A/N: My third fanfic! Yay! Please read this thing and please review of you like it!
Disclaimer: Ok alright, I don't own any FMA characters...geez...stupid disclaimer always reminding me stupid things...pout
On with the story please...
Prologue
BANG!
"Sorry! Sorry, my bad…" A woman with brown hair and hazel – green eyes apologized at the owner of the shopping cart she accidentally collided with. After she made out her way, she continued to push her cart filled with assorted groceries of food, toiletries and other basic needs of her family.
"Now we need some shampoo…" Trisha Elric wondered, swiveling her head left and right to find the shelf where the item would be.
"Mom, are we done yet? I'm bored…" complained a ten – year – old boy with golden hair and amber eyes glazing at her mother with tedium over everything around him.
"Edward, you promised to go with me shopping…" Her mother reminded him while placing her hands on hips to emphasize her point. The young blond growled in response and cursed himself for making such a promise. Grocery stores and him don't get along that well. He didn't like a thing about it, especially it's always crowded and smelled a mixture of all the stuffs he could think of put together.
"Now just be a good boy and fetch mommy some shampoo." The brunette woman ordered softly to her child. Edward sighed in defeat and began his search for the shampoo. It didn't take a minute when Edward saw the shelf filled with shampoo bottles just behind her mother. He snorted under his breath and picked the container to bring it to his mother in a swift.
"Here is it mom…" Edward grumbled and handed Trisha the item.
"Oh how fast…thank you dear…" Trisha said with a warm smile and patted her son's head.
"It was just behind you mom…and your welcome…can we go now?" She just looked at her child; the image flashing in her eye wasn't of her son, but of someone else. Someone whom she loved and will love forever.
She can't help to see her husban in the golden – eyed child's face. He looks and acts exactly like him. He really is his son inside and out.
Joy was soon replaced by sad remorse of the sudden backtracking she made. He left her for a reason she can't comprehend. And worse, he didn't pass a word when he just popped into nothingness in her eyes.
Anguish washed the beautiful features of the woman and her eyes began to lose its shining warm color oit always held.
"Mom? Are you ok?" Edward asked with concern. Trisha quickly masked her sadness with a weak, fake smile offered to her child.
"Of course I'm fine. The boy frowned at the open lie his mother gave him. He exactly knew why she's upset, or why she's always upset. And that's him. It's all because of him. The man he hadn't known all his life but yet, despised him for ditching them.
"Why don't you go somewhere while I finfish the groceries…wait at the park after thirty minutes…" The kind mother offered with a warm smile tugged in her pale face.
"Are you sure you don't need a hand?" Edward asked reluctantly, because a part of him really want to get out of the place, and a part that wants to help his mother with the errand.
"No I'll be fine Edward thank you very much…just go ahead…" She insisted, ruffling the boy's golden locks.
Edward nodded hesitantly and left her mother . He did want to escape the horrible store anyway.
It's already an hour passed and Edward was tired of waiting for his mother like forever in one of the sturdy park benches. He hadn't done much since he separated himself from his mom and here he is now, bored to death with a growing afoul mood. He slumped further on the hard chair, somewhat finding a nice position he can relax for the next couple of minutes.
Boy, he regrets that he didn't go with the grocery shopping. It's way better than sitting here doing absolutely nothing.
"Ughhh!!! Where is she? It's almost dinner time!" Edward whined, followed by a loud agreement of his stomach.
"Ah man, I'm starved…" He whispered to himself and bowed his head with a long sigh of exasperation.
Not long after, his silence was shattered when his ears were filled with sounds of feet jumping from the ground repeatedly. He moved his golden orbs to the direction of the noise and witnessed a girl reaching something from the tall tree. He got curious and decided to help a bit.
"Ah..dammit…" A blond girl cursed at the hat hanging on one of the branches of the tree. She got careless and let the strong wind take it and as lucky as she was, with all the places in the world, it landed on a tree out of her reach. She began to jump again in attempt to retrieve her possession.
"Need a hand?" A boy's voice rang in her ears and she turned around to see a boy with blond hair and gold eyes about her age. At the question asked, the girl stretched her arm upward, pointing up the tree where her hat got stuck.
"My hat…I can't reach it…" She said timidly with big baby blue eyes.
"Of course you can't…" Edward replied back like it's the most obvious thing ion the world and walked pass her. He then approached the tree bark and climbed on it like an expert monkey, catching the girl to agape with amusement of his incredible climbing skills.
In no time, young Edward landed in front of her.
"Here." He handed the pink laced hat and received it with gladness.
"Thanks." She muttered shyly and placed the garment over her blond head. With that, a wild grumble came from Edward's tummy. He blushed crimson red and put a hand behind his head.
"I guess it's already pass dinner time…" She said with a sheepish grin plastered in his face. All he received as a response was a hand grabbing his and was dragged towards one of the benches.
