Well, here's the 2nd chapter, I hope you readers enjoy it.

Love, Waffle

"The end," Ukitake smiled, as the Elric brothers stared at him.

"Umm, Taichou...." Al started.

"You just said 'The End'. That was it," Ed finished, frowning.

"O-Oh, I did?" Ukitake let out a small, nervous laugh. "I guess you got me. Should I tell the story for real this time, then?"

"Yes, please~!" Al exclaimed, eager to hear.

"Yup!" Ed said.

"Well then, you see...."

A loud bang was heard in the distance.

"W-What was that?! And where did that Colonel bastard go?!"

"N-Nii-San! I'm scared!"

"Oh, dear me....that must be Shunsui."

"K-Kyoraku-Taichou?!" The brothers blurted out.

"Ah, did someone call my name?" The slur of a more than slightly drunken voice called.

"Get off my woman!"

"I'm not your woman, Sir...."

"Eh? What happened to Kyoraku-Taichou? He sounds different than usual..." Al trailed off.

"And why is he here, too?"

Ukitake frowned. "Ever since the 'incident', he's started drinking,"

Ed raised an eyebrow. "He was always drinking! And what incident are you talking about, anyhow?"

"Well, you see--" Ukitake started, but was cut off.

"We were be--" Hiccup! "Trayed." Hiccup!

"What is he talking about, Ukitake-Taichou?" Al asked.

"Well, Urahara-san became a Captain..."

"That's great!" Ed blurted out. Urahara had been his favorite shinigami; or, at least, one of his favorites.

"And then proceeded to betray Soul Society; or so we think." Ukitake winced; it looked as if he had just crushed Ed's every dream, plus ten.

"...." Al, too, fell silent.

"Wow, you could drive a truck filled with purple penguins through here and it still would've been silent." Roy commented, smirking. He had no idea what was going on, but he had won Riza back!

"Sir, you didn't win me back." Riza said curtly.

Roy stared. 'D-Did she just read my mind?!'

Ed tried his hardest not to cry; he was a grown boy now, he couldn't cry! Glancing over at his brother, he saw that Al, too, was trying not to burst out sobbing.

"Did anyone else go with him?" Ed asked in a quiet voice.

"There was...let me--" Hiccup. "See. Shinji," Hiccup! "Hiyori," Hiccup! "Love and Rose," Hiccup! "Yoruichi," Hiccup! "My Lisa," Sniff. "Mashiro and Kensei," Hiccup! "And Hachi and Tessai," Hiccup. The drunken Shunsui Kyoraku concluded.

"Though most of them were simply experiments, and not betrayed," Ukitake hurriedly added, hoping it would make them feel better.

It didn't.

Ed was nearly seething at the mouth trying to stop himself from crying.

"What about Nanao?" You could tell at this point, he was crying, or would have been had he not been metal.

"She's fine, though she doesn't about Yadomaru-Fuku-Taichou yet." Ukitake replied, his expression a mixture of sadness and guilt.

Now, being the drunk sap he was, Kyoraku was already crying with the two brothers, as well.

"....Am I supposed to know who these people are?" Roy asked, getting no answer, aside from the slap to the face that Riza offered.

"R-Riza! What was that for?!"

"You could learn to be a bit more respectful, Sir."

"B-But...."

"Anyhow, we came to take you guys back to Soul Society, and-"

"Is Soi Fong alright?" Ed had to bite his lip as he said it.

"She's depressed, but other than that, she wasn't touched."

At this Ed seemed to calm down a little bit.

"Your girlfriend, Fullmetal?" Roy asked, smirking.

"S-She's not my girlfriend!" Ed blushed redder than a red frying pan, before feeling something HARD collided with his head.

"What do you mean, 'not my girlfriend?!'" A female voice huffed, belonging to none other than...

"S-.....Soi Fong?" Red turned redder than ever before.

"And I brought someone along with me too. She couldn't wait to see Al, and followed us here..."

Al had a moment of hope, but smiled slightly and lost such hope when he heard the voice slowly getting louder as it approached.

"Alll-niii-saaaaaaaaaaaan~!" A small girl with glasses and short, dark brown hair came flying through the door, latching on to Al's leg.

"We're here to take you back to Soul Society, as Ukitake-Taichou said. You're going to be a Vice-Captain, and--"

"H-Huh? Really?!"

"Al too, he'll be filling in for..." She trailed off, not wanting Nanao to hear. "Well, you know who." Ed and Al nodded, understanding that she had meant Yadomaru-Fuku-Taichou.

"But what about me?" Ed questioned, almost forgetting how he was crying jut a few minutes ago, now excited at the prospect of being a lieutenant.

"You'll be vice-captain of the second," Soi Fong grinned, and Ed gave her a confused look.

"But, whose Captain, then...?" His eyes widened slightly as realization struck him, nice and hard. "You...?"

Well, that would probably explain the captain's haori she had been wearing.

"Now, come on! We've already dawdled enough!" Ukitake called, standing in front of a swirly portal of doom.

"Fullmetal, you're leaving me?!" Roy blurted out, raising an eyebrow.

"Sorry, Colonel; I was only here for a mission!" Ed grinned.

"But...What....HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?!"

"I'm sorry; you'll have to wait 'till your dead to know!"

And with that, they left.

Well, that was fun. I hope you liked it. And if you did than review~!

I will update soon, don't worry, this isn't the end~ By the way, please notice how Kyoraku was hiccupping in-between words.

Love, Waffle