WARNING: Character spoiler, if you don't know Black Hayate…
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Hagane no Renkinjutsushi. It belongs to Hiromu Arakawa sensei.
PAIRING: RoyRiza
Of Arrays and Guns
#3. Lunch Break
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"Hayate, sit," she commanded firmly at the dog.
The dog immediately reacted, hurriedly doing it as he hopefully eyed the can in her hand at the corner of his eyes. He barked, high pitched, and wagged his tail, his black eyes glittering as she stared at him back, her gaze unmoving. She shook the can in front of the dog's eyes in an attempt to perhaps tempt him, but the dog sat, still, just eyeing the can of glittery hopefulness.
"Hand," she reached out, her palm facing upwards.
He placed his paw in her hand.
"Good dog," she lightly smiled at him, patting him on the head. He barked once more, tail restlessly moving as he stared at her hand. The clock read 12:33. He was supposed to eat his lunch 33 minutes and 13 seconds ago, if it wasn't for a certain colonel who refused to do his paperwork until the last minute. With a bullet embarked deeply into the space right next to his head, Roy Mustang was currently slaving away at his work, which was due at 12:45. Not that he ever did his work earlier than this…
Hawkeye paused, staring at Hayate, as she thoughtfully rolled the can in her hand unconsciously, lightheartedly noticing that his dark eyes were following her every movement with something that was too akin to hope. Finally, she held out her hand again, only this time with her palm faced sideways and fingers curled in slightly. "Shake," she commanded.
Without any hesitation, Hayate barked and lifted up his paw, placing it in her healthily pale hand. He whined, his nose nudging at her hand that was grasping the silver sealed cylinder.
Chuckling, Riza took out a can opener from her uniform pocket, opened it at the top, and emptied the can on the bowl sitting next to Hayate.
She enjoyed her lunch, sitting on a couch next to Hayate and nibbling at her sandwich she made for herself. When she was finished, she gazed at the door to a certain colonel's office, and then looked down at a small brown paper bag on her lap thoughtfully, as if she was deciding something, looking back and forth at the door and the bag.
As in for Roy…
He was seating in front of his desk, hopelessly staring at the paperwork that seemed to not lessen at all no matter how hard he worked. His stomach growled beneath his thick uniform and he sighed, rubbing at it with weariness. Sometimes he wondered if Hawkeye thought he was a dog. Literally. Not the 'Men are such a dog' type of dog, dog as in literally, the furry little creatures who barks their head off and snarls at you.
After all, she was "training" him in the same way she trained Black Hayate. Point a gun at your head, and if you don't do it, shoot without hesitation. He still remembers how Riza toilet trained Hayate a while ago. She shot him in total of 6, gunshots narrowly missing his limbs. The puppy had been frightened. Very frightened. He started doing anything Hawkeye told him to do without hesitation.
It was the same with Roy. Every day he'd fool around, spin around in his chair doing nothing until he attempted to train Hayate with meat few hours before lunch. Then he'd be back in his office, shoving his paperwork under his desk and doodling on one of the document given to him. Hawkeye would then barge in, swiftly run her eyes over the empty desk and the paper with black blobs on them, load her gun deftly, point it at his head in silent warning, before shooting him if Roy didn't respond to her action.
It happened practically daily before.
"Taisa (Colonel)," she opened the door, a brown paper bag in her hand, "Here you go, sir." She threw it, and closed the door immediately after the bag was out of her grasp.
Roy blinked as the paper bag landed right on his desk with a rustle. Cautiously, he peeked inside, before grinning fondly at the place Hawkeye was standing at. Quietly, he took out the sandwich and started eating it, reading the documents as he went.
But the number of Hawkeye shooting at him lessened bit by bit, and Roy amusedly thought.
He was wrapped around her pinkie already.
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Author's Notes:
Well, there goes my third attempt… (stares into the air)
Thank you for reviewing this drabble series…! It makes me happy!
Though, it's not my first time writing something that's not yaoi.
I write Inuyasha X Kagome, Miroku X Sango, Kagura X Sesshoumaru, and such from Inuyasha fandom. I only support straight couples in Inuyasha fandom except for Bankotsu and Jakotsu.
Just because I happen to be infatuated with a pairing that happens to be slash doesn't mean I only support yaoi. In fact, I love Al X Winry in FMA too. I love Havoc X Riza. It just happens to be that I don't support Roy X Riza.
Really, I mean…the only main yaoi couples I like very much are HaoRen, RoyEd, SasuNaru, and KakaIru so far. And that's it. I support more straight pairings more than yaoi couples, in fact.
Anyways, that's it for my rant. Oh, and Tempest Kiro-san. I followed the Japanese military rank system that was used during World War II. And technically, in manga, Roy wasn't promoted to Colonel when he made a little visit to Ed. The first chapter was before he visited Ed, so he was Lt. Colonel during that time. He was Lt. Colonel when he visited Ed in 3rd episode in the anime too. I watched the episodes, all 51 episodes, and I collect manga. I checked the manga before I wrote the chapter, just to make sure. Thanks for the critique though. Sorry for the long Author's Notes.
And this is dedicated to Rikku-chan all the way! Woo woo!
(EDIT) I just realized that I wrote Roy's rank wrong. Sorry...