WARNING: This chapter contains cursing !

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Ed laid the cat down and took note it was rather small. He ran his hand over its head and it nuzzled against his warm skin. Ed smiled before he clapped. With gentle hands he touched the paws and began to mend them. The cat's hair on its back rose and it showed its fangs. Soon the anger melted away and relief took its place. The cat now was meowing in pleasure. Ed smiled and the glowing stopped.

The cat stood up on its legs, wobbly at first and then stood strong. It hopped on to Edward chest gripping on to his jacket with its claws. Ed chuckled and removed it holding it in his arms.

"Now how do you tell if a cat is a boy or a girl…?" he trailed off looking in its eyes. It certainly had pretty eyes. He checked to see if it had tags but no, it didn't. He lifted it up glancing between the legs to see it was a male cat.

"Hmm, should I try to find and owner?" he mused. The cat's eyes got bigger the moment he said it. By the way his fur was messed and his claws unclipped, Ed figured this cat had no owner.

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"I wanna keep him," Ed said firmly to Tamaki. The cat was snuggling into Edward's arms and had been clinging to him the past 15 minutes.

"I don't know…" Tamaki trailed off. He looked at the cat and then back at Edward who was giving him the same determined look.

"I suppose, it's just with Antoinette and you being busy….."

"I'll make time for her, I promise. Please?" Ed pleaded. Tamaki nodded and Ed smiled. He held the cat in his hands and wondered what he should name him.

"Oh he's so cute," Haruhi smiled petting the cats black fur. It smoothed out the black tussles and the cat purred.

The cat jumped out of Edwards arms and pounced around on the floor. He stuck his butt up on the floor and then jumped forward. He then proceeded over to Haruhi and rubbed against her leg.

"Hah! Looks like he's a ladies man!" Hikaru snorted. His twin agreed laughing. A few ladies giggled and watched the cat trot back to Edward who was kneeling and grinning.

"Hmm black fur, ladies' man, cat's hate water…" he grinned. He spoke again.

"His name is Roy."

"Roy? Why that?" Kaoru asked. Everyone wondered and Tamaki had a feeling it was someone from Germany.

"It's a guy I know." Ed began to play with his paws and laughed when he'd swat back.

"Aww!" the girls squealed together. They watched for a few minutes. Tamaki turned to see Kyoya looking rather surprised.

"What?" the tall blonde asked.

"Nothing, it's just, your brother is really quite the character," he chuckled writing something down.

When Edward was done playing with the cat the ladies went back to their tables and Edward picked him up. Haruhi asked to hold him and Ed nodded.

"He really is cute, but I don't think I've ever met a person who loves cats enough to jump out a window," she stated. Ed blushed and crossed his arms.

"I don't even like cats, I just, I felt bad for him. Everyone should have some family," Ed smiled tickling the cat with his finger. Haruhi smiled and agreed.

"So, how'd you fix him so quickly? There are no bandages on his paws," Haruhi observed, picking up a black paw. Ed blinked and tried to think of something.

'Shit' he thought nervously.

"Uh, well, it's a secret," he lied.

She raised a thin brown eyebrow and let out a sigh through her nose.

"If you say so."

She handed Roy carefully back to Ed who gave her a weak smile. He felt his phone buzz, but he knew he couldn't answer it right now. Tamaki would hit him over the head, and he was growing a head ache from the girl's voices.

It buzzed again and he growled. He didn't know what do, so he ignored it. He looked around looking for Tamaki. The host club was almost over and they'd have to go home soon. Edward had homework, and he felt so weird thinking about it.

'Not just the homework, being a teenager,' he thought sitting down on the couch. A girl sat next to him and pet the cats head.

"Hi, my names Ayame, you're Edward right?" she asked.

"Yea," he said glancing at her. She had long red hair that was pin straight and light blue eyes. She had too many freckles, but she wasn't ugly.

