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Chapter 9

Tears Of Departure

Kaname had passed the next couple of hours in the forest contemplating her earlier descision. Wondering if she had done the right thing. Wondering what training would be like and how long it would take to master her powers. Imagining how everyone would react to her leaving. And those thoughts led her to the more difficult questions,

'Should I tell them I'm leaving?' she asked herself, 'If I do; should I say goodbye?' she shook her head and burried her face into her knees. 'I'm so confused...'

With Ed

'I'm not gonna fall for something like that.' It had been a few hours since Kaname had run off, and Ed was wandering around town, still clutching his sides.

"I-I need to sit." he said aloud. He headed towards the park he had been resting at the previous day and sat at the same bench. After a few moments time, an image of a blushing and smiling Kaname flitted through his mind.

'Was I right to do that? Ed wondered, 'Maybe she was telling the truth? Maybe she wasn't lying?' he mentally slapped himself, 'Of course she was lying! What am I thinking! I can't let her get to me! I... can't.'

Ed's mind then replayed the scene where Kaname ran out of the cafe crying. He felt bad. He had done that to her. It was his fault she was crying.

Ed groaned. He couldn't feel guilty now. His pride wouldn't allow him to apologise. And even if he did, she probably wouldn't forgive him.

'She probably would.' said a tiny voice, in the back of Ed's mind.

'She has nothing to forgive 'cause there's no one asking for it!' he yelled. 'Who are you anyways? Are you my conscience?'

The voice sighed in exasperation, 'No Ed. I'm not your conscience. I'm in fact the half of you that does feel guilty, and thinks positive. Anyway, we're going off topic.' the 'other Ed' paused and took a deep breath, 'Listen Ed.' it spoke firmly, 'She wasn't lying and you know it. Just throw away your pride for ONCE and go to her. You know you wanna be with her.'

Edward growled, 'Shut up.' he told himself.

Ed 2 was surprised, 'What?'

He said it louder, 'I SAID SHUT UP! AND LEAVE ME ALONE!'

Ed 2 sighed and spoke one last time, 'Fine. But know this; Kaname thinks you hate her. Soon enough things are gonna get worse and out of control! You have to stop it Ed! You and Kaname are the only ones who can stop it! But you have to work to-geth-er.' it pronounced every sylable of 'together', making his point clear. 'Get your act together, Ed, and go find her!' were Ed 2's last words, before Ed could no longer feel 'his' presence in his mind.

Ed sighed in frustration and stuck his hands into is pockets.

"Stupid me, or-or... whatever it was." he muttered. Then, he blinked in confusion, "Huh? What's this?" he pulled out a crumpled piece of paper. He carefully smoothed it out and looked at it's contents. It was the prophecy that he had read the day before.

"Hah. What a load of bull." he crumpled the paper and threw it to the ground, across from him. Ed sighed and closed his amber eyes, while leaning his head against the back of the bench.

Moments went by and he slowly opened an eye and stared at the helpless paper, laying on the ground at his feet. He closed his eye and was quiet. But minutes later he opened that eye again, and again, stared at the paper. This routine continued for several more minutes, before Ed got fed up. He sighed heavily and bent over, piked up the prophecy and read it over again.

But this time when he read it it was different. The prophecy hadn't changed, nor had the writing. But it was actually that Ed seemed to be able to understand it a bit better,

'Eyes of grass and hair of dirt'

'That's Kaname. Her eyes are green, like grass is. And her hair's brown, like dirt. That part's okay. It's made sense since the begining.' he reasoned.

'bring powers unknown'

'This part never made sense before, but now that I think about it, Kaname had powers that she didn't know about up until this morning.' Ed nodded thinking it was a logical explanation.

'From another world'

'This part doesn't make sense at all-' then it hit him, and he gasped, 'From another world...' he echoed in his head. 'Was-was this what she was trying to tell me? he asked himself.

Flashback

"Okay." Kaname took a deep breath and began, "It all starts, with the big fact," she looked away from Ed, "And the fact is; I'm not from this world, Ed."

End Of Flashback

"Oh no!" Ed cried and jumped to his feet, dispite the sudden rush of pain he felt. He started to sprint to Winry's house and, hopefully, Kaname.

'Please,' Ed prayed, 'Please be there!'

Outside The Rockbell Residence

Kaname stood on a hill, overlooking her temporary home. In her left hand, she held her guitar case, and her right hand was clutching her bag, which was slung lazily over her shoulder. Her hair was loose, and flying along with the light breeze, as well as her jacket. Her bangs were shadowing her eyes, and her head hung low. She knew that what she was doing was wrong, but for her friends... she would do it.

'Does it truely have to be this way?' she was in deep inner turmoil. She felt like she was betraying her friends.

"It... has to be done." she stated looking up. It wasn't visible before, but it was now clear that she had been crying. Her face was tearstained and there were shiny slicks where the tears had rolled down. Her eyes were red and puffy too.

Kaname tuned on her heel, and stalked off to the forest to meet with Yukio.

'I just hope they find my letter...'

