Disclaimer: Fullmetal Alchemist obviously belongs to geniuses. I am not one of them.

A/N: Mhmm... So um... Yeah. Thank guys, for the happy reception of the first oneshot. Love ya, wink wink, ;).

Here's an insanely short one that I wrote last night at like two o' clock in the morning!


II.

It Was A Well-Known Fact

Essentially, Edward Elric was too smart for school.

Not that (if he had any for of time at all) he couldn't have gone to school. The military may have conceded to him attending a military academy, to at least have a properly established education.

One that was completely unnecessary. As there were documents in more than one country proving that he was more intellectually gifted than most grown men.

No doubt he'd be bored to death in a school.

It was a well-known fact that he was the youngest person to ever be accepted into the State Alchemist faction of the Amestris military. (A lesser-known fact that he was the youngest person to be accepted into the Amestris military. Period.)

It was a well-known fact that he received the highest grade of all the men who were administrated the State Alchemist written exam that year. (A lesser-known fact that he had not even finished said exam, simply because his hand had hurt.)

It was a well-known fact that Edward Elric, the Fullmetal Alchemist, was a genius, a child prodigy. (A lesser-known fact that he knew millions of things not even he could begin to understand.)

Edward Elric knew the truth.

(Somehow, though, Ed doubted that he would have actually been allowed to attend a military academy. What with Amestris' government being run by artificial humans who were embodiments of a single homunculus' sins. One who was planning on using him and the entire country – for that matter – to swallow the deity of the world and gain ultimate knowledge and power. He was a puppet on strings, for quite a long time, and "school" most likely hadn't been on his, or their, agendas.)

Roy had mentioned it a few times. Usually he was entirely confused for a long time before even realizing what he meant.

"School?" even the word itself presented before him had proved to be puzzling.

"Yes, school."

"Are you a fucking psychopath?"

Essentially, Edward Elric was too smart for school.