Disclaimer: I don't own Hetalia.

Warnings: High School AU with human names, Minor Language, Some genderbents (I'll have an explanation at the bottom) and probably an overused/boring plot.

Pairings: Working on that… but at the moment at least Sweden/Finland, Fem!Prussia/Fem!Austria, Spain/Romano, the weird triangle of Russia/Fem!Lithuania/Belarus and Francis/Everyone

This is unbetad, so I apologize for mistakes.

As Mathias Jensen sat in the waiting room chair, he found himself slouching further and further into it. In his mind, he was making mental notes of all the things his student records could possibly say and what the councilor was going to say to him the moment she saw how thick it was. He remembered his last councilor just stared at it, wide eyed unable to say anything.

When the office door swung open, a student stepped about. He was about the same height as Mathias; except for the fact his light brown hair was spiked making him look a little taller. He didn't pay too much attention to Mathias as he kept his blood shot eyes focused on the ground.

Mathias turned his attention back to the office when he saw the councilor smiling at him. Her hair was cropped short and was held back with dozens of bobby pins and a yellow head band. Mathias was trying to keep his focus on her light blue eyes and not her rather impressive bust size as she said, "Mr. Jensen?" He nodded. "Why don't you come on in?" she asked motioning him to enter her office.

Mathias stood up from the chair and followed her in. After she closed the door behind her, she circled around the desk and sat down, motioning for Mathias to take a seat himself. On her desk sat his rather large file of student records. She only briefly glanced over it as she said, "I just wanted to be the first to welcome you to De Verdens Academy. I'll be your councilor for your year here. You're welcome to call me Katyusha or Katy if you'd like."

She continued to smile as she said, "Now I know you're probably concerned about your rather large file on my desk," lightly placing her hand on the file she continued, "However, I believe you shouldn't have to worry about such things. We'd like to think you can have a fresh start and we won't look at your records unless it becomes necessary. The important thing is you receive the education you deserve without something like this to hang over your head."

She turned slightly and began typing at her computer. After a few mouse clicks, the printer behind her began humming as it printed. She turned in her chair and reached to grab the paper, "Here is your class schedule," she said as she handed to Mathias, "And if you have any questions or concerns, don't be afraid to come and talk to me."

"Yeah, thanks," he said looking over the paper he nodded briefly before he excused himself from the office. Once he was in the hallway again, he took a better look at the paper and realized he had no idea where he was ever going to be going.

He was trying to juggle his schedule and pull the school map out of his backpack and ended up dropping the contents of his bag onto the floor. "Shit…" he muttered to himself.

Getting down on his knees and beginning to cram the stuff back into his back he heard someone ask, "Hey dude, you need some help?" Looking up, some smiling blonde guy stood in front of Mathias. Shrugging, the guy began collecting the final papers and handing them to Mathias as he said, "You're new aren't you?"

"Is it that obvious?" Mathias questioned through his teeth that had his schedule between them while he stuffed the other papers back in his bag and stood up.

"Well the lack of the school uniform kind of gave it away," The guy smiled bright, "That and I already know the entire student body and I don't recognize you. I'm Alfred, by the way."

"Mathias," he said once he had his hands free to take the schedule out of his mouth.

With a continuous smile, Alfred said, "Hey let me look at your schedule; maybe I can help you out with a few things." Taking the paper from Mathias, Alfred quickly scanned over it, "Blah… Vargas for Government? That's going to be harsh. The rest of your teachers aren't so bad though. Just be careful with Mrs. Karpusi, she's good but don't ever be late to her class," he explained. "And by the looks of it, you're going to math with Mrs. Hassan. Hey, that's where I'm going. Since it's already third period, we have lunch after that. I can show you around and all the fun stuff," Alfred offered.

Mathias just shrugged, "If you really want to."

Alfred grinned, "Of course! What kind of person would I be if I let a new student get lost and confused on his first day of classes?" Without much more time to protest, Mathias quickly found himself being dragged off to the classroom. Not really sure where else to sit, Mathias ended up sitting next to Alfred in the back row. Slowly a few other students filed in, no one really catching Mathias' eye. At least until one girl walked in.

