DISCLAIMER: I don't own any of the Full Metal Alchemist characters, they all belong to Hiromu Arakawa. The characters I do own are Kitten, Sakura, and the rest of the bunk. (And some random ones here and there.)
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EDIT: This chapter has the MOST DRASTIC changes made to it with this final edit, all right? Okay, I hope you enjoy, it sounds much, much, better like this! I'm glad I went back through and edited this whole story!
Greed passed Kitten and turned down the hallway. Al admitted to where his brother was, and Greed hurried towards the location. He crashed through the door into the mess hall. A fight roared on between Archer, the homunculi, Roy, and Ed. It was a three-way battle, and now Greed had to make sure Ed and Roy wouldn't die, or try and help Kitten. Ed looked over and caught Greed's eye.
"Y-YOU!?" Ed called out in shock, Roy turned to look and his eye's widened in shock too. Lust looked over and brushed hair out of her eye.
"Greed, it was foolish of you to come here." She scoffed and Greed shrugged.
"I have a job to do." He stated and leaped forward. "But killing you and the ugly bastard will be a nice bonus." Greed said and Envy turned quickly, hatred in his eyes.
"UGLY?!?!" He growled and went to attack Greed. Without them noticing, Archer and his men retreated back into the halls. Now it was a fight between the homunculi, Roy, and Ed. Roy snapped his fingers, Greed and the rest ignited in one large blast. They all got to their feet again without a bit of problem.
"Greed! What are you doing here?!" Ed demanded the answer and quickly transmuted a large sword out of the ground. Greed chuckled.
"I'm just doing my little Kitty a favor." He answered and Lust growled.
"We lost her because of you and now we to resort to our back up plan!!" Lust growled and Greed chuckled again.
"Oh well!" He chided.
"Where is she?!" Roy roared and Greed suddenly became very serious.
"I can't tell you that Colonel." Greed replied sternly, "It would make Kitten pretty damn angry." He explained and Lust stabbed him in the stomach. Greed took a few steps back and healed himself quickly.
"You know that won't do anything." Greed scoffed. The battle started again and Roy and Ed were at a disadvantage. Archer re-entered the room and smirked to himself.
"Maybe they can't do anything, but I'm sure this transmutation circle can." Archer sneered and motioned towards the floor where a large black circle was located, Greed was standing right in the middle of it. His eyes widened as he quickly studied the circle.
"T-This can't be!" He swore angrily and turned to glare at Archer. "How do you know how to use this?" He demanded
"Well, I can't give that away just yet Greed, maybe you'll find out when you're dead." Archer chuckled. Greed growled in anger. Lust, Envy, and Gluttony jumped backwards getting out of the circle. Greed couldn't move, he watched as Archer snapped his fingers and a man quickly shuffled over, he was hiding behind a cloak. The man bent down and gently touched his hands to the array. Once the man's hands touched the ink of the circle red lightning began to crackle on the surface of the floor.. The array lit up bright pink and the light blinded Roy and Ed. Greed coughed as he doubled-over grabbing his stomach. 'It can't end this way! Dammit!!' Greed's coughing began to become more violent and from his mouth came maroon bile. Within the bile were pieces of the stones that were created with red water.
"This will be your end Greed." Lust laughed and Greed continued coughing up the stones. The circle was designed to destroy the core of the homunculus by breaking down the stone and absorbing it into the circle.
"Now that he is out of the way," Envy said turning, "We need to take care of you bastards." He smirked and Ed and Roy tightened.
"I can take you!!" Ed shouted, boasting but Roy shoved Ed behind his back.
"You go to Kitten and I'll handle these freaks." He stated seriously and Ed gave him a stern look but turned and left.
"HEY! THE PIPSQUEAK IS GETTING AWAY!" He shouted and started running towards Ed, but Roy snapped his fingers setting off an explosion in front of Envy causing him to stop.
"I'm your opponent, not him." Roy said boldly and braced himself, getting ready to set off more explosions. Envy smirked,
"This will be a nice warm-up." He laughed before leaping into the air towards Roy.
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"Why you little—" Sakura growled and then Ed twitched and stabbed Sakura through the chest. She pulled back and dropped the gun, clutching her bleeding chest.
"DON'T YOU EVER CALL ME SMALL!" Ed shouted and Sakura chuckled; she flipped her hair back and healed her chest.
"A-are you a homunculus??" Ed said shocked and Sakura chuckled again.
"Wrong Edward." Sakura chuckled.
Kitten quickly regained her composure.
"NO! DON'T TELL HIM ANYTHING YOU BITCH!" Kitten screamed and grabbed her pistol from the grass. Sakura turned and put a hand on her hip.
