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Lucy's past is revealed, also revealing the fact she brutally murdered Kouta's father and sister.

-Narrator's POV-

Lucy watched as Yuka, Kouta and Alphonse walked away. "Where do you think we should look now, Kouta?" Yuka asked.

Kouta stared ahead, "I don't know. Frankly speaking I just can't imagine where she could have gone to..." He suddenly jerked forward, clutching his head, clutching his head, followed by a loud scream. What's this? It's like I just remembered something real bad... that flashed into my mind suddenly, my memory. What's that? What did I just see?

"Kou...ta?" A soft voice called form behind them. They turned around and saw 'Nyu' "How have you been?"

Kouta stared, "Nyu...?" She started walking down towards them. His eyes brightened and he ran towards her and grabbed her shoulders. "Where have you been! We were so worried!"

Al smiled and ran up too. "You just talked!"

Lucy looked at him then back at Kouta. "We were so worried, Nyu! What happened?" He doesn't remember anything...? Lucy thought. "Hey, Nyu, what happened?"

She looked at him, "Nyu?"

Kouta smiled and chuckled, "Haha, I forgot, you won't say anything but Nyu."

She grabbed his hand and squeezed it, "What stupidity are you talking about?"

Al became silent. What the hell...?

The three stared in shock, "Where did you learn to talk like that?" Kouta asked.

"Wait, Kouta..." Yuka interrupted the conversation and took his hand, "This is weird... what if Nyu got her memory back?"

Alphonse spotted rage entering Lucy's eyes as he saw a vector shoot out and slug Yuka in the cheek so hard she flew off the path. Kouta went after her, "Are you okay? What happened?"

Yuka started bawling, "I don't know, something just suddenly hit me!"

He rubbed her head, "What was that? Hey, hey, don't cry."

Lucy rememberd the sight she saw before she went nuts during the fair where Kouta had been patting Yuka's head when she was crying. It looked almost identical. She smiled sadly. Truly from the last time on... there wasn't ever a place for me to live with Kouta... Kouta... farewell. She turned to started to walk away.

Al turned towards her, "Hey, where are you going?"

Kouta looked up from Yuka and at Lucy as well. She turned and looked at them, "...I'll go back home. I remembered many things. So here and now, I bid you farewell."

There was a silent pause as she started walking again. "Now, listen you!" Kouta screamed. Lucy froze, "Don't give me that!" He started walking up the stairs towards her, "Without you here, don't you know how worried I'd be? And anyways... if you really remembered your home you'd hardly be prowling around on this shrine road like a child on the run! As soon as you tell me where you're going I'll let you off!"

"I have no relationship with you. I'll build my living place by myself." Kouta grabbed her shoulders suddenly and spun her around.

"What are you saying? Wasn't your living place Kaede Inn?"

She looked down, "Is it true...?" There's no place for me to live... her inner Diclonious started talking.

He looked at her lovingly, "Obviously! How long are you planning to make trouble?" without killing people there's no place for me to return to... "Listen, let's go back already." Kouta held his hand out to her. I'm telling you, you must go on killing people.

I'm not alone anymore...? You fool. You'll just be back-stabbed again. Lucy started crying silently. "...Go back."

"Wha?"

She looked at him in sorrow, "I can't be with you anymore... did you forget that much? Because I... in that train eight years ago...?" Kouta's eyes widened suddenly and he clutched his chest. A flash of the train appeared in his mind. What was that just now? Al watched silently. She dropped down to her knees sobbing quietly. "Kouta... your father and sister were..." She looked up and that cold look she had vanished. "Nyu?"

The three stared at her in shock again. Nyu jumped up and glomped them, "KOUTA!" she bawled, "KOUTA! KOUTA! KOUTA!"

Kouta looked back at the other two, Yuka had a pissed off look and Al was smiling, "She's back to normal."

"Yeah.."

"Great!"

Nyu grabbed his shoulders "Hug?"

"Huh?" Kouta stared into her eyes.

"Kouta... hug?"

A tick mark appeared on Yuka's face and she smiled too happily, "Go for it, it's just a hug right? I'll overlook that for today."

He hugged her close, "We'll go back soon. It's okay, we'll always be together."

Nyu started crying again, "Kouta... Kouta...!"

The tick mark on her forehead grew larger when Yuka suddenly yelled, "ALRIGHT YOU CAN LET GO NOW!"

"But didn't you say go for it?"

-0-0-0-

-Al's POV-

It was the next day after we all had returned home. Everyone was overjoyed over Nyu's return. Brother and I had another trip to the institute to go to, but he decided to ditch it for today, calling in with a very good sick cough. We went out to get some more food for the others. Yuka greatfully accepted the offer, telling us she had a friend coming over and would like the time to clean up a bit.

We walked in and there was a loud splash. We ran in and in one of the little gardens Kouta, Yuka, and a girl with long black hair were there, the girl sitting in the little koi pond with no koi. "What are you..." Yuka was shaking in rage.

Kouta extended his hand towards the girl, "Nozomi. Being a coward can't be helped, but at least while you're here don't be afraid. Living in fear might be harsh, but if you feel fear you also feel loneliness."

"Kouta!" Yuka spat out. She went to hit him, "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING A GIRL!" The girl, I assumed to be Nozomi, jumped in the way of the blow. "Nozomi! Are you alright, I'm so sorry!"

