Momo: Alright, this is your new chapter! I mentioned the rest of the warning in the first chapter. Review if you have any request for the pairings.

Lin: Flames will be used to make cookie!

Yuki: This chapter is a little short, so our humble author promised to make it longer the next chapter.

Momo: . . . Let's start the chapter. (You will get it form me)

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"So, the two of you know each other?" Dante ask, pointing at them both.

Edward was stunned, and was almost as still as a stone statue. Envy's eyes were widened, and the finger which had been pointing at Edward was still in the middle of the air.

"Err . . . He's my cousin?"

Smack!

Dante gave Envy a big slap on his head, while his hand remained in the air.

"Ow . . . What are you doing?"

"You are stating the obvious; this is your cousin, Edward Elric." Dante said, pointing at the stunned blond.

"Edward Elric . . ." Envy stood up, looking at the blond as he looks at him from head to toe.

"Sounds familiar, but it couldn't be . . ."

'Wait a minute; he can't recognize me?' Edward was slightly surprised. 'But since I look different from usual without my glasses...'

A smirk creeped up on his face, and he smiled at Envy.

"Nice to meet you, from now onwards I will be living here for a while, please take care of me." Edward said as he bowed down to Envy, standing up again as he looked at Envy.

Envy lifted an eyebrow in surprise. The blond had held such a shocked look when he saw him (not to mention that big reaction he received), but now he was so
polite? There was something fishy about it . . .

Envy stared at the smiling blond, who he felt that the word 'innocent' was on his head. Edward felt a sweat drop roll down from his head.

Did he notice who I am? Edward gulped, praying in his heart that he wouldn't be found out…

"Oh well, come in." Envy said, keeping his suspicion to himself as he let the blond into the house.

"Thank you." Edward said as he picked up his luggage, dragging it into the house.

"Are you coming in?" Envy asked, looking back at Dante.

"No, I still have work to do," Dante said, looking at the blond in the house, "And treat our guest well; I get pay monthly from him."

"I'm not the one getting it?!" Envy exclaimed as Dante gave another slap on his head.

"The child's money is the parent's money, and you will be buying crap if I let you handle the money."

Envy snarled, turning to the side as he murmured, "You were not going to hand me the money anyway..."

"Oh well, I will come and check once every three months." Dante said.

When Edward finally saw her, he smiled angelically at her, but Envy didn't see it.

"Oh, he's a sweet child, really. Maybe he is different from his father . . ." Dante said as she sighed.

"What about his father?"

"Long story, ask him to be your storyteller later. Well, I have to pick up Wrath and go back to my office now, bye." Dante said, waving at the blond as she turned
and walk away.

"Okay . . ." Envy murmured, closing the door as he turn and look at the blond.

Edward smile sweetly at him, with his hands behind his back. Envy was speechless.

"Now..." Envy murmured, walking towards the blond as he asked, "Have I seen you before? You seem oddly familiar..."

"Can't you recognize me, Envy?" Edward said, lowering his head a bit as his eyes never leave him.

"I don't know. Edward Elric, huh, I'm sure that I heard of that name before..." his eyes suddenly brightened up as he stared in Edward in disbelief.

"Don't tell me-"

"That's right." Edward smirked as he tackled Envy down to the floor. They landed on the floor with a loud crash, with Edward using Envy as a cushion.

Envy winced, and then his eyes opened and met with Edward's as he hissed, "You really are that shrimp..."

"You're right again, but I'm not a freaking shrimp, palm tree." Edward replied, putting his arm under Envy's throat as he pinned his shoulder down with his elbow, his right hand grabbing Envy's free hand as his knuckles pin down Envy's legs.

"You have pretty good skills, so why didn't you use them just now?" Envy asked, managing a smirk on his face.

"I learnt it from my previous job. And if I did that, I would be creating one hell of mess. I don't want the student council to come for me; I prefer not to have their
attention." Edward said, forcing Envy down when he tried to struggle.

"Never expected that we would meet again." Envy said.

"For the first time, I agree with you." Edward replied.

There was silence between them. After what seemed like hours, although it was only ten minutes in reality, Edward felt that he couldn't hold Envy down much longer. He was getting tired from forcing Envy down on the ground.

As he relaxed himself a bit, Edward widened his eyes when Envy suddenly leapt up with a great force, turning their position.

Now Edward was under Envy; with his hands pinned down by Envy's, one of Envy's legs was between the blond's, while he leant beside his ear and said, "Looks like
the tables have turned, O'chibi-chan..."

"For the last time, I said, I'M NOT A FREAKING SHRIMP THAT COULD BE EASILY FOUGHT OVER BECAUSE OF HIS SLIGHT MISTAKE!"

