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Chapter 12
Mustang's Confession
On The Train To Central
Ed's POV
I watch the land go rushing by from the window. Thinking about how things would be different if I hadn't done certain things. If I hadn't pushed Kaname away, she wouldn't have met up with him. He wouldn't have brainwashed her into going with him. How could I have been so stupid? If I had just believed her...
'... she would be right here in your arms.'
I blushed, 'How can I think about that at a time like this?' I mentally smacked myself, 'What is wrong with you, Ed? Get a hold of yourself!'
I glanced over at Al and I smiled ever so slightly. I could tell he was sleeping. How?... He was snoring. I snickered slightly, then sighed. It had been a rough day for us all.
I shifted in my seat, "Ouch!" I hissed at the pain in my side.
"What the--?" I lifted my shirt and noticed the bruises on both my sides, "Now how did those get there?" I asked myself quietly.
Then I remembered earlier that day. I blinked, "Oh."
'How could I forget that? Those guys were tough. Man oh man did they hit hard.' I sighed, 'I guess I was too caught up in everything else to notice I was even hurt.'
Suddenly, I heard the announcment. We were at Central.
"Al? Hey Al! We're here." I shook him.
"Hu-huh? Wh-what? We're there?" he asked groggily.
I nodded, "Yup. Now let's go see Mustang."
He nodded and I groaned quietly, but not quietly enough.
Al looked over at me worried, "Are you alright brother?'
"Huh? Oh. Yeah, I'm fine. I just do NOT want to see Mustang. I mean, he'll probably be like, 'Why do you want to look for her so bad, eh Fullmetal? She... mean something to you? HAHAHAHA! Looks like shorty's got himself a girlfriend!'" I said immitating what I thought Mustang would say, "Uhg! I hate his stupid short jokes! I'm not short! Those things are getting real old anyways!"
Before I knew what was happening, I found myself infront of HQ.
'Well, here we go...'
Normal POV
Mustang was in his office, signing his name and occasionally his initials on important documents.
He sighed, "I wish something interesting would happen. I can't take much more of this!" he whispered to himself.
KNOCK KNOCK!
"Come in!" he yelled at whoever was outside the door.
It opened and a soldier walked in. He saluted, "Colonel Mustang, sir! Fullmetal is here to see you. He says it's very important, sir."
'Fullmetal, huh? Heh. I might get my wish after all...'
"Yes send him in."
Minutes went by and finally Ed opened the door to Mustang's office. The said Colonel stood up, "Pipsqueak." he greeted smirking.
Ed glared at him, "Shut it Mustang. I'm not here to make small talk." he said very seriously.
Mustang's eyes grew wide, the smirk long-gone, ' He... didn't do anything? This... must be really serious.'
"Okay, Fullmetal. Get down to business then. Why are you here?"
Ed sighed, 'Here goes everything.'
"I've come to ask permission to look for somebody."
Mustang rose a brow, "And who would this 'somebody' be?"
Ed swallowed, "Her name is..."
Mustang waited, "Yes?" he prompted.
"Kaname Asakai."
"K-Kaname... Asa-Asakai?" breathed Mustang.
Ed looked surprised, "You... know her? How? She's never been to this world before! Oops!" Ed quickly covered his mouth, when he realised what he had said.
Mustang looked over at him, "Yes... I know her somewhat."
"B-but how?"
Mustang sighed for what seemed like the millionth time that day, "Let me tell you a little story Fullmetal..."
Flashback Mustang's POV
"Lieutenant Mustang? Are you ready to enter?"
I was in one of the labs outside of Central. Still a Lieutenant, too. I didn't know what I was getting myself into. Scientists and their contraptions. This time it was a 'Dimensional Transporter'. I thought I'd get a good laugh outta this. See the look on all their faces when their machine didn't work. Heh. Couldn't wait. But... I didn't know how wrong I was...
"Yeah, yeah. Set it up already."
"It already is, sir. All you need to do is step into the transport ring."
So I did, "Okay. Let 'er rip." I snorted. Like this hunk of junk was going to work anyway.
One of the scientists flipped a switch and I could DEFINATLY feel something happening.
"Wha--?"
Suddenly a bright, green light surrounded me. Then...
"UHG!" I felt a sharp tug at my feet. My stomach was flipping and my head was spinning, "WOAH!"
THUD!
I groaned. Where was I?
"Lieutenant Mustang! Are you alright, sir!"
"Yes I am." I replied back into my headset, getting to my feet.
I could hear them sighing on the other end, "Thank goodness. Now listen," I was, "Where you landed there should be another Dimensional Ring, am I correct?"
I looked down. It was right underneath me, "Yes."
"Alright. Now what I want you to do, is scout around the area. Look around and come back to this point in a half hour. When your 30 minutes is up, the Dimensional Ring will automaticaly activate and if you are not here at the right time, you might not be able to come back. Do you understand?"
I nodded, even though they couldn't see me, "Yes, sir. I do."
"Good. Now go." and the connection was cut.
I sighed, "Well. I guess I look around then."
I set my watch for 10 minutes before the time then scanned the place. Looked normal. But something was tugging at me. Something felt wrong.
I shook my head, 'Stop thinking crazy things, Mustang. There is nothing wrong!' I scolded myself.
"Yeah," I said lifting my head to look at the sky, "Ther's nothing wro-"
My eyes widened. I saw... smoke! Alot of smoke!
"Crap!" I ran to the forest, where the smoke was comming from.
What the hell is going on? I yelled inside my head.
Ten minutes later, I reached the source of all the smoke... a village. What I saw made my blood run cold. Women, children, men, elder people. All of them... dead. Blood... it was everywhere. The smell was disgusting. And houses... some were burning.
"Wh-who could have done this?" I whispered to myself.
