Chapter Four – Just a Small Something

"Moyashi, you're sure that your eye didn't, ya know, accidentally activate?" Kanda hissed as we jumped from roof to roof. I glared to him, my gaze sweeping behind him as well.

"Positive. It never has before," I growled, angry of being accused of making a false alarm.

Maybe Lavi was having better luck back at Central…

I ducked from another bullet, slapping my hands to the ground as I did. I supported myself on my hands, flipping over backwards as if in a hand-stand before it shot again.

"What the hell are these things?" Mustang shouted as he shot uselessly at them with his flames. Lavi was dodging one, right before he slammed it to the ground with his hammer. He stood, looking to the sky to survey how many more there were before he spoke.

"They're Akuma. I thought I told you three not to fight!" Lavi scolded as he jumped off of Al, who had been fighting much the same style as me. Lavi managed to get three down in the next blow that he made. We all glared to him. Like we could stand still during all of this.

"Damn it Moyashi, what the hell were you doing?" Kanda could be seen crashing into an Akuma as Allen jumped to the ground.

"Yeah, yeah, sorry, jeesh," Allen jumped to one, his arm changing as he did so. His arm changed to a large black, almost-clawed on. His jacket transformed to a white cloak, a clown mask holding it together at his neck somehow. He had become a completely different person, unlike the other two.

Suddenly, there was an arm around my neck as the last one was destroyed. At the same instant that I realized it, everyone shouted out my name.

"Edward!"

"Fullmetal!"

"Brother!"

"Ha, seems you're quite loved," The arm pulled me closer to its body. The grip tightened on my neck, forcing me to think that this might not have happened had I been on guard. If I hadn't been so absorbed in thinking about the three weirdoes who had suddenly appeared in my life—

"Tykki, let him go!" Allen started to walk forward, the man behind me tightening his grasp just enough to make me start clawing at his arm. Allen stopped as he saw my reaction.

"Hmm, I will. I have a message for the siblings first," breath tickled my ear as he placed his head on my shoulder; "Father says he's watching his special guests. His children are eager to play," My eyes flew open, shock and anger filling me. I could see that Al had stilled completely, searching me for my reaction. Mustang had as well, his eyes connecting with mine in a frantic attempt to communicate.

"How do you know him…Them…?" Mustang demanded, raising his hand as he prepared to fire.

"Hmm, he adopted some new members to the family," With that, the arm was gone from around my neck. I fell to me knees, gasping for breath. Mustang shot over my head then, shocked when the man jumped over his flames.

"Tata for now," The man said, tipping his hat as he vanished.

I got to my feet, running to Al's side. He bent down, harshly whispering to me.

"How does he know?"

"I don't know, do you think they're working with him?"

"Could he be another Homunculus?" Al stopped talking as Allen and Lavi approached.

"You two know something, don't you?" Allen asked. Al and I straightened, looking to Allen with scrutiny. Could we trust him? Could we tell them what we had only entrusted to a few of our closest? Could they even begin to understand a world in which they had only just entered?

I shook my head robotically. "No, we don't," I grabbed Al by the writs, turning away and starting to walk inside. Before we could move much further and a foot, Kanda was blocking our path.

"I don't believe you," He hissed, sharp eyes scanning us.

"Fine, say that we do, what makes you three so trustworthy?" I piped up; silencing Al from his comment that I was sure was going to be "Brother that was rude".

"The Fuhrer sent for us," Allen chirped up from behind. I tensed, my face going cross. All took me by the shoulder, walking around Kanda was we ran inside.

Mustang neared the group, eyeing them all carefully.

"You were sent here by the Fuhrer?" He asked, venom in his words. All eyes widened as they watched him.

"Yes, but isn't that a good thing?" Lavi asked. Mustang stopped for a moment, his hands clenched in fists at his sides.

"Not, it is anything but. Get out, you don't belong here if you are one of his," Mustang hissed, walking away towards the doors. As he did, Hawkeye rushed to greet him.

"What was-"

"Don't ask," Mustang shrugged, motioning for her to follow him inside. She followed, casting one more look towards the exorcists.

"Mustang, sir, I don't think you should be so cold towards them," She whispered. He shrugged, focusing still on the hallway ahead of him.

"They work for him. Say that I am right, now they go tattle on me for being a horrible subordinate. If I am wrong, then they leave me alone and make nothing of the matter and move onto whatever those creatures were that they were sent here to destroy," He rounded the corner, seeing that Ed and Al had taken refuge in his office.

"All, we don't know that," Ed snapped.

"It should be pretty evident. If they didn't like that Tykki character, then there is something going on with the. Maybe they're the good guys and Tykki is someone that they hate as well," Al tried to reason with his brother, but looked to be getting no where.

"They could be acting," Ed retorted.

"They could be anything they want to be," Mustang piped up, walking into his office as both sets of eyes followed him to his desk. "I set something up, give it time and we can go from there," He continued to talk even as he turned his back to the siblings.

"What'd you do?" Al asked, his gaze landing next on Hawkeye.

"Oh, just a small something," Suddenly, both siblings felt sympathetic towards the exorcists.

Author's Note: Two things. One, in this chapter, I feel like I horribly butchered the characters. For some odd reason, no one seems to be themselves. So, for that I seriously just hurt myself as well as any reader's that actually care.

Second, I have no idea where I am going with this, so the whole Noah and Homunculous thing is probably going to take over as the main plot, simply because it is the only one that I have set up so far. I mean, I could do tons of other stuff, and most likely I will, but for now, I am just as clueless as you are. XD

Hope you enjoyed!