Leena: I have returned with yet another chapter. Last chapter seemed like I rushed it. But hell it's the way I am. Al, you're doing the disclaimer today.

AL: Why me?

Leena: Because I F**king said so that's why.

AL: HUhh. Leenaluvsanime4eva does not own FMA only the plot and OC's.

Leena: And we continue the story!

"So I guess we should start making camp." Ed said. Kiroki nodded.

"Yeah, you start getting a fire and I'll make shelter."

"Do you know how to make shelter?"

"You sent me to Izumi for training, didn't you?"

"Yes."

"And I came back living didn't i?"

"Yes."

"Yeah well, remember when you came to see me and I was on Yock Island?"

"Yeah…"

"Here's what they didn't tell you."

'Flashback, Dublith, Kiroki's POV, Age 11'

"So what's your name now?" Izumi asked me as we sat at her kitchen table, sipping on tea.

"It's Trisha Elizabeth Kiroki Elric, Mrs. Curtis, but you can call me whichever you like." I answered.

"Will El work? It's short and will help me remember."

"That's fine."

"Well, El, you asked to train under the same person your father did, and I plan on putting you through a bit tougher course than he did. Why? Because I know when I see a capable person and you are one."

"Thank you Mrs. Curtis."

"Please! Call me Teacher, or Izumi. Mrs. Curtis makes me feel old."

"Well you are what? 50?"

SMACK!

"Are you calling me old, child?"

"N-N-NO! TEACHER!"

"DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE ME, GIRL? YOU MAY BE THE CHILD OF EDWARD ELRIC BUT YOU ARE STILL BUT A CHILD! AND I WILL NOT TOLERATE A SECOND EDWARD! DO YOU UNDERSTAND?"

"YES! TEACHER!"

"Now then, I'll take you up to your room for the night and tomorrow you will begin." She said as if she hadn't had that outburst. Is this woman insane? I nodded my head, fearing that if I rebelled I might lose my life.

"Come then." She said motioning to follow her. She led me up the stairway and to the 3rd door on the left.

"Across the hallway is the bathroom, if you need to wash any clothing, head down to the last door on the right. Sig and I's room is the one to the right of yours. Understand?"

"Uh… Yes Teacher." I said. She opened the door. It revealed a simple bedroom, with one twin bed with basic white bedding, a bedside table, a small desk, a full length mirror, and a medium sized wardrobe. She left to go back downstairs and I closed and locked the door. It had taken a day to get here and my clothes felt dirty. Of course I myself was probably filthy. It had taken me 2 hours to reach this place. The train I was on was practically empty, and it was late when I got here. I had no one to look for and it was pouring rain. Along with treacherous wind and massive thunder and lightning. The map my dad had given me had long blew away, and all I knew was that it said Curtis Meat on the front of the house. Roads were dirt and uneven and I had slipped in a dozen puddles. When I showed up at the shop counter Mr. Sig was at the front and had a confused look on his face. I told him who I was and he nodded and handed me a towel to get most of the mud and water off of me. And as soon as i was done he took me to Izumi.

I went over to the mirror and looked at myself, mud covered my hair making it appear almost brown and brown stains were all over my used to be cargo jeans. My long sleeve red shirt was stained and my black jacket was as well. I sighed and kicked off my boots. I went over to my suitcase that I had placed on the bed and grabbed my old red gown, along with some underwear. I grabbed my bag that held my bathroom items and went out of my room and to the bathroom.

I headed over to the tub and decided a bath would help me relax; I turned on some hot water and stripped down. I place my other items on the bench and grabbed a towel and a rag from the closet. I stripped down and slid into the steaming water. After turning off the water when at my desired amount and dunking myself under, which got off most of the mud, I reached for my Green Apple shampoo and started washing my hair. A few minutes later when I had finished shampooing, I reached for the Green Apple conditioner and condition my hair. When I got all that I reached for my rag and got my soap and washed all the filth off of me. I wanted to stay in the hot water longer but I reminded myself of the filth I had to wash off and pulled the plug and wrapped myself in a towel.

