Rae is (c) ME. Steal her and you will die.
Kaori and Mac are (c) Leyca
Kai is (c Jenny
"X" is (c) Haley
Jae is (c) Jessie
All Fullmetal Alchemist characters in this fic belong to Hiromu Arakawa.
"Big sister! Big sister, wake up!" Said Chiyochan as she shook her older sister.
Urg... Why did I even want to join the military as a state alchemist! I have to wake up so fucking early for training... I'm only 13! Damn school...
"Kaori!" Chiyochan yelled, still shaking her sister. "Kaori, Rae is here to walk to school with you!"
Kaori sat up in her bed. "Already! Dang, Rae must be excited... She always gets so hyper before school..." Kaori stood up and stretched, then looked over at her dresser, where a military jacket and a miniskirt were lying.
Damn miniskirts... This new principal is a total jackass, making the girls wear something so... Whoreish!
Kaori sighed and put on her uniform, then put on her knee-high boots and her gloves, which had transmutation circles on them.
Kaori walked out of her room and was immediately glomped by a girl around the age of 12. She looked at the girl, and was shocked by her new hairstyle.
"Rae! What did you do?" Kaori asked, scared. She then glared at her friend and said, "Get. Off. Of. Me."
Rae smiled and stood up. "Don't you like it?" Her hair was all blonde, which was tied up in a ponytail. Two locks of hair were placed in front of her face, though, and it looked like she had died them fully black and dipped the tips in red dye.
"Will you stop staring at my hair and come with me already?" Rae said, fixing the strap on her new book bag.
Kaori smiled and picked her backpack up off the floor. "Let's go!"
The two walked out of the house and down the street. The girls then saw two boys in their school's uniform, so they walked towards them.
"Hey, Ed, who are those girls?" The taller boy asked, nudging his head towards Kaori and Rae.
"How the hell should I know, Al?" Ed asked. He quickly looked back at the girls, and noticed their uniforms.
Rae saw Ed looking back at her, so she walked up to him. "Hello! I noticed you're wearing the Cedarcrest uniform..."
"Yeah. You go there too?" Ed asked.
"Yup! Oh, I almost forgot..." Rae said taking off her right glove, afraid her transmutation circle on it might harm him. She then held out that hand. "I'm Rae. This is Kaori." She nudged back to her friend.
Kaori gave a small wave and smiled. "Hello." She held out her hand to Al. "And you are...?"
Al shook Kaori's hand. "I'm Al. Nice to meet you. This is my brother, Ed."
"Oh, you mean the midget? How old are you, shorty?" Rae asked, smiling evilly.
"I'M NOT SHORT!" Ed yelled. Al had to restrain him from attacking Rae for that comment. He then calmed down. "I'm 14."
Kaori laughed. She seemed to like Ed's temper. Then she heard one thing that pissed her off: "At least I'm not as short as Kaori..." She glared at Ed, who was glaring back at her, but he was smiling a little.
"WHO'RE YOU CALLING A RUNT SO SMALL THAT--" Kaori started to yell, but was stopped by Rae putting her hand over her friend's mouth.
"Seems like you two have two things in common..." Rae sighed and took her hand off Kaori's mouth.
The four then walked to school, but Rae stopped as soon as she saw a figure on the steps to the school.
"Brigadier General." She clenched her fists and started marching up to him.
"Rae, no!" Kaori yelled, grabbing her friend by the shoulders. "He's the principal!"
Rae froze in place. "Fuck. No. PRINCIPAL!" She clapped her hands together and turned her left arm into a blade, ripping her glove. She coughed, and a little bit of blood came up. She wiped the blood off her glove and whispered, "Every time I don't use a circle, this happens..."
Ed stared at Rae's arm. "Automail..."
Rae looked back at him and smiled. "Yup... Let's just say there's a huge reason why I'm the 'Brokenhearted Alchemist'."
