FMA X FRUITS BASKET

Chapter one

Winry and Rose dropped their bags and flopped down on a patch of soft grass. 'I'm soooo hungry…' Winry moaned. She sighed. Winry missed her mother very much. She and Rose's mother had passed away not long ago and she was still feeling the hurt. She wished things could have turned out better, but, as Rose always pointed ! out, they were still alive so everything was okay. Rose. Winry grunted. Always the optimistic one.

'So, Rose…' Winry started to say, but Rose was already asleep. Winry sighed. 'I guess it can wait.' She fell sound asleep.

The morning greeted them both bright and early. 'owww…' Winry rubbed the back of her neck. 'Sleeping on the ground hurts…' 'Here.' Rose threw a granola bar at her. 'You've been so grumpy lately, Winry.'

But why? Why did it have to turn out like this? Then Winry reminded herself of her uncle, and she remembered why. If she and rose hadn't run away, their uncle would have taken them in, and that wasn't a good thing at all. 'Hey Rose…' Winry asked sleepily. 'When do you think well be able to st! art school here?'

'ummm…' Rose swallowed her bar. 'A couple of weeks, maybe. By that time uncle would have stopped pretending to look for us. He never wanted us anyway, so if he by chance finds out we are going to a school 100 miles away from where he is living, hell keep quiet.'

Winry looked at! her sister. 'Yeah, I guess that will work.' She said. 'But we are going to have to get jobs soon so that we can rent an apartment or something, because I am NOT, repeat NOT, going to sleep on the ground with SLUGS and stuff! And another thing, this land is probably already owned by someone that might not want intruders on there property.'

'Winry, you're a mechanic. I think you can deal with a couple slugs. As for it being someone ! else's property, well, let's explore this place before we make any decisions.' Rose tromped out into the forest, Winry on her heels.

It was amazing how different the two sisters could be. Rose was the older sister, strong, dependant, and could easily become obsessed. Winry was a mechanic, and she could become grumpy easily, and sometimes let out her wrath in the form of a wrench on your head. Also, they looked completely different, as they had different fathers, so there was no way just by looking at them you could assume they were sisters. Rose was dark skinned, with b! rown hair and pink in the front. Winry however was light skinned and blonde.

They tromped through the forest, sometimes having to pull there spring dresses out of bushes and stuff. Winry shivered, as it was colder today than it had been yesterday. Then Rose stopped dead in her tracks.

Winry wasn't paying attention and she accidentally ran head on into her sister. 'oww, rose, why the hell did you-

Rose pointed. 'Look.'

A house was standing there, out in the middle of a forest. They could not believe their eyes. It was less like a house, more like a MANSION.

'aah!' Rose exclaimed. Because coming from somewhere to the side of the house was a strange blue light. 'But that looks like…' Winry said. 'No, that can't be it; alchemy was banned three years ago.'