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45 Roy/Edward Themes

Theme 02. "Ittekimasu"

It had taken a while to get used to having the teenager stay with him.

For that matter, I may never get used to it. Roy Mustang mused, slipping the second button through it's buttonhole on his white collared shirt. Moving to the next button, he turned his head to smile at the small lump under the covers on his bed.

It had been nearly three weeks since Edward had taken up residency with the Colonel. And it was still strange to wake up in the morning to the soft purring snore of the blond youth as he continued to sleep after Roy's alarm had woken him for work.

Of course, with Edward came Alphonse… but lucky for the pair, Alphonse was good at keeping a secret. No one was to know of the secret relationship between the Flame Alchemist and the FullMetal Alchemist. It could cost them both their titles.

Turning back to his bureau, Roy eyed himself in the mirror a moment. His hair was still tussled from sleep, which caused his eyebrows to knit together in discontent. Picking up a small black comb from the dresser, he combed his hair to fall neatly in it's usual scruffy disarray. He grinned and replaced the comb on the dresser.

After removing his blue uniform jacket from the closet, Roy winced as the handle to the door slipped from his fingers prematurely, and it crashed into it's holding place with a loud thwak.

A faint groan was heard from behind him, and Roy turned his head to see a bed-headed Edward sit up, glancing around the room vacantly, the covers still tossed askew over his lower body.

Blinking the sleep from his eyes, Edward yawned and stretched his arms over his head.

"Up already, taisa?" he asked groggily. Roy nodded.

"You can go back to sleep, you don't have to be into the office for another two hours." He informed the youth, pulling his jacket onto his broad shoulders. Edward smiled, still half-asleep.

"Mmn, just a minute." And with that, the blond alchemist slid off the edge of Roy's bed and shuffled over to him, wrapped his arms around Roy's midsection, and buried his face in the older man's chest. Roy's face faltered a moment, then a faint smile crossed his face. Resting a hand atop the younger alchemist's head, he scruffed his already messy hair.

"Ittekimasu," he said once Edward had released him. The boy nodded.

"Itterasshai," he mumbled, and Roy lingered to watch him shuffle back over to the bed and bury himself beneath the covers once more with a smile on his face.

He supposed that if more mornings started off this way, he could get used to the boy living with him.

Author's Notes:

Another one that people might give me a hard time for use of Japanese. Well, this one isn't even just because I like to use it. "Ittekimasu" and "Itterasshai" are hard to translate, and sound really stupid when they are. It's just a Japanese custom to say "Ittekimasu" when you leave the house. "Itterasshai" comes in response... and there's no way around them. It's kind of like announcing "I'm leaving" and having someone return with "Be safe". Get it?

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