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It's My Life

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Japanese is going to be italicized in this chapter so you know when it changes.

Chapter 3

Hand twitching violently, Edward slammed the school doors closed and stomped down the stairs. He shoved his hands in his pockets, kicking angrily at the stones on the ground. Russell had once again insulted his height, intelligence, and age all in one sentence. The jerk. Said jerk was lucky that his one month was up and he was now leaving this school. He wasn't sure how much longer he could have lasted without punching him in the face.

"Awww, what's wrong, Eddie?"

Twitching, Edward spun on his heels to glare at Russel. "What the hell do you want?"

"Can't I just ask what is wrong?" Russel asked in false kindness.

"Go to hell. You don't care." Ed snarled. He paused for a second. "And don't care me Eddie. I hate that name."

"But Eddie..."

Ed went to lunge at Russel but a hand landed on his shoulder and held him back before he could. He whipped around to see Alfons, his best friend from this school. It was strange to have a best friend who had the same name as his little brother though. "Hey Al."

"Calm down, Ed. He's just trying to get you riled up on purpose." Al said, pulling Ed away from Russel. "Today was your last day here, wasn't it?"

Ed gave him a sad smile. "Yeah. We're moving to Japan tomorrow. I'll miss you, Al."

"We can still stay in contact." Al replied with a grin. "And besides your dad makes a lot of money. You can come visit during the summer."

"Or we can fly you out to Japan." Ed said happily.

"Sounds fun." Al replied.

*IT'S*MY*LIFE*

"I'm surprised that you actually managed to stay out of trouble for a whole month." Hohenheim said as he watched Edward and Alphonse lug their suitcases down the stairs and began packing them next to the front door for the servants to take and pack into the car.

Edward stood up straight after putting his suitcase down and rolled his shoulders, and sighed in content when he felt his muscles relax. "Well, I knew this was important to Al and I didn't want to ruin it. I also really want to go to Japan and get away from my school. I'm just really glad you got the facility and this month of behaving wasn't in vain."

"I am really impressed and proud, Edward. I expect this good behavior to continue while you are in Japan. If I hear you've done anything you can expect that I will be cutting your phone off." Hohenheim threatened.

"D-dad…" Edward whined.

"Don't whine, Ed. It's not befitting of you. Just behave." Hohenheim replied. He looked at his watch. "Our plane leaves in an hour. Hurry up and get the rest of your bags down here."

Edward and Alphonse ran up the stairs. At the top of the stairs, they turned right. The first door on the left was opened by Al who ran in and grabbed his last bag. Edward ran into the room next to his brother's and grabbed his last suitcase and black messenger bag.

"Listen boys, you remember Pinako from when she stayed with us for a year to help Ed with his rehabilitation, right?" Hohenheim asked when they were all in the car and their driver drove off.

The brothers nodded their heads.

"She's the one who will be meeting us at the airport in Japan. She lives with her son and his wife. They have a daughter who is Al's age. You and her will be in the same class, Al." Hohenheim said.

"So Al gets to go to school already with a friend who can help him while I have to go in blind." Edward summarized with a frown.

Hohenheim shook his head with a smile. Edward complained about a lot of things but very rarely did he actually care about what he was complaining about.

"Do you know anything about Winry?" Al asked interestedly.

"No. I moved here before she was born." Hohenheim replied. "You'll have to tell me about her sometime." He turned to Edward who was staring out the window. "Edward, the Rockbells are the ones who made your automail. I expect you to be nice to them. Also they are doctors and have to work a lot. I called them a couple days ago to tell them about my new laboratory in Japan and that we were moving there. I have already brought a house for us there. The Rockbells have asked me to ask you to take care of Winry and Alphonse since they have a lot of work with building automail and being doctors. All you have to do is pick them up from school and take them home and drop them off at school in the morning. I'm most likely going to be busy with work as well so you need to do this."

Al frowned. "I don't need him to babysit me. I can take care of myself."

