AN: Huff… I don't know what I should say (So, why am I even writing this?)… Um… Err… Sorry for the late update? But I told you this was gonna take a long time… I've been busy. I have school (test week) and bujinkan and school choir and blah, blah, blah… And our computer kinda broke down… I was afraid it'd explode oO Luckily, it didn't… Yay! I finally got FMA manga vol. 3! I waited for it 2 months! ( -Random note I wrote BEFORE our computer stepped into puberty…) And I FINALLY saw the FMA movie:D Now! I shall answer thy reviews! Reviews!
happy-yume: Haha! My friend told be about the icon, but I can't remember which site it was oO It was at deviant. But I don't know the artist… Can't remember…
flOofymikO: Drunken Roy is the best..! Drunken characters rule:DDD And hear you'll see what happens (although it's nothing great. Haha.)
Disclaimer: I went to meet Hiromu Arakawa and she said that she's more than happy to give the copyrights of Hagane no Renkinjutsushi to me. But then I realized I was only dreaming… sigh So, I have to admit, Full Metal Alchemist STILL belongs to her.
Warning: No warnings…? No… Exciting stuff… No… Nothing..?
Ed: Are you serious? Nothing exciting!
Author: I'm afraid so.
Ed: Damn, I thought things were gonna get interesting… Stupid author! It's your fault, baka!
Author: Gomen! I'm really sorry..! bows deeply
Ed: You should be!
Author: Yes. We'll argue more later. Now let's get on with the… fic…
It was a beautiful morning. Sun had just risen and it shone brightly and happily, forcing the light it brought through closed drapes. Parents were preparing breakfast and children were awakening and yawning, ready to meet the new day. In a little flat, not far from the ports that lead outside the town, two figures were sleeping firmly. But then the sun decided to awake at least one of them by invading the quite large bedroom. 'Someone should damn the sun and burn it. Sometimes it's just too bright' Lieutenant Hawkeye thought and opened her eyes. She was about to get up when she felt someone shifting behind her. Right then she remembered where she was. She was at Colonel's house. In HIS bedroom. In HIS bed. With HIS arms around HER waist. 'KUSOOOO!' she yelled in her head. 'Kuso, kuso, kusooo!' she damned some more.
"Colonel! Wake up!" she shouted out aloud and hit him in the head. Roy jumped up and mumbled:
"What's going on? Ouch, my head hurts. What did you do that for, Riza? Wait a second…" he looked around for a second. He had finally realized he was in his own room with Riza in his bed (Yes, Colonel's very sharp).
"Riza? What are you doing here? In my bed nevertheless?" he asked after a while. Riza's cheeks turned a really light shade of pink. And if you knew Riza, you knew this was something that happened RARELY. 'Oh my, she's blushing..! I could just… err... nevermind…' Roy thought.
"I had no choice, you were too drunk to walk home, so I drove you here." She muttered angrily.
"Ok. But… umm… that didn't answer my question."
"Well, I would've left right after I got you to bed but for some reason unknown, you just decided to… drag me down with you and wrap your arms around me." She looked at her waist.
"And, now to think about it, you still have your arms around me!" Now it was Mustang's time to blush. He quickly pulled his arms away from Riza and mumbled a quick sorry. Riza stood up and looked at the clock that was on the night table. It was 8.30 already.
"Damn! I'm late! We're late!" she yelled and ran out of the room. Then she ran back telling Roy to put his clothes on so they could leave.
"It's saturday! There's no need to hurry! And besides I am the Colonel, it's okay if we come a bit late… Ouch, my head still hurts…" he complained and pressed his face in his hands. "Owww…"
"Colonel, do –"
"Just Roy."
"Roy, do you want something to drink?" Riza asked with a smile. No wonder Mustang was feeling sick, he had been drinking quite a lot.
"Huh? I could take some tea, thank you", Roy answered. Riza nodded and turned to leave the room.
