A Senseless April Fool's Day

By Tamashii-x-no-x-Renkinjutsushi

Note: This story is in Al's POV.

(…)- Means this is what Al is thinking.

Don't own FMA.

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It was a normal day in Central, not too hot, not too cold according to my brother. The sun appeared pretty bright to me, but my brother said the weather was mild, so I took his word for it.

And of course, it was April first, April Fool's day.

Not that we knew that at the time.

We were wandering around in Central, my brother was searching for a good restaurant to eat at.

I had persuaded my brother to take a break from our travels, to stay in Central for one more day, and Colonel Mustang had wanted to see him anyways. He had no choice but to give in.

As we were casually strolling down the street, I saw something shiny glint out from beneath a pile of garbage.

Turning slightly to make sure my brother wasn't watching (He wasn't, he was too preoccupied looking for somewhere to eat),I stooped quickly and snatched up the object.

It was a rounded bit of metal. It was about as big as my finger, and it was cylindrical, but it was hollow and had a lid that could be removed, so I concluded it was used to store things.

Just as I was about to stow it away, I heard a faint rattling coming from inside the container.

I gently unscrewed the cap, and pulled it away to reveal what was inside.

What I saw left me speechless.

Brother noticed I had stopped, so he halted as well, and turned to look back at me. I was still staring into the container.

He walked back over to me, and peered inside as well.

He was rendered speechless as well.

We both simply stood there, gaping into the container for what seemed like quite a while.

Inside it, was a tiny scroll of paper.

And inside the scroll was a brief handwritten phrase.

The phrase read, 'April Fool's, Fullmetal.'

By the time we had understood what it said, my brother's head randomly caught on fire. (You can only guess why. It should be obvious, I think.)

After he extinguished it, he went after Mustang, yelling words of which I would rather not think of, trying to get him back.

I still never understood the April Fool's joke.

Because it never really made any sense.

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Well, my other multi-chaptered fic was discontinued because the lack of reviews.

Well, something random because I was bored. It's not that funny, but I was bored and wanted to write a random fic about April Fool's day.

The reason I did this is that my friend and I were going to pretend her computer was on fire on the last April Fool's day. XD So in a way, this was inspired by that.

Please rate and review, not too many flames, or Ed will chase you down the street shouting word's that shouldn't be mentioned! But, constructive criticism is allowed.

Thanks, and sayonara!