New story.. I need this out of my system 'cause well.. I love chimera fics.. Anyway! hope you like~

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I paced down the sidewalk of the side of town I hardly ever visit. Finding Fullmetal has been hard. He went missing almost five months ago he's already been counted as M.I.A. We have reason to believe he was kidnapped because he wouldn't leave his brother willingly and there's no body lying around so he can't be dead. Fullmetal wouldn't die off that easily anyway. I need a drink. Looking to the buildings occupying the street I located something that looks like a bar. Never been in that exact one but it won't hurt to just stop for a drink. Walking into bars you've never been to is always interesting. Everyone drops whatever their doing just to stare at the new guy. Great. Nearly falling on the stool I grumbled for just a strong drink. The bartender slide my drink to me giving me a smile I swear I've seen before. Shrugging off the feeling of deja vu I took the burning liquid up to my lips.

"You feeling alright?" a talkative bartender.

"Sorry I don't need to talk." I stated in monotone. He lifted his eyebrow at me and his glasses reflected the artificial light hiding his worried eyes.

"Oh really? You know we don't get much military men stopping in here." like I care. If anyone tries anything I'll crisp them. I stared blankly at the drink in front of me.

"But of course The Flame Alchemist doesn't have to worry about anything, right?" I looked up at him in question. What is he a mind reader? From the smug smirk he's giving me I'd almost believe him if he said he was.

"I see you know about me…" I looked at him stating the obvious. He just smiled while cleaning some cups.

"So what are you upset about?" He grinned treating me like a emotional child.

"I'm fine." I ground out.

"I know people and that melancholy expression you have is not one a person feeling fine has." Is he scolding me? This man is crazy if he thinks I'll open up to him that way.

"Yea, yea. You probably don't trust me enough to spill I know. Jeez you military men sure are childish." He huffed giving me a childlike pout. This man is getting scary with how easily he guesses my thoughts. I investigated his features incase I'm dealing with someone dangerous. He just gave me a knowing grin then rest his arms on the bar. At this I realized why he looked so familiar. If Maes had grown his hair a little longer and forgot to shave a few days he'd look exactly like the man in front of me. I stared at him mouth agape, Maes has been dead for about half year now. Fullmetal disappearing a month after his death. This man can't be his dead friend.

"Wolf your shifts over." A man addressed my interrogator. Wolf winked at me with a growing smirk then turned toward the other bar tender.

"Alright I should be getting back to Kitty before she blows something up." He traded off the rag and cup to the other. Kitty and Wolf? They sound like characters.

"You always say that girl's trouble Wolf, but I haven't even heard her talk louder then a whisper!" The other slammed his hand onto Wolf's back while laughing. Wolf stumbled forward and grinned at him.

"She's full of trouble! Trust me if you had to take care of her you wouldn't last a week!"

"Oh is that a challenge? I'd gladly that cutie of your hands~" The man grinned earning a smack to the head.

"Watch yourself." Wolf warned then waved to the man while walking out. That was an interesting conversation.

"Hey military man. What you do to get on Wolf's good side? Normally he doesn't like the military." The new bar tender resumed Wolf's interrogation.

"Nothing. Actually I tried to get him to shut up at first." I shot the rest of my drink down my throat letting the burning sensation spread. "What do you know about him?"

"Oi, I'm not the telling type. What do you want with Wolf cause the man doesn't have an ounce of bad in him!" He snarled at me.

"Calm down. I was just asking because he reminds me of a deceased friend." No reason to lie. He glared at me then sighed once he gathered enough trust in my words.

"I hired him a 9 weeks ago. I was skeptical at first cause the only name he gave me was Wolf and his clothes looked like a homeless man's. Well later I found out he was homeless! Luckily he makes everyone here feel like there's someone there for them cause he's been getting some generous tips. Which he really needs since he's taking care of a teenage girl which again has a suspicious name, called Kitty. I don't want you taking away my best bar tender you hear me?" He shot me a look.