"One tea coming. Change your clothes, take a shower, whatever, it's your house, but be quick. I still have to go home and get Hayate", she said before she vanished from Roy's sight. After a while, Roy got up and went to his bathroom. He quickly brushed his teeth and combed his hair. 'Gotta look good for the ladies', he thought and went back to his room to change clothes. Meanwhile Riza was having a problem with the range (AN: for those who don't know, it's the same as a stove but works with gas (usually)). Sighing she thought 'Why do I even bother?'
"Now, work you stupid, old crap!" she growled angrily to the range as if it would start to work with her threat. It didn't. So she hit it, which wasn't too wise because now she hurt her arm.
"Kuso!" Riza took a deep breath and tried again. She struck a new match and brought it near the range. Then she turned it on, but again, the fire of the match died. 'Bum.' She put her hand on the switch to try it when another hand appeared from behind and landed on her. Riza pulled her arm away and turned quickly to see Roy smiling at her.
"Gomen", he said.
"Your range is a bum, you know…" Riza mumbled and stepped aside.
"Bum..? Yeah, it's really hard, I know. Sorry that I left you alone with it!" Roy laughed.
"It's not fun." Riza hid her wounded arm behind her back. "Make it work so I can make the tea."
"Now, now… Did you hurt your hand? Let me see…"
"It's okay, just… do something so we can go..!"
"Later. Right now I'd rather take a look at your hand", Roy said. And reached his hand out for Riza's hand, who just pulled it away.
"No, first the range", She demanded. Roy just rolled his eyes and sighed.
"Okay, okay. If it makes you feel better…" Then he turned to the range opened the gas and snapped his fingers. In a blink of an eye, tha range was glowing with a blue fire. Riza put the kettle quickly on the table and turned away from Roy. 'Why am I acting so… childishly!' she asked herself. 'It's stupid…' Suddenly Roy handed his hand to Riza.
"And now, your hand", he said with a demanding tone. Riza hesitated but stretched out her hand to Roy, who gripped it gently.
"It doesn't look that bad… But how should I know for sure, I'm not a doctor." He laughed. "I'll wash it and wrap it just to be sure it won't get inflamed!"
"Don't laugh at me. I could do it myself, you know", She said angrily.
"What? Laugh at yourself?" Roy sniggered.
"No! I mean, I could wrap my hand by myself!" Riza growled. Roy just shook his head and cleaned Riza's hand with a disinfectant. Riza 's face didn't even twitch and why would it? It didn't even hurt because there was no scratch. Roy was just being paranoid.
After all that fuss they were ready to go. Riza almost ran into the car, muttering about being late and how she hated it. Roy just dragged himself after her, looking still a bit sick. They arrived at Hawkeye's house only 5 minutes later, just because she was driving like mad. And that had caused Roy to feel even sicker and now he was groaning like he was in great pain.
"Just shut up and take it like a man. It's your own fault anyway…" Riza growled and ran into her flat to get Black Hayate. She was furious. She was already at least one hour late and poor Hayate had had to stay in the house all alone without any food. And Roy was still suffering from a hangover.
"Sorry honey… I know it's rude for me to NOT come home but… well you don't have to know everything. You must be hungry!" Riza said to Hayate who welcomed her happily when she entered the flat. "I'll buy you something nice on our way to work, we're late already. Now, shall we go?" she continued and the dog barked happily and ran out the door which Riza was holding open for him. Black Hayate jumped to the front seat next to Riza, it was his regular place in the car in any case. The only place where they stopped, before they arrived at the military grounds, was the market, from where Lieutenant bought one apple for Roy, bread for herself and piece of chicken for Hayate.
"Thanks… You didn't have to buy this for me but thanks anyway…" Mustang mumbled sleepily when Hawkeye handed him the apple.
"It'll make you feel better. Hopefully", she stated and so they finally headed the car to the military grounds. And like Lieutenant Hawkeye wasn't pissed enough already, they were still greeted by none other but the young genius, when they entered Colonel's office. Edward Elric.