"Well, I like cats. I just don't think I'd jump out a window for one. I thought you were a maniac as soon as I saw that, oh I've never met a maniac before! Well, now I'm kinda bummed you're not a maniac. Well I mean I don't think Tamaki's brother would be a maniac, and you certainly don't look like a maniac. Other than the long hair, it's really too long for a boy. I think you're eyes are nice too, but they're kind of bright. I like darker things. So one time I tried to dye my hair black and my mother yelled at me when she caught me with the dye. I got in so much trouble. I was grounded for like a month."

Edward felt his eye twitch. Where the hell had all of that come from? This girl really had a mouth! He looked at her his eye brows raised and she nodded really quickly, as if it was to assure him what she said was all true.

"Did you just call my hair and eyes weird?" he asked slowly.

"Yea, they're not my type. That's okay though."

"You're annoying."

It popped out and Edward couldn't help himself. He didn't really care either. She blinked and opened her mouth but no words came out. That came as a surprise to Ed.

"What? No one's ever told you that before? That really is what I find quite interesting," he sighed. The cat purred pushing against him. It was as if the cat was agreeing with Edward.

"Sorry if it offends you. Sorry if you're self-conscious and that's why you have a big mouth, but you should know by now. There are a lot of people who are meaner than me, believe it or not and they can really hurt you."

She nodded slowly, blinking, claiming she had something in her eyes.

"That's alright, go to the bathroom and get it out then."

She got up and left and Edward sighed shaking his head. Why were people so sensitive?

"That was mean," a voice said.

Ed looked to see Mori standing over him.

"Well, it was the truth. If you're gonna yell at me go right ahead. I don't care, I warned you guys I wasn't "HOST" material," Ed sighed getting up.

"Takashi doesn't yell," Honey giggled. He was hugging his stuffed bunny tightly as he scampered up to the two.

"That -"

Edward was cut off by the buzzing of his phone several times. Was someone calling him?

"Just trying to help the girl, sheesh. Not all girls are perfect and they can't think that. It's the impurities that make them beautiful," Ed said taking the phone from his pocket.

"That's true," Honey smiled. Mori nodded with his eyebrows raised.

"Though we do like to make girls feel like they're perfect," Honey added smiled.

Ed nodded and quickly walked away. He slipped out his cell phone to see 3 messages from the colonel and one missed call.

"Shit," he scowled. He looked around to see nobody. He knew he couldn't call at the moment, he'd get into a yelling match with the bastard and cause a scene.

"Excuse me ladies, I hate to say it, but it's time to go," Tamaki's voice rang. Ed let out a sigh of relief. He watched the girls walk out one by one saying their goodbyes. A few waved at Edward and smiled. He nodded.

"Well the kids first day and he's jumping out windows. He stole an awful lot of attention. Who would've guessed?" Kaoru laughed.

"Yea, you did pretty good kid," Hikaru added punching him in the shoulder. Ed smiled and Tamaki glomped him.

"Oh my cute little brother! I'm so proud of you!" he cried.

"I'm not little!" Ed shrieked. Everyone just laughed at Ed's annoyance.

"Can we go soon? I'm tired," Ed muttered.

"Of course! I've have homework anyways. Just a couple of more minutes, I have to talk to Kyoya," Tamaki smiled pulling the scary black haired teen away.

Ed's phone rang again and he growled and picked it up.

"What?" he snapped. A few hosts looked at him hearing the fierceness in his voice. He had answered in a different language too so of course they'd be interested. Edward gave Roy to Haruhi who blinked but took him without complaint and pat his head.

"Is it so much of a bother to answer your damn phone Fullmetal? What if I was in Japan dying and I needed your help?" Roy's voice rang, loudly. People in the room heard the ear piercing scolding in German.

"Well are you?"

"No, but that's not the point." Ed watched Hikaru whisper something in his brothers and Edward turned around and spoke in a quieter tone.

"What do you want? I'm busy."

"With what? You're not even working!"

