Right... Uh... I've been away for FAR too long... I realize that too and I APOLOGIZE for all who are waiting for this update... and I personally feel guilty for making you guys wait... there was some things to get rid of and school was getting intense at the end of the first quarter... I would try to update my stories because currently I'm on Fall Break and have plenty of time to write. Once again I apologize greatly for my absence...
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Chapter 16: Hoho Makes a Comeback!
Dead…
Who knew that summer in Resembool could be so dreadfully hot? Jin was sitting on the balcony sucking on a strawberry popsicle.
Although it was hot and humid- it was raining. It was the weirdness of it all indeed. In the rainy season the air was still hot and stick a pain truly for some people- especially a person who is used to the green forest and fresh air.
"Winry, when will summer past?" Jin groaned slightly as he threw his remaining stick out into the garbage behind him.
"About 3 weeks… or more…" Winry answered wiping sweat off her forehead as she fiddled with the little piece of Automail she was working on.
"When's Alphonse coming again?" Jin asked still in the bored tone and mood that he was in.
"Sometime later…"
"..."
"..."
"Why is it so DAMN BORING?!" Jin exploded sitting up abruptly and stomping back into Winry's room searching drastically for something to do.
"Didn't General Mustang tell you that you aren't allowed to move out of the house or go anywhere before he cleared the Homunculus thing?" Winry exhaled, taking off her goggles and moving to the door.
"He should realize I'm not a defenseless female," Jin muttered- crossing his arms and puffing up his cheeks.
"Yeah, it would be funny to see Edward reincarnated as a female," Winry said light-heartedly laughing slightly. No doubt Ed would make a beautiful one- one that is worth of Roy's flirting of course.
"Haha, very funny," Jin said sarcastically in a dry laugh.
Suddenly the doorbell rang- perking up both Winry and Jin's mood. Ask why? Boredom. The doorbell on the Rockbell's door often meant- military people, Alphonse, or Jack and Rose.
Jin crossed his fingers hoping it wasn't the military: he have had enough of that goddamn-annoying-as-hell general Roy Mustang.
Winry sprinted down the stairs to get the door and swung it open with a wide smile decorated on her face- just in case it was a customer.
In front of her was a male with honey blonde hair and light grey eyes. His hair was long and was held together by his own hair at the top of his head in a loose bun (explanation at the end) he wore round glasses (think Kabuto from Naruto) and was heaving a medium sized work bag in his hand. Although he was dressed in a ruffled up suit he still looked rather young- older than Jin but still younger than Meng.
"May I help you?" Winry asked steadily eyeing the person looking for any signs of danger- you can never be too safe these days.
"Winry!" the male exclaimed eloping Winry in a tight embrace- Jin twitched slightly at the sight of this, he later reminded himself that it was because of Edward's memories.
"Sir, excuse me" Winry gagged out, "Do I know you?"
"Huh?" the teen looked confused for a while before breaking into an apologetic rant.
"Oh, how could I forget? Of course you wouldn't recognize me! Well, so sorry Winry! Didn't mean to startle you- being old can be an inconvenience couldn't it? I was going to get a look around town but then dropping by must be more beneficial to me! Oh, and is Alphonse around here? I wanted to drop by to say hi after so many years…"
"Who are you?" Winry snapped finally- no knowing for sure that this man wasn't a customer seeing that he has all four limbs and is merely either a weirdo or another annoying nuisance.
"My name is Chris Twining, Chris is short for Chrysanthemum," The man introduced himself, "But I guess you would know me by Van Hohenheim better,"
"…" Winry's eyebrows twitched slightly, "Again please?"
"I'm Chris Twining; also known as Van Hohenheim's reincarnation," He repeated himself with a smile on his face.
"Van Hohenheim?"
"Yes,"
"As in Edward's past father?"
"Yes,"
"Why the hell does my life need to be like this? First it was Jin and then now his father? Does God know how difficult it is for a girl like this to handle…" Winry muttered to herself as she pressed her fore head against the door frame, banging it slightly.
"Come in then," Winry concluded after much of her useless muttering.
"Thankyou," Chris said taking stepping into the house as the floor creaked under his foot.
"Who is it Winry?" Jin shouted from upstairs, having been too lazy to follow her downstairs and too bored to stay still when the situation was happening.
rather
"Come again?"
"No, I'm serious it's Van Hohenheim's reincarnation," Winry said opening the door- welcomed by the sight of Jin lodging around on her bed- and dragging the new comer into the room.
"Oh…" Jin let out upon seeing Chris, "That guy is my father's reincarnation,"
"You're Edward's reincarnation I suppose?"
"Yes, and my conscious is telling me to knock you out until you were only a puddle of human gel on the floor,"
"What a truly brilliant son I used to have…"
After the author's much consideration (and struggling) the two have concluded that they still hated each other like cats and dogs- this was not because of their past lives but rather because of Chris' insults aplenty that came from Hohenheim's consciousness and also Edward's bomb-able anger that was inherited into Jin's personality.
"Why did you come here?" Jin asked once they were done with their argument.
"It's not like I wanted to come here," Chris signed eyeing Jin with annoyance evident in his eyes, "But the old man wanted me to inform you guys on some facts that connect to your reincarnation-business,"
"It isn't just our business it's also yours," Jin added sarcastically.
"But it's not like I wanted to inform you when I already have Van here informing me inside my head!" Chris added slamming his hand on the table.
"What did I ever do to you?!"
"Let's start with you destroying my Mom's flower shop!"
"Do you realize that your freaking brother is such an ass-hole?!"
"Why were you there to begin with?!"