"Hello... Kaname."
"Wha--?" who was that?
Then I heard crying.
Crying? Is someone still alive?' I thought running to the place the noise was comming from.
I stopped short when I saw someone who looked just like me, holding a small boy, by a rope that was around his neck. He had three, profusly bleeding gashes on his torso, and his neck was slit. Had it been that boy crying?
I quickly hid behind a broken down house and watched the scene before me.
"Now, now Kaname. Don't look so frightened. It's only me! Yukio. Remember I met you in a shop with your mother a week ago?" said the me-look-alike.
Suddenly a little girl shot out of the house the man had been talking into.
She was the one crying!' I realised.
She tried to get away from the man, "Please Mister! I'm not supposed to talk to strangers!" she cried out in desperation.
"Oh," said Yukio thoughtfully, "Well then, let's NOT be strangers." he smiled, "My name is Yukio... Yukio Mustang." he glanced in my direction.
Does he know I'm here?' I shrugged off the thought and jumped out from my hiding place.
"You had better let her go." I commanded.
He chuckled, "And why would I do that, brother-dearest?"
I gasped, 'B-brother? No way! I-I don't have any brothers!' then I thought harder, 'But... he looks exactly like me...
"Brother or not," I shouted, "You don't let go of her right now... you're dead!"
He sighed, "Fine." he shoved her in my direction and turned to leave, "But be warned. We will meet again, brother. And I will get her if it's the last thing I do." and with that, he left.
I watched him leave for a moment, before I ran towards the small girl, "Are you alright?" I asked crouching down to her level.
"Ngh." she whimpered, shrinking away from me.
I sighed, "Don't worry, I don't want to hurt you. I'm here to help."
She glanced at me, and I took the time to look her over. Dark brown hair, that was in pigtails, hazel eyes, light green dress. She must have been only 5 or 6.
"H-help?" she asked.
I nodded, "Yes. Help."
She, too, nodded, "M-my name's K-Kaname. Kaname A-Asa-Asak-kai." she stuttered.
I smiled slightly, 'Finally! We're getting somewhere!
"Well," I started, "I'm Roy. Roy Mustang."
She gasped and inched away from me. I chuckled, "Don't worry, I didn't even know that man. So as far as I'm concerned, he's not my brother." I told Kaname.
"B-but he said--"
"Let me rephrase." I said firmly, "I do NOT want to be his brother."
She nodded a little, "Oh. Okay then."
I sighed and looked around the place, "Well, I suppose you don't have anywhere to go now, huh?"
She looked up at me and looked around herself, "I-I sup-pose no-not." she squeaked and started to cry.
My face fell, "Please, don't cry! Uh... um... p-please?" I had no idea what to do. I was never really good with children.
BEEP BEEP BEEP!
I looked down at my watch, 10 minutes to go. I looked up at the girl, I couldn't just... leave her here! Could I?
"Look kid," she glanced up at me, "I have to go, but see that way?"
She looked at the place I was pointing at.
"I saw some cars and buildings that way earlier. You've been into town before right?" she nodded, "Okay well, go to a place that has nice people and tell them to put you into an orphanage, okay?"
"What's an or--?"
"Sorry kid!" I cried running back to the Dimensional Ring, "I don't have time! Just go!"
"Okay!" she yelled getting up, wipping away her tears and waving at me, "Bye Mister Roy, sir!"
I smiled, 'Cute kid.
I ran through the woods again, at top speed. If I didn't make it, I was screwed.
I glanced down at my watch and my eyes widened, "Three minutes to go! Crap!"
I ran for what seemed like hours, then I saw it. The Dimensional Ring. I was close to it now.
My eyes widened again, "DAMMIT!" I cried running to it. While I was still running it had started to glow green again. I was only feet from it when it started to beam.
"RAHHHH!" I gave a war cry, while I jumped the last feet, and landed inside the Ring just when it transferred.
"RAHHH!"
THUNK!
"Ouch!" I rubbed my face, because I had landed on it. I looked around and found that I was back inside the lab.
"Lieutenant Mustang! Are you alright?" several scientists crowded around me.
"Yes, yes! I'm fine!" I swatted them all away and scrambled to my feet.
"Sir. Did you find anything?"
I shot the head scientist a look. I thought about all that had happened to me in the last half hour.
M-my name's K-Kaname. Kaname A-Asa-Asak-kai.
I smiled, "No. Not a thing."
End Of Flashback Normal POV
Ed looked astonished, "Wow. So... you were the guy who saved Kana..."
Mustang nodded, "Yeah. So tell me what happened to her?"
For the next 45 minutes, Ed explained to his C.O what had happened in the past few days. Mustang's blood boiled at the mention of his 'so-called-brother'.
"So... Yukio has 'brainwashed' -as you say- Kaname to go with him, and you're asking me for permission to look for her?" he summed up.
Ed nodded, "Yeah. So... will you?" he asked nervously.
Mustang looked up at Ed through his fingers, which he had folded together during the explanation, "Yes. Of course. I want that girl found as much as you do. Even though I had only been with her for what... 10 minutes?... I grew quite fond of her."
Ed grinned triumphantly, "So that's it! Well, I'll be on my way then," he stood up, saluted Roy and turned to walk out the door.
"Fullmetal." Mustang called.
Ed stayed his hand on the doorknob, "Yes Colonel?"
Roy hesitated, "Find her and bring her back safely."
"Will do, sir." Ed replied opening the door and promptly walking out, closing it behing him.
Outside HQ
"How did it go brother?" questioned Al.
"..." Ed said nothing, his bangs shadowing his eyes.
The younger brother gulped, "B-brother?" he asked, afraid their request had been denied.
Ed turned to him and gave a thumbs-up, "Let's go find Kaname."
End Of
Chapter12
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