InuYasha Fan Fiction / Fullmetal Alchemist Fan Fiction ❯ Full Metal Inuyasha ❯ Gone ( Chapter 3 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Here's chapter number 3 coming at ya. I hope you guys really enjoy the story! Peaces out! (be sure to read the review thanks at the bottom of the page) :)
Kagome set a tray with four cups and a pitcher of tea down in front of the two boys and the mysterious talking armor. Kagome took her place around the table and began to fill each of their cups.
"So what's up with that well...Is it some kind of time portal?" Ed asked attempting to sound uninterested.
Kagome nodded, "It's weird because so far Inuyasha and I have been the only ones who could pass through it. I always thought it had some kind of connection to the sacred jewel..." She trailed off when she saw the gleam in Edward's eye.
"Sacred jewel?" Al asked curiously.
Kagome nodded again, "The shikon no tama, the sacred jewel, ya see...it's kind of a..."
"A long story?" Ed finished smiling playfully. Kagome blushed at his stare then nodded.
"Well, why don't you tell us about it. We did come in and have tea with you after all." Ed responded, still staring at her.
"Well...its kind of hard to tell..." Kagome began.
Souta sighed and began with his version of the story, "Well, ya see, A long time ago in a place far away there was this really cool dog guy named Inuyasha and he wanted to steal the shikon no tama so that he could have, a lot of power or something. And this really nasty chick with a funky name put a spell on him and he was asleep for like, 30 years or something..."
"50 years, and her name is Kikyo, he wanted the jewel so he could become a full demon! Just let me tell the story Souta." Kagome interrupted. "Kikyo didn't let him steal the jewel and pinned him to a tree with an arrow. Putting a curse on him that was suppose to last forever, but..."
Ed and Al stared in amazement as this girl told them this crazy story. It seemed like it was going to go on forever. Until Ed heard something that interested him.
"...and so that old woman captured me and took part of MY spirit to resurrect Kikyo from the dead! Then Kikyo killed her! So Inuyasha is like all in love with Kikyo again, and where does that leave me?" Kagome stopped for a moment, then blushed a deep crimson, "Sorry, I guess that's a little irrelevent."
"Wait a second your telling me, that some woman actually resurrected this girl from the dead? And she used your spirit as an equivalent exchange?" Ed stood up breathing heavily. "Why did she want to resurrect this Kikyo person?"
Kagome blinked, noticing Ed's abrupt change in attitude, "Well, she wanted Kikyo to look for the sacred jewel shards for her...Kikyo and I are the only ones who have the power to sense the sacred jewel shards...the old woman wanted the shards to make herself more powerful."
Ed thought for a moment. Then looked up at his brother, "Al, you don't think...that jewel...could it be a philosophers stone?" Kagome watched as the two whispered for a moment 'a philosophers stone? What is that?'
"Kagome, could my brother and I step out for a moment? To have a talk?" Ed was speaking to her, she nodded her head. She tried to hide it, but her curiosity was written all over her face.
"Al, if what she says about that jewel is true...Then it could really be a philosophers stone?" Ed looked to his brother for some kind of affirmation.
"I really don't know brother. What are you planning on doing if it is? Are you going to go with that girl?" Alphonse said uncertainly. Just then a blue car pulled into the driveway, and a middle aged woman stepped out holding a bag of groceries.
"Hello there!" She said waving, "Can I help you?" Al waited for her to notice his armor. But if she had noticed she didn't show it. She stood waiting for one of them to respond.
"Well...uh." Ed began.
"Hey mom!" Kagome walked down the steps and took the bag of groceries from her mother. "Mom, this is Ed and Al, they're here from...the...well..they're friends of me and Inuyasha's..." She smiled, 'kind of'.
"Oh, well then have you two had lunch?" The lady smiled and led the way back into the house.
"So is that what your planning on doing brother? Following this girl to look for that jewel?" Al asked.
Ed looked down at his feet, "Al I promised I would get you back into your body no matter what...We aren't even sure if we can get back to our own time! While we're stuck here we might as well make the most of it. Besides by the way this girl is talking, I think this jewel might really work."
"Brother, did you hear her? She said that the jewel was inside herself! And she had no idea how it got there! Doesn't that seem a little bit crazy to you?"
"Think about it Al!" Ed whispered fiercly while gripping his hands into fists, "It all makes sense. That girl knows nothing about alchemy or equivalent exchange. Yet she says she saw with her own eyes an old woman use HER soul to resurrect another woman! Don't you see? It makes sense! It all adds up with the laws of equivalent exchange!"
