Yes yes, I know the last chappy went too fast, but I needed to get the relationships out in the open soon… just so happens in the same chapter… anyway lets move on!

Disclaimer: do I have to say it? Don't you already have it memorized already?

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"damn….stupid…. argh!" mumbled Ed as he walked beside a very annoyed Akane.

"will you stop?" she asked frowning and looking at him from the corner of her eye.

"no." he put flatly. "I'll kill that stupid raccoon ring leader." He mumbled, but Akane heard him.

"no you wont! I named him." She said smiling.

"what did you name him?" asked Ed suspicious his eyes turning to slits as he watched the smile spread across her dirty face. (don't forget they've been kidnapped and camping in the woods )

"Edward." She said closing her eyes and continuing to walk.

"yes?... what?!" he said catching on slowly, very slowly. He stopped. Akane opened one of her eyes and peered at him and kept walking, putting her hands behind her head.

"yup, and if you don't stop I'll give him to Al." she said smiling evilly.

"you wouldn't!" cried Ed running to catch up to her.

"oh yes I would, and he lives with you!" she yelled enthusiastically.

"race ya!" said Akane before Ed could retaliate, she ran down the path they had found, that morning when they had left the camp, and THOSE DEVILS SPAWN RACOONS! As so put by Ed. He chased after her laughing forgetting his outrage that his girlfriend would really give his little brother a devil spawn raccoon.

Akane laughed. "are you really that slow bean boy?" she called far ahead of him.

"what was that. Bean girl?" he called back to her. "besides I have metal limbs! There heavy!" he yelled slowly, very slowly catching up to her, but not because he was increasing in speed she was decreasing from laughter.

"Edward! Akane! can you…us?" called a voice that sounded unnaturally like Riza in there communication phones. Akane stopped dead, Ed finally caught up and stopped next to her.

"did you hear that too?" he asked.

"yup." Said Akane nodding, then putting her hand to the receiver in her ear. She pressed a little button and spoke.

"Riza? Lieutenant? We can hear you. Where are you?" asked Akane into the receiver.

"Akane-chan! Is Edward-kun with you?" she asked worriedly. (in the manga she calls Ed Edward-kun so why not?)

"ya he's here, he's okay… mauled by a raccoon but okay." She spoke into the receiver.

Ed scoffed, and she shot him a death glare.

Riza not wanting to know how or why Edward got mauled by a raccoon changed the subject, or tried.

"listen. Oh my…!" she cried her words getting cut off because of by reception.

"are you okay?" asked Akane.

"ya.. it's just…fell…me." She said the reception getting really bad. "…river…" she said until the reception gave out and the line was silent.

Ed and Akane looked at each other.

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Riza got up just in time to grab roy from drifting down stream. "sir, wake up." she said laying him down on moist ground.

Roy pursed his lips like waiting for a kiss. "uh, huh." Said Riza not interested. She looked around and found a clam in the water, and put it to roy's lips instead.

he spluttered and "woke up" immediately.

"he's alive!" Riza called mock concern in her voice.

"ha, ha hilarious." Said roy getting up.

Riza got up too and began to walk down the path.

"wait! Were gonna keep going?" he asked. Riza ignored him and just kept walking.

"man I love her." Said roy… he meant what he said but he was delusional later because he started seeing dancing bread shaped like breda.

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"you think their okay?" asked Ed quirking his eyebrow.

"ya, she said something about falling in a river before the reception gave, their fine." Said Akane continuing down the path.

ONE HOUR LATER

Akane puffed looking down as she walked; Ed did the same puffing behind her, making sure not to touch his automail.

Akane looked up and stopped dead in her tracks not believing what she saw.

Ed bumped into her and looked up too.

"OH. MY. HOLY CRAP!" they chimed looking at each other positively ecstatic.

What they were looking at was the outskirts of central.