"Oh? So he doesn't know anything? Dear Kitten, that is rude not to tell one you hold so dear your secrets." Sakura hissed and smiled.
"I-I don't want him to know." Kitten said quietly and Sakura laughed loudly.
"You don't want him to know??! How foolish and naive can you get Kitten?!" Sakura laughed, wiping a tear from her eye. "You got him involved the minute you said hello to him, and now you won't tell him anything? I must say you are more childish then ever Kitten. AND THAT'S WHY YOU PISS ME OFF!" Sakura roared clenching her fists tightly. Ed looked shocked and confused; he turned and looked at Kitten. Kitten kept staring into the soul-less, hate-filled eyes of Sakura.
"Fine. No more secrets. You told me all of yours, I'll tell you what I feel." Kitten said and lowered her gun. "I killed for revenge. I always thought you were weak and insignificant; sometimes I wanted to kill you because you always put our missions in danger. I was never sorry when I killed all those people; they were just ways for me to get stronger, a way for me to get closer to my real goal." Kitten said, she felt herself begin to cry. "You, you were always so hesitant, like you valued their lives and I hated that. It made you weak and human, it made me hate you." Kitten said harshly.
"Bitch." Sakura hissed under her breath and narrowed her eyes.
"Then I threw away that life." Kitten said softly, placing the back of her hand on her forehead. "I threw it all away so I could become more human. I took you as an example; I wanted to be like you Sakura. I wanted to have the emotions that I locked out and I wanted to be more human. Now I regret everything I've done in the past, I wish I had never thought that way." Kitten admitted, and dropped her hand from her head. She stared directly into Sakura's eyes, which quickly switched to deep red.
"THAT'S WHY I HATE YOU! YOU WANT TO BE WEAK!!" Sakura screamed and pulled out a large syringe, the needle caught the light of the sun and sparkled Kitten took a step back.
"What is that?" Kitten choked out and Ed froze. Kitten started to panic now, if there was one thing she hated it was most defiantly injections of any kind.
"You see my dear friend, I came to a conclusion, since you are completely immortal, why not find a way to make you suffer for an eternity? There is only one way for me to do this, with a special kind of poison! When you get injected it will quickly spread through your blood system, sending you into extreme pain, it will feel like your body is getting torn apart over and over again, and since you can't die, you will be living in hell on earth. Oh, and Don't think that you can find a cure, because there is no way someone like you or your friends can!" Sakura laughing madly and Kitten's eyes grew wide. Sakura squeezed the trigger slightly; a drop of the poison oozed from the tip of the needle, the fluid was a deep black color. Hate gleamed in Sakura's eyes as she stared into Kitten's eyes, the drop of poison still sitting on the tip of the needle. Kitten flinched, Ed finally snapped out of his daze and he knew that he had to stop that needle from piercing Kitten, even though he didn't completely understand everything Sakura had said.
"Don't you dare Sakura-chan!" Ed shouted and Sakura turned, his sudden shout distracted her. Kitten took this opportunity to lunge; she outstretched her hands and desperately hoped she would be able to snatch the syringe from Sakura's hands. Sakura turned and quickly side stepped. As Kitten flew past Sakura she rose her arm and slammed the needle right into her right shoulder, pushing down on the trigger, sending all of black poison into her blood stream. Kitten screamed even before the pain began. She pulled her arms back into her chest and crumpled to a ball. The pain was terrible, even worse then what she had imagined, it was like something was crushing her from the inside out. She could feel as the poison wormed its way through her with every heartbeat.
"You don't have to fight it Kitten." Sakura said and bent down in front of her former friend. She ran her hand through Kitten's hair and then grabbed a handful viciously and yanked Kitten's head up so she was staring her in the face. Kitten had one eye squeezed tightly from the pain, she was biting her lip and blood began to trickle down her chin.
"I never want to become like how you are now, not again." Kitten managed to spit out, Sakura became outraged.
"YOU BITCH!" She screamed and quickly getting to her feet and brought back her foot and mercilessly kicked Kitten in the face, sending her rolling across the wet grass still crumpled in a ball. Blood ran steadily from her nose.
"KITTEN!!" Ed screamed and then turned to Sakura, who had started laughing. He charged and made to stab her with his blade, but Sakura dodged and punched the side of the blade, breaking it off and sending it spinning through the air. Ed was stunned and Sakura gave him a twisted smile. She threw a punch that hit him square in the side of the face and it sent him flying through the air and crashing into the ground on his shoulder. He rolled ten times before he finally came to stop; the grass was torn up from where he crashed into it.