"I won't. Why's he living with a girl so much younger then him. Is she his daughter?" I questioned.

"You done with that?" he asked pointing to my cup I gave him a nod and he grabbed my cup.

"Not sure. They have a father daughter-like relationship but they look nothing alike. But I do promise their relationship is defiantly platonic." he stated while wiping excess alcohol from my finished cup. He gave me a look then sighed.

"He really does look like your friend doesn't he?" My head snapped to look him in the eyes. So he didn't even trust what I said before he started?

"Look. Wolf really is a great guy. He is! But he has a lot of issues which includes trust issues. He doesn't let anyone get too close and I really doubt he's gonna trust a military man after one conversation." He gave me his calm advice.

"What are you saying?"

"I'm saying. Don't go hoping he'll replace your lost friend. The only way for that to even have a chance of working is if he was actually your friend but as you said their dead." These words stung the inside of my chest making me realize my own intentions were figured out by this man before myself. No, No one could easily just replace Maes. I have to stop acting so weak.

"Good Night." I got up walking to the door.

"Ey! Come around again sometime!" the man grinned and gave me a thumbs up. I put my hand up still walking out to acknowledge I heard him.

I threw the keys onto the table and smelled the air. Kitty's signature scent drifted through the run down factory nearly overpowering my nose. It wasn't a bad smell something like oil and vanilla.

"Kit?" Looking around for the teen. I slipped my tail from it's wrapped position around my torso immediately feeling the ache from some kinks. "Annoying thing. Sometimes I wonder if it would be worth the pain to cut you off." I heard some rushing water from the bathroom. Kit's probably taking a shower and didn't hear me. I flopped down on the couch and groaned rubbing my aching tail. "I hate hiding this thing!" I growled out loud. We've been living in this abandoned house we discovered for awhile now. Lucky for us it had a bathroom but Kit had to manually make a working plumbing system with alchemy.

"Well we have to keep it hidden or our low profiles we've been keeping will be for nothing." The dripping teen huffed referring to my tail comment holding a towel to their waist.

"Would you cover yourself up more!" at this the other gave him a questioning look and sighed.

"Your the only one who knows I'm not a girl so I trust you not to try anything…" The wet boy traveled to his room trailing water behind him.

"Your leaving a water trail!"

"I'm sorry I thought I needed to go cover up!" Throwing my scoldings back into my face. "Besides why would it matter? the floor already damp as it is." Sometimes Kitty's just a brat. I wouldn't be the only one who knew about 'her' actually being a 'him' if we didn't have to stay hidden. Awhile ago my death was faked and I was taken to a lab where they do illegal chimera experiments by a homunculus named Envy. Well we think it's illegal sometimes it's hard to tell, sometimes we thought the government was involved. I was turned into a chimera after just a week there. They mixed me with a wolf and raccoon. I was considered lucky I even survived it with my mind intact or not. The human chimeras they made that survived usually reverted to an animal state of mind. I even catch myself acting animalistic sometimes even though I'm not in that hell hole anymore. Kitty and I knew each other before this all started so when he was shoved in the same cage as me already a chimera, Growling viciously and on the verge of tears. I felt it was my job to protect him.

"Get in there!" I lifted my head up to the noise of the guards and the growling and snarling from the small chimera they just threw into my cell. "You got a new friend #17 meet #20." The guard smugly spoke to me. "Think he lost his human mind unlike you. Too bad, he was a smart kid." The guards laughed and left me with the golden haired alchemist.

"Edward?" I questioned. He looked up growling but once he saw who I was his eyes widened and he whimpered. At least that proved he could recognize me. "Shhhh it's alright I'm here." I slowly crawled over cautious not to scare him and wrapped my arms over his small frame. He whimpered and tried not to cry but a few tears slipped down warming my skin wherever they touched.

