I forgot the disclaimer in soem of the past chapters. This time, I finally remembered to put it in here. Enjoy! And don't forget to review!
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The door opened. Riza stepped in and saluted.
"Sir, we are expecting two new members in this office today from the Exams. They should be coming shortly." A knock came from the door and the door opened. Riza immediately fired three shots from her revolver in quick succession and the Fuhrer stood up, poised to snap.
"What do you want Envy?" he growled.
"Last time I checked, envy was an emotion and I was a person. Was there a revolution and I missed it?" the intruder smirked. Then, she became more polite. "Sorry sir, I didn't mean that. My name's Hazuki Kirarena. I was informed that I would be working in this office." Havoc and Fuery came running in.
"What happened? We heard Riza shoot!" they gasped. "E-envy!" Kira sighed.
"I repeat, my name is not envy, last time I checked, that was an emotion. My name's Hazuki Kirarena. Do I have to repeat myself any further?"
"Hey Kira, are you alright?" A voice came from the doorway. Everybody looked at him. "Sorry, am I interrupting anything?"
"Oh no, you're not. Come in. Hitomu Hibiki. Correct?" Riza asked. Hibiki nodded.
"Well, I don't see any reason to introduce myself as everybody already knows who I am. So Kira, are you okay?" Kira was cut in three places, her lower leg, her arm, and her neck. All of them very shallow, however.
"Yeah, I've got it covered. She rummaged in her pouch that she always carried with her. "Now, where did I put it?" she muttered. "Found it." She took out a wrap of gauze.
"If you'll excuse me." She saluted and left.
"Where's she going?" Fuery asked.
"Oh, she probably went somewhere to take care of the cuts. She doesn't like to do it around people." Hibiki answered.
A few minutes later, Kira came back. Roy looked at her noting the absence of the neck and arm cuts, but the leg was bandaged. He frowned. There was a transmutation circle draw into the bandage. Simple as it was, he had never seen it before. When she saw him staring, she gestured to the bandage and circle.
"The circle is for medical issues. It tells you the status of the cut area. If the cut gets worse, the circle will keep on changing color until the cut is taken care of or it turns red, which means the cut is fatal or the area is dead. That also means most of the time when the person or animal is dead. Usually that doesn't happen with cuts. Cuts naturally heal themselves. There are two types of the circle. The simpler one is cuts, scrapes, minor things. The more complex one is for more serious things like broken bones or fractures. It's dead useful for everything ranging from a bruise to a shattered skull." That talk erased some confusion, but the Fuhrer still had some questions.
"Did you create this circle yourself or did you find it some book? I have never seen this transmutation circle before, though I highly doubt that you found it in a book." Kira just smiled, not answering. Roy sighed; he made a mental note to pry the answer from her later. "Then could you draw both of the circles on a piece of paper?" She smiled again, but nodded this time. She was handed a piece of paper. The simple one she drew quickly, but the complex one she took a longer time drawing. When she was done, she handed it back. Roy saw that the first circle was the same one on the bandage on her leg, but the complex one was so complex that he was amazed Kira could even draw one with such complexity in a matter of seconds.
"Are you two done talking about medical transmutations circles and whatnot yet?" Hibiki's impatience broke the silence.
"Sorry Hibiki. You can talk now." Kira apologized.
"And I couldn't earlier? What, did a cat get my tongue? Anyway, what are we supposed to do today?" Roy explained that.
"Today, you're not supposed to do that much. Tomorrow however, you get your uniforms, title, rank, and other such things. Havoc, could you give these two a tour of the building?" Hibiki declined the offer.
"No thank you, sir. I think we can manage our way around the building. After all, we have maps with us." The two saluted and left the room.
"What do you think of them, sir?" Riza asked the Fuhrer. He took a while answering.
"They'll do this office a bit of good, I suppose." He leaned back on his chair and said wistfully, "If Ed and Al were still here, they would be about their age."
Riza replied, "I still miss them too."
"The letter says to go down the hall, third door to the right. Hibiki wait, I don't think that's the right door!"
