Chapter 5
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-chapter begins-
"Some body help!" he heard a woman's voice cry out desperately, a man laughed. Damn, all these people are in my way, he thought aggravated that is was so hard getting around these people. "Excuse me," He murmured several times. People somewhat reluctentent eventually let him through.
"Shut up you wench!" the laughter was cut off abruptly as the same man before commanded the woman with a harsh tone.
"Let her go you bloody woman beater!" This voice belonged to a woman of which he knew. Sei! Ed thought somewhat panicked that Sei could be in trouble. This gave Ed an extra burst of energy to get past the people, and into the middle where he could see what was going on.
There he saw a woman wearing a blue dress, gripped at the neck by a man with goatee, and balding hair. He wasn't really much to look at. The woman was crying. Sei was glaring at the man her hands clenched into a fist.
"Woman beater eh? Lemme show you what a woman beater is." The man said roughly shoving the woman into the crowd. He walked up to Sei punching her. She stumbled back slightly, looking up with a wry grin, she wiped some blood off the corner of her mouth.
"Pathetic, you hit like a girl." She laughed rubbing her cheek. Everyone around her began to murmur. "And you people," she said turning to the crowd. "What the heck, why aren't you doing anything. What? You're just gonna let him attack innocent defenseless girls?" Sei said looking at everyone in the circle. The people gave each other uneasy glances.
"Sei!" Ed shouted running over to her. "What's going on?"
Sei gave him a toothy grin, "This guy here was harassing this girl, and nobody will do anything, so I'm gonna." She shrugged. Ed glared at the man who punched Sei.
"Who do you think you are ignoring me? And my punches are not like a girl,let me-" He was cut off as Ed walked up and right hooked him, k.o'ing him instantly. Sei smiled in delight.
"Yay, a point for the good guys!" Sei cheered punching a fist in the air. Ed looked down at the k.o'ed guy shaking his head.
Al broke through the crowd. "Brother what's going on?"
Ed explained everything, with occasional inputs from Sei. After getting some food they went back up to their room.
"Good news, because Armstrong heard what I said, he left town." Sei replied sitting down happily. "Thought he could leave before dark came." Sei looked outside, the sun was in the west part of the sky. "Looks as if night will be upon us soon." Sei muttered. Ed and Al looked out the window. Sei glanced over at them smiling fondly. I'm glad I found them. Who knew I'd befriend the FullMetal Alchemist, and his brother. Sei thought to herself. Looking back out the window, the only emotion she felt was being content. Nothing else stirred in her.
Ed looked over at Sei, she looks so content and happy, I hope I always see her this way. Ed thought to himself. "Sei, would you like to learn some more alchemy?" Ed asked pulling out a book, he wore a small smile. Sei turned to face him beaming.
"I'd love too." She replied, and so begun her teaching. Sei was completely absorbed in the alchemy Ed was teaching her, therefore she learnt fast. The hours flew by quickly until Sei began to yawn.
"I think we should wrap it up, looks like you're getting tired." Ed said closing the books he was using to teach her, as Sei began to pout
"Oh please Edward, ten more minutes. This is intriguing." Sei begged attempting to look deprived, Ed smiled.
"Usually people find this the most boring part." Ed replied amazed at Sei's learning compacity.
"Hn, it's not any worse than school, and this is voluntary. School is mandatory." Sei replied looking away.
"School?" Ed looked at her quizzically.
Right, here they don't have school as a mandatory thing. Sei thought amazed at the difference between their worlds. "Where I lived, every day we went to this place called school, or as my friends and I refer to it 'hell'. And you have to go everyday because of the system." Sei replied dully.
"What's the system?" Ed asked confused.
"Stupid."
"What's stupid."
"The system, the system is stupid. It's he bloody pencil pushers that force us to go the hell every day of our miserable lives for 14 years, starting when we're 4." Sei replied fuming with anger.
"Oh, I get it. The government where you live forces you to go to school, okay." Ed replied nodding in satisfactory that he understood.