"Huh?! I was going to help you out with the business!"
"STOP!" Winry shouted a wrench in her hand ready to go, "I'm the oldest one here! So I'm in charge! You two stop bickering or get the HELL out!"
Both of them calmed down under Winry's wrath and eventually settled down and erased all of their piss marks that appeared as they were shouting at each other.
"Ahem, back to business, or else Van wouldn't stop bugging me," Chris continued, "The cause of your reincarnation is because of Truth, he has a special connection with this soul business and it's very easy for him to manipulate the birth of you guys. Normally reincarnations are born 100-200 years apart from each other but we were born early because of Truth's tricks."
"All who played a big role in the reviving of the philosopher stone was reincarnated except for the Homunculus and a few minor roles- but still Van told me to tell you about the Homunculus' new generation- managed by the old Pride."
"Wait, what the hell happened to Mrs. Bradley?" Jin asked quirking his eyebrow confirming with his memories that Pride was turned into a small child and erased of his memories.
"Died of cancer in her lungs a few years ago," Chris answered, "After that Pride gone digging around and found out about his past and well… hell broke out to begin with, but then that was just underground business- nobody in the surface world knew all that well."
"And why are they coming after me again?"
"You're smart enough to figure that out on your own," Chris said blankly.
"You're calling me smart?!" Jin gasped, "After all that bickering we did?!"
"Says Van," Chris added before Jin could get cocky of himself.
"You're annoying," Jin countered sarcastically, "Couldn't you just let Hohenheim do the talking?"
"Oi, he's my past reincarnation and I wouldn't let a 400 years old geezer control my body for all I know it could end up in a disaster,"
"For Truth's sakes at least you have him talking to you Edward here in my head only gives me daily head-aches and dusts of his fury on a daily basis," Jin gritted his teeth after his statement.
"For fuck sakes get the hell on with it!" Winry shouted loudly before the boys could bicker any longer. Partly it was because she couldn't stand hearing about the past but the rest was because she saw two teenagers fighting and she was annoyed.
(A/N I have no idea if Winry is supposed to curse or not but I'm younger than she was and still curse like a mad man so I'll make her curse)
"Just to let you know- I have no idea why they are after me," Jin said crossing his arms and puffing his cheeks up slightly.
"You baka, it's so obvious they are after you because you hold Edward's soul!"
"So? Edward's not me! And I'm obviously not him!"
"Different point of views, besides with the soul of one who once carry to soul of a Xerxes civilian they could bring that essence to use somehow- most likely to create a new homunculus," Christ answered looking slightly tired from all the talking.
"Roy's on with the whole mission of getting rid of them so I'll just lay around until they come to me, because they defiantly will before they go search the town inside out," Jin said standing up and dusting his pants walking around.
Although he felt carefree on the outside part of him suspects that the homunculus are the one that killed his whole clan and his sister… the one that took away his left leg…
"Chris… about when did Mrs. Bradley pass away?"
"7-8 years ago I suspect…"
Jin clenched his hands and told to himself calmly that he shouldn't rush to conclusion. But if they were to be the one that killed his family… stop… he decided to wait until it was time to face them before concluding that they were the one that murdered his family.
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"So your family manages a flower shop in Amestris?" Winry asked Chris when Jin left the room to go hang around the balcony once again.
"Yeah, I rushed here when my brother talked of a short boy with golden eyes," Chris answered chuckling slightly at his brother's stammering when he got back home that day.
"You know… you guys still look familiar even in this life," Winry mentioned examining the boy's appearance that was so close to the boy from Xing.
"Must be the glasses… Although I believe mine is smaller than the boy's gigantic and ugly ones, why does he wear it either way?"
"Actually I don't know, it's like he's trying to cover up his face or something," Winry said thoughtfully remembering the time where she was slightly startled to see the over-exaggerated glasses on the boy's slim face.
"His eyes are too fragile- you would be able to read him in every single way if he were to take it off," Chris informed her, "They say eyes are the windows to the soul,"
"Yeah…" Winry wrapped her hand around her wrist remembering Edward's golden eyes that used to encourage her and keep her from falling back down.
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After playing around the entire day Chris finally left the Rockbell's residence. He said he would come visit from time to time and Winry very much hoped her for she had enjoyed his stay pleasantly well. Jin was the opposite- he said good-bye while shouting curse and insulting words into the mix. But both of the other two members knew that Jin still wanted the boy to come visit- it was obvious the way he gave a feeble good-bye at the last moment.
The more the merrier they say… but when new members come to join the scene all of them aren't the best.
The next morning a message was passed to the Rockbell's home saying:
Come back to Central, the homunculus are
Launching an attack in 3 days and we need your aid
-General Roy Mustang
I've been away for SO long in this community and when I came back FUCK how did FMA fall so low on the chart?! I was honestly surprised to see FairyTail shooting up the charts after only a few months... I could hear my friend cheering from a mile away... Anyway! Sorry I was kinda depressed... a friend kinda moved away suddenly and I was kinda depressed for a while... I'm alright now! Though it was so depressing... uh... moving on.
I apologize for the violent cursing I slip in- I'm getting influence from various places especially after going to camp with my friends and finding that cussing helps get rid of worms that appear in your bathroom...
*For Chris's hair description I have no-way of explaining it clearly... Uh... thing Nezumi from No.6 but with longer hair... But the anime is not that famous so I doubt you guys would know what I'm talking about...
The reviews of the past chapters made me so happy! Arigato! I go back to read them every once in a while when I feel down... they really encourage me guys... I'm sorry again for not posting.
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