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2 Years Later

Yumi sighed and stretched as she carefully fixed her hair. "Finally. At least I got Mustang to agree to me having a day off. I better get out of here before he changes his mind." She said as she petted her black and white cat that she had named Shiro.

She quickly finished getting dressed in her normal outfit, which consisted of a pair of tight fitting black leggings with silver diamond patterns along the sides of the leggings. Over top of the leggings she wore a silver mini skirt with white lining around the bottom. On her torso she wore a black long sleeved shirt with white lining around the bottom of the collar and silver linings along the bottom of the sleeves.

She had a black ribbon tied around her neck, under the collar of the shirt and wore a white zipped up sweater. The sleeves on the sweater came down to her elbows and had black linings along the bottom of the sleeve. Along the bottom of the sweater which went down to her waist was more black linings. At the top of her sweater was a long light purple collar that folded down over her shoulders.

She picked up her twin silver guns and placed them in their holsters before pulling her silver bracelets on. She pulled on a silver anklets onto her ankle before pulling on a pair of simple black and purple shoes. It was then that she heard a knock on her door. She let out a sigh, before turning to her cat. "I spoke too soon." She said before walking to the door, her arms crossed over her chest.

I still have too long a life ahead to get rid of these feelings, right?
I want to try doing over all the things I've left undone.
I thought I was running after something carried over from my dreams,
Yet I'm stumbling into people on this narrow, winding road.
It's not like I want things to go back to the way things were back then,

I'm just searching for the sky I've been losing,
Here's hoping you'll understand,
Stop making that sad face as though you were a victim,

Sins don't end with tears, you have to carry the pain forever,
Who am I waiting for, in this maze of emotions with no way out in sight?
I want to purge myself more simply, as if writing in a blank notebook,
What is it i want to escape from?

...Is it reality?

It makes me want to scream that we're alive for things to come true. Can you hear me?
I can't put up with playing it safe...I've got nowhere to go home to,
I'm always grateful for kindness,
That's why I want to grow stronger,

( I'm on the way)
I even welcome this pain,
For the things I miss.

"1st Lieutenant Yumi Yatsuki!" One of the officers practically shouted as he entered her house followed closely my 1st Lieutenant Riza, 2nd Lieutenants, Jean Havoc, Heyman's Breda, Vato Falman, and Sergeant Major Kain Fuery. Colonel Roy Mustang walked in after them with a smirk on his face.

Yumi glared at him. "I knew I should've left earlier." She muttered before letting out a sigh. "What do you got for me?"

"I want you to go to the Elric brothers, they could use your help with Scar lurking around." He ordered.

She let out a sigh. "Dang, Mustang, You trying to kill me or something?" She questioned as she placed her hands on her hips,

"That's debatable." He responded with a chuckle.

"Fine, fine. Where are they?" She questioned grumpily.

"Dublith. Their staying at their old teacher, Izumi Curtis' house." He informed her.

"Kay." And with that said she stalked over to the door but stopped in front of Fuery. "You like animals, right?"

"Yes, Ma-am." He responded.

"Do me a favor and feed Shiro." She said before running out of the building and towards the train station.


Yumi sighed as she leaned against the wall with a tired expression on her face. "Does Mustang not know the meaning of a girls day off?" She complained in an irritable mutter. It had been 3 days since she had arrived in Dublith and Ed was being an absolute pain. They ended up getting into an insult war every time they saw each other and that just led to them both getting beat up by Ms. Izumi. "Hm...?" She glanced down at the floor as a crumpled up piece of paper landed at her feet.

She knelt down to pick up the piece of paper and narrowed her eyes as she saw what was written on it.

'Come to the Devil's Nest for a chat and your friends won't be harmed.' She crumpled the piece of paper into a ball. "Somebody who actually has the guts to threaten me?" She asked nobody in particular before a wide grin spread across her face. "Should be fun." She said as she shoved the piece of paper into one of her pockets.

She slowly got to her feet and shoved her hands into her pockets before heading down the alley, away from Izumi's house.