"I'm a kid I'm not supposed to work at the moment remember?" Ed felt his pulse speed up. The Colonel was pissing him off. Then his thoughts began to wander. Had he eaten lunch today? He can't have the doctor thinking he wasn't eating.

"Well you're in luck kid because I faxed something over to you about a murderer in Japan."

"What the hell? That's fucking bullshit Colonel! You told me I wouldn't have any heavy work while I was over here!" He exploded and this caught Kyoya and Tamaki's attention.

"Well, I don't think keeping the lookout for the guy is heavy work. Besides, it doesn't threaten you or anybody in your family, so relax."

"Whatever, If I see the guy he's getting a kick to the balls for ruining my experience here."

"You do that Fullmetal, so how was your first day at high school?"

"Fine. Goodbye Colonel." Ed growled.

"Now wait, what was the best part?"

"Fuck off asshole." Ed watched his cat jump from Haruhi's arms and onto Hikaru who blinked. The cat was digging its claws into the skin of his neck. He began to freak out and everyone was trying to get the cat off of him.

"God damn it Edward, get this stupid cat off of me!" he shrieked.

"Well if you calm down, I'm sure it will remove its self, Roy I gotta go."

"Roy?" Haruhi asked alarmed.

"Bye Colonel!" Ed said in German before quickly hanging up.

He scampered over pushing his way through people. He squeezed the sides of the cat and it released Hikaru with a screech and jumped and scratched Ed's cheek. He sighed and wiped his cheek to see blood. He pet the cats back happy to see it relax visibly. Kaoru was inspecting the claw marks on his brothers neck and shot glares at Ed.

"Hey I can't control how my cat acts!" Ed snapped holding him protectively.

"You can speak German?" Haruhi asked alarmed.

"Yea, so what? Tamaki, can we go now before I hurt someone very badly?" Ed asked. His brother nodded and they left the room.

"Who wants to spy on him?" Kyoya asked.

"You're horrible! How about we talk to him instead of spying," Haruhi snapped.

"We'll do it!" the twins said happily.

"Alright then," Kyoya smirked.

"He's different. I wonder who he was talking to," Hunny thought aloud.

"Yea, it was that Roy guy he was taking about," Haruhi said grabbing her coat.

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When Edward walked into his room the first thing he did was tear of his skin cover.

"Ugh I hate that fucking thing," he growled tossing it on his dresser. He slipped out of his clothes and into a pair of sweat pants and a white tank top. He noticed a manila folder on his neatly made bed and he opened it. He watched Roy make himself comfortable on one of the many pillows on his bed. He chuckled before beginning to read through the folder.

"Man this guys a fucking creep," Ed muttered. The man was 6 foot 5 and had black hair that was buzzed cut. He had the eyes of a rapist and a killer. He had rings under them and his beard was short and grayish. He was skinny and pale and had a rather big nose.

"22 people, mostly young girls and boys, a few teens. Holy shit, this guy's a sketch!"

Ed closed up the folder feeling creeped out and slid it under his bed. He pet Roy for a minute before getting up and sitting down at his desk. He took his sketch book back out and continued to work on the drawing of the snow covered garden.

About an hour passed and in that time Edward had switched from drawing to reading a thick alchemy book Al had gotten him for his birthday. He had been purposely been reading it slowly, analyzing it thoroughly.

"Ed! Dinner!" Tamaki's voice called. Ed got up marking his page and left his room.

Tamaki met him at the end of the hall and they walked down together.

"So how was your first day?" Tamaki asked as they sat down.

"Good, I guess. I felt like everybody thought I was weird though," Ed muttered. He remembered Hikaru's whispers to his brother.

"Are you kidding? All of the girls and Hosts couldn't stop talking about you!" Tamaki grinned. Ed picked at the food on his plate and sighed pushing it away.

"What did you eat today?" Tamaki asked.

"Well, the toast at breakfast…." Ed trailed off thinking about what he could've eaten.

