Interruption -- Daddy's Easter!

[sinful_lynx]

Title: Bad Boys
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Characters/Pairings: RoyAruEd
Rating: PG-13?
Warnings: Slight perversion. xD It's for Daddy. I can't help it; OOCness; doesn't follow timeline in the least.
Author Notes: xD I have not written FMA in forever, but I was reading some doujinshi online and I couldn't resist getting this out. It's not very good, and it's six-thirty in the morning, but Daddy will forgive me, right?
Summary: Living together with Ed and Roy can be a little taxing, even on their 'family days'.
Disclaimer: I do not own the Icon. Daddy made it. Isn't it cute?
Dedication: THIS IS WRITTEN FOR DADDY'S EASTER. I'm sorry it's so late and it's not the greatest, but I hope you like it anyway.

Once a week, no one made plans. That day was scheduled for 'family time' that he grudgingly accepted, not because Ed would have been in a very troublesome state when he got home, or that Aru might have been a little disappointed, but because he genuinely wanted to spend a little more time away from the desk and the politics, put away his gloves and be as normal as a man as someone could be around Edward and Aruphonse Elric.

"You're late."

He sighed inwardly, shoving his coat in Ed's direction and walked past without a word. Never a 'hello'. Never a 'welcome home'. No, Ed merely bothered to worry about how 'late' he was. He was lucky to get away at all. Hawkeye had gone home early tonight, apparently Hayate needed a vet trip, so he'd managed to slip out with the promise that, on the next night the boys from the office went out, he'd buy a couple rounds to appease them.

"Welcome home!" Aru called cheerily from the kitchen, where the sound of rushing water and clinking china could be heard. "I'll be ready in just a moment. Is Brother ready?"

"If he's not, we'll just have to leave him behind, won't we?"

"Hey!" Nothing ever escaped Ed. He slipped around him, fuming and casting dirty looks between he and the kitchen. "You are not leaving me behind this time. You promised you'd take us out, Pony, and I'm gunna take it and you for all you got!"

"How could I forget, Ed? That bottomless pit of a stomach's already shown what it's capable of," he drawled, waving his hand in dismissal to go and change. Ed refused to be out of the house with him if he wore his uniform. Such a problematic kid...

~*~

"Out of everything, Ed, you chose peasant food?"

"It's not 'peasant food', Pony, and this is the best place for it. How often can you find such great ramen?"

Roy knew better than to argue with Ed's logic. "Aru can make peasant food at home. I brought you out to spoil you and you decide to make me look like a cheapskate. I don't know whether I should be offended or grateful."

Ed filled his mouth with noodles, slurping noisily in what he could only suspect was to spite him. Aru made a noise of disgust, pulling his napkin from his lap and carefully wiping away stray broth. "Brother, show some manners!"

The elder Elric gobbled down what remained in his bowl, barely taking a breath as he waved it around for the server to refill. "Who chooses next week?"

The General waved off the minimal concern that rose when their waiter returned, almost taking a glass bowl right in the nose. He supposed he should have been glad for the normal child-like behavior that came from him, but now that the kid wasn't so much a kid anymore, it was more embarrassing in public than a blessing. "I do and no, we can't come back here," he said with a slight smirk. "I guess that means we won't be getting peasant food again."

"Maybe not next week, but the week after is Aru's turn."

The mischievous grin certainly unnerved poor Aru who, shifted away. "There's a new place I want to try, Ed. I saw it when I was walking home after taking your lunch to you. If the General doesn't mind, I'd like to check it out on my week."

Roy chuckled. "I guess we'll have to wait two weeks for this again, Ed."

"But I love this place!"

"Go on your lunch break. You do get paid, you know."

"Yeah, but it's not the same without you two. Aru spends the whole time blushing and who could possibly pass up the chance to see you grin that damn, irritating, stupid smirk of yours?" Ed whirled his fork. "It's lonely to eat by yourself, you know."

