Here you go, to all you readers! Chapter six of To Be is here! Sorry, for the delay in updating! Anyway, enough of me babbling, on with the story!
Illidan the Half Demon- Thank you so much for reviewing after all this time! I really appreciate it! .
Roy hadn't thought about this boy's arm, but now to think of it, how did he get it?
"How did you get your automail?" Hibiki's eyes narrowed.
"That's none of your business." He hissed. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go. My brother and friend are waiting for me." And with that, he left.
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Roy sighed as he closed his front door and hung his coat up. He just couldn't pinpoint why exactly Hibiki had automail. There were too many possible ways of losing limbs, especially at this time of the century. Although he didn't believe it, he heard there were reports on disturbances at the border of Amestris and of a possible war. That was impossible! He had made sure his time as Fuhrer would not result in the same ending as the previous Fuhrer, King Bradley. There was a scuffle. His stiffened, there was something behind him. He slyly exchanged his plain white glove for his ignition gloves in his pockets and whirled around, poised to snap, only to smile. It was just a ragged puppy. It must have slipped in his house when he was coming in with the door wide open. He held out his now ungloved hand and the puppy cautiously crept to it to finally sniff it. After that, Roy went into the kitchen to get something edible for the puppy. As he was rummaging through the shelves, he suddenly felt a cold hand reach and press firmly on his temples. After that, everything was black.
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"Hitomu Hibiki and Hazuki Kirarena, your first mission in your military career as State Alchemists is to go investigate Xenotime. There have been people reported as missing and possibly murder. Do you two understand?" Said two clicked their heels and saluted.
"Yes sir!"
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Kira was briefing through the papers containing the information the needed for their mission. They were on a train with civilian clothes on. Kira was wearing a dark green tank top with a light dragon imprinted on it. Hibiki how ever, was exercising his mouth.
"I can't wait until I see that imposter! He'll see that I'm not short anymore!" Kira sprouted a vein. When Hibiki ceased to stop talking, she got fed up with it.
"HITOMU HIBIKI, SHUT YOUR TRAP OR DO YOU WANT ME TO KINDLY SHUT IT FOR YOU WITH MY FIST!!??" Hibiki didn't stop and just ignored her.
"THAT'S IT!! YOU ARE SOO GETTING IT!!" Kira stood up, grabbed the person in front of her with one hand, punched him in the jaw with the other, threw him back down, and kicked his forehead.
"WHAT WAS THAT FOR?"
"THAT, FOR YOU INFORMATION, WAS FOR YOUR HUGE MOUTH SHORTY!!"
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING A SHORTY THAT HE CAN BE SQUISHED BY A SINGLE GRAIN OF RICE!!??"
"YOU, THAT'S WHO!!"
"I AM NOT SHORT!!"
"YES YOU ARE! YOU DON'T EVEN DRINK YOUR MILK!!"
"NOBODY IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD DRINK THAT DISGUSTING COW STUFF ANYWAYS!!"
"Xenotime, we are approaching Xenotime. All passengers getting off at Xenotime please gather all your belongings before the train stops." Both alchemists stopped yelling at the train announcement and glared at each other instead. Suddenly, they burst out laughing. To an outsider, it would seem as if both had gone mad. In reality, the argument was for fun. They reveled in their arguments, whether they were physical or verbal. They sat in silence, much to the relief of the surrounding passengers. They looked through the window of the train to watch as the outside blur solidified.
"Xenotime, we have arrived at Xenotime. All passengers getting off at Xenotime please do not leave any of your belongings behind. Thank you for riding this train." Hibiki nearly skipped off the train. It was really cramped in there. He was glad to get out of it.
"YES, WE'RE FINALLEY HERE!" Kira whacked him on the head.
"Shush up! We haven't been here for over five minutes and your attracting a lot attention already!" Hibiki quieted down. She had a point there. Yelling was not the key to keeping a low profile. As they exited the station, they passed between two guards posted at the doors.
"Last time I was here, security wasn't so tight." Hibiki muttered. Kira nudged him on the side.
"What did I tell you? Be quiet. The security is tighter than last time you were here probably because there wasn't a mass murder or murders on the loose all over the town, was there?" They managed to safely pass the guards and officially enter the town. After glancing around for any people watching them, they relaxed a little. Kira tapped Hibiki's shoulder and inclined her head to tell him to follow her. He nodded and they both slipped into an alley.
"So, what do you want?" chuckled Kira. Hibiki thought for a moment.
"How about light blue hair with dark blue eyes with nothing crazy?"
"Consider it done." Hibiki looked himself over carefully. There was nothing out of the ordinary. Kira noticed him looking himself over and rolled her eyes.
"It's not like I'm gave you pink spiky hair or anything. It's a mission. It's different than practice in Resembool." Hibiki cringed at the memory. Back in Resembool when they were exercising Kira's skills, she gave Hibiki pink spiky hair. He had to sit through dinner with it before she turned it back to normal.
"I never got over that." Joked Hibiki, fingering some strands of his icy blue bangs.
"How should I be? Long, short, black, blue?" Kira's figure blurred for a few seconds and refocused. Instead of Kira standing in front of him, there was a girl with long metallic silver-blue hair tied in a ponytail that went down to her mid-back and emerald green eyes.
"That white hair it going to attract attention." Cautioned the icy blue haired boy.
"Like your hair color's any better." The silver haired girl shot back.
"Fine." The boy reluctantly agreed.
"My name's Yuri Midori and your name is Yuri Michio. We're brother and sister."
"Why can't I choose my own name?" the newly dubbed Michio whined. Midori glared at him. He held up his hands in surrender.
"Okay, okay. Fine." She started to go out of the alley. Michio resisted the urge to stick out his tongue.