"But she never said that the old woman even had the jewel with her when that happened! She said she resurected the girl to that the girl could find the jewel for her!"
"The woman had taken MY jewel shards, and used them to help her resurrect Kikyo. I know it sounds crazy, but it 's the truth..." Ed and Al turned and saw Kagome on the steps, had she listened to their whole conversation? "I'm not sure what this 'philosophers stone' is that your looking for...I don't know why you would want to bring someone back from the dead...I'm not sure how you got here, or why you're still here. But I do know that I would never help you in any quest to bring someone back from the dead. I've met several people who have been resurrected and none of them are happy." The whole time she spoke she had a tone of regret in her voice, and stared at the stone steps beneath her feet. "If that's what your looking for...you should probably leave..."
Ed walked up the steps. After hearing her words, he felt a little remorseful. Would his mother have been happy if he had succeeded in resurrecting her? "Kagome, you've got this all wrong." he sighed and looked up at her. At least she wasn't looking at the ground anymore. "My brother and I tried bringing our mother back...a long time ago. She was all we had...We didn't think we had any other choice." He stopped for a moment and swallowed the lump in his throat. "As you can probably guess...it didn't work...The result was..." He stopped and made a sound of disgust, "Well, like I said, it just didn't work...Because of my mistake, my brother lost his entire body...I managed to save his soul, in this..." He gestured to Al's armor. Still unsure of why he was confiding all this in a girl he had only met only a few hours before. "But to do that I had to give up my right arm and left leg. All I want is to put my brother back in his original body. If you think that that stone could do that for me...do you think you would help?"
Kagome looked at the boy. Ed could hear the tears in her voice that had come from his troubling story, "I'd like to tell you that I know the jewel could do that for you. But I don't know exactly what it does...I'm not even sure a human can use it! But if your willing to help us look for the shards...To save your brother...We can leave tomorrow."
Ed smiled..."Thank you...I just hope that when we find the thing...It will work."
"And don't worry...You boys can stay here tonight..." Kagome's mom stood in the doorway where Kagome just had.
Ed looked up..shocked that a woman would have such hospitality toward complete strangers. What was up with this family anyway, did they all just walk around listening to other people's conversations? But if that jewel really was a philosophers stone in disguise, and it gets Al back his body...Then he was really in debt to them. He only wished that he could have his arm repaired before he left. His arm was usable though, he just wasn't sure how it would hold up in battle. He sighed, "Thank you so much Mrs. Higurashi. You don't know how much that means to us." She gave him a smile, that oddly reminded him of his mother's. He felt tears threaten, but managed to suppress them and follow the woman into the house...That night lying in a sleeping bag in Souta's room he stared at the ceiling and thought about Winry...He didn't know how long this was going to take. He wondered when she would really begin to worry. This time he wouldn't even be able to write her...And what the hell would Mustang think when he found them missing? He sighed and turned onto his side. That damn jewel better work.
The morning sun hit Ed's eyes at about 7:15, by 7:45 he had showered and stood by the door ready to leave looking at his watch every few minutes. Then was surprised when Kagome walked into the room rubbing her eyes and in pajama pants and a tank top, her hair was all messed up when she looked up at him. Then he watched a faint blush spread accross her face.
"Oh, I'm so sorry...I didn't realize you wanted to leave so early!" She blushed a little more and crossed her arms to hide anything that the tank top might accidentally reveal. "I'll go take a shower right now." She turned around, and scolded herself 'why did I have to tell him that? Like he really needs to know what I'm doing! I'm so stupid! now he's going to think I have some huge crush on him or something!' Then a sudden thought struck her, 'If you don't have a crush on him, then why are you so worried about it?' "Oh shut up." she whispered aloud.
"Excuse me?" her mother popped her head out of her bedroom.
"Not you mom." She giggled a little. She was going to have to learn to control all these sudden outbursts she'd been having. After about 45 minutes and Kagome's mother's wonderful cooking, Ed, Al and Kagome were ready to leave.
"Goodbye mom!" Kagome gave her mother a hug. "Bye Souta!" Kagome leaned down to give her brother a hug, only to be scolded in harsh whispers and settled for a handshake. "Bye gramps!" Kagome bent to hug her grandfather,
"Kagome! Not in front of the guys!" He grumpily whispered to her.
"Waa?" After wiping the now stupified look off her face, the three of them cheerfully headed toward the well. Once inside Ed whispered,
"Okay Al, you first alright?"
"Okay brother," He started toward the well, then stopped, "Brother...I don't think I can fit in that thing..."
