~| Philosopher's Secret |~ [Book One] ||Chapter Five||

That evening, Al made a delicious dinner for Ed, Bree, and Saya to eat. While everyone dined, Al was looking for an explaination about Saya's wound in the alchemy books that Hohenhiem had left behind. Al haden't read most of these books in years, but he does rememeber one that looked similiar to the one on Saya's arm.
"Saya, what's up with your arm," Edward asked, "It keeps on bleeding."
Saya took notice that her arm was indeed bleeding through the gauze again. She stood up and went to get the medical supplies in the cabinet behind her chair. Edward got up and started searching through the medical cabenit too.
"What are you doing?" Saya demanded.
"Duh, I'm trying to help you!" Ed responded
"I don't need any help!" Saya yelled back at Ed. She grabbed some gauze and medical tape and slammed the door shut. Then she stomped out of the room.
"Uhh, Ed what the hell did you just do?" asked Bree confused, shoving a mouthful of steak into her mouth.
"I didn't do anything, she is the one that stormed off for no good reason!" Ed retorted.
"I know, but what is going on between you two? You never fight!" Bree asked getting up from the table.
"She is hiding something, I know it. She always acts like this when she has a secret." Ed said to himself.
"Well what ever is going on, sort it out, in the meantime I am going to check on her to make sure she is okay. Then we are going to have ourselves one of my therapy sessions, kapish?!" Bree said walking out of the room and up the steps.
Saya finished wrapping her arm in the bandages, as Bree walked into the room.
"Ok spill it, what the hell is going on?" Bree asked concernly

"What are you talking about?"
"You know what I mean Saya." replied Bree, pointing to the blood that was alreasy seeping through the new bandages.
Saya looked at the blood and then glared at Bree.
"Its just a deep wound, don't worry about me." Saya said looking away.
"Al told me already, this morning about the strange marking on your arm." Bree said sitting next to Saya.
Saya got up.
"Well then you know it is nothing special!" Saya yelled walking toward the door.
Bree got up quickly before Saya could get out of the room, grabbing her uninjured arm and threw her against the wall.
"What the fuck is wrong with you?! Don't you understand we want to help? First you flip on Ed downstairs, now me, whatever the hell your problem is, lose it ya hear me?!" Bree yelled back angerly.
"WELL YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT IS WRONG?!" Saya screamed, "I'LL SHOW YOU!" Saya ripped off the gauze and threw it down. She lifted her sleeve to show Bree the full wound. It had gotten larger then what it had been that morning and was reaching out for her elbow.
"See what I mean, and you wanted to ignore us with it, you are an idiot, I swear!" Bree said.
"Don't call me a fucking idiot! I'll do what I want to do! You don't have to get involved! I don't want you or Edward or Alphonse to get involved!" Saya screamed in Bree's face. She pushed Bree aside and ran out of the room. She ran down the stairs and as she ran down the hall to the front door, some one grabbed her. She turned to see Edward had a hold of her arm.
"Let go of me damn it!" Saya said. Edward took a closer look at Saya's arm and stood shock still. Saya took this chance to rip out of his grip and run out the door.
Bree came back downstairs with tears in her eyes, passing by ed in the hall, and sat back at the table. Edward got over his shock went to talk to Al about Saya's arm.
"Nii-san*, I think Saya's mad at me now...." Al said sadly hanging his head. Edward faked a warm smile.
"Of course Saya isn't mad at you Al! Why would she? I mean, she's gonna think it over and be glad that you told us about the circle." Edward explained sitting next to Al.
"Yeah, but--"
Al, don't worry about it."

