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The Demon Alchemist

Chapter 10: Sometimes, the Rain Never Stops

xxThree Days Laterxx

Ed and Kararu (Kararu on crutches) stood still as they watched members of the military shovel dirt onto two coffins each in a separate grave. They were back in Risembool on this gruesome day.

Ed and Kararu were lucky to be able to move so soon after the crash, but neither of them felt very lucky. Their loved ones were dead. Kararu had nothing left in life other than Al, Ed, Riza and Mustang.

Ed had numerous people left, but he had no interest in living now that Morgan and Winry were both dead.

Both glared up at the shining Sun and clear sky. It shouldn't be sunny. It should be cloudy…possibly even raining on such an occasion. Their attention snapped back to Mustang as he said the final words of the burial.

"And dear God, may the souls of," Mustang said, his voice starting to crack slightly as he continued, "Winry Rockbell and Morgan Elric rest peacefully with you in heaven forever. And forever we pray, amen."

Everyone at the funeral muttered the word, "Amen," then they all slowly walked up to the graves, each person taking a handful at Winry's grave and throwing it in, then doing the same at Morgan's. They stopped in front of Kararu and Ed, bowed in respect, some also saluting, then they started to make their way out of the cemetery.

"Ed…it's starting to rain…" Ed heard Kararu mutter, averting her eyes as tears started to create pools in them.

"Huh?" Ed asked quietly, confused.

"It's starting to rain." Kararu repeated, Ed looking over at her to see tears running silently down her cheeks.

"Yes…of course." Ed said. "It is starting to rain. We had better get going."

"Wait. Just one more moment. I…want to say goodbye…" Kararu muttered, the tears still flowing down her cheeks. "For good…"

"Okay 'Raru. I understand. I'll wait for you with Mustang." Ed said. Kararu nodded, then limped over to the freshly finished graves.

"Morgan…I miss you so much already. I wish we could all go back in time and stop the crash from ever happening. Morgan, sweetie…I loved you so much, and I still do, and always will…But I never want to let go. I know that you would want me to live a happy life and go on without you…but I just can't do that! I just can't…not without you…

"And I know that you would tell me not to say this, but it's true. I will always look forward to the day I will meet you again in the next life. And I hope it's soon." Kararu said. Mustang heard this as he waited with Ed, and was about to stop her when Ed grabbed his arm and shook his head. Mustang nodded slowly in understanding, then turned back to watch Kararu again.

"Morgan, I know you don't want me to be sad, and you want me to know that you're in a better place now, but…" Kararu said, then stopped for a second. "But that's not the point! I just simply can't live without you! Do I have to say anything else?" She paused again.

"You just said that!" She said. Ed and Mustang looked at her, confused at who she was talking too. "I know but I just CAN NOT live without-whoa…" Kararu said, her eyes going wide. Ed and Mustang looked at each other, then at her, trying to figure out if she had lost it or not. "Morgan? Is it you?"

"Kararu, surely you're just imagining things…" Ed said.

Then he heard a voice in his head say cheerfully, "Long time, no see, huh Ed?"

"Winry?" Ed breathed.

Mustang turned to Ed now, starting to think that both Kararu and Ed had gone crazy. "Edward, are you all right?"

"Shh!" Ed said, holding up a hand to silence him. Mustang stayed silent, wondering what the hell was going on.

"Ed, as it turns out, I was allowed to come back, but not in my body. I was able to come back to stay with you, in your head. Morgan's bunking with Kararu." Winry explained. Ed laughed, which only made Mustang even more positive that he had he had gone crazy.

"Kararu, listen to me. I'll only he here for advice. I won't always he here. I'm still dead." Morgan explained.

"But I can't go on living!" Kararu pleaded."Just let me go with you!"

"I can't do that." Morgan said. "I have to go…I'll be back when you need me the most, love. You'll know when that time comes."

"No, Morgan, don't go! PLEASE!" Kararu cried, then felt something press against her lips. A few moments later, it was gone.

