A/N: This chapters a little short but they're all going to be like that. I'll have a chapter up evey day or every second day. I hope you enjoy the chapter. X3

Prompt: Charm.

Disclaimer: I do not own FMA or Naruto... Daawh, look! You've made me cry. TT_TT

Warning: Rated T for mild cursing and implications.

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The room was a strange circular shape with books shelves curving around one wall and pictures nestled against the others. In the middle, facing away from the large window that took up another section of the wall, was a large, oak-wood desk and behind that sat a kind looking, old man who idily tapped the pipe in his fingers as he regarded the blonde standing on front of the table with serious brown eyes.

Edward, for his part, looked a mix between bored and irritated and he let his gaze wander curiously over to the pictures. There were four that stood out. Four stern paces staring proudly out of their frames, all four were different and yet they were all the same. While they differed in build and colouring they all possesed the same fierce glint in their eyes as they almost glared at him from their perch. The youngest, perhaps, was a tanned man with piercing blue eyes and wild blonde hair and the oldest might have been the tired looking man with long dark hair and deep-set black eyes or the weird looking white haired man with the pale blue markings on his cheeks.

There was no mistaking the man in the third picture frame as the same one who sat behind the desk. Of course, he had changed, the picture showed a young man brimming with arrogance and fire while the old man wore his aura of quiet power like a shroud, the fire bellied by the kindness that shone from his wrinkled face. Edward realised with a sliver of annoyance that it probably would be best to keep his guard up in the elderly leaders presence. He reminded him of Bradley. All eye-crinkling smiles and warm advice on the outside but viper quick and lethal on the inside.

From the chilly reception he'd gotten on arrival and the scrutinising stare the village leader was leveling at him Edward decided that he'd probably have to get some fast-talking done and convince the elderly man that he wasn't a threat - Pfft, as if. - and that he had only the best intentions - only partly true, he had no intentions at all for the time being and was mostly winging it - in mind. The problem here was that that would require a level of charm and patience that he just didn't posses.

He could pretened to like cheap officials like Yoki and trick them into believing him because they were brainless idiots who couldn't tell their ass from their elbow. But, this man was different and Edward could no more convince him that he was innocent then he could grow wings and fly. The Hokage would see through his transperant attempts at deception as surely as he could see through the wide window behind him.

All that was left was... The truth then.

"I come from an alternate universe." he said bluntly, meeting the Hokages eyes across the desk. The old man choked on his pipe. Perhaps that had been a bit too truthful...

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