A/N: Thank you so much! You awesome people who reviewed the last chapter! You know who you are and it's because of you guys that I got this chapter out so soon. I hope you enjoy it! I know it's tiny. The next one will be much longer to make up for it ^^

Prompt: Sparkle.

Disclaimer: If I owned FMA or Naruto do you really think I'd be writing fanfiction? Seriously?

Warning: This chapter is rated T for swearing and Gai. Consider yourself warned.

Chapter Four: Worse than Armstrong.

By DeceptiveSoftness [Softie]

The sun shone in through the semi-open window, lancing light over the aged wood of the floor, and warming the already too-hot, stale air of the appartment. Edward coughed in his sleep and then unconsciously rolled away from the window in an attempt to escape the suns light. His right hand was shoved beneath the thin pillow while his left rested on the fabric of his back vest, pushing up the shirt to reveal a thin line of tanned flesh. Faint purple marks marred the skin beneath his eyes and it was obvious that he'd barely slept.

The blonde growled lowly under his breath before his eyes fluttered open to glare bemusedly at the sun-cast shadows on the wall. He blinked a few times and his brow furrowed in confusion before bitter realisation dawned on his face and he sat upright on the futon. For a brief second he'd thought that he was back in Amestris with his brother, probably camping out in a crappy hotel, while they worked on another mission. Reality left a bitter taste in his mouth and he dragged a tired hand over his face and squinted out the window.

The mid-afternoon sun glittered mockingly from its high perch in the cloudless sky and Edwards eyes widened as he realised just how late he was for that stupid training the Hokage had ordered him to take. He'd only gotten to sleep around an hour before Dawn, confident that his sleep would be uneasy in the strange, new climate and that he'd wake up in time. Damn it, he should have known that this fucked-up world would throw off his internal clock.

The blonde swore as he hopped out of bed before swaying and fumbling for the wall to support himself as the room swam unsteadly in his vision. He belatedly realised that the last time he had eaten anything was around three days ago and his body was probably still recovering from the transmutation he'd used to send him here. He was spent, tired and hungry enough to eye the wilting flowers outside his window curiously. Flowers were plants weren't they? And plants were food...

He was broken out of his musings by a thunderous knocking on the flimsy slab of wood that passed for a front door. "EDWARD ELRIC? YOU, YOUNG MAN, ARE VERY LATE FOR YOUR MOST IMPORTANT TRAINING SENT DOWN FROM HOKAGE-SAMA HIMSELF! THAT IS MOST UNYOUTHFUL!" A jovial voice boomed through the door accompanied by another knock that succeeded in punching a hole through the door. Edward by this point was huddled beneath the futon in a desperate and somewhat sleep-addled attempt to escape the owner of the voice. Images of a tall blonde man flexing his muscled amidst a cloud of pink sparkles shot through his mind and he unconsciously let out a small whimper.

It was just his luck that he got this worlds version of Armstrong for a trainer. Fuck he hated the world sometimes. Edward tried to cling onto the whispy material of his pillow and keep it clamped firmly over his head but it was wrenched away as easily as sand slipping through his fingers. Warily he raised his head and got an eyeful of horrendous green spandex and blinding orange leg warmers. 'Oh god! It's worse than Armstrong!"He thought with a faint frisson of horror before he was grabbed by the scruff of the neck and set on his feet by the Green Monster.

"EDWARD-KUN! WHAT ARE YOU DOING SLEEPING ON A DAY LIKE THIS! YOU SHOULD BE OUT SPREADING YOUR FIRES OF YOUTH SO THAT YOU CAN SHOW THE WORLD WHAT YOU ARE MADE OF!" the man cried as he struck a pose with one hand on his hip and the fingers of his other hand forming an 'O' over his eye. His white, shiny teeth pinged as he grinned at the blonde and Edward blinked rapidly to try erase the sight from his mind. The Hokage should be executed for creating this monstrosity. It was animal cruelty to glue those mice onto his face in the guise of eyebrows!

"I- uh, I was thinking of getting some food firs-" he began tentatively only to be cut off by the Green Monster who had a look of almost comical shock on his face.

"NONSENSE! WE MUST WORK HARD TO MAKE UP FOR THE TIME LOST!" he declared before grabbing Edwards left hand and dragging him out past the splintered remains of his front door. The blonde struggled to pull himself free and dragged his bare feet against the floorboards in an attempt to make his assailent stop but the man just ignored his struggles and hummed a merry tune to himself as he pulled Ed out onto the street and down the road. The blonde flushed in mortification as the villagers stoped to stare at the strange sight of a half-naked boy being pulled along by a man in green spandex.

"AT LEAST LET ME GET DRESSED FIRST!"

A/N: Thank you all very much for reading. The next chapter will either involve the training or Anko. You choose. XD

I know that this chapter is painfully small but I've been studying for exams and my time's been brutally hacked short!

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Thanks again for reading and please review.

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