"Maes?" His voice betrayed just how emotional and weak he was feeling but hearing him speak sent hopeful thoughts through me. He hadn't become an animal.

"Yes. It's me."

"But… Maes… dead." he slowly spoke trying his hardest to keep the animals' side from blocking his ability to speak. He'd just been turned into a chimera and I had trouble right after too. The creatures forced into one body fought over the body till one wins or they adapted so all the minds and souls mixed as well. Ed was still fighting and that's all I needed to know to make me believe he wouldn't lose. "Hurts…" Ed whined fingers curling and leaning into Meas.

"I know it does Ed…"

After that they had kept close but they started calling each other Wolf and Kitty so no one would know they knew each other in case they'd separate them. Which would have been their best idea because he and Ed were planning their escape.

"This way." Ed took us towards the door away from the cage we escaped from. "We don't have much time till they figure out were out." He looked around cautiously careful not to wake any of the other chimeras, then crawled over to a door. I reached over and tried opening it.

"Crap locked from the the other side." I growled getting a worried glance from Ed.

"See that vent. I bet I can crawl through to the other side." He huffed face flushed in anger at how he was admitting he was small enough. I wasn't going to bring it up that he was even smaller then before from lack of eating and exercise but I wasn't going to risk setting off a temper tantrum. Ed torn the vent from the wall and crawled in. After waiting a bit with my ears alert listening for guards Ed opened the door and we made our escape.

That was the night we were free of the lab and from being treated like animals. We had gotten too used to calling each other by our chimera names so we used them to keep our identities hidden. Sure that meant we had to stay away from our family but if the military is involved in the experiments we'll just be taken back if we return to normal society.

We hid in an alley senses alert and adrenaline pumping through our veins.

"We're free." Ed smiled at me with a pathetic innocence I would've thought impossible on him if I had not seen what he'd been going through the past 4 and a half months. We'd been there for that long but it had felt like decades. Ed and I had to be there for each other so we didn't lose our sanity. We still changed noticeably well not to anyone who didn't know us of course.

"Yes. Come on we should find shelter."

"Can't we just go back to our homes?"

"And what? Have the military figure out we escaped and be sent right back?" I growled lowly making Ed look away sadly.

"I miss Al though." He whimpered ears down and tail drooping. Tears ran down my face sputtering incoherently except for a few Elysias, my little princesses, and Gracias. Ed just rolled his eyes at my behavior and patted my back. I straightened up getting serious.

"We'll need to stay hidden. I'm sure everyone thinks I'm dead so how I look now shouldn't be a problem." I looked at Ed and his unmistakably gold eyes and gold hair that identified him. "You on the other hand, Even if your death was faked as well, will need a better disguise." He looked at me curiously.

"Why? I don't stand out that much do I?"

"Actually Kitty. Your too cute for your own good." This earned a smack on my head and a fuming chimera. I laughed but then I realized something. Ed's hair had grown and his frame shrunk if I hadn't known him before I would've guessed he was a girl. "I have an idea for your disguise."

When Ed heard my idea he nearly killed me. But I had convinced him that it'd be that much harder for us to be figured out. Besides Ed must be just as amused as much as I am with how easily people fall for his disguise.
Ed walked out in a button up night shirt and grey sweat pants.

"Happy?"

"Yes~ thank you for clothing~" He just rolled his eyes at my sing song tune and walked to a fridge. Since we don't have any electricity the fridge works from alchemy only took a little researching on Ed's part.

"When's the next time you getting paid?" shuffling through the contents with a scowl.

"Friday. But I got 26 bucks worth of tips, ain't it a lot~?" I said waving the money playfully.

"Well I'm gonna need to take that to get some food we're pretty much out."

"If you promise to get milk~" he scowled at that comment and held out a carton.

"This carton is only 3 quarters of the way through and almost expired, you really expect me to get more?"

"It's your fault~" He growled at my playful tone carelessly throwing the milk in then shut the fridge door. He leaned against it fully calmed down and sighed a little sadly.

