Chapter 3: Joining the psychos

Edward awoke with a start. After his dream of food, the dream changed to a horrible dream that he remembered like this:

"Brother!" called Alphonse, running up to his brother. "Al" smiled Ed. They both sat down at the top of the hill after Al came to the top. They watched the beautiful sky over top of the city. It was so peaceful and majestic. " brother, why did you run away?"

The sky suddenly blackened the wind howled. Ed looked at his brother. "AL!"

The younger brother was covered in blood. The blood was coming from a deep wound in his chest. Al looked at it and put a hand to the wound and looked at the red liquid.

"WHY DID YOU RUN AWAY?" He yelled at Ed.

"Al, that wound," Ed put a hand on the bleeding boys shoulder.

"DON'T TOUCH ME," he shoved Ed back. "THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! BECAUSE YOU RAN AWAY! THIS IS YOUR FAULT! I HATE YOU!"

"No…Al,"

"I hate you." The boy then fell back, and would never get back up.

"I'm so sorry," Edward cried. "Al, so sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry."

That is when Edward woke up, tears in his eyes. He sat up and let tears run down his face. After a while, he got up and walked out of the room. He tried to forget about the dream as he walked into the kitchen. Yuki was cooking. The sight of her lighted his mode. Something about her blank expression was comforting.

"Oh, um, good morning" Ed remember his tears, and wiped them up before Yuki could see them. She suddenly turned to him, causing Ed to jump. "Uniform" she reminded, pointing to his pajamas with the pair of chopsticks she was cooking with.

"Oh, r-right" Edward stuttered, then he turned to go to his room. He closed his door behind him and got out the neatly folded uniform that Yuki had given him. He slipped off his pajama shirt and put on the uniform shirt and tried to put on the tie, but couldn't figure it out, so he gave up and slipped off the pajama bottoms.

Suddenly, the door opened, and there stood Yuki Nagato. Edward screamed, looking around franticly for something to cover his half naked self. He grabbed a sheet of the bed. Yuki, expression still unchanged, looked at Edward's shirt and walked up to him. "Y-Y-Yuki, um, um, um, now isn't a good time." Ed squeaked blushing furiously.

She didn't pay any attention, she walked until she stood face to face with the tomato-colored-half-naked boy. She reached up to his shirt. Edward flinched as she started to… fix his tie?

"Um, Y-Yuki, couldn't this wait tell later. " Edward was again ignored, as Yuki finished the tie and turned around to the door. She stopped at the door and turned around. Edward stiffened and pulled the sheet tighter.

"I came to tell you breakfast is ready."

"Um, o…Kay…" the red faced Ed stuttered. Yuki then turned and walked out.

Ed just stood there for a minute, shocked. Couldn't that have waited until I was dressed! Or maybe she could learn to knock? Edward shakily put down the sheet and lifted up his uniform pants. The pant legs were a little to long and the sleeves on the uniform jacket went to his finger tips, but other than that it was a good fit. But that wasn't the problem. I need to sit down. Edward sat on the bed and waited for his blush to go away. I should to get used to this. In case this happens again. He blushed harder at the thought.

Edward got up, put on his boots, and walked in to the dinning room. Yuki was sitting at the table eating. So cute.

"Um," Edward sat down across from Yuki. "Thanks for fixing my tie, but could you please knock next time?" As usual, Yuki didn't respond. Yuki looked at him. "Eat."

"Right" he took a bit and smiled at the taste. Just like my mother's.

After breakfast, Edward and Yuki went to make last preparations for school. Ed went to the bathroom, brushed his teeth and hair. He was just fixing his braid when the door opened. Guess who was there. Edward spun around "KNOCK, PLEASE!"

Yuki raised her hand and gave the open door three soft knocks. Great, now she has a sense of humor about it!

"Time to go," she said, and turned and walked to the door. "Oh."

Edward hurriedly finished his braid and grabbed the book bag Yuki had given him and ran to catch up to her.

