Disclaimer: I do not own any characters.
Special note: As I was writing the sequel to One Family Day I realized, that I couldn't write angst! It's completely beyond my power, seriousness I can try to attempt, I think. I wrote a more serious sequel and it came like a bad piece of crap! IT SUX0RS BADLY! So I decided that I am a humor writer and sticking too it. So now as for this story, it's going turn into a Drabble series that happens at random events in time. So at one point Ed could be 16, then 20 then barely 1 but I'll try to keep Ed in his teens for most of the series. And this series follows everyone in the family, and I'm not restricted to one place! )(looks at her chapter stories rot)( Now that that makes sense… I DO NOT CREATE CHARACTERS! I just borrow them from other series (don't ask I don't know). So for people that have read One Family Day, in this story there will be an addition to the Mustang family. I felt that since Roy was so horny that they needed an "unplanned" child, that and one that looked like him. XDD Now I'd like to keep the consistency from One Family Day Ed and Al are 5 and 6, so the third child is born about a year after that, so Ed and Al are 6 and 7 years older. Got it? Good! Okay! Enjoy and…. On with the story!
Scene 1: The Third Mustang Child
In a great mound of pink linen a black haired/eyed child awoke from not her alarm clock blaring but her trusty companion Black Hayate hitting the snooze button for her. "Morning Hayate," she mumbled sleepily as she reached for the clock, it read: 7:20. "It couldn't be," she mumbled and she rubbed her eyes again to see if she read the clock right, then she mentally screamed, "How many times had the dog hit the snooze button!" ripping her fluffy covers and her pajamas off, she quickly put her school uniform on. Grabbing her school bag as she rushed out to the hallway, the dog in tow.
The nine-year-old took a quick turn down the hall past her older brothers empty rooms, and nearly ran face first into her fathers backside. "Whoa there my girl!" he called to her as he felt the rush of wind and turned to face her. She smirked at her father.
"So you wanna play that way Sakura? Then I have no choice!" he said picking her up slinging her over his shoulder.
She giggled, "Otou-chan I'm not a little girl anymore I can walk by myself."
"Yes I know but I wont let you!" he said snickering, walking down the stairs to the kitchen where he knew that his wife was now making there lunches.
The woman in question, heard her husband step into the room, "Roy? Where is Sakura? She better not be sleeping in again, she'll miss-" she stopped in mid-sentence as she turned around. There standing in front of her was her husband with a devils innocent grin and her daughters butt covered by the white skirt of her uniform.
"Otou-chan! Put me down!" she pleaded beating her fists on his back.
"Really Roy-"
"Alright, alright, if you really want it Riza." He said passively placing the young girl on the floor. She may have stood three feet seven inches off the ground, but she knew exactly what both parents had nagging at the back of there minds as they had a staring contest.
"They'll comeback eventually." Sakura muttered waving her hand in the air passively walking to the table, her father caught her wrist.
"Sakura where'd you get this?" Roy began pulling on the chain tied around her wrist. Riza's eyes went wide as well.
"Umm... it's that… I didn't! I swear!"
"Sakura!" Roy said in a scary tone.
"Ed gave it to me before he and Al left on there last mission and said that it was the best way to know that he's always with me so I wouldn't get lonely."
Riza frowned and walked to the table, Roy followed in suit. And all three sat at the table quietly, her brothers were a touchy subject when they were gone, especially when they're long over due for a visit. Her brothers Edward and Alphonse, Sixteen and fifteen, nearly twelve months apart in age and were inseparable since the moment that Al was born. You couldn't get one boy with out the other. And now they were both gone.
Sakura frowned at the cereal floating in the bowl of milk, everything reminded her of her brothers. Her mood lightened up a bit as she began to giggle when something soft and fuzzy was rubbing against her legs.
"Kero-chan! That tickles!" she called through her giggles that she couldn't hide anymore.
Roy looked up from his newspaper with a questioning look at his daughter; "Kero-chan's ehehehe, fur is tickling me!" she said to him as she picked up the yellow kitten and went face to face with it. "Don't be like your mother and cause a lot of trouble." she said in a stern tone to the kitten. At that moment an orange Persian cat decided to saunter in, causing Black Hayate to bark as it made it's way to the food dish.
"Dear, I think it was Alphonse that caused more trouble than Enshoku did." Riza said to her daughter passively. Sakura glanced at her mother and then back at the kitten. Placing it on her lap she began to eat again.
Riza, who had finished her breakfast, stood up and went to the sink to rinse of her dishes, when she caught sight of the clock on the wall. "Roy! We better get going or Sakura is going to be late for school!"
"Hai hai!" was Roy's answer to his wife, from not looking up from the paper. He began to reach for another piece of toast to eat when his wife ripped away the plate from its spot. His hand began to grope for the plate, shifting amongst the table his pinky finger got caught on the lip of Sakura's breakfast bowl. And as his hand began to move again it caused the bowl to tip with his movement. Riza's eyebrow twitched as the kitten in Sakura's lap jumped onto the table to lick it clean.
Roy looked up from his paper to find Riza's death glare fixed on him. "Alright, alright I'll clean it up." He said defensively like he was forced to clean up someone else's mess. Riza gritted her teeth, and balled her hands into fists making her knuckles turn white from trying to refrain from shooting at Roy, in their own home and in front of their own daughter no less!
"Roy Mustang give me one-!" she said, but Roy simply didn't care and kissed her to stop her from scolding him, and gave Sakura the usual signal. Riza tried to break it, but he merely deepened it making her collapse in his arms.
