Disclaimer: i dont own FMA or any of it's characters...i only own Shinku!

/...So...nice.../ the small chimera thought as he snuggled into the bed. Wait...since when had he been in a bed? His crimson eyes shot open and he looked around frightenedly. This wasn't where he was last...he didn't know where this was and it scared him. His fluffy black cat ears perked up to the sound of footsteps and he whimpered in fear.

A tall man with black hair walked into the room carrying a trey with some food on it. The chimeras stomach growled at the scent of food reminding him how long it had been since he last ate. The man walked over t the bed where the chimera was trying to hide and set the trey down. He lifted the blanket and found the chimera crouched down with his face hidden by his mop of messy black hair. He picked up the chimera eliciting a loud squeal of pain and fear from him. He was placed down again quickly, but this time in front of the food. The chimera stared at it dumbly for a few moments, surely the man wasn't going to feed him. Humans aren't that nice.

"Aren't you hungry?" the man asked.

"...hai..." the chimera said quietly.

"Then eat something." the man said.

"...for me...?" the chimera asked.

"Yes you." the man said. The chimera hesitantly reached out and grabbed a piece of fish stuffing it into his mouth before the man could take it away from him. His previous 'owners' had always teased him with food when he was near starving so he knew to eat quickly if he wanted to be fed. He ate quickly then curled up into a small ball to sleep.

When the boy woke up again hours later it was because of a few loud voices outside the room. The boys ears pressed down against his skull and a small whine escaped his lips. People were bad and when his previous owner brought other people around he always ended up hurt more than he usually was.

The boy forced himself up, ignoring the pain all over his body. He crawled off the bed and looked around for a good hiding spot. He decided the closet was the best spot and crawled over, burying himself in the clothes and shoes at the bottom.

"Stop yelling Fullmetal, he's scared enough without everyone yelling!" Roy growled as he opened the door to his bedroom, where the chimera was being held for the time being. Ed pushed his way through and, seeing nothing, glared at Roy.

"Nothings here." he said flatly.

"Hmm? He was in here last time I checked..." Roy said. He heard some shuffling in the closet an raised one eyebrow. He walked over and threw a few things out finding the chimera cowering on the bottom. "What exactly are you doing in there?" he only got a whimper for a response. Roy picked the boy up making him whimper even more. The boy was scared half to death and was physically hurt enough to kill him, if he had been a normal human he might have been dead by now.

"He looks like shit." Ed stated looking at him. The chimera nodded at the statement and began licking a reopened wound to clean the blood out.

"I haven't had time to clean him up yet, I barely had time to feed him before he fell asleep." Roy said. He stopped the chimera from licking himself and pushed his wounded hand down again. The black haired chimera looked up in confusion and whimpered at him. He had wanted him to clean himself up...hadn't he? "That's why you're here fullmetal. You're his babysitter for the day." Roy said passing the chimera to Ed. The chimera just flopped in his arms like a rag doll and stared at Ed blankly.

"WHAT!" ed yelled dropping the chimera. The boy whined in pain but the two men had gotten too caught up in their fight to notice him. He began crawling away, not liking all the noise the two were making. He crawled on all fours to the next room he could find, the bathroom. He slipped a little on the floor but had no big problems with it.

He crawled over to a big white towel that was lying on the ground and curled himself up in it. It was slightly damp but the boy could really careless, it was still more comfortable than the ground. A few moments later the yelling stopped and started anew right after they had stopped. Both men came running out of the room and started trying to find him. It didn't take long before the found the chimera curled up in the towel.

"So this is where you were hiding." Roy said. "This is where Fullmetal was going to take you anyways. You are going to take care of him today, that's an order Fullmetal."

"I'm not going to watch him." Ed growled.

"I'm fine...I don't need him to watch me..." the chimera said quietly. "I'm fine by myself..." he said, more to himself than to them this time.

"You need someone to watch you, give you a bath, and keep you company. Fullmetal is going to." Roy said. Edward sighed in defeat and agreed after seeing the chimera look up at him with his big red eyes.

"Fine! I'll do it! Happy now?" he yelled. The chimera flinched at the sound of his voice but tried to hide it. Roy smiled and left the house after telling Ed what to do.

"Well...looks like we're stuck together now...' Ed sighed. "I'm Ed." he said to the chimera.

"I'm...uh...I don't remember anymore..." the chimera said. "I used to have a name...but I forget it now..."

"That wont do well...how about the name...Shinku Shinku-crimson?" Edward asked.

"It's much better than being a number...after I was made into a chimera I was just experiment 042...Shinku is much better." the boy said.

"Than we'll call you Shinku!" Edward said. "We have to give you a bath and get you bandaged. You still look like shit if you ask me.

End Part 1+