IT SOMEWHAT GOES OFF OF THE STORY LINE OF NARUTO.
Edward Elric. Age: 15. Aka: Fullmetal Alchemist.
Alphonse Elric. Age: 14. Edward's little brother.
Chp 1: New place.
"Time has been standing still for me, but a new journey is about to begin."
"Are you okay?" Edward heard a voice.
He opened his eyes, and a flood of light was all he saw. He started to open them more slowly, and a flash of bright pink suddenly came into view. He opened them again, and a figure of a young girl appeared. "Huh?" He tried to sit up, but the girl pushed him back down.
"Don't sit up to fast. Are you alright? What happened?" She asked. The pink color he saw was her hair. She had green eyes, and wore a band in her hair.
"Where am I?" He asked himself.
"You're in the forest, near the waterfall." What the young girl said made him remember.
"Oh yeah… I was-" a flash of memories came coming back. He suddenly sat up.
"Al! Where's Al!" He searched everywhere around him with his head. "I gotta find Al!"
"Whose Al? Your companion?" She asked.
"He's my brother! Where is he! He's still up there with the creep! Isn't he?" He Got up and started towards the waterfall.
"Wait! Stop! What does he look like?" she asked.
"He's wearing a big suit of armor!" He searched around the area more.
"I'll help you look for him!" She got into the water and ran up to him. "You shouldn't be standing! You're wounds are bad! I can tell you that! You need medical attention!" She grabbed his shoulder. Suddenly, she felt as if she hit something hard with her foot. "Ow!"
It was the suit of armor.
"Al!" Edward looked at the armor. It was face down, with part of the metal sticking out of the water. Don't tell me the blood seal wore off! He thought to himself.
"He's in the armor!" The girl with the pink hair bent down and put her hand on the armor. A glow of blue came from her hands.
Edward froze. Alchemy? no… There's no transmutation sign… Unless… she saw the gate… "How are you doing that?" he asked.
"I don't here a pulse!!" She began to take off the helmet.
"No!" Edward yelled at her. He grabbed the suit of armor and dragged it to the shore.
"Aren't you worried about your brother?! He has no pulse!" She sat next to him. Her eyes were full of worry, and full of emotion.
"Ed…" A sound came from the armor. The girl looked shocked.
"How is he alive? He had no pulse." She asked herself.
"Al! Thank god you're alive." Ed breathed a sigh of relief.
"Ed… I don't feel so well…" Al said.
"Just rest a little bit okay. You'll be fine." Ed put his left hand on the armor.
"Okay…" Al said softly. This made the girl feel weird. Obviously, something had happened to these to brothers. They were badly off as it is, with the bruises of Ed's and the "Older" brother (at lest what she thought) really weak, but why did he have a little kid's voice? ….More importantly why didn't he have a pulse?
Ed and she sat down near the lake. "Would you like me to take care of your wounds? I have some medicine with me." She asked.
"Thank you. You've been really kind to me, but you don't even know me, and I don't know your name." Edward looked up at this girl. She pulled out some bandages.
"Hold still." She started putting band-aids on his face. "Let me see your arm."
He pulled off his cloak. He was wearing a long sleeved black jacket. She started unbuttoning his jacket. "I can do it." He pulled the jacket off the left arm. She put bandages around the wounds.
"What about your right arm?" She asked. She started moving her hand to his other arm.
"It's fine. I didn't hurt it." He pulled back on his jacket and cloak.
"I'm Sakura." She smiled. "What's your name?"
"Edward." He replied.
"What about your friend? I could see if he's-"
"No!" He yelled. Sakura was taken back by his sudden out burst interrupting her. "Uh, I mean I'll make sure." he went over to the armor.
She walked up to him. "Are you sure?" She asked. "I am a medic ninja."
He turned around and looked at her, "What? A medic ninja?" He was confused. Ninja were long since gone.
She looked at him suspiciously. "You know, jutsu." She folded her arms.
"No, I don't." Edward looked at this girl in disbelief.
She looked at him as if he were insane. "You're kidding me! You mean you've never heard of a ninja?"
"Ninja are long since gone. The idea of a ninja died long ago!" Edward almost thought this girl was trying to pull his leg.
"No they're not! I'm a ninja of the Hidden Leaf Village!" Sakura was mad.
"Hidden Leaf Village? You're nuts!" He yelled at her.
"No, you are! See my headband? That symbol is the symbol of the hidden leaf village!" She pointed to the red headband she wore for her hair.
"You mean a squiggle line!" He yelled at her.
"A SQUIGGLE LINE!!!" Her voice was louder. She punched Edward so hard in the face it sent him flying and hit the trunk of a tree.
"You're insane!" He touched his cheek with his right hand.
"Is… is that a mechanical arm?" Sakura stopped dead her tracks. Edward froze.
"No." He glared at her. "It's a glove."
"No, it's not…" She walked over to him and sat next to him. "Why do have a mechanical arm?"
"Mind your own business!" Edward yelled in her face. Sakura froze.
"You're right. I'm sorry. I shouldn't pry my nose into places it doesn't belong." Sakura looked down. She wanted to know why, and she would find out, if it was the least thing she did.
"Thank you." He stood up and walked back to the armor. "You've got on hell of a punch, you know that?" He sat next to Al.
"Yes, that's what training does to you." She smiled and sat next him. "Will he be alright?" She asked.
"Yeah, he just needs more rest." He frowned.
"Would you like a place to stay? My village isn't far from here. You could meet our Hokage, and get a place to stay." She asked him. She put her hand on his shoulder.
"Hokage?" He asked. It was clear that he was an outsider now.