After drying my body to wear I wasn't soaked, and finishing my bathroom duties, I slipped my underwear and my gown on. Then I grabbed the towel and placed it over my shoulder length hair and grabbed my dirty clothes and headed to my room.

Closing the door behind me, I threw my dirty clothes at the foot of the bed and made a mental note to wash them in the morning. I sat down on the bed, and grabbed the towel and started running it through my hair, ceasing all the dripping.

At some point, Teacher came in unnoticed (she had her back turned) to me and sneaked up on me.

"You look so much like your father its unreal." She had said from behind. I felt myself jump 4 feet in the air. I turned around to her.

"Gosh you even scare like him." She said. I smiled and nodded.

"Yes, a lot of people tell me that, mamn."

"But there's one difference I can tell for sure though, El."

"And what's that, mamn?" I questioned.

"You're stronger. Even when you're in the darkest of times, you will never give in. Your father on the other hand is like that to a certain part. If someone has a loved one in danger he will give himself in. But you. You'll find a way to get through everything. And that's why I agreed to train you. I suggest you be up bright and early. You begin tomorrow." She said. I felt full of pride.

"Yes Mamn! Bright and early."

"Good, I'll see you in the morning, Goodnight."

"Goodnight Teacher!" I said.

NORMAL POV

When 5:00 am rolled around that next day, Kiroki was ready for Izumi. Izumi smiled on seeing the girl's enthusiasm. After telling the girl to go into the kitchen and help her with breakfast, the girl went to work.

After breakfast, Izumi told her to grab the one item she would take everywhere. This happened to be her guitar. They then traveled outside and to the docks wear Izumi, Sig and Mason would take her to Yock Island. The girl had no idea and sat quietly and patiently as the rowed out to the island. Izumi saw the question on her face and told her,

"This is where you're going to be surviving for the next month. One is All and All is One. Find out what that means and I'll train you, don't and it's back to Central. No Alchemy, whatsoever or it's back to Central. Understand?"

"Yes mamn." She said solemnly. Izumi nodded and threw a knife between her feet. Izumi got back on the boat and hollered,

"SEE YOU IN A MONTH!" And when the boat was out of sight, she fell to the sand and yelled,

"WHAT AM I GONNA DO! I DON'T KNOW HOW TO LIVE OUT HERE!DAMN YOU IZUMI!"

From the shore, Izumi sneezed.

(back on the island)

She sat up on her knees and ran an automail hand threw her hair. Eventually she remembered she'd need shelter and fire and if she wanted to live, food. She ran into the forest, knife in hand, and chopped down 8 thin trees. Carving the tops of 4 down into a Y shape she stood them straight up and after weaving a lot of rope, she tied those down and then tied the other 4 trees onto the tops of the others, making a makeshift house frame. She gathered a lot of palm leaves and placed the over the top and successfully tied them down, making a roof. But she left a small hole in the top so the smoke of the fire would not burn through the roof, but also had a cover to put over that incase of rain.

She walked out from under her shelter and looked up at the sky. The sun was reaching toward the west and she still didn't have food. But then she heard a rabbit rustling in the bushes. She aimed her knife to wear she had spotted its ears a bit lower at about the head and threw it. Hearing a clunk she thought she had hit a tree. She went to retrieve it only to find it stuck through the head of a cute brown bunny.

Her face turned a sickly shade of green and she grabbed the knife the quickly stuffed her head into a bush to barf but found a pack of baby bunnies.

'Oh my God I killed their mom, I'm such a bitch.' She thought. The bunnies were in a tiny nest which she picked up and was being extremely careful not to drop the sleeping bunnies. She placed the bunnies under her shelter and turned her back to go over to the bunny carcass but as she got over to it she felt sick again. The sight of death had gotten to her and she barfed in the bush beside it. As she went to grab the carcass a fox came and hissed at her. As she reached for the carcass the fox bit her flesh hand and took off with the carcass. Holding her bleeding hand she took off to find the river she had seen earlier.