His attention, however, wasn't on Ed's rambling. "He does have a point. I would think you'd be used to Ed's antics by now, Aru."

Aru blinked down at his empty bowl. "That's not it... I'm used to Brother's selfishness."

"Hey, why does it have to be my fault? Why can't it be yours?"

Roy poked around at the contents of his bowl. "Because, Ed, there is no possible reason for him to be embarrassed by me. I am the incarnation of finesse and you... well, I don't think there's a word to quite describe you."

His childish subordinate stuck out his tongue, but from his hooded gaze directed on his brother and the dare-to-be-innocent grin on his face, it was quite clear his heart wasn't in trying too hard to insult him. Picking on his brother seemed to be the goal of today. He had to feel for the poor kid. It was different being Ed's boss. He could get rid of him by sending him off on a train to a far away place with no way to contact him for months at a time. Aru and Ed were related and so he was pretty much stuck to him for life.

"Aru was asking what we did, Pony," Ed blurted suddenly, draining the broth from his fourth bowl.

The General managed to gain what dignity one could with food in their mouth, swallowing thickly around the urge to laugh. Yes, yes, he knew he was falling into it. It was absolutely absurd that he could possibly be as childish as Ed and end up falling deeper into the pit of Ed's life that called for nothing but absolute insanity, but it was funny. Only a year younger and Aru was so curious and innocent that he couldn't help it. "Is that so?" He finally managed, sure to keep as straight a face as possible.

"I told him it's a secret."

"Of course."

"I think he wants in."

"Whatever shall we do, Ed? Do you think he's ready for something like that?"

"You guys!" Aru fidgeted in his seat, eyes glittering with uneasiness and annoyance. "This isn't a discussion you should have at the table!"

He usually would have let it lie there, but Ed had other plans and, after a day of non-stop meetings, endless paperwork and the danger it took to slip away unscathed from work, he was entitled to play a little, wasn't he?

Ed scooted over with his entire setting, eyes never leaving Aru. "He's wet behind the ears. I don't think he could take it."

"So were you, on your first time."

"Don't point out the obvious!"

"I'm sure, with you as a brother, he'll know the basics."

"You make me sound perverted."

"But you are, little princess." He leaned over, making sure to catch Aru's gaze out of the corner of his eye and licked up the thin trail of broth rolling down from Ed's lips. "You're a terrible tease."

"B-but, Pony..." Healthy tanned cheeks lit up faintly beneath his caressing hand and his lips fell into a small pout. "Not in front of him. It's embarrassing!"

He was privately thanking whatever force out there that there was no one he knew in this tiny place that could bite him in the ass for it later. Of course the waiter certainly wouldn't be coming back to their table tonight, but that was a bit of a blessing on his wallet. "I thought you wanted to include him? You can't be embarrassed. After all, he'll be watching if we invited him, you know."

Aru made a noise that, very briefly, caught his attention. He really couldn't say how stupid this was until tomorrow morning, when it slapped him in the face in the form of very bothersome rumors swarming the office, but for now, any consequences seemed far away and lost in a sea of denial. He liked chess and he liked playing games of war. No one said he couldn't indulge in this little game of Ed's either.

"He's my brother, Mustang," said the blonde seriously.

"Is it normal for you to react this way in front of your brother?" He smirked against the soft, still boyish cheek that he doubted Ed would ever grow out of. "You really are a perverted kid, Fullmetal."

His hands hadn't gone any farther than the boy's arm, but he knew Aru had no way of knowing he was innocently sitting beside Ed with no ulterior motives and, as far as he could tell, Ed wasn't having any either.

The table rocked and the water almost spilled. Aru had stood up, trembling in what looked like rage. He'd never seen Aru with an expression of true anger; a suit of armor couldn't change its expression and he never spent enough time at home to know how he reacted to Ed changing the halls in the house so Aru couldn't take out the trash or his attempts at a handiman's work without the alchemy.