Envy winced at the voice. After feeling his ears going back to normal, he managed a smirk and said, "Looks like you are a loud one, O'chibi."

"Let go of me!" Edward said through his gritted teeth, struggling to get out of his grip.

"Mm~ Nope, I don't want to." Envy said, smiling brightly at the blond.

Edward's face went red. He tried to push Envy away, but his face reddened deeper in embarrassment when he felt Envy's body pressing against his to hold him down.

"So, Mr. Short rant will get embarrassed too?" Envy said, holding the blond down as Edward tried to fight him off.

"I said, let me go!" Edward cried, trying to pull his hands away from Envy's grip.

"And my answer will be: no." Envy said, his eyes narrowing in a dangerous way, even though he was smiling.

Edward shuddered. 'Okay, now what have I got myself into? Although I wanted to teach him a lesson, the one having a lesson taught is me… '

"Say, are you going to keep holding me down like this?" Edward asked. Envy was stunned, and lifted up his body slightly away from the blond as his eyes widened in surprise.

"Hm, you're right." Envy said, thinking about it as his mind loafed off somewhere else. He then turned back to Edward. "So what do you have in mind?"

"Like I said in the first place; let me go."

"But you are the one who gave me a surprise attack first. Hm, what should I do?"

"Then how about this?" Edward said, getting Envy's attention back again.

"You let me go and I won't do anything to you. Just until I can move out, both of us won't get in each other's way. You do your things, and I will do my own. I will be handing the rent to you monthly, so you might as well just shut up." Edward said, staring into Envy's cold eyes.

"Not too bad, but do you think I will listen?" Envy asked as he smirked.

Edward narrowed his eyes. "So, do you have a better way?"

"Come to think of it, I don't." Envy said, letting the blond go as he stood up.

"Deal, we will do as you say." Envy said, pointing at the blond, "But you have to follow my rules."

"Deal, so you may as well as spit it out." Edward said as he stood up, patting off the dust on his clothes.

"Firstly, my room; which is the very first on the left side of the hallway, is off limits." Envy said, pointing at the door of his room.

'As if I would go in.' Edward thought as he said, "Deal, continue on."

"Second, there's only one bathroom, which is near the kitchen. You better use it before I do; I stay in for a long time.

"Third, you can use the kitchen if you want, I don't use it often since I don't cook, but Dante insisted that I should have one.
"Fourth, if you are doing the laundry, you might as well as do mine. It saves more money if we just wash it together at once. And the laundry basket is just
outside the bathroom."

Edward hesitated a little on the laundry part, thinking about it for a few moments before nodding his head slowly.

"Final thing, since I don't do housework often, you are going to do it." Envy smirked, folding his arms as he give the blond a challenging look.

"Hey palm tree, I'm not here to be your maid." Edward said, glaring back at Envy.

"This is my house, so my rules. If you are not going to agree with it, you might as well as move out."

"You know I can't." Edward said, taking a step forward.

"That's your own business." Envy said, taking a step forward too.

"...If I do that, will the rent be decreased?"

"Well, I suppose so."

"Then, deal. Now, where am I living?"

Envy pointed at the room in front of his.

"Fine," Edward said as he picked up his suitcase off of the ground. He dragged it with him as he looked back at Envy.

"One more thing; I don't want you to tell anyone about me living with you." Edward said.

"Same, I wouldn't want anyone to know about me living with a shrimp." Envy replied.

"If you call me that one more time, I will be snapping your legs off and sticking it up on your head."

"But I will still be taller than you, chibi-chan~" Envy teased as Edward went red at the name.

"I'M NOT A FREAKING GIRL, SO DON'T CALL ME 'CHAN'!" Edward exclaimed as he went into the room and slammed the door hard.

"If the door breaks, you will be paying for it!"

Edward sighed, leaning on the door as he scanned the room with his eyes. The room's wall was painted red, as was as the ceiling. The window was right in front
of him, and the air-conditioner was right above it.

There was a bed at the right corner of the room, a black closet with white doors, and drawers at the end of the bed. There was also a bookshelf at the left side of the
room, with a study table beside it.

"I suppose I can put another bookshelf here . . ." Edward said, looking at the left side of room. The space there was empty, and it seemed like he would have to fill it up
himself.

"Or maybe I should put a television or whatever." Edward said, walking towards the window as he pulled the yellow curtains open, unlocking the window as he opened
it, letting the strange, stale smell of the room out.

"I suppose they have done something the room to suit my taste." Edward murmured, leaning on the window.

"What the hell am I going to do now?" Edward said, looking at the cars passing by outside.