"Brother, we're going the wrong way! That's the door for the stairs to go up to the fifth door." But Hibiki paid his brother Genji or Kira no attention.
"Trust me, those maps are old. Nobody has updated them for years. They changed the rooms some time ago." And with that, he enter the door where he said was where the uniforms were. Genji and Kira breathed a sigh of relief when hey saw that the map was indeed old and Hibiki was right. If that had been the wrong door…who knows what disastrous things might have happened.
"Hitomu and Hazuki coming in for their uniforms." Genji said to the lady there, sorting the uniforms.
"Hitomu and Hazuki, please wait a moment." Soon, she was carrying three packages. She handed the woman's uniform to Kira, the smaller of the two men's uniform to Hibiki, and the only one left to Genji.
"Here you go. If you need any help putting it on, there should be instructions inside the packages." The three left.
"Well, I'll be seeing you two around! If you need me, I'll be at the Investigations Department." Genji said as he waved, going to his own dorms. It was not near to Kira's and Hibiki's were since he worked in a different place than them. The two walked in silence. When they approached their own dorms, they nodded to each other and went their separate ways. In a few minutes, they both came out. Hibiki was wearing the uniform with a face of obvious dislike. Kira didn't change. When Hibiki asked her she replied with a tone of disgust.
"The woman's uniform I got had only skirts. Not pants at all whatsoever. I am not going to wear a skirt. Especially a miniskirt."
"So that colonal idiot eventually go his wish." Hibiki shrugged. "It's on your own head."
They entered the office.
"Kira, why aren't you wearing your uniform?" the Fuhrer asked.
"There are only skirts in there. I am not going to wear a skirt. How am I supposed to work in a skirt?" She replied flatly.
"It's part of your uniform and I suggest you wear it." At that comment, Riza drew her revolver from its holster.
"Will all due respect, I will shoot if you insist on her wearing a skirt." She smiled. "She has the same views that I do. Unlike those absurd woman that acutally like wearing a skirt.You simply cannot work in the military wearing a skirt."
Flashback
"Sir, if you insist on miniskirts. Fine, but no matter what, I am not going to wear it. Ever."
Flashback
"Fine." The Fuhrer scribbled a note and smiled. What will this office be like? He thought."Now go before I change my mind." Kira flashed Riza a smile and hurried to get the uniform affair over with. "Now Hibiki, take these and read them." Roy gave Hibiki a small stack of papers and a miniature blue-bound book titled The Handbook to Being in the Amestris Military. It was very thick. He took the papers.
"I am not reading that book." He said, eyeing the book and turned to Riza.
"Where am I supposed to read all this?" Riza pointed to one of the two empty desks. Hibiki tossed the handbook into the garbage next to his desk. With a sigh, Hibiki started reading the papers. Later, Kira came in wearing a uniform, without the skirt. Instead of a skirt, there were pants. Kira didn't have good memories about skirts, especially the ones with Winry in them too. The Fuhrer handed her a stack of papers and she was told the same as Hibiki. When both of them were done reading, excluding the handbook a.k.a. the manual for Hibiki, but Kira didn't throw it out like Hibiki did, they were given papers again, this time actual paperwork.
"Kira, would you like to shoot a few rounds with me?" Riza asked. Kira had finished her paperwork and was blankly staring into space.
"Sure! Just wait a moment." She neatly stacked her papers and left with Riza. "Hibiki, I'll be back later. And don't forget to finish your paperwork." She received grumbling as a response. He hadn't finished his paperwork yet." On the way to the range, people started whispering when they noticed the silver chain on her belt. Kira didn't pay attention to them at all. She didn't want to blow up headquarters on her second day there. (Author's Note: Not now, but maybe on the hundredth day... just kidding. That would be funny though. Oops, I'm just babbling. Now, on with the story!) At the range, Riza used the revolvers she kept with her at all times. Kira picked one from the ones available there. Soon, the two were having fun going against each other, seeing who could get a higher score. The air was filled with the crack of gun bullets.
In the end, Riza won, but Kira's score was almost as high as Riza's. Riza was amazed. Nobody had ever gotten a score that high against hers.