"Aru?" Ed asked, shoving him away to peer up at his brother. "What's wrong?"

"Can we go?" was his quiet response.

"Of course," Roy answered. The painful kick under the table, of course, would be dealt with when they got home. Damn kid...

~*~

Aru seemed reluctant to come in when they finally arrived home. Maybe they had gone just a little too far in teasing him, but he would wholly blame Ed for his part in it and hope that the brothers could work it out while he was working.

"You have a close relationship," said the younger brother suddenly, catching him off guard as he stopped to take off his coat. "I asked brother what it was like because I don't have anything... it seems nice."

Ed reached back, taking apart his braid. "You thought we were rubbing it in? Pony's a bastard, but I don't think even he's that cruel."

"Thanks for the endorsement, Ed..."

The blonde ignored him. "You wanna come with us?"

Roy raised a hand to interrupt. "Ed, wait a minute--"

"It's harmless, isn't it? He's my brother, what did you expect?"

He knew from the very beginning that, when Ed came into his life, both public and private, he'd have to share with Aru. It wasn't a problem, he didn't care. Aru had far more uses than Ed did. He could cook, clean, and errands were never a problem. It'd been awkward to get used to, coming home to a fully prepared meal, while cold, it was still waiting for him with two sleeping brothers, waiting on the couch for him to come home. It was a pleasant change and he slowly started to look forward to it. It wasn't sharing Ed, or even Aru's odd curiosity at what he probably misconstrued. It was simply a new change that he wasn't quite sure he was ready for.

"All right, then. We'll have to show him then, won't we?"

Ed's infamous grin and devil horns appeared. He didn't ask, and he certainly wasn't going to encourage anymore of this picking on Aru tonight. It was getting late, he had to be up early tomorrow and he wanted to be through with this before dawn.

The brothers led the way to his bedroom, Ed tossing the door open wide with a bang and a hurried promise that he'd fix it if necessary, and dragged a reluctant Aru behind him. The heat radiating from Aru as he trailed behind them was something he swore would rival even the hottest flames he'd managed to raise. Behind him, he closed the door, locked it and hovered over the younger brother while Ed dove under the bed.

"I don't think... I don't want--"

"But you're already here, Aru," purred the General, slipping his arms around the boy's waist with little attention to the tensing of his muscles.

"You can't leave until we show you," Ed agreed, dragging out a case. "What do you think is in here, Aru?"

Aru shook his head. "I don't know."

Roy smirked against his ear. "Why don't you guess?"

Aru's face lit up even brighter than before.

Ed grinned and slowly opened the case, rummaging around in it for a moment. "What shall I pull out first, Pony?"

"He's new at this. Something delicate on his hands."

Aru swallowed hard. "What... what are you going to do?"

As if clinging to the suspense in the air, Ed rummaged around a bit more before he'd finally decided on something. Ever so slowly, he raised his hands above the top of the case to present what he'd chosen.

Aru's heat was no longer embarrassment, he knew it the moment Ed snickered. "A coloring book?!"

Roy snorted, pulling away and heading towards his closet. "What did you possibly think? If we were really doing anything else, don't you think we'd have made a little bit more noise?"

"Come on, Aru, Pony's not that bad of a lover."

"You guys spent the whole night building it up to this point for a prank?!"

"Not a prank," Roy corrected. "You misunderstand how I work." With his clothes discarded in the hamper, as per Aru's orders, he returned to Ed, reaching down to lift his chin. "If I gave it all on the first date, you wouldn't come back for more. Tonight was to... stir you up."

"Don't you touch my brother, old man!" Ed snapped.

"Right, right. Good night. That means get out."

Ed's tune changed quickly enough. "But Pony!"

"Out, Ed. I do want to sleep tonight. You worked Aru up, why not sleep with him tonight?"

But the slamming of the bedroom door had meant Aru hadn't taken it as well as they had thought.

Roy would be eating at work for the next week. Every man for himself, as they said.