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The Start of Everything

A sigh escaped Riza's lips as she glared at the ash black haired man, who was lazily relaxing at his desk while the paperwork piled up in front of him.

"Well, no other way to get him to work so…I guess it'd be alright if I brought my gun out again." As Riza pondered the difficult situation, the man who was head of Alchemical University one of the top scientific and mathematical universities in the country began to snore. That was the last straw for Riza.

The subtle, familiar click of a gun's safety being turned off had the head of the department leaping up, his dark eyes looking as if he had seen a ghost, as Riza aimed the gun at him.

"Sir you better get signing before you're late for the deadline." With that, Riza's finger tightened on trigger and sheered off a lock of his hair.

An audible gulp was heard as Mr. Roy Mustang immediately began to work on one of the several stacks of papers that were scattered around the office. Riza settled back in her chair, while pulling one of the piles closer to begin forging his signature. "I wonder…" Thought Riza, "…what would happen if I wasn't here?"

Nearby there is a second building almost exactly like the first one only this is the Rukongai Academy of the Arts, known for its classes of music, art, and literature.

Inside is another man dressed somewhat similarly to the first man, but with a few…exceptions I suppose you could say. Instead of the western black dress coat he wore a pink haori covered in sakura blossoms and a straw hat perched on his head, shadowing his eyes. Though same as Roy the room had piles of unsigned paperwork scattered around the office.

This man is Shunsui Kyouraku, he is the head of the university.

The woman currently glaring at him right now has dark hair and amethyst eyes while Riza is blonde with eyes the color of topaz. So their physical appearance are basically polar opposites, you will soon see the similarities. A yell should usually be heard right now…

"KYOURAKU-SAN!" …there it was.

This was loud, firm, and unyielding…this voice comes from Nanao Ise, Kyouraku's hardworking assistant.

"Yes? My lovely Nanao-Chan?"

Shunsui Kyouraku's deep voice resounded back to meet Nanao's while he nursed a bottle of sake in his right hand. A sigh escaped the assistant's lips as she took in a deep breath to respond.

"Kyouraku-San you need to get you paperwork done before Yamamoto Sensei comes to fire you and that name's is inappropriate I am known as Ise-san!"

"But I don't want to! Must you take away my chief enjoyment for the day? Nanao-Chan why don't you do my work again and forge my signature like you've been doing?" Wheedled Kyouraku

" I have and will continue to do that but I can't keep up with the hundreds of papers that were due last month!"

Once Nanao had finished her rant, a fan appeared in her hand to quickly rap Kyouraku's wandering hands while sweeping her legs underneath him, knocking him into his seat. Needless to say the Kyoraku got to work under the threat of being pummeled to death, Nanao sat back down in her chair to continue forging his signature.

The similarities between the two couples were really quite astounding, the males were both womanizers, really hated paper work, were extremely intelligent…when they wanted to be and were wary of their female counterparts. The females on the other hand were hard working, proper, one of the few that could keep their respective bosses in line, and threatened them when all else failed.

To think they don't realize the other's existence. That was all going to change soon. Something drastic would change this everyday routine.

Sorry this is so short. The next chapter will be longer. Oh yeah to those of you who read this please give some ideas to what can replace Roy's alchemy. Please review~