"Al, there will always be someone out there that is better than you. Having someone older with you will keep those bad people away. Even Winry isn't allowed to go home alone yet. Her parents, grandmother, or her friends' parents take her home. Just bear with it, kay?" Hohenheim explained. He didn't mention the fact that he was worried about Al's 'illness'. They never mentioned it but it was always one of the reasons why. It just never needed to be said.

Al sighed. "Fine." He looked at his frowning brother. "I don't mean any offense about it, brother. I just don't want people to think of me as weak anymore. Everyone is always telling you to watch out for me and I'm tired of it."

Ed ruffled Al's hair. "I know little brother. I hated that when I was your age too. People should really stop asking me to do that in front of you….actually they don't need to ask. You're my little brother. I'm always going to look out for you."

Hohenheim smiled brightly. "There is one more thing, Edward. I am having a gift delivered for you to Japan. It will be waiting for you at our new house."

"Why does he get a gift?" Al asked curiously. He wasn't really jealous. His father always did this. He would get them gifts when they did something he was really proud of them for. One time he got a new cell phone when he saved a little girl from almost getting hit by a car. His brother didn't get anything that time because he wasn't the one to jump in front of the car to get the little girl. They didn't always get gifts together.

"For two reasons. One, this gift will be helpful while you are Japan." Ed and Al looked at each other in wonder. What could he have gotten Ed that would be helpful? "And two, I am very proud of you for not getting in trouble for a whole month. I won't take it away if you get in trouble at school, but I will cancel your phone for a month if you get in a lot of trouble, then move on from there." Hohenheim explained calmly, while Ed paled at the thought of losing his phone. That thing was dead useful at times. He couldn't lose it.

"You're an evil man." Edward hissed.

Hohenheim just laughed.

"Do you think he was serious?" Edward asked his brother when they were on the plane. He looked over his seat at his sleeping dad.

Al looked up from buckling his seatbelt. "Who?"

"Who else? Dad." Edward asked.

"This is about him threatening to turn your phone off, isn't it?" Al asked bored.

Ed nodded his head.

"Just stay out of trouble and it will all be fine." Al replied nonchalantly as he opened his book and started reading.

"You're not helping." Edward said.

Al rolled his eyes, but didn't look up at his brother. "I'm reading, brother. Please do something besides bothering me. It's going to be a long ride."

Sighing, Edward put his seat back and grabbed his pillow. "Night Al."

"Night brother." Al replied.

"Don't stay up long. Dad would get mad at me if I didn't make sure you got enough sleep." Edward mumbled tiredly as his eyes slide shut.

FLUMP.

"Mmfp." Edward mumbled.

"I can't understand you brother." Al replied while chuckled.

Edward ripped the pillow off his face and glared at his brother. "Why did you hit me with a pillow?"

"You needed to wake up." Al said indifferently with a shrug.

"Why did you have to wake me?" Edward whined, tossing the pillow at his brother's face.

A shocked sound escaped Al when the pillow hit him. It dropped down to his lap. "You've been asleep for hours. The stewardess is bringing lunch soon. I ordered for you."

"What about breakfast?" Ed asked.

"You slept through it." Hohenheim replied from behind them, amusement in his voice at his sons.

Edward sighed and stared out the window of the plane, watching the sky and clouds moving passed the window. "This is going to be a long flight."

*IT'S*MY*LIFE*

Hohenheim, Edward and Alphonse looked around the airport for the short old lady that they remembered from years ago.

"Do you see her anyway, Ed?" Al asked.

"How can I when she's so short?" Edward retorted.

Al sighed. "Brother, you don't have to be so rude. You don't like it when people call you short so you shouldn't call others short."

"That's because I'm not short. I am over five feet tall, damn it. Pinako is like three feet tall or something." Edward replied.

Hohenheim shook his head at his sons.

"It's been a long time, boys."

