Fullmetal Alchemist Fan Fiction ❯ Bluebird's Fantasy ❯ Sensei... ( Chapter 4 )

A whole blasted week to get across the city to get to the stupid country side. They had let him go, but only with an escort of a State Alchemist. Thank God that this guy hadn't been at the exam, or he'd know him. Sasuke was already planning to `lose' the Lieutenant.

“Sasuke-kun?” asked a familiar voice behind him. Turning slightly to see who it was, he gave a double take.

“SAKURA-CHAN??” he exclaimed shocked, at the beautiful young woman holding a parasol at the station. Sakura had been a childhood friend of his and Rena's.

“You're-You're beautiful!” he gushed. She giggled.

“You look quite nice yourself!” she smiled, as she glanced around, “Where's Shirou-chan?”

Sakura was one other person who could use that pet name without getting pulverized.

Sasuke felt as if he had been punched in the stomach.

“She's…she's not here. She's still got some work that she put off to the last minute.”

Sakura made a face.

“That doesn't sound like her. Usually You're the one to slack off!”

He was about to protest when his escort, who he had momentarily `lost', caught up with him. Lieutenant Strong was a huge muscular man with a voice like a foghorn.

“MAJOR KUSANAGI!!” he shouted.

Sasuke froze, and if possible, he'd have turned blue. The big man burst through the crowd.

“Major you should know better than to run off like that!” he yelled, “And who is this stunning young lady? Your girlfriend?”

Sasuke fell over from the sound waves coming from the man's mouth. Sakura stared at Sasuke.

“Major?”

“I'll tell you later…” he said weakly

“Are you all right sir?” proclaimed the man, “You must take care of yourself, or you won't be fit for the trial!”

“TRIAL??!”

“I'll…explain later…”

 

The rooms were just like they'd left them. Just dustier. The key to Rena's disappearance was here…somewhere in this mess. It took him another week to finally discover Rena's findings.

“IVE GOT IT!!!” he yelled excitedly, looking for all the world, like a 6 year old who just got new baseball cards.

“What? Got What?” asked Sakura opening the door with food. Excited, Sasuke brought down books, bits of papers and hundreds of sheets and dumped them on the kitchen table in front of Sakura and the Lieutenant.

“Rena, was researching human transmutation.”

“That's illegal!” exclaimed Strong. Sasuke ignored him.

“There has been no case of a successful one but,” he said holding up a sheet of paper that was scribbled all over, “Rena came up with a theory on how to do it, and drew connections from all sorts of stuff. She was also very interested in ancient legends.” He held up a drawing of the Uroborus.

“Especially this and the Homunculi”

“Fairy tales,” scoffed Strong.

“A homuncu-waah?” asked Sakura.

“A theoretical perfect Human transmutation. A dead person come back to life,” explained Sasuke.

“I'll just say that Rena was quite persistent in her belief that a Homunculus was created in the legend of the city that vanished in a night. She says that the Uroborus represents immortality. And this…”he said unrolling a large sheet of paper. “Is the transmutation circle to create one…” he said his voice straining.

“Sakura-chan…I lied to you. Rena…Rena's been missing for four weeks…I saw her…marked with the Uroborus….she…didn't recognize me. Those with her didn't die…” He looked up at the two of them. “Rena is now a Homunculus.”

 

“So that's what they think it is?” scoffed Greed. Lust snickered.

“Yes. He's not as smart as she was. He should've noticed that the bit concerning Father, was a bit odd.”

“Wrath wasn't a stupid person, the Lieutenant-colonel wouldn't leave her findings in writing where anyone could see them,” sighed Envy, he paused before asking, “Where is Wrath anyway?”

“Father sent her and Gluttony to the grave yard,” said Pride. Envy and Greed exchanged looks. Put two idiots like them together and something BAD was bound to happen.

 

Sasuke tried to order the Lieutenant to stay at the house. When the man refused, Sasuke tried to intimidate him to not come.

“Look Strong, where I'm going, you may not live.”

“It is my duty to protect you while you are here on vacation!”

“VACATION? Where I'm going it's going to be close to hell!”

“Just, where are you going?” asked Sakura.

“Sensei's…” he said scratching his head, “If she doesn't kill me before I get there…”

 

Three minutes later

“You're not obliged to come Sakura-chan…” sighed Sasuke as they continued up the hill.

“No… I'm… fine…”insisted the girl, breathing hard, “By the way…where does your teacher live?”

“Sensei? Out here in the woods. We studied under her when we were little. It was Shirou-chan's idea.”

“That's sweet…”started Sakura, when a book suddenly slammed into Victor's face, knocking him flat.

“SASUKE-KUN??!”

“SASUKE! WHAT'S THE MEANING OF THIS!?” roared a young slender woman with Eastern features. Slanted eyes, black hair, slightly yellow skin, she was about 30, possibly younger.