"Hurry up! We still have to find the Tringham brothers." She called from the alley entrance. Michio hurried to catch up with Midori.
Midori and Michio toured around the city, pretending to innocent visitors. Then, as they passed an apple stand, Midori stopped and bought an apple. As the apple lady was handing her an apple, Midori asked her a question.
"Do you happen to know where the famous Tringham brothers are?" The apple lady nodded and pointed to the edge of the town. Midori smiled and thanked the lady.
"Let's go!" she said, munching on an apple, still pretending to be the ecstatic tourist. The brother's house wasn't that hard to find. It was the one with the most plants around it. It practically sang "botany". Midori hesitantly knocked on the vine-covered door. They heard a muffled, "Coming." The door opened to reveal Russell, the older of the two. Michio opened his mouth to explain why there were hear, but Russell was faster than him.
"If you've come for autographs or if you plant has a bent leaf, I've afraid we can't help you." Then he hurriedly shut the door, but before he could completely shut the door, Midori said, "Wait, we came on State business." Michio showed him his silver watches. Russell's face immediately brightened up.
"Finally, we've been sending a request for a State Alchemist to come over here. Come on in." They stepped into the house to be greeted by many plants all over the place. They all sat at a table. Russell grew serious.
"There have been more murders than ever lately. Last night's was the worst. There were seven people killed."
"Can you tell us all the details? Like the times they were killed, how they were killed, who were killed, things like that." Michio asked. Russell nodded.
"From what we found, the victims were killed between eleven late at night and one in the morning. We don't know how they were killed. So far, we haven't found any whole body; we only found blood, and its possible that there was murder. We're not really sure. As you can see, my brother and me only study botany alchemy, so we're useless in this kind of situation. The strange thing is, the people who were killed were all young woman. The attacks are random. We found no relations between them like friendships, gangs, groups, etc. The locations of the murders were across the city, all of them in dark alleys."
"Is that it?" Midori leaned back on her chair thinking. Russell nodded.
"That's all of the information we know." Midori smiled and looked Michio. He nodded. Her smile grew bigger and she turned back to Russell.
"Do you know of any good places we can stay for this mission?" he smiled.
"Oh, you can stay at our house. I'm sure my brother, Fletcher, wouldn't mind." They heard a door open and a voice call out.
"Brother, I'm home." Russell chuckled.
"And there he is, right on time." Fletcher came in holding a potted plant. He looked at the unfamiliar two and asked, "Who are you? Are you staying here? Are you a State Alchemist Brother's been sending letters for?" Midori squealed.
"Yes, yes, and, uh, no! But you so cute!" she hugged him. That caught the young boy by surprise and it was only by sheer willpower that he didn't drop the potted plant onto the floor. Michio and Russell sweat dropped.
"U-um, Midori, you might want to left go now, he's turning red." That was true. Poor Fletcher was blushing. Any young boy his age would madly blush at the obvious, outwardly show of affection. Midori quickly released the red boy.
"Oh, sorry." She apologized. "I don't know what got over me. Anyway, we need to plan. If you don't mind, could you show us where we'll be staying? We want to figure this case out as soon as possible. Oh, and by the way, I'm Yuri Midori and the person over there is Yuri Michio. We're brother and sister." She pointed at Michio. Fletcher happily did as she asked. They were shown a nice room with light green wall with two beds. Sunlight beamed into the room with a nice breeze blowing in. Midori claimed the left bed. Michio shrugged and sat next to her, serious. When the sister saw he was serious, they began to discuss their plans.
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A young woman was slowly walking. Her platform shoes clacked loudly on the ground. She was all alone. She rubbed her ears like they were cold.
A block away, a young man was sitting in his room, waiting for her call. The speaker crackled and a hushed whisper came.
"I'm at the block, and going into the alley. There's no sign of anything yet."
Midori's eyes carefully scanned her surroundings. She could have sworn she heard something.
"Did something just move at your end?" Michio said no. Suddenly, something behind her reached out and latched onto her neck, crushing her windpipe. She tried to throw his off, but the attacker was stronger than her and her attempts to loosen the hands began to grow weaker and weaker. After she was rendered unconscious, her body was swung over the attacker's shoulder and was taken away. Meanwhile, Michio smiled, and waited, watching the device he had in his hand.
Since now you've read chapter six of To Be, you have to update! BWAHAHAHAHA!!! No, not really. You don't have to review, but I would really like it if you did!
Ed:smirks: You see, she doesn't like the reviews. So don't review!
Dark Reborn: No its not, I just don't like forcing people into things.
Ed:crosses arms: You're too nice for your own good.
Dark Reborn: ... crys
Kira:whacks Ed on the head: Ed, look at what you've done!
Ed: Ow:rubs head: What did I do?
Kira: You've put the author in a not-so-happy mood! You know that she might do something to you in the next chapter...
Ed: She's too nice to do that. :innocently blinks:
Dark Reborn:muffled talking: Kira:sniff: just get on with it and end this chapter.
Kira: But...
Dark Reborn:shakes head: Leave it.
Kira: ...fine. Alright, to all you readers. Please review and tell the author what you think, whether it's complaints, questions, comments, or all the other things like those.
.:Silence:.
Kira: Ed! It's your turn!
Ed:rolls eyes: Why?
Kira:glare:
Ed:cringe:Okay,ifyoudon'treview,thenyouwillbeinbigtroublewithKira.Andtrustmeyoudon'twanttogetonherbadside,she'sreallyreallyscarythatway.Anyway,seeyoualllater.
IneedtosavemylifebeforeKirafindsoutthatwhatI'msayingisnotwhatI'mactuallysupposedtosay:takes off running:
Kira: Anyway, please review! chases Ed, tackles him to the ground, and drags him back into To Be.
-Dark Reborn