"Ooh! You're late-" he watched his pocket watch (state alchemist watch, nonetheless) "about one hour and fifteen minutes! Hah! I never guessed that this day would happen!" The smug boy continued. He couldn't really see the vein popping out from Riza's forehead. Neither did he see the pissed expressions that both were wearing (Hawkeye had it when they entered, Mustang got it when Ed opened his mouth), no, he just leaned back, sighed and said with a smirk:
"Oh my… What should I do now..? Hmm… Or rather, what should you do, Colonel?"
"Full metal one. If you don't shut your mouth in this second, I'm going to snap. I'm tired, I'm feeling sick and I don't want to hear your annoying voice right now. Take rest of the day off", Roy answered, anger and irritation present in his voice.
"I get a free day? Whoo! So I shall go! See ya later Colonel! Take care Lieutenant Hawkeye!" Ed yelled and ran out.
"Hopefully not… Kuso… He forgot to give the weekly report to me", Roy mumbled.
"I'll get it", Riza said and ran after Ed. It wasn't hard to find Ed, who was happily jumping down the stairs at the moment. When Riza reached him, tapped him on the shoulder. This scared the Elric boy and he fell over.
"Edward-san, you forgot the report! Um, are you okay?"
"Yes! I'm fine! Oh, yeah the report. Wait it's in my pocket." There was a red trickle of blood coming out of his nose, but that went unnoticed by the boy.
"You're bleeding", Riza pointed out and offered him a handkerchief.
"Oh? I am? Oops… haha. Thanks Lieutenant!" thanked Ed while he took the handkerchief and gave Riza the paper. Then he hopped up and ran the rest of the stairs down. "Bye Lieutenant! Oh! And greetings from Al!" he shouted and waved his hand. Then he disappeared around the corner.
Colonel Mustang was lying on the sofa when Hawkeye entered the room. Black Hayate had run out somewhere. She dropped the report on the desk and turned to look at the Colonel. 'Now, I have to deal with him', she thought.
"Colonel-"
"Roy."
"Roy, what you did last night was terribly wrong, especially when you knew that you had work the next day!" she said angrily and stepped to stand next to Colonel.
"Urgh… Not you too… Don't start this…" Roy groaned.
"Well, what you presume me to do? Just sit silent? Hell no! You're wrong if you thought so! You're supposed to be our leader! You should have some responsibility!" Riza raised her voice.
"I am… I have…"
"Seems like you don't have! What kind of idea was to get drunk, so that you get a hungover and come late to work! I can't believe I was with you the whole time!"
"Riza, my head hurts… Could you please-"
"Your head hurts? Well, guess what! You deserve that!" she yelled and went to the door.
"Aren't you overreacting a bit Riza..?" only answer Roy got was the sound of door slammed shut.
"Oh great..!" he growled and draped his right arm across his eyes. He could feel the sleep fairy coming to him when Lieutenant Havoc and Breda entered the room.
"Oh! Colonel! Here you are! Where were you before?" Havoc asked.
"I, uh… I was taking care of some business", Roy mumbled and rubbed his temple.
"Ok. What was Lieutenant Hawkeye so furious about?" Havoc asked.
"We ran into her, or rather, she ran into us when she came out. She seemed to be fuming about something and she didn't stop when we called her!" Breda filled. Both Lieutenants looked really worried. 'Oh great!' Mustang thought to himself again. He was just about to answer when Sergeant Major Fury and Warrant Officer Farman came in.
"What happened? Lieutenant Hawkeye seemed really angry!" Fury asked.
"Not you too!" Colonel growled angrily. Everyone looked at him with wonder. Roy took a deep breath and opened his mouth only to be interrupted once again.
"Coloneeel! What's going on! Poor Lieutenant Hawkeye was mad when I saw her! And it was only few seconds ago!" Major Armstrong yelled as he slammed the door in. Mustang's headache had just gone from bad to worse. All of them were asking the same question and accusing him.
"Would you please be quiet! Fine! I'll answer your questions!" he shouted. "We just had a little argument. That's all."
