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Pain Shared Between Brothers.

-Chapter One- Reunion

The wind picked up with a soft whistle and blew across fields, roads, and hills seemingly on a set course. It weaved around houses, rustled through trees, and finally arrived at its mark; swirling around a silhouette standing in front of a grave stone. The wind played with the visitors clothes, and swirled around a ponytail of golden locks.

The visitor was a young boy, perhaps around 17 or 18, though he seemed a little smaller than the average 18 year old. The boy was wearing rather odd looking clothing; a white shirt with a tall collar, a dark brown-green vest, very dark brown pants and shoes, a rather off seasoned trench coat, and white gloves. He cast a nostalgic look upon the area as his golden eyes scanned his surroundings; disbelief seemed evident in his expression. Am I…Really home? Is this another dream..? The boy’s head was swimming with thoughts as his eyes fell upon the grave before him. His gaze stayed on the name engraved in the stone; the golden eyes grew a little cloudy and distant. Mom….

Time seemed to just disappear while he was in his daze, until a voice, breaking the silence, called something he’d longed to hear for so long. “Nii…San?” Edward snapped back to reality immediately, he hadn’t heard that voice or that name, in so long; TOO long. “Nii-san...is…that you?” Edward turned around slowly; he knew that voice better than the back of his own hand. It belonged to a Golden-Brown haired boy standing a little ways behind Ed, staring at him with wide eyes. A single word escaped Ed’s lips, but that one word said more than he could have said in a whole years worth of stories, “Alphonse…”