Her long blonde hair was clipped back with a golden cross hair pin to keep it out of her dull blue eyes. She said nothing to the other students as she entered and found a seat on the far side of the room in the front row. Even as the teacher began her lecture, Mathias couldn't help but continue to stare at the girl.

The entire time he watched her from the corner of his eyes, she lightly tapped her pencil on her notebook seemingly not even paying attention to whatever the teacher was saying.

Once the class was over, most of the other students rushed out the door the moment they could to head off to the cafeteria. The girl however, calmly picked up her things and left the same way she came in quietly and gracefully.

Mathias was ready to leave when he was called up to the teacher's desk. Mrs. Hassan seemed like an interesting enough teacher. Mathias was just wishing she would stop fidgeting with her glasses every five minutes. After a quick talk, she handed him the syllabus for the class and a few other papers that he was going to need.

As he left the classroom, he quickly looked around for the girl but could only find Alfred standing outside of the room waiting for him, "So how do you like the campus?" Alfred asked as the two made their wait to the cafeteria.

Upon entering the cafeteria, Mathias shrugged, "I don't know. I'm still getting used to everything here. It's a hell of a lot smaller than my last school."

"Dude, you'll get used to it," Alfred smiled, "If anything the smaller campus and student body is a lot of help with settling in. You'll figure out where everything is in no time. And then dude, you'll be able to sleep walk through this place. I know I have for the past three years."

As they got into the lunch line, Alfred continued, "The really important thing to know is who's who around here. You've got to know who to be friends with and who to avoid. You could end up in the wrong group and then you'll never make it through here."

Mathias slowly blinked a few times as he ended up picking out a sub sandwich and milk from the line. After paying, he continued to follow Alfred over to an empty table and sat down in the chair next to him. Within a few minutes, they were joined by a petite blonde boy and another guy that was even taller than Mathias.

"You must be the new guy I heard about," The smaller boy said with a smile.

"You heard about me?" Mathias questioned.

"Well it is a bit unusual to have a new student transfer in his senior year. Most of us have been together for the past few years," he said, "Also, you don't have a uniform."

"Yeah," Mathias said quietly, "I'm supposed to be getting that stupid thing tomorrow."

The boy's smile didn't vanish as he reached into the sack lunch he had and pulled out a Tupperware filled with a casserole, "I'm Tino by the way and this is Berwald," he said motioning to his friend, "It's nice to meet you."

Berwald just grunted as he pulled out a similar Tupperware from a paper bag with the same casserole before he pushed up the glasses on his nose and went back to opening up the rest of his lunch.

Alfred smiled, "Dude, Berwald made you lunch again? Lucky Tino."

"Berwald said he made extra," Tino said, hiding his blush, "I couldn't refuse something he made." Tino quickly glanced over at Berwald, who said nothing and kept his focus on his own lunch. "Anyway!" Tino exclaimed, in a hasty attempt to change the subject, "Welcome to the school!"

Alfred sighed, "I was going to tell Mathias about the who's who around here," he said taking a bite of his hamburger. After a quick look around the cafeteria he found his first target. "There are a few different groups you're going to want to avoid, starting with Ivan's group."

Using his head, Alfred hinted at a group of six students at a far table. Mathias couldn't help but notice all the surrounding tables were empty as well. At the one side stood a guy rivaling Berwald's height but had the unpleasant look about him. "Ivan is the really tall blonde of the group; he's kind of a scary guy with serious personality problems and a bully to everyone around him.

"One of the girls with him, is Irena. She's his "girlfriend on his good days." Alfred said with a frown, "She's actually a really nice girl, but unfortunately she got stuck with that creep for a boyfriend and can't get away from him now."

Mathias glanced over to the group again and noticed something, "Which girl are you talking about?"

Tino furrowed his eyebrows in confusion, "Irena is the brunette. The two blondes, well one is Natalia she has this weird stalker crush on Ivan, you should probably just avoid her and the other blonde is Feliks," Tino pointed out, "Feliks has a habit of wearing the girl's school uniform. You get used to it after a while."

Mathias raised an eyebrow, "The school lets him to wear that?"

Tino shook his head, "No, but his parents donate a large amount of private funding every year," he said, "So he kind of bends the rules a little to suit him."

