trans_9 | Hanging Out

"Of course it's alright!" Asuna replied, inviting herself along for one simple reason - to get the hell OVER...someone! Basically, she didn't want to feel this way anymore and only planned on feeling anything for him in a more protective sisterly manner.

"Thanks for letting me come along; I thought you were going out with someone else." If that was indeed the case, she'd REALLY feel like the last single girl onboard!

"Naw not really," said Ed, shaking his head. "I mean... well..." He shrugged helplessly with the whole "Winry not being there" as far as he knew.

"It's complicated. Winry and I have a weird relationship and even now I'm not too sure if she's on board right now." There were gaps in his memory, ones he suspected were because of some forgotten people, but he had a certainty he wasn't missing anything.

For the time being.

"...Oh. I know how that feels." There were gaps in her own memory, but Asuna was pretty sure she'd met up with Konoka and Setsuna months ago and then...not much else.

Ed nodded as their drinks were refilled. "At least here we can get out and do something fun. Well, after a good drink at least." He pushed the cup of milk to the side and took up his tea instead.

Asuna nodded, pushing her own cup of milk near his and started drinking her soda. "You don't consider your 'job' fun anymore? I still have that little trinket you made me." Despite what she called it, a genuine smile was on the girl's face.

Ed rubbed his head, chuckling as he set down his tea cup. "Don't get me wrong, I do like my workshop. It's new and interesting. I just never really found myself as the sit down and work type for a long period of time y'know? I've always been on the move since I was young..."

"...You too, huh?" More gaps in her memory that Asuna couldn't blame on the ship, but even though they were genuine spending time with a certain mage's mother helped a bit.

"Yeah. Al and I, that's my brother, we spent a ton of time on the road. We learned from Teacher and then we went on the road afterwards." Ed grinned as he sipped his drink. "You know, all this peace is getting on my nerves. Wanna do something else?"

"Like what, fighting monsters? I thought that was the point of this little outing - to get away from all that for a while." Asuna grinned back, not minding a little bit of downtime but if Ed really did want something else to occupy his time...

"Well I didn't think about that, maybe a walk but now that you mention it..." Ed grinned back at Asuna. "Any kind of monsters you have in mind?"

"The usual: magical types bent on controlling the world unless the brave efforts of a knight in ridiculous armor shows up to save the day." Asuna finished off her drink and got to her feet.

"The maiden won't be in distress this time, not at all; she'll be right by his side, making sure those dark forces don't do anything to hurt the stalwart knight."

"Oh sure give me the hard job," chuckled Ed as his outfit changed to a long coat and he seemed to draw a longsword out of nowhere. At least he'd put his sword stuff to good use. "Go ahead and change the scenery."

"'Course you've got the hard job...!" Asuna smirked while pulling out her Pactio card and going to change the scenery at the same time. "Looking after a 10-year-old kid is work enough for me anyday."

"Right right," said Ed as he shouldered the blade as the landscape changed to black and white, a dark dingy city with a brilliant moon overhead with no clouds. Around them, dark forms started to appear, glowing white eyes as they seemed to be half-formed. "Shadows. That helps."

Ed had no compulsion to fight anything really HUMAN like. It brought up bad memories.

"Yep; we can have that walk later, after you've saved the day and all." Asuna watched the half-formed beings appear and summoned her blade without hesitation.

Ed smirked as he spun his blade. "Alright, then lets go. Come! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXDt37oMAiY)"

As a pack, the smoky enemies surged forward and Ed took point, his flesh and blood arm swinging down and cleaving through the first, backhanding the second and kicking out with his automail leg at the third, punting it into a wall where it exploded into smoke.

Asuna swung her sword in a style she'd learned from Setsuna back home, the blade cleaving through at least two smoky enemies before she decapitated a third one behind her while launching a kick at a fourth who'd gotten too close to her personal space.

"I like your sword style," remarked Ed as he struck out at several more, ducking back from an overhead strike and cleaving upwards, segmenting it in half.

"Thanks! Took me a while to get it down, but it gets the job done." Asuna replied, leaping over one and waiting until it turned around before literally bringing the hammer down, slicing it in half. "Yours is pretty awesome, too!"

"Ah well if anything I'm a fast learner," said Ed, thrusting the blade behind him and spearing a shadow through the chest, withdrawing it as he spun it upwards and slashed down a opponent coming at him as he kicked out.