Upon seeing the river she thrust her hand in the water, hoping that it would stop the bleeding. She ripped part of her white shirt and wrapped it around the wound. Sighing in relief she turned and headed back to her camp.

Upon returning she saw the bunnies gathering round some fruit.

"Did you guys get something?" she asked out loud. They quickly turned and hid into the basket.

"It's alright, I won't hurt you." She cooed. The runt of the pack came scurrying out to her and rubbed against her head affectionately. And soon did the other 7 bunnies. She smiled and looked toward the food they had gathered. Taking a peach from the stack she smiled as the bunnies raced around and on her. It looked to be six, and she still didn't have a fire going.

She placed her new found friends on the ground and got up to go back into the forest, away from her clearing. She cut a small sliver of a tree trunk and broke of a tiny branch from a tree, then headed back to her clearing. Eventually she started a big enough fire and was satisfied. (sorry I can't start a fire so I don't know how to explain how she did it.)She took her knife and stuck it through orange, she stuck it over her fire and saw it start roasting. After the skin turned a golden brown she took it from the fire and carefully peeled it. The contents inside the orange had turned colors and as she took a bite she smiled as the taste of roasted citrus filled her up.

(And now I'm gonna be mean and speed this up to the day Izumi comes to get her. BTW this is back in Dublith)

Edward Elric walked down the streets of Dublith saying hello to a few people until reaching his destination of the Curtis residence. As he walked in he saw Sig smile.

"Edward, it's good to see you again, Izumi's back in the living room, just walk on back." His deep voice said. Ed walked to the living room and saw Izumi sitting comfortably with a book at hand.

"Hello there, Teacher."

"Hello, Edward."

"So… where's my daughter?" he asked.

"We were just going to get her, you can come too I guess."

"GO get her? Where the hell is she?"

"On Yock Island training."

"Don't tell me that you put her there for the month!"

"No… What kind of an evil person do you think I am?"

Insert Ed facepalming himself.

(they get on the island)

"Now I don't think she kept track of days so let's go find her." Izumi said. And once again Ed facepalmed himself.

After about 15 minutes of walking through endless jungle, they came to a clearing. And in this clearing they see a nice palm tent. (It now had three palm walls hanging around it) A fire burning under it with all the smoke rising out of a hole in the roof of the tent. A basket that had been weaved full of fruit and berries, along with fish over the fire rotisserie style. 7 bunnies running around the campground, and birds eating the acorn nuts that had been scattered around the site. A bow that had been effectively and a piece of thin string used on it. With the knife beside it along with Kiroki who was napping against a tree that was next to the tent.

"Let's sneak up on her." Izumi whispered. They started creeping toward the camp. Little did they know Kiroki was awake the whole time. And they didn't see her grab the bow and knife while still having her eyes partially closed. When they were 15 feet away, she sprang to her feet and used her knife as an arrow successfully aiming right between their heads. It missed them both by a millimeter. And hit the tree behind them. Their eyes widened.

"Has it already been a month, teacher?" Kiroki asked. The duo came to her tent and sat down.

"Yes it has, do you know what it means?"

"Aye."

"Good. Then you shall be my apprentice!"

"Okay?..." she said confused by her teacher's out of characterness.

"So, Trisha, did you do all this?" Ed asked.

"yep! Well except I didn't gather the fruit."

"Who did?"

"My bunnies!"

"Your bunnies?" he asked.

"Yeah, I killed they're ma and then I took all them back under the tent, out of the rain. And then they got used to me, and now they're mine. Oh and you see how the fish are turning on their own? Well I gave some food to the field mice and now they're my friends and I made a little wheel for them and they turn the fish and gather nuts. And I put out the nuts on the ground for the birds and they eat those and they help me too!" she babbled.

"Okay? But how do the birds help you?" he asked.

