Hmmm… does Alphonse look cuter with wings and a halo, or with kitty ears and a tail?

I can't make up my mind…

Oh! Sorry if that question confuses you but the brothers don't have halos in this fic.

But Al is cute no matter what! So is Ed… kind of…

Ed: What! I am cute all the time!

Al: Not really, Brother.

Ed: TRATOR! (points accusingly at Al)

Dying: (ahem) I forgot to add a disclaimer to any of the last chapters so…

Disclaimer: If I owned FMA or FMA:B…God help us all. So it's a blessing I don't own it.

Heavenly Brothers

Ch.6

"Brother…wak…p…" Al's voice was far off.

"Five more minutes…" Ed tugged the sheets over his head just to have them ripped off by something.

Ed sat up grabbing for the blanket that had just disappeared from his body. Eyes still closed he grabbed around his legs for the lost fabric. Not finding it, he fell back down on the bed and curled up into a ball. Something then pulled him out of bed. The something was actually someone. Al stood above him with a frown on his face.

"Do we have to do this every morning?"

"Allllllll, just let me sleep! My back still hurts!" Ed whined pouting at Al.

Ed stood up crawling back into the bed, but it was no use. He was already awake, he couldn't sleep with the sun in his face now.

"Sometimes I think I'm the older brother." Al said under his breath.

"WHAT WAS THAT?" Ed yelled hearing him.

"N-nothing, Brother! Besides be quiet, Teacher's still sleeping!" reminding Ed of the time.

"Oh…sorry" he said in a much quieter voice, but it was too late.

Footsteps where heard in the hallway, or more like stomping. They ducked under the bed as the door bust open and Teacher walked in. Luckily this time she didn't kick it down.

"I told you two before! If you get up this early then do it QUIETLY!" Teacher had a dark aura around her.

The brothers coward under the bed, afraid of the barely awake housewife. They hugged each other tightly and gulped. She saw the bed shaking and walked over.

"And here are the trouble makers." She said looking under the bed.

Ed and Al shrank to the wall. Teacher just glared daggers into them. She reached under and grabbed each boy by the scruff of their necks (since they didn't have shirts on). She threw them acrossed the room, they landed hard on the floor.

"One hundred push ups, each!" She pointed at the Elrics and walked out of the room.

"Y-yes sir!" they said getting started right away.

A hundred push ups weren't that hard but they had just got up so they were fighting the sluggishness they still had in their muscles and brain. When they got done, they were fully awake and could hear Teacher making breakfast in the kitchen. Al was about to run out of the room to the food waiting but Ed grabbed his arm.

"Don't you remember what happened? They'll ask questions. I still think we should leave before they can stop us." Ed said letting go of his little brother. Al turned around to face him.

"And I still think that we can tell them. Besides, they already seen us and they could tell anyone to look for us if we ran." Al explained. "It won't hurt to make them understand. They might think that we are some escaped test subjects or something. Besides she is acting just as normal as always."

"I guess your right," Ed said looking at his brother. "I guess it won't hurt to tell…"

"Good because I'm hungry," Just then Ed's stomach growled. "And it looks like you are too, Brother." Al gave Ed a smirk.

"Traitor…" Ed murmured to his stomach as he was dragged out of the room by Al.

Izumi POV

She was making French toast when to boys ran in. Al sat eagerly at the table as Ed just kept shifting nervously in his seat. She turned around smiling, Ed tensed up but Al just grinned back. Ed kept his gaze with her just daring her to ask the question.

"So boys," She started Ed tensing up more "How did you sleep?" Ed seemed taken back while Al answered cheerfully.

"Great Teacher, we slept great!" Then he nudged his brother, he snapped out of his shocked state then looked away.

"Sure," he muttered barely audible.

A few minutes later, Izumi put a plate full of French toast in front of each boy. Ed drenched his in syrup and tore into it with out a second thought. Al started eating too but not nearly as ravenous as Ed. She sat down with her plate too, adding butter and syrup to hers before starting to eat. By that time, Ed had half of his done already.