Kitten saw Ed's blade that snapped off his auto mail land a few feet in front of her. Clutching her chest and stomach and tried to crawl forward, using her chin. She winced in pain at each small movement she made. Sweat poured down her forehead and tears were coming to her eyes, she didn't know what she would do if she had to bear this pain forever. She didn't even want to think of it, right now all she had to do was think of a way to clear the poison from her body. Ripping off the arm Sakura stabbed wouldn't help now since the poison had already spread farther than that arm. She heard Kimblee laughing.
Kitten released her chest and reached towards the blade with a shaking hand, her vision was starting to fade in and out. Finally she felt the cold metal touch her fingers. Kitten wrapped her hands around the blade and pulled it out of the soft ground, squeezing the edges of the metal caused blood to be drawn, it dripped down her hand. Kitten thought back to the days she was in school. The heart was the organ that moved the blood through the body. Kitten winced just thinking about it, but it was the only way to stop the pain the poison was causing. Kitten raised the auto mail blade above her, her arms screamed in protest from the over whelming pain, it felt like her muscles were getting torn to shreads inside her arm. She screamed aloud as she drove the blade through her chest and into her chest, blood began quickly pouring from the wound, she moved the blade around, feeling it rip her insides as she forced the wound to open wider. Her body writhed in pain and tried to close the wound. Kitten reached down, rolled over to her side and wrenched the wound open with her fingers, holding the hole in the chest open. Blood poured out from a hole in the heart, pumping blood out of her body and onto the green grass. Sakura took a few steps back; she couldn't understand what Kitten was doing to herself. Blood continued to squirt from the wound as Kitten forced herself to keep prying it open. Finally the pain was beginning to dull and numbness followed after it. Kitten felt her mind spinning and she finally pulled her hands out of her chest and allowed the wound to begin to bubble as it tried to close. Kitten couldn't think straight, she was trying to focus on closing and healing the wound but her head was swirling. She had lost a lot of blood, almost all of her blood. Her body had turned almost completely white. Her body was trying to create more blood while the wound still bubbled, not completely healing. Kitten pressed her hands tightly against the gaping hole in her chest to try and stall the flow of blood that was pooling under her. She squeezed her eyes shut and dragged herself deep into thought. Focusing on the wound she managed to start closing it, her skin healing itself. Finally it closed, but there was little she could do in her current state for the inside wounds, they would have to heal on their own. She got to her feet, Greed's vest that he had given her soaked almost completely in her own blood, some of the bandages covering her chest had ripped.
She scanned the scene, to where Ed and laying in the grass and Sakura was slowly walking towards him, chuckling under her breath. She spotted Kimblee holding his wound. He was watching Sakura and chuckling. Kitten felt a hatred welling up inside her that she hadn't felt for years. She couldn't let Sakura kill Ed, no matter what. Kitten dashed towards Sakura and spun, kicking her in the side. Sakura went flying through the air. Kitten took his opportunity to run to Ed's side.
"Ed! I need you to do something for me! Do you know the basics of human alchemy? Can you halt the ability of a human's natural healing system?" Kitten asked hurriedly. Ed looked up at her and nodded slowly. He didn't understand any of this, but it seemed like Kitten needed him to do this. Ed pulled himself to his feet. "I'll distract her, you just do it when you get the chance." Kitten explained. She turned and saw Sakura running towards her, rage in her red eyes. Kitten turned and shot herself towards Sakura. They crashed together. Sakura swinging her fist and Kitten swinging hers. Their fists collided. The cracks sounded through the air but both girls quickly healed themselves. Kitten threw herself forward, punching and kicking as quickly as she could muster, her body still hadn't regained it's proper amount of blood. Sakura dodged and blocked each attack.
"You bitch! How did you stop my poison? You should be going through hell right now! I can't accept this!!" Sakura roared in rage. "
Got cha!" Ed's voice sounded from behind Sakura.
"What?!" Sakura growled. Ed slammed his palms into Sakura's back, halting the ablitity of her body to regenerate. Sakura screamed in terror. Kitten knew what she needed to do now.
"GET OUT OF THE WAY ED!" Kitten shouted. Ed jumped back, out of the way and to the side. He tripped and fell onto his butt. Kitten didn't want Ed to see this, but she didn't have a choice. She had to end it now. Kitten thrusted her hand all the way through Sakura. Her hand was protruding from Sakura's back, Sakura's heart was squeezed in Kitten's bloody fist, her nails caused small trickles of blood to squirt from the heart which beat one more time in Kitten's hand. Sakura stared shocked, her face unmoving and dead.
Kitten pulled her hand slowly back through Sakura's body, the heart still clutched in her hand.