Ed opened the door for Yuki and she stepped out, he closed the door behind him and looked at her. She was holding out a small envelope. Ed opened it to find the house key and a class schedule. It's starting to scare me how prepared she is. He thanked her and put the envelope in his pocket. "Well, I guess I'm following you," Edward smiled at Yuki. It would be nice to walk with Yuki alone, so they could get to know each other more. The thought made Ed blush Wait, why am I blushing? Then suddenly-

"GOOD MORNING EDWARD ELRIC, AND YOUNG LADY!" a booming Armstrong came up and crushed Edward's spine in his arms.

"Major, what are you doing?" Ed asked, when he regained his breath. "AS YOUR GUARDIAN, IT IS MY JOB TO MAKE SURE YOU AND YOUR ROOMATE MAKE IT TO SCHOOL SAFELY!" Armstrong boomed flexing his muscles. "COME YOU TO OFF WE GO."

And with that, they were off. With no allowed complaints from Edward. During the walk, Armstrong went on and on to Yuki about his family artistic ability and history, even though she wasn't listening. She was reading a book. So that's what she likes to do. Edward thought staring at her and tuning Armstrong out.

When they reached the school, Armstrong saluted the to and walked away. Ed turned to Yuki. "So, I'll see you after school?"

"I have a club"

"Oh…I guess I'll walk myself home then." Edward said, a little disappointed. Edward and Yuki walked inside, said one last goodbye and went to there separate classes.

As Edward walked to his class, he was aware of eyes on him all the way to his class room. He couldn't blame them. A boy with golden eyes and hair was very uncommon in Japan. He was also small for his age, though he would never admit it. At that moment, the bell rang and everyone rushed to class. Ed looked at the schedule, and walked over to the classroom that was labeled on it and stood in front of the door. He took a deep breath and opened the door. Everyone was sitting down, and the teacher was writing something one the board. He looked up at Ed.

"Ah, so you're the new transfer student," he said , this made a girl in the back of the class look up at Ed, and tapped the boy in front of him on the shoulder and whisper something in his ear, and this made the boy roll his eyes. "Edward Elric, correct." the teacher said. "Oh, um yes," Ed stuttered, looking down at the floor with a blush. He was a little nervous , he hadn't been in school since he had went with Al to study alchemy with his teacher. But his nervousness made some of the girls in the class giggle, but one of the girls, the girl that whispered to the boy, gave him a look… what is that look… it couldn't be… hunger?

The teacher looked around the room. "You can sit in the back, behind Suzumiya." he said, pointed at the girl with the hungry look. Edward was hesitant but he finally walked to the back of the class and sat behind the girl. The teacher then went back to teaching. The girl, Suzumiya, was it, turned around at looked at him. There's that look again, I don't think hunger suits it, controlling maybe. I don't know what it is, all I know is that it's scaring me. With that thought, Edward shivered and looked down at his hands. This just made the girls smile widen. She turned back around and tapped the boy in front of her on the shoulder and whispered some thing like: "Did you see him, he's almost as cute a Mikuru, he's perfect for the SOS Brigade!" This made the boy whisper. "Just don't force him to join if he doesn't want to. You can be so controlling."

"You just don't get it do you" the girl said leaning back in her chair.

What are they talking about? And who does that girl think she is calling me 'cute'? And what's a SOS brigade? And what does that boy mean 'force me to join' ,he doesn't really think she can make me do anything, does he?

He didn't really want to know, he just paid attention to the lesson. When it was time for lunch Edward decided to walk around the school, plus he didn't have a lunch. He first decided to check out the library. He walked in the door and was surprised to see Yuki sitting on a chair reading a book. "Oh, Yuki, Hello," Ed smiled. Yuki looked up and fixed her glasses as if to say hello. She then picked up the book next to her on a table and handed it to Ed. "Um, thanks," Ed said, he looked at the cover and froze, it was a book on Alchemy. "How did you know?" he asked. She didn't answer, she handed him a square bundle. "What's this?"

"Lunch."

"Oh, thank you" Ed said, blushing, this is just what his mother use to do. "I guess I'll just go now and eat it. Goodbye."

He wasn't expecting a reasons, but he still was a little disappointed. He decided to eat on the roof, considering that, everywhere else, people were asking him all kinds of questions, like: Where are you from? Why do you where gloves? Can I feel your hair? Is this your natural color? Do you have a girlfriend? Do you have a boyfriend?