"Really? She didn't look like she had just had 'a little argument'", Havoc muttered. Roy sighed and told them the whole story. Changing the truth a bit, of course. He didn't want his subordinates to know that he was completely drunk, so he just told them he had worked overtime last night and that's why he overslept and Riza had to come and awake him. And for some reason Havoc and the others did quite not believe him, but they said nothing. Neither did he tell them about falling asleep with Riza in his bed.
"Oh! So that's the story!" They all said in choir.
"I think you should go and get her back. Tell her you're sorry", Armstrong said the always-present pink sparkles dancing around him. Some minutes were spent in silence because everyone was too scared to open their mouths.
"Yeah, I guess I should do that", Roy finally mumbled and got up from the sofa. At the same time Riza entered the room in silence.
"Look who comes!" Lieutenant Havoc said. Riza greeted everyone except Colonel, to who she only nodded without any real eye contact.
Now, let's rewind time a bit and see what happened to Riza after she had run out of the office, ran into Havoc, Breda, Fury, Farman and Armstrong.
"Lieutenant Hawkeye!" she heard someone with a young voice calling. She'd lie if she said that she didn't know who it was. She turned around to see the younger Elric running towards her.
"Alphonse-kun! What are you doing here?" she asked the young boy. She was happy to see someone other than a military person.
"I came to see if nii-san was here but… you seem to be kind of angry, Lieutenant." Al answered.
"Ah, it's nothing."
"It's Colonel Mustang? Isn't it?" the armour asked. Al never stopped to surprise Riza (nor did his brother, who always made up some new pranks and jokes).
"Yes. He… he just made me… I mean us, come late to work", she sighed.
"Care to tell me the whole story?" Al questioned and Riza nodded. So she told him what had happened leaving nothing away but just making it sound more "sophisticated". And of course she left the part, where she and Colonel fell asleep on the same bed, untold.
"So that's what happened! Well, if you want my opinion, Lieutenant Hawkeye, I'd say he should really be the one to apologize." Al said. Riza nodded.
"But I feel so childish. I don't know why I yelled at him like that." She muttered.
"That's because you care about him and you don't want him to hurt himself or do some stupid stuff!"
"For someone who's only fourteen, you sound rather old. You sound like forty-year-old man, Alphonse-kun!" she laughed and scratched her head.
"Really..? Hehe. I guess I do!" Al laughed and did the same movement as Riza. "Anyway, I think you should make him repay for what he did. Don't talk to him for some time and make him beg for apologize", he continued. Hawkeye raised her head to look Al in the eyes. What the younger Elric had said surprised her a lot.
"Well, that's something I don't hear everyday from you, Al!" was a voice heard behind the said boy. Al jumped aside to reveal his big brother standing behind him with the guy from the other day.
"Nii-san! Don't scare me like that! Good day Elliot-kun!" Al said and bowed to the other boy. Also Hawkeye bowed to greet both of the boys. Elliot, polite as he was, bowed and greeted both of them by saying their names.
"Good day Alphonse-kun, Hawkeye-san."
"Why are you polite when they're around?" Ed asked angrily. "Anyway! I agree with Al! You have to make Colonel suffer!" he continued, reminding Riza of what she and Al were talking about before they were interrupted.
"Err… okay…" she mumbled
"Nii-san! I didn't mean that she should terrorize Colonel!" Al yelled. Ed turned to look at his younger brother, big grin planted on his face.
"Who ever talked about terrorizing?" he asked. Al gave a start and a weak bang was heard when Al's armoured hands met his head.
"Exactly", Ed smirked. Riza was loosing her temper again. Luckily Elliot noticed this and grabbed Ed's collar saying: "Well, we'll be leaving. Have a nice day, Alphonse-kun, Hawkeye-san!"
"Don't you dare to grab me from my collar!" Ed's shout echoed in the hallway.
"I already did, you stupid, Hagane no chibi-san…"
"WHAT?"
"Heh. Sorry 'bout nii-san. Err... Where were we?" Al asked. Riza thought for a moment and answered then:
"It was something about making Colonel to pay what he did and make him beg for apologize."
"Oh yes! Now I remember!"
"And..?"