During the meal, Ed kept stealing glances at her. She could tell he was waiting for when the questions started to come, but she was going to wait till after they ate and Sig was awake. When Sig did come to the kitchen Izumi and Al were almost done. Ed had gotten done a long time ago so he was sitting back in his chair, crossing his arms, and looking out the window.

When breakfast was done the boys started to make their way outside, but Izumi stopped them in the middle of the hallway.

"Ed, Al, would you two come to the living room with me?" She asked to the boys retreating backs.

They stopped and turned around. They looked at each other worried. Both probably knew what was going to happen.

Alphonse's POV

Even though he was the one who said they could trust Teacher, Al was still a little worried.

As they walked in to the small living room just off the hallway, Ed whispered in Al's ear.

"Are you sure, Al? We could run right now." Al looked over his shoulder at his big brother.

"Sure, like I said before, Teacher will understand." Al answered despite his doubts.

Sig followed behind them. Even if they did run, they would have to get past him. It would be easy enough to faze through him but it would take a considerable amount of energy. But Al trusted Teacher and Sig.

The brothers sat on the couch and the adults took the armchairs acrossed from them. Ed was sitting on his hands while Al's were in his lap. Both brothers were nervously shifting in their seats. Neither of them could meet Teacher's fierce gaze.

"So, which one of you two is going to tell me what I have invited into my house?" Teacher's voice was hard but not mad. Both brothers still flinched at her voice though.

Al looked up at Ed but he kept his head down. Al sighed and took a deep breath.

"W-well you see…w-we didn't know this till we were about five or six but…" Al still couldn't look at Teacher. "O-our dad… h-he was a…" He paused shifting again "An angel." Al glanced up at his teacher and her eyes pushed him to keep talking.

"Well, Ed and I are half angels you see, since our mother was human. As it turns out, heaven's angels are forbidden from having kids with humans. Mom said Dad didn't care, he was in love with her." Al started the story. "Our dad had come to kill a demon that was taking human souls and trapping them on earth. Not just any souls though, souls that were meant to become angels when they died. Most angels were made when heaven was made but a few were humans on earth before being an angel. Only the purest of souls became an angel. Our mother was one of them." Just talking about their mother becoming an angel made both boys extremely happy and almost made them rethink the reason they were training in alchemy for.

"The demon chased our mother down one day and our dad saved her. That's how they met. After a while they had us." Al looked over to Ed but his brother was still looking down. "When Ed was born our dad told our mom about angels and what we would become. She didn't mind, actually she said she was very happy that we were her sons, even though I wasn't born at the time." Al looked up at Teacher and both adults looked fascinated at his story.

"Our dad left when I was four and Ed was five. We never knew why until about a year and a half later. At that time we weren't aware of our angel blood. We were playing outside when our wings sprouted, it hurt so much that first time but after that we could grow our wings without any pain." Al paused; both the Elrics were now sitting up and watching the adults.

Izumi was leaning forward with her elbows on her knees and chin on her folded hands. Sig was leaning back in his chair looking up at the ceiling deep in thought. Al continued, a little more confident that they could trust them.

"On that day, our mother explained to us what we were and what our dad was. Since we were young she explained the basics but after we got older she explained more. It turns out that we were supposed to have been killed by higher up angels but our dad prevented that by giving up his wings. Without his wings though, he could no longer be called an angel or return to earth. They let him send a letter to us right after he gave up his wings. Not a normal letter though, it was delivered by another angel disguised as a dove." Al was slightly smiling at Teacher, she was just like a child at story time. She was quite but he could tell she wanted to hear more.

"We flew around the house the weeks after getting our wings; Mother didn't let us fly higher then a few feet off the ground at first. Once she thought we were ready she let us fly outside. Only during moonless nights though, we couldn't let anyone see our wings."

"Is that why you did all you could not to tell us?" This was Teachers first question.

