Freakin' Olivia is bad ass. Her and Riza really make me love FMA, as does Roy and Hughs and Pride... Pride is straight up fucked up. I love him. And while the story with Ed and Al is tragic and entertaining in itself, I do like a lot of the side characters/plots a lot more. Such as, like you mentioned, Roy. He's awesomes; calculating, a bit manipulative, and sometimes a little dark with his motives and scheming, but over all he's not a bad guy and he does look out for those close to him. He's lovely.

Naruto stuff: The part where he was crying and begging to the Raikage to spare Sasuke... it wasn't so bad until I reread it. And while I do understand that Kishimoto wants Naruto to be a very emotions-driven character, it seems like all he's really done since Nagato died is whine and cry and martyr himself out. I really don't like the direction his character is going.

HOWEVER... the Raikage gets massive points from me. His line where he says, "I'll kill Sasuke. If you wanna stop the cycle of violence, then don't come after me in return." THAT was just flat out awesome. He was basically accepting potential consequences for his future actions while pretty much forcing Naruto into a corner; either kill him to save Sasuke and risk bringing war or stand back, let him get his revenge and then have to swallow it down in the name of peace. Very cool.