You know, I think I'm writing this half for any readers who decided to read this far, and half for myself to see what is next.

I just make this up on the spot. Sure, I have curtain things in store but most is just what pops into my head.

That is probably why I'm such a bad author. (Sobs in hands).

(Total 360 in emotions) Enjoy!

Heavenly Brothers

Ch.5 Growing Pains

Izumi's POV

Izumi walked in with a determined look on her face. Ed watched in horror as she looked around. The mirror was shattered and Al was no where to be seen.

"Where is Alphonse?" she asked her voice betraying worry.

Another yelp came from behind the curtain although it was odious Al had tried to muffle it. Izumi eyed the bath tub and took a step closer. Ed moved and blocked her way by spreading his arms out.

"We can handle this by ourselves, Teacher." Ed said trying to sound convincing.

"Ed," she said sternly, "if Al is hurt or needs help, it's the adult's job to step in!"

"No! You can't help us! We'll do it ourselves!" Ed's voice was wavering, he was trying to hold back tears.

Izumi looked down at the eleven year old. She had never seen him cry, not even during the hardest parts of training. Seeing him like this told her something was very wrong. She looked up to the tub were Al was and saw a smear of blood too big for any of the cuts on Ed's face or arms.

"We can help. Al might be in trouble." She said in a calmer voice.

"No!" Ed yelled still not moving. "They'll just take Al and me away!"

Izumi and Sig just stared at him. Take him away? Who would take them away? Al yelled in pain again. Ed bit his lip still not moving, he was fighting the erg to be by his brother's side. Izumi took a step closer to the tub.

"No, I said!" Ed yelled pushing his teacher.

She went flying back into her husbands form, knocking them both down into the hallway. They looked up stunned at the boy. Where had he gotten that straight? Ed was in a fighting stance in the middle of the bathroom. He looked over his shoulder when his little brother yelled again. He glanced back at the two adults before turning around and rushing to his brother.

"Al are you all right?" he asked looking behind the curtain.

"Yah, Brother, but-" Al voice was surprisingly calm but another wave of pain hit him before he could finish.

Izumi stammered to her feet feeling one of her episodes coming on, but she had to help the boys first. She rushed Ed hoping to knock him down before he could react, but Ed turned around jabbing his palm into her stomach. That put her over the edge. She started coughing violently. Sig ran in to catch her before she fell on the floor. He barely fit in the small space.

She stood up with the help of her husband. Still coughing, she took a few steps toward the blond defending his brother. Just then Ed doubled over in pain making Izumi hesitate.

"No, not me too…" Ed muttered clutching his pounding head.

He sank to the floor by the tub and Al stuck his head out.

"Brother!"

"They're…they're going…going to take us to the military if they fi…find out!" Ed panted griping the side of the tub for support.

"Maybe we can tell them? M-maybe they will understand." Al said grimacing in pain.

"Boys," Sig said, "why ever would we call the military for?"

The Elrics looked up to the two adults. Ed was still panting heavily and Al's features were painted with pain.

"I guess we have to tell. There is no way out of this." Ed said looking at the floor.

Then he gave out a strangled cry. Izumi and Sig look in horror and amazement as a pure white wing shot out of Ed's back. It hit the wall behind the blonde with a sickening crack. Ed yelled in pain and fell forward.

"Brother!" Al screamed leaning out of the tub revealing a set of wings identical to the one Ed just grew.

Then the Curtises knew what Ed had tried desperately to hide. A million questions ran through their mind at that moment. They watched as Ed's second wing grew, this time straight up in the air due to Ed lying on his stomach. Al whimpered as he saw the feathers on Ed right wing, the one that crashed into the wall, start to turn crimson. The crack that was heard earlier was the bones breaking.

"Hehe, guess what, Teacher?" Ed said smiling as he crawled up onto his hands and knees. "We're angels."

Then both brothers passed out due to the pain

Izumi caught Ed before he fell to the ground and Al slumped down into the bath tub. She set Ed down carefully before she started coughing again. She stood there waiting for the episode to pass as Sig rubbed circles on her back. Once she was over it she looked down at the boys.

