Ok, I'm having A LOT of fun with this story! And I have lots of reviewers! I'm happy .! So this chapter is really good, but I luved torturing Kimblry in the last chapter . ( don't get me wrong, I adore Kimbley...) so... yeah... but this one's really good... more people come in, so enjoy!

Kids

Chapter 3: Jobs

" Guys..." began Kain " Can we get on with the story? Please..." the others looked at Kain, with a weird look on their faces. " What? Only the Colonel and Luitenant Colonel Hughes have come in the story yet!" The others nodded.

" So," began Havoc " have any idea when I'll be coming into the story?" Hughes then looked at his wrist watch " In about 20 minutes..."

" Ok, then!" exclaimed Havoc " I'll be back then, I have a date... I gotta go! By-"

" Oh no you don't!" exclaimed Hughes " It's all or nothing, Jean. And besides, you don't really have a choice in the matter, so sit down and shut up!"

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" Then Roy and I entered that boarding school for the first time..."

" Hey," bagan Roy " who are they? " he asked, pointing to a group of boys. There was three of them and they all seemed to be the same age. One had messy, straw blonde hair, who had a peice of sweet grass stiking out the side of his mouth that he was chewing on. One of them was bigger than the others and had red-orange hair and freckles and beside him was a small boy with brown hair and big dimpels.

"Hey guys!" Hughes hollared, waving at the three boys " What's happening!" the three boys just glanced at Maes and continued to chatter. Roy frowned.

" When someone speaks to you, you should reply." he said wisely, facing the three boys. The boys frowned and faced Roy. " Who are you, exactly?" asked the one with the red hair.

" Roy Mustang." he replied simply " See. That's what you do when someone asks you a question. You answer." The boys nodded and looked Roy up and down.

" I like this guy..." the one with the grass sticking out the side of his mouth said. "I'm Jean Havoc, by the way." he smiled and then brought out his hand, motioning for Roy to shake it. Roy just looked at his hand as if it were a piece of rotting garbage.

" Boys." ordered Jean to his two friends

" I'm Heymens Breda." the one said with the red- orange hair as he folded his arm across his chest.

" And I'm Vato Flaman." said the boy with the brown hair and large dimples. Roy nodded and moved on, taking Maes by the wrist with him.

" Hey," Roy said to Maes " Why did you let those guys treat you like that back there?"

" I'm not one of the " cool kids" ..." Roy looked at Maes, with his one eye brow raised high. He stroked his hands over his chin and thought a moment.

" You just wait, Maes..." he bagan, thinking of something " I'm going to make you the coolest kid there is." Maes look at Roy with an expression that said " Yeah, right... and how are you going to do that exactly?"

" And everyone wil want to be your best friend, but they won't be able to, because I'll already have taken that job!" he said proudly, pointing his finger at his chest.

Maes had stopped listening and stared dreamily at the other side of the school yard.

" Hey," said Roy, seeing that Maes had stopped listening to him " What's up with you?" Roy began waving his hands across Maes's face to try and get his attention from out of his daze that he was caught in. Maes didn't respond.

" Hughes! Answer me!" Roy said loudly, wacking Maes over the head with his fist. " Ouch..."

" Well? What were you drueling at? Huh?" Maes's cheeks turned a deep red.

" Um... well... It's..." the he pointed over to where two girls an one boy were standing on the other side of the school yard. The boy had short and messy black hair and big glasses. Beside him was a girl with short blonde hair who wore a t-shirt and shorts. She had nice brown eyes that were visible from the sun's rays. Her face had patches of dirt on them and her pants had many green grass stains on them and in her hand she held a stick that had a cork-screw at the bottom of what seemed to be behind a trigger, a cork-screw gun... And beside her was a timid girl in a nice lavendar dress with medium-lenght sandy blonde hair and striking turqoise eyes.

" It's...Gracia..." Hughes said lovingly, pulling out something from out of his pocket " She's like an angel that has landed on earth..." then Hughes began shoving photograph of the girl with the sany-blonde hair and turqoise eyes. Pictures and pictures kept pilling up of the pretty young girl into Roy's face and kept on talking about her.

" Here eyes are turqoise, like a beautiful ocean filling her gorgeous face..." Maes sighed and Roy just looked at Maes with a confused look on his face.

" You... like a girl?" Roy asked in disbelief, imagining the fact unbelievable " Like?" Maes said blankly " Roy... this is love!..." Roy just tried to ignore Maes and turned on his feet, heading for class, Maes humming some love song under his breath...

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" Now, class..." began the teacher, who had a very tight and annoying voice. " We are going to be discussing jobs and what you want to be when you grow up..." said Mrs. Simmons " Tell us your name, what your parents do for a job and then tell us what you want to do..." her small, oval glasses resting on the bridge of her nose. Her eyes gazed down a list of names in front of her.

She came in front of the room and pointig her finger at Breda, who was sitting near the front of the room. He got up from his seat " My name is Heyemens Breda..." he siad with a smile, looking over at his friends, who were slighly chuckling " My parents are acountants and I want to... I wanna be a wrestler!" he said with a question in his voice, obviously making it up as he went along.

Havoc stood up. He placed his thumb in the middle of his chest and smiled. "I'm Jean Havoc. My Ma' works at home, takin' care o' me and Pa' and Pa', he works in a factory...making cigars..." he slightly frowned as he said the last words " When I grow up I'm gonna be a health physician and I'm gonna ban all cigars from existance, then Pa' won't get sick or cough ever again!" then he sat back down in his seat, with a smile on his face as he knawed at his peice of sweet grass in his mouth.