"The other two are Irena's younger brothers. Eduard, the blonde with glasses; he's like some sort of super genius. If you have homework trouble, he's usually the one teachers recommend on help you out. And the little guy is Raivis; he has some sort of nervous disorder. Not that I would blame him," Alfred sighed, "They only stick around Ivan because of Irena, but they're too scared of him to get her away from them."

Mathias sat back in his chair, "Ivan doesn't seem that scary," he said. Sure the guy was rather tall and built like he could run through a brick wall and cause more damage to the wall, but Mathias still didn't see what the point was of why everyone was so afraid of him.

Tino laughed hesitantly, "You wouldn't say that if you've seen some of the things he's done to the other kids. He has a long history of fights and picking on other kids," Tino said chewing on his lower lip and beginning to fidget with the bottom of his uniform jacket. "He knows how to start fights and then turning things around so you get blamed for the fight and in return he can get himself off freely. That's why he hasn't been kicked out of the school or sent to juvenile hall."

Tino was starting to fidget even more, looking strangely uncomfortable. Berwald exhaled slowly and took hold of Tino's hand squeezing it, Tino somewhat smiled and stopped fidgeting.

Alfred shook his head, "According to some of the rumors, Feliks has even tried to file a restraining order against Ivan to keep him away from Irena," he said, "But in the end, Feliks ended up dropping it for some reason. Although it's pretty much figured Ivan started blackmailing Feliks to drop it."

"Fuck, I get it," Mathias muttered, "Stay away from Ivan."

"And you should probably just stay away from the others as well," Alfred added, "But especially Irena. If that bastard Ivan thinks you're trying to hit on her or something, he won't hesitate to go after you."

Suddenly Mathias didn't feel like eating anymore, "Wow, that's fucked up."

Tino nodded in agreement as he went back to eating. Berwald still hadn't said anything, starting to make Mathias wonder if the other guy could even talk. However, at one point, Berwald looked up and coughed into his hand before dropping his eyes back down to his food. Alfred turned his head slightly. Once he found what Berwald had seen, he shrunk down into his chair and muttered, "Trio alert."

"Trio…?" Mathias questioned.

"Hey losers!" Someone said as Mathias found a chair pushed up between him and Alfred. Sitting down in the chair was a girl with long silver hair and red eyes and the broadest grin on her face, "So we have a new guy? That's awesome," she said.

"Go away Gillian," Alfred said through his teeth as two others pulled up some chairs and sat down. One between him and Tino and the other between Mathias and Berwald.

Gillian continued to grin, "But you haven't had your daily dose of awesome yet," she chuckled.

The one sitting between Mathias and Berwald sighed. As he shook his head, his shoulder length blond hair moved about his face, "Gillian, mon chere, they do not want to hear how magnifiques you think you are."

"Shut up Francis," Gillian said, "What the hell would you know anyway?"

The third member of the Trio just smiled brightly as he ran his fingers through his wavy dark brown hair, not really listening to his two companions. After a moment of thought, he turned to Tino and asked, "Did you remember to get the assignment from first period? I kind of forgot to write it down."

Tino nodded slightly, "Yes, give me a second to find it for you."

Francis leaned back in the chair blinking his blue eyes confused, "Since when do you care about the homework Antonio?" he asked.

"Since I got yelled at by you know who," Antonio continued to smile away as he dug out a sharpie from his pocket and began writing down on his hand whatever the homework was.

Gillian sighed, "Yeah so anyway, I'm Gillian. That's Francis and Antonio," she said pointing at both of them respectively.

"Mathias," Mathias said, not really sure if he should be introducing himself or not.

Gillian grinned as she said, "So let me give you some advice, you're going to want to ditch these three and join our awesome group."

"But then you wouldn't be known as the Trio anymore," Tino said without looking up from his planner while Antonio continued to scribble on his hand.

"Besides," Alfred rolled his eyes, "Mathias probably wants to graduate and not be stuck here with you three when you all fail and have to repeat the year."

Gillian raised an eyebrow and exchanged quick glances with Francis. Francis began to laugh out loud, "Is our little Alfred finally sticking up for himself?" he wiped a fake tear from his eye and hugged Alfred, "I'm so proud of you!"