Ed and Akane looked at each other again. Ed rubbed his eyes and yelped, because the hot automail burned him. Akane looked at him, frowned, then looked at her own hands. No automail she thought then rubbed her eyes and looked at the city again. It was in fact really there. Ed and Akane looked at each other for the third time unable to believe it. Then Akane yelled. " race ya!" and began running with the little strength she had towards the city.

"whats up with you and racing?!" Ed bellowed. "what are you on a track team?!" he asked speed decreasing quickly, for him and Akane. A/N(I don't know if they had track teams here but now they do)

"Lets walk." Wined Ed. "alright." Akane said grabbing his hand, taking care to grab his left. They were beginning in to act like the couple they were. They walked the remaining way to central. When they were almost there they heard Al's voice on the receiver.

"Brother! Akane! Lieutenant, colonel!" he called willing any of them to answer. Ed did. "al! Where are you? It's me Edward." Ed called into the receiver the way Akane did.

"inside the city… well the out skirts… is that you I see?" asked al squinting hard to see the small speck shaped like two people in the distance.

"ya that's us." Said Ed.

"oh ya, brother, winry called…" Al tried to finish his sentence but yelped instead the line going dead once again.

"AL?! AL!" Ed called.

Him and Akane looked at each other, nodded and ran a few yards before stopping resting on their knees, clutching their sides, and taking huge puffs of air.

"okay… maybe walking isn't so bad." Said Akane puffed her voice sounding higher than normal as she tried to get air to brain and lungs.

"ya." Puffed Ed.

They grabbed hands taking turns leaning on each other and walked until they reached the outskirts, only to be greeted by winry, Al, izumi, and amazingly roy and Riza, who were both obviously recently wet.

Winry and Al saw Akane and Ed clutching hands, and peered at each other evilly.

But winry and Al weren't the only ones, roy was looking pretty evil himself… and wet.

Izumi cooed as they got close enough to hear.

"nice fullmetal." Said roy giving him the thumbs up. Riza elbowed him in the ribs with one of her death hits. He clutched his side and begged forgiveness of the almighty Riza. Ed and Akane walked up to winry, Al who was supporting a bruise, and izumi.

"why are you here?" asked Ed fearfully pointing at izumi.

"winry called me, she thinks you and Al need to be trained better." Izumi said a scary smile upon her face. Ed and Al cringed, they knew this was going to be hell.

"who's this Edward?" asked izumi becoming sweet when she noticed their fingers intertwined.

"uh.. this is.. this is Akane." he stammered nervous at her sudden sweetness. Amusedly Akane quirked her eye brow at him. "I'm isamu Akane, nice to meet you." She said extending her hand. "are you izumi? She asked. Izumi took her hand and shook it. "why yes I am." Akane smiled. "I've heard about you." Said Akane amazed that she finally go to meet the woman that could instill so much fear in the virtually fearless Elric brothers.

"their a couple!" yelled Al and winry at the same time like they had planned it.

Ed and Akane blushed, then Ed noticing roy and Riza, and their body language not to mention their fingers intertwined.

" so are they!" yelled Ed pointing at roy and Riza taking the attention off them, or trying to. Trying and accomplishing are two different things.

"we already know that." Said Izumi not interested in the adults. Then all of a sudden like their minds were connected everyone thought the same thing, except Ed and Akane of course all they have in their heads is elevator music.

"alright, roy, Al you get Ed get him ready, we got Akane!" winry yelled as the boy's dove for Ed and the girls for Akane.

"ahhrgh!" was the only noise they were able to make as they were pulled away to who knows where.

Akane mouthed help me, to Ed as they pulled him away.

Ed mouthed I'll try… if I don't get killed.

Then they were pulled away from each other by their peers once again, to who knows where.

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Is that a cliffy? I don't know if it is but whatever, I had tons of fun writing this chapter, because most of my chapters have been really sorta EMO and SAD so this one's funny, I hope, lots of fun 3 yes I know it's short and rushed but I'm in the middle of pudding and a chocolate cupcake! So enjoy and comment.