"Here, eat up…" The girl offered, showing to Edward's face an opened can filled with tiny red rounded biscuits. He sniffed the foreign food and held it in his hand for a closer inspection.
"What exactly is this?" He asked, looking at the girl who already bitten her own biscuit.
"Tommies." She replied through crunches of bites.
"Tommies?"
"Yeah..tomato-coated biscuits. They're great." The girl mused with delight and took another one and shove it wholly to her mouth.
"Ew…does that even exist?" Edward responded with a disgusted look in his face.
"Uh, yeah 'cause you're holding one now?" The blue – eyed girl reminded as- a-matter-of-factly, earning a smug frown from the boy. He handed back the can to the girl and slumped lower in his eat.
"I'm not eating any of that….it's as disgusting as milk is, yuck…" Edward grumbled childishly, crossing his arms over his chest. He refused the offered biscuits even his stomach was screaming for food.
"But it's nutritious…it will help you grow bigger.." The girl stated innocently, taking another large bite of her snack.
"I'M NOT SMALL!" Edward flared at her, gaining a confused look from the girl of his doubled meaning of her naive statement.
"Hey, I didn't say anything like that.." The blond girl defended.
"EDWARD!" Two heads jerked around to see Trisha Elric waving wildly at her son with shopping bags surrounding her feet.
"Oh it's mom. Gotta go, bye!" he said in one breath and run after his mother.
"Wai-" The ten – year – old girl was about to say something when the boy already stormed away from her. She watched the boy's back faded as he go, whispering,
"I didn't even give him my name yet…"
"MOM! You're late!" Edward shouted as he sped his legs towards his mother.
"Yeah! SORRY!" His mom answered back, making Ed's head shook a bit with a smile. As he continued his approach, an ear – breaking gun shot shattered his ears.
His eyes widened like saucers and the black in his eyes shrunk into dots when his mother's emerald orbs started to fade its lively color. He saw her fell forward slowly, her eyes closing in every moving second.
Time seemed to slow him and she began to get farther and farther from him. He dilated his eyes when the woman hit the ground with a loud thug, and that's when everything went back to its normal speed again.
"MOM!!!!" Edward hollered in fear and dove to his mother, kneeling down on her level as he did so.
"Mom…mom are you ok?" He asked in a trembling voice as he rolled her over, placing her head on his lap, completely not minding the scattered grocery bags and a circle of bystanders that began to form around them.
"Mom! Mom! Answer me!" Are you ok!?" He repeated desperately, shaking some answer from his beloved mother. The brunette woman opened her heavy eyelids to gaze at her crying son, reaching her hand to touch his cheek tenderly, feeling for the last time the warmth of their one and only child.
"Ed…ward…of-course…I'm-fine…" She said in a raspy voice, making Edward to tear even more.
"Mom…Mom please…" HE cried over her, fresh tears leaking form his eyes down to wet the woman's pale face.
"Ed-ward…I'm going…ahead now…take…care of yourself." Trisha breathed difficulty and the young boy noticed the puddle of blood flooded on his mother's back. It's where the bullet hit her.
He heard someone shouted for help and to call the ambulance but ignored it. His mother is dying. It's like a nightmare he even can't imagine to have.
"Mom, what are you talking about?" He asked, choking his words through his sobs.
"I'm…sorry…" She whispered and dropped her hand that once warmed his cold, tear-strained face to her side, her eyes closed lifelessly.
"Mom.." Edward called out, shaking his mother awake. Her soulless body only swayed limply in his force. She was dead. She left him all alone.
"No.." The boy cried, crystal water leaking from his eyes like dripping faucet.
"Mom…please don't leave me…" Edward pleaded helplessly, embracing her dead body with all his might.
She was cold. She was dead and never coming back.
It's over.
"MOM!!!!!!!!"
Six years later…
A black car screeched its tires soundly on the cement ground, stopping at a halt to park it on place.
The car door clicked open and stepped out a handsome young man about the age of sixteen. He stood strongly on his lean body and closed the car door and with a press of his remote, the car locked with a beep.
His long blond hair tied up in a fashionable braid contributed to his good-looking features. He wore some tight jacket only buckled on the first button, revealing his taut black shirt seeped by his six-pac abs. He matched it with stiff black leather pants and ankle boots covered his feet.
His brave, amber eyes shone in the bright sunlight, lingering any girl's heart just by looking at them. He then dug his hand on his pocket and clutched a folded piece of paper in his grasp. Edward Elric opened it and read,
"Green Tea House."
Once he lifted his eyes, he came front with a building with the same name on its signboard. He smirked defiantly and stepped his way towards the place, followed by a small tinkle of the bell as he entered the structure.
A/N: This is all for now…I must see if you'll like this another piece of crap running around my mind…constructive criticism.