Ed didn't ask why she's called that, and just kept quiet. He barely knew her, so he felt it was rude to step into a person's life like that.
"Bringing a weapon to school on the first day, Rae?" A familiar voice asked.
"Oh, hey, Danielle. You scared me for a second there!" Rae said, giving a small wave to Danielle. "Oh, the two guys with us are Ed and Al."
Ed looked up at Danielle. "Damn... You're so much taller than me!"
Danielle laughed and said, "Yeah. Well, see you guys later!" She walked up the steps and into the school.
Rae patted Ed on the shoulder, and immediately stopped. She felt a metal limb underneath his military jacket.
"Ed... You did it too, didn't you?" Rae looked down, as if she was afraid of something.
"Yeah..." Ed walked away, but was stopped by the man Rae was complaining about earlier: the principal.
"Brother, wait!" Al said running up to Ed. Kaori and Rae quickly followed him.
It had seemed Roy had only stopped Ed to chat for a moment, but Ed didn't care."See you later, principal Mustang. Hey, Al, Rae, midget, you coming?" He asked.
"How dare you call me short?" Kaori yelled while she ran up to Ed and punched him in the face.
"So? You deserve it for calling me short earlier!" Ed said while trying to kick Kaori.
"Well, can you at least try and hit me? Oh, wait, I'm too fast for the shrimp." She replied, a taunting smirk on her face.
Roy looked over at Rae. "Calm her down before she put Ed in the hospital."
Rae looked back at him. "How? She's your sister!"
Roy sighed. "I have scars from the last time. I don't want to try again..."
"You are just like Roy, aren't you, Kaori?" Ed said.
"Oh crap!" Roy said, plugging his ears and backing away from the group.
"DON'T YOU EVER COMPARE ME TO MY BROTHER; WE ARE NOTHING LIKE EACH OTHER!" Kaori screamed. She clapped her hands and used the transmutation circles on her gloves to create a ball of dark light. She then threw the ball at Ed.
"Crap!" Ed yelled, diving to the ground. "Are you trying to kill me?"
Roy interrupted by snapping his fingers and sending flames at Kaori. She easily dodged it.
"Crap, I have no idea what I'm doing..." Roy said, sighing. "Kaori, do you want a fight? I'll give you a fight!"
Roy then snapped his fingers, and Kaori dove down, just barely avoiding the flames. She clapped her hands and sent a ball of dark light at Roy.
Roy took a small step to the right, avoiding the dark light. "Do you think you can defeat me with that kind of alchemy?" He asked, laughing.
"No. But how about this?" A voice said.
A clap was heard and then a blast of water shot at Roy. There was too much water to avoid, so Roy did nothing to evade it. A few seconds later, there Roy stood, uniform drenched. "What the? My alchemy's useless now!"
Al looked over at Rae. "Did you do that?" He asked.
Rae nodded. She smirked and began to laugh.
"I defeated Roy! I defeated Roy!" She said this over and over again in a singsong voice.
Roy stood up, muttering curses under his breath. He began to say, "Armor, Dark Light, Fullmetal, BrokenHearted!"
The four teens gulped. Roy then took a deep breath and yelled, "GET TO YOUR CLASSES!"
Rae picked up her book bag and walked up the steps to the school. Kaori, Ed and Al followed her.
Rae looked back at her friends. "So, what're your first few classes?"
Kaori thought for a second. "I have block class with Havoc."
Ed and Al looked surprised. They both said, "Me too!" At the same time.
Rae smiled. "Hooray! I guess we all have at least two classes together then."
Ed smirked. "I have to warn you, Sex-Ed class is disgusting; and so is Flirting 101. I had to take them last year. Let's just say Roy comes in to class when we're watching the videos."
Rae dropped her book bag in shock. "That is so gross!" She shuddered and then picked up her book bag again. "Yuck."
The four walked down the hallways to each of their lockers. They got back together after dropping off their book bags, but Kaori heard a familiar voice call her name, so she walked a little bit away from the group.
