Tino blinked his eyes sleepily, rolling over. "Nnnnh, dun' wanna get up." He muttered at the sun slanting through his shades. The sun ignored him and continued shining cheerily. A few more minutes passed before Tino realized the sun wasn't going to stop any time soon, and slid out of bed. Minutes passed, Tino blinking sleepily in the middle of his bedroom before spotting a small object that spurred him to frantically pull on clothes without really looking at them. As he was tying his shoes Tino cobbled a sandwich together haphazardly and ran out the door, chewing hurriedly. Then he ran back in to grab his satchel containing all his important items, including the one that had caused him to dress so hurriedly. He jogged down the road through the relatively small town to the medium-sized building in the center, which was always open.

As Tino stepped through the automatically opening glass doors he couldn't help but notice the amount of people in the space, and scooted to the wall so that he could sit down. As he sat against the wall, Tino examined the crowd. Mostly kids, of course, but there were also a few people around his age, in their late teens. Reassured, Tino sank back against the wall and pulled out his handbook.

After reading for a few pages, a black haired, polite-looking young man stepped onto the impromptu stage that had been erected for him in the middle of the Pokemon Center. He cleared his throat and the dull roar that had begun when he'd stepped forward filtered to a stop. Tino leapt up, craning his neck slightly to see over the people in front of him. "Ex-Excuse me." The man said into his microphone that had been handed to him. "I'm Kiku Honda, the student of Professor Madrona." This of course, produced terrible feedback for a few seconds, so Tino, along with everybody else in the building, covered his ears and waited it to stop. Kiku bowed slightly before stopping himself, "I'm sorry about that." He blushed slightly, "Now, as you all know, today is when you'll be getting your first Pokemon." At this most of the younger kids broke into cheers like, 'Pikachu!' or 'Squirtle!' Honda smiled. "However, this year we're going to be making a few slight changes to the system. First, we'll be bringing in species of Pokemon for you to adopt that are not region-specific, and second," here the man paused for breath, "due to complaints of parents and other adults, all starting trainers are to have a partner that they're to travel with for the first year, after that, it's assumed that the trainers will know how to take care of themselves, and they may separate if they wish. This is due to the fact that many of our beginning trainers are minors, and we are making an effort to protect them." Kiku Honda sounded like he'd given this speech many times before, which he probably had. Whenever the Professor of a region wasn't available, his or her assistants would cover for them. However, the audience hadn't heard the speech many times before, and as expected, many cries of outrage went up from the children's section.

"I'm old enough!"

"I'll be fine!"

"Don't be such a jerk!"

Honda continued, as if nothing had happened, "Your partners won't be chosen at random. You'll get to pick them, unless you have nobody you'd like to pair up with." Immediately everybody began to pair up, best friends clinging to each other like they were life-preservers. Oh good, Tino thought, I'll just pair up with… He cast his head wildly about looking for somebody, anybody that he knew that wasn't already paired up. Nobody. He broadened his scope, looking around for somebody his age. Finally he found one. A person easily found, because of his height and the bubble of space around him as he stood in the crowded room. Nobody approached the tall blond man. Plucking up his courage, Tino forded his way through the mass of people to the edge of the bubble. He attempted a bright smile, but when faced with the stern expression on the stranger's face, the smile just gave up and turned into a quavering mess of itself. Tino looked away from the terrifying man's face and stuck out a (noticeably petite, next to the other man's) hand. "I'm Tino." He said, and was proud that his voice only wavered the slightest bit. He still didn't trust himself to look up into the ice-cold blue eyes though, then he might faint. "Would you like to be partners in this whole mess?" Trying to be polite, Tino tried a trick that he'd heard worked, he looked up and, instead of looking into the tall man's eyes, looked at his forehead. Doing this almost caused him to tip over backwards, but all the same, he made an effort.

AN: Oh God, I did it, I finally started a SuFin fic. Hopefully this one turns out interesting. I hope to work in as many characters as possible, but don't expect any Pokemon series characters. All I'm doing is inserting the Hetalia characters into the Pokemon universe.

Pokemon copyright to Nintendo

Hetalia: Axis Powers copyright to Hidekaz Himaruya

Reviews would be lovely~!