Disclaimer: I don't own Fullmetal Alchemist.

A/N: I decided to write this story because I liked the idea of high school fics with FMA characters. But I haven't been able to find one I like because all of them are yaoi. I wanted one that wasn't yaoi so I decided to write one myself.

This story is AU so a couple things about this story:

-I made Ed three years older than Al.

-This story takes place in the 1990s. I'm not sure exactly where there, just in that time zone.

-The brothers live in Germany, at the beginning at least.

-There is no alchemy in this story. It will probably just be mentioned and studied, but not practiced.

It's My Life

Chapter 1

Two boys were seen on the lawn of a house, throwing punches and kicks at each other. The elder one is Edward Elric. He has long gold-blond hair tied in a braid, is rather muscular, and has gold eyes, the strangest thing about him. No one else has gold eyes except his dad. He is sixteen and has a confident, bad boy attitude. Edward has a temper, and because of that, he gets into a lot of fights at school which is bad because he is a master of martial arts, having been trained since a young age. Despite that he is the best in his class which got him able to skip a grade.

The second boy is Edward's younger brother, Alphonse Elric. He has short chestnut hair, light brown eyes, and is beginning to build some muscle. He is thirteen and a complete opposite of his brother. He isn't as confident as his brother and is the good boy. He has never been in trouble in his life at school. Like his brother, Al is a master of martial arts since he was trained with his brother at a young age and never stopped, but he can't train as much as his brother. His body is weaker than his brother's because of an accident years ago. He is smart and a good student, but not as smart as his brother. His brother had the better mind.

Their father is a famous chemist by the name of Van Hohenheim. Since Ed was ten he has been teaching him Chemistry. When Al turned ten, he started teaching him as well. He spent a lot of time in his lab, but made sure to set an hour or two aside each day for his sons and spent all of Sunday with them.

Five years ago Trisha, the mother of the brothers and wife of Hohenheim, was killed in a car accident. Her sons were in the car with her. Al made it out of the car accident, relatively unharmed. But Ed's right arm and left leg were completely smashed up and had to be amputated. His left arm and right leg were hurt badly but were able to heal. Apparently he had used his body to shield Al in the crash which is why Al escaped mostly fine. But because of that accident, Al's inside got messed up badly. His brother's badly slammed really hard into his stomach and his insides got messed up because of that. It wasn't something that affected him all the time. Just when he overexerted himself, got too stressed out, or ate certain foods did it affect him. He would get really weak and sometimes throw up blood. This caused him to have to go to the hospital. Ed had to be careful sometimes when sparring with him. He had to watch for the signs that his brother was being affected by that…..'illness'.

Hohenheim found an old friend of his to make Ed new limbs because he knows Ed hates being immobile and didn't want to be seen as weak because he is missing limbs. His friend works in creating artificial limbs that connect to the nerves. They are made of steel and are called automail. It was painful and took a while but Ed got them and is used to them by now. No one outside his teachers, servants, maids, and family knew about his automail. Kids tend to mock others about things like this. The year he spent in automail rehabilitation he said he was being taught at home.

Al groaned as his body hit the ground. He looked up into his brother's grinning face and took the outstretched hand to allow his brother to pull him to his feet.

"Nothing broken, right?" Edward asked as he flipped his braid over his shoulder. He cracked his back and neck.

"No." Al replied as he stretched his arms above his head. "I'm not sure what is worse, training with you or chemistry lessons with dad."

The older brother smirked. "Just think, Al. With these chemistry lessons with dad we can breeze through the class when we have to take it at school."

"Brother, he's been teaching us chemistry for years. I think we've learned enough to pass it at this point." Al said with a sigh.

Ed shrugged. He jerked his head in the direction of the house to signal for Al to follow him back to the house. They walked across the lawn to a big house. It was a mansion like house.

When they reached the front door it was opened by the maid who looked at them annoyed for tracking all the dirt, grass, and blood into the house with them. She was the one who had to clean that up.

"How was your spar, boys?" Hohenheim asked when he saw his sons.

"Great. Al is getting much better. He's going to beat me really soon." Edward praised.

Al blushed at the compliment.

"Well, go get cleaned up. And don't forget, school starts tomorrow." Hohenheim told them.

As smart as they were, the brothers still groaned as they trekked up the stairs. School was torturous for them like it was for everyone.

"And Ed," Ed looked back at his father. "No fights this year." His father warned him.

Ed frowned. "I heard you the first hundred times you've told me."

"And you've still gotten into fights. I can't keep getting your principle to let you off with just a detention." Hohenheim replied.

"You're going to let them suspend me?" Edward asked incredulously.

Hohenheim nodded his head. "If you don't get your act together. I won't be able to protect you like this when you leave school so it's time I stopped. You have to learn to grow up. You are sixteen."

Ed felt his mouth drop open in shock. His father has always protected him from getting suspended at school. With all the fights he has been in he should have been expelled by now but his father was influential and had a lot of money. The principle would always let him off or give him a detention because of his father. Without his father's protection he wouldn't make it through the first quarter of the school.

A/N: Sorry for the short chapter. I'm just setting everything up right now.

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