Al looked behind him to see Pinako standing there with a pipe in her mouth like always. "Hello Pinako. It's nice to see you again."

Edward nodded his head at her.

"Follow me. My son is waiting outside with his car." Pinako said.

Al held his hand out. "It's nice to meet you, Dr. Rockbell."

Urey grasped Al's hand. "Hello Alphonse, you are Alphonse, right?"

"Yes." Al replied.

Ed held his left hand out. "Edward. Nice to meet you, sir."

Urey chuckled. "And your father said you didn't have any manners."

"Let me restate my statement then. He has manners. He just rarely uses them." Hohenheim said.

"Hello Van. It's been a while." Urey shook Hohenheim's hand."Well, let's get going. My daughter can't wait to meet you two." He looked at Ed and Al as he said this. "She is at your new house, waiting for you so she can help you with the rest of the luggage that arrived here a few days ago."

"If you don't mind, what is the name of our new school that we will be attending? I kind of forgot." Al asked.

"That's alright. It is called Amestris Junior," He nodded at Al. "Senior," He nodded at Ed. "High School. We will passing the schools on the way to your house so you can see where they are so you will know for Monday." Urey said.

"Today is Saturday, right?" Edward asked.

Urey nodded his head.

Edward looked up at Amestris Senior High School when they passed it. It looked like a nice school. From what he could tell as they drove passed it, it had three or four floors to it. He also caught a glimpse of a track field as they drove passed, but only a glimpse.

Urey pulled into the driveway of another mansion. Their father always seemed to buy mansions to live in. A young girl with long blonde hair tied in a ponytail sat in the grass with a woman that was obviously her mother. She wore a blue knee length skirt and yellow tang top.

"Is that Winry?" Al asked when he noticed her.

"Yes, it is." Urey said as he opened his door. "Winry, we're back."

Winry looked up from the book she was studying from. She happily put it down and ran over to the car. "Hello, I'm Winry." She said as soon as she reached Al and held a hand out.

Blushing, Al took her hand. "Alphonse. I'm supposed to be in your year."

"I know." She turned to Ed and held her hand out. "That would make you Edward."

"Correct. It's nice to meet you, Winry, right Al?" Ed smirked at his brother's red face.

Al stomped his foot onto Ed's flesh foot, causing his brother to hiss in pain.

"Hey Ed, don't you have automail made by my family?" Winry asked curiously.

"Yeah, I do." Ed replied, glaring at his smirking brother.

Winry's eyes lit up. "How is it? Is everything working okay? If it isn't I can check over it for you."

"Winry loves automail as much as we do." Urey explained to Ed's bewildered look. "Before we take your stuff inside, your father did tell you about a gift for you, right?"

Ed nodded his head. Hohenheim smiled. He was sure his son would love the gift.

"I think you're going to really like this gift. I wish my father brought something like this for me when I was your age." Urey said, pulling a keychain with three keys on it out of his pocket. He motioned to the car on the other side of his car.

Ed walked around Urey's car and stopped in front of a red Nissan 300ZX Turbo car with tinted windows. "No way." He whispered in German. "He brought me a car!"

"You're one lucky kid." Urey said as he handed the keychain to Ed. "One key is for the car, one is to unlock the car, and the other is a key to your house."

"I don't need you getting locked out. I wanted you to have to car so you had some way of getting around. You can drive it to school. The parking lot for the school is right across the road. If you drive you have to take Winry and Al to school and pick them up." Hohenheim explained to his son.

"We get to ride in that?" Al asked excitedly. "Sweet!"

Winry grinned. "This is so awesome."

"It is yours so you can use it whenever you want." Urey said. "Just make sure that Al and Winry don't sit in the front. They are much too young to sit there."

Edward nodded his head and unlocked the car. He climbed inside and looked around. There were four leather seats in total. Two in the back and two in the front. Cup holders in the back and front between the seats. There was even a stereo, everything for the perfect ride. This was going to be awesome to drive. He couldn't wait to drive it.

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