The Mark
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule…
-Frederick Douglass
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"Good night, Edward…" I whispered to him while I started sleeping.
I could feel someone's mint, fresh breath in my face. I opened my eyes and saw someone pretty lips. I was hugging that person… I quickly came back to myself and saw Edward hugging me and I hugging him back and Al hugging me too. I was in middle of them two. Edward was on my left and Al in my right.
"KYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!" I shouted while I sat up. I heard Edward yawn and hugged my waist as he asked still sleepily with his eyes closed,
"What's wrong…?" I quickly pushed him away and shouted,
"LOOK IT FOR YOURSELF! YOU ARE IN MY FUTON!" He opened his eyes and looked around him, Al was still sleeping.
"When did I end up here?" He asked. I pushed his face with my feet and shouted,
"HOW THE HELL DO I KNOW?!" And jumped and Al just woke up asking the same question as Edward. I got ready and left the room.
"Oi! Sakura! Where do you think you're going?" Edward asked still in pajamas and with a toothbrush in his mouth.
"Why do you care?" I asked him annoyed. Someone got my arm. It was Al.
"Sakura… please, sorry… we didn't mean to sleep in the same futon as you, I promise." Al murmured. I hugged him as I whispered,
"I know you didn't mean it… neither of you did. I-I'm just frustrated by the fact that I didn't actually know what my tarot card…was" The two of us laughed.
"Sakura, you're weird." Edward mumbled still with his toothbrush in his mouth. I was about to reply him back but I just smiled at him. I waited for Edward and Al to finish getting ready while I read my book about alchemist. It really was interesting, the things you could do with it.
"Earth calling to Sakura...!" Edward shouted in my ear.
"I'M NOT DEAF!" I yelled at him.
"Neither I am deaf… let's go it's time already." He said. I looked at the clock 1pm.
"Ugh. Fine." I replied him annoyed by the fact I couldn't visit that woman so she would tell me what she saw she got so horrified.
We walked to the train station. Al was carrying the bags and Edward and I were talking about alchemy when I saw the woman and ran into her. She apparently had seen me and tried to escape away into a train but I got her arm.
"Tell me! What did you saw it scared you?!" I asked her.
"You… you got the card of death… You'll make such a sacrifice for someone that you'll die. The boys' tea told me his past, present and future would be bloody, he'll kill people but he would fight for the person he loves. It also told me he would try to find out what happened to such important person for him. Your tea showed me that after the sacrifice you'll land in another world and cause war between two worlds." She responded me. The door was starting to close and I let loose of her and walked back to Edward and Al. Thinking about what the woman told me about another world, could she refer of Konoha? Heaven? Hell? Or was it even the purgatory? What about the person important for him? Was it Al or may be Winry…
"Sakura -chan what's wrong?" Al asked me looking at my depressed face. I quickly smiled,
"Edward, Al, promise me. If I ever die, you'll always enjoy your life!" Edward and Al looked me amused and Edward shouted irritated at me,
"Baka! Don't think of death!" I looked at him he surely looked angry and added, "Anyway, what was that entire thing about death about? What did that woman told you?"
"She told me… I don't quiet remember it right now." I lied. Edward and Al had a great sweat drop like in anime.
"HEY THAT'S OUR TRAIN!" Edward shouted as he pointed it. We quickly entered in time and took a sit.
"Just in time." He added while he cleaned his sweat. I dazzled out in the window thinking about what the woman told me. The word death bounced in my head replaying it once, and once again.
"Gomenasai, Edward. I think I won't join the army." I suddenly said.
"No need to!" He exclaimed. My eyes started bursting out tears, thinking about my disappearance, without Al… without Edward… and I quickly hugged Edward as I whispered,
"Gomenasai… Gomenasai…"
"Sakura, being in the army it's not big deal… No need to cry for it. Al is not in the army and he doesn't cry for it."He replied. He didn't know what I was thinking. I wish he knew but that would make him worry. Al would worry too. I felt sorry for not telling them.
