"Nina, what on earth are you doing?" my mother asked as she walked into my room.
My fingers were fiddled in my hair, trapped in the mess. "Stop fooling around, you're going to be late for alchemy training if you don't hurry up!" she lectured.
"Hang on!" I wined, "I'm just trying to braid my hair- umm mommy why are you looking at me like that?" she was staring down at me with her 'motherly look'; she looked at me like that a lot.
"Why do you want to braid you hair." She asked kneeling down behind me, grabbing my hair brush and trying to comb through it.
"Because I want it out of my face, if I'm learning more about alchemy I don't wanna be transmuting my hair!" I yelled throwing my hands up in the air. My mother's finger weaved through my hair, gently pulling the strands this way and that.
"You could just put it in a ponytail." My mother added.
"Those are boring." I grumbled.
"Oh Nina, you just like your father." She fumbled with the hair tie, and reached for a mirror, holding it behind my head, I could see my braid in the mirror,
"WOW! Cool!" I threw my arms around my mother's neck, hugging her tightly. "Thanks mommy."
"You're welcome sweetie, now let's get going, or you're never going to learn more about alchemy."
I was out of my room, running out the house in seconds telling my mother to hurry up.
"You know daddy use to ware his hair in a braid." My mother told me as we walked to Uncle Roy's house.
"Really? But only girl have long hair, is my daddy a girl?" I asked confused. My mother laughed.
"No honey, boys can have long hair too."
"I've never seen a boy with long hair. I can I see a picture of daddy." My mother looked rather sad. She kept her eyes on the ground.
"I'm sorry Nina. I got rid of them all." She sighed.
"What! Why?" I demanded.
"I'll tell you when you're older."
"No fair!" I screamed. My mom gave a little smile but kept walking. I stayed silent for a little while longer, until I couldn't help but ask another thing about my father. "Did Daddy know how to use alchemy?"
My mom smirked, "Daddy was one the best alchemists in the world."
I could feel my eyes light up, "Really he was that good?" She looked down at me as we walked, "Nina you know those circles you have to draw to use alchemy?" she asked.
"You mean a transmutation circle?"
"Your father was so good at using alchemy he didn't have to draw those," Mom clapped her hands together, "he would just clap his hands together like this and that was his circle."
"Really?" I jumped in joy, "One day I'm going to be that good at alchemy." My mother patted my head.
"Let's hope not." She sighed.
I stopped walking for a second, didn't mom want me to be good at alchemy, "Mommy why don't you want me to be good at alchemy?" I asked, I felt weird, and I couldn't see right, everything was blurry. Mom stopped walking for a second at looked at me, "Oh Nina, there's no point in crying over something so small, of course I want you to be good at alchemy, but your daddy, was so good at alchemy that sometimes he got in trouble, I just don't want that to happen to you."
That didn't make any sense, "Why did daddy get in trouble for being good at something, were people jealous of daddy?" my mother grabbed my hand and started walking again.
"I guess you could say that."
"What do you mean 'you guess" I pouted. She didn't answer "mommy?" still no answer "MOM!" My mother swooped her hands down and started tickling me, "Nina, look we're at Uncle Roy's house." I started running toward the house.
Uncle Roy was in charge of the whole country, so he had a lot of money, and a really big house. I started ringing the doorbell over and over again until Aunt Riza finally opened the door.
"Hello Nina, I like your braid. Did you do it yourself?" She asked as mommy and I walked into their house.
"No mom did, I tired but my hair is stupid." I told looking around for Uncle Roy, I didn't see him or Maes. "Did Uncle Roy forget about alchemy training today?" I asked looking at my mom and Uncle Roy. Before anyone told me anything, I was grabbed by someone, and was spinning around in circles. I could see Maes held in the other arm, laughing, so I started laughing too.
"Of course I didn't forget!" I heard Uncle Roy laugh above us. "Nina you could give me a little credit, your just like your father."
I stopped laughing and wiggled out of Uncle Roy's arms, "Why does everyone keep saying that?" I asked getting mad.
"Get used to it Nina." He patted my head. "People are going to be saying that for a long time."
"I'm getting tired of it already." I told him.
"How about we start some training?" he asked looking at everyone, "would you two ladies like to give me a hand?" he asked my mom and aunt Riza.
"Oh I don't know how much help I'll be with alchemy training." My mother held her arms up in front of her, crossing them over once or twice while she explained.
"Don't worry," uncle Roy said, "We're not doing any alchemy today."
"WHAT?" Maes and I bother screamed, "Why? You said we started today." Uncle Roy sat on his knees in front of both of us; he pointed his finger to my head. "Before you can train the mind," his finger went to my stomach, "you need to train the body."
"Fine, lets hurry up and get this over with." I snapped. "So what are we doing? push-ups, running, what?" Maes asked.
Maes' dad walked over to a table and picked up a large red ball, "how about a game of kick ball." He grinned.
My dreaming was interrupted by my mother pushing the door open, "Nina get up!" I rolled back over and pulled the covers on my head.
"No school today, it's a holiday." I mumbled sleepily. My mother ripped the blanket off me, "But that doesn't mean you should sleep all day."
"Thats exactly what it means!" I argued trying to get my blanket back. I ended up failing right out of bed. "Mom it's not even 9 o'clock yet, why the hell do I have to get up?" Oh god, mom was giving me that look again.
"Today's a memorial, don't you think we should honor all the people that died on this day." She asked me giving me the look that said 'get your ass out of bed or I'll hit you with a wrench' (she had never hit me with one before, but I'd seen her hit other people with it all the time.)
