[Close] One day, this guy will be in a good mood.

[ceilingitou]

Characters: Kamotaro Itou, Roy Mustang
Content: Itou likes work and being in bad moods. Roy likes bugging that type.
Setting: Navigation room
Time: Before Victoria leaves for wherever
Warnings: Sulking.

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[thewarisover]

He had not seem Kamotaro Itou around for days now.

That was not particularly surprising, in retrospect, but things had been slow and Roy was in need of a little entertainment. As such, the alchemist was making his way over to the navigation room at that moment, hands in his pockets, whistling a tune.

He didn't bother to knock - he just opened the door and peeked in to see if Itou was there. Just his luck~

"Have you eaten anything at all, sir?"

[ceilingitou]

Itou glanced up at the intruder when the door opened, bent at the waist over a large map over the even larger desk spread out in the middle of the room. He had been in the middle of drawing a particularly long line and didn't move aside from the glance, hands keeping the pencil and ruler firm down on the desk.

"Mustang. And no, I haven't."

That was probably the most civil he'd been to the major in a while. The past days of working had calmed his temper down significantly, plus the information that Mustang was testing him.

[thewarisover]

"Huh. You ought to. Francis might cry if you die in here."

Roy invited himself right in, shutting the door behind him, eying the map as he approached.

[ceilingitou]

"I ate this morning." Or Francis would truly have cried at him. "There's no need to worry, I have a fairly good eating habit."

And then he was finishing off that line, straightening up from his earlier position to peer at it. Off by a degree. He started erasing the line.

[thewarisover]

"Comes with the job. Any little engagement can be tough stuff depending on who's there and how stable they are."

Odd of Itou to be sympathetic, but Roy kind of got it. They were both military men - that had to count for something, scheming aside.

"How about you, sir? Were you in any campaigns?"

[ceilingitou]

He supposed that was true. Itou had always looked farther ahead of him than anyone else that he had met in the past, and motivation like that always made the present easier to bear with.

"A few," he nodded. "But mostly monster hunting and protection detail. It's easier to deal with enemies when they aren't human." Like that one time he and his platoon members had to stand their ground to protect Clairborne from monsters. That had been painful.

[thewarisover]

It was much, much easier, actually.

"Clairborne, I'm guessing?"

Roy had heard the stories before.

[ceilingitou]

"Yes. And some pirate round ups in the past. Things have been much more peaceful lately, hasn't it?"

[thewarisover]

"You're not thinking of settling down with a nice girl on your arm?"

Or guy? Roy nearly added, as he suddenly remembered Arthur.

[ceilingitou]

Itou scoffed. "I would make a terrible husband and father." Probably because he didn't go through proper parenting, himself.

[thewarisover]

Roy paused, pretending to consider Itou's words.

"...Yeah, I guess you're right."

[ceilingitou]

Itou frowned again and sighed. Mustang could afford to be less irritating. He really could.

"Hm. I think I'm due for a visit home, now that you've reminded me. Perhaps when we're back in Ivona."