“S-Sensei!!” exclaimed Sasuke.

“IDIOT! Of course it's me!” roared the woman.

“MAJOR!” exclaimed Strong, running forward.

Sasuke winced. His Sensei gave him such a glare he flinched. OH boy was he going to get it.

“I teach you and your sister alchemy and you join the ARMY??!” Sasuke went flying backwards.

“Madame, do you know that…” started Strong, when Sasuke's sensei interrupted him.

“URUSAI!!!” she yelled sending him rolling back down the hill.

 

Wrath and Gluttony were confused. They had been told to come here but to do What?

Usually they were never let anywhere unaccompanied except at home, and if they were brought along, it was usually to blow stuff up or get rid of people. So what to do now, in a graveyard, filled with nothing of much importance in their opinions. Gluttony tugged slightly at Wrath's skirt.

“Hey…Can I eat that?” he asked, pointing towards a tombstone.

Without Envy there to tell her what to do, Wrath was hopelessly confused and indecisive. She hadn't been given orders, so she had no clue as to what to tell her older brother.

“Ummm…ano….”she said, trying very hard to come up with an answer.

“Do you usually eat stuff like that?”

The round fellow nodded eagerly.

“Then I guess it's okay…”she started to say, but Gluttony was gone within three seconds with a happy cry and started to take big chunks out of the rock.

Wrath contented herself to sit down by a tree and take a nap.

 

Sasuke's Sensei listened to his entire theory with sympathy; however she had something to say about it.

“Rena-chan wasn't stupid. She knows that there is no equal exchange for a life, she knows that life is too precious to have a price.”

Sasuke nodded, but spoke anyway.

“But still, she had a firm belief that it was possible to create a Homunculus, using the most powerful alchemical amplifier there is.”

“The Philosopher's stone? I know she liked to read comic books, but this is ridiculous…She actually believed it exists?”

“Well, I'm pretty sure she did, but everything concerning that is in code.”

“What kind of code?”

“One I don't understand…from what I gather from it, it's based entirely on all those dumb comics she read, as well as obscure events in history that I don't even know!”

Sensei sighed, as they continued towards her home. She lived by herself in the woods, next to the graveyard, in fact she took care of the place. Her entire family was buried there. Sensei was the last of her clan. Sasuke couldn't imagine what that felt like, knowing that you are the last of an entire ethnic group. He belonged to the majority ethnic group, and was also possibly mixed, taking into account Rena's hair colour.

Sakura and the Lieutenant were following a short distance away. Sakura because she didn't understand alchemy and didn't want to feel like an idiot, and the Lieutenant because he didn't want to go rolling down a hill again.

 

“I wonder what those two are talking about…” said Sakura, helping the Lieutenant up the steps towards the graveyard.

“I don't know, but it most likely will concern Lieutenant-Colonel Kusanagi.”

“Shirou-chan was a lieutenant-colonel?” asked Sakura, surprised. That meant that Sasuke's little sister was a rank higher than he was.

“Shirou-chan?” echoed the big man, “What does that mean?”

“Whitey. Chan is a suffix added to the end of a name of a girl, or a little boy. Or just added to make them sound cute, or that you think the person is cute,” explained Sakura. She looked closer at the big man.

“You're not from around here are you, Lieutenant Strong?”

“No, I'm from Northern Headquarters. Recently transferred, I have not had the time to familiarize myself with the Eastern region customs.”

Sakura giggled, “We're said to be the oddest of all regions, because we think differently from the rest of the country, as well, we have `odd' customs.”

“Like what?”

“We fry milk.”

“WHAT?”

Sasuke glanced back towards the Lieutenant,

“Don't listen to her,” he said, “She's a horrible cook. She fried peanut butter on eggs once”

Sakura glared at him. If looks could kill…

“But Fried milk does exist. Personally, I've never tried it, because Sakura-chan here usually cooks,” said Sasuke grinning.

Suddenly they all stopped. Sensei looked around in shock. The graveyard was a mess! Tombstones had been toppled over, some were even missing!

“Who could have done this?” breathed Sakura.

“No one from around here,” said Sensei, “All those punks know what I'd do to them…”growled the woman, walking purposefully into the graveyard.

Sasuke looked around carefully. There was something strange about the mess. Some of the tombstones seemed to be missing very large chunks. The particular shape of the missing bits sent shivers down his spine.

It's almost as if someone bit right through the rock…he thought.

Suddenly they saw a fat bald man, sitting on the grass, tossing pieces of rock into his mouth.

“HEY!” shouted Sensei, “What the hell do you think you're doing???!”

 

Gluttony stared at these new intruders. Still munching on his bit of rock, he decided that maybe he should go ask Wrath about what to do, but then again, Wrath was nowhere to be seen in his immediate view. On top of that, Wrath was probably taking a nap and it wasn't nice to interrupt someone else's naps. He decided to try and eat them…they looked tasty.