Hagane no Neko

Disclaimer: I do not own Fullmetal Alchemist, nor do I own any of it's characters. I do own Rei though, so he is LITERALLY mine, HA-HA!

Summary: Edward jumps into a middle of a transmutation, and is transformed into a 'human cat'. Al is at Resembool, and Ed has to stay in hiding. Roy has to take him in. RoyEd

Note to Shi Rurouni of the Aphrodesiac: -blink blink- I'm married? -rereads review- Oh! You're were talking to Hughes! Okay! XD Sorry 'bout that! XD

Good News: After I finish this fic (which, will be a while, heh) I will be doing a sequel! Thanks to a lucky reviewer who gave me the idea!

AND that over 90 percentof the special folder in my e-mail is filled with Hagane no Neko Reviews. . . YES! I keep my non-flame reviews! They all special! -evil laugh-

Transmutation Seventeen

Thursday: Transformation or Transmutation?

"Let's just get to the point, shall we?" Hughes put on a little grin, pushing up his glasses.

"Yes," Roy crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow.

"Let's sit down first," Rei smiled, and turned away. "I'll get us some coffee."

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And so, Rei, Roy, and Ed sat on the couch; Hughes wanted to stand so he could pace around like Sherlock Holmes.

"All right, how do we turn me back again?" Ed asked, his whiskers twitching.

"Well. . ." Hughes pushed up his glasses with his pinky, and cleared his throat. "we went through the dead guy's documents and research."

"Go on," Roy said after his friend paused.

"There is no way to turn Ed back, UNLESS-" the cheerful man quickly said, before any one could speak. "-unless you wait a certain period of time."

"How long?" the neko boy asked.

"Well, it depends on the person. It could take seconds, hours, days, weeks, months, even YEARS before the transmutation wears off and they're back to normal."

"YEARS!" Edward yelled. "I don't want to be stuck this way for YEARS!"

"It may take you a week or month, Ed," Rei restated. "don't worry about it so much.

"Yeah," Roy flung his arm over the blonde's shoulder. "besides, I like you better this way. You're cuter." A blush made it's way across Ed's face as he slapped Roy's arm away.

"Keep dreamin', Pal." he huffed.

"That's not how you acted several minutes ago," the older man put on a smirk, and remembered Hughes and Rei were there. "ah, shoot. You got anything else to say, Maes?"

"Oh, yeah! You missed out a lot in the office!" the friend added.

"A lot of what?"

"We have been betting on if you and Ed were getting together!" Hughes smiled proudly, as if this were a good thing. "the next bet is if you two are gonna-"

"OUT!" Roy snapped, wishing he had snapped literally. The cheerful man shrugged, and walked over to the door.

"Oh yeah!" he paused. "hey, Ed. Your brother called, and said he was going to come back a week early. He's going to be back tomorrow."

"But. . . Didn't he just come a few days ago? That took a lot off his day, why can't he come on Saturday?" Ed asked.

"He wouldn't tell me," the man grinned. "you can ask him your self." he waved and was about to walk out when he stopped again.

"Oh, one more thing,"

"WHAT." Roy asked, his deep voice filled with annoyance.

"Gracia told me to give you her regards! I forgot about that!" the dark haired man almost stepped out; he paused again.

"One more thing."

"HUGHES. . ."

"You and Edo-kun look so cu-"

"I SAID OUT!" Roy practically exploded.

"I'm going, I'm going." Hughes laughed, and walked out the door, closing it behind him. There was a loud 'Oh!' outside, and Hughes walked back in.

"NOW I remember what I was going to say!"

"Maes, if it's about that bet. . ."

"No, it's about Al."

"What about him? Is he coming back a week early for a reason?" Ed asked. He was afraid something bad had happened to his brother.

"Actually. . ." there was a long bit of silence, and Hughes put on that wacky grin of his. ". . .he told me why he was coming back, but he told me not to tell you! Sol long! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHA!" with that, the man left, his laughing could still be heard.

"So. . ." Rei cleared his throat. ". . .would anyone like something to eat?"

"Wait, Rei." Roy said, his eyes looking over at him. The younger brother twitched, and sweat dropped.

"Y-yeah?" he asked, wondering if he got in trouble.

"How exactly did Maes know about what was going on. . .?" there was a hint of pure EVIL in the older Mustang's voice.

"Oh! Um. . . I think we ran out of ingredients for a meal I thought up! I better go buy some!" Rei quickly ran out the door, and saw Hughes' car drive away. Roy was behind him. The younger brother gulped, and ran after the car.

"WAIT FOR ME, MAAAAEEESS!" he screamed, tears practically flying out of his eyes.

Roy and Ed sweat dropped.

"I'm gonna kill him when he gets home." the raven haired man said. He turned to the blond. "you up for a game of chess?" he smiled. Ed smirked.

"I'll kick you into the dirt, Old Man."

Roy's smile faded.

"What did you call me?"

"N-N-nothing!" Ed stuttered.

"That's good." the older man's smile returned again. "you should know, in Chess, I can have you on the ground screaming 'Mercy' in no time."

"You're on."

Barely ANY shounen-ai in this chapter. . . I'll try to add more in the next chappy. Review, please!