Maes Hughes and Kagome Higurashi were childhood friends. They're almost siblings. Maes and Kagome both joined the Military, but not under the same superiors. Kagome is sent to the Western Hq and Maes is sent to Easten Hq. It has been eights years since then, and Kagome is a Colonel and State Alchemist at age 21 and Maes is a Lieutenant Colonel at age 23. Kagome is sent by her superiors to Eastern Hq. to ask to join forces for a war that may be coming. Maes introduces to his long lost friend/sister to Colonel Mustang. Relationships form and something tragic happens to Kagome... Something Maes had warned her about...