"Just why the hell must my stupid cousin be someone that I just beat up this morning?" Envy murmured, walking into his room as he slammed the door.

The walls of the room were purple. A queen-sized double bed, with dark green bed sheets and a few small black pillows, was opposite the door.

The floor was made of polished wood, and there were two black lamps at the foot of his bed; one at each side. There were similar black lamps at the corner of the room.
The dark green curtains that were covering the window made the room seem dark.

Envy walked towards the closet, stripping of his uniform as he tossed it
beside the closet, and then opening the closet doors as he searched through his pile of clothes.

His closet wasn't that messy- instead it was well organized. Some of his clothes, mainly school uniform, were hung up in it while some other shorts and pants were folded up nicely.

Although he might look like a messy person, he's actually quite a neat person on the inside; since he hates to see his things in a mess and have to dig through the mess to find the things he needed. He would like to keep his own house clean too, just that he didn't have time to. He tidied up the house around once every two weeks? But still, he's not good with handling his meals.

He picked out a dark purple shirt and a pair of baggy grey pants and put it on. He looked into the long mirror on the left door, and then he pulled out a drawer that was at the left corner of the closet, just beside his pile of clothes.

There were a total of three drawers, one for putting all his rubber bands and his comb, one for his accessories, and the last one for some other things.

He pulled out the first drawer, taking out his comb and a black clip; clipping his hair up with it.

Picking up his uniform, he hung it on a clothes hanger as he put it behind his door.

He opened the door as he walked out of the room, and then knocked on Edward's door.

The door opened, and Edward was slightly surprised when he saw Envy.

"Hey, how's the packing going?" Envy asked.

Edward nodded and said, "Other than the few boxes of things I left with Dante, I'm about to finish."

"Good. So how's the room?"

"It's nice. I'm even beginning to suspect that the room was specifically decorated like this for me." Edward said, leaning onto the door as he crossed his arms.

"I suppose you are half right. Although I had no idea it was for you, Dante sent some of her men to paint the room and change whatever furniture which was inside. She even told me to keep it clean for whatever reason, which I didn't know." Envy said as he rolls his eyes.

Edward narrowed his eyes. "So, if you knew that it was for me, you wouldn't have done it?"

"Oh no, don't mistake me for this, O'chibi." Envy said as he smirked, looking at the frowning blond as he continued, "I would still do it, since that woman asked me to."

"Hm, I thought so." Edward said, looking away from Envy.

The intense atmosphere between them was suffocating; Envy didn't think that he could take it anymore. The silence was scary; he hoped that he could
just walk away if the blond wouldn't say anything.

As he was about to move and turn away, Edward spoke.

"Thank you."

Envy was stunned. That was unexpected.

"It's hard to imagine that we just had a fight and harsh deal just minutes ago." Envy said.

"And it's definitely hard for me to imagine that I will be living with someone I didn't know, and someone who just beat me up when he did not get his help." Edward
said, smirking as he looked into Envy's eyes.

"...Can I ask you a question?"

Edward nodded, and Envy asked, "Why are you wearing those glasses even though your vision is fine?"

Edward was a little surprised. He pauses for a few moments as he finally answered.

"One, because I will always be careless and wear my contacts to sleep, so the next morning I wake up and it will hurt like hell and it'll be all red. Two, as you've seen, the colour of my eyes is gold; and that attracts too much attention. And the last reason is also that I don't want to attract attention, and definitely not the attention of the student council."

"Why?"

"That's none of your business. If you have no other things to say, I will need my rest right now, good night." With that, Edward closed the door.

"...Well, good night to you too, shrimp."

"I'M NOT THAT SMALL AND MINI THAT I CAN'T HEAR IT WITH MY EARS!"

Envy went back into his room, opening his bag as he took out his assignments, and then started to do it on his bed; the study table in his room was not used at all,
except when he was using his computer.

It was already late at night when he finished; since he isn't good with his studies, he had a hard time finishing his work. Packing his things back into his bag, he
put it at the side of his bed as he turned on the air-conditioner on, and switched the lights off. What did he do next? Sleep of course!

Just as Envy was sleeping soundly on his bed, the ringtone of his phone woke him up. Groaning, he picked up his phone from under his pillow and answered it.

"...Who is it?"

"Rise and Shine, Envy; this is your beautiful mother calling."

"...What do you want?"

"I forgot to tell you yesterday, but that dear cousin of yours is hard to wake up, that's what I have been told."

"So do you expect me to go wake him up?"

"That's right, I'm so glad that the education you get is finally working on you."

"...Fine, I will wake him up." Envy said as he sat up on his bed, walking down from it as he walked towards the door.