"Ed, you know you're under weight. I can't have the doctor thinking you've stopped eating," Tamaki sighed placing his cup down.

"Oh come on! I've gone without eating longer than a day! I've lost weight during missions and then gained it back, what's the big deal? I'm just…. Not hungry ok?" Ed sighed. He didn't fell like arguing with him.

"Just eat something, for me please?"

Ed blinked looking at his brother's face.

"Come on brother, you have to eat something…" Al trailed off. Ed stared at his hospital food tray refusing to eat. He wasn't feeling well and he claimed the food would make him sicker.

"Al, I don't want it."

"I know, but you have to eat something. I don't want you passing out. You never had problems eating before, what's so different now?"

"Nothing! I'm just not hungry, is that a crime?"

"Ed you're always hungry, and you eat like a horse. Are you really that sick? Do I need to call a nurse?" Al made a move to get up but Ed grabbed his wrist and shook his head hurriedly.

"Eat something, for me, please?"

Al's voice was soft and his face was calm and gentle, just like Tamaki's.

"Edward," Tamaki snapped.

Ed blinked looking at his older brother and then down at his plate.

"Ok, fine. I have a headache anyway," Ed sighed beginning to eat.

"I wish I knew what goes on in that head of yours," Tamaki chuckled softly. Except, he really did mean it.

'Maybe I could help him then,' he thought sadly.

"How was your first day back?" Ed asked after a few minutes of stale silence.

"Good, I guess. Tiring, I wish we had more vacation," Tamaki chuckled. Ed agreed feeling like everything had been rushed.

"Who were you speaking to on the phone? You sure kept everybody interested."

"Hmm? Oh, just the Colonel. Nothing important."

Tamaki nodded.

Later that night Ed was lying in bed trying to fall asleep. He tossed and turned but the dull ache in his shoulder and leg were bothering him too much. The house was warmer but Ed's arm was still hurting.

He got up and clicked a light on. He thought of the consequences, but then again they could always just paint over it. Ed took out a pencil and eraser and shined his lamp on the wall behind his bed. He climbed up on the bed, it creaked and whined and as soon as Ed gained balance he began to sketch.

The scratches of the pencil against white painted walls were the only sound other than Ed's calming breaths. His hand swayed and twisted around on the giant white canvas as his idea came to life on the once dull wall. He took a wobbly step back on the blankets of his bed and looked at it.

"Don't you think you're a bit old to draw on the walls, Ed?" a calm voice asked.

Ed whipped around nearly falling off the bed, seeing his older brother in the door way. He had on a robe and was leaning against the frame- his soft smile frighteningly familiar.

"No."

Tamaki chuckled and walked in to the dimly lit room.

"You really do have talent Ed, why didn't you take an art class?"

Ed looked back at his drawing and then at his brother and shrugged.

"Can't sleep?"

"Nope, do you know the time?" Ed asked.

"2:45, try to get some sleep alright?" he asked gently. Ed nodded.

Tamaki left the room and Ed fell down on his bed and pulled the covers over his exhausted body. He could almost hear the dropping stone hit the water with a splash. He could almost hear the creaking of the automail hand and knee he had bend down to pick up another one. He could feel the clean cut grass tickle his flesh fingers. The grass of Germany, the smell of the air was different there.

He could hear familiar voices of his mother and brother, of the colonel and lt. Hawkeye and Havoc.

He could hear the door of his old apartment creaking as it opened up to no body. It sounded much different than the one he slammed open at HQ every morning.

He could feel his smile widen when he clicked of the lamp.

He was laughing at himself and is child-like foolishness.

It was all just in his head.

The drawing above his head was nothing but a drawing and fading memories he wished were reality.

Authors note! : Thank you guys so much for the reviews and birthday wishes! I hope you liked this chapter and I already have ideas for the next one in my head. Those little plot bunnies seem to be doing their jobs. LOL. Again thanks for reading and please review and tell me what you think. I'M OPEN TO ANY IDEAS also if you want me to add things ;)

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