"How long have you been shooting." Kira shuffled her feet awkwardly. She chuckled nervously.
"Uh, that's a very good question. I hope you don't mind, but I have to head back to the office now. There's probably some paperwork I need to finish." She returned her gun and ran away.
Roy thought his eyes were deceiving him for a moment. Hibiki's hair had changed color for a second. One moment, it was black. Then to gold, the gold that Edward Elric had, but then it turned back to its normal black.
"Hibiki," he said slowly, "did your hair just change color?" Hibiki was in mid shake of his when his face paled. He jumped out of his seat, saluted, and ran out the door saying, "Please excuse me, sir." The Fuhrer was in shock at his sub-coordinates behavior. Then, he too rose from his desk and went in pursuit of Hibiki.
"Kira! Kira! Where are you?" Hibiki ran to the nearest phone and called the Investigations Department.
"Hello? Is this the Investigation Department?"
"Yes. How may I help you?"
"May I talk to Hitomu Genji?"
"Who is calling?"
"This is his brother."
"Please wait a moment."
He tapped his foot rapidly against the floor. "Genji, Kira's gone missing. I can't find her. I think that happened. And to make it worse, Mustang saw it. We need to find Kira, and fast."
"But that's impossible! That has never happened before! Not once did that happen in all these years! Wait for me. I'll be there in a few minutes."
"Okay, bye." He hastily hung up and turned around, only to find Roy right behind him with fingers ready to snap and an angry expression.
"Alright Hibiki, I believe you have a lot of explaining to do. If you don't tell me right not, I do not guarantee that I will not snap and flame you." Hibiki paid him no heed.
"Sorry sir, I need to go right now." And he ran, but before he could get away, a ring of fire surrounded him, preventing him from getting away.
"Explain, now!" The Fuhrer snapped.
"Sir, I need go look for Kira." Hibiki pleaded, but to his dismay, Roy's expression only hardened. When Hibiki knew that he wouldn't be let out, he ran to the edge of the ring, ran across the diameter of the circle, and jumped, barely making it above the flickering flames. He ran. Genji soon joined him. They discussed quietly in whispers and split up. Reckoning they could find Kira faster that way. Roy was right behind them, deciding to follow Hibiki instead of Genji. They had reached the edge of a thick forest now. Hibiki dashed into the undergrowth, looking for a hiding spot, knowing Genji was looking for Kira and as soon as Roy stopped chasing him, he would too. Suddenly, he saw a tree with thick foliage. Scrambling up the trunk, he made it just in time.
"Hibiki, get down there." Roy's voice came from far below.
"No!" was the answer, "You'll just try flame me."
He does have a point there thought Roy. He was at loss of what to do. If he actually did try to flame him, he would probably burn the whole forest. Then, Hibiki jumped to another branch on the tree next to it, getting away from Roy without being at risk of being flamed, with or without the forest too. He continued doing that until he reached the end of the forest and edge of a clearing and lost sight of the man from his high view. Breathing a sigh of relief, he leapt down from the tree, 10 feet at a time. Landing down on the earth, it crunched under his boots. That made him aware of the silence that surrounded the area. Sensing something was not right, he turned around facing the forest. Roy emerged from the shadows. He snapped and a ring of fire erupted covering the whole circumference of the clearing, not burning the trees, but still ferocious enough to heat the area. There was nowhere to go, nowhere to hide. The clearing's vastness exposed the two's attacks to each other. They faced each other, waiting for the other to make the first move. Roy snapped. It had begun.
Hibiki clapped and a wall rose up from the ground and blocked the attack. He clapped again and spikes erupted. Roy snapped to burn them away, but that only caused them to burst them into flames. They stopped inches away from his face, flickering hungrily over the spikes. Meanwhile, Hibiki had escaped. He had transmuted a wall to fall over a weak part of the flame circle extinguishing the flames momentarily before they consumed it. Roy sighed; there was no use in chasing. Hibiki had already vanished into the forest. He was always going to escape and run away. He would send a search party for him, Kira, and Genji.
Well, there you have it! Chapter 3 is at its end! I hope you enjoyed it! And don't forget to review!
-Dark Reborn