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Chapter Three

Kagome arrived at the military building five minuets later. When she inside many people were in the cafeteria eating breakfast. Great… where was she to go now?

Just then a man approached her. He had short brown hair and glasses.

"Hello!" said the man "I've never seen you here before! I'm Hughes! And this," he said while taking out a picture of a little blonde girl on a red tricycle, "is my daughter! Isn't she cute?" (A/N: I'm pretty sure that's his name… if not PLEASE correct me!)

Kagome nodded. Thinking desperately how to get away.

"Hey Hughes!" came a voice from the left, " leave the girl alone! And get your butt back here!"

"Oops! Got to go nice meeting you!" said Hughes as ran back to a table.

Kagome just stood there thinking, 'how random.'

"Higurashi!" a voice called behind her. It was Mustang. "Come to my office." And with that he disappeared down the hall, in the direction of said office.

Kagome sighed and followed him thinking, 'Day one and I'm already assigned a mission. Joy.'

When Kagome entered his office she was not surprised to see Ed and Al sitting on a couch. Although they seemed to be somewhat shocked. Why? She didn't know.

Kagome went to sit on the couch opposite of them.

"Glad to everyone's here," Mustang began. Everyone? There are only three people in the room, what mission could be so complicated that the Elric brothers needed help. But not complicated enough to only need one person.

"Now," he continued, " the King's must trusted advisor is said to be targeted by an assassin. And this weekend he will be going to a village in the west on the King's orders. It is our job that he arrived at the village unharmed. Hughes, Hawkeye, and I will be coming along as well. We will leave tomorrow, so be here around seven A.M. you are dismissed."

Kagome wanted to question what advisor it was, but decided to wait. And seeing that she hadn't been assigned anything else to today she would go and check out the library. She was curious to see if it had anything on the Shikon no Tama, or did people still believe it to be a myth? She got up and left the room.

Ed and Al however stayed behind.

"Is there something you want boys?" Mustang asked looking up from the paper work on his desk.

"Why do you need us coming along?" Ed asked.

" Simple. Last time there was a mission like this you were a great deal of help."

"OK… but why is she coming?"

"The advisor we are to be protecting suggested her for this mission himself. Now why don't you two run along?"

Ed and Al sighed and got up and left the room. They decided to go and check out the library, looking for more leads on the stone.

"Al why don't you run ahead? I'm going to get some breakfast first, ok?"

Al nodded and continued walking down the hall toward the library. He hadn't said a word most of the day. The truth was, he was thinking about the Kagome girl.

When she looked at him…. He didn't know how to describe it. It was like she knew that he was just a soul. No boy inside a suit of armor to protect himself. Just a soul inside a suit of armor to live. Al saw it in her eyes… but how did she know?

Sighed slightly as he entered the library and moved toward the shelves full of books on mythical stones. He was shocked when he saw Kagome already flipping through a book.

She looked up when he came toward her, and smiled.

"Hi!" Kagome chirped happily, "I don't think we've been properly introduced. My name's Kagome."

She stuck out her hand for him to shake.

He took it and replied, "Hello, my name is Al."

Kagome smiled at him. There it was again! That look! What was it, pity? …No… it held no pity… just understanding.

"You going to get a book?" Kagome asked, throwing him out of his stupor.

"Huh? Oh yeah."

She laughed lightly and continued looking through the book.

"Can you help me?" Kagome questioned. "Have you looked through this book before?"

Al nodded.

"Great! Do you know if it mentions a stone called the Shikon no Tama?

Al looked thoughtful for a moment, then he nodded. "Look towards the back."

Kagome did so, and she only found a few pages of it.

Al as well was looking through a book for the Philosopher's Stone. When a light sound of laughter caught his attention. He turned to find Kagome chuckling over something she had just read.

It said in the book that it was thought that a great alchemist created the Shikon. No mention if mikos or demons, just an alchemist. The thought of it was amusing.

"Kagome?" a soft voice questioned to her right.

"Yeah?"

"What's the Shikon no Tama?"

"I thought you read about it."

"No," Al said, " I just remember seeing it in the book."

Kagome smiled as she thought about the jewel that hung around her neck, and smiled.

"Well do you want to know what it says in the book or do you want to know what I kn—what I heard from my grandfather?"

"Which one do you think is true?"

Kagome smiled, " The one that my grandpa told me."

So Kagome told him of the 'legend.' The part that he liked best was the wish.

"So what happened to the miko?"

For some reason Kagome wanted to tell him the truth, but she couldn't so she settled for a half way point.

"She went home to her family for a few months before being taken away to yet another time period where a whole new adventure began for her," Kagome answered with a soft sigh.

"Do you believe in that, Kagome?"

"Absolutely."

"How?"

Kagome smiled, "Al, have you ever told someone that you are just a fifteen (yes its been one year for the brothers as well) year old boy without a body? That you have no real body, for now? They didn't believe you, even though it was true. That's how I know. That story is true even though a lot of people wouldn't believe it."

Al was shocked! So she had known how?

Before he got a chance to answer Ed came back from breakfast and Kagome left. Leaving Al to his thoughts on our little miko from the legend.

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