"Hey Ed." Morgan said, his soul soaring into Ed's head.

"What! I thought you were staying with Kararu!" Ed thought.

"I can't right now."

"But she's in so much pain…"

"And I can't help it. Don't tell her I'm here. I'll go back to her when she needs me the most."

"All right…"

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xxOne Month Laterxx

"Has Kararu spoken to anyone? Anyone at all?" Mustang asked Ed as they made their way towards Ed's room in his mansion.

"No. I've been ragging on her to eat, but she hasn't talked since the day of the funeral." Ed responded.

"You should go talk to her." Mustang said.

"You really should." Morgan and Winry told him at the same time.

"You two stay quiet for a minute…" Ed groaned.

"Morgan and Winry talking to you again?" Mustang asked, knowing by now that Ed's body was host to his soul, along with Morgan and Winry's.

"Yeah…"

"Does Kararu know that Morgan's soul is with you?"

"No, Morgan doesn't want me to tell her."

"Why not?"

"I don't know, he didn't…" Ed said, opening the door to his room to see a folded note on the bed. He walked over, picked it up and read what was written on the outside:

To: Edward Elric

From: Kararu Rinamino

Ed looked up worriedly at Mustang. Ed quickly unfolded it, his eyes scanning the paper. A moment later, he dropped the letter on the bed and took off out the door, yelling, "KARARU!"

Mustang looked after him, confused. He looked down at the letter, only reading the first two sentences before he took off to catch Ed and help her look for Kararu as well. The first sentences said:

"Edward,

Now that Morgan is dead, my life has no value. That is why I have decided to end it…"

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Shikou walked into Kararu's room, going to try and get her to speak. She thought that if Kararu didn't speak to anyone soon, she would go crazy. She had been looking at the floor when she entered, and when she walked in, she looked up to see Kararu standing. There was a bottle of clear liquid in her hands, and it was almost to her lips.

"DON'T!" Shikou cried, then pulled up her fingers and snapped, breaking the bottle of liquid in Kararu's hands with a flame bullet. Kararu didn't bother to look at Shikou, but ran over to her bed and grabbed something. Shikou saw the glint of a knife. Shikou snapped again and heated up the hilt, making Kararu drop it, the blade landing just out of Kararu's reach.

"Don't you understand how I feel?" Kararu asked, tears coming to her eyes. She slowly inched closer to the knife.

"Yes, I think I do!" Shikou said, not even noticing Kararu move.

"Then you'll let me do it! I can't go on without Morgan!" Kararu said, taking another small step towards the knife. "I have no one to live for!"

"That's not true! You've got me, Ed, Al, Mustang and Hawkeye to live for! You can't just throw your life away! Who would make Ed drink his milk?"

Kararu didn't even smile at the joke. "My life has no value at all. I'm just taking up space in the world. I'm just a big hunk of body and machine now that Morgan is dead." Kararu said, now centimeters away from the knife.

"No you're not! Kararu, you're like a sister to me now! Don't make me suffer like this!" Shikou pleaded.

Kararu then lunged for the knife, Shikou not having time to react. Kararu brought it up over her head and was about to plunge it into her heart when the door burst open. Mustang and Ed ran into the room, both stopping once they saw the position that Kararu was in. Kararu froze as Ed felt a soul leave his head for a few moments, then come back, everyone else not daring to move to see what she would do.

"Morgan?" Kararu whispered, then her hand lost her grip on the knife. Shikou gasped and shot forward, but she was too late. The knife sank into Kararu's shoulder, Kararu screaming out in pain.

"Kararu!" Ed yelled, running over to catch her before she hit the floor. Blood poured from the wound, soaking Ed's clothes. Ed reached for the chain Kararu had on her neck, but it was gone.

"Kararu, where did you put your stone? Where did you put it?" Ed asked frantically, trying to get an answer out of her before she blacked out from blood loss. Shikou ran over and pulled the knife out of Kararu's chest, pressing her now bloody hands onto the wound, trying to slow down the bleeding.

