Hey, umm… This is my first Hetalia fic and I… Hope you'll enjoy it :D. It will be quite long… By the way, you have no idea how hard it was to make up that title. Seriously. (Spain: Oh, seriously? /shot). I was thinking of Strange Coincidences, Strange Youth, Strange Combinations, Strange People, Strange Life, etc. So I just titled it 'Strange', because everything in life (and in this story) is strange. I couldn't put it in only two words, so I put it in one. U mad bro? *insert trollface here*
Pairings: Mainly SuFin and IceLiech (more Sufin in the beginning and Iceliech in the end…), but this will also have a lot drama between Austria, Hungary and Prussia. There may or may not be some DenNor, GerIta, LietPol, Spamano etc. pairings I happen to like. My story, my rules.
I have to warn you that even though SuFin and IceLiech are the main pairings, there will be whole chapters without either of them. Just so you know…
Disclaimer: I do not own Hetalia. Problem?
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Strange
Chapter one: The awkward beginning
Tino Väinämöinen was a normal, 17 years old boy. When he was 3, he and his family moved to America after his father's job. He had a normal childhood and he's now living his teenage years. He got normal grades, had normal hobbies and he lived in a normal house. He had two quite normal best friends and he dated girls like any other normal guy of his age. Yes, Tino thought that he was perfectly normal. He never even thought about being gay or anything else like that.
That was until that one strange day.
He was walking from school to a park where his best friends told him to meet up at 15:15. He arrived to their usual bench and checked his watch. He knew he was early since his lesson had ended unusually early, due his teacher's… something about meeting… or something. He was just glad to get away, he didn't need to know why.
"14:27."
He glanced around. Not too many people. He shrugged to himself.
"Might as well take a quick nap."
He took a random book and sunglasses from his schoolbag. He set the book on his lap and leaned his elbows to his knees. After putting on the sunglasses, he leaned his head to his hands. It made him comfortable enough to sleep and to make it look like he was actually reading. He took a deep breath of fresh air. He could already smell the sweet fall, even though it wasn't even September yet. He couldn't wait for winter; Every Christmas he'd visit his grandparents in Finland with his family. He'd go ice fishing with his dad and pappa and skiing with his mom. His mummo also made the best kalakukko in the world. Thought of winter made him smile and somehow he fell asleep.
That's when one certain man found him.
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He was very tall and some people have described him scary looking. His icy blue eyes behind his glasses always seemed to glare. He was wearing quite casual clothes, a dark blue sweater and jeans. The wind gently touched his cheeks as sun shone when he walked through that park. Suddenly, he stopped and scanned around. He had just moved from Sweden a couple days ago, so he didn't know the area that well yet.
"It's a nice weather… But, where am I?"
Remembering the map he had in his bag, he decided to go and sit somewhere. Noticing a bench where a blond boy was reading, he walked to it and, being a polite person after all, asked the boy:
"C'n Ah sit h're?"
As the young man didn't react in any way, he thought that the he didn't hear him, so he repeated the question. Still not any sort of reaction. He shrugged to himself and sat in the other end of the bench. He couldn't help but come little closer to the boy, who was probably around his age. First he could only notice how cute his short, blond hair was. Then he could notice that he had a history book in his hand. He could now see that it was on pages 48 and 49. Soon he realized that his face wasn't too far from his. And still, this boy didn't react in anyway. He blushed a little when he realized how close he had gotten. He was now sitting next to the boy and he tried to look into his eyes and suddenly he realized why that boy didn't react in any way.
"He's asleep… Cute."
He felt the tiny smile form on his lips as he sat there, nearly touching the boy. He forgot about the map. Only thing he could think of right now was the boy next to him. What were his eyes like? What did he sound like? What was he like anyway? What did he like? Did he have a girlfriend or a boyfriend? Was he straight? The man hoped the boy wasn't. Yet it wouldn't be surprising. His trail of thoughts was cut when he felt something hit his shoulder. The boy's other hand had somehow slipped and he bumped his head hard and quick on the taller boy's shoulder, making his sunglasses drop on the ground.
"Auch…" The boy murmured as he gently touched his left side of the head. "Just great, now I'm going to have a bump in my head."
Meanwhile, the taller boy picked up the glasses from the ground to the boy next to him, thinking how cute his little whining sounded like.
"H're."
Tino realized now where he had bumped his head.
"Thanks an-OYAH!"
Tino realized that the boy (or a man? He couldn't tell) next to him was a lot taller and really scary looking. If they weren't in a public area with people passing by every now and then, he'd think that the man was going to kill him. But no, the man was so kindly offering him the glasses he dropped and he had just rudely screamed in fear and nearly fall from the bench he was sitting on, right in front of him.
"I-I-I'm sooo sorry! I didn't mean to, I just, you know, I was, uh, reading, and uh, you know…"
"Great, now I'm rambling."
Tino took his sunglasses carefully from the man, whispering a small 'thank you'. He made an eye contact and gave a tiny smile.
"It's ok'y." the taller man said. He couldn't help but stare at the smaller boy's eyes. He had never seen such beautiful eyes. God, he didn't even know that people could have violet eyes. He heard the boy's rambling stop and realized that the boy was looking pretty nervous.
"Is… There something on my face?"
Now the taller man shook his head a little and looked away. Oh, how much did he want to caress that boy's cheek? The thought of that made his face feel a bit hot. Now he wondered how soft his cheeks most likely were.
"Oh… Okay…"
Both of them looked away from each other and the awkward silence began. Tino was busy wondering why were this man sitting so damn close to him when there was no one else sitting on that long bench. Suddenly, that man broke the silence:
"Wh't's yer n'me?"
"Huh?"
Tino saw that the man looked a bit embarrassed and he repeated the question, little more clearly:
"Wh't is yer n'me?"
"Oh, I'm Tino… You?"
"Ah'm B'rwald."
The silence continued for a little while. Berwald checked his watch and frowned.
"15:02. I'm getting late. But…" He glanced Tino quickly.
"I want to see him again…"
Tino watched this Berwald guy to stand up and mutter, rather awkwardly:
"Ah h've to go… C'n Ah… meet y' h're t'night? At s'x m'ybe?"
The Finn was too confused to say anything else than a quiet 'I guess'. Berwald nodded and walked away, leaving Tino wonder what the hell just happened.
"Did I just get asked out by a guy? By a really scary guy? Oh God…"
Tino first shook his head and then buried it in his hands.
"I've got a weird feeling about this…"
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So that's the first chapter… Yeah, not the best beginning in the world, but it'll get better :D
I'm really sorry about some possible mistakes.
Oh, and 'pappa' is a grandpa and mummo is grandma in Finnish :)
Kalakukko… I think you should just google it. I've never eaten it, so I can't tell much of it… Btw, I don't own google either.
And I know that this isn't the best thing I've written so far, but I always suck at beginnings. It'll get better, I promise.
Reviews please? :3