"Yah…our mother said we should never let anyone see us for they probably would call the military and take us away." Ed answered before Al could.

"You two should know that we would never call those…those dogs on you two, no matter what it is. You two could be wanted fugitives for all we care. You two are just boys." Ed and Al smiled at her words, knowing she meant them.

Al's face dropped at the next part. "Then mother died. She had a sickness that couldn't be cured." This was the first time they told teacher about how their mother died. "We felt alone when she left. We decided to train harder in alchemy to help people so no one had to lose anybody like we did." Alphonse lied at the last part so they didn't reveal the true reason that they were training so hard. Human transmutation is taboo, and teacher especially doesn't like it for some reason.

Teacher seemed to buy it and looked at them with sad eyes. If she found out about their plain, she would surely beat them till they couldn't move for a week. Al mentally shuttered at the thought.

"We read all our dad's books on alchemy and trained nonstop. After a while we noticed that there is only so much books could teach us so we started to look for a teacher. A few months after we realized this you showed up and helped our town. We knew you had to be our teacher then." Al watched her cheeks turn slightly pink.

"And what we have actually been doing at the lake was flying. Our wings got cramped not flying for almost six months… and we couldn't do it here in town so, we went to the lake every night." Al admitted looking away from Teacher.

"I see now. You two needed to exercise your wings too…" Sig said scratching his chin.

"We also needed to practice our other powers." Ed stated with out thinking.

Once he said it both brothers regretted it. They hadn't planed to tell or show the Curtises anything involving their powers. The two adults looked at the boys, a curious look in their eyes.

"Other powers, like what?" Teacher asked.

"Well…" Ed said nervously "along with our wings we got some…abilities."

"Like what?" Izumi pushed.

The boys looked at each other. Ed shrugged his shoulders and then faced the adults again. Al was a little worried but went along with his brother. They had no clue why they were telling them all of this. They were practically giving away all of their long held secrets.

"Well some of the simpler ones we got when we first got our wings were we can see in the dark no matter how black, we can hear real well too, and we can heal quickly."

"Oh… I see now how your cuts were gone from when you broke the mirror." Teacher said more to herself. "But then why was Ed's wing still hurt even after all your other injuries were healed?"

"Well, it depends on how serious the injury is, how much energy we have, and if we are awake." Ed explained what their mother had told them. "If I was awake it would have healed in minutes, but I would have been exhausted to do so. Healing comes natural to us since we have practiced it for years but I would have had to apply a lot of effort for the broken bone. Al actually healed my wing last night cause I had little energy, and he was ready to pass out after."

"Ok, I got it. Do you have more powers? It sounds like you do." Teacher asked.

"Y-yah… these ones we just got recently." Al said nervously. "Why we were here, actually."

"That's one of the reasons we had to train so hard at night. We had to get a hang of them so that we could control them while training with you. The first few days after gaining them we would struggle to keep them from exploding while training." Ed was trying his best to explain how their powers suddenly popped up out of nowhere and surfaced through out the days that fallowed. "When we tried to master invisibility we had to hide our missing legs and arms all day."

"Invisibility, you two can do that!" she said gaping.

Just to prove his point, Ed disappeared. Both of the adult jumped and yelled in surprise. Ed reappeared with a huge grin on his face. Al was holding back laughter. It took a lot to get that reaction from Teacher or Sig.

"Yes, that is one of them." Al was still trying not to laugh at his teacher's expression. "We can walk through solid objects too, and we can lift about anything lighter then a mountain."

Sig was the first one to shake off the daze and he smiled at the children. "Well, that is quite amazing. I would have never believed that if I didn't see you myself." They knew he was indicating their wings and what Ed just did.

Then teacher came out of the daze. Her face then went suddenly serious.

"Did you use any of your abilities, like the invisibility, to do wrong?" she asked in a stern voice.

"N-no…" His big brother said beside him. "Our mom told us that it was our responsibility not too." This was true, besides a few pranks here and there.