Meanwhile Sakura raced back and forth cleaning up the mess, trying not to notice that her father was trying to make out with her mother in front of her. But she ignored that fact when she stared at them yelling, "ALL DONE!" when she was finished.
They broke and Riza fell to the ground causing Black Hayate to yelp, trying to get away from her, when she merely landed on his tail, "Oh god Roy-"
"Not right now Kaa-chan were twenty minutes behind schedule and school starts in ten!" Sakura said grabbing her school bag and began to head to the door.
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"Today Winry-chan is going to pick up after school and take you to the Hughes'." Riza stared into her rearview mirror as she said this to her daughter. The family was half way to the school.
"Kaa-chan I'm nine years old I think I can walk home alone."
"No! Not after last time." Sakura mentally cringed at what happened the last time, she got beaten on by a whole bunch of boys and had gotten lost on the way home, Ed and Al eventually found her hours later. "Kaa-chan that was only because-"
"I can send Armstrong." Riza said sternly, Roy snorted.
"Winry-nee-chan fine Kaa-chan." Sakura pouted.
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"I'm Late I'm Late!" Sakura began to yell running down the hallway, skidding to a stop at classroom 4-A and swung open the door.
"Late gain Sakura-san, and third time this week no less. I assume you have another excuse for us today?" a brown haired sensei that was standing in from of the class, in a blue suit said to her.
"Sumimasen! I slept in and was late for breakfast and then Kaa-chan told Otou-chan that we should leave and he didn't care and she stole his food, so while reading the paper he groped for the plate that she took and while he was doing this, his pinky got caught on my bowl spilling my cereal, and then my kitten Kero-chan decided to eat the spilt milk. It was a mess to clean up."
"I'm hearing a lot of slept-ins this week, why is that?"
"Kaa-chan's dog keeps hitting the snooze button."
All the children's eye went wide from amazement. The teacher eyebrows rose in disbelief, "Surely Sakura a dog cannot do that."
"You know that's what Kaa-chan said till she saw it. Otou-chan believed me right away cause she taught Black Hayate how to use the toilet and I think that he thought that I taught him-"
"That's enough Sakura-san, proceed to your desk. And if you come in anymore times late I will have to bring it up with your parents."
"Hai."
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"Okay now let us finish our family presentations. Sakura-san, why don't you grace us with your colourful family that we always hear about, due to your lateness." Her sensei said from his desk in the corner of the classroom. Sakura blushed, and took her queue cards to the front of the classroom as well as a picture of her family.
"I am the last of three children. I have two older brothers that followed in my Otou-san's footsteps. My O-"
"How old are your brothers?" the sensei interrupted.
"The older one sixteen and the younger one is fifteen."
"I assume the attend the adjoining high school."
"No actually the travel around the country."
"So there dropouts then?"
"No!" Sakura said angrily, "at the ages of ten and eleven they were said to have the IQ equivalent to a person with eight university degrees in alchemy." The sensei was taken back.
"If they were that smart why would they travel the country?"
"Because they are State Alchemists like my Otou-san."
Everyone was in shock, "and your Kaa-san what does she do?" hoping to find normalcy somewhere in her tale.
"Oh she's in the military as well. Her rank is Lieutenant Colonel. Oddly enough my parents met on the front lines of Ishval rebellion and Kaa-san swore to protect him, she almost died once due to a gun shot to her-"
"That's enough Sakura-san." He looked at her as if she was merely just finished stating a fairytale.
"Awe but my classmates got to show a picture."
"Alright show us a picture then."
Everyone went wide-eyed there standing with Sakura was many of the key people of the military. At the top the aspiring Fuhrer, Flame Alchemist himself, Roy Mustang, to his right was his wife and Bodyguard, Riza "Hawkeye" Mustang. And at the bottom were the two youngest State Alchemists, Fullmetal and Steel Heart. And sandwiched between the two was there tiny classmate Sakura. To think simple Sakura-san always late for class. That loves PE and Music and who's worst subject is math, comes from such an important family.
"Sakura-san what would you like to be when your older?" the Sensei queried.
"State Alchemist." She said with confidence, and without pause.
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Sakura walked out of the school grumbling. She'd rather walk alone, but no her mother didn't trust her. In the far distance was the school gate. "I guess I should hurry up, Winry-nee-chan isn't one to wait." She grumbled as she broke into a brisk walk and as she neared, she didn't see a feminine form leaning against the wall, but a male one. She broke into a run as she realized it was one of her brothers. People began to stare as she jumped hugged him, yelling, "Edward-nii-san, your home!"
Enjoy? I hope you did! I needed something that introduce some of the characters right off the bat, as well as fill in time gaps. I thought that Sakura's story fit perfectly. Now to type Ed and Al's side, so that means that the next chapter is connected to this one, but focuses on Ed and Al.
Sakura – based off of Sakura Kinomoto from CLAMP's all famous Cardcaptor Sakura. Now I've only seen the show in Japanese (I watch many, many shows in Japanese!) so if any other characters from that show that show up will have the Japanese names. She has her basic attitude and build, but I had to fool around with her physical features, hair and eye colour by making them both black to look similar to Roy. Now as we know for those whom have watched the show that she is relatively short and not that graceful and gets teased by her brother Touya a lot because of it, but in this story I decided to add a lot of Touya's traits into Ed since there really similar. Anyway in comparison, Sakura is well a copy of Sakura, Ed is like Touya and Al is a cross between Yukito and Fujitaka (you know Sakura's dad?). Weird I know, but oh well…
Steel Heart – the title came from the manga actually, I can't remember exactly, but I do remember that someone called Al that, I think...
Ugh it's hard to write a story, as if someone hasn't read the first story. -.- So tired…