"Kararu! Where's your stone?" Ed asked again when he didn't get an answer.

"Box…" Kararu muttered, her face twisted in pain.

"What box?" Ed asked, motioning to Mustang to start looking for a box.

"It's," Kararu said, gasping in pain, "secret panel…floor in closet…third board," she gasped again, "from the door…"

Mustang ran over to the walk-in closet and pulled up the third board, which he found to be un-nailed and loose. He pulled out a box, opening it to find a picture at the top. He turned it over to see a picture of four people. One of them Mustang recognized immediately to be Kararu, except she looked like she was seven.

Kararu was getting a noogie from the young man that was standing beside her. Kararu and the boy were laughing, along with the woman and the man that were standing next to them. If Mustang didn't know any better, he would have guessed them to be her parents.

The boy looked just like the one Ed had described from Kararu's memory. Challan…yes, that was his name. Mustang looked back down at the picture to see the family all together. They all looked so happy…

"Mustang, hurry up! Kararu just blacked out! Have you found the stone yet?" Ed yelled.

"Just a moment Edward, I'm looking!" Mustang yelled back. He put the picture in his pocket for the time being and saw the Philosopher's Stone in the box underneath where the picture had been. He grabbed the stone and dashed out of the closet and over to Ed. "Found it!" He yelled triumphantly.

"Give it here!" Ed said quickly. Mustang obliged, and handed it to him. Ed brought it over to Kararu's shoulder and healed the gash, Kararu almost instantly relaxing and waking up.

"Ed?" Kararu asked. Shikou motioned for her and Mustang to go to the other side of the room to let Ed and Kararu talk.

"Why did you almost do it? Why?" Ed asked her.

"I'm dead. Morgan was my life. I can't go on living without him."

"That's not true." Ed said.

"Yes, it is Ed." Kararu said.

"Kararu, tell me how you feel about Morgan being gone." Ed said quietly.

"I…I miss him so much…" Kararu said, tears starting to come out of her eyes again.

"Do you want him back?"

"What do you think? Of course I want him back!"

"But that's something that you have to overcome. You can't have him back."

"But I do want him back!"

"Kararu, this is the time to let everything out. I know you've been hiding you're feelings since the funeral. Just let everything come out." Ed said. Kararu just sat there, looking at him until Ed pulled her into a hug.

Kararu let out a shuddering breath, then sniffed. "I…I miss him…"

"What else?" Ed asked quietly.

"I…I loved him…He said that he loved me too…" Kararu said, tears starting to stream down her face. "He…he said that…we were to be married soon…he…he asked me to marry him Ed! The night before the crash he asked me to marry him!"

"He did?"

"Yes!"

"And what did you say?"

"I said yes of course! We were going to tell you the night of the day the crash took place!"

"I…I'm sorry Kararu…" Ed muttered.

"Ed, tell her how you feel." Winry and Morgan both told Ed. Morgan went back to Kararu's head, staying silent so she wouldn't know that he was there. Then, Ed realized something. Something that he should have realized a long time ago.

"I guess it's all right…" Kararu said.

"No, it's not. Kararu, I-"

"Ed, don't try to sweet talk me…I'm not in the mood to have you talk me out of something…"

"But Kararu-"

"Ed, just let me kill myself. I need to be with Morgan forever."

"Kararu!"

"Ed! Like I said before," Kararu said, then paused for a second to take another shuddering breath and close her eyes to try and clear them of tears, "I can't live without-" She stopped when something pressed against her lips. She opened her eyes to see Ed kissing her.

"YES! SCORE ONE FOR WINRY!" Winry yelled/cheered in Ed's head.

"Shut up." Ed thought to her as he still kissed Kararu. Once he pulled away from the kiss, Kararu just sat there, shocked.

Then she finished her sentence from earlier, changing the concept completely. "You?"

"Kararu…I-I want to tell you something that I should have said a week after Morgan and Winry died." Ed said.

"And that would be…?"

"I…I want you to know that…that I…"

"Just spit it out Ed!"

"I want to tell you that I-"

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