Note from the Author: Thought this would be fun to write about! - I've always wanted to see more of Ed and Al as kids. With that, of course, comes a little Winry too. Right now, I think I'm just trying to make them sound more like seven and six years old than anything. Obviously, I'm working on making them sound like their character, but I'm not all that talented with that yet, so hopefully I'll have the three down by the time I'm done with this!
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Full Metal Alchemist or any of the characters, no matter how much I may want to.
"Ed!" Winry yelled angrily, "Wait for Al! He can't run as fast as you!" Ed spun around, the backpack on his shoulders flopping around wildly. He stuck his tongue out at his childhood friend, who had her arms around a depressed and near-tears Alphonse, telling him "Ed was just a big, fat jerk" and saying he "Just likes to show off."
"It's his own fault he's slow!" Ed called back, before running on towards the schoolhouse.
"No it's not!" Al cried, tears coming back to his eyes, threatening to pour down in floods. Winry gave him another hug.
"You could be a little nicer!" Winry yelled again, louder this time, to be sure Ed heard it clearly, "He's only six!" Ed didn't respond this time, only causing Winry to become more enraged. "Come on, Al. We're gonna be late." She tried to sound loving, but her anger towards Ed was too strong. It just couldn't be masked.
"Maybe brother doesn't love me anymore…" Al sniffed, rubbing the other eye clean of tears. Winry stopped muttering evil things to herself to scold Al this time.
"Oh Al! That's ridiculous! Ed doesn't hate you at all! No one can! You're too nice," she told him with a smile she was surprised she could muster. Quickly returning to her state of almost bursting into flames, she added, "Ed on the other hand…"
"Hey look!" Al said happily, pointing down the road, a huge grin planted on his face. Ed was running back towards them. Winry suddenly felt a little bad for being so mean to him…
Once the blonde seven-year-old stood in front of his friend and little brother, he moved his eyes to his feet.
"Sorry," he mumbled, barely audible enough for the other to hear it, and then went taking off again.
"Hey wait! What kind of apology is that?" Winry called out, rage returning and regret vanishing, "When I catch up to you, you're gonna be sorry!" She instantly took of running after Ed. Al followed suit. Believing Ed had indirectly started a game of tag, he broke out into childish laughter, running faster than neither Ed nor Winry believed he could.
"Tag! You're it!" he cheered, tapping/hitting Ed on the shoulder as he passed by both astonished children. After a moment's hesitation as Al continued ahead of his brother, Ed smiled viciously.
"We'll see about that!" he threatened, and sped up.
"Guys! Wait up!" Winry whined, using every ounce of strength she had to catch up to the Elric brothers.