Chapter Nine
I sat on the couch, today's events running wild through my mind.
"Shinji?" Al asked. "You're going today? Right?" He looked about to cry.
"Brother. Don't cry." I murmured, placing a light kiss like a mother on his forehead. Something noted me in my mind that this was sort of a practice for the future. He nodded and hugged me.
"Wish I could have longer, Onee-chan..." He murmured. "Come back soon, okay?" He sniffed. I nodded.
"I will. If I need rest or some healing or down time, I'll come home for a little. And when the time comes, Al, I'll need you. Practice often." I patted his cheek.
"I will." He smiled with a determined expression. I pressed a feather in his hand.
"This will enable that. Without arrays." I told him. "Amestris. Next year. Use it then and think Central, or Fuhrer's office. Tell him Shinjitsu Elric-Mustang sent you." He nodded.
"Shinji!" I heard Ed cry, his footsteps banging down the stairs quickly, jumping over and hugged me. "I don't want you to leave, again!" He sobbed.
"I won't be gone for long, Major." I smiled, using the position he deemed himself. Major Edward Elric-Mustang, The Metal Alchemist. "I will need your help. Use a feather and think Central. I will be at the HQ. I will become a State Alchemist, use this." I handed him the feather. "You make five. Ed, hold the house down here, I need you to protect Mom and Dad." I transferred three quarters of my Linker Core to him, knowing mine will regenerate. I felt it settle and pulse with magic, changing slightly, but still fire magic. "Use it well, Edward." I knuckle bumped my brother and set upstairs and opened a portal.
"LOVE YOU!" I shouted to the cats, Mom, Dad and my brothers and jumped in, Death the Cat maowing loudly in surprise. Shibuken cuffed him over a ear to make him shut up. Go kitty.
"So?" Dark asked me.
"Aaaaaahh..." I sat down, puffing a little. "Mah chest hurts..." I complained. It stung a little from lack of Linker Core. Tsubasa no Hagane no rung at me, an annoyed tone in her voice.
"Oh, jeez..." Dark sighed. He smirked, eyes darkening to a black.
"Dark! Stop that! No further!" Krad shouted from downstairs.
He laughed, smiling. He cupped my chin and licking my neck and sucking just below where my lower jaw meets my neck. I moaned as he made a hickey there. He kept sucking and made it darker. He pulled away, looked at the mark and then rubbed his nose with mine. I pulled his head to me and kissed him. He opened my mouth, tricking his tongue in. He had one hand on my lower back and one on my neck, trapping me in his embrace. I snuggled into his neck after I pulled away.
"Almost ready." I murmured to him. He nodded. I sucked his neck and made a hickey, where it would be plainly visible. He smiled and hugged me.
A/N There will be a time skip from now until wherever Autumn is, only one day behind. Because... Eheh. Not spoiling it~u Read Call my Name after chapter ten plllease! Cause This one is almost FINISHED!