A/N: I was making up work because I was in a children's play. That is my excuse for not updating.

In other news this is the second to last chapter *Cries* I SHALL MISS THIS ONE!

In other OTHER news, I have a boyfriend now... not as hard as I thought that would be... But yeah I have a boyfriend and he flat out asked me to be his girlfriend. No weird "Will you go on a date with me?" Nope, just "Will you be my girlfriend." I thought that was nice. I don't like awkward things like first dates.

Anyway, THERE IS NO YAOI! Or is it spelt yoai... I don't know because I usually avoid it...

~Enjoy!

Al saw Tamaki walking slowly up to the house, he was alone.

"TAMAKI!" He called as he ran off the front porch, practically knocking the twins over the railing as he sped past. He reached Tamaki, out of breath and ready to collapse. He placed his hands on his knees and took in a large gulp of air. He then started to fall forward without realizing it.

"Al!" Tamaki shouted, sticking his hands out to catch the younger boy.

Al put up a hand and leaned forward, "It's...alright, I'm... fine." He said between gasps of breath.

"Are you sure? Common, back to the house." Tamaki helped Al back to the house and into a chair before sitting down at the table himself. Slowly the rest of the host club trickled into the kitchen and sat themselves at the table.

"Alright, what happened?" The hosts and Al asked in unison, wondering why Tamaki had come back alone.

Tamaki told them the story, with little interruption from the hosts and Al. Finally after his story while all of the host panicked Al just leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes.

"Let's hope it works." He mumbled to himself before getting up and leaving the room.

Tamaki looked over at the exiting Alphonse. What is he up to? He wondered as he got up to follow the alchemist out of the kitchen and out of the house.

The outside air smelled of wheat and sheep's wool. It was somehow pleasant to Tamaki's scenes. He looked at the sky as the sun began to set, turning it into a crimson red that spread it's long fingers over the hills and fields. The wind blew a soft, warm spring breeze from behind Tamaki.

Tamaki skimmed the area for Alphonse before finding him heading south down the road to a place the boy had avoided when showing the hosts around the small farming town. Curious, Tamaki decided to follow the small sandy blonde to his destination.

They walked for about a quarter mile until the finally made it to the place Al was going. Al hadn't stopped to look back once on his long walk which Tamaki was thankful for.

Al stopped in front of a small meadow that was fenced in, covered with tombstones. This was the town's graveyard. Why in the world would Al be here? Tamaki asked himself as he watched the young alchemist as he walked over to a group of three tombstones near each other and started to talk with them:

"Hey, sorry I haven't been here for a long time, it's been crazy ever since you've died, Ed!" He laughed half-heartedly. He smiled at the stones for a long time without saying anything before he finally spoke, "I wish you could meet them, the hosts. They are so much fun to be around and I know you'd love them."

Tamaki watched as the boy continued to speak with the stones, as if the dead people under them could hear and respond to him. Tamaki could feel his heart bursting with emotions, pity, regret, happiness, sadness, but he could feel a longing for his own mother the most as he watched the boy.

Tamaki was so distracted by his own thoughts that he didn't notice Al calling him over until the boy got up and pulled him over gently to the stones then crouched down next to them.

"Tamaki, this is the place where my mom, dad and brother are buried." He spoke gently to Tamaki as if it was Tamaki's family there buried six feet under and not his own.

"A-al, I don't know what to say... I'm so sorry." Tamaki choked out, he felt his tears welling up in his eyes as he stared at the tombstones, never in his life had he ever felt the urge to hug another boy in comfort until this very day. Tamaki gabbed Al by the shoulders and pulled him into a gentle but firm hug.

Al let out a small squeak, the hug took him completely by surprise, it wasn't unwanted though.

"I- I'm alright." He stammered. Tamaki let go for a moment to hold the boy at arm's length and studied him closely.

"No you aren't." He said gently and pulled him back into a tight hug. Al started to sob, returning the hug he buried his face into Tamaki's shirt and let the flood gates wide open.

Al never realized how he needed someone to look him in the eye and tell him that he was not okay, that everything was not fine. Tamaki was the one who could do this for him. He hadn't cried when Ed died, he just zoned out of everything and sank into his own little state of madness.

Back at the house the group discussed the plan again with Al.

"I'm still confused, does this mean that I need to blow thing up?" The twins asked in unison.

"Yeah." Al said, point blank.

"Al, what do I do?" May asked from the kitchen, she was helping Pinako prepare lunch before the men set off for battle.

"Well, you need to be there to back us up with Alkahestry. You know, like we did with Envy in the mountains."

"Got it!" She chirped with a salute.

~(With Winry!)~

"Haruhi, you've gotta eat." Winry scolded the younger girl, she had been going on about this for ten hours and the food had gotten cold.

"No. They are just going to use me against Sempi."

"WHO IS SEMPAI!?" Winry shouted, she had no idea who sempai was.

"TAMAKI!"

"Oh. Well then... you still need to ea-" Winry was cut off by the door slamming open behind her.

"Hello! You've got to come with me Winry!" A girl with short hair and bright blue eyes.

"Hi, Reine." Haruhi greeted with a growl. She melted back into the shadows of the room.

"I'm not talking to you." She then proceeded to drag Winry by the arm out of the room.

They walked down a long hall that was dimly lit. Winry could see down into the ' yard' where all of the kidnapped people were working on a large machine.

"You see that machine, we need you to fix it." Reine said as if Winry didn't have a choice, which she didn't.

"Well, I better get to work." Winry said as she pushed her sleeves up. On breaking it. I hope Al gets them ready in time...