"Sorry, but you weren't human anymore. This is how it should be, demons shouldn't be immortal." Kitten growled to her friend, who was already dead. Sakura's lifeless body crumpled and fell in a heap by Kitten's feet. Blood poured out of her chest and pooled, staining the green grass a deep crimson. 'Sakura wasn't completed, with alchemy her abilities can be stopped, once the heart is removed than she can't regenerate another one. Not when she is incomplete.' Kitten though bitterly to herself. Kitten tossed Sakura's heart into the pool of blood and stared down at her body. This was the type of ruthlessness that Kitten had killed with years before, it didn't matter who it was, and she would strike anyone in her way down. Next she turned to Kimblee.
"You're next bastard!" She screamed and jumped. She landed on top of him, crushing her foot into his chest. She could feel the ribs breaking. She reached down and grabbed both his wrists. "You wont be needed these." She hissed and in one quick motion she ripped both arms from his body. The blood splattered across her face. His body went limp and she tossed the arms off to the side. Power surged through her system like a high. It felt sickening but somehow she liked it.
"Kitten?" Ed said in a soft voice that sounded half fearful and half full of worry. The sound of his voice pulled Kitten back to reality and she looked down at her blood covered hands and down at the dead body of Sakura. Kitten shook, and ran towards the building with a burst of speed. She couldn't face Ed; he was pure and untainted, unlike her. Kitten didn't want to hear what he would say, he just saw her kill her best friend in cold blood without any emotions at all. What kind of person did she look like to him now? She heard his shouts echo after her as she ran down the hallways. Leaping over the piles of dead bodies of all the soldiers that were killed. She turned the corner and stopped as a loud shriek sounded in her ears. The horrible noise came from the large mess hall doors that were to her left. She paused and then flung them open, and screamed.
Envy had morphed his left arm into a sword that was punctured through Roy's ribs. Kitten's eyes opened widely, filled with fear and she lunged forward.
"ROY!!!!!!" The scream tore from her throat painfully. Envy pulled his hand from Roy's side and let him drop limply to the ground. Kitten fell and skidded on her knees, catching his head in her arms. "Oh God no! Roy, please you can't die! You can't leave me!" Kitten pleaded, running her fingers through his hair. She dragged her fingers through his hair repeatedly. "Roy, Roy, Roy." Kitten whispered harshly over and over again, tears spilled from her eyes and ran down her face. "You can't die; you can't just leave me, Roy please, no, no, no." She pleaded. Kitten moved her hands down and placed them over the wound that was overflowing with blood, Roy didn't respond.
"If I can take away a life, I should be able to give one back." Kitten said softly to herself tears dripped down her cheeks. Envy lunged at her but was soon stopped by a punch to the jaw. He rolled along the tiled floor and sat up growling angrily at Greed's smirking face.
"How are you still alive?!" Envy gasped; he was beyond shocked.
"I crawled out of the seal; it took a hell of a lot of effort. But fuck, I did it. I might not have much life left in me, but I have enough to continue on!" Greed smirked and Envy growled.
"Where's Lust?" He asked and Greed laughed.
"Dead. Used the seal meant for me against her. She wasn't that hard to kill." He laughed. Envy shook with anger. "You're the last pest." Greed said laughing.
"Why are you helping her anyways, you are Greed, you aren't supposed to help others!" Envy shouted. Greed twitched, but quickly shook it off.
"That is none of your business!" He yelled and leapt at Envy. Kitten's tears still dripped off her chin and landed on Roy's blood covered body.
"Please wake up." Kitten said softly. She pressed her fingers against his chest and tried desperately to stop the bleeding, but nothing seemed to stop it.
Envy delivered a swift kick to Greed, sending him flying back into a wall. He quickly turned and looked down a Kitten. Envy dashed forward, changing his arms into blades. Kitten heard him coming and turned, she moved herself quickly in front of Roy, taking both blades as they slammed into her body, going straight through her. Kitten gasped, blood flying from her mouth.
"I'll beat you down and then kill that stupid human right in front of you! I'll teach you a lesson and then you'll never get in our way again!" Envy roared and moved his arms back, throwing them forward right as they left Kitten's body. He continued his onslaught, peirceing holes all over her body, not even giving her enough time to heal. She screamed in pain, her body hadn't even fully healed fro the effects of the poison and how she had drained nearly all her blood. Greed jumped forward and tore Envy away from Kitten, throwing him violently into a large pile of boxes. She fell back with a thud, the holes bubbled and tried to close and she gasped for breath, both of her lungs had been torn open.
"Kitten! Bloody fucking hell?! What were you thinking!??!" Greed screamed at her. Kitten could barely hear him, the pain was so immense, and she couldn't even focus on healing herself. Blood began to trickle out of the corner of her mouth.
