Hi. New chapter. Sorry for the wait. I don't know if I mentioned it in the past chapter but there is a poll on my profile that will decide which story should be my focus and if you want this one to be it well...go vote! Thanks.
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Ed woke to an empty room with sore muscles and a large blanket that was slipping off him by the second.
There wasn't much to say about the room except that it held the one bed, a window and sand walls. Ed deduced that the people here were very planet friendly to use sand instead of wood to build houses.
Hopefully they were the same way towards strangers.
Noticing that his red jacket was missing, Ed looked around and spotted it in a corner. Picking it up, he looked at it with sadness. It was still torn up and dirty but that could be easily fixed. The thing that upset him was the large stain that had freaking come out of nowhere.
"When the F*ck did I have orange juice?" Ed muttered. Even if he did transmute it, the stain would not leave, that was the downside of transmutations and clothes. The cotton and fiber already were soaked and dried, meaning that it would stay that color.
Tossing it to the side, Ed headed towards the door, leaving the leather boots behind.
At least he still had his leather jacket, cotton shirt and leather pants on. Plus no orange juice stains.
Quietly opening the door, Ed regarded the hall outside. Seeing no threats, he took a step out, gasping at the ice cold floor. A pang of nostalgia hit him as Ed realized that his left foot couldn't feel anything.
Ed's footsteps echoed in the hall, his metal foot making a louder clang. The only source of light was the scattered lamps on the walls; they kept flickering on and off, scaring the shadows away to only succumb to them and repeating again.
Ed wondered how it could be so quiet. It was almost deathly silent. Ed walked around, looking for an exit or someone but only finding hallways of hallways.
The f*cking thing is a maze.
Ed thought as he pushed open a door, only to freeze.
It was a very large room, a dining room and a kitchen connected together. And at the dining table were people Ed did not know.
Ed stared.
They stared.
"Why don't you come in and eat?" The soft voice came from the woman at the head of the table. She was pretty, a red head and had kind but pained eyes.
The others watched in silence.
Ed took a step back, looking at the occupants of the table with caution. The last time he had passed out and then woken up was at that village.
It could be the same situation. Different people, different prison.
"Don't try to run Blondie or I'll bomb you," the threat sounded from a bleach blonde guy, half the hair covering one of his blue eyes.
Ed gasped as he took another step back. Remembering the guy had mouths coming from his hands.
"Who are you calling Blondie, Deidra?" asked the man—no, he looked like a shark, complete with gills and a blue complexion with beady black eyes.
Deidra cast a glare towards the shark man, "you want me to blast your ass again, Kisame?"
Kisame bared his teeth, light shined off of the sharp tips of them and Deidra held his hand up in warning.
"Stop. The both of you or Pein-sama will hear about this." The woman sternly warned the both of them.
Deidra and Kisame proceeded to glare at each other.
Ed hesitantly took a step forward. "Who are you? Where am I?"
The red head smiled at him, "I'm Konan and you're at the Akatsuki base."
She stared at him expectantly and Ed wondered if he was supposed to know who she was and what Akatsuki meant.
"Umm…well, I'm Edward Elric. Would you mind if you could tell me in what country I am in?"
If that didn't radiate crazy Ed didn't know what did but knowing more about this world was beneficial.
Plus if they thought he was crazy then they would doubt him whenever he sprouted out stuff that was true.
Konan tilted her head, a confused expression on her face. "You do not know where you are?"
Ed shook his head. She sighed, "sit down and eat, you've been ridden with fever for hours."
Ignoring the curious glances from the table, Ed sat in a vacant seat next to Konan. An empty plate was set in front of him and Ed started loading food onto it.
The next couple minutes left everybody staring at Edward.
Ed slurped up the noodles, speaking with a mouth full of food, "What? I'm hungry!"
Konan chuckled at his actions and proceeded to introduce the other people at the table.
"On your left is Itachi Uchiha, he's the one that brought you here. Next to him is Hidan, he's immortal."
Ed choked on his food and stared at the white haired man that looked like a priest. "Immortal?"
Hidan nodded but did not explain further. Konan pointed at Kisame, "That's Kisame, he's a Halfling—"
Then she pointed at Deidra, "that's Deidra, he's the one that wanted to leave you behind."
Deidra crossed his arms as he muttered, "we needed to get the report in as soon as possible, and if we could I would have stayed to blow a cou—"
Ed's chair scrapped the ground as he pushed it out in a hurry and slammed his hands on the table. The others didn't move but Deidra stared in shock as Ed proceeded to yell at him.
"So you were the bastard that kept making the ground shake! I'll have you know it's hard to walk, much rather escape prison when the freaking ground won't stay still beneath your feet!"
Kisame laughed at Ed's exclamation, "the little one has spirit!"
Ed growled, "Who are you calling so little that a grain of sand is like a tower compared to him!"
Kisame scratched his head as he looked around, "no one."
Ed sullenly sat back in his chair as the others watched in amusement. Konan patted the top of his head, "the others are out on missions but they'll be back sometime soon. I'll introduce you then."
Then she directed her attention to Deidra, "you're on kitchen duty." Deidra sputtered but shut up as Konan gave him a glare.
She then gave Ed's arm a tug, "let's go Ochibi, time to meet Pein-sama."
Ed followed behind her, all the while wondering what 'Ochibi' meant.
I am not sure if I spelled Ochibi right but I'm pretty sure I did. What did you guys think?