A.N.: Hi Hi! I'm Yumimimi, but you already know that… Heh. Well, this is my first fanfic and is a result of a funny conversation between me and a friend. Please no flame :( But I would love reviews! And I know this is a short chapter, and I promise the next one will be longer!
Disclaimer: If I owned any of this I wouldn't be writing this, I'd be making it happen.
Chapter One: A strange way to meet.
A black tuck slowly rolled down the driveway, coming to a stop alongside a house. The truck's driver sighed and quickly glanced into the mirror that was strapped to the sun-visor. She carefully slid a piece of blonde hair back into place, anxiously glancing at the rest of her face for any sign of imperfection. With the exception of her eyes, which were almond shaped and a deep brown, she looked like any other girl in the country. However, the mix of her Asian eyes with her naturally wavy blond hair was a bit… odd, to say the least. But what did that matter?
She stepped out of the truck and immediately headed for the back door. It was a strange custom for her to go through the backdoor of this house. She had done it so often the direction was now engraved in her mind, making her ignore the front door without a second thought even though it was closer to her.
The door swung open at her approach, revealing a woman. The woman's brown hair was tied back in a sloppy ponytail and her cloths were coated in flour, signaling that she had been in the middle of preparing the family's evening meal before she had been interrupted by her young visitor.
"Maron! I wasn't expecting you today. How did the test go?" the woman asked cheerily, moving out of the doorway and ushering the girl in. Maron grinned and paused to pry off her shoes before answering. The removal of the shoes was another custom that had been around for as long as Maron could remember. However, with her Japanese heritage she had accepted this one much more readily then the other. "I'm sorry I didn't call ahead Ms. Elise, but I wanted to show Ashley…" Maron trailed off as she rummaged through her pockets, finally producing a driver's license. Ms. Elise clapped her hands together joyfully. "That's wonderful! I expect that Ashley and Bethany will be demanding you drive them around town now though!" she said with a laugh.
Maron nodded. "Speaking of Ashley, is she in her room?" she asked, already drifting down the hall leading to the aforementioned bedroom. "Yeah, she's watching some sort of anime I think." Ms. Elise replied with a shrug. She was slowly returning to the task of cooking. The sound of multiple voices drifting from behind a closed door seemed to confirm Elise's theory. Maron smiled and gently knocked.
There was a sudden hush, as if a movie had been paused. "Just a minute!" Ashley called from her room. Maron rolled her eyes. "Baka, open up! I want to talk to you!" she complained. There was a snapping sound and the door was flung open, revealing Ashley. "Maron! I didn't think you'd be here. What's up?" she asked nervously. Maron narrowed her eyes. Something was going on here.
"I got my license, but-" she was cut off by a muffled voice from Ashley's closet. Without pausing to let Ashley explain, she pushed her way into the room and slid the closet doors open. This resulted in a multitude of colorful people falling out, all of them landing on top of each other in an accidental dog pile. Maron's eyes widened hugely. She knew these people. "Ashley… what's going on?" she asked over the grumbling of the newcomers.
Ashley scratched the back of her neck awkwardly. "Well… I was bored and on the internet and next thing I know, POOF! They're here!" she explained disjointedly. Maron shook her head before slowly pulling people to their feet. When they were all finally on their feet, she looked at each of them searchingly. "You!" she exclaimed, pointing directly at a small, white haired boy with a funny looking scar running down his face.
The boy jumped back and sweatdropped, a bit taken aback by the sharpness of Maron's tone. "You are Allen Walker, part of the Black Order and a parasite type innocence user!" Maron declared before jabbing her finger at a flame headed boy with an eye patch. "You are Lavi, your innocence is in your hammer and you're with the Black Order too!" she accused. Both boys looked dumbstruck as to how she knew this, but Maron was on a roll. Her next target was a sleep deprived black haired man, who was obviously the oldest in the group. "You go by the name L, but you have many other identities. You are a detective, and until you were sucked into this world you were searching for Kira!" she said, spinning to point at a small blonde boy with gold eyes. "You are Edward Elric, the Fullmetal Alchemist. You have automail limbs and have seen the gate." Only one person remained unnamed by Maron, and he wasn't going to escape her summery either. "And lastly, you are Rin Okumera. You were raised by Father Fujimoto until an…. Accident took him away. Now you go to True Cross and attend the cram school." She finished and took a deep breath. Her entire speech had been done in one go somehow.
"H-hey! How do you know so much about us?" Rin demanded, masking his fear with irritation. What if she knew he was the son of Satan? Maron grinned proudly. "Because you're all anime characters in this world. I watch your shows, even more than Ashley over there. Well, with the exception of Deathnote." She admitted.
Ashley looked up with a glare. "I can tell what you're thinking Maron! You can't have them, they're mine!" she shouted angrily. Maron looked shocked and a little hurt. "Ashley, they aren't anybodies. They are humans, er, yeah. They own themselves." She whispered. Ed glanced at Maron approvingly. She might know more about him then he liked, but at least she was better than Ashley had been. He grimaced at the memory.
