Disclaimer: I do not own Hetalia; Himaruya Hidekaz own it. I only own any OCs I have used and the plot. The image cover made by mieulinhtu: art/PruViet-375643032

Author's Notes: So I've been working on this story, or at least attempting to start to story for a very long time. It was highly inspired by this picture of Lo-wah's deviantart of the Asian Mafia. art/APH-Mafia-the-Asia-Family-133427645. Now I do use human names in the story since I feel like it works out a lot better than country names. Anyways, please review as they do give me good feedback if the readers are actually enjoying the story.

Secrets

Chapter 1

It wasn't difficult to figure out that what I was doing was wrong, but as they say: Family comes first. That's the first lesson we've learned. The final lesson was betrayal meant death. As I've been told, not all endings end happy.

I was watching Yong Soo, making sure the deal was going through. Despite that it was only a trade on guns, it was a simple in and out trade, but he always did love talking. I sighed as I continued to wait.

Yong Soo was a tall Korean, but not lanky. Under his suit and tie, he was rather built, though it was hard to tell. This helped whenever we were in a cinch. They always underestimate him. He may be strange and well, stupid sometimes, but he's helped me out of bad situations before. He was my partner in crime… if you can even call it that. I smiled faintly watching him talk through the deal, his arms waving all over the place as he exaggerated his words. In our family, we dealt with the deals and business that were outside of the family, much like this. He did most of the talking. He's gotten so good to the point that we couldn't tell if he was lying or not. I was his back up, the watchful eye to keep this complete fool in line when his perverted mind started to come out again.

My train of thought stopped as my eyes scanned around the area, peering closely into the darker areas that could potentially be hiding danger. It could have been my imagination, but I swore I saw someone moving in the shadows. It also didn't help that the area we were in was a bad bit of town, it made me nervous. Nervousness can trick the eyes into wanting to see something that isn't there. Even after all my years of training and working in the field, when danger strikes fear can take control of my vision. It's hard to see what's real and what's fake; a trick of the light or a strange shadow. We've been through this every year for our weapon trade, but it never did help with me being on my toes once we were in their territory. The Russians… They were ruthless and merciless. Some say that only a person with a death wish would cross their paths. The only people who were stupid enough to run across them are the Europeans… Oh… and us.

"Kim-Ly!"

I looked back at Yong Soo, refocusing on him. "So?"

A grin spread across his face and I knew it went well. "The shipment will come in within the month, I'm sure Yao will be happy, da-ze~"

With a nod, I turned on my heel and headed out, quickening my pace with every step to leave the area sooner. Yong Soo didn't have a problem catching up to me, considering his height. He just took longer strides as he talked carelessly. I looked down to my phone, ignoring Yong Soo's mindless chatter as I typed the message to Kiku saying we'd completed the mission.

"Isn't your brother coming back with Li today?"

He nodded. "Yea! They've been gone a while, I wonder which mission they were sent for?"

"It was out of state from what I heard, but I didn't expect it to take this long…"

We headed back to Yao's antique store, walking in. It was an old shop with old Chinese knick knacks that were so ancient, no one bothers with them anymore besides the museum. It's been used more as a gallery than a store now a day since no one is willing to spend as much as for things like this. But there was a reason why this store hasn't closed yet. Yong Soo and I went towards the back. I placed my hand on a hidden scanner before the back wall slid away and we walked in. The reason why this store hasn't closed yet was because it was our hideout for our mafia family.

Kiku walked over bowing slightly towards us. "You've come back safe-" He suddenly let out a yelp as Yong Soo invaded his personal space.

"I claimed these in the name of Korea, da-ze~!" Yong Soo grinned as he groped Kiku suddenly. Kiku turned red, pushing him away, frowning.

This wasn't exactly the first or second time it's happened though. He's known to grope others for the sake of just groping them. The only one that he couldn't grope was his brother. From what I've heard, he broke a few of Yong Soo's fingers when they were younger when he tried. He's also a proud Korean to the point that he declared that everything originated from there, even when the sign clearly said differently.

Kiku regained his composure, trying to rid his embarrassment. "I'll contact Yao to tell him that it was a success." He walked away quickly uncomfortable being in the presence of Yong Soo any longer.

Kiku was a quiet, but reliable person. His height may be below average for his age, but he can stand his own fight. How else would he be second in command when Yao wasn't around? He was hard to read with his emotionless chocolate eyes, but there was only one person that could spark those eyes alive. Mei. She was the love of Kiku's life. They were cousins to an extent in our strange family tree, but they didn't care much about the bloodline. They were just happy to be together. Yao was just happy that his little sister wasn't going away to some Westerner. Ever since she was young, she always did have a knack to charm them which worried and stressed Yao to no end.

"Ana~ Kim-Ly! You're back."

I looked over seeing a Thai man wave towards me. He was around the height of Yong Soo may be taller by an inch or two. He walked over with a smile that was almost contagious.

"Tau, how was your mission?"

"Ana… work again? Can't you ask me how I am?" He pouted slightly. I couldn't resist his pouts, so I played along with him.