"Plea-please save Roy for me, please Greed?" Kitten forced out the whisper. She coughed up more blood. Envy was heading straight towards them again, his arms still morphed into blades, covered in Kitten's blood. Greed grabbed Kitten and leaped into the air, dodging the attack. As she was moved Kitten let out a scream. Greed quickly dropped back to the ground and held her.
"Fuck Kitty. I can't just leave you here!" He shouted and Kitten moved her finger to his lips to silence him.
"Please, please Greed! I can do this, let me do this." She begged. Greed softened and set her down and stood up.
"You going to leave her there Greed? Well your finally back to your old self!" Envy said and laughed deeply. Kitten pulled herself to her feet. She had managed to focus enough to heal some of the holes and fix her major internal organs that had been punctured. Still she didn't know how long she would make it before passing out, and then she didn't know what they would do to her. Greed didn't respond, instead he ran to Roy and grabbed him.
"What??!" Envy seemed shocked and angered at the same time.
"I'll be back Kitty. I won't let you fall into their clutches now and I won't let him die either." Greed promised and ran from the room. Now Envy and Kitten were left alone in the warehouse room. She stared into his blood-lust eyes.
"I'll kill you for what you did to Roy! I'll rip you limb from limb!" She screamed and jumped into the air. Envy made to move backwards but Kitten was too fast. She collided with Envy, her knees smashing into his chest. They fell to the floor and Kitten grabbed each of Envy's arms, one in each hand. With a quick tug and ripped them both off. Envy squealed and screamed from under her. Then he snapped his head back at her and smiled. "You fucking bastard." Kitten seethed. She threw his arms to the side as new ones grew back in the old ones places. This fight wouldn't be easy and she could already feel herself breaking down more because she hadn't regenerated anymore. Envy jumped forward and quickly morphed his arm into a long blade. Calculating Kitten's moves he swerved and sliced her arm open. Kitten screamed and back stepped, almost falling over. She grabbed the gushing wound. Her other wounds still bled as well. If this kept out she'd end up passing out sooner than she expected.
Kitten had only one chance, and she knew what to do. She lunged forward, running low to ground and slammed her whole hand into Envy's stomach. Blood poured out where her hand had broken through the skin and into the cavity of the stomach. Kitten grabbed the insides of his stomach and pulled them out. Philosopher's stones clattered to the floor, melted, and then disappeared.
"Now that your life has melted what you going do?" Envy growled with extreme anger.
"You bitch!" He screamed. Kitten started to get up but faltered and stumbled back. Everything was hitting her, the blood loss, the trauma, and the adrenaline was running low. All she could count on now was someone coming back.
"Fuck." She swore. Envy swung his fist at Kitten's face. She quickly rolled away and Envy slammed his fists into the ground, making it crack and break apart. She wouldn't be able to survive too many hits like that in the state she was in. She quickly tried to heal some of the smaller wounds that were bleeding.
Envy stormed at her again, this time his punch landed. It hit her in the gut and sent her flying into the air and into a stack of boxes on the opposite side of the room. She picked her head up and pulled herself out of the pile. She fell onto the floor and coughed up more blood. She couldn't take much more of this, her vision was getting blurry. Suddenly Envy was standing in front of her. All she could see was his feet. She could hear him laughing and she squeezed her eyes shut.
"Time for you to take a nice nap bitch!" Envy shouted.
"Oh god!" kitten cried.
Envy then let loose a blood curdling scream and the blow that would mean her death didn't come. Kitten jerked her head up and saw Greed's hand protruding from Envy's chest. The main core of Envy, the true philosopher's stone that helped him heal was in Greed's hand. He squeezed it and it shattered, Envy had already been close to death. Envy fell to the floor, his face contorted in a look of absolute pain. He slowly turned into a pile of dust; one last growl escaped his lips before the dust blew away in a light breeze. Kitten was paralyzed; the pain was taking her over again. Greed swooped down and grabbed her in his arms. He carefully picked her up and held her gently. Kitten looked up at him, her eyes hazy.
"Greed, you came back for me." She whispered and reached up and touched his cheek lightly before her hand fell back down. Her eyes closed and Greed ran from the room. Everyone had been cleared from the building. Ed had been dragged off to the hospital with incredible force. Kitten and Greed were the only ones left. Greed took her to a different hospital, since the other one was most likely booked. This hospital was smaller and lesser known, but Greed knew it was just as good. He slammed through the front doors and the night nurse jumped in her seat. Taking just one look at Kitten she screamed.
"Someone! We have an emergency!!" She grabbed a stretcher and ran to Greed; he gently set her down on it. The doctors rushed out and she disappeared with them behind the heavy doors. Greed sat down in one of the waiting room chairs and put his face in his hands.