"Angels, huh?"

Sig grabbed the boys, one in each arm, and carefully carried them back to the room. Once there, Izumi transmuted another bed because both couldn't fit in the bed already there. Sig set both boys down in each bed making sure not to jostle them. Standing up straight after putting Ed down in the transmuted bed, he looked at his wife with a questioning gaze.

"I guess we have to wait till they wake up to learn what this is all about." Izumi answered her husbands silently asked question.

"I wonder why they thought that we would call the military. They know we wouldn't do that." Sig said looking down at the sleeping boys.

"For all we know they could be escaped chimeras, if we were anybody else then these boys would probably be on their way to a prison… or worse." Izumi said. One of the reasons that she hated the military is that they would kill anything without regret, if order to.

She left the room to go get towels to clean the boys' wounds. Apparently they had broken the cabinet's mirror in the bathroom and cut themselves up. Ed's face and arms were cut all over. As for Al, they suspect that he hit it with one of his wings because there were pieces of mirror in it and a huge cut.

When she got back she went to Ed's side first for he seemed the worst hurt. When she saw his face she gasped. Izumi quickly wiped away some blood from a cut then stared. The cut that the blood had come from had disappeared, the only indication that it was there was the blood. She did see that there had been a nasty cut there when they laid him down. What had happened?

As she continued cleaning the blood from the boys face and arms, the only scratch she found was the remainder of a huge gash on his arm which had almost all the way closed up. She watched it intently and saw it close the rest of the way up. She just gaped.

The only injury left was his broken wing. The top half of it was bent at an odd angle with a few ruffled feathers here and there. The blood stood out on the pure white wings. Izumi would have cried at the beauty of the wings if they weren't stained with the horrid red.

Once she finished with the eldest Elric she turned to the other. Al only injury was the cut on his wing. There was some blood but not as much as Ed's broken wing had. She removed all glass she could from the feathers, luckily none had gotten in the cut. But same as Ed the cut was healing but not as fast. She washed all the blood she could from Al wing, not trying this with Ed cause it probably would have caused him more pain.

Both boys seemed to be in a lot of pain due to their constant cries and the looks on their faces. Izumi had no idea what would cause the boys this much pain but she knew it had something to do with their… abnormalities.

It had been a few days now since they fell asleep. She looked at her watch and saw it was almost nine at night. She sighed and got up from the chair she was sitting in. Izumi had stayed and watched the boys the whole time. She got up and went to get something to eat. Her stomach growled slightly as she walked into the kitchen.

Ed's wing was still broken but was now looking better. It still was bent at an odd angle but it was starting to move back into place. That was the only injury between the both of the brothers all the rest were healed. She had many questions to ask her pupils when they finally regained conciseness.

She had just got done with her leftovers when she heard a thump from the room the boys were in. She rushed down the hall and into the room. The sight that met her eyes was Ed lying facedown on the floor with his wings spread flat on either side of him. He struggled to get up as he put his arms under him trying to push himself up. It was odious that he was still in pain but he desperately tried to move. Izumi went to his side offering help.

Ed's POV

Ed woke up to a dark room. He looked around trying to understand where he was. Pain shot through him as he tried to sit up. The memory of what happened before he passed out came flooding back once he recognized the room. For the first time he noticed he still had his wings out, one of them looked broken. His body had a dull ache but what really hurt were his wings, they felt like they were on fire. He tried retracting them but they just stayed there nonmoving then he realized that he couldn't move them at all. Just like when your leg goes to sleep and when you try to move it, it just lies there doing nothing no matter how had you try.

He looked to his side toward the other side of the room. There he saw Al, moonlight coming trough the window above illuminating his wings. The peaceful picture was shattered when Al whimpered in pain. Ed tried again to sit up this time ignoring the pain of his useless wings. Once he sat up he took a moment to push aside the pain then swung his legs over the edge of the bed. He slid off the bed, but the moment his legs hit the floor they gave out. He fell forward onto the wood floor. He laid there for a minute then struggled to get up by putting his arms under him pushing himself up. His wings felt like boulders.