Alfred immediately tried to beat Francis off of him to get out of the hug while Gillian added, "And maybe now he can finally ask out the target of his affection that he's been holding onto for the past few years," she laughed with a strange sounding laugh.

"Knock it off you two," Tino sighed, "Why don't you go bother someone else for a while?"

"But Alfred is so much fun!" Gillian mused.

Without blinking, Tino questioned, "I heard Ivan was looking for you the other day Gillian. Should I call him over here?"

Gillian visibly cringed, "No way in fucking hell," she muttered, "You better not." She was about to add something else when she realized Antonio's attention was now focused elsewhere.

Suddenly Antonio jumped up from his chair, his green eyes sparkling, "Got to go guys!" he exclaimed as he ran off across the cafeteria.

Mathias continued to watch Antonio run across the cafeteria until he was able to throw his arms around a smaller male with dark auburn hair. There was a distinct yell of, "What the hell Antonio, get the fuck off of me!" from the smaller guy as he struggled to get out Antonio's hug.

Gillian started muttering curses to herself as Francis sighed, "It's no use mon chere, you know once Antonio catches sight of "his" Lovi, there is no getting through to him," he said with a small chuckle.

"Bastard," Gillian said under her breath, "Well I guess now we have to go after him and drag him back otherwise were never going to find him again for the rest of the day and Antonio owes me a coffee after classes," she pushed back her chair and stood up, "So anyway, Mathias, think about it," she said, "It would be awesome."

Francis shook his head as he stood up. Quietly to Mathias he said, "She's really not as great as she thinks she is but you learn to live with it." With Gillian in the lead, Francis followed behind her to go track down their missing member of the Trio.

Once the two were far enough away, Alfred exhaled slowly, "And that's the Trio. Their favorite thing to do is annoy whoever they can find. They used to start a few fights until Gillian ended up being one of Ivan's favorites to bother. Now they're just annoying," he said.

Mathias scrunched his face as Alfred continued, "Yeah, dude that was Francis behaving himself. Antonio is probably the best of the three. Except he's kind of dense and spacey, but if you ever want to get rid of him just tell him Lovino is nearby and he's off and away in an instant," he mused. "The problem is Lovino is usually hiding in a classroom trying to stay away from the other two members of the Trio."

Alfred went back to his eating for a little while as Mathias looked around and saw no sign of the Trio or the one Antonio had suddenly become distracted by. Or at least he thought so as a strangely similar looking boy came running up to the table, "Ve! Tino!" he exclaimed.

"Tino! Are you going to be writing that back to school article for the paper this year or am I going to?" the boy asked quickly with even faster hand movements.

Mathias blinked a few times, "I don't think you're the same one that Antonio kid ran after."

"Ve?" the boy blinked a few times in response, "Oh you mean Lovino? No, I'm his brother Feliciano!"

"Don't worry, I'll write the article," Tino smiled, "All you have to do is worry about the art work you want to do and the layout plans before we go over it with Yao."

"Ve! Okay," Feliciano smiled, "I think I was going to look for Anna to help out as well. Oh, I should probably find her." He glanced down at his watch and said, "Music room! Right! Okay I'll talk to you later Tino!" before he scurried off and out of the cafeteria.

Mathias paused, "What was that about?"

"That was Feliciano," Alfred laughed, "Lovino's younger brother. He makes a strange "Ve" noise that's unexplainable by everyone, even his brother. Whatever you do, don't get them mixed up. Feliciano doesn't mind, but Lovino might bite your hand off and send Antonio after you."

Mathias sighed and raised an eyebrow, "Okay so far from what I've heard, the student body here is just fucked up," he said folding his arms.

Tino laughed hesitantly, "Don't worry; there's some good people here as well. You've just met the ones that will probably cause you trouble or are a little crazy."

Lunch was almost over and Mathias was rather unimpressed by everyone he had seen. They were either annoying or psychopaths. However as he leaned back in his chair there was a familiar blonde that entered the cafeteria. The girl from his math class entered the cafeteria, this time in the company of a silver haired boy that was just slightly taller than she was.

Mathias continued to watch her for the short amount of time that she was there. Only long enough to grab some lunch before both she and her companion turned to leave.

Alfred followed Mathias' gaze across the cafeteria and realized who he was watching. Quickly he said, "Yeah, dude, don't even think about it."