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Kitten's eyelashes fluttered and she slowly opened her eyes to meet with the blinding white lights. She quickly squeezed her eyes tightly to stop the light from getting in. Kitten tried to roll over, but pain shot up her body, forcing her to stay put. The door creaked open and Kitten opened her eyes and looked over at the door. A young looking doctor peeked in.
"Oh! Your awake now Miss?" He asked and Kitten nodded. "Your internal wounds have been healed and you should be alright in a few days." He informed her and changed the charts that were hanging on the door. Then he left, closing the door quietly behind him. Kitten was alone again. She closed her eyes and focused her energy to help her heal her wounds quicker. After her wounds were healed she fell asleep. She was exhausted; she couldn't believe what she just did. It all felt unreal to her.
Greed was led back to her room by one of the many nurses.
"If she's asleep please don't wake her up okay?" the nurse instructed as she let him into the room. She then walked off while Greed entered Kitten's recovery room. He sat in the chair beside her bed and looked at her peaceful face.
"Kitten??" he whispered softly. Kitten turned her head to the side and opened her eyes. She smiled.
"Hey, Greed." She said and sat up. She pulled all of the wires and tubes out of her arms and stretched them into the air. "Ah! That feels much better!" She exclaimed. She threw off the white sheets and walked over to the closet. It was empty, but Greed coughed. Kitten turned to see that he was holding a white sundress.
"I thought you might need something." He said. Kitten took it and quickly changed.
"Thanks for everything Greed, but I got to go now." She stated and before he could do anything else, she flung open the 7th story window and leaped out. She landed without any problem onto the front lawn, after smoothing out her dress she began walking. Kitten's pace quicken as she became closer to the main hospital.
"Please be all right." She prayed silently. Greed got up and looked out the window after her. He sighed and also leapt from the window, but he didn't follow her.
She rushed through the main doors and slammed her open palms down on the sign-in table.
"Please direct me to Edward Elric's room!" She demanded. The startled nurse quickly typed in the name on her computer.
"I-it's room 3445 Miss." the nurse replied and pointed down the hallway. "Take the elevator to the third floor and it should be to your left." She explained.
"Thanks a bunch!" Kitten said hurriedly and then bolted down the hallway towards the elevator. She ignored its metal doors and instead slammed open the doors to the staircase. She jumped up the stairs 3 at a time. She needed to find Ed, and she hoped Roy would be near-by. Kitten kicked the third floor doors open and took a sharp left; she stopped in front of room 3445 and took a deep breath. Kitten opened the door softly; she didn't want to disturb him if he was sleeping.
Ed sat up and looked at Kitten's face, which was peeking through the door. He smiled widely.
"Kitten!" He exclaimed. Kitten felt a shiver run up her spine. She didn't know how to explain things to Ed. He had seen her do things that were evil, yet he still smiled when he saw her face. Kitten slipped into the room and shut the door behind her.
"Ed." She breathed slowly; she approached the bed and closed her eyes. "I don't know if I can truly explain—" She was abruptly cut off as he grabbed her in a bear hug, pulling her onto the bed. Kitten's eyes flashed open.
"I don't care what you did, and you don't need to explain it now Kitten." Ed said roughly into her ear. He was holding her tightly. Kitten closed her eyes again and smiled.
"Don't your arms hurt from this Ed?" She asked softly. He released her and Kitten rubbed her hand across his flesh arm. "I'm sorry." She apologized to him, staring intently at his arm; she still didn't want to look into his kind eyes. He was such an innocent child, so sweet and gentle, and nothing like herself.
"Kitten, I don't care about myself, just as long as you are okay." He answered softly. His auto-mail arm rested against her cheek. It was cool and felt nice against her warm skin.
"I think I owe you a lot of answers Ed." Kitten whispered, and as much as she didn't want to do this, she knew she had to explain everything to him.
"I really don't care Kitten—" Ed started but Kitten could tell he was lying; of course he wanted to know what she had been hiding from him all this time.
"Ed, don't lie to me please, I know you want to know everything, and I owe you an explanation." Kitten began, not even waiting for his response. "Back when you weren't even a part of this military there was a section that was dedicated to taking out enemies of the superiors. We didn't have a code name or anything; we were just a branch of the military that was kept secret from the public. The only people who knew of us were the Fuhrer and those close to him, and also the alchemists who created our powers. We are assassins, meant to carry out missions in perfect order; no one ever survived if we were told to kill them. We were perfect killing machines. I was 12 when I started killing people." Kitten inhaled sharply when she said this and Ed closed his eyes, taking a deep breath. "Kimblee killed my parents, and all I wanted was to become stronger. I was selected to join this branch of assassins. I was damn good at it too; it was like it ran in my blood. I suppose it did though, after all those alchemic alterations. The homunculi hunted me out because they found out that I had been made immortal. Greed in particular, as I'm sure you noticed. Our group was disbanded when I turned 15, and we became regular soldiers. Never allowed to use our powers unless called upon, those close to the Fuhrer that knew of our existence were murdered, only he knew. Still rumors circulated, and now, here I am." Kitten finished. She explained it the best she could. Ed nodded slowly.
