Sorry this chapter took so long... I promise the next one will be up sooner... at least, I hope. Yeah... let's see... what else is there for me to say...

Disclaimer- I DON'T OWN FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST, FRUITS BASKET, OR DEATH NOTE!

Ed turned back, looking at her, "I wouldn't say I'm the nicest person you've met." he said to her, "And there's no need to thank me." he told her as he then
went to his room.

Tohru laid her heavy head on the pillow. Maybe this time I can sleep without interruptions, she thought as she began to drift off. Maybe Edward won't leave me like Kyo did With that, she fell asleep.

Ed went into his room. He had to admit, he was tired. He sat down on his bed, and took off his black jacket, revealing his automail arm. Next he took his shoes off, which then made one able to see his automail leg. He yawned as he slowly unbraided his hair, letting it fall down on his shoulders. After that, he lied down on his bed and fell asleep.

suddenly there was a huge crash of thunder that woke tohru immediately. on impulse, she hopped as fast as she could to Eds room. she rushed in and grabbed his arm.

Ed was sleeping quite soundly... that was, till something suddenly grabbed his arm, causing him to wake up. He quickly sat up and saw Tohru. Crap, he thought, she'll be able to see my automail... No... maybe see won't look over. It's not like he could just pull the covers over it, since it went all the way up to his shoulder.

She clung wildly to Edward's arm, to scared to say anything.

"What's wrong?" he asked her.

She couldn't speak. She was so shaken up, all she could do was cling to him and cry into his arm.

Ed lightly put his other hand on her shoulder, "Hey, listen, calm down. It will be alright." he said softly to her as he looked at her.

"B-but I'm so scared!" She whimpered as more tears spilled over.

"There's nothing to be scared about." he said to her softly.

"Its not the storm," she began, shaking her head. "It's more like I saw somebody when the lightening flashed. I think it's the murderer!"

"Look, if it is, I won't let him hurt you, ok? You don't have to worry about anything." he told her. I wonder if it's seriously him... Ed thought to himself.

"B-but I can't sleep in the living room alone! He had the most evil grin-and he looked familiar, too!" she told him.

Ed sighed, "Alright." he said, "What if I go sleep in the living room and you stay in here?" he asked.

"Oh, I couldn't let you do that, that'd be wrong! Besides, I don't think I could sleep-It seemed like he was saying 'you're next' or something." she looked up at him," I want to be where you are! I'm really scared!" she murmured in a panicked tone.

"Ok, alright." he said to her softly.

"Thank you..." she mumbled as she clung to his arm, shivering.

"It's no problem." he said to her softly.

She nodded. Suddenly, there was a crash of the window in the living room. Tohru shrieked as a person ran into the room and grabbed her. The lights flickered on and off mysteriously, even though they had been off that whole night. In that light, they caught a glance on who held her, and somebody in the dark. Two people were present! Kyo had his arm around Tohru's neck, and the strange guy they had met at school telling them it wasn't right to skip school was laughing behind him. Tohru's eyes were wide with fear when Kyo's arm tightened it's grip. She gagged, and then soon passed out.

"Hey! Let go of her now!" Ed yelled as he grabbed Kyo's arm, forcing him to let go of Tohru. What were these two doing here? Why were they doing this to Tohru? How did they even know she was here? These questions and more buzzed around in his head.

The shady character in the back chuckled evilly. "Sorry we knocked your little girlfriend out, but she was in the way of our plans." Kyo also smiled evilly, and said in a voice Edward recognized, "Remember me?" he started to change figure, starting from the feet up.

"Envy..." he said almost in a whisper. So, he was behind this, too? "What do you two want?!" he asked. By the way his voice got louder, one could tell he was pissed.

Envy laughed an evil laugh, yanking Tohru from the ground by her hair. A wince escaped her lips though her eyes were sealed shut. "Yes, we kinda got bored of chasing you Elrics for something you were never gonna give us. We hatched a plan." Light stepped in front of Envy to continue the story. "As you can see, this really isn't the real Kyo. The real Kyo is kept hostage at our place."

"Stop it!" he yelled as he clapped his hands together, changing his right arm into a sword. He swished is over Envy's hand, causing him to let go of Tohru, yet again. He picked her up from the ground gently and laid her down on his bed. "Why do you have him held hostage?" Ed asked.

"Easy. He knew personally the one who had the philosophers stone. The one and only L." Light snickered quietly. Envy interrupted-"I decided to cause pain along the way because I was bored-it turned out pretty good."

"You bastard..." What could he do now? If he tried to do anything to them, Tohru could get hurt, too.

Envy turned to Light to complain. "Come on, Light, I'm bored! Can't we kill the girl now?" Light's face broke into a hideous grin. "Of course. Are you satisfied with the death plans? I don't want you to be disappointed when you realize it wasn't very unique." Envy snarled with delight. "No, I'm extremely happy just that I'd kill the girl that my father's son had made friends with-It will be amusing!"