"You're right, Edward. I don't need to cry for it. It's just I'm too sentimental." I lied. Ok... may be about me being sentimental is correct but I have changed a lot. Now I'm stronger since I was trained by the Hokage, DATTEBAYO! (Ugh. I sound like Naruto).
When we arrived to our destination, Edward whispered,
"Tsk… Now we need to consult Colonel Pervert about the situation in our mission."
"Ed… respect Colonel Mustang, he's you're superior." Al sighed.
"Colonel Mustang? Isn't that the person who tells you what to do all the time?" I asked.
"Yeah, that's him. And I'm pretty sure, he'll be mad because we didn't arrive here YESTERDAY!" Edward pointed out.
When we came to State military, we were friendly greeted by a woman, named Riza Hawkeye. She took us to Colonel Mustang's office.
"Oh, Edward…" He said. He was kind of hot. His eyes were black such as his hair which was spiky. "And company." He added. I slightly blushed.
"And who's your friend?" He asked looking at us in his desk.
"Well… we call her Sakura Haruno. But we don't really know her name." He replied. I hit him in his head and told him,
"My name is Sakura Haruno. Pleasure to meet you, Colonel Mustang." I said while I bowed.
"Edward you should learn from Sakura. Look how respectful she is." He pointed out. I blushed a little bit and giggled (I tried not to but I was nervous). He smiled at me. I suddenly turned beet red. He turned over to Riza and said,
"Lead them to Maes Hughes."
"Hai." She replied while Edward mumbled hold back by Al,
"I WON'T LEAVE HIM WITH THIS PERVERT! HE'S SOMEONE WE CAN'T HAVE FAITH ON! LOOK AT HIS SMIRK! HE'S LAUGHING!" Edward mumbled other things which I really couldn't understand and then, they left.
"So Sakura… Where do you come from?" He asked.
"I don't know." I lied.
"Parents? Friends? Anything?" He questioned me.
"Gomenasai." I lied again. I didn't want him to laugh about the "non-existent" names or the "imaginary" village. Suddenly someone opened the door brutally, it was Edward.
"Oi, Sakura, let's go." He ordered me.
"Why?" I asked him. He pulled me from my arm.
"Let's go." He repeated. Why was he like that? He pulled me out of Roy's office.
"You're hurting me, Edward." I whispered but he got me harder and pulled me towards the exit of the State military. Al was waiting for us in the gates. I let loose of Edward and shouted,
"What's wrong with you?!" He seemed amused. My wrist had red marks of his fingers. He looked at my wrist and whispered,
"Gomen…" I healed it and look at Al's expression, he seemed sad.
"Would you tell me what's wrong?" I asked to Edward looking in his golden eyes.
"They want me to participate in war…" He replied.
"But… isn't that a good thing? You're protecting you're people, right?" I interrogated him.
"That's not it… They haven't done anything and they want me to kill them… Kill innocent people so I refused." He sadly informed me.
"Oh… that explains it all…" I said as I laid my hand over his shoulder. Even though I told him that he still looked sad. I hugged him and smiled,
"You've done the correct thing."
"I know that, because I'm the best." He joked.
"Baka…" I laughed. "So where are we going now?" I asked smiling.
"First we're going to eat proper food in a famous restaurant around here." He answered. I suddenly looked at my palm. There it was. I looked at it with disgust, I knew I should stay this kind of sign to myself, my instincts told me it would be a bad thing. I watched it carefully; it was like some kind dragon forming a circle and inside it a type of pentagon star or something.
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LostxxxButterfly~
Ehem (-__-'') … Ed, Al you pervs! Anyway, they already said they didn't know why they where there, I can assure you that's true!
***The IMPORTANT point here is: Those this mean… SAKURA IS A HOMUNCULUS?! BUT WHEN… WHY… HOW?! O.o ***
DON'T MISS THE NEXT EPISODE!!!
P.S. Thanks for following the story; IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY PEOPLE LIKE THE STORY! :3 And SPECIAL thanks to all the comments, I really appreciate them, it makes me want to make more chapter for this story! xD
