Chapter 8: Half-Truth

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Riza stepped out of her shower and fed her dog. "Roy hasn't spoken to me since this morning when that cat came…I wonder if I did something wrong…" Riza dressed and clipped her hair up. She shut out her emotions from the outside world then walked to Mustang's office. When she opened the door to the office, she found Lt. Jean Havoc with Fire sitting on his head and swatting at his cigarette sitting on the sofa. "Umm…Lt. Havoc?"

"Just get this thing off of me, its messing up my hair." Riza didn't even glance at the colonel's desk.

"Don't bother, he'll only jump right back up." Mustang said from his seat.

Riza looked at him and found his eyes cold and glaring. "Colonel, do you have any new information on Kaara Hart's location?"

"None that I can give out to you Lt. Hawkeye." Roy said quietly but harshly.

Riza could've cried right then if she wanted to…but instead…she walked right up to the colonel and…THWACK…she slapped him across the cheek.

He looked surprised at first, then emotionless, not even yelling at her out of anger, his cheek was red now.

Havoc's jaw dropped, Fire swatted at his cigarette again.

And Riza ran…she wanted to run forever, never stop, never rest…she wanted to run from her problems and fears.

Roy let her run, which would end up being one of the worst things he could've done.

Havoc still sat there, eyes wide, jaw-dropped, and Fire eating his cigarette on his head. ((I know…ewww…but my cat did that to my uncle one time, except not on his head))

"Lauren, who are you talking about?" Ed asked, thinking of what she had said about someone's eye color.

"My…" Lauren still couldn't speak.

"You are talking about Him, yes?" Dirt spoke up.

Rain stayed in back of him next to Hero, who was surprisingly calm and quiet.

Lauren nodded, not looking up.

"Who's 'Him'?" Ed asked Dirt.

"He's a homunculus able to kill a person with a single touch of of his left hand." Rain called to them. "He killed our mother."

Dirt nodded solemnly and Lauren's heart raced. Who would want him back!

"Lauren…so why is this homunculus so special?" Ed looked to Lauren.

"Because…I'm her father." The homunculus stepped out of the near-by bushes.

"Wha…Huh?" Ed didn't fully comprehend what he just said.

"No! I told you, you're no father of mine no matter the remains you were created from!" Lauren took a blade out a blade hidden in her auto-mail leg and closed her eyes. When she opened them, everything was still and she could hear every blade of grass move in the wind again.

"That…doesn't work on me." The homunculus stepped forward. "I can move just as fast."

"So what do I call you then?" Lauren readied herself in a fighting stance.

"You may call me Sin, for that is truly what I am…A sinner's sin." He stopped walking when he was a few feet in front of Lauren.

"Who created you?" Lauren asked.

"A girl."

"What was her name?"

I don't recall." Sin smiled.

"Liar!" Lauren lunged for him.

Sin brought his hands out of his pockets. His left hand was ungloved while on his right hand he wore a thick black glove. "I'll destroy you now." He reached out with his left hand for Lauren's throat.

She side stepped with incredible speed and jammed the blade into Sin's right shoulder, no blood came out. "What are you…?" Lauren wrenched the blade out and dodged his left hand again, jumping backwards.

"I am a sin, a homunculus, made from your father's few remains."

"So how did my father die. Seeing as how he ran and Stephan was actually killed…I presume he was alive for a few years after he ran." Lauren put the blade back into her auto-mail leg and took out one of her earrings.

"He was killed…by a states alchemist…whose ability revolved around fire…I believe you've heard of him."

"Uncle Roy…" Lauren stopped moving and Ed, Dirt, Rain, and Hero seemed to live again.

"What the Hell Lauren, I feel weird!" Ed yelled at her.

"May father used one of my uncles in the human transmutation, he ran, Roy killed him, then a girl tried to bring him back and we're left with Sin." Laruen explained.

"I got the girl's eyes, that's all I know." Sin seemed to laugh on the inside.

"Her…eyes…?" Ed thought for a moment, then asked "How long have you walked this earth?"

"About a year." Sin answered.

"Well then, that would have to make Kaara-"

"Kaara?" Lauren questioned.

"-seven years old when she lost her sight, perhaps six depending on her birthday. Lauren do you know when Kaara went blind?" Ed glanced at Lauren.

She shook her head. Dirt, Rain, and Hero all ran off into a tree, and Sin laughed.

Lauren and Ed turned to him and glared…ready to fight…to kill or be killed…

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