"She's here." Dolcetto commented as he jumped down off of the roof with Roa and Marta at his side.

"We've been waiting for you." He commented as she slowly walked up to them, with her hands still stuffed into her pockets.

"'Come to the Devil's Nest for a chat and your friends won't be harmed.'" She read as she held the note up for them to see.

"We know quite a bit about you." Marta said with a smirk on her face.

"Hm...And yet...I know absolutely nothing about you." She retorted in annoyance.

They laughed. "Our boss wishes to meet you." Roa said with a grin.

"Yeah? Well I don't wanna meet him!" She snapped before she pulled her sleeves up and shot her hands down, making them collide with the ground causing a ring of fire to surround her. This was one of her protection moves. She then slammed her hands back down on the ground causing a icicle shaped brown shard made of the earth to shoot out of the earth and nearly hit Marta who nimbly dodged out of the way at the last minute.

She gritted her teeth together in anger as the ring of fire disappeared. Roa came at her with his hammer, and having run out of time to think of an attack and then execute it she dodged the blow and started to fire bullets at him with her twin pistols.

She glanced to the side and quickly moved her legs out of the way as Dolcetto tried to stab her on her legs. She grinned as he tried to get the sword out of the floor and kicked him in the face causing him to stumble back. She grinned and quickly placed her hands on the ground. She smirked as she pulled a pick metal pipe out of it that was about four feet long.

"This is why I prefer alchemy. Simple weapons like this are just...too long. Too many feet." She said thoughtfully as she passed it from one hand to the other and back again. "But seeing as I don't have the time right now to continually keep placing my hands on the ground..." She trailed off with a pointed look. "I guess I'll just have to use this." She said and charged forward toward Dolcetto.

She ducked his first blow and reached for her gun only to find that Marta had it in her hands. "I can see why you like this so much." She mused.

"You!" She yelled and charged at the snake woman. She brought the metal pipe up to attack her only to be blocked and thrown across the floor by Roa. She somehow managed to remain on her feet. She blinked in shock before she realized what had happened.

He had pushed her back with such controlled force that she had remained on her feet but skidded backwards across the room. She narrowed her eyes in annoyance and realized that the back of her foot was throbbing in pain.

She yanked her sleeves up again to use her bracelets again but froze ever so slightly as she felt a pair of firm strong hands grasp her shoulders from behind. 'Huh?' Relying solely on her instincts she spun around and swung her metal pipe at the thing behind her.

Laughter filled the air causing her to look up at the thing she had hit. Her eyes widened as she saw that where her pipe had hit had left a big black spot. She took a step back before narrowing her eyes in anger. The black spot slowly disappeared right before she felt a sharp pain connect with the back of her skull and then everything went black.

Hey, do you remember the scarlet sky, the sky we saw on that day?
Making a promise, the early summer wind enveloped us; the two of us came closer together

Behind a forced smile, I harbor a grown shadow
So I pretend to not notice it and choose rebirth

I keep waiting for a notification that won't tremble on the table
And I knew about everything, the blank nights and the mornings that shouldn't come, too

Hey, I wonder if you did forget about the scarlet sky, the sky we saw on that day
The promise tore apart and vanished into the early summer wind; the two of us can't go back

In this room where sounds, colors, and temperatures are cut in half
After I mess it up today, too, I stagger, grow tired, and fall asleep

"Deceive me well, okay? I hate yet love lies" were your words
Nowadays, given how much those feelings hurt, we bid goodbye

We waved at each other, saying, "See you again someday," but we won't meet anymore, right?
The final lie was a tender lie; I won't forget about it

Hey, someday, will you recall the scarlet sky, the sky we saw on that day?
Embracing the promise we couldn't keep, the two of us start walking.


I know, I know, I just LOOOOOOOOOOVE to leave you guys hanging on cliffhangers. Greed will have a much bigger part to play in the next chapter, don't worry Greed fans. I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter.

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~Greed the Ultimate Shield