"There you are, Kaori!" A boy around the age of 13 said.
"Hey Mac! What do you want?" Kaori asked, smiling.
"The higher-ups want you in Central by tomorrow." Mac said, handing Kaori a letter. "Be sure to show it to Rae, too, they want her in Central too."
Kaori opened the letter and read it aloud:
"Dear Colonel,
Did you forget about your promotion? Well, your rank is up to Brigadier General now. Make sure to tell Roy.
Signed, King Bradley
P.S., This gets you and your friends out of school for a week (5 friends for both you and Rae) and be sure to bring Roy!"
"Can I come? I heard there are snow-capped mountains around there! I could probably snowboard there." Mac said.
"Okay, you can come, but I'm going to ditch the promotion party and snowboard too." Kaori said.
Mac nodded. "That's fine with me!"
Ed watched the two talking. He frowned jealously and thought, What the hell is that guy saying? He better not be messing around with Kaori... He watched Mac walk away, smiling.
Kaori walked back over to Rae, Ed, and Al. Rae cocked her head to the side and asked, "What the hell was that about, Kaori?"
Kaori blushed a little. "Oh, nothing. Read this, okay?" She then handed Rae the letter.
Ed frowned again and thought, IS KAORI BLUSHING? He yelled those words inside his head over and over again until he was pulled out of his thoughts by Rae and Kaori talking again.
"You're sure it's nothing, right?" Rae said, folding up the read letter and handed it back to Kaori.
"Yuppers!" Kaori nodded and smiled.
Ed fell over, and Rae looked down on him. "You are such an idiot."
Kaori poked Rae. "What's wrong with the shrimp?" She asked.
Ed glared at Kaori. "Well, at least I'm not standing at four feet, ten inches..."
Kaori glared back at him. "Do you want to start something'?" She asked, putting back on her special gloves.
"Hell yeah!" Ed yelled, standing up again.
The first set of punches were dealt by Ed; none of them hitting Kaori.
Kaori was just about to clap, but she felt a teacher laid their hand on her shoulder.
"Do you really want me to tell this to your big brother?" Havoc asked.
"NO!" Kaori yelled. "Don't tell him!"
"Then, behave today and try not to get mad at people when they say you are s-h-o-r-t." Havoc said, then looked at Ed. "That goes for you, too, Ed."
Havoc then leaned over and whispered to Kaori, "If you behave I'll pair you up with someone different than the Fullmetal pipsqueak; maybe I'll pair you up with one of your snowboarder friends."
"Okay, I will behave and not get mad when people call me short." Kaori said, happily.
"What the hell did you do to my best friend? She's not smiling like Mustang's evil smirk!" Rae shouted.
"I just bribed her, that's all." Havoc said, smiling.
"Did Kaori just take a bribe?" Al asked, shocked.
"Yes! Get the counselor! Kaori went crazy!" Rae shouted.
"Anyone need me?" Hughes asked, walking over.
"Yes! Kaori took a bribe from Havoc! Also, she is smiling nicely, and not smirking evilly like Roy!" Rae yelled. "She went crazy!"
"Wait, what?" Hughes turned to Kaori and started shaking her. "Are you okay in the head?" He yelled.
"What are you doing to my little sister, Hughes?" Roy asked, walking down the hall.
"YOUR LITTLE SISTER?" Ed yelled.
"Yes, my little sister, got a problem with it, Fullmetal?" Roy asked, stopping in front of Kaori.
Little sister...? Ed asked, in his head.
Kaori punched Roy in the stomach. "Shut up, Roy."
Roy looked angry with her, and opened his mouth to say something, but was interrupted by the class bell.
"Let's get outta here, come on!" Rae said, pulling on Kaori's jacket sleeve.
Rae, Ed, Al, and Kaori walked off to their first class, Sex-Ed, which was taught by Havoc and Greed.
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