As soon as Saya ran out of the house, she slowed to a walk. She looked around and saw the alley way that seperated Ed, Al, Bree, and her house from the nieghbor's house. She walked into te dark alley and sat down. She thought that her friends now, definantly were mad at her. She knew that she couldn't face them again with out explaining about the wound.
"Man..." she groaned, "What am I gonna do?" she asked herself, burying her face into her knees.
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Two hours later, Saya still hadn't came back into the house. Ed, Al, and Bree were now starting to worry about her. The friends were gathered in the living room, planing on starting a search party.
"Where would she be?" Al asked.
Bree remained quiet. She haden't spoken since the little arguement between Saya and her earlier, but from her expression Ed and Al knew she was worried.
"Alright," Edward said rubbing his hands together. He pointed to an area on the map on the coffee table and said to Bree, "You search this area for her," he pointed to another section, "And I'll search here. We'll meet back at the house in an hour." Edward explained.
"What am I going to do?" Alphonse asked.
"You're going to stay here and wait to see if Saya comes back." Ed ordered.
"Right." Al agreed.
Edward and Bree walked outside and Edward ran off into his direction. BRee stayed still for a moment or two and decided to move. When she did, she thought she heard a soft cry. She listened closly and heard it was coming from the alley way. She went to investigate and found shadows darting in all directions.
"WHOAH!!" Bree exclaimed as she jumped back. She looked around the alley, knowing Saya had to be close by. She saw her sitting on the ground, head in her knees, in the middle of the alley.
"Go away Bree." Saya said, her voice cracking up.
Bree walked over to Saya anyway and sat next to her and was silent for a moment.
"Now you know I will not listen to that. I am to arragant for that remember?" Bree said trying to make a joke.
Saya looked up at the smiling Bree and then looked away.
"Why are you here?"
"Looking for you, dummy!"
Saya wiped away the few stray tears that were on her face.
"I though you guys would be mad at me...."
Bree smiled. "At first I was pissed off at you for keeping the secret from us like that, but after I had some time to think about it, I though that I would have done the same thing."
"We rub off eachother too much I think." she continued laughing a little. "I thought you would be mad at me...?"
"You know me... I don't like it when people try to pry into my business. I get pissed at whoever does!" Saya explained, then sighed. "I'm gonna ask something completely off the subject- Are the boys also looking for me?"
"Only Ed, Al's in the house. Ed ordered him to wait in case you came home before we rendezvue." Bree answered.
"Okay... let's go inside and wait for him." Saya said getting up.
The girls walked back into the house and Al looked in surprise.
"Saya, you're home!" he shouted and grabbed her into a bear hug.
"Yeah... I am..." Saya said in a choking manner. "Now can you let go of me?" She asked.
Alphonse let go of Saya and apoligized.
"I'm sorry Saya...." He said sadly, hanging his head. "I know I promised you and all, but... I had to tell someone."
Saya looked away.
"Yeah, I know...."
Edward walked into an alley calling Saya's name. He'd been searching for the past twenty minutes and his voice was becoming hoarse.
"I'm here Edward..." Said a sad-looking Saya who came out of the shadows. Ed breathed a sigh of relief.
"I'm glad you're okay Saya. Let's go back to the house." Ed suggested. Saya nodded and Edward turned around to lead her to the house.
"Listen, Saya. I'm sorry about that whole episode that happened at the house. You know that we all worry--" Edward stopped in mid sentence. He whirld around and looked at Saya's right arm. There was no blood in sight. He glared at 'Saya'
"You're not Saya." he said point blank. She smirked.
"What gave me away?" the girl asked.
"Saya's rihgt arm is bleeding uncontrolably. Your amr seems just fine." Edward explained.
"Well, I geuss beggers cant be choosers" the girls said, but in a differnt voice. Saya turned into a smirking Curiosity. Ed looked shook for a moment then recovered.
"So, you have the same power as Envy; shapeshifting." He finally understood. "I was wondering what your power was."
"Yeah, and because I'm so nice and all, what person would you like to see the most right now?" Curiosity asked.
"What the hell? Why did you ask me that?" Edward asked taken aback. Curiosity's smirk just widened.
"Because that's the last person you'll ever see again."
Out of the sky, Envy fell and landed on his feet next to Edward.
"Aww, you know you're way too nice for this job, right Curiosity?" Envy said.
"Yeah, I know." she replied then looked at Ed. "How about her?" Curiosity asked. She transformed into a blonde haired young girl, about Ed's age, with blue eyes and many ear piercings. Edward backed up.
"H-how did you know about Winly*?" Edward asked backing up.
"Aww... Edward, don't tell Kitty you don't rememeber her? You, Kitty, and Winly used to play all the time together!" Envy said slyly.
Edward whirled around and made a punch for Envy's face, but missed. Envy dodged and kneed Ed in the stomace. Ed fell to the ground and held it in pain.
Winry, or Curiosity, made her way over to Edward.
"I've been waiting for this moment for a long time Edward. I'll finally get revenge for my death." Curiosity said, turning her arm into a dagger. "You killed me Edward Elric. Now, I'm going to kill you!" Curiosity raised her arm and slashed down. Blood splashed onto the ground and there was a cry of pain.

>Chibi Jooshi
chibi- small
jooshi- dictionary
Winly- Winry Rockbell's japanese dubbed name
Nii-san- big brother
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