Missing

When Riza doesn't come into work, her co-workers begin to worry, especially a certain Colonel.

" This isn't like her... Not in the slightest bit is it like her..." he muttered as he strode down the bustling streets of Central City, his eyes darting around in every direction, but not at the groups of younger women waving and giggling at him, attempting to get his attention. Rather on a very VERY critical look out for his First Lieutenant.

" She would have told me, or at least she would have phone Headquarters..." he grumbled as he looked from side to side, looked for anything that could have suggested her being there...

Meanwhile, Fuery was standing in front of his superior's apartment, hesitating on knocking or not. What if the Lieutenant answered and she questioned about him being there? He couldn't lie, but if he told her the truth about the Colonel worrying about her, she'd surely be annoyed. Perhaps not at him, but at the Colonel, but what she accidentaly took it out on him beacuse he was already standing there?

Fuery couldn't help but shiver at the thought of what his superior might do to him amistd her rage.

' No! Lieutenant Hawkeye has more self-restraint than the Colonel, she wouldn't hurt me just because I was sent here on the Colonel's direct orders... But then again... what if something really is wrong, and I'm just standing here in fear, when I could be getting Hayate and assisting the Colonel in his search!'

" That's it, Kain!" he shouted at himself, ignoring the strange looks he was receiving from the other by-passers, " Man up! The Lieutenant could be in trouble and you're just standing here being afraid of getting yelled at!" Fuery then took a deep breath, now feeling better after a slightly awkward public pep talk, and hit his fist against his superior's front door, expecting the worst, but only received silence.

" First Lieutenant Hawkeye! It's me, Sergeant Major Fuery! I need you to open up!" he shouted, trying his best to sound as commanding as he could, despite the fact that he had just made it obvious that he was ranked beneath her, and that she had every right, as well as the authority, to completely ignore him and pretend that she wasn't home, but he knew that she wouldn't. Not to him. And most likely not to anyone else. She was too respected and loyal to the Military, even those below her, to disobey this type of order. " Lieutenant Hawkeye-" his voice was starting to turn to panic, but before he could finish his sentence, someone interrupted him.

" She isn't home." Fuery's head snapped towards the voice and he found a woman, about the Lieutenant's age actually, possibly a few years younger, standing on the porch of the apartment beside the Lieutenant's, leaning on the railing. She had a pair of the most captivating bright green eyes that he had ever seen. That paired with a chin-length ember locks and she looked very attractive, but Fuery shook the though out of his head and focused on his main objective: finding the Lieutenant.

" Excuse me?" he replied and she sighed.

" She's not home. She left for the market about an hour ago." she replied, as she brushed a loose strand of hair out of her face.

" Oh, okay... She didn't take Black Hayate with her did she?" he asked and the women raised a suspicious eyebrow at him.

" No, I don't believe she did..." she replied, and Fuery nodded, glancing at the lock on his superior's door and then back at her neighbor.

" Then, you wouldn't happen to have a spare key to her apartment, would you?" he asked stiffly, and the woman paused, sending him a hard glare.

" And if I did?" she asked hesitatly and Fuery let out an aggrivated sigh. Yes, he was a polite boy, but this wasn't the time that he needed to be interrogated by his superior's neighbor, when he could have already gotten Hayate and met up with the Colonel to help the search. It was time to start acting like one of the authority-commanding soldiers he was supposed to be. Meaning he was would have to go against his nature and be rude. ' Here goes nothing...'

" Look." he sighed in annoyance, as he stepped down from the Lieutenant's front steps and walked over to the woman, holding out his hand to her. " The Lieutenant didn't show up to work today without a single explanation or previous notice. Something that never happens. We're worried, and not only as her co-workers or her comrades, but also as her friends. I'm also under orders to come and retrieve Black Hayate and join my commanding officer in the search. But I can not if you continue to hold me here by questioning my motives! For all anyone might know, the Lieutenant could be in trouble, and you're preventing us from finding her quicker! I'm sorry for being rude, but I need the key to her apartment, and I refuse to shoot out the lock on that door!" he was almost shouting at the woman as he pointed at his superior's front door. " Mainly for the fear of my life, or my hand, when we find her. Now, please..." he sighed, as he lowered his voice and held out his hand once more, returning to his normal self, " I need that key to find the Lieutenant..."

The woman looked at the younger boy for a few more seconds, searching his eyes to see if he was sincere. He was. So, with that, she told him to wait as she ran inside and grabbed the spare key her nieghbor had given her in case of emergencies like a fire and Hayate was inside, or if something like this happened.

When she returned, she handed the key to Fuery and he nodded his thanks and bolted up the Lieutenant's front steps and ran inside as soon as he had gotten the door open. He then emerged a few brief seconds later with Hayate alert and by his side on his leash.

" Thank you, again." Fuery thanked the woman and gave her a quick salute after returning the key. He then took Hayate and jumped in the car and drove off.

The woman watched as the younger boy drove off and smiled ' Sergeant Major Fuery... why does that name sound so famili- ohhhh...' she froze as soon as she remembered her neighbor talking quite fondly about the young boy, and how polite he was at the work place, but also about his incredible facsination with technology and a knack for electronics.

" Oops..." she whispered, feeling slightly embarrassed that she had been so suspicious of such an innocent boy, but she then turned her attention back to his orders:

" The Lieutenant didn't show up to work today without a single explanation or previous notice. Something that never happens. We're worried, and not only as her co-workers or her comrades, but also as her friends. I'm also under orders to come and retrieve Black Hayate and join my commanding officer in the search. But I can not if you continue to hold me here by questioning my motives! For all anyone might know, the Lieutenant could be in trouble, and you're preventing us from finding her quicker! I'm sorry for being rude, but I need the key to her apartment, and I refuse to shoot out the lock on that door!" he was almost shouting at the woman as he pointed at his superior's front door. " Mainly for the fear of my life, or my hand, when we find her. Now, please..." " I need that key to find the Lieutenant..."

' I do hope that they find her...' she thought as she took one last glance in the direction the boy had driven off, before turning back and going inside to finish her lunch.

Okay, so, as you can see this chapter had a lot of Fuery! I love him! he's so cute and innocent! But anyways... please review and tell me what you think, or what you think should happen in the next chapter! I need help, and inspiration!