...Meep. Cleaning up chapters are hard. T___T

Chocolate Cupcakes

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Roy was standing inn front of Ed's door for minutes, maybe hours. Ok fine, it was minutes. Why? Well…he was nervous. Anybody would be if they were in his shoes.

But why am I this nervous?

"Fullmetal…?" Roy called, his voice ached with a sense of nervousness.

No answer.

"Edward? Hello, are you in there?" he tried again, assuming that calling him his real name would shock him somehow. But there was still no answer.

He lifted his hand up to knock, but he had a feeling that he shouldn't. Instead, he reached for the doorknob, and luckily, Ed didn't lock himself in his room. Slowly, Roy opened the door and peered inside. There was no light, except the sun shining through the window. But that wasn't the first thing he noticed. Across from him, Ed laid fast asleep on the couch. His peaceful expression and soft snoring sounds alerted Roy's brain that he'd have to wait a bit until he confronted him.

Roy crept closer to the sleeping figure, gingerly avoiding any sound from his footsteps. He found that it was a mistake because he couldn't avoid observing Ed as he slept dreamily. The sun's light faded and reappeared, only to land upon Ed's body, revealing a delightful shine through his long hair. He kneeled down to get a better look.

Roy's stomach turned into mush, as he gazed upon this extraordinary sight. His head pondered about how long and thick Ed's hair turned out to be. It was spread all over messily over the couch. He didn't think anyone except Ed's brother would be able to witness Ed, for once without his blonde hair tied up into a unique braid.

He felt pretty lucky, and...dead.

Roy instantly snapped out of his thoughts and turned to a reality check. God, Ed would kill him if he knew that he was spying on him when he was sleeping. He estimated that the best choice of action to take right now was to go back and check later. Wait a minute…he doesn't have later!Remembering the tight schedule he was planned to enroll after Hawkeye gets back, he stood still and simply decided to wait until Ed wakes up.

After a couple of minutes, Roy got extremely bored and was about to head back when Ed moaned and pulled the nearest thing he could find, and that was Roy's arm. He was about to panic but he softened when he turned around and looked into Ed's mournful expression. He looked like a mere child, petrified by something.

Even though he remained calm, he felt as though the world's temperature suddenly rose by several hundreds of degrees. He was mentally trying to take deep breaths when he lost his balance and knocked over a vase on the table before the couch.

-SMASH-

Roy's heart almost stopped.

Ed's eyes shot open. "What the---what in the world is going on?!" His head turned right and left so quickly that it made Roy's head spin.

His eyes eventually fixed onto Roy. There was a short pause as golden eyes widened. Then, they narrowed and intesified with anger.

"Ro---Mustang, might I ask you WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING IN MY ROOM?!?"

"Erm---well, I was just---uh...it's for..." his mind spinned to come on with something sensible. Anything would do!

"...inspection," he stammered lamely.

"Riiight, now leave before I have to call the Union!"

When Ed got no reply, he asked, "Well, what are you waiting for?!"

Roy hesitated whether or not to tell him the fact that he was still clinging to his arm. He purposely coughed loudly and blushed, pointing to his unmovable arm. Ed's hands moved around to feel that he was holding something. He turned towards his arms, and surely enough, he was clinging to Roy's arm. After changing from every shade of red known to man, Ed let go silently and shrugged. He placed his hands on his knees, not knowing what to do, except continue the silence.

"S-Sorry…I don't know what I'm doing when I'm half sleep." He said muttered, avoiding eye contact at all cost.

Roy regained his cool composure and smirked. Gently, he sat down next to him.

"Oh, I think it was natural. Just your instincts, perhaps?" he offered.

"Yeah…I guess." Ed sighed and rubbed his neck. "So what were you doing here in the first place? I know you were making that inspection thing up." It was like he read his mind or something.

You never fail to amaze me, Edward.

Holy shit, he just called him Edward (in his mind) without even thinking! Wait---crap...that doesn't make any sense.

It felt really weird sitting there alone, in the darkness, just them two…oh no…Roy's mind was starting to wander off into the gutters.

"Hey, hey Mustang! Stop starring at me!" Ed snapped, blushing harder.

After a moment of hearing Ed's voice, his head cleared. "Oh, sorry, I was getting lost in time." He answered, "Okay, to conclude this, I came to talk to you about that letter."

Ed blinked at the mention of that. He sighed in defeat.

"Fine, go ahead, I'm ready. Tease me about being a girl and include some short jokes. Here, I'll even save you the trouble."

Right away, he started imitating Roy's deep voice and gestures. "Oh, Fullmetal, I look forward into seeing you in a miniskirt. You'll fit perfectly into a miniskirt, because of your short size. And don't get me started on your girly hair, I mean who in the right mind would grow their hair sooo damn long and tie it up into a braid, just like a girly girl. Oh, and that reminds me of this girl I've yet again taken from Havoc that looked so much like you, except that she was taller, heck an ant is taller than you."

Roy cleared his throat to catch the young alchemist's attention, which seem to work, more or less.

"As much as I'd like to do that, I did not in fact come here to tease you. Believe it or not, I came to tell you about my plan to find out who sent it. But I'll need your help."

After ten seconds, Roy was getting discouraged.

But then it came: "Alright."

Roy blinked. "You'd except just like that? No yelling? No kicking? No---."

Ed interrupted him, "That's not all I do, you know. And besides, I want to find out too, and there is a bigger chance if I team up with you, considering your rank."

"..."

Ed didn't seem to notice, so he continued, "If you don't mind, tomorrow at 9 o'clock in your office, we'll discuss your plan." He pushed off of the bed and hastily walked out of the room.

"Hey wait, where are you going, Fullmetal?" Roy called.

"The library!" Ed shouted back.

Edward yawned. It was morning, and an extremely hot day. As he searched for his clothes, Ed wondered if that conversation that he and Roy had yesterday was all but a dream. But the truth was that I was that I wasn't a dream. After he went to the library yesterday, he couldn't put his mind to concentrate on the research or alchemy, so he searched for some other type of book they had laying around. He was stunned yesterday by the number of romance books he found and...read. How was he going to tell Al that he spend most of his tome reading some romance books instead of researching for information on the philosopher's stone. He chose not to.

"Brother! Hey, wait up!" Al shouted through the crowd of people. Ed was walking faster than usual and was getting very ahead. His head turned to look at the street clock, which read 8:47am. He did not want to be late for his meeting with Roy for more than one reason.

"Hurry up, Al! I'm gonna be late!"

As the suit of armor caught up he asked, "Since when were you in such a hurry, brother? And I thought I had unlimited amounts of energy! What are you going to be late for, anyways?"

Ed stopped dead in his tracks.

"Ehh...Ro---Mustang wants my report at...9 o'clock. He's going to fry my ass if I'm late."

Dammit! I almost called him Roy again! What's wrong with me!?

"Oh, alright."

The two raced each other to the military. This time, Ed won and didn't say a word after he reached there.

"OkaysayyalaterAl!" Ed yelled, before he disappeared into the halls.

Al became bewildered.

Was it because of the letter? he thought.

Five seconds later, "Hey wait a minute, brother doesn't have a report due today!!!"

END CHAPTER

A/N: I still kind of like this story...my writing skills improved a lot because of this. XD