Ed's POV

Ed was surprised how easily Teacher and Sig accepted that they were half angels. He had no idea why they were telling them all of this. Maybe it was that they wanted to tell someone about it forever. They talked about telling Winry and Pinako a few times but never did. I guess they would have never told Teacher if she didn't catch them. Ed wasn't even sure what had happened the other day. Their mom did say something about fits when they matured but they never got in to discussing what they were. It could be natural or maybe their bodies were worn down by all the training. Ed just didn't know and it annoyed him.

"Do you think you could show us your wings again? We didn't mess with them much when you were sleeping because they looked like they were giving you pain." Ed was snapped out of his thoughts when Teacher asked this.

Al was setting down the arm chair that Sig was still sitting in. He was demonstrating their strength. Al looked over at Ed with concern in his eyes. They both had known they had seen their wings but they weren't sure if they wanted to give them a better look.

"What do you think Brother?" Al asked walking back over to the couch.

Ed could still fell the small throb where his right wing lay dormant in his back. It was going to hurt when it grew cause it still had a few fractures in the bone. All Al did was align the fracture up last night and Ed had been slowly mending it since he got up.

"Well my wing is still mending and I'm not sure. But we have shown them almost everything else…"

"Where are your wings? How do the come out of your back?" Teacher asked.

"Well, I'm not actually sure." Al said looking down at Ed who was still sitting.

"I don't know either. We can feel them in our body, but they don't seem to take up any space…Like they are there but not." Ed said brows coming together. He never thought of it before.

"Oh," Teacher said noticeably disappointed.

"Why do you want to see them again? I mean we did have them out the whole time we were asleep, that was like three days right?" Al asked tilting his head to the side.

"Actually it was four." Sig corrected him.

"Oh… but why do you want to see them again?"

"Well for one they weren't something you see every day and…well…" Teacher looked away, a slight blush on her cheeks. "They were pretty."

Both boys stared at their teacher. Sig looked like he understood her and nodded. Ed felt a blush on his cheeks too. He knew that his and Al's wings looked cool but never did he think anyone would call them pretty.

"W-well I guess...we could um… show you them…a-again." Ed stuttered. He saw Al was blushing too.

Al moved from Ed's side to a few feet away. They didn't want to crash wings because they were to close to each other. Al's wings were the first to come out. Ed hesitated a second, bracing himself for the pain in his right wing. When his wings finally came out, he winced at the sharp pain and waited for it to subside. When it did he looked up at Teacher and Sig. They were looking in aw at the brothers. Both Ed and Al smiled, they were always proud of their wings. They remember their mother looking at them with pride when ever she saw them, with or without wings.

Ed brought his injured wing it to his lap. Good thing it was the top half that had the fracture of else he wouldn't be able to do that. Now that he had more strength he could fix his wing all the way. He put his hand over the break and forced energy out of his palm. It glowed a soft blue and the pain slowly went away. When he was done he stretched his wing as far as the room allowed and smiled satisfied.

When he looked up, the two adult acrossed from him were looking at him in wonder.

"It is faster to put a hand over it and heal it apposed to focusing on the area that is hurt and heal it." He explained. "If it was in a place I couldn't reach I would have had to focus my energy there and it is much easier to focus it into my hands." He lifted up his hands to show his palms.

"Oh, I see," Sig said unsurely.

Izumi leaned toward Al, who was closer to her, and touched his wing. Al stiffened at the touched and his wing twitched. She drew her hand back imminently.

"Sorry Al, I didn't mean to do that. It's just that they are so soft." She apologized.

"I-its alright, I just haven't had anybody touch my wings since my mother last combed them." Al said smiling. Then both brothers frowned sadly at the thought of their mother and how she used to comb their feather after a bath or just when they asked her too.

"When we landed in mud or got our feathers dirty we had to wash it off before retracting them. It would make us sick or cough what ever was on our wings if we did. Other wise we would never get our wings wet. Water makes our wings heavy and rather uncomfortable. Our mother would comb them so they would dry faster" Al said lost in memory.