"Yeah, you'd feel the same way if you had to go to the same place, to prepare you for the world, and learn stuff that would never be useful so you would know all this crap but have no use for it." Sei replied grumbling.
"Like what?" Ed said crossing is arms.
"Like, what DNA is made up of, and also the whole process of meiosis, and lets not forget my favorite one how big the Louisiana purchase is. Life or death situation, 'Give me all the money you got or you die!' 'But sir I have no money but if I tell you the Louisiana Purchase was 828,000 square miles, will you spare my life?' Yeah right, maybe if it was an idiot mugging me I'd live.
"What's the Louisiana purchase? I've never heard of it before." Ed questioned.
Sei sighed, "It's a big chunk of land, the pencil pushers bought from Napoleon, some French dude." Sei replied before mentally slapping herself. Dammit, I can't reveal too much to him without giving away that I'm not even from here.
"Never heard of him." Ed replied closing the books.
"You can't stop teaching me now. Please I'm begging you. I'll do anyth-" Sei said chaning the subject. Just then Al walked into the room.
"Brother you wouldn't believe what's go- Oh! did I interrupt something?"
"No, except for the fact the Ed's depriving me the opportunity of a life time." Sei replied getting up and stretching.
"You're tired and you'll have trouble concentrating if you're tired, so I'm giving you a break." Ed replied smartly. Sei looked over at him, kneeling down began picking up the books mumbling something sounding like "whatever".
"Some person down stairs lost their pet tarantula so a bunch of the customers are freaking out." Al finished taking the books from Sei and setting them on a table.
Sei froze on the spot. "Ha people scared of a spiders, pathetic. If they faced what I went up against they'd probably wouldn't think twice about a spider." Ed replied smirking.
"Spider? A guy lost a spider?" Sei replied looking around nervously.
"Are you afraid of spiders?" Al asked innocently. A glint appeared in Ed's eyes.
"SEI! THERE'S A SPIDER BEHIND YOU!" Ed yelled at the top of his lungs. Sei dashed behind Ed, hugging him tight.
"Where?" She whispered faintly, Ed began to double over laughing.
"You should've seen your face." Ed replied to suddenly fall to the floor rather violently, a bump appeared on his head. "WHAT WAS THAT FOR?" Ed yelled rather upset.
Sei crossed her arms and glared down at him. "For being a jerk!" she yelled back.
"IT WAS JUST A JOKE, CAN'T YOU HANDLE A JOKE?"
"Depends," She replied walking over to one of the beds. Before sitting down she carefully lifted up the covers and looked all around the bed. "I'm not sure why but for some reason when I see spiders my stomach turns."
"It's kinda bad that you can't really remember who you are." Ed mumbled looking over at her, she smiled ruefully,
"It is, I'm sure I'll remember who I am soon enough." She kicked off her shoes, Ed standing up was grabbed by Sei. "Ed would you please stay close to me tonight. Although this might sound a bit childish," Sei asked looking down and blushing. "I'm kind of scared of the spider." Ed smiled warmly.
"Sure," he sat back down. Sei was unable to meet his gaze, still blushing. Ed gripped her hand firmly, Sei looked up smiling, and squeezed his hand in turn. "I promise, I'll never leave you," Ed whispered, Sei turned away from him quickly.
"Sei is something wrong?" Ed asked alarmed.
Sei's free hand went to her eyes, wiping away tears that came flooding to her eyes. Stupid man, had to get all flaming romantic, WHAT THE HELL? I'M CRYING NOW! "No, I just got something in my eye." Sei replied trying to prevent her voice from cracking. Then she began hiccuping. "Dammit, now I'm bloody hiccuping." She muttered holding her hand to her mouth.
Ed stood up, "Let me get you a glass of water," Ed said walking over the the sink. He came back with glass filled with water, handing it over to Sei he noticed her eyes.
"Are you crying?"