"Hokage is the title our leader of the village is called. It is Lady Tsunade." She smiled. "I understand you and your brother must come from a land far away now. It must be confusing." She stared at his brother in the suit of armor. "Shouldn't he take the armor off?"
"No, he's fine." The armor started to move. "Ed, who is she?" He asked.
"This is Sakura. She's from around here. She said she can explain why this place is so different from our towns. Sakura, this is my brother, Alphonse, or Al." Edward turned to Sakura who smiled and Ed, and then Al.
"It's very nice to meet you. You must be lucky to have a younger brother as caring as Edward." She noticed Ed starting to flinch.
"Ed, she doesn't know. Actually, Ed is my older brother." Sakura's eyes widened.
"Really? I guess I know who eats there vegetables." Noticing how tall Al was compared to her.
"What's that supposed to mean!!" Ed got in her face.
"It's just that he's taller then you, but younger!" She smiled at him.
"WHO YOU CALLING A SHRIMP!!!!" He yelled at her.
"No one! Now do you want a place to stay or not?" She threatened.
"Fine." He followed her. She jumped on the limb of a tree branch.
"How is everyone doing that?" He asked her.
"Oh, that's right. You're not a ninja." She jumped down. "That's okay. It's not far from here anyway. We can take the long way.
"Oookkkaaayyy." He walked along side her.
"This is a very quiet place now, with Naruto gone." She said more to herself then anyone.
"Naruto?" Ed asked.
"He's a friend of mine. Very lively. We were on the same team when we first became ninjas. Do you know what I mean?" she asked.
"I think so." Al and Ed said together.
"Well, we have a ninja academy, and when we are ready, we take the exam to graduate and we are put on a four man squad. There are ranks: the lowest is Gennin, while the highest is Hokage, or the leader of your village. In between are Chunnin, Jounnin, special Jounnin. And then there are the three legendary Sannins. Lady Tsunade is one of them. Understand?" She asked.
"Alright." Ed started staring at her. He barely understood her.
"Well, when Gennin graduate, they are assigned a Jounnin instructor and two other Gennins and they are they're squad. They go to mission teams, and you can take exams to become Chunnins if you're a Gennin, or a Jounnin if you're a Chunnin. I'm a Chunnin, though Naruto hasn't taken the exam yet, so he is still a Gennin." She smiled at them. "Understand?"
"Yes." Ed said.
"I think." Al replied.
"Good." She smiled. "Where are you to from?"
"Risembool." Al said.
"Risembool? I've never heard of such a place. But you've never heard of Konoha, so it's all fair." She smiled back. "Tell me about your country."
"Riembool is in the country Amestris. Risembool is quiet, though it is very different from the rest of the country, very hidden, almost. Not really noticed." Ed said.
"Is that right? I know some cities like that myself." She turned to Al, "I offered to heal you with my medic jutsu, but your brother said no." Sakura said.
"What's jutsu?" Ed and Al asked.
"It's very complicated. A jutsu is performed by using your chakra and hand signs." She smiled. "I'll show you a basic one. It's called transformation jutsu. It allows the person to change from to another person or creature." She smiled.
She stopped walking and turned to face them. She clasped her hands to gether, with with her middle and index fingers still up. "This hand seal is the basic one. First you concentrate, trying to summon up as much chakra as you need." She closed her eyes. The two brothers watched her intently. "Then, you pick the person you want to transform into, and imagine taking on the form of that person." She smiled with her eyes closed. Ed and Al wondered what happened to it when the sad looked cam upon her face. "Transform!"
Suddenly, it looked like a smoke bomb went off. When it cleared, it showed a young boy. He had blonde, spiky hair and blue eyes. He had a blue head band on and was wearing an orange jumpsuit. It looked like he had whiskers.
"Is this one of your friends you transformed into?" Al asked.
"I took on the appearance of him." Now, it was a different voice speaking.
"That's insane! You can do that?!" Ed and Al were shocked.
"It's quite simple." She changed back into herself. "That was my friend. The last time I saw him until he left with Lord Jiraiya, one of the three Sannins, to train to become stronger. He will come back soon though." She smiled, put then it soon turned into a frown. "Let's go. I'll take you to Lady fifth. That's another thing we call Lady Tsunade, since she is the fifth Hokage our village has had."
"Right. I'll I want to do is get back to my world." Ed sighed.
"World? I thought you lived in a different side of the Earth." Sakura thought these two were kind of getting weirder by the minute.
"Well, you must be some unknown land that the rest of us haven't discovered yet." Al reasoned.
"Likewise." Sakura said. "Though we speak the same language."
"I know." Ed said. "That's what I don't get."
She smiled. "We'll find out why you are here."
"I know. One minute I was at Risembool near the waterfall at the end of that creek. Now, I find myself in a completely different area." Edward sighed. "Though I've never seen what was at the end of the waterfall. It was to deep for us to swim."
"Really?" Sakura said. "I've seen what was at the top, but never a town named Risembool or anything." They were nearing a huge gate, which made Ed and Al's mouths drop.
Two guards came down from the tower. "Please state your business here." The guards turned and saw Ed and Al, obviously not Sakura.
"Hello, Kotestsu, Izumo." Sakura smiled at them.
"Sakura! How are you? Who are these people?" Izumo asked her.
"I'm fine, and they are brothers I met near the village. They wish to speak to Lady Tsunade." She smiled and stood next to them. "They come from a far off land, and want to find a way to return, for you see, they got lost along the way, and don't really know where they are. In fact, so far away they never heard of the leaf village, of jutsu of any sort." She opened her eyes.
"What?" Kotetsu and Izumo looked disgusted.
"I know. I didn't believe it myself, but they were completely lost when I started asking questions." She smiled. Sakura faced Ed and Al. "I'll take you to Lady Fifth."
They followed her inside the gate.