"Why?" Kouta asked.

The girl's voice was very soft and I barely could hear her, "Because... I can't leave... even if it's my fault, you saved me... yet I..."

Yuka turned around clutching her head, "I TOLD YOU I DIDN'T MEAN TO HIT YOU!"

"Nozomi what I heard wasn't very clever..." Ed decided everything was fine, so I followed him in, not hearing the rest of the conversation.

When we got in we met Nozomi and started hearing about her from Yuka, "She wants to become a singer. But her family is very famous and don't want her going into some music college. She's not allowed to practice at him so I told her she could come here whenever she wanted."

Brother smiled, "I say we hear her sing!"

I smiled, "Why not?" Nozomi started to whimper, Yuka could surprisingly understand her.

"Why not?" A few more little noises. "That's not for anybody to hear?" Yuka asked.

Kouta smiled, "We could become your first audience! Please sing for us!"

She paused a moment then started to sing. Everyone stared with a big grin. I smiled. She was really good.

-0-0-0-

"She's really good, huh, Brother." I said softly to Ed.

Brother nodded, "Yeah."

Mayu walked in, "Hey, Alphonse, wanna take a walk with me and Wanta?" she asked.

I smiled, "Sure!" I stood and grabbed my jacket, slipping it on.

We walked out and looked around. "It's very nice today." I noted.

Mayu smiled, "Very." Suddenly Wanta started growling, "Wanta?" he sat a moment before taking off, "Wanta! What's wrong!" The brunette started chasing the dog, I followed suit. The pup ran up behind a small-ish girl with purple hair with horns protruding from her skull - the same girl from that one day a while ago. "Sorry." Mayu apologized, "He usually doesn't bark like this!"

The girl turned towards us, giving Mayu a hard look. She seemed to recognize her as her face started paling, "Your face is extremely pale, are you alright?"

Mayu shook her head, "I'm fine." Suddenly the girl's leg fell off.

I blinked, not that surprised since my own brother had prosthetics, but Mayu fainted. "Oh my gosh! What happened?" The girl screamed.

"Mayu!"

We took her to a small little pavilion nearby and watched over her until she came to. "Are you okay? You suddenly collapsed and I was so worried! That creature and this boy were so worried too!" Mayu stared at her with a baffled expression. So far, this odd girl was amusing me with the little knowledge she had of society. She smiled, "I'm Nana, what's your name?"

"A-ah... it's Mayu."

I smiled, "I'm Alphonse. Feel free to call me Al." I noticed Mayu staring at the horns, Nana noticed the same.

"Do my horns bother you?"

"No, I'm sorry!"

Nana smiled and shook her head, "It's fine. I don't understand it much either. I was just born with them."

Mayu stared at her, "I think they're cute."

Nana smiled so big I could swear her face was about to rip open, "Really? Really? Really?" She cupped her own cheek and giggled. "Hey, can I ask you something?"

I smile, "Go ahead."

"Um... can we be friends?" Mayu and I looked at eachother.

"Of course we can." I said, smiling.

Nana turned towards me, "Really?"

Giggling, I nodded. Next thing I knew her fake arms were wrapped around my neck in a tight hug. "C-cant... breath!"

She released me and smiled. The smile slowly faded, "I've lived in an institution for as long as I can remember... so... I don't know a thing about the outside world. I neither have a place to return to, nor a thing to eat. I could endure it, but, you know, it's so lonely having no one to talk to."

Mayu smiled, "No way, you can talk to me whenever you'd like."

Nana turned and sat by the makeshift fire she had been working on, "These don't burn very well."

"What?"

"Useless pieces of paper..."

Both Mayu and I jumped in to stop her, "You can't burn money!"

"What?"

I sighed, "Did you really burn that much?"

She held up three bundles of some more yen, "I still got these. When I was leaving Papa gave them to me. But... I wish he had given me 500 yen instead of these sliced up pieces of paper."

"Um... Nana..." Mayu started, "You really don't know a thing about money, do you?"

Nana turned towards her, frowning. "Would you stop making a fool outta me?" she yelled, "Of course I know that much!"

"Then I don't need to remind you, right?" Mayu asked. "That having this much money laid down together is dangerous; that during your sleep, Nana, that they will unite and grow and be able to cut your throat..." The purple haired girl's eyes widened. "And I don't need to remind you that, because Nana was burning their friends right in front of them, stricken with regret from the deadly blaze, they will aim for your throat and do it?" I had to bite my lip to stop myself from smiling at Mayu's cruel joke. "Of course you know the spell to drive them off?"

Nana started tearing up, "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! What I said about knowing about money was a lie! Please teach me the spell!"

Mayu smiled, "Well let's make it a draw. What I said was a lie too. But Nana, I really envy you."

"WHAT PART?"

"Because your father seems to value you a lot..."

"How so?"

"If he wasn't worried about you he wouldn't entrust you with this much money..." Suddenly, in great symphonic unison, our stomachs begged to be fed with mighty growls.

I laughed, "Hey, let's use some of that money to buy something."

Nana smiled, "Yeah! We can use it all to by steamed rice!"

Mayu shook her head, "Don't use that much!" She stared at Nana, "Um, I forgot to ask, do you know Nyu?"

"Nyu? Who's that?"

"She lives with me in a house where I'm freeloading." she said. "She has horns just like you do."

Nana stared at Mayu, horror crossing her face.