"Okay fine so what's the plan?" I asked sitting up off the ground.
"Get dressed, were going to the military headquarters, they have a gathering for today."
I slipped on a pair of jeans and a black t-shirt, which probably wasn't the best choice for a memorial, but at least I was going. Walking there was weird everyone was really quiet. And mean everyone, I didn't know much about what happened today, or rather what happened today 16 years ago, but apparently it was a big deal. "Mom, so what's the deal, what actually happened when there was a great invasion?"
"Roy will talk about that, he's going to be talking all about it." Was all she said. No one ever told kids about what happened, all I know is that someone invaded, and a lot of people died all in one day.
My mother and I got sit up along with the head military generals; apparently my father went missing in action during the invasion, or something. At 15 years old I still no nothing about my father, other than I'm just like him.
The memorial was right outside the headquarters, lots of people showed up, and there lots of different speeches, but still no one explained what exactly happened. Maes and I got bored at one point and started lightly shoving each other during everything; we stopped immediately after his dad gave us a one-eyed look that could kill. All in all it lasted a couple hours before it was done.
My mother left right after everything was done, some reporters wanted to talk to her for some reason but she left without saying a word to them.
"What's with her?" Maes asked coming up to my side.
"I don't know, I think my dad might have died today or something." I shrugged.
"You don't know for sure if your dad is dead." He told me.
"He's in a faraway place and isn't coming back." I snapped, "I'm not a kid, I know what that means."
"Yeah, yeah, so let's get out of here, it's so depressing."
"Agreed. Let's go grab a bite to eat I'm starving." I suggested
"You're always starving; it's amazing you're not fat." Maes mocked me, I wacked him in the head. We kept walking not talking, he was probably mad that I hit but I didn't care.
"Hey Nina look over there." He grabbed my shoulder and turned me to a newspaper stand, "what's the noise about?" He was right; tons of people were all hanging on to papers gossiping about it.
"Probably something stupid," I mumbled, yet I still walked over to see what it was. Maes Grabbed a paper that we both started to read, however half way through he yanked it away. I just stared, that couldn't be true, that's impossible right? No way I could be…
I yanked the paper back, mumbling something about killing my mother as I stormed off to my house.
"Come on Nina, it's probably wrong, just made up stories to sell the papers, calm down." Somewhere in that sentence I started running, racing through the streets, people gave me looks, seeing as I was the same girl in the paper.
"Hey mom! Have you seen the paper today?" I practically screamed as I opened the doors. She was working with the same guy who was always here, Scott. I hated that guy.
"Nina I'm busy, show me it later." She said not turning her head away from Scott's arm. I ignored and walked into the room.
"The head is 'Fullmetal Daughter.'" I snapped out, mom's eyes widened and she dropped the wrench in her hands.
I started reading the rest of out.
"It's a well-known fact that the Fullmetal Alchemist was one of, if not the best state alchemists this country had ever seen, but the great alchemist might have left something behind other than his success with the art. Fullmetal, also known as Edward Elric, had always been rumored to have a secret relationship with his mechanic Wirny Rockbell. However both denied this constantly. However Winry's daughter Nina, seems to have remarkable similarities with Edward, and even has an incredible talent with alchemy. Winry refuses to talk to anyone about her daughter, or about the Fullmetal Alchemist. Whether Nina Rockbell is or is not the daughter of Edward, people can still expect another great alchemist in the future." I threw the paper at her. "Look mom! They even have pictures of us!" I don't know if I had ever been this mad before. There were two pictures, one of my father in a military outfit, it looked like the profile photo for a file or something, and there was always one of me walking with Maes when we left school one day. I don't know why, but I was mad that I looked so much like him, gold hair, gold eyes.
"Nina," my mother started, I cut her off before she had time to finish.
"So mom, were you ever going to tell me, that the greatest alchemist in the world is my father!" Scott got up from his chair, the bastard started acting like he was my father.
"Young lady, you do not speak to your mother like that!" Who the hell did he think he is?
"Oh shut it Scott, before I rip that automail arm off and shove it up your ass!"
"NINA!" my mother shrieked.
I stormed upstairs to my room, I could hear mom calling me to come back down, like hell that was going to happen. Everything went silent as I slammed my door shut.
"Winry, let me go talk to her." Scott asked after a while, I stayed in my room eaves dropping.
"She doesn't like you, it's not a good idea." Oh god mom sounded like she was about to cry.
"You saw how mad she was before, Winry, I know I could never replace him, but Nina needs a father," Where the fuck was he going with this? "Maybe I could be that for her, she needs someone to look out for her, that could be me." Hell no it can't!
It was quite again, "I don't know Scott go home, I think about it." My mother finally sighed. I didn't want to admit it, but I do want a father, but no way was it going to be Scott, I'm going to have my real father, I'm going to bring him back.
HOLY SHIT IM NOT DEAD. I'M SORRY! I KNOW I SAID I WASN'T GOING TO JUMP TO THE FUTURE ANYMORE, BUT I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO! I HOPE THE DREAM MADE SENCE, I WANTED TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF THAT BUT NOT MUCH…..FLAME IF YOU WANT….. AND SORRY FOR NOT UPDATING IN SO LONG, BUT I FANILY GOT INTERNET, SO UPDATES WILL HAPPEN SOONER THAN LATER. REVIEW PLEASE (OR NOT, YOU'RE CHOICE)
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