A/N: Happy Royai Day! I hope everyone enjoys this. Inspiration for this story actually came from a discussion I had with someone over something that happened in Chapter 94 and a few childhood memories of my little cousin following me around and copying everything I did.

The latter part of the one-shot takes place right after Chapter 89 so there are some spoilers.

Follow Me:

Nine-year old Roy Mustang frowned as he stomped along the dirt path towards town carrying a huge list of things his teacher had ordered him to get. He grumbled as he looked at the list.

Carbon…hydrochloric acid…sodium nitrate…milk…apples….eggs…red thread? Dammit. How the hell am I supposed to carry all this stuff back? There's got to be at least fifty things on this stupid list!

Gripping his hair in frustration, Roy wondered why his teacher always made him run errands for him while he remained comfortable in the study. The last time Roy went to town he had to carry back three huge alchemy books by Paracelsus that Sensei had ordered and before that he had to lug back firewood. Surely his teacher was violating some kind of child labor law somewhere. A boy his age shouldn't have to do that much manual labor.

The sound of footsteps behind him quickly snapped him from his thoughts. Roy scowled. He knew exactly whom they belonged to and he most definitely was not in the mood for babysitting.

"Stop following me!" he shouted at the little blonde girl behind him. Riza stopped in her tracks.

"But you're going somewhere and I want to go too!"

"I'm not going off to play," he huffed while he turned around to face her. "I have to go to town and carry back a bunch of junk for your father."

"I can help," she protested, clutching the stuffed dog she always carried with her.

"No you can't. All this stuff is too heavy for you to carry.

"Please?"

"No! Go home! I don't have time to babysit you. I still have a lot of stuff to do when I get back and you'll only slow me down!"

Riza stared at him, dumbfounded. Then Roy noticed her lip quivering and tears beginning to form in her eyes. "You're mean," she cried just as two large tears rolled down her cheeks.

Crap, Roy cursed under his breath. If Sensei found out he made Riza cry he was so going to get it later.

"Look, Riza," he said, patting the little girl on the shoulder. "I'm sorry I yelled at you. Please stop crying and I'll let you come with me." She looked up at him.

"You mean it?" she sniffed. "You're not just saying that are you?"

"You can follow me all you want. Just promise you'll stay close to me."

"OK," Riza said as she wiped away her tears and smiled. Roy sighed in relief. He wasn't going to get in trouble after all.

"Come on. Let's go," he said as he began walking again. Riza nodded and happily followed after him towards town.

21 Years later…

Roy sat on the grass staring up at the stars, lost in thought. This was it. Tomorrow they would finally discover the mastermind behind the conspiracy in the military and overthrow it. He still couldn't believe it. Despite the fact that they had been planning for this day for months, it still seemed a little surreal. It still hadn't sunk in to him that he was now a traitor to his country and about to lead an attack on an organization that he once thought he would die for.

"You ok?" asked Riza as she sat down next to him.

"Yeah," he answered. "Just going over in my mind what we have to do tomorrow."

"Oh,"

They were silent for a while as they both stared up at the stars above them.

"So how are the preparations?"

"Almost done. Breda and Charlie are making some last minute adjustments to our plans for tomorrow and Rebecca and Lt. Ross are passing out the remaining ammunition. After that all that's left is for you to change the logo on the ice cream truck."

Roy smirked. "I'll do that tomorrow. Too lazy now," he replied as he stretched out on the grass.

Riza grinned. "You're always lazy."

They were silent again before he eventually turned his head towards her. "Lieutenant?"

"Mmm?"

"Do you still have regrets following me?"

She looked over at him. "No. Why?"

"No reason. I just remembered you once saying you might have made a mistake following me."

"When did I say that?"

"Right before you started working under the Fuhrer."

"Oh right," she said as she laid down next to him. "Well, if I still had regrets I wouldn't be here would I? And don't forget, I've been following you since I was little."

Roy smirked. "Why did you do that anyway? It got really annoying at times."

Riza smiled and closed her eyes. "I don't really know why. I suppose I looked up to you because you were older and therefore you were probably also smarter. Fortunately I knew better when I got older."

"Hey!"

He sat up and pouted. She simply smiled at his reaction. "If you knew better then why are you still following me?" he asked before lying back down.

Riza turned over onto her side. "Well somebody has to keep you in line and make sure you don't run off and do something crazy."

He smirked. "You think I'll go crazy someday?"

"You never know," she replied as she picked some stray grass off his uniform. "Some would say you're already crazy for going against the military." Roy chuckled.

"Then I'm fortunate to have a subordinate who's also crazy enough to follow me," he said as he turned over onto his side. He gently brushed her cheek with his hand. "Very fortunate," he added softly. Riza smiled.

"We should go join the rest of the group before they start looking for us," she said. Roy nodded in agreement. Getting up, they brushed off any stray grass from their clothes and made their way back to the camp.