With Ed

Ed continued to run until Winry's house came into view, when it did he took off into a full sprint. Ignoring the searing pain in his sides, back and chest. He couldn't stop, not for anyone or anything. He wouldn't.

'I made a mistake...One that could cost me alot!' he mentally berated himself, 'Stupid! Why did I have to be such a jerk? That other me-thingy was probably right; she probably does think that I hate her!'

As soon as Ed reached Winry's he threw the door open. And dashed inside, not bothering to close the door behind him. He threw his head back and forth, searching for any signs of Kaname.

Hearing the door bang open, Al, Winry and Pinako peeked into the hall to see what was going on.

Pinako, seeing her door wide opened, decided to use this as an advantage and annoy Ed with it,

"Hey, Shut the door, pipsqueak." she smirked.

She, Winry and Al all waited for Ed to start throwing threats and complaints at her, but to their amazment he remained silent... as well as frantic.

"Brother?" Al asked uncertainly.

"Where's Kaname?" this time it was Winry who spoke.

Ed eyes widened and his pupils shrunk, "You mean... she's not here with you?" he asked ugently.

They all shook their heads, "Not that I know of, but earlier I did hear movement upstairs earlier. Maybe she's in her room?" Al offered, "Why?"

"No time Al!" Ed said as her ran upstairs and zipped to her room.

When he reached it her kicked the door open and ran inside and looked around, but stopped and remained frozen. Al, Pinako and Winry came in seconds later and Winry began to yell at him,

"ED! You're not suppised to just barge into a girl's room! It's-," but she too froze at the sight of the room.

It was very clean. There were no clothes, books, music sheets, or anything strewn about the floor anymore. The desk was arranged nicely and the chair was pushed in. The bed was made and the pillow fluffed. The window was open and the wind was causing the drapes to billow around. Winry looked to the corner where Kaname's bag and case were kept... there was nothing. Panicing she rushed to the closet to find there were no clothes inside.

"W-what's going on here?" she asked in a breathy voice, after a moment's silence. She ran over to Ed, who's head was hung low in defeat, "What happened to her Ed!" she cried, "Where's Kaname!"

He shook his head, "I-I-,"

"Over here, look!" Al said, waving an envelope around.

Winry walked wearily over and took the envelope from the suite of armor. She flipped it over to find the letter adressed to herself, Pinako, Al and Ed. She also recognized the neat handwritting of Kaname. After seeing this, Winry hastily ripped it open and pulled the letter out. She scanned the letter and every few seconds her eyes would widen and fill with tears.

"What does it say Winry?" Pinako asked her granddaughter, gently. In response, Winry squeezed her eyes shut and shook her head, letting a small sob escape her lips. She shoved the letter at her grandmother and colapsed onto the bed, covering her face with her hands.

Pinako cleared her throat and read the letter aloud, "It says;

Dear, Winry, Pinako, Alphonse and Edward,

It is very difficult for me to write this. In fact, I wish that I didn't have to. It breaks my heart to have to tell you all goodbye.

I am leaving to train under the hand of Yukio, my new master. Ed should know him, he did, after all, meet him this morning. And Winry, he's the man I told you about from my past. If any of you are wondering about this, ask Ed about this moring and Winry about my past, they know what I'm talking about. To tell you now though, yes Yukio is evil, but if you understood how great the importance of the situation was, you would probably do the same as me.

Even after I am done training though, I will not be coming back. Things are getting too complicated and I don't need any of you to get caught up in my affairs. I just don't want any of you to get hurt because of me. I know it sounds like I'm asking for sympathy, but I'm not. In my many years of traveling, I've learned that sympathy makes you weak, and I can't be weak. I need to be strong, for you. All of you.

Please, don't worry about me though. I'll be fine, I promise. Don't come looking for me either. I can't have any of you getting in trouble, right?

There are some things that I need to tell each of you though. Those things are listed below.

Pinako, I want to thank you for everything that you've done for me. I will repay you someday, I swear it.

Winry, you were my first best friend and you stood by me when I needed you the most. Thanks for taking me in. I'll never forget you.

Al, I know that we didn't really get to know eachother very well, but I want to say; never give up hope. Keep believing and I know that someday you'll get your body back.

Ed, there's so much I want to thank you for. Saving my life twice, being a wonderful friend, helping me out, and just being there. I'm sorry about earlier too. I hope that we may one day cross paths again. But for now, life has decided for me to take another road. Also, I don't want you to give up hope. You will find the Philosopher's Stone and you will restore things to the way they originaly were.

Again, I'm sorry. Goodbye.

Sincerely,

Kaname Asakai" she finished, tears brimming in her eyes.

Al looked down in sadness, Winry was crying hystericaly and Ed quietly walked out of Kaname's old room and and into his own.

He gently closed the door behind himself and leaned against it. His bangs were shadowing his amber orbs. Letting out a quiet sob, he slumped to the floor and hugged his knees. Tears were pouring out of his eyes and he did nothing to stop them.

"Why Kaname? Why?" he whispered horasly, "It's my fault. It's my fault!" he cried. Sobering up he whispered one final thing,

"I'm sorry."

End Of

Chapter9

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