CALLING ALL FRUBA FANS!

Gwen is my fan char. More info on her later.

It's cute and wrote it on a whim this morning. Enjoy!

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Gwen ducked and dodged Envy's kicks and punches, reflecting many of them with her ornate scythe. Purple eyes flashed as he moved gracefully into her blind spot before kicking her in the jaw. She fell back, the metallic taste of blood in her mouth. Ornate scars on her body glowed gold and she regenerated, slashing at Envy's feet. He jumped up and back.

The young brunette stood up, only to feel long, sharp spears slice her body in half. She fell to the ground, catching sight of Lust as she fell. Envy knelt down. "Well little gate devil, looks like we win this time."

Gwen's hand moved and touched his oroborus. He cursed as she forced him to transform into a cat. The gate opened behind her, making Lust move out of the way. Black hands emerged from the open doors and began repairing her body. Envy, still in cat form was caught in the mass and dragged back through the gate. He was too scared to think of changing back. All he wanted was out.

Realizing the mistake Gwen ran into the gate after him. "You idiots! You aren't supposed to take him!"

Lust extended her nails in a sad attempt to stop the 'gate devil' from escaping, but missed as the doors closed behind her.

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Envy woke to find himself on a green patch of grass. Looking around he saw trees everywhere but no sign of Lust or Gwen. Cursing to himself he realized he was still stuck looking like a cat. His fur was black and his eyes shone purple as the noon sun caught them. Twitching his long tail in an agitated way, he decided it would be best to just stay like this to avoid suspicion and set off to find out where the gate had dumped him.

Soon the trees disappeared and Envy found himself in front of a house. It was built in what appeared to be an ancient style of some country he didn't know about. Maybe Xing? Or perhaps another country bordering Amestris?

Going around the back of the house he saw a laundry basket sitting in the grass and several clothes lines strung up with articles of clothing hanging off of them. He wandered idly over to the basket, inspecting the contents.

There was the sound of voices inside the house and Envy dove into the basket as the screen door slid open.

Tohru stepped out with a bag of clothes pins. She had run out after only doing half a load of the drying and had to get some more. Picking up a shirt from the basket she carefully hung it on the line, humming happily to herself. Summer had started only a few weeks ago and she was using today for cleaning.

Picking up another piece of clothing she revealed Envy, who was still trying his best to hide. She blinked at him in confusion, not expecting a cat to be in her laundry basket. Then she smiled at him.

"Well hello there, Mr. Cat," Tohru grinned, "What are you doing in my laundry?"

Envy felt like gagging at her sweetness. He commanded his body to change back into his normal self to freak this kid out and get away from this place, but….

A long moment passed and then Envy realized he was stuck like this. Crap. He bristled, "none of your business," he tried to say, but all that came out was a hiss.

Tohru didn't seem affected, "Aw, come on, don't be like that. I'm not gonna hurt you." She reached out slowly to pet him on the head but Envy scratched her hand.

"Ow!" she cried, surprised at his sudden attack.

Yuki, who had just been coming out to talk to her, heard her cry of pain and went over to her. "Ms. Honda! Are you ok?" he asked.

"Uh…uh-huh," she managed.

Envy hissed at her again.

Yuki frowned at the cat, dislike for them filling his eyes. He picked Envy up by the fur on his collar and held him in front of him. "Did this animal scratch you?" he asked, obviously angry.

The cat continued to hiss and yowl in contempt as Tohru stood up. "Yes, but….he didn't mean it I'm sure. I probably just scared him," she insisted.

Yuki wasn't convinced and Envy stopped hissing purely out of disbelief that this girl was being so forgiving of him.

"Maybe we could keep him, I've always wanted to have a cat," Tohru suggested. "And besides, he doesn't have a collar, he's probably just a stray looking for a home."

Yuki wasn't to found of the idea, but it seemed Tohru had faith in the cat, so there must be something to her idea. He put Envy down. He was still bristled, but didn't move. Him, be someone's pet? The idea didn't sound pleasing, but it seemed he would have to do something until he could figure out why he couldn't use his powers anymore. No doubt Gwen had disabled him. Again.

"Ms. Honda you're bleeding," Yuki said, pointing at her cuts.

"Oh!" she said, noticing it. "It's nothing serious, don't worry."

Never the less, Yuki insisted on taking Tohru inside and cleaning the scratches. Afterwards, Envy sat on the grass, watching Tohru put the laundry up on the line. His purple eyes were bored and he wondered absently what the other sins were doing right now….

"So what do you think I should name you?" Tohru asked him, suddenly.

Envy looked up at her, "Envy," he tried to say, but a contemplative yowl was all that came out.

Tohru didn't understand him, but thought carefully. "You're not orange, so I guess we couldn't call you Kyo. Hm…." Envy settled back on the grass as she thought for several more minutes.

Tohru snapped her fingers, "I know! How about Rosuto?"

Envy looked up, confused.

"It means 'lost' in Japanese. And since you were sort of lost, it's a good name, don't you think?"

The sin yawned and let out a satisfied meow. Tohru understood his ok. "Good, for now on, you'll be Rosuto."

The laundry was finished and Envy trailed after Tohru as she went inside. As she headed to the kitchen, she passed a man in a brown robe sitting at the table with a paper in his hand. Envy paused and looked at him. The man looked up. "Oh, this must be the cat Yuki said you found."

"Yup!" Tohru replied. "I named him Rosuto."

"Lost? Hm…seems like an appropriate name for a stray," he examined him for a moment before smiled. "Well hello there Rosuto, I'm Somah Shigure."

Envy walked off, his new way of blowing people off since he couldn't talk any more.

Shigure didn't seem to mind, he just smiled. "I suppose Kyo will get along great with your cat, Tohru."

"You think so?" she said, happy at the thought. "He has been through a lot recently, I bet it'll really cheer him up when he finds out we have a cat now."

Who is this Kyo person? Envy thought as he hopped up onto the counter.

Tohru smiled at him, "Do you want to watch me cook?"

Envy let out a sleepy meow, "No, I'm bored.

She smiled at him anyways, "I think your going to be a good cat."

He looked at her with bored eyes. Boy do you got some problems. He thought.