"Why not?" Mathias asked confused, "Who is she?"

Alfred shook his head, "She's part of the last group you need to look out for, possibly avoid, and do everything you can to not get on their bad side. The student council." He said.

Mathias hesitated, "I don't know about here, but from where I'm from, the student council is supposed to help the students. Why would I need to avoid them?"

"Don't get us wrong, they do help the students," Tino commented, "They're really good at helping us. In fact it's because of them that the student funding is the best it's been in two years. The thing is they're all serious business about they do and if you make an enemy of one of them, you're going to end up with the whole group and they will find a way to shut you down, no questions asked."

"The student body president is Arthur," Alfred explained, "You probably will never see him if you don't have a class with him. He spends most of his free time in the council office. He's always working and trying to get the budgets approved or worked out. If you do see him, he's kind of a shorter grumpy British transfer student. When he came to this school three years ago, he practically took over the student body to reorganize it."

Alfred seemed to smile to himself for a moment before he realized he was being met with two sets of eyes. Tino's large violet ones sort of stared at him, knowing what his thoughts were while Mathias' teal ones were just lost. Berwald didn't seem to care; he had finished his lunch and was now too busy resting his chin in his palm and staring out into nothing.

Alfred coughed to clear his throat and continue, "The vice president is Kiku. A lot of people think he's a push over when he's not. He may not have anger management problems like some of the other students here, but he's not afraid of writing you off. But other than that, he's still probably one of the nicest guys on campus.

"Then there's the treasurer, Ludwig. He's kind of scary. The main thing about Ludwig is he's the headmaster's son. I've never heard anyone say that he went and cried to his father about something that didn't go his way, but there's always that hidden fear that he might. And I guess I'm stuck saying that he's also the younger brother of Gillian, who has already graced us with her presence."

"Okay," Mathias said, "But who's the girl that you're still telling me to not even think about? You haven't said anything really that bad about the rest of the council."

Berwald frowned, "E'sa," he mumbled.

"What the hell did he just say?" Mathias asked, surprised that Berwald had finally made any vocal noise other than the occasional grunt.

Tino shook his head; "Her name is Elsa," he said quietly, "She's been kind of dubbed…" he coughed hesitant if he really wanted to say it.

"The "Ice Bitch"" Alfred finally said for Tino.

"Why?" Mathias questioned.

"For a member of the student council," Alfred explained, "She doesn't really follow the usual, "social and friendly" quota. She keeps to herself all the time except for talking to the other members of the council and even that's kind of rare."

"So how did she end up on the council?" Mathias asked.

"She's good at keeping Arthur in line and keeping the others organized?" Alfred offered, "The four of them all pretty much ran on the same ticket. Arthur chose her specifically for the secretary position."

"So she's not that social," Mathias commented, "Why the "Ice Bitch" title then?"

Tino sighed, "There have been plenty of guys that have tried to ask her out, but every single one of them she's turned down. And from what I've heard, she doesn't let them down easily. You'll never really see her with anyone outside the student council but she's usually by herself."

"'Cept Emil," Berwald commented as he continued his staring.

"That's who she came in to the cafeteria with," Tino explained, "Emil's her brother and pretty much the only person she hangs around with all the time."

"And before you ask," Alfred quickly said, "A lot of people have even tried asking Emil if they could date Elsa and he's just as bad about shooting them down and telling them to leave him and her alone. Dude has some sort of sister complex."

Berwald continued to frown as he dropped his eyes to the table. Shaking his head, Tino glanced down at his watch before he said, "Well lunch is almost over and I've got to run to the library before the next class." He quickly packed together the rest of his lunch into the bag and put it into his backpack.

"Yeah, dude," Alfred sighed, "I got to go to. Mathias, you'll be okay finding your next class, right?"

Mathias quickly pulled out his schedule and looked at it, "Yeah I think. It's art with Wang Yao."

"Oh, Berwald has that class next to," Tino smiled, "He'll be able to show you where to go." Mathias eyed the taller boy as Tino stood up. Tino's hand brushed over Berwald's shoulder just as he began to leave causing Berwald to look up and watch the other leave.

Alfred smiled once more and said, "Hey, I'll talk to you later or something," as he grabbed his trash and stood up. Before he ran off, he added "We'll hang out again!"

