Just some notes about this story you might want to know. I have a head cannon that capitals and states for example, grow faster then a human and slower then a nation. Nation grow really fast or slow based on their country. First, they grow like a normal human until they reach around Sealand and Wy's size. Then they could grow bigger but never smaller.

Also, the Ancient nations weren't always nations at first. They were normal humans who were given charms to become nations. Like grandpa Rome and Germania had something that made them nations. When Germania killed Rome, the charm was broken hence he was able to bring the final blow. Also, the two characters in this is China and Beijing but they don't have any names now. They would just call each other brother and sister respectably.

I thought you guys should know that before you read so it wouldn't be that confusing.

Disclaimer: I only own Beijing and this headcannon.

The Elder had predicted that they would become more then human, like gods that will roam the earth for many cycles to come. Now, all he wanted to do was go back to the time before then, when both were still small. Before the prediction. Carried on his back was his little sister, asleep and unaware of the thoughts darting though her brother's mind. He shifted her higher as she began to slip. When the prediction happened, he had started to grow faster then the other children in his village and had she. She was slower then him yet still faster then the others. Now she looked around two while he looked around seven.

Yet both of them were twins.

Their parents were died, forced to become gods early. Some say they wouldn't become gods because it wasn't time. For some reason, he knew they won't become gods like they had thought. A small object fell over his shoulder that hung from his sister's neck. It was a charm they had gotten from the Elder.

"This will help you two become gods. One shall be fully god, the other only half. None have spoken who shall be what so both should wear these." The Elder had held up two necklaces at that point. "This lay near when I awakened. You must wear it always, never must you take them off." The charm he wore was gourd-shaped with a small loop at top for string. Written on it was "longevity, wealth and honor". The back had a tree with a peony flower. The charm his sister had was a peach charm which symbolized long life and was protection against evils.

Now both were cursed to a life full of wandering. He could remember each village the lived at, yet his sister could not. She didn't remember the other village, which ended in flames. To her, it was as if they were only walking for a day. Instead they were walking for many cycles, more then seven. He was slowly growing now.

"Are we there yet brother?" So she was awake?

"Almost, I can almost see the smoke from the fires. See?" He pointed to imaginary smoke clouds, hoping she would mistake the clouds for them.

"Hurry! We'll be able to get there before the sun leaves!" He felt her head rest on his back. Eagerly, she begins to clap, but he puts her down on a large rock.

"First I need a break. We've been walking through these mountains before the sun was awake." Lying against a tree he closed his eyes for some rest. Pressure on his side said that his sister was curled up, using him as a type of pillow. To protect her, he wrapped his arm around her.

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"I found someone!" The hunter nudges the small foot that looked like of a child's. Tied around the ankle was a small charm her had never seen before. There was a bigger foot that also had a charm on it, the opposite leg of the smaller one. Pushing aside the branches he saw two children, asleep and very much alive.

"Who are they?" another man's voice said. The hunter shrugs, picking up the girl.

"You get him and we'll bring them back to mother. She'll know what to do."

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Something with a putrid smell was put near my nose, causing me to wake up. We lay in a small room with a woman at a fire. When she heard me gasp, she turns and smiles.

"Oh good, you're awake." She spoke in a dialect different then the others he had heard before. It made it harder to understand her.

"Where am I?" It was hard to tell if these people were friends or foes but if they hadn't killed him yet then they were friends. Or that is they wasn't able to. He scoffs at the notion. They wouldn't be able to kill him, no matter how much he begs. Either way, he wouldn't be able to leave his sister all alone in this world.

"You should be wearing warmer clothes then those," she motions to the peasant clothing they wore, "it's colder at night."

"We're trying to get to the city because our aunt lives there."

"Why drag your sister into the cold with you?"

"Because our parents are dead."

"Ah, so you, the older one wanted a better life for your little sister?"

He nods, "I can help work around here for food."

"What's your name?"

"I…I don't have one. She doesn't either."

"Everyone has a name, maybe you haven't found yours yet."

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That was years ago. He had to leave that village once they noticed that he and his sister wasn't growing at the same rate as the others. They had managed to get to the town, and he managed to get a job. He was farming while his sister helped make silk. Over the years, he had been thinking about his name. What was he supposed to be called? His parents had never named them because they said they would earn their names. Names that the people would call them. That was years ago. He forgotten how long ago that was. Time seemed like nothing now.

But now, he had a name, China, an empire that was a force to be reckoned with. Found that out when they visited the biggest city in this land, little sister was seven, when he knew he was this China. His emperor rode by in a covered wagon like box. Little sister reached out to touch it but they were too far.

Time was a foreign concept to him, like the new land to the east in the sea. What was this sea? He had always been surrounded by land yet he knew how the sea smelled, and how it looked like.

Sister had heard of this land surrounded by the sea so she ran toward what she though was the east. That's why he was searching now for her in the bamboo forest.

"Meimei!" It was little sister in this strange language. No, it wasn't supposed to be strange. It was his country's language, him being this nation.

"Here! Here!" A small voice called out. It sounded of a child's who was younger then his sister. She looked about nine now. In a open patch was a child with black hair and blank eyes.

"Who are you aru?" Not the verbal tic again, it only came up when he spoke this language, "I'm China."

"Hello, China where the sun sets, I am Japan where the sun rises."

"What's that supposed to mean aru?"

"Sorry."

"China! Who's tiny here?" His sister smiles and then pounces on Japan, poking his cheeks, "He's so soft and cubby! May we keep him na?"

"I don't know aru…"

"Will that be ok with you na? Do you want to stay with us?" The small nation nods and a bright smile lights up little sister's face.

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"Min Lei."

"Huh?"

"Min Lei." Freezing in a fighting stance, China grabs his sister's wrist stopping her.

"what do you mean Min Lei aru?" Japan tilts his head in a way sister thought was adorable and says it again.

"Min Lei. Jiejei's name should be Min Lei." The newly named 'Min Lei' breaks his hold and pulls Japan into a hug. China thought they were getting too attach to this child. He knew that this child was a new country, but he wasn't so sure if he would survive or not. The country he represented was still growing and it was possible for him to disappear. Instead of becoming human, the child would fade away into nothing. His sister and he would become humans though but that was only if their charms were destroyed. He heard that's what happen to the Great Roman Empire. He had become a human when the final strike was blown. All his memories had disappeared and he lived with a clean slate. Both he and meimei really cared for Japan yet he didn't allow himself to get too attached. That why wherever they traveled, he would leave before something happened.

"-cute Gege na?"

"Huh?" It seems that he was getting caught unaware more now.

"I said isn't it cute na?" She sat on the ground with Japan sitting on her lap. Her hair was in two braids with red ribbons at the end, "Japan did it for me."

"It's cute aru." They had too much of an attachment to him. Something was going to break at the end and no one was going to be happy.