It had been one of those days, when there wasn't really anything to do when it had happened. The Elric brothers had been in town and for once even in the office, just lazing around with the rest of them. Breda had figured that perhaps the kids hadn't been old really, just twelve and thirteen respectively. Breda had thrown a lazy gaze around the office when his eyes had strayed to his Shougun board. Then his gaze had unbidden travelled to the older of the Elric brothers. Did the kid even know how to play?
"Oy, Elric." The kid looked up, distracted by something in the book he was reading. "You ever played?" Breda made a vague gesture to the board. The kid looked surpriced for a moment before a small smile made itself known.
"Once, why; wanna' play?" The smile morfed into a smirk now and Breada was surprised for a fraction of a second by how confident the brat seemed, then he remembered it was Edward Elric.
"Sure."
So they set up the board, Hawkeye shook her head, fury sighed and the others continued whatever it was they were doing. Breda and Edward started talking as they played and time went.
"Fullmetal!" The colonel called out suddenly and the players looked up, Mustang was standing in the doorway holding a folder with his usual I'm-gonna-make-you-do-something-you-won't-enjoy-and-then-I-will-laught smirk on.
"What do you want bastard?" The golden-haired teen replied with a bark.
"Your new assignment." The smirk grew bigger.
"You can't be serious! We just completed the last one you-…" and they were off with the usual routine. Breda sighed when the door banged and silence once more descended on the office. Then he looked back on the board to pack it away. Then he froze.
Closely he began revising the game he had just played in his head yet he still couldn't come up with a reason he hadn't seen the strategy behind the kids game. He had, foolishly, dismissed the kid as a beginner and seen only mistakes in the strategies the kid used, now looking back Breda saw how the brilliant mind had worked. Using strategies, usually hard to play against when used correctly, but making it seem like he had taken water over his head using them Ed had fooled Breda. Really anyone would have fallen for the trick. And the brat had won. Honestly using strategies as shadows to conceal the real strategy the kid had beaten him, someone who had for all intents and purposes remained unbeaten for years.
That had been the day Breda accepted Ed as something more than a kid. As one on the team.
An. So it's odd, not well written or even funny. Still had to get it of my brain and I thought 'hey why let it rot on my computer?' so yeah. See ya! DominaNocte