"I'm sorry I never told you before, but, I didn't want to put you in danger Ed." Kitten apologized. Ed looked at her and she looked back at him. His golden eyes were soft.
"Kitten, if you hadn't noticed, danger seems to follow me anywhere anyways." Ed said and chuckled lightly. Kitten managed a weak smile at him.
"Can't you ever be serious Ed??" Kitten said sternly. "Don't you understand that I'm like a crazy killing machine?" Kitten stressed the last two words. Ed's stare turned dead serious.
"Kitten, I don't care what you used to be." He told her and Kitten frowned.
"Ed." She said at shook her head. "You're crazy." Kitten stood up and looked down at him. It was her fault that he was all battered, bruised, and broken. "Do you know where Roy is? I need to talk to him." Kitten asked.
"I don't know Kitten, I'm sorry." Ed said, looking defeated. "You love him right?" Ed asked softly and Kitten turned towards the door.
"It took me a long time to finally realize it completely, but yes he is the only one." Kitten replied softly. "I love you too Ed, but you are like a brother to me." Kitten explained, never turning back around to face him.
"Well hey; we aren't related brother and sister, so that means I can still try!" Ed said and chuckled, she could hear the hurt in his voice. Kitten couldn't help but giggle, she should have known Ed wasn't the type to give up.
"I'll see you later Ed. Get better!" Kitten exclaimed and left his room, the door shut softly behind her. Next, she had to find Roy. She quickly walked over to another reception desk on the floor. A nurse turned to her.
"What can I do for you?" the girl asked and nibbled on the end of a pen.
"I need to go to the room of Roy Mustang." Kitten commanded and the nurse typed it in.
"Sorry miss but you can't see him; he's not in any shape to see anyone right now." Kitten's heart fell, she hadn't helped him enough.
"Please! I won't be a bother, I just want to see him!" she pleaded desperately. The nurse's face softened, she leaned over the desk closer to Kitten.
"Ok, fine, but you can't tell anyone that I'm doing this okay?" The nurse warned and Kitten nodded vigorously. The nurse got up and led Kitten down the hallway, then after a few turns, and more long hallways stopped in front a door. The nurse opened it softly and Kitten slipped inside silently. Roy was lying on the bed sleeping softly, he was heavily bandaged and IV drips were attached to his arm. The sadness almost choked her. She silently crossed the room, closing the gap between them as quickly as she could.
"Oh Roy." She whispered and lightly brushed her fingers across his cheek. "I love you Roy." She said, sadness racked her throat and she hic cupped. Holding back the waterfall of emotions that over took her in that moment. His peaceful expression suddenly wavered and his eyes slowly blinked. He turned to her and his lips twitched into a smile.
"Kitten." He whispered harshly. Kitten quickly moved her fingers to cover his lips and to stop him from talking.
"Please don't say anything." She pleaded. "I just wanted to see you." Kitten moved her fingers and stroked his face as gently as she could. "I love you Roy, and you're the only one I love this way. I will be waiting for you to get better, I will always been here." Kitten said, and smiled. "Get better okay? We can talk after you get all better." Kitten said and slowly got up. The nurse was hissing at her through the door to hurry.
"Don't worry Roy." Kitten finished and skirted across the white floor and back out into the hallway. "Thank you!" She whispered to the nurse and gave her a tight hug. Kitten released the shocked girl and skipped down the hallway back to the elevator. She felt a lot better, she took care of everything, and now it was all over.
Kitten left the hospital and let the sun beat down on her body, her heart swelled and she smiled. The light breeze blew her hair behind her and she felt elevated. Kitten walked briskly down the sidewalk. She walked past a cafe and suddenly her mood fell. This was the cafe she used to visit all the time with Sakura. Now she was dead. Her only close friend was gone, and she killed her. Kitten turned and ran towards the military graveyard. She had been knocked out for three days; all the burials were probably all done. The military liked to end these things quickly, funerals never dragged out. Not to mention, there would be no way they could hold an open-casket viewing for her. Not after what Kitten had done. Kitten let a whimper escape her lips as she pushed through the crowd towards the lonely road that led to the cemetery. Her sundress blew around her legs as she pushed herself to move faster down the now empty street. She reached the hill that blocked the cemetery from view; she dashed up it and stopped at the view that unfolded underneath her. The cemetery stretched out in front of her. White crosses in the hundreds were newly added into the soil. It was a white sea that sent shivers through Kitten's small frame. Kitten slid down the hill and stopped in front of one of the crosses. Each had a name written in smooth black ink. Kitten walked up and down the rows for hours, looking for the name she was searching for. Finally her feet planted themselves into the grass and there was no way she could will them to move. She looked down at the white cross; the world began to spin as Kitten tried to find a way to stop the force that squeezed her heart into a tight ball. She gripped at her chest and inhaled sharply, her breath was ragged as she read the name over and over.