"If there's nothing more, I'm cutting off the line." Envy said.

"Envy, wait-"

Envy pressed the red button to cut off the line. He put his phone into his pocket as he walked towards the blond's room.

Dante narrowed her eyes when Envy cut off the line.

"I was about to tell you Alphonse's warning, but oh well."

Dante put down the phone, turning her attention back to the newspaper she was reading.

"It won't be my responsibility if something happens..."

Envy knocked on the door of Edward's room; when he got no response, he took it as a sign that the blond was still asleep. As Envy turned the doorknob, he found that the room wasn't locked.

"I'm coming in."

As he entered the room, he saw that Edward was sleeping on the bed, with the blanket over his head. Envy shook the figure violently, trying to wake the blond up as he said, "Hey Edward, wake up."

Seeing that the figure had no reaction; Envy frowned as he shook the blond again.

"Hey, wake up already."

"Five more minutes . . ." Edward groaned as he pulled the blanket up further.

"Man, you are a hard one... Hey bean, wake up."

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING A MINI SHRIMP THAT CAN'T GROW BECAUSE HE WAS SLEEPING ALL THE TIME?" Edward exclaimed, almost jumping up from his bed.

"Finally, now get up. It's almost time for school." Envy said as he smirked.

Edward groaned as he sat up on his bed, the grip on his blanket tightening as he looked at Envy, his face slightly flushed as he said, "Would you mind going out of the room for a while?"

"Why? I will just stay here."

"Err; it's not that appropriate..."

"Just hurry up already."

Edward's face was slightly redder than before. He slowly pulled away the blanket as he walked down off the bed.

Envy's eyes widened when he saw what was under the blanket; the blond was just wearing a white shirt that was big enough to cover his thigh, the shirt only had its last three buttons buttoned up, while Edward was grabbing on to the collar of his shirt.

His hair was let down, and rested against his back and shoulder. He was blushing, and looking away from Envy. Envy couldn't really stand it; he was too cute for a guy.

'What the hell ... I admit that he looks cute, but that's because he looks feminine. Oh no, I better go before I get a hard-on . . . Envy blushed as he turned away, walking
out of the room as he said, "I will go change now, wait outside the living room once you are done."

As the door was closed, Edward sighs in relief as he let go of the collar of his shirt.

"I told you that you can't stay . . ."

Momo: This chapter will end here. If you have question about the chibi in white shirt, here are your answers. 1. Ed is small, so he will look cute in loose shirt. 2. He looks comfy in it. 3. Because I'm giving you readers another fan service, haha.

Yuki: And because you are a pervert.

Momo: . . . I will put a little omake here, got my ideas from the game 'Blue Bird's Illusion'.

Yuki: And decided that she will use some of the NG scene which is from the game, into the omake.

Lin: And this omake is only for a little laugh and out of boredom; trying to make the chapter longer by the way.

Omake: NG scene of BBI, Big brother's note

Al: Hm? -flip over the pages of a book- This looks like nii-san's writing . . .

The top 3 goals in my life:

1. Reach the height of 190cm!

2. Restore Alphonse'sbody!

3. Defeat Roy Mustang!

Ed: -walks into the room- Al, what are you doing?

Al: . . . Nii-san! How can you put your height in front of me?! Is your height more important than restoring my body? I'm not going to talk to you anymore! -stomps
away-

Ed: Eh!? Wait, Al!

Meanwhile . . .

Roy: Hm?

-pick up a piece of paper in between the pages-

Roy: Looks like this is Full-Metal's handwriting . . . Never thought that I can be in one of his top goal of his life. -laugh-

Omake: NG scene of BBI, Colonel's note

Al: -flip through another book- Hm? Is this Colonel's writing?

The top 3 goals in my life:

1. Make all the women in the country wear mini-skirts!

2. Finish signing 100 documents in 10 minutes!

3. Be the President!

Al: Colonel actually treasures the sight of seeing the women wearing mini-skirts more than the place of President?

Meanwhile . . .

Roy: Hm, this style of mini-skirt isn't too bad, this is nice too. Maybe I should pick some colors that go along with the current flow . . .

Roy: -smile- I wonder how will Hawkeye (Riza) look in this?

BANG!
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Momo: It's Riza there who did the 'BANG!', for the readers who did not know. And thank you for reading, so please review!

Yuki: We will have something fun for you at the next chapter, so stay forward to it.

Lin: And we know that Dante is a little too out of character, forgive our idiot author for that, she sucks after all.

Momo: . . . I will promised you that you will get it from me, believe it or not, it will be a good one . . .

And you have my final thanks, YukinoKara, for helping me eta this chapter