"Well… That's about that. You're not the one who's supposed to say you're sorry. He's the one in this case."
"Thank you, Alphonse-kun. By the way, weren't you looking for Edward-san?" Lieutenant Hawkeye asked.
"Yes. No! I mean yes but he just left! I'll… I'll run after him. Have a nice day, Hawkeye-san!" Al said and ran to the same direction he came from.
"You too, Alphonse-kun! And thank you!" After saying that, she turned back and started to walk forward Roy's office.
(And back to the… err… present!)
Riza said nothing when she sat down on the sofa Roy had just been lying on. Everyone else stayed silent until Armstrong opened his mouth and yelled:
"Oh! You poor, young girl! I'm sorry for Col-! No! Men let's go! Colonel should apologize for her himself!"
"Hmph. It's okay. I'm not mad at him anymore", Hawkeye lied. Havoc and the others looked a bit suspicious.
"You're not?" Breda asked. Riza nodded. Roy flinched 'She's lying! Can't you see? She's gonna kill me when you leave!" he yelled, inside his own head of course.
"Of course I'm not! Why would I? What he did was stupid but it's all forgiven now!" she said and smiled. 'Okay. That looked… sincere. Maybe she's telling the truth..? One way to find out… Although I bet she's still mad…' Roy thought.
"Okay boys. You can return to your tasks now", he said while walking to the door.
"But…" Havoc started.
"No buts… I'll inform if something comes up. Now, go!" Roy raised his voice and opened the door. First one to walk out was Fury, who was closest to the door. He mumbled a goodbye and disappeared. After him went Farman, Breda and Havoc. The last one to exit the room was Armstrong, who stayed to squeeze Riza's hand and say: "I'm still sorry for him. Oh, you poor little girl." He left the room, tears falling from his cheeks. Riza thought it looked kinda freaky. How often did you see BIG people, men nevertheless, cry? And what made it all scarier, were the pink sparkles flying around the big man. That day Lieutenant Hawkeye swore she'd never upset the Major again. It was too much for her to take. After a second, she realized that Colonel was staring at her. She turned quickly to look at him, but turned away immediately giving him a loud 'hmph' the same time. She didn't see Roy's shoulders drop. Nor did she hear the thoughts going through his mind. 'Fine! She's still angry but I won't apologize to her! She'll talk to me sooner or later!' And little did Roy know what was going through Riza's mind. 'I will not talk to him until he apologizes!'
"So… Where are the reports?" Colonel asked. Without a word, Riza pointed out to the one and only report, which was lying on the table.
"Is this all?" he asked. Riza shook her head and walked over to the door. She'd had to fetch them from the hall and that meant that she'd have to leave the Colonel alone for some time, which wasn't easy for her to do. She never knew what Colonel might come up with. She pushed all those thoughts out of her mind and left the room anyway. Quickly she ran down the stairs to the hall and hurried to the welcoming desk where a young girl was standing.
"Good day, Lieutenant Hawkeye-san! How can I help you?" the girl said happily.
"Good day, Mia-san. I want all the reports that are addressed to Colonel Mustang." Riza answered with a smile. The girl disappeared and came back, as fast as she had disappeared, holding a box in her hand. She had a big smile on her face.
"They're all here. Because Colonel wasn't hear in the morning, everyone brought their papers to me", she said and handed the box over to Riza, who accepted it with a nod.
"Don't' remind me about that." she mumbled then.
"About what, Hawkeye-san?" Mia asked with a wondering sound.
"About Colonel being late this morning. I can't believe I was with him all the time!" Hawkeye laughed. Mia gave a snigger also.
"I think it's okay. I know you wouldn't want to be late, unlike Colonel."
"Thanks, Mia-san! Well, I'll go back now. Have a nice day!" Riza said and turned to return to her work.
"You're welcome! Have a nice day too, Hawkeye-san!"
When Lieutenant Hawkeye returned to the room, she dropped the light box on the table Colonel was sitting by. Then she sat down on the sofa.
"So… This is all?" Roy asked. Riza gave him a little nod.