"Well, right after I started feeding them, a baby bobcat got stuck in the middle of the river and that was a day it was storming real bad and the river was flooding and I can't swim cause ma still hasn't waterproofed my automail. Anyways a bunch of the birds huddled together and flew me out over the river, and I got the little orphaned bobcat and now he's sleeping over there." She said, gesturing to the sleeping feline in a woven basket.

"Okay… So Izumi, yall still have 2 months before school starts back for her, think that's enough time or does she need to come back on her winter break?" Ed asked.

"Well. I think she'll have all of the things I'm gonna teach her down by the end of the summer so unless she wants to come back then no."

(End of flashback)

"So you really did do what I had to."

"Yep. There done." She said as she finished the shelter she had in the past Except done with a different leaf.

"You love the big tents don't you?" Ed asked.

"Yeah. Fire done?"

"Yep. So shall we fish?"

"We shall." She said as they grabbed to makeshift rods and some line and hooks from the survival kit. After a few hours of fishing they had enough for lunch and they were now cooking rotiserary style, curtsey of a few field mice.

"So do you like understand animals or what?" Ed asked her as he watch the mice turn the fish.

"Well kinda and Aunt Raina said I have a Warm Ora which means that things are naturally drawn to me. But yeah I can kinda, basically speak with the animals. Freaky isn't it?"

"NO. kinda cool, actually."

"Really?" she asked. He nodded.

"Really, Really, Kiroki." Her eyes brightened for a second.

"What did you just call me?"

"Your name, Kiroki. Why?"

"You never call me that. You or Ma"

"Probably because we were never informed until recently on what you prefer. Well it is what you prefer right?"

"Yeah. Kiroki's what I've always liked. It's exotic."

"Your Great-Grandma was exotic."

"Pinako?"

"No, Elizabeth. My grandma. Elizabeth Aterc. From my mother's side. Her and my mother are who you are named after." (1)

"How was she exotic?"

"She, came to Amestris from Creta. Where she met my grandpa, James Elric. From what she told me they were young, stupid and in love. Got married when they were drunk and crazy and had my Mom shortly after. Grandpa died when I was 6 and after that Grandma went back to Creta. After that she became the Elementalist for Creta and I haven't seen her much since. And before Raina married, she applied for Elementalist and became the tie between Creta and Amestris. Which is part of the reason why she stays over there. She helps Grandma with most stuff now that she's getting a lot older" (2)

"SO she's still in Creta and hasn't came back yet?"

"Yes basically. But during the summer we'll get to see her."

"We're going to Creta?"

" Yes, in the early summer I have a diplomatic mission down there and I'm taking yall with me. I haven't been there in awhile, and I wanted to see if I could see her."

"COOL! It's been SO long since we last went!"

The days past quickly. Kiroki and Ed kept themselves busy with fishing, playing with the animals that would come to them, and playing poker with an old deck of cards that Ed kept in his bag.

"Royal Flush. You lose dad. That'll be … 80,000 cens." (3) she said, holding out her hand.

"Damn, can I pay you back when we get home?"

"As long as you have the money in the bank, daddy."

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(1) I felt that Ed should have a family member from another land. That might actually be alive. Plus Ed needs some culture. Sure he's part Xerxian but I wanted to put more stuff in there with him.

(2) *REVISED EDITION* I made this up on my own, it seems confusing but as the story goes on you'll understand more. But I think enough is said here for now.

(3) 80,000 Is equal to 8 thousand.

How did I do? It was a little crappie to me because most of it was a flashback and I did skip a lot of time. But I time skip a lot of things.

Ed: How could I lose to you?"

Kiroki: Easily that's how. Get over it. And I want my money.

Ed: You'll get it!

Leena: Please review. And if you have any questions or suggestions, PM me or put it in the reviews. (Witch I will read) Now remember

Reading

Edward's

Very

Ill-mannered

Educational book equals

Winry hitting him with a wrench

(That's a crappie … whatever the word is for it)

EXTRA AN: I revised this chapter because I had a change in mind about how my plot works, seeing how I did this nearly a year ago.