"I'm not promising anything." I looked at him curiously then watched him make his way to his room. "Night."

"Sleep well Kit." I smiled then he shut his door. I might as well get to sleep too. I repeated his actions to my own room then flopped onto a small mat sighing. "I miss them too Ed…" then I slipped under the black of sleep.

"Forget it I'm not getting you no matter what Wolf asks for!" I argued with the milk in front of me. Other customers in the grocery store stared wondering if I was alright but continued on their way. Stupid milk, I'm not buying you. No matter what the cat part of me thinks. Besides cats are lactose intolerant so why should I bother? I'm mostly human though so my stomach should have stayed the same. No! I'm not considering it! My taste buds must have stayed the same as well then and it'll be still be gross! Damn it. I should just get it for Wolf. I grabbed the half gallon and dropped it in the basket with the rest of the groceries. I had only enough to feed us for a small amount of time but I should be thankful Wolf got as many tips as he did. Bet I can buy more bread if I get rid of the milk. ARG! I set everything down on the counter where the clerk was with a irritated look on my face.

"Are you alright, young lady?" I almost forgot about my disguise and smashed the guys face in for thinking I was a girl. But I mentally counted till I was calm then smiled gently.

"Ah yes I'm alright. It's just money is hard for me and my father lately." I heightened my normal pitch just a bit and kept it real quiet so it seemed as though I was just shy. Maes thinks I'm a real good actor and I'm starting to agree with him. Seems like no one has any idea about who I really am.

"Yea I understand that. that'll be $24.99" I handed him the money then made my way out and back to the house. Which though annoying it was away from civilization and easier to hide at. Long stupid walk, but I do need more exercise since I was stuck in a cage for a few months. I suddenly ran into something and fell but I was careful not to let my hood slip and show my ears. Because I saved my chimera secret the groceries were sacrificed.

"Damn." I mumbled. Then I saw large but slim hands picking up some of my food and setting it back in the bag. I looked up and saw the colonel bastard with a concerned expression.

"Are you alright?"

"I'm so sorry I must not have been looking where I was going!" I visibly cringed at having to talk to Mustang like this but he didn't seem to notice.

"It's quite alright do you need help with these groceries?" I looked at him like he grew a second head. Mustang acting so polite and gentlemanly? Ha! If he knew who I was his pride sure would take a beating.

"No it is only one bag do you think I'm that weak?" I huffed still pretending I was a girl but allowing myself to act more like myself. He just chuckled a bit in a way that I assumed he thought charming.

"May I ask your name?"

"Kitty." He froze with that evil smile of his then looked at me in interest.

"Do you know Wolf?" How'd he know Maes's alias? Were we already figured out?

"Yes. Actually before I bumped into you I was bringing this for lunch so Wolf and I don't starve." I looked at him cautiously.

"How bout I treat you two to lunch today?" No, I meant to say that but my stomach growled in protest. It couldn't hurt…

"Where? I can get Wolf and meet you there in half an hour depending on where it is…" I offered. This is risking us being found out but I can't help but feel that I should do this. Maybe staying away from friends and family was the wrong idea. Not that I ever considered Mustang a friend! He smiled that dumb looking smile again then helped me up.

"Deal. The diner is called Belle's I'll see you in 30 minutes." Then he handed me my groceries and went on his way.

"Wolf! Got food!" I yelled inside the small house and it echoed a little.

"Really! I'm starved!" He jumped over the rotting couch and tried to snag the groceries. I shoved him away with my foot and put the groceries away.

"We're going out to eat today." I grumbled and dragged him out of the house.

"I don't have any money for that!"

"Someone's treating us today." I said, Meas stopped talking after this and wiggled his eyebrows suggestively obviously assuming some boy had fallen for my disguise and is hopelessly trying to impress me. After awhile of searching for the diner I finally found it and Mustang was already on the bench waiting.