A hand appeared in front of him, confused he looked up. Teacher was standing above him, arm outstretched. Ed blinked then reached out and grabbed her hand. She pulled him up effortlessly. He leaned against her moving toured Al. At first Teacher hesitated but then helped him to Al's bedside. As he walked forward as his wings dragged hopelessly acrossed the floor behind him. Every inch forward sent a new level of pain into Ed. He didn't care, his little brother was just as bad of shape as he was.

Once he made it to Al, he slumped to his knees. Teacher tried to catch him but he couldn't stand up any longer.

"Al, Alphonse, are you all right?" Ed's voice was horse.

"Ed, you two have been asleep for awhile. I don't know when Alphonse's going to wake up." Teacher tried to explain.

Ed ignored her and reached toward his brother. He grabbed Al's arm but as soon as their skin touched pain worse than anything so far exploded from his finger tips spreading down his arm. Ed collapsed to the floor screaming. He could hear Al screaming too, tears came to Ed's eyes, but they weren't from the pain though.

Soon the pain faded, leaving both brothers painting. Al had woken up when Ed had touched him and the pain came. Ed stood up no pain at all, accept his broken wing. Surprisingly it didn't hurt that much as long as he didn't shift his wing too much. Whatever happened a moment ago it had dispelled all of the pain. He could even move his wings again. Al sat up and looked at Ed, and then he jumped up and hugged Ed.

"Brother! W-what was that? It hurt so much." Al voice was filled with tears.

"I don't know," Ed said hugging him back.

They stayed like for that for a minute, Al crying on his shoulder and Ed just standing there. Soon Al sobs died down, he let go of Ed and sat back down on the bed. Ed then noticed Teacher standing behind him. He turned around facing her.

"I guess you want to know what we are." Ed said bluntly.

"That would be nice but you can tell us tomorrow. You looked exhausted." She said her face softening.

He nodded looking her in the eye. She left the room, closing the door. Ed turned back to Al.

"We have to leave." He said in an urgent whisper.

"B-but why?" Al asked scared at Ed's tone.

"You know why. They've seen what we are, they're going to call the military as soon as we tell them our story."

"But they didn't yet! Brother, we should trust them. Teacher wouldn't call the military, she hates them and…and I…I think she is trust worthy. You should trust them too!"

"How can you be so sure, Al?" Ed snapped.

"Cause she is our teacher."

Ed was just silent.

"We should go to sleep, Brother. We both need it. We can decide in the morning." Al said softly.

"Ok, move over." Ed told Al even though there was two beds now. He just wanted to keep his brother safe if anyone came to get them.

"We should put our wings away, so we both fit." Al said moving over.

"Oh," Ed looked over his shoulder at his wings. "Yah, your right."

Al retracted his wings then looked expectantly at Ed. Ed just stood their wings still out.

"What's wrong, Brother?" Al asked concerned.

"Well, I think my wing is broken. I don't know what will happen if I try to put my wings away." Ed said looking over at his bent wing.

"Oh… maybe I could try healing it?" Al asked.

"It's worth a shot." Ed shrugged turning around so Al could reach his wing.

Al reached over and gently took his brothers right wing. Ed cringed when his wing moved. Al reached over and put a hand over the spot were the wing bent awkwardly. His hand glowed a soft white and the wing bent back into place. Ed suppressed a scream of pain. Al stopped when his energy was almost complitly drained.

"That's all I can do, Brother. I'm too tired right now." Al panted behind him.

There was still a dull pain but Ed thought he could handle it. He retracted his wings slowly and when he got to the broken part a sharp pain stabbed at his back as it went in. When his wing was all the way in his back was throbbing.

"Are you going to be ok Brother?"

"Yah, just make room."

"Ok,"

Once Ed was under the sheets he fell asleep instantly. Al just chuckled and fell asleep too.

Izumi opened the door and looked in. "Good, they decided to stay. I was afraid I'd have to hurt them again to make them stay." She closed the door.

Is that all it was, growing pains… or more? (Du-du-duuu)

Na, I'm just yanking your chain.

Dying Heart Alchemist