Black Hayate

Riza slumped down, her head swimming from the events of the day. First the colonel had come to visit and god was he a great kisser, second the general came and told her that he was being promoted to captain, thirdly her father sent her a Christmas present, something that he never did and finally Black Hayate was missing. Riza was so tired that she couldn't look for the dog. She decided she would look in the morning

Roy sat up in his bed the next morning, his hair sticking up in numerous different directions. He rubbed the back of his neck and got out of his bed then walked down the stairs. There was a scratching at his back door and he opened it to reveal Black Hayate. He was sitting on Roy's back door step. Hayate jumped into the room barking playfully and wiggling his butt in the air. Roy looked at him then shut the door and walked over to the coffee pot.

"What are you doing here?" Roy asked the puppy, pouring himself a cup of coffee. Hayate only barked and whined for Roy to play with him.

"No answer… did you run away?" Roy eyed Hayate as he sniffed at the chair legs. ((Hayate not Roy)) "Possible… hmmm… she wouldn't let you go so you must have run away. But why did you come here?" Roy asked thoughtfully, sitting down in his chair and pulling his glove on. He snapped and set the fireplace ablaze. Hayate saw the spark and jumped, trying to bite it. Roy laughed at the antics of the crazy dog. He snapped again only creating a spark and the dog jumped at it, again trying to catch the bit of fire.

"Door bell?" Roy asked curiously, looking into the hallway as he heard the door bell. He stood up and walked to the door, only opening it a crack then almost slammed the door shut for who it was.

"Colonel?" Riza eyed him. Hayate ran out into the hallway clumsily, sliding on the hardwood floors. "BLACK HAYATE!" Riza knelt down as the puppy ran into her arms. She stood up and looked at Roy. "Why did you have him?"

"I just found him a few minutes ago on my back door." Roy confessed. "Hey, I owe you and apology for yesterday… and a cup of coffee, care to come in? Sorry about the mess." Roy apologized, letting her in. She set Hayate down who ran over to Roy and barked, scratching at his hand. "Again? Alright." Roy snapped and the puppy twisted through the air, snapping at the spark.

"What was that?" Riza asked.

"Hayate likes my sparks." Roy smiled and took her coat, hanging it on the rack. "Would you mind uh…" He motioned to the fact that he was only wearing his boxers.

"Sure…" Riza nodded.

"The kitchen's right through there, help yourself." He said as he walked up the stairs. He walked into his room, shut the door and did a little victory dance. He had the lieutenant, in his house! Amazing and finally… he had been desperately clinging to the dream that perhaps this would come true some day… He pulled off his boxers, kicked them into the basket and turned on the shower. He jumped into the normally burning hot water and began to scrub his scalp with shampoo, humming slightly.

Downstairs Riza was looking around his house with interest. He had the house of a typical bachelor, slightly messy, but not unclean. She felt that there was a method to his madness, the messy book shelves were filled to the bursting with Alchemy books, books and papers littered the floor, pens scattered across the room. She smiled faintly and began to pick up the pens and papers, being careful not to remove them from their original order. She stacked the papers and left them on his desk along with the pens then she picked up the books and piled them against the wall. 'There, leg room…' She smiled and folded her arms then decided she would go see the disarray of the rooms upstairs.

'Hmmm… not as bad.' She thought, walking up the stairs. It was amazingly neater upstairs than it was downstairs… She looked around the hallway then walked down, avoiding the room that she figured was Roy's.

'What's this?' Riza put her hand on the door knob to one of the rooms, the door seemed as thought it hadn't been used in years. She slowly turned the knob and opened the door. 'Huh?' The entire room was dusty and unkempt. 'What have you been hiding Roy?' She walked over to a dressed, it was covered in almost a quarter inch of dust. She looked at it for a second. On top of the dresser was a wooden box… it was also covered in dust. The top of the box had a gold seal on it, or more like a transmutation circle. Riza blew the dust off and wiped it off with her hand. She heard a noise and turned around. No one was there. She turned back around and looked at the box again. Suddenly she heard something and looked up into the mirror… a face was blurred in the dusty mirror.

I know I know… you wanna know who it is but isn't it obvious? Hehehe or so you think…