He had been walking down a dirt road with Al when all of a sudden this white light nearly blinded him. When he could see again he found himself on the floor of a strange room with a stranger girl bending over him. Even though Ed was short, he knew this girl towered over most of the people around her. She had to be at least six feet tall! As soon as she saw he was awake, her hazel eyes had lit up like a light bulb.
"Ed! You're here too! Yay!" she had shrieked before glomping the unsuspecting alchemist. "H-hey! Let go you-" he didn't have a chance to finish that sentence when someone fell onto him, forcing the wind out of his lungs.
But this new girl, Maron, seemed much more in control. And she was defending their human rights, which was a bonus. "No way Maron! They came out of my lap top, they stay in my house!" Ashley yelled. That brought her mother running. "Is everything all right?" she gasped, bursting through the door with no thought of knocking. At the sight of the 5 boys in the room, she fainted.
"Ms. Elise!" Maron exclaimed. She glanced at Ashley and shook her head. "That wasn't very smart. But back on topic, where are they all going to fit? And how did they all fit in your closet in the first place?" she asked. Ashley grinned triumphantly. "Michel's passed out on the couch, so they can use his room!" she said, referring to her younger brother. "Oh, and I threw the velociraptor out and had plenty of room!" she added off handedly.
Maron gaped at her, along with the others, though they had vastly different reasons for gaping. "You threw out Bob?" Maron asked, earning looks from the boys. "Well, he was taking up a lot of room! Hey, Maron, don't pull a Tamaki on me!" Ashley said, noticing her friend was now brooding gloomily in the corner.
"You had a velociraptor in there?" Allen asked slowly. Ashley glanced at him and grinned. "Bob was this giant stuffed animal that Maron gave to me years ago. It was about the size of a German Sheppard! But I didn't need it anymore and besides, you guys were totally worth it." She said. Rin frowned. It seemed callous to throw out a heartfelt gift just to hide a couple of strangers.
Lavi had gone to comfort Maron, and was delighted when she threw her arms around him. "Hey, cheer up! I'm sure Ashley didn't mean to upset you." He said suavely. In his mind all he was thinking was 'jackpot.' Both Maron and Ashley were pretty, but Maron was a much better height for a girl. Besides, her figure put Ashley to shame…. Lavi was brought out of his dream world by Maron tearing herself away from him.
Maron sighed and extended her hand to Allen after detaching herself from Lavi. "Hi, I didn't really get to introduce myself, I'm Maron Watanabe." She said softly. Allen hesitantly took her hand and laughed. "Well, I don't think I need to introduce myself after your summery!" he exclaimed. Maron blushed a little and laughed. "Sorry about that! I just couldn't really believe it and went into fact mode!" she explained. She then turned to L.
"Hey, you probably know more about me then I could say at the moment, so I'll just say it's nice to meet you!" Maron exclaimed. L looked at her for a second before smiling. "You're quite right Miss Maron." He said, shaking her hand. Maron's face reddened again and she turned to Ed. Surprisingly, she was about the same height as Ed, if not a little shorter! "It's a pleasure to meet you. I uh, really hope you succeed in your quest." She whispered, purposely taking his right hand and shaking it meaningfully. Ed tried to look uninterested. "Sure, thanks I guess." He said. Maron laughed, making Ed blush instead of her. Then she did something he wasn't expecting in the least: she hugged him. "I'm sorry for all you went through." She whispered in his ear before quickly turning away, face almost completely red now.
After the hug Ed just sat down, shocked. He was torn between the idea of yelling, and the strange feeling of comfort she gave him. However, Ashley wasn't as indecisive. She saw Maron moving towards Rin and jumped up. "Maron! Stop trying to win these people onto your side! You should go home already!" she whined.
Maron glowered at her for a second before racing to Rin and planting a kiss dead on his lips. Everyone in the room fell silent and looked at her, shocked. Ashley looked furious, Lavi looked disappointed, Allen looked embarrassed, L was only vaguely interested and Ed was dazed. However, none of their emotions matched Rin's. He wasn't exactly popular with girls back home, and now he had two fighting over him! And one even kissed him!
Though the kiss only lasted a second, it seemed to be an eternity. When Maron finally did pull away, tears were streaking down her face. "There! His first kiss in this world is mine, and you can never have it!" she screamed at Ashley before running away. The roar of her truck sounded a minute later and quickly faded away, letting them all know that Maron was gone.
"Of all the nerve! I'm really sorry Rin; I didn't think that Maron would ever do something like that!" Ashley said disgustedly. Rin shook his head absently. His head was buzzing with a mixture of questions and weird emotions. What in the world was going on here?
A.N.: I know Ashley's kind of a jerk here, but she's supposed to be. You'll learn why later. And I'm not doing any pairings… for now.
Rin: Then why did Maron kiss me?!
Yumi: Because she was being manipulated by me! And because she wanted to torture Ashley. :}
Rin: So she doesn't care about me?
Yumi: I never said that! You'll hafta wait!
Ed: She didn't hafta hug me…
Yumi: You liked it, don't lie.