shinigami to arukemisuto no ai

On the train Ed and Al had pulled up a card game for the eigth time in a row. Toushirou laid his head on the window sill, looking at the unfimilar scenery, and for the eighth time he heard Ed say, "I win!" and Al groan, wondering how he could have won again. Ed grinned and looked over at Toushirou.

"Oi Shirou, wanna play cards?" Toushirou looked at him and shrugged.

"Sure, and don\'t call me Shirou" Al watched intently as the two boys played, secretly cheering Toushirou on. But then, Ed suddenly shouted "I won!" And got confused looks form the other two. Al groaned, not noticing as Toushirou looked into Ed\'s sleeve after spotting something out of place.

"Oi! You cheated!" Toushirou burst out. The blonde snorted.

"Well someone\'s a sore loser" The train halted to a stop and cards flew out of Ed\'s sleeve. He gaped.

"See, I was right" Toushirou said with a shit-eating grin.

"Yeah yeah, it\'s our stop anyway." Ed growled. Toushirou walked out of the train first, while behind them, Al chanted, "Ed is a cheater, Ed is a cheater!" After a few minutes of the Toushirou Victory Song, Al got bored of the chanting and stopped. When they reached State Military H.Q., Ed immideatly rushed in. The hallways echoed with their footsteps, and as they rounded a corner, the blonde bumped into a man with cropped gold/sand coloured hair with a cigarrette poking out between his lips.

"Hey Ed, how\'s it goin\'?" He said with a smirk. Ed grinned right back.

"More surprises are happening everyday." The man looked at Toushirou, his wide smirk deepening into a suspicious frown.

"Who is he? I\'ve never seen him here before..." Ed blinked.

"Oh this is Toushirou. Toushirou Hitsugaya. Shirou, this is Jean Havoc." Havoc smirked again.

"Hey there Shirou." He took a deep breath of his cig and smoke flared out of his nostrils, just as the end of the cancer stick burned a bright red. Toushirou glared at him.

"Do not call me Shirou." Havoc, caught a litle off-guard by the cold stare he received, pulled the cigarette out of his mouth and blew a smoke ring over Ed\'s head.

"Sorry dude. Then what do you want me to call you?" Toushirou sighed.

"Just... Call me Hitsugaya" He breathed in annoyance. Havoc shrugged.

"Okay, if you say so. See ya shorty, Al" He paused as he grinned, "Little Shirou" then ran as both Toushirou and Ed screamed.

"Oi! Get your ass back here!" They would have chased him but Al held them back.

"Brother, we have to go see Colenal Mustang, remember?" Ed sighed, calming down.

"Alright, let\'s get this pain in my ass over with." They walked into an opened-doored room. There they saw a man with black hair and eyes, ranting about mini skirts as he sat at his desk, and a women with blonde hair and red eyes, who reminded Toushirou of Nanao a bit, who was listening to his stupid rant beside his desk, until she turned around to stare at the door. The man immideatly put a halt on his rant and looked up at the woman as she nodded and walked out of the room. The man frowned.

"So FullMetal... Why have you brought someone other then Alphonse here?" He motioned to thee chairs in front of his huge ebony desk. The three took their respective seats, Toushirou seated between the brothers. "You know it\'s forbidden." The man then paused and smirked "Unless he is your clone." The three of them showed confused faces. "Of course, he doesn\'t look exactly like you, but you do both have height challenges" Ed and Toushirou twitched violently. Toushirou gave him an icy stare while Ed full out spazzed.

"OI, WHO\'RE YOU CALLIN\' SHORT?!" The man still smirked.

"You and the shimpy ice princess over there of course." That made Toushirou angry.

"You\'re lucky I don\'t freeze your balls off; but its not like you really have any." Ed laughed. The man\'s smirk fell off of his face.

"What\'s your name kid?" Toushirou still glared at the man.

"Toshirou Hitsugaya" The man gave back a shit-eating grin.

"The name\'s Roy Mustang. That\'s Colenol to you." Toushirou looked at Ed.

"You\'re right; I hate him already." Ed smirked.

"Told ya" Roy narrowed his eyes.

"FullMetal, why is he here?" Ed\'s expression went serious.

"Because he is not from here." Roy frowned, a little confused "What do you mean?"

"Look at him Mustang; he\'s not from here" Toushirou silently listened to the argument. He wanted to go home, but couldn\'t help but feel a little hurt that Ed wanted to get rid of him so quickly. But in reality, Ed didn\'t really want him to go, but he heard the young boy call out names in his sleep, and as much as he didn\'t want the boy to leave, he knew he had to go back were he belonged, which was not here.

"FullMetal, even if I did believe you, how do you propose we get him back to his home?" Mustang sounded a bit aggravated saying that. Ed stood up and glared.

" I-I..." Ed sat back down, defeated. "I don\'t know" He felt like a failure; he couldn\'t even get his friend back home. He hated feeling like he couldn\'t do anything. Roy snapped him out of his thoughts.

"I\'m sorry FullMetal, but there is nothing we can do to get him back home." Ed sighed.

"I see. Thank you for your time." They all got up and left the room to troop back down the hallway. Toushirou\'s hands balled into fists. He was never going to get back home. God damn it, he missed everyone. He missed his work, his division members and Bedwetter Momo, even his big breasted vice captain. He wanted to cry but he held it back, having to much self pride for it. Al put his hand on Toushirou\'s shoulder.

"We\'ll find a way, don\'t worry" Toushirou nodded, but stopped walking right when Ed stopped.

"Don\'t give up hope just yet Toushirou, we will find a way, no matter what; I promise" And for the first time since he could remember he smiled.

"I know and I\'ll hold you to that promise"