Disclaimer: i only own shinku...if i owned the rest envy wouldnt be evil and it would be a very yaoiful show! also, i didnt do this chapter, my friend did.. thats why it's so short and Shinku's different

"SLEEPOVER!" Shinku yelled into the phone.

"Why Shinku? Isn't Mustang there to keep you company?" Ed asked while rubbing his ear.

"He is going away." Shinku explained. "I don't know how long for but he told me to call you and ask you if you would mind staying over here while he is gone." He said excitedly, hoping that Ed would say yes so he wouldn't have to put up with Armstrong anymore than he had to, with all his crazy family stories and such."I don't want to have to go stay with Armstrong again Ed! PLEASE! Save me from him and stay here with me!" Shinku said. Yelling into the phone once more, resulting in Ed rubbing his ear once more.

"Okay Shinku. I will stay." All that was left on the other end of the phone was a thump and then faint but happy screams followed. Shinku dropped the phone in all his excitedness that Ed was sleeping over at his house. Ed was packing some stuff. Just the essentials really because he knew that he and Shinku would be coming back to his home anyways, that was just how Shinku was. Ed knocked on Al's bedroom door.

"Come in!"said a muffled voice from the inside.

"Hey Al. I have to go babysit for Mustang again." Ed said slinging his messenger bag over his shoulder. "Will you be ok by yourself?"

"I will be fine brother." Al replied in his normally happily toned voice.

"I know you know where Mustang lives so if anything is wrong here then just come and get me. Bye Al!" Ed said walking away from his brothers room and walking out the door. As Ed walked along the road he thought to himself / I wonder if leaving Al alone in the house was such a good idea? Last time I left him alone he had a party that lasted three days. / The look on Ed's face was priceless, remembering what his house looked like when he came home. "I hope he doesn't do that again" he though aloud, receiving glances from many people. Once Ed reached Mustang's house he rang the doorbell and prepared himself to be pounced on by Shinku.

end Part 4+