Sei smiled weakly before replying, "No, it's just allergies." Ed looked at her skeptically before sitting down again. she drank the water, but the hiccups continued. They tried everything to rid Sei of the hiccups, from her standing on her head, to attempting to scare her.
"Sheesh, isn't there anything that could help you get rid of the hiccups." Ed said scowling.
"I'm sure:hic: that if you off-:hic: offer me somethi :hic: something I :hic: really want, I'd prob :hic: probably stop," Sei replied rather angrily that she still had the hiccups after thirty minutes of desperately trying to stop them.
Ed pursed his lips in thought, then an idea struck him. Slyly he looked over at Sei. "How about a kiss."
Sei blinked in surprise. "A kiss?" They both paused, and the silence stretched.
"I think they've stopped." Al stated.
"Finally, I was beginning to think I'd nev-:hic:" Sei sighed exasperatedly, looking over at Ed she smiled faintly. Ed moving closer, in one swift motion, wrapped one hand around Sei's waist, and the other tilted her head back, gently he pressed his lips into hers. Unconsciously her one hand went to touch the side of his face, while the other held on his shoulder. Once they broke apart Sei stared dreamily into Ed's eyes, tight in his embrace, a small smile was on her lips.
"Did it work?" Al questioned. Sei blinked, then looked away from Ed blushing. I'm practically making out with Ed and we're not even going out. Hell I'm doing it in front of his little brother. Sei thought, her cheeks on fire.
"Yeah, we better get some sleep. We're leaving bright and early tomorrow right?" Sei replied laying down.
Ed blinked, confused by Sei's sudden mood change. "Right," Ed stood up walking over to his bed.
"Night." Sei said before closing her eyes.
"Night," Ed replied laying himself down. Al shut off the light.
-In the middle of the night-
Sei sat up rubbing her eyes, swinging her legs over the bed she walked to the bathroom. Coming back she laid down, her bed seemed warmer than she recalled, but then she wasn't really awake, and fell asleep as soon as she laid down.
-The next morning-
Ed opened his eyes, feeling warmer, and also heavier. Almost as if someone was sleeping with him. Looking down he nearly jumped out of his skin. Sei was laying inbetween his legs, her arms wrapped around his waist. Suddenly he felt nervous, not sure what to think. She didn't snore, but you could tell she was sleeping by the way she breathed deeply. She moved slightly hugging Ed tighter, then mumbled inaudibly. Ed gently shook her shoulder.
"Sei?" he whispered frantically, "Sei?" she didn't even stir. "Please wake up." he begged, some of her hair fell in her face. Ed reached out and gently brushed the hair back. Slowly she opened her eyes. Looking around, her gaze fell upon Ed. Her face colored a deep red. Trying to sit up with her arms still wrapped around Ed she fell face first into his stomach.
"Dummt," Sei muttered, her face still buried in Ed's stomach. She attempted to get her hands out from underneath Ed, but failed miserably. Inclining hr head, she grinned embarrassedly, "Heh heh, I'm stuck." Ed blinked. Ed tried to get Sei's arms out from underneath him but the end result was him on top of her. Just then Sei froze.
"What's the matter?" Ed asked, looking worriedly at the now pale Sei.
"The spider, it's at the end of the bed." Sei said barely above a whisper. Ed looked behind him and sure enough there sat the spider.
Just then Ed too turned pale white, "It's bigger than I thought." Ed replied sounding a bit faint.
"Go get 'em tiger." Sei replied with a small smile. Ed looked down at her disbelieving. "Or we could have Al get him." Ed nodded in agreement.
"Al!" Ed whispered even more frantic than before.
"Yes brother," Al replied walking through the door, "Brother! What are you doing to Sei?"
"Nothing, but the tarantula is at the end of the bed!" Ed replied sweat running down his face. Al ran over and quickly swooped up the spider.
"Brother I got it." Al replied, Ed and Sei sighed in relief. Ed swung over Sei sitting on the side of the bed, Sei sat up Indian style on the bed, looking closely at Al's hands and made a discovery.
