierced through the strands of hair in front of them. His face was soft, well shaped, quiet peaceful and handsome with a unique smile that made men and women alike fall for him. However a man like this never dressed in noble clothing-refusing to be like the proud state alchemists he despised so or his impersonators that dressed like greedy rich pigs. Everyone of them stripped from such honor and tossed in jail. Instead, his clothing style was rather unique, like his smile. He wore a black long sleeve shirt with baggy sleeves and a neck part that covered the very top of his neck. Above this shirt he wore a rather strange and perplexing vest that composed of well…belts. Nothing but belts and their buckles that still managed to form a full body vest, like a sleeveless Edward Scissor Hands. And to top it all off was his jacket. A blue jacket that was more like a long trench coat that went down to his ankles. However, when people saw him, they questioned the rather large pattern on the back of his coat, a black serpent eating its tail, just a bit under the neck of his jacket. Not to mention the fact he had belts strapped to both arms and around the full neck part of his jacket. But no matter how many times you looked at this dashing young gentleman who was only in his early twenties, who would suspect he was really, a flat as a door…woman?
"I can't believe I'm being dragged two thousand-five hundred and sixty-eight miles from my shack in Redtail, just to see some lazy as colonel that couldn't come and get me himself. I wasn't even told his name." The traveler complained.
"That's Colonel Mustang for you." The red headed driver chuckled, placing a look of complete shock on his face.
"Colonel Mustang? As in…Roy Mustang?" The young man whispered while still in that shock.
How long had it been since he heard the dreadful news that still burned in his mind? Was it long before he followed this lie of being a man? Or was it all just a cold dream he finally awoke from?
Roy's alive…
Three years ago
"Brigadier General Basque Grand" A soldier saluted as he brought in the two intruders. "We found the intruders."
"These aren't intruders, they're just kids!" The general complained as one of them pulled her arm away from the soldier.
"I'm Shinta Kentaka, and this is Tomoyo Taylor, and we request to see a state alchemist that goes by the name Roy Mustang." The girl that pulled away from the soldier demanded as she placed her hand on the desk. "And we're not leaving till we see him."
"I'm afraid I can't do that young man." He replied, causing Shinta to grind her teeth at him for calling her "young man".
"For your information, I'm a girl…and like I said before 'We're not leaving till we see him'"
"Well that's too bad since Lieutenant Mustang is dead"
"What…?" Shinta whispered in complete shock.
"But…how?" Tomoyo asked in the same faint tone as her friend.
"He was ordered to kill two doctors that where assisting the Ishbalans, I believe their last name was Rockbell" The general explained as he gave them a grim look, causing Shinta to be in an even greater shock. "After realizing what he did, he went insane and took his own life."
"No…it can't be true…" Tomoyo whispered as tears fell from her eyes. "Roy…can't be dead…"
"You're lying…"
"Are you calling me a liar Miss Kentaka?" The general angrily arose, as he got up from his seat to tower over her. "Face it, your friend was a coward that took his life!"
"DON'T YOU DARE CALL HIM A COWARD!" Shinta screamed as she nailed a furious punch at the general to the face. "If anyone's a coward, it's you general!"
"Shinta!" Tomoyo shouted in tears as she pulled her angered friend away that was now cursing at the general.
Shinta never realized it that day, and probably never will. But on that day as she was dragged out of General Basque Grand's office along with her friend Tomoyo, was that as soon as she screamed at him, she broke her promise to never cry again..
"Are you alright Mr. Kentaka? You seem a bit dazed" The driver insisted as he took another turn.
"Yes, I'm fine." Shinta smiled as she tried to collect her thoughts, causing the driver to blush. "Hey driver…could you do me a favor?"
"What would that be sir?"
"Can I drive? Please?"
"Oh no sir, that would be horribly rude if I let such an important guest drive himself."
"Awww please? I've never driven a car before." She grinned. "Roy was going to teach me how to drive but then he got shipped off to the military…"
"W-what did you say sir?" The driver stammered in shock as the young alchemist sat there trying to recall what she just said.
"That I've never driven before?"
"No after that sir"
"Oh, I said that Roy was going to teach me to drive but then he went to the military." She repeated, causing the driver to burst out laughing. "What's so funny?"
"I'm sorry sir, its just you see. It's funny that a kind, generous, and inelegant legend like yourself knows a guy like him!"
"What do you mean?"
"Well you see sir, the colonel is a flirt, and he names his important documents after women he's going out with!" The driver laughed as Shinta sat there with her mouth hung open. "He's such a player that down at the office we call him Colonel "Player" Mustang!"
"Flirt…? Player…?" Shinta Mumbled in shock CRACK!
"What was that?!" The driver shouted as he almost hit a tree.
"Oh I'm sure it was nothing…" The Shinta quickly replied as she looked away with fake tears streamed down her face. Just my heart…
Luckily after such event, the drive that seemed to take an eternity finally came to an end; with the car stopping right outside East City's military HQ. Unfortunately, as soon as the driver stopped, Shinta began to debate with herself whether to step out of the car or to sit there and 'tip' the driver to take her back to the train station. Either way she didn't want to see Colonel 'Player' Mustang.