"Tau, how are you?"

His smiled returned. "Ana~ I'm doing great, thanks for asking."

I chuckled quietly as we both headed out of the antique store and to the car. I took the wheel, not trusting Tau's driving skills. They were great for getaways, but anything above that is dangerous in a normal setting. I started the engine and backed out of the lot, heading towards our house. Normally the rest of the family didn't live far from the hideout. Most of them lived in apartments together or lived in a house like normal people. Tau wanted something different because of his… pet, if you can even call an elephant a pet. It's hard to explain how he got an elephant for a pet, but he called it love at first sight. Since I've known Tau since birth, I ended up getting drawn into his ideas and so instead of living ten minutes away, walking distance, we live forty-five minutes away from the hideout outside the city limits into rural areas. That is if you don't count for the city's traffic. It does become troublesome when we're needed urgently since it'll take us a while to get there, but the other family members were scattered around the city, so there hasn't been a problem to that extent yet.

We eventually got towards the edge of the city when we heard sirens behind us. My heart skipped a beat, looking at the mirror. It relaxed when I realized they weren't after us, so I pulled over to let the police passed, watching them closely as they sped by. Maybe it was just me, but after my last partner was murdered by a cop, I've made it a habit to avoid them as much as I could.

"Ana~ I wonder what happened."

"Who knows… lately there have been a lot of killings."

Tau looked over to me as I started driving again. "By who?"

"No one knows… some say the Russians, others say the Europeans…"

"Ana~ I find it funny we are never included in that…"

"Well that means Li and Kwan Soo are doing a good job then. I don't know about you, but I'd rather remain off the radar of the police."

Tau nodded slightly, knowing full well of that back-story. He stared out the window to the scene that the police were at.

"Kim-Ly stop!"

I slammed on the breaks and looked at him, anxiously. "What?" He only motioned me to look out the window. Ignoring the beeps from behind, I looked over to his side, only for my eyes to widen. There laid a man cut and torn to pieces. His limbs were severed removed from the rest of his body. I noticed the head of the man as fear ran down my spine. It was a member of our mafia gang.

"Ana… you look pale…" I couldn't respond as I tried to breathe normally, trying to pull my eyes away from the scene.

I was brought back from my shock by a short rap on the window. I turned looking into crimson red ones. "Hey, you're holding up traffic. You need to keep moving." Normally anyone would have jumped suddenly seeing red eyes. And his pale skin only enhanced them. But I felt… comfort looking in them. I stared for a few seconds before quickly turning my eyes away looking back at the street. I had a faint blush when I realized I was staring too long for comfort when Tau cleared his throat

"Sorry officer..." I continued driving.

Tau watched me throughout the drive home. At first he was worried about how pale I had become. He had called back to headquarters to confirm that a member was killed. After the call, he watched me from the corner of his eyes and saw that I had returned back to normal. He made a few comments about me staring at the policemen like a deer caught in headlights. I only frown at his comment before thinking back to the body on the side of the road. It wasn't the first time I've seen that much blood and gore, but the way one of our members were ripped into pieces. It was a brutal death from the way his eyes were widen with fear. Chances were this was probably going to be on the news later tonight. Another headlinetopic of the week. News that will travel around by word of mouth until the following week when the city will focus on a new topic. That's how life ran in the city. No, that was how this country ran. We mourn for those we don't know for as long as the topic is hot. Once it's gone, people will turn to something new.

We eventually got back home. Tau went straight for the shed to care for his elephant as I walked into our cozy little house and started dinner.

I stared into her golden eyes almost in a trance. She had lost a bit of color, probably from the dead corpse, but that hadn't taken away from her beauty. I watched, almost disappointed when she turned away and sped off in a silver Sedan. I shrugged at the suddenness before returning back to my work. Thought looking at girls wasn't a bad past time, I glanced at the body again, making mental notes. A blood puddle formed underneath the body with each limb cut off cleanly. It meant that this was killed not too long ago if the blood was still wet. None of it has dried yet and today wasn't humid. Though it was hard to tell what was cut off first, the limbs or his head. Would the killer make the man watch as he cut off each of his limbs? Or silence him first before proceeding to dismember the rest of him.

"Inspector, any conclusions?"

I looked at the officer, refocusing on him while considering what to say. "Well… with the way the things are… I'd say… this person that cut this man up is completely… unawesome!"

I heard someone facepalm themself and looked over to see my younger brother, Ludwig. "Bruder… at least take your job seriously…"

A pout formed on my lips. "I was being serious…this completely unawesome to kill someone like this."

He shook his head, not taking in any of my nonsense as he walked over to look at it. "Has forensics stopped by yet?"

"Ja, but I think anyone who walked by could tell how this person died…"

"No clues?"

"Nein, they did a clean job…and as you can tell from the blood, it's recent." Even though it will be my job to figure out what exactly happened to him, I decided that for today it was enough. I'll have to reconfirmed things and think things through from the police reports then work with that asshole of a detective Konsu. He always seems to have something up that sleeve of his and ruins my awesome moments when he can. I waved to my brother and drove back into the city.