AN: Hello everybody! Sorry I haven't updated here lately, dontcha just hate it when near the end of the school year all the teachers pile work on you?

"What's wrong Al?" Winry asked, watching him run around.

"Why do you have a cat on your head?" Ed asked, peering up at his strangely acting brother.

"What?" Al asked after he stopped running around like a chicken with its head cut off. He felt his head and lifted off a kitten.

Chapter 4-

Kaiya

Al held it out in both his hands to get a better look at it. The kitten had long black hair all over her body, for this was indeed a girl. She had large green eyes; the kind that makes you want to say "Awww." Al was a little angry at first, wouldn't you if a cute little kitten scared you half to death? I say he was angry at first because as soon as the little kitten looked at him and mewed, all sweet and innocent, he fell to pieces.

"Isn't she the cutest thing you've ever saw? She's so small and adorable!" cried Al as he squeezed her and loved her. (but he didn't call her George)

By this time, Roy, Riza, and Havoc had come to see the problem. They all just stood around as Al loved and cooed at the cat.

"Uh...What's going on?" Roy asked while eyeing Al like he'd just sprouted a set of wings.

"That's what I'd like to know." Ed said.

"Oh, this adorable kitten scared me when she jumped out of the costumes." Al explained, still holding and cuddling the cat.

"That ain't a kitten, she just look's like one" Chuck said as he came out of the back room.

Everyone looked at him and then looked back at the kitt- er cat. They had a good reason to doubt the cats age. This cat could fit in Al's palm! No normal cat could be that little unless it was a kitten.

"Odd, ain't it? Its true though, found her about two years ago outside of my shop, just a newborn. I fed her and now she just won't leave!" Chuck threw his arms up in an aggravated manner, "Since then I kindda just adopted her; name's Kaiya."

"What a cute name!" Winry said as she took Kaiya from Al.

Everyone crowded around her to see Kaiya. She was petted and rubbed by everyone but, as soon as she saw Riza, she wiggled out of Winry's hands and jumped into Riza's. Riza caught her in surprise. As soon as Kaiya was caught, she started to mew and rub herself against Riza.

"Looks like she likes you," Chuck said leaning against the counter, "you can take her if you want, that cats been nothing but trouble to me since she got here."

Kaiya looked at Chuck as if she knew what he just said, and to show what she thought of it, she sneezed at him.

Riza looked down at the little cat and then said to Chuck, "I can't take her, I already have a dog." She was interrupted, though, by those large and cute eyes looking up at her sadly. "Meww" Kaiya said in a small and sad voice. Makes you want to cry don't it?

Chuck sighed and then said, "Oh well, you wouldn't have wanted her anyway; always getting into stuff she shouldn't."

Roy could've sworn he just saw that cat stick its tongue out at Chuck.

Suddenly they heard a yell come from somewhere near the back, "I'VE FOUND IT!" Someone, Hughes to be more exact, came barreling out from the back of the shop holding…a pink tutu…

Ed, recognizing it as the one he saw earlier, bust out laughing, and no one really wanted to know why.

"I've finally found it! Isn't it the greatest thing you've ever seen?" Hughes said with an air of pride at finding this "great" discovery.

By that time, Ed wasn't the only one laughing. Winry, Al, and Havoc were all trying to stifle their giggles. Riza and Chuck just sweatdropped, while Roy had his face buried in his hand. (I'm personally with Ed; I mean what would you do if a grown man proclaimed a tutu as the greatest thing he's ever seen?)

"No, I take that back, it isn't the greatest thing I've ever seen. The greatest thing I'll ever see is Elicia in this!" Hughes said.

Chuck, who really didn't know what to make of this, all of a sudden whispered to himself, "Oooooooohh, I get it now." Roy happened to overhear him, and he in turn was heard mumbling, "I don't know him, I don't know him…"

Hughes, who didn't know he had just said something really weird, looked at Chuck and said in a loud voice, "I would like to purchase this for my cute little angel along with the two puppy suits."

Chuck brightened and said, "Oh yeah, there are two dog suits in stock, here wait a minute and I'll go get them for you." He moved off towards the middle of the store and a few minutes later, he came back with two bundles. He laid one on the counter and unfolded the other.

Everyone except Roy started to giggle; he just sort of slumped on the spot. It was a full body suit and for the hands and feet, there were cute little puppy paws. It was dark grey on the back and on the front, or the belly, and paws it was a lighter grey. It also had a hood that pulled over and made a cute little snout with little dog ears, and it had a tail.

"Hm, that looks to be your size," Chuck said while looking at Roy. He folded it back up and put it on the counter while picking the other one up. It was almost an exact replica of the first one; this one had white on its front and paws, a longer tail, and longer ears, plus it was smaller, a lot smaller.

"Lucky for you I had a child's size." Chuck said, unaware of Ed's sensitivity of being called short even if he is.

Ed of course, misinterpreted what he said and started shouting while jumping up and down, "WHAT DO YOU MEAN SO MUCH SMALLER THAT A CHILD?"

"Ed, he didn't say that!" Al said, while Chuck had his hands up in a calming fashion.

Ed calmed down a little, mostly to get Al and Winry to stop pestering him. Chuck sweatdropped and then said, "If you don't mind me asking, why do you want dog suits?"

Hughes got a little glint in his eyes as he started to explain, "Well, you see, they made a bet."

Chuck stopped him with a wave of his hand, and, chuckling, said, "Say no more, I get a lot of people coming in here for bets. So do the suits, uh, suit you?"

Riza chuckled, still holding Kaiya, and said, "Yes, those two can embarrass themselves all they want to in those." Roy and Ed glared daggers at her, "How much?"

"Well lets see the large suits gonna cost you about $25, the small," here he got an evil glare from Ed, "that will be about $20, and the tutu is about $10" (if the prices seem odd sorry, no one knew how much two dog suits and a tutu would cost back then)

Riza looked at Roy, Ed, and Hughes and said, "You boys can pay for them, since, after all, it was your idea."

Chuck smiled as he took the money and said, "Come back anytime."

Everyone moved toward the door waving bye to Chuck, everyone that is except Riza. She bent down and put Kaiya on the floor and moved toward the door, that is until she felt something grab her leg.

"It looks like Kaiya wants to go with you." Chuck chuckled.

"I can't take her, I have a dog." Riza said, trying to pry Kaiya from her pant-leg.

Everyone had doubled back to find out why Riza wasn't with them. Roy asked, "What's the hold up?"

"The cat won't leave me alone!" She said, getting a little annoyed.

"Why don't you just take her?" Roy asked.

"Because, I have a dog already." Riza said.

"Black Hayate won't mind much, and besides if he tries anything, just shot at him, that seems to work." Roy said with a shrug.

"Kaiya likes dogs; in fact one of her best friends is a dog." Chuck said, "Go ahead and take her, she doesn't need much care."

Riza looked at Chuck then back down to Kaiya. Kaiya's cuteness level was through the roof. Her eyes were big and Riza swore she saw Kaiya's lip quiver.

"Alright," Riza said as she plucked Kaiya off of her pants, "I guess I can take you, but things will be strict at my home." Again Riza swore she saw that cat smile.

And that's how Riza got her new cat.

AN: So? How did you like it? Hopefully I'll be able to update faster when school gets out, but right now I have homework and finals to worry about, plus one of my best friends is moving and I wont see her again until senior year, so I'm spending a lot of time with her. I promise I'll update as soon as I can, hey, at least I didn't make this a cliff-hanger!

Nya