Caroline: Wow I'm finally posting this. Yay me! Alrighty then... lets get this over with. I'm postin 2 chapters today... MAYBE 3... Multitalented, huh?
Jordan: Uhh...no. ANYONE can post 3 chapters.
Caroline:...Whatever... Anyways pleaz R&R so I'll feel special...
Jordan: Oh BELIEVE me. If there's anything you are, you're 'SPECIAL.'
Caroline: Shaddup.
Jordan:...Lets just get this over with.
Caroline: Fine...now lets make this stupid little thing.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own FMA OR InuYasha. Sadly I only have enough dear money in my wallet to own a sad little half-eaten box of pocky...
Chapter 1: Yesterday's Loss
Edward Elric stared at the sky above him, a few wisps of blonde hair hanging over his eyes.
'I wonder if I should tell them,' he thought. 'They have a right to know- they're looking for it too.' He glanced at his two younger siblings- Alphonse Elric, clad in armor, & Caroline Elric, clad in her green & black attire. 'They committed the worst possible sin, as well as I...'
He looked back to the sky as he remembered that night...
"Brother! Brother! Please!"
Ed could do nothing but scream & reach helplessly for his brother's hand as the power of alchemy took Al's body from the Earth, & when that was over, Ed would have to deal with his own pain of losing his left leg & sacrificing his right arm to save his brother's soul. That night was filled with the torment & horror of defying the laws of equivalent exchange & learning… The Truth...
He looked at Al & then at his sister.
'Al & I...we went through all of that for a mother we knew was dead...but...Hoenheim's still alive,' he thought angrily. 'He's not even dead & he let his own daughter go through all of that. I should probably tell her,' he pondered. 'But...I can't. I don't want to. It would hu-'
"Ed?"
His thoughts were interrupted by the sound of his sister's voice.
"Somethin' wrong?" she asked, her identical green coat flapping in the wind.
Ed stared for a moment, mouth open just a bit, ready to speak the truth, then replied "No...I'm okay."
She gave him an odd look. "Whatever," she said, beginning to turn around. Just when Ed thought she was gone, though, she turned around quickly & sat by him on her knees. "Is it about that thing Mustang said earlier?" she asked quietly.
'Oh crap,' Ed thought. 'She knows.' "Uh..." he asked nervously. "What thing?"
"You know..." she whispered. "That thing he said earlier today."
Ed gulped & sat up. "That thing?"
She nodded. "That thing," she confirmed.
Ed looked guiltily at his shoes as Caroline hugged him. As soon as she let go, she said
"I'm sorry, Ed, but you don't need to get so worked up about it."
Ed looked a bit surprised. "You're sure taking this well," he commented.
"What?" Caroline asked casually. "Mustang calls me short all the time."
Ed fell flat to his back.
"Ed? What's the matter? Did I say somethin' wrong?"
"I think you should have told then, Roy."
Colonel Roy Mustang sighed from his desk & looked up at his little sister. She glared at him from the window, waiting for a reply.
"I'm sorry you think that," he said. "But I'm not their guardian- Ed is."
Jordan thought back to the past. "Well, what about-" she stopped, frowned, & sighed. "Whatever." she replied, walking off.
"Jordan..." the elder Mustang said, making her stop at the door. "Don't you say anything either, got it?"
"Yeah...okay," she said, closing the door & walking off.
Roy stood up & walked over to the window & stared below at the 3 children. It seemed like only a few minutes before there was a knock on the door. He sat back down at his desk. "Come in," he said lazily.
Jordan walked in smiling.
"Oh it's just you," the Colonel said.
"Just consider me a delivery girl, alright?" Jordan said.
"The last time we had a delivery girl it was Barry the Chopper," her brother kidded. "Sure I can trust you?"
Jordan raised an eyebrow & gave him a 'that's-the-worst-joke-I've-ever-heard' look. Roy cleared his throat. "What is it?" he asked.
"Someone wanted me to recite their true feelings for you," Jordan answered sarcastically.
Mustang blushed. "Hawkeye?" he asked.
"No, Armstrong," Jordan replied, as sarcastic as usual. "Anyways, Hawkeye said she thought she saw something crawl into the well yesterday on the way home from work."
Roy raised an eyebrow suspiciously. "And?"
"Well, she warned us to be on the lookout."
The Colonel turned in his chair & glanced out the window once more, then looked back at his sister.
"The Elrics seem to have nothing to do," he said.
"You want them to watch the well?" she asked, understanding perfectly.
He nodded. His sister saluted & walked out.
To be continued...
Caroline: Alright the first chapter is a little boring, I'll admit.. that's why I'm posting the 2nd chapter too! & that's also why I'm not gonna give a chapter preview either!
Jordan:...No one cares.
Caroline: Hate me, love me, either way I'm on your mind.