"You're not going to talk to me at all?" She didn't nod, she didn't say anything, she didn't move an inch. Mustang sighed.
"Fine." He said and started looking through the reports, saying nothing.
Riza stayed quiet the whole time. They didn't leave the room except when they had lunch break and even then they didn't say a word to each other (and what made it easier, was the point that they ate in different canteens. Roy in the one meant for state alchemists, Riza in the one meant for the other military staff). Even the time after they had returned to Colonel's office was spent in silence. And the silence lasted the whole time until Roy had had it, like he it himself said.
"Okay! I've had it!" he yelled, papers flying all over the room. Riza looked up, she was a bit shocked.
"I'm sorry!" Roy shouted and walked over to Riza.
"I really am sorry! Please, forgive me! I can't take this silence anymore! It's making me crazy!" he continued and slumped down on the sofa, next to Riza.
"Please! Say something! What did I do wrong? How can I fix it?" he asked and looked into Riza's eyes. 'Roy sounds… well… despaired. And he did apologize', she thought to herself.
"Um... Well… You're forgiven…" she started.
"I am? Thank you!" Roy yelled happily.
"But! I don't want you to do something stupid like that again!" she continued firmly.
"Ok. I won't. But, could you tell me what bothered you so much...? What I did?" he asked. Riza closed her eyes and turned away from Roy.
"It's not what you did exactly. It's just…"
"Yes..? Tell me, please. I want to know." Mustang whined and tried to get her eye contact again.
"It's just that I… I don't want… I don't like to see you like that." Hawkeye muttered.
"There! It wasn't that hard!" Roy said and smiled. Riza turned to send him a death glare.
"I didn't mean that. And now, that I have your eye contact once again…" he said, grabbed Riza's chin between his palms and gave a kiss to her forehead. Lieutenant's eyes went wide while she blushed, a light pink colour appearing to her face.
"Let's deal this off and be friends once again. It's terrible when you don't talk to me."
"Let's do that", Hawkeye agreed with a smile.
AN: Well…. If this chapter wasn't… a first-rate chapter then I don't know what is! Haha. Just kidding. It actually came out kinda bad. I tried to write it as fast I could but because the computer went kaput (it's all better now!), I couldn't update this when I wanted (which was err… 3-4 weeks ago?). And it SUCKS! I have to say… But I'm quite proud that this came out longer than the second chapter! But it's still "crappy"...! 'I don't know why I even bother' insert Weebl And I didn't beta read this (I'm too lazy to read my own stories. Haha.)! Anyway. Roy gave her a kiss! How about that! Haha. There you go! wOOt!
Ed-chan: You lied to me! You said there was not going to be anything interesting! You lied to the readers (what readers?) AND most importantly, to ME!
Author: Uh, well... I didn't want to spoil the surprise!
Ed: What surprise..? Hehe.
Author: What did you say!
Ed: Nothing! Absolutely nothing! Look it's a beautiful sky!
Author: Ok… looks out to see a grey sky with no blue at all
Ed: Anyway! I want all of you to review for me! Mwahahaha! All your passion to MEEEE!
Author: You're starting to sound Aya-chan oO And besides, this story IS NOT ABOUT YOU, YOU CHIBI!
Ed: I AM NOT SMALL! WHO ARE YOU CALLING SMALL, YOU LITTLE BASTARD!
Author: What? I am not small! Hmph. I thought about writing a fic where you would be the head character but looks like I have to rethink about that…
Ed: But..! FINE! Let's cut this crap now… So you LOVELY readers, I still want you to review for ME, but now I have to say goodbye!
Author: Yes, thank you! I'm sorry for this extra crap but it just wanted to be written.
Ed: You should be.
Author: ED! Closet. Now!
Ed: But… but… Envy's there! Oo
Author: Yes, that's why! shoves Ed into the closet and laughs a super evil laugh Now! I shall inform you that this was the last chapter! NOT! It's just that I don't know what to write… So..! I suggest you give me some great ideas and maybe then I'll write another chapter… I wonder if anyone even reads this far… oO walks away