"IT'S HUGE!" A familiar voice shouted, causing her to look past the driver. To her surprise, there was a person that was about the same age as her gazing in awe at the same massive building she was. "Does Roy really live here?!"
"Umm no sir…this is the Eastern Head Quarters…" His driver grumbled as he carried the man's heavy begs next to him.
Then it hit her, the strange man wearing nothing but black clothes was… "Tomo?!"
Quickly the man twirled around with his hands stretched out, yelling "Shinta?!" hitting the driver that had his bags in the process, toppling him over with the full ten tons on him.
"Tomo!!" Shinta shouted as she pounced out of the car and leaped into a hug with her long lost well…friend.
"Shinta! You're alive! It's a miracle!" The ash brown haired man cried as he tightly hugged his friend.
"I thought you were dead Tomo!" Shinta cried in return causing her friend to twirl her away from the confused and probably creeped out drivers.
"Call me Tom…I'm trying to pretend to be a guy…" Tomo whispered to her friend as she pulled her close then away while shouting again. "I missed you so much Shinta!"
"I missed you too Tom!" Shinta laughed as she walked with her friend to the Head Quarters.
As they began to walk into the HQ, Shinta could feel thousands of eyes looking at them as they approached the colonel's office, which was soon followed by people whispering things like "Oh my god…its them!" and "They're here…is this for real?!".
"Excuse me, but I'm afraid you can't enter the Colonel's office without permission" said a voice from behind, causing Shinta and Tomo to face a man with blond hair.
"We're friends of the Colonel" Shinta simply replied.
"Is that so…?" he replied as his cigarette hung loosely from his mouth. "Looks like I owe the Colonel fifty bucks now…"
"What do you mean?" Tomo asked as she lifted her hat up a bit so she could get a good look at the man.
"When the Colonel told us that he knew you two we all started to laugh so we all placed bets to see if he was telling the truth or not."
"That's a pleasant thought…" Shinta sarcastically commented as she lowered her hat a bit more. "But now that you know who we are, may we enter?"
"I guess so," He simply sighed with a shrug as he knocked on the door and went in, closing the door behind him.
Who knows how long they were out there for, but to Shinta it felt like hours maybe even days since the slower the time the longer she had to wait to get this over with. Finally the young blond haired man came out and told them they could go in.
Shinta looked around the large office in a bit of awe; the shelves were filled with unread books that where completely unorganized while the desk in front of them was filled with papers and an old picture. Then finally, there was the chair that faced towards the window with its back to them. The chair that would decide whether the man sitting in it was the man they knew or not.
"How nice of you two to drop by…"Said a nonchalant voice as the chair turned counter clockwise till it faced the two alchemists to show a man in his mid twenties with black hair. "It's been awhile…"
"It's good to see you again, Roy." Tomo smiled as she removed her black hat to let her short ash brown hair fall a bit. "How long has it been, four, five years?"
"Too long…" Shinta mumbled as she closed her clam eyes. "It really has been…too long Roy…"
"Shinta, you know it's rude to keep your hat on while in an office…you should take it off" Roy said, with more of an order then a suggestion in the same nonchalant voice, causing her to sigh and remove her hat.
Tomoyo gazed in awe as her friends long hair seemed to bounce out from under hat, hair that went down her back like a red carpet goes down the floor of a king's throne room till it stopped midway down the back.
"That's better" The young colonel smirked as he leaned forward and rested his chin on his hands while maintaining such smirk on his lips, " I didn't even think you'd grow your hair out."
"What can I say; it's the only thing that keeps me sane." Shinta sighed as she held her usual serious position within the awkward moment.
Who can say how long it was, not even I could tell. No matter what was said or what look was given, within the span of a minute or two that awkward silence just seemed to creep back to the trio of "friends" that hadn't seen each other for so long. Luckily, someone finally spoke up.
"Well, I guess I'll leave you two alone to catch up and…stuff" Tomo finally piped up from the awkwardness, placing her black semi-top hat back on while twirling around to march out the door. With great ease and sweat running down her face however, Tomoyo could feel a tight iron grip of frost and a heartless chill disappear from the air as she rested her back against the side of the door with her hat pulled down.
As the time passed Tomo began to feel tired and sleepy, maybe even willing to take a nap if slight innocent voice didn't come in saying "Excuse me but…do I know you?" Causing her to look up at a young man in what appeared to be well, a suit of armor.
"Sorry sir, but you've got the wrong guy…" She mumbled under her breath as she tried to get comfortable again.
"Oh sorry about that…it's just you look a lot like sensei's friend Tomoyo." The shy suited man said in a disappointed tone, causing Tomo to look up at him in shock.
"Alphonse?! Alphonse Elric?!" Tomo shouted as she looked up in shock at how tall the little scamp was. "Is it really you?!"
