Disclaimer: FMA belongs to Arakawa Hiromu
Notes: Part 13 of the Future storyline arc. I think it's becoming clear by this stage that I'm falling in love with these little kidlets. They're just so much fun~! It's so hard not to enjoy OC kids, I think XD With this one, I was tempted to add an extra line at the end, but I couldn't word it to make it feel as proper an ending as this one.
Eighty-four: If You Would Only Turn Around
"Boo!"
. . .
"I said, Boo!"
"Sasha, I'm busy right now," Riza said, trying to read the cookbook in front of her and slice the stupidly thick carrot on the chopping board at the same time without trimming the end off her finger. "Aren't you supposed to be watching Suri in the lounge-room, like a big boy, while I make dinner? It's a surprise for your father's-" Having finally turned around to face her son, she stopped, shocked.
Little Sasha and Suri were standing there together, unsuccessfully trying to hold in their giggles at the surprised look their mother had. The younger had wonky, thick, black texta-glasses and what looked like red stars on her face and arms, and an assortment of coloured scribbles ran up and down each of her legs, to her knees. Matching scribbles appeared to cover Sasha from head to toe. Their clothing had escaped the majority of the damage, but the odd purple swirl or green zig-zag could be found on the sleeve of a shirt or the hip of some shorts.
"W-what happened? What's all this mess for?" Riza asked, carefully setting the knife in her hand down before she could get past her shock and into anger. She had mentioned more than once today that they had to keep nice and clean for when their father returned from the visit he was making to an old friend's grave.
His chest swelling proudly, Sasha announced, "We're monsters!" with a guffaw, closely followed by Suri's unnervingly charming smile and giggle.
The time until everything had to be ready was set in Riza's head, and she didn't have a moment to spare from her cooking to take care of things, so when the Mustang family sat down to dinner that night, Roy Mustang blinked in surprise.
"They're monsters," Riza said, stoically, and without missing a beat asked whether Roy was going to try his dinner or not.