Mathias looked over at Berwald and suddenly felt awkward sitting alone with the guy that had only said three words in the entire half hour they had been sitting there. Mathias cleared his throat as he asked, "You really don't talk much do you?"

Berwald just grunted as he gathered together his stuff and stood up to leave the table. Quickly getting all of his stuff, Mathias jumped up and followed behind Berwald, "Hey, I have a question for you," Mathias began to say. Berwald glanced at him from the side and continued to remain quiet. Sighing, Mathias asked, "So what's with you and Elsa? It kind of seemed in some ways that you know a few more things than you're letting on."

Berwald stopped in his steps and turned, "J'st don't t'lk 'bout E'sa, got it?"

"Why?' Mathias asked really interested now. "And what do you mean, don't talk about her? Just don't talk about her in general or don't mention the bad things, whatever those may be."

Berwald narrowed his eyes directly at Mathias, "Drop it," he said as clear as he could manage. His heavy accent came back as he said, "Yer not t' speak 'bout 'er. 'M tired o' people talkin' when they know nothin' 'bout 'er."

"But Alfred and Tino were…" Mathias pointed out.

"'Llow T'no 'cause it's 'im," Berwald said clenching his fists, "W's tryin' to keep t' myself n't t' 'it 'Lfred t' stop 'im." He fell quiet, not wanting to get any angrier and started walking again.

Mathias shifted his weight as he quietly said, "What if I just want to get to know her?"

Berwald stopped once again and glanced over his shoulder before he continued on his way. Mathias was still standing in place for a few moments, watching Berwald. With a heavy sigh, Mathias turned on his heel suddenly he didn't feel like going to his next class even if it was only his first day.

There was still a few more minutes before class started, so at least as Mathias wandered about he wasn't too obvious that he was planning on skipping. Somehow he managed to find his way to the bleachers near the baseball field when he caught sight of someone else that looked like they weren't planning on going back to class.

It didn't take long for Mathias to recognize the overly gelled light brown hair. The guy only briefly looked up when he saw Mathias and asked, "Shouldn't you be in class?"

"Yeah, well shouldn't you be?" Mathias replied.

The guy just smiled and laughed, "It's not my first day."

"Good point," Mathias grinned, "But right now I don't really care. I'm Mathias by the way."

"Willem," he said. "Saw you with self proclaimed "Welcome committee" Alfred."

"He's something else isn't he?" Mathias sighed, "Any truth in everything he says? Don't make enemies of the psycho Ivan, the Trio are a bunch of self loving losers and the student council are able to make your life a living hell if you piss one of them off."

"The student council is only bad for Alfred because he and Arthur had a few too many disagreements. The rest aren't that bad. For the Trio, all you have to do is learn is how to get rid of them, it's not that hard. And I'd avoid Ivan. But if you can get the siblings on your side, specifically Irena, you'd be alright."

Mathias' head started to hurt, "I'll say it again the student body here is fucked up."

Willem chuckled, "Just wait until you meet the rest of them."

Authors notes:

About the genderbents – There are four of them that I need to note (Lithuania, Prussia, Austria, and Norway) I originally had written this out with my own characters. But it sort of turned into a Hetalia like fic but there were certain things that I didn't want to change. It's not that I have any problem with Yaoi (or Yuri) it's just how it worked out. Hopefully it's not a problem.

As for the names I used–

Mathias Jensen – Denmark
Emil Bondevik - Iceland
Willem Brusse - Netherlands
Elsa Bondevik – Fem!Norway
Anna Edelstein – Fem!Austria
Gillian Beildschmidt – Fem!Prussia
Irena Laurinaitis – Fem!Lithuania

Mrs. Hassan – Ancient Egypt
Mrs. Karpusi – Ancient Greece
Vargas – Grandpa Rome
Katyusha Braginski - Ukraine

I'll list more when they come up.

Honestly I'm not sure where this is going. I just like writing the character interactions. I just hope I got the characterizations good enough.

Edit: Terribly sorry about the confusion with the names. Since I had this as an original story first, I had my own character names in here before it turned into a fanfic. I thought I had gotten them all but I guess I missed some. Thank you KumaCurry~ I will try to be better about this in the future.