With a light nod, Asuna threw her sword in a boomerang-like arc to cleave through a group of shadows en route while putting her hands together and combining magical power from her left with magical chi from the right.

"...Think you could learn that? I doubt you can learn this! KANKAHO!!!" A beam of bright energy shot from her hands into another group that came her way, holding her hand up to catch the returning blade hilt-first.

"So didn't think I would be able to get that...!"

"Wow," said Ed, suitably impressed as he cleaved another and leaped to a higher position, parrying a few strikes from shadow claws. His other arm telescoped outwards as it flipped into gun position and he fired several blasts, careful to take aim precisely. "This'll do for me."

"Wanna walk already?" Asuna turned her sword into a fan and started smacking away any remaining shadows near her while watching Ed fire in a manner that reminded her of a certain sniper!student.

"Hmm? Naw I meant the cannon," chuckled Ed as he neatly fired a few blasts and then returned his weapon to arm form. "Sorry I'm never clear."

"By the way, down!" exclaimed Ed as he aimed a blow above Asuna's head.

"Let's just hope you never dye your hair; I'd have to kick your ass if you became a brunette." Instead of ducking, Asuna leaped to the side not only to avoid Ed's attack but to cleave another approaching shadow.

Ed grinned at Asuna, his eyes alight with exhilarated glee. "Don't worry: the gold hair and eyes are one of my trademarks."

He passed by Asuna, reaching for her arm so he could spin around with her in a cleaving swing.

"...That your way of asking me to dance, Ed?" Asuna felt her cheeks heat up unexpectedly while using her free hand to cleave the other shadows on her side.

Ed grinned as he took her hand and pulled her close, spinning around in a wicked dance of blades and metal as he chuckled. "Maybe?" he asked coyly.

Barely even watching as their blades took down shadow after shadow, Asuna's attention was almost entirely focused on Ed, the girl feeling her heart skip a beat once realizing how close he was. "...You're just a big a baka as Negi sometimes, you know?"

"I've been known to be an idiot for a while," chuckled Ed as he finished off the last of the shadow monsters. "It's apparently one of my charms."

Internally he wondered where he got so smooth.

"Really? You've got charm? I didn't notice." As the scenery changed back to the usual setting for the sensoriums, Asuna felt her weapon vanish as she gazed into Ed's eyes.

"Trademark hair and eyes, huh...?"

Ed's weapon slipped from his fingers as it vanished, smiling a little more gently now. "Yeah. And to be fair, I really like yours."

He was blushing now, feeling his heart flutter a little. Was this what Winry felt on her end? This was, well, weird. And yet good in a fun way.

"...They're two different colors; what's special about that?" Despite her questioning statement, Asuna's cheeks flushed crimson at his compliment. A huge difference between Ed and Negi? Age, obviously.

Their hearts couldn't have been any closer in how much they cared for others, though.

"It matches," said Ed honestly, still holding her close with one arm in a sort of gallant heroic pose. "Your eyes reflect how deep your personality are. I would think you got a lot of compliments about them in your time."

"Really?" Asuna couldn't recall any compliments she'd gotten about her eyes at the moment, but did they really matter at this point? Her heart was beating really fast, cheeks still flushed crimson while wrapping her arms around his neck.

Ed blushed a little. "Yes really. I really do like your eyes. It's what admittedly drew me to you."

There, he said it. He had felt the pang of Winry not really being there, and as much as he hated to admit it, he needed a tough girl in his life.

"..." For once in her life, or at least since she arrived on the ship, Asuna was speechless. For at least a few seconds.

"...You baka Edward!" The girl did her best to wipe away any tears that threatened to roll down her face, finally receiving the answer she'd hoped for. She could continue to look after Negi as his knight while at the same time, keep on falling for the slightly older than her Alchemist.

Ed chuckled. "I'm going to look up baka one of these days," he admitted, pulling her into a hug. "Sorry though for springing this on you. I didn't want you to push me away for being too forward."

"It means 'idiot.'" Asuna embraced Ed herself, lightly nodding while holding onto him tightly. "It's okay; as long as you don't break up with me 'cause I'm too good for you or something like that."

Ed laughed lightly. "Now why would I want to do that?" he chided, hugging her back.

"Baka... I like it better than idiot anyhow. Rolls off the tongue."

"'Course it does; why do you think I've called Negi that all this time?" Asuna pulled back and kissed Ed gently before gracing him with a smile.

"Now, about that walk you promised me...?"

Hanging Out

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