Ed stared for a moment, he hadn't thought of this...Would he have to leave his brother behind? "Sure you can, just try it." Ed pratically picked his brother up and attempted to shove him down the well.
"Brother!"
"Maybe if we turned you this way..."
"Brother! Come on!"
"No no that won't do..."
"Brother...I...Brother!" Al shouted as Ed repeatedly tried to find a way to fit him down the well.
"Try sucking in your gut!" Kagome shouted. Both Ed and Al stopped fussing and looked at her with a full out look that had "You must be a blonde" written all over it. "Sorry! I'm just coming up with suggestions!"
After a few more minutes of pushing and shoving, turning and lubricating, Al still wasn't down the well. Ed sat on the ground panting. "Well what are we suppose, to do now?" Al looked at his brother...
"What do you mean brother? Of course you're going without me! You need to find that stone! Don't let me hold you back."
Edward looked at Al, then sighed. "I can't leave you behind Al."
"Brother, you are going to leave me behind...If I have to throw you in that well myself. I'm tired of being the one that holds you back from everything. You've left me behind before, and besides, with those monsters still on the loose...These nice people might be better off with me here. So go...go now." Al was finished, and Ed could tell by the tone in his voice that he was serious. He nodded his head and said,
"Okay, come on Kagome." He grabbed Kagome with one arm around her waste and jumped into the well.
Inuyasha sat in a tree watching the clouds in the sky. "Stupid Kagome, I have half a mind to go find her and tell her never to come back!" 'that's not true and you know it, you hate her being gone for a single day! Let alone forever!' Inuyasha sighed, at least the voices in his head were finally starting to make some sense. Just as he was about to head back to the village to see if Miroku and Sango had woken up yet he heard voices. sniff sniff "Kagome? Back already?" He whispered to himself, and headed toward the well.
"Are you okay?" Ed asked her, though he wasn't sure why, nothing had gone wrong...He had jumped into the well and had came back to this world without a single problem for the second time.
"I'm fine." Kagome said, and looked around. "Do you want to head toward the village or wait until Inuyasha shows up?"
"Inuyasha?" Ed looked around, then laughed a little. "Lead the way to the village." Kagome laughed a little too, then began the walk through the dense forest. They hadn't gotten very far when Inuyasha landed in front of Kagome,
"Kagome! Your back!" He had a wide smile on his face, and Kagome wondered why. Usually Inuyasha wasn't THIS happy to see her. "I thought you were still out with that metal freak!" Kagome's brow furrowed in anger. 'So that's why he's so happy to see me! It's him being jealous again!'
"Well, for your information, I am still with Edward." Edward stepped out from behind the tree where he had been hiding.
Inuyasha's ears flattened against his head. Kagome was surprised that she hadn't smelled him. But then remembered his comment about how Ed smelled just like her hair. He probably couldn't tell the difference.
"So why were you hiding?" Inuyasha spat.
"Wha...What? I wasn't hiding!" Ed stuttered, then stopped and held his hand up. "Look I don't have time to fight with you right now...We have a job to do."
Inuyasha stood silent for a moment, "Whaddaya mean, we?" Ed looked at Kagome for help.
Kagome acknowledged his plea and put her hands on her hips, "Listen Inuyasha, Ed is going to look for the jewel shards with us whether you like it or not!" Then watching the anger rise in his amber eyes she realized that this maybe wasn't the best time to try the 'take charge, I am woman hear me roar' scene. She tried again, this time gently placing both her hands on Inuyasha's chest. Inuyasha took a step back and stared at Kagome, completely confused. "Inuyasha? Ed needs to come with us...It's very important! I know he can be helpful...he really needs to find the stone too..."
Ed watched in amazement and smiled to himself, at first he thought the girl might be a little bipolar, but now he realized what she was doing. It was obvious that this pretencious demon, had a thing for her.
"Help? How can this pipsqueek possibly help!" Kagome winced, why did he always have to try and start an argument. But before Edward could respond, a loud crash sounded in the distance. Followed by screams.
"Inuyasha! A jewel shard! It just appeared out of no where!" She pointed in the direction of all the noise.
"The village.." Inuyasha growled. He turned around, "Come on Kagome, hop on." Then he looked over his shoulder at Ed. "Hope you can keep up!" And he was off. Ed clenched his fist in rage, and sped off in the direction of the silver haired hanyou.
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Alright so there's your 3rd chapter...I hope you guys love it! Make sure to review. The more reviews i have the more pressured I am to write the next chapter! lol,