"If you got the spider, where is it?" Sei questioned tilting her head to one side. Al's face went blank.
Then screaming he danced around in circles. "Ah the spider it's lose inside me, what do I do."
"Hold still." Sei commanded holding up a shoe. Ed shot Sei a surprised look. Slowly opening Al she spotted the spider immediately. "This will only take a sec." she said suppressing several shivers.
"Do you really think you can kill it with a shoe?" Ed asked somewhat smart-ass like.
"Well fine, if you think you can kill him go ahead." Sei muttered, tossing Ed the shoe. Ed glared at her then gave her the shoe back. Taking a deep breath she smashed the spider, killing it instantly. Pulling out the shoe she grimaced. "What a lovely prize." she murmured walking into the bathroom. You could hear water running. A few minutes later Sei walked out holding a wet shoe, and rag. "Kay Al, I'm gonna remove the spider guts inside you." Sei replied wiping down Al.
"Hey! You killed him with my shoe!" Ed whined.
"It was the closet thing available." Sei muttered, glancing over her shoulder.
"Well you could've killed him with something else." Ed mumbled examining his shoe.
"You know, with all the battles with the chimeras, and psychopaths I'd assume, that me killing a spider with your shoe isn't really that big of a deal, and might I add that last night you were the one, and I quote 'Ha people scared of a spider, pathetic.' You're beginning to sound like a hypocrite." Sei stated, Ed remained silent for a minute trying to think of something to say.
"I'm not a hypocrite." Ed yelled throwing his shoe down.
"I never said you were." Sei replied giving him a reapprochful look, "I just said you were beginning to sound like one." Ed sat back down grumbling about his shoe, and how he wasn't a hypocrite. She smiled at him briefly before heading towards the door. "Well I have somethings I would like to do so I'll see you a little bit." she said as she exited the room.
"Where are you going Sei?" Al asked looking at both Ed and Sei.
Her head poked through the door, "Just running some errands. Don't worry bout me." she waved her hand closing the door behind her.
Al kept glancing back and forth between the door and Ed. After a few minutes Al finally spoke up. "Brother, why were you on top of Sei this morning?"
Ed looked up surprised by the sudden question, he began to blush. "Well Sei crawled into my bed last night, and this morning she had trouble getting off of me so I had get on top of her," as Ed continued you could tell that if Al could show facial emotion his eyes would be as large as saucers. "Al! It's not like that, it came out wrong. We did nothing. It's just really hard to explain what's going on." Ed replied burying his face in his hands, he stood up, walking into the bathroom, began to clean up. A little while later he and Al went down into the tavern. Ed finally back into his normal attire, with his now natural blonde hair again.
Ed and Al discussed leads on the philosophers' stone, and also about their next move. Finally after thirty minutes Ed finally began to complain about how long Sei was gone. The tension in the room was great. Ed couldn't stop moving, one minute he'd be tapping his finger on the table and the other, he'd be looking everywhere.
"Brother, calm down. I'm sure Sei's fine. If she was in trouble I'm sure she could get out of it." Al replied reassuringly.
"What if she's dealing with alchemist. She doesn't know that much." Ed replied his brows furrowed. The noise of the tavern was quiet this morning because much wasn't going on in town. Actually few of the tables in the tavern room were occupied.
"Hey Ed, Al. Are you guys ready for our journey?" Sei replied behind Ed, "I bought provisions, and-" Ed smiling jumped up and hugged Sei.
"Thank God your safe, I was worried about you. Next time you have errands to run, let me come with you okay?" Ed replied relief painted his face, Sei blinked several times.
"If it puts you at ease, I suppose." she said rather slowly. She put a hand up to Ed's forehead, "Are you all right?" she asked rather worried.
Ed gave her a level look, brushing her hand away. "Of course, so when do we set out?"
"Whenever you want." Sei replied shrugging. "The next town has a train we can take, so we should be leaving soon."
End chapter five
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