"You're not going to lay a hand on her!" Ed snapped back. He had no plans on letting Envy do anything to Tohru.

Tohru moaned from the bed-Envy chuckled, and Light reached for something in his pocket.

What were they planning now? All Ed could do right now was stand there and wait.

Light got out a black book with the words "Death Note" written on the cover. He got out a ball-point pen and chuckled as he placed it on one of the pages, thinking of what he was going to write.

Envy looked like he was going to die without telling Ed about the plan so he would be tortured a little more."Your little friend there isn't gonna last long, now, pipsqueak. She's about to die a lonely death with suicide, after Light writes this all down. You see, she's so sad that Kyo hates her that she took her own life. That's how the world will see it." The pen pressed onto the paper, and just began to make the first letter.

"Don't you dare!" Ed yelled as he grabbed Light's hand with his automail hand, squeazing it hard, "You won't do a think to her!" he said to him.

Light's eyes seemed to have a crazed look in his eyes as he laughed a wicked laugh and shouted out to Envy. "You can write it, Envy. I know you've been dying to do this personally." "YEAH!" Envy went straight for the pen and notebook.

Ed didn't know what to do. If he transmuted the pen... maybe that would work. No, Envy could just change his finger into a pen or something like that... and the Death Note was too far away for him to reach. He could always transmute something that Light would... no that wouldn't work either. If he did anything to Envy, well he knew that wouldn't work. Come on, he had to think fast. His mind kept trying to think of any way possible to get out of this. 'If I can just the Death Note...' he thought. Maybe then... but what could he do then? They go after him for it, and this was a pretty small room. 'Maybe if I can separate the two of them...' he thought to himself. It would at least give him him a little time to deal with Light. He knew Envy would end up bursting in, but then maybe he'd only have to deal with him. 'Well, that's the only plan I've got right now, might as well go for it.' he thought as he clapped his hands, quickly going to the ground. Light filled the room as a large wall separated Ed, Light, and Tohru from Envy.

"Agh! Stupid pipsqueak! What do you think you're doing?" Envy screamed. Light chuckled. "I think, Envy, that if we let him alone for a while attack in a few
weeks, it'll be more interesting. He'll have a plan to fight in a more interesting way. We'll hold off on the girl. Lets go." With that, he took one huge leap over the wall, and dragged Envy with him out the door.

Ed sighed as he watched them leave. He sat down on his bed and looked at Tohru. 'At least she's ok.' he thought to himself.

There was a crashing/knocking from the door and it fell off. Uo came storming in with a girl wearing all black behind her. "Tohru!" She screamed, "What happened to her?" The girl behind her seemed to tear up a little. "I knew it. The electric signals were not failing me."

Ed wasn't sure how to explain things to her. She probably wouldn't
even believe him if he told her. He kept silent. It would be better if she didn't know anyway.

Another bang on the door made it fling off the hinges. Armstrong stood in the doorway, shirtless, with Colonel Mustang and Lt. Hawkeye right behind him.

This is not good... Ed thought. Oh yeah, he was in major trouble now. Guess it was about time now to start thinking of some excuss to say.

"Fullmetal," Mustang barked, "state your explanation." "It'd better be good." Hawkeye added sharply.

"Uh..." Ed didn't quite know how to explain, "Well... what exactly do you want me to explain?" he asked Mustang. Maybe this would buy him some time.

"Well to start with, you can explain why you're here with some girls from school, with your arm exposed." Mustang glared at the young Alchemist.

"Well... let's see..." Ed started, "I don't think I should have to explain all of that to you." he said to him, "But, if you want to know a little about it, it's because I just am."

"Well, if you know what's good for you, you would tell. Remember, I hold all rights to end your search for the stone just by firing you." Mustang smirked, and Armstrong grunted in agreement.

Ed glared at him, "You can't do that!" he said. Well... then again, he could... "Look... there's not much to explain, what you see here is is mostly what's going on."

"Ok, I'm going to firgure this. out" Mustang said sternly. "I think you had better let me, sir," Hawkeye interrupted, "You're not very good at these things." She turned to Ed. "Ok, Edward, tell me. How did you and the girl on the bed first meet?"

Ed smiled, he could have fun with this... "School." he said simply.

"And what happened when you met?" she pushed harder.

"We talked..." Ed said, "Should you really be trying to push into my life?" he asked.

"If you want your job." Mustang interrupted. "Excuse me, sir, let me handle this." Hawkeye snapped. Mustang looked surprised, but backed off. "Well then, why is she on your bed? You must have talked about something big, to have her here now, unless something happened." her eyes seemed to pierce right through Ed.

Ed sighed. He just wanted to get them out of the house, but to do that, he'd have to make up something that sounded believable, "Ok, listen, here's what happened, we talked a little, but after school, she wasn't feeling good, and her parents weren't home, so she came home with me. Well, when it started to storm, she got scared and ran in here... waking me up. So, since then, I've sat up awake, while she has been sleeping. There, you happy? You got the full story." Ed said.

