"Baby Book"
by: Chibi Viki
…So he ran as quick as his little feet can. And he growled and he grunted at everyone whom he passed, but still he kept going. But because he was so small, he couldn't run as fast as he wanted to so he hid and he grinned. He grinned at the thought of fooling the handsome young man who was out to get him.
But the handsome young man was too quick and too clever for him. So, the handsome young man cried with his strong manly voice…
"WINRY!"
Winry immediately put down the book she was reading as she heard Edward Elric calling for her from the hallway.
"In here Ed!", she cried back.
Winry remained seated on the floor with baby Maes on her lap. A baby book lay open before them as Winry read the story out for Maes. For some reason, he was enjoying the whole thing.
"There you are. What are you doing here?", asked Edward as he entered the office where Winry was.
She smiled at him, "Riza-san asked me to watch over Maes while they're out on a meeting with some people".
Black Hayate, from the corner of the room, watched them for a while. Finally deciding that Edward was no threat to Maes, his little master, the faithful dog went back to sleep.
Edward, as he approached Winry, noticed the book that lay open on the floor. "Hey, what's—", before he could inspect it, Winry quickly made a grab for it and hid it behind her.
"Oh, it's nothing… just a baby book that I was reading to Maes", Winry smiled nervously, "I mean… surely someone of your intelligence wouldn't be interested in something as childish as a baby book… right?". She really hoped he bought it. She really hoped he would be disinterested in it and would just forget that there was even A baby book a while ago. But her actions just made Edward suspicious. Though she was right that someone like him shouldn't be interested in such childish things, he still didn't like the fact that she seemed to be hiding something from him.
Edward put his hand on his chin in thought, "Well, you're right, of course", to which Winry made an inward sigh of relief, "But---"
Edward clapped his hand and hit the carpeted floor. Suddenly, the floor behind Winry was transmuted into a hand which immediately grabbed the baby book. She made a sharp cry as she felt the book being snatched away from her. It abruptly disappeared under the floor. A snake-like trail wormed its way back to the young alchemist and the hand with the book reappeared giving Edward his prize.
"Ed!", Winry cried, "look what you did to Roy-san's office!"
Ed grinned ear to ear, "bah! Tell them it was an earthquake". He collected the book from the transmuted floor. "Now then, what's up with this book anyway…" the book lay face down in his hand… nothing special there. "Why didn't you want me to… see--", his voice trailed off as he flipped the book and read the title. Winry, on the other hand, could only slap her forehead and shook her head. She knew what was coming…
There was silence for a while, but Winry could feel Ed's aura burning in anger. "Uh-oh", she muttered as baby Maes, who was obviously enjoying the whole spectacle, started to laugh.
Finally, having charged his burning aura of anger to the max, Ed dropped the book and ran out the doorway and into the hall screaming, "he – is so—DEEEEEAAAAAADDD!"
Winry stood up, with Maes in her arms, and picked up the littered book. "Geez, that's why I didn't want to show it to him". She pouted as she mentally read the title of the book: Edward, the Rude Little Bean written by: R. H. Mustang.
- Owari -
Author's notes:
Ahaha, gosh, it feels so good to have new ideas floating in my head again. For a while there, I thought the voices in my head have stopped talking – but apparently not.
Ah, by the way, this story hasn't been beta-read so there are bound to be grammatical and typographical errors. I had to hurry up with this because I have work tomo---err – later and it's already 2am.