After the last question, you can imagine that Ed wouldn't want to be asked any more questions. So he thought the safest place would be the roof. But when he got there, there stood Yuki.

"Yuki? Why are you here? You were just in the library!" Ed stuttered, it was almost as if she was stalking him. "I came to eat lunch with you." she said, showing Ed her boxed lunch. "Oh"

And so they sat together and Ed asked Yuki various questions, including a very important question. "Hey , do you know anything about a girl named Suzumiya?" When Ed asked this, Yuki looked up from her lunch. "What do you know about her?"

Edward didn't know why, but it almost sounded to him as if she was surprised. "She's just a girl in my class that gives me weird looks, and I wanted to know if she's a complete nut-case, or something."

"Haruhi Suzumiya, she is someone very important," Yuki told him. He wanted to know more, but Yuki would say no more on the subject, so Edward went back to asking about what shops to shop at, and other things like that.

A while later, the warning bell ran for students to go back to class, so the two gathered there things and went back to class after a quick goodbye. When Ed reached his class, there stood the girl with the same look as before. Haruhi stared intently at Edward, as if inspecting him with ex-ray vision. Many of the students, no strike that, all of the students were looking back and forth between Haruhi and the little boy standing in the doorway, wondering what would happen next. Edward noticed the students and was about to walk to his desk when the girl grabbed him by the collar and pulled him closer to her. Many of the students gasped and some stood up as if prepared to help the boy. Edward was merely staring at the girl as if daring her to say or do something. Suddenly, she seat him down "You're perfect." She said then sat back down as if nothing had happened. Edward stood there for a moment, dazed. Perfect? Perfect for what. He didn't have time to thing, suddenly something hit him lightly on the head. "Have a seat Mr. Elric," It was the teacher holding a newspaper. "R-right" Ed said, some of the class giggled as Ed scuttled to his seat. As the lesson began, Ed stared out the window. Perfect?

Edward jumped as the bell rang, and the students gathered their things and left the school for the day. As soon as some the students were out of the room, including the boy that usually sits in front of Haruhi, the girl blotted up, and before Ed knew what she was doing, grabbed the golden hair of Edward and started to pull him out of the room. "Ow! Let go of me you crazy lady! Were are we going? Take it easy will you! Slow down! That hurts! Someone help me out here!" Edward carried on in pain, trying to keep up with Haruhi. A couple of minutes later, Haruhi let go of Ed. "WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM?" Edward yelled, feeling to make sure his head was still intact. She didn't answer. Haruhi opened a door that she was standing in front of.

"Hey Everybody" She yelled inside, then pulled Edward so that he was visible in the doorway. "Meet the newest member of the SOS brigade!" She dragged Edward inside the room and shut the door behind them. "This is Edward Elric, he a transfer student that just started today, and this is going to be his club from now on!"

Edward was dazed, but when he realized what was being said he was about to refuse, but the boy from his class stepped up. "Haruhi, how many times have I told you not to make people join a club by force." She's done this before!

"You don't get it do you, Kyon? Look at him" Haruhi said pushing Ed forward. " Isn't he the cutest thing ever? He may even be as cute a Mikuru!"

"That's not the point, you can't-"

"HOLD IT!" Edward interrupted, coming out of his daze. "I don't know who you people are, but I don't want to be part of and club ,alright! I don't even want to be at this school, and I'm not cute ,okay!

The room was silent for a minute, then suddenly haruhi jumped on him and gave him a tackle hug. "What are you doing?" Edward yelled, trying to pry Haruhi off. "Tee-hee! He's even more fun than Mikuru."

"Stop it! Cut it out!"

"That's enough Haruhi," Kyon said, prying haruhi off Edward.

Suddenly, Edward (out of embarrassment) looked around the room to she who was watching this. There was a girl in a maid's outfit, a boy with a weird grin on his face, and in the corner- was Yuki! She was looking at Edward with intensity, she fixed her glasses as if to seen a message. Edward understood what she meant. "Suzumiya!" he called. Kyon and Haruhi, who had been arguing, looked at him. "I will join the SOS brigade." Kyon looked at him as if he were nuts, but Haruhi got that look of hers again. "I knew you would agree at some point." she said. Edward finally knew what to call that look: Suzumiya.