"Um… may I touch them?" she asked awkwardly seeing the boys' sadness but just had to feel them again.

"S-sure," Al said stretching his left wing out to her so she could feel them.

"They're so soft and warm!" before she could stop herself she was rubbing the wing on her cheek. She drew back quickly. "I'm so sorry! I couldn't stop myself." She said right away, letting go of Al's wing.

"That's all right," He said his eyes half lidded.

Ed knew that it felt good. Their wings were by far the most sensitive part on their body. Just someone touching them sent tingles up their wings and spine. Like wise, Ed's broken wing hurt ten times a broken leg or arm would. It's both a blessing and a curse.

She kept on petting Al's wing and his eyes grew unfocused. If he was a cat he would be purring right now. He let out a small moan then clamped a hand over his mouth. Teacher looked up at him in surprise. Al lower his had blushing hard. Ed snickered loudly, she turned to him and a devilish smile spread acrossed her face. Ed stopped and frowned.

"Hay, Ed, come over here. I can pet your wings too." She said ushering him to come to her.

"Um, I'm ok." He says nervously.

"Ok then," She gets up and walks over to the couch and sits down to the left of him. "I'll just come over here."

He tried to move over to get out of her reach but his wings reached way past the edge of each side of the couch. The thought never occurred to him to get off the couch or retract his wings so she got a hold of him easily. She grabbed his left wing and started petting it softly. He stopped struggling after the first stroke. He tensed up at first but then his muscles just melted. He tried to keep his composure but the hand petting him wouldn't let up. He heard Al giggling to the right of him.

"Looks like Bother likes it more than I did." Al said still giggling.

Ed's half lidded eyes snapped open. "Shut up!" he growled.

"But it's true." Al said with a wide smile.

"It is not!" Ed yelled and jumped up. His wings fluffed out just like a cat's tail would to make its self bigger in a fight. It was something that both brothers did when angry, but only when their wings were out. Even when flying.

They fought for a while till Teacher yelled at them to stop. Ed sat down on the floor and crossed his arms. Al remained standing up. They stayed like that for a minute until Ed heard Teacher clear her throat. He looked up at her and she started talking.

"I've been actually thinking about this for a while now but…" She said it a firm tone. "I think I've taught you everything I know, and I am very impressed at you two."

Ed sat there and blinked for a moment. Did she just say what he thought she said?

"What?" Is all he could say.

"I'm saying that I have nothing else to teach you." She looked down at him. "You two are real special, it would have taken a normal person about six or more years to get as far as you two have."

"Really?" both Ed and Al said in unison, a smile creeping onto their faces.

"Yep. You can stay here if you want but you have mastered every thing I have to teach you."

As it turns out, before the incident in the bathroom, they were planning to tell teacher they were going home for a while. They felt they had learned everything they needed to bring their mother back, so they didn't need to train any more.

Ed jumped up and so did Al. They yelled in triumph high fiving each other. Ed, forgetting about his wings in the excitement, started to flap them a few times. He sent anything not nailed down against the walls. He stopped once his brother grabbed his wings and held them to his back. Ed blushed and muttered sorry a few times.

"We're going back to Resembool." Al stated to Teacher and Sig.

"Ok, going to go back then." Teacher said straitening her wind swept hair.

"Yah, we miss Winry and Granny Pinako." Al said.

"When are you going to leave?" Sig asked them.

"Oh, I'd say in a few days, after we pack all our stuff." Ed said looking at his brother for agreement.

"Sounds about right," Al replied.

"Ok then," Teacher said.

In no time they were on their way back to the small town on a hill. Although it did feel sudden and out of the blue but they were going back to Resembool. Ed had a clear idea what they were going to do when they got back.

They were going to finally see mom again.

Next chapter, the mistake that sends them on their journey for the philosopher stone!

Hope you like!

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