"Tomo! It is you!" The Elric boy piped up with joy as he grabbed the just has happy woman into a bear hug.
"You're huge!!!" Tomo complained as she pointed up at him. "That must mean your brother is a giant! How old are you now? How's your mother?"
"Well I'm only eleven, and there is something I have to tell you about brother…" Alphonse sighed as he glanced in another direction. "And…Mother died a few years back…"
"Oh…I'm sorry to hear that…"
"It's ok; sensei came to visit us a few days later, but when you weren't there we thought something horrible happened."
"Actually it kind of did…"
But before Tomoyo had time to explain, a short (err…below average size) boy with bright blond hair in a neat braid came in with a red robe saying, "Well looks like we have to wait, Al. According to some of the officers, Colonel Mustang is busy in a meeting with some guy that claims to be a legend."
"EDWARD?!" Tomo squealed as she menacingly pointed at him in shock at the fact he was…short. "EDWARD ELRIC?!"
"Umm do I know you?" Ed asked in a bit of confusion as Tomo retracted her finger from him.
"It's me! Tomo!" Tomo shouted as she pulled off her top hat and threw her arms open.
"Tomo?!" Ed repeated as he looked at her in shock. "You're alive!"
"And you're short-what happened to you?!" Tomo shouted as she began to menacingly point at him, causing the Elric boy to grind his teeth at her do to the fact she called him short.
But before he could say anything, a blond haired woman came with a bunch of paperwork saying, "May you excuse me, but I have to get these documents to the Colonel."
"Umm his kind of busy right now," Tomo explained, but the woman just walked past them towards the door. "He's talking to an old friend of his that he hasn't seen in a really long time."
"I'm sure he can call him back then." The blond haired woman said as she began to open the door just to slam it shut do to the fact an object was tossed at the door followed by yelling.
"YOU'RE NOTHING BUT A COLD HEARTED BASTARD, ROY MUSTANG!" An angered voice shouted, which made Ed and Al assume that it was their first sensei, Shinta.
"YOU'RE ONE TO TALK! DO YOU THINK IT WAS EASY FOR ME TO PUT UP WITH YOUR STUPIDITY AFTER RISA DIED?!" Another infuriated voice shouted, which made the rest of the people in the office assume it was their Colonel.
"DON'T YOU DARE TALK ABOUT GRAMS THAT WAY!"
"OH, SO IT'S ALRIGHT TO TALK ABOUT MY FATHER LIKE HIS TRASH BUT IT'S NOT OK TO EVEN MENTION YOUR DEAD GRANDMOTHER?!"
"WELL IT'S NOT MY FAULT IF YOU SOUND LIKE HIM!"
"YOU'RE NOTHING BUT A BOSSY POSSER!"
"AND YOU'RE NOTHING BUT A BASTARD!"
"GENDER CONFUSSED FREAK!"
"PERVERTED BASTARD!"
"FLAT BITCH!" Roy shouted without thinking, causing a vast silence to fill the whole Head Quarters; for no one knows better then Roy Mustang, Tomoyo Taylor, and The Elric brothers that the word flat alone was a taboo word for Shinta, that meant curtain doom for who ever called her flat. But all he got from her was a stunned look. "So, I see the "f" word still strikes deep."
"So I guess that's what you think of me too…nothing but a flat bitch that's trying to hide the fact she's a woman by pretending to be a guy…" Shinta mumbled as she placed her hair back under her cap. "Well I guess I'll be on my way then Colonel."
"You don't have to get all worked up about it." Roy sighed in a cool tone that sounded a bit annoyed. "You're starting to sound like an emotional child…"
"You don't have to say a word Colonel Mustang-it's kind of funny now that I think of it. You were the only one who truly understood me…even better then my own grandmother. Now it seems like I'm misunderstood by even you." Shinta interrupted as she gave him a small smile. "May I always bare this scar on my left hand to remind me of our promise."
Soon enough Shinta continued her way out the door, but he couldn't let it end this way, not until he got his point out at least. He might have changed from being the man she once knew but he still knew how to stop her.
"Will you stop being so pathetic and listen to the reason why I asked you here?" Roy blurted out as she got a hold of the door knob, causing her to stop and look at him with a great pain in her eyes. "I want to challenge you to an Alchemy fight, if I win you have to join the military under my command, but if you win. You can go back home to Redtail and I will never bother you again."
Shinta looked at him in disbelieve, the Roy she knew was really dead, and all that was left was this cold empty shell. Yet deep inside she wanted to protect him. "I refuse…"
"Oh?" Roy simply replied in a semi sarcastic disbelief. "And why not?"
"I'll accept it…on the condition that if I win…you give me access to documents on the Philosopher stone. But if you win…Tomo will join the military too." Shinta mumbled as Roy looked at her in shock. Was this for real? If he won, not only would he get one legendary alchemist, but the other one too, and if the Elric brothers passed the exam as well, this could rocket him a promotion.
"Mr. Kentaka, yourself a deal." Roy smirked as he shook her hand.