Falman stood up in his seat " My name is Vato Falman. My mother and Father are both librarians and when I become an adult, I wish to reseach and become eligible in the sciences." the other classmates looked at Flaman in a strange way as if to say : "What the heck did that kid just say?"

A few more kids got up and told what they wanted to be, that group including a strange boy with small round glasses who wanted to create a new species known to man, he would sit in his seat and stich dolls together with a needle and thread...

"That kid was such a weirdo..."

Then the boy with the short ponytail, who had been bullying Maes earlier that day stood up " Hey," he said cooly " I'm Zolf Kimbley and when I grow up I'm going to serve world domination!" he cackled evilly " And how am I going to that, you ask? I'm going to blow everything up that comes close to me!" then he made many " kaboom!" suonds to made him sound like an explosive bomb.

One of Kimbley's croonies, the one with the blue eyes, then stood up " My name is Frank Archer, but you can call me Frankie! My Mom and Dad are scientists and they build robots! And when I grow up I wanna be a robot that shoots bullets from outa my mouth!"

" Yeah, Frankie!" cheered Kimbley, giving Frank a high five.

Then Kimbley's other croonie stood up, the dark and large one with the pointy moutache drawn on his face " I'm Basque Gran. My Dad is a soldier fighting for the state. When I grow up I want to rule the world with Kimbley!" then Kimbley smirked and gave Gran a high- five as well. Hughes just rolled his eyes " Show-offs..."

Then the boy with the big glasses and messy black hair stood up " My name's Kain Fuery and my Mom is a veterinarian and my Dad work with telephones!" the dirty gil with the blonde hair smiled up at kain " And when I grow up, I want to help people! Especially my friends..." he said shyly, looking down at the girl with the blond hair, blushing.

The girl with the short blonde hair stood up from her seat, her arms were folded across her chest and she looked tough, though she smiled. " I'm Riza Hawkeye. My father is an Alchemist, the best one there is..." she said the last line with a bit of sadness in her voice. Some of the kids "ohhed" and "awwed" as she said these words, but Roy had a look of horror on his face. He moved closer to Maes.

" Did she say Hawkeye?" he asked frantically, Maes just nodded. " And did she say her Dad was an Alchemist, the best Alchemist there is?" he looked hopefully up at Maes in horror. Maes just nodded " The Hawk's Eye, that's what they call him..." Roy's eyes widened " No..." he whispered, wearily, putting his head in his hands.

" What is it, Roy?"

" The reasom I'm here is because I came for training... Alchemy training..." Maes smiled excitedly " You can do Alchemy?-"

" And her Dad is going to teach me and- and he has a daughter!" Roy then cluthched onto Maes' shoulder " I'm going to have to live with a GIRL!" Maes just looked at Roy hopelessly. " It's not that bad..."

" My mom... she doesn't work anymore..." Riza looked away from the class and smiled and then turned back round again " When I grow up I want..." began Riza " I want to be in the military... just like my Mom was..." then she sat down, with a satisfied smile on her face.

It was Maes' turn. " Hello!" he said enthusiastically, waving to the class " I'm Maes Hughes..." he said, shaking the hand of the kid next to him " My Mom stays at home and my Dad take pictures all day long! When I grow up I wanna... um... I want to take lots of pictures to remember the people I love so much and take care of my family!" then he sat back own in his seat again, happy with his answer.

It was finally Roy's turn. " I'm Roy mustang." he said, haughtily " It doesn't really matter what my folks do, because what's important, is me." Riza looked disgusted at Roy and rolled her eyes " When I grow up, I'm going to be an Alchemist." then Roy brought his lighter from out his pocket and let a small spark alight from the plastic tube " Let the flame BURN!" many member of the class cheered, impressed with Roy's speach. Wile others just looked at him in disgust...

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" Well it looks like you have to come home with me." Rixa said wearily, coming up to Roy after class ended " Why's that?" Roy asked, pretending like he didn't know. Riza just sighed deeply "You know what I'm talking about..." Roy just shaked his head stubbornly and stuck out his tounge.

" Do you think I want to live with a boy? No more than you want to live with a girl... And believe me, you're the worst boy in the world! You think you're so great just becaude you carry around a stupid lighter wherever you go!"

" What about you? You carry around that stupid stick with the corkscrews on it! What is that thing? Is it a sad attempt at a gun? I bet you have a horrible aim... Besides, living with you doesn't really bother me, becase you're not really a girl! You dress and act like a dirtly boy!" Riza huffed and turned on her feet " Get two things straight, Mustang..." she said angrily " You don't have to wear dresses and be clean to be a girl and two," she turned around and pointed her corkscrew gun at Roy " I have a better aim than any boy could ever dream to have!" she shot the trigger and " poink" it shot Roy hard, right in the middle of his forehead.

"Ow!" he hollared " You're gonna pay for that, Hawkeye!" and he fell to the ground, rubbing a red spot on his head.

" Maes..." Roy wimpered, after brushing himself off " Can I stay at your place tonight?" Maes smiled "Awesome! Mom and Dad will love you, Roy! It'll be great!"

Riza glared at Roy and walked over towards Kain " Would you walk home with me, Riza?" Kain asked, shyly, slightly blushing. Riza just smiled and nodded " You look really pretty today..." said Kain, smiling. Riza looked up at Kain in surprise " Thank you, Kain... That's sweet of you... you're so unlike that Mustang... stupid boy..." Roy folded his arms across his chest and frowned " Stupid girl..."

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Yay! Best chapter yet! tee hee! please review! Thanks for all the reviews so far! you guys rock! so review! tee hee... Kain has a crush on Riza ...snicker that was fun! and congrats to priori for getting all the "mystery" croonies right! so, anyone know eho the weirdo kid is? please review! thankies!

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