"Hello sir I've come for food." I said walking right up to Mustang surprising Meas. Once he recovered from his slight shock he gave me his 'we're discussing this later' look.

"I see, let's get some then shall we?" Mustang smiled that god damn smile and I nearly attacked him because of it but held back. Mustang looked over at Maes and put out his hand.

"It's a pleasure to meet you again, I'm Roy Mustang." Maes took his hand and shook it giving the other man a mischievous grin.

"I already knew your name Alchemist~ Glad your in a better mood~ I'm Wolf." Mustang mirrored his smile.

"Figured your name out." They laughed a bit at each other and walked inside. I could only curiously follow. How did they meet before? We all sat in a booth and ordered our meals.

"I'm sorry to take you away from anything you were doing." I kept myself from snorting at his politeness. He defiantly wants something.

"No we needed food anyways so to be treated is our pleasure~" Maes returned politely. Give up the gentle man fest you losers. Just then the waitress brought us our food. I don't have as much an appetite as I used to but this is a small amount of food. A sandwich and juice, not bad if I was the one who got it. Just thought Mustang could treat us to a better amount, but I'm not complaining. Well actually if it would annoy him yes I'm complaining.

"So how do you two know each other?" I clenched my teeth and looked over at Maes.

"Sorry it's a tough subject. Kitty has actually been an orphan since she was a child and I was separated by my family not too long ago. We found each other almost one month after I was separated from my family actually. We've been taking care of each other since, just like a family." That's way too close to the truth, what's he thinking?

"Well that's quite a story." That's the best reply you got? All hail Mustang! King of making himself look like a dumb ass! If this turns out to be an interrogation because Mustang is on to us Maes will have my head, then it's hang on kitty! That was stupid. Great now I'm criticizing my own thoughts. Curse you cynical mind! I swear I must have become crazy during that time we were treated like lab rats.

"Kitty."

"Huh?"

"I asked you if your done." oh. When did he ask that? I looked at Maes for a moment then gave a nod as verification. "Thank you for the meal and please stop by the bar if you see me. It was a real treat to get to talk to you again." Maes said in his best friendly atmosphere but I wasn't going to let this fool me. He's definitely ready to pry every last free thought from my head of why I allowed Mustang to treat us to a meal. Maes glanced at me the glare from his glasses temporarily blinding me. "Wasn't it very generous of such an important military man to treat us so kindly?"

"Thank you." I smiled at Mustang trying to convince myself that it doesn't make me sick to be polite to this bastard.

"It was a pleasure~" Mustang took my hand in the gentlemanly way and lifted it lightly towards his face. If he moves to kiss my hand I'm going to kick him in the lips. Maes stiffened protectively, sometimes I wonder if he remembers I'm not a girl. Or his daughter for that matter. I can protect myself anyway. Don't need some growling father-like figure protecting me from everything. Mustang let go of my hand from just one look at Maes. Yea, be afraid of the look I know I am.

"Bye now!" I grabbed Maes's hand and walked out of the restaurant away from Mustang. Maes waved good bye to the silent blue clad alchemist. We trailed the way back to our current home.

"Kitty."

"Don't say anything yet! I know it was risking a lot to take his offer. We need any offers like that though! We don't have too much to live on and free food was very generous of him. I won't do anything like it again if you want!" He looked at me questionably then grinned.

"You act extremely girly sometimes~" The hell? Did he just say I'm girly?

"Hey! This disguise was your idea!"

"I'm just saying you pull it off really well~" I hissed at him swiping at his arm roughly.

"I'm not girly!"

"I know! I know! Jeez calm yourself. Is it that time of the month again?"

"Mother f-" I went to punch him this time but he dodged easily giving me a playful smile. "Forget it! I'm just an amazing actor!" I yelled pointing at him in anger and strode off into the house, ignoring the soft chuckles behind me.

Thanks for reading this stupidity that came from my brain~