This time, Armstrong interrupted. "Then explain why these other girls are in here, and your room is messier than the last time I was here?"

"To be honest... I'm not exactly sure why they're here, they're just friends of Tohru's." he said pointing to her, "They were probably just worried about her. And, come on, you really expect me to keep my room clean?" he asked, "I hate cleaning."

Uo and Hana looked at Ed with a strange look, Hana giving him a "You're such a liar" expression boring right into him. But they kept quiet, confused, but kept playing along. "Y-yeah, that's what happened," Uo stammered, "We left early from school because of the new killing, and we didn't see Tohru. She was with Ed, I guess. He called us to tell us that she was sick, an we came to see her."

"In the middle of the night?" Mustang questioned the story.

"Yes. We couldn't sneak out of our houses until then. We are grounded for being disrespectful. And I guess I see why Tohru wasn't feeling good. Her leg is hurt."

Thank you! He thought. They actually played along with it, "See, you happy now? You got the full story, and they even said it was true. Now can you please get out?!" he asked Mustang.

"Ok, Edward, I get your point." Hawkeye eyed him, "But don't do anything stupid, remember your just a kid." With that, the whole group left.

"Ok, what's the true story, Liar?" Uo automatically switched zones.

Ed looked at Uo, "Tohru was almost killed..." he said softly.

"WHAT?! HOW?!" She screeched, and Hana's eyes got huge and she ran over to Tohru and threw herself on top of her and began to sob.

Ed looked down,"Light... he's the killer...he... tried to kill her. They've... got Kyo held hostage... everything that happened between him and Tohru... it wasn't really him. They tricked her." he told them.

Meanwhile, Light and Envy just arrived at their hideout where Kyo was tied and chained up. They had thought of ways to put Tohru through more pain, and then they thought that they should kill Kyo, filming it and sending it to her to watch. It'd be the perfect torcher, knowing it'd already happened. They'd make sure that Ed was there so he could see how much she still loved Kyo. It was perfect.

Back at the house, Tohru was just waking up. She rubbed her eyes and sat up. Uo and Hana automatically went to hug her. "Are you ok?" Uo blurted out, "I'm so sorry! We won't ever let them try to kill you ever again!" They hugged her tightly. Tohru groaned and reached for her leg. The wound had reopened in the rough treatment.

Al came rushing in, "Brother, what's been going on?!" he said in a worried tone. Ed had told him that he should probably stay in his room, just incase someone were to come over,but Al was getting too worried to even care about it anymore. "Al, you should probably get some more bandages, Tohru's wound has reopened." Ed said to him softly. Al nodded as he went to go get them.

Uo and Hana backed off as Tohru curled in a ball, cradling her leg. Tears were streaming as she went through all that had taken place. Kyo was hostage! That would explain why he was so cruel to her. That was just terrible. How could they get him back?

"I don't know!" she choked out, and hot tears poured out and she reached out and clung to him. She didn't know why she did that, but all she knew was she needed someone to hold onto, and he was right there. But maybe it was something more...?

Ed gently wrapped his arms around her, "You don't need to cry." he whispered to her, "Everything will be alright."

She nodded between sobs, and buried her face into his shoulder, smelling in his sweet smell.

Ed knew she had to be going through a lot right now, having heard all of these things at once. He felt sorry for her.

Uo and Hana sneaked out, seeing that she had enough comfort for now.

The next morning, Tohru looked kind of out of it. She looked like she could just die right there. Like she couldn't take another second of this sadness.

Ed walked in,"Hey, how are you feeling?" he asked as he sat down on the bed next to her.

"I guess I'm ok," she smiled weakly. But anyone, just by looking at her, would know that that wasn't true.

Ed could tell that wasn't true. He had to do something to make her feel better, "You want to go and do something today?" he asked. Maybe that would get her mind off of everything.

"Well, what will we do?" she asked as she sat up.

"Whatever you want." Ed said with a smile.

"U-um, wherever is fine, I guess," she gave him another weak smile.

"Oh, come on." Ed said to her smiling, "There has to be something you want to do."

Tohru began to think. "Hm...I really don't know. Please pick for me!"

Ed looked at her, "Well, what's something you like?" he asked.

"Umm...I like fun rides," Tohru thought aloud, while rubbing her eyes.

Ed thought for a second, "Well, there is a fair in town if you want to go to that." he said to her.

"Really? That sounds like fun!" she eagerly agreed to it.

Ed smiled, "Alright then." he said. "We'll do that. Why don't you let Al bandage your leg while I get ready to go?"

"Oh-ok, I-sure." When he said that, she blushed madly at her thoughts. she found herself wanting Ed to wrap it, not his hunky metal-like brother. Then she began to think-why was this going through her mind? Shouldn't I be worrying about Kyo right now? she thought to herself. Somehow his presence calmed her in some way, and she didn't worry as much.

Hope you enjoyed this chapter! I'll be updating... sometime... as soon as I can. Thanks for reading this chapter!