Sakura Nakadan
"What did I do?" Kitten asked herself, self hatred took her over. She grabbed her face in her hands and squeezed her eyes shut. She dropped to her knees and began to cry. Short painful breaths only led to more and more tears. There was no way she could stop. She didn't want to stop crying, not now. There was a hand on her shoulder but Kitten didn't even turn. She was too far gone in her sadness to even register the gesture. She sat there, crying for hours, while the mystery person stayed by her side. The hand still lying on her shoulder. Finally the sobs turned to hic cups, and the hic cups turned to deep breaths. She had the grass gripped in her fists, dirt jammed under her fingernails. She released the ground and just laid her open palms against the cold grass. Her red, puffy, and stinging eyes opened slowly. Everything was still blurry and her heart was still weighing her down with sadness.
"You know, Kitten, this wasn't your fault." The voice soothed her. Still she didn't believe a word of what she heard. "She loved you, you were her dearest friend, and I know she would've preferred to be killed by you, rather then that sick and twisted man that turned her into a monster." The voice continued.
"But I'm the real monster." Kitten voice choked out, raspy and hoarse.
"You are not a monster." That statement was final. "She didn't want to fight; you delivered her from a hell on earth. Deep down inside you know she didn't really want to fight. He tricked her into believing that she did." The voice said and squeezed her shoulder gently. Kitten closed her eyes again. She didn't know whom she was talking to, in her current state it was probably a figment of her imagination. Kitten was silent now. She opened her eyes again and stared at the cross.
"Is this the end? Is it really over?" Kitten asked.
"Only if you want it to be. You don't have to fight anymore." The voice said softly.
"Thank you." She said, and then the presence was gone. Kitten turned, the wind swirled, lifting leaves into the air around her. Someone had actually been there all along. She stood and said a prayer aloud. Kitten apologized to her dead friend. She then turned and walked back to the city. The sky was still bright, but the colors seemed muted to Kitten. In the back of her mind she wondered who comforted her.
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Kitten sat at the small cafe table, Roy was across from her. Months had passed and all the wounds had healed. Everything went back to normal in the city of Central. She was laughing and so was Roy. Roy had just finished telling a story about Edward.
"See I told you?! Ed has the worst of luck when it comes to anything!" Al was laughing and Kitten wiped a tear from her eye.
"I guess so!" Kitten giggled. Roy smiled and leaned across the table and kissed her forehead. She blushed. There was a sound of disgust and they both turned to where Ed was standing with trays of sandwiches and drinks.
"God! Not in public!" Ed whined and Al adverted his gaze. He was so easily embarrassed. Kitten smiled.
"I heard about your little run in with the fish hook the other day when you were trying to fish!" Kitten informed him and Ed's cheeks turned red.
"I swear Mustang! If you weren't dating her I'd ring your throat!" Ed hissed and Al smacked him on the back.
"Brother!" Al complained. Everyone burst out in laughter. Kitten smiled around the table at everyone. It felt good to be like this. It felt like a family, just like it used to be. A pebble hit her on the head and she looked up, squinting into the sun. She thought she saw someone waving from the roof, but then they were gone.
"Kitten?" Al asked and Kitten snapped her head back down.
"Nothing! I just thought I saw someone, but I guess I was wrong!" Kitten said.
"Maybe you have a guardian angel!" Al exclaimed and Kitten giggled. The conversation started to drift back towards Ed and the fishhook, no matter how hard he tried to change the subject. Kitten's mind was elsewhere. 'A guardian angle?' She asked herself. Who knows, anything was possible. She had felt like someone had been with her lately, but then again. It felt like two different people. Sometimes it would be one, and other times it would be the other. Kitten shrugged to herself. Then she threw herself back into to the conversation, laughing and smiling. Guardian angles or not, everything had turned out right in the end.
End of Running in the Wrong Lane! Oh I'm so happy I finally got this all finished and up online!! :D It makes me feel like crying!! Anyways, I was planning to write a sequal to this story. But I don't know when that would be done, and the moment it's just an outline in my notebook! hee hee! Well, if it happens, it happens!!! Thank you for reading my story!
The Sequel is up so go check it out everyone!! Thank you for reading!!