Intoxicating*

"Alright!" The teacher cheerfully announced. "Your final project for this class would be to make an essay about a person you care for."

Li Xiao, the personification of Hong Kong, rolled his eyes, and tapped his pencil against his desk. Impatiently waiting for her to finish her announcement.

"And I want it this Friday."

The school bell rang and Li Xiao gave a sigh of relief. "Finally."

He grabbed his things, and hastily put on his backpack. Quickly exiting the classroom so that he can get something to eat at the school's cafeteria.

'God. That lady talked for way too long. Doesn't she know that we have more important things to do?' He mentally thought, as he quickly paced the hallways.

"Look out!" A girl screamed as a cart full of books headed full speed towards Hong.

"Wha-?"

The cart instantly crashed into him, knocking him over.

"Li Xiao!"

And now, all he could see was black.

A high-pitched "I'm so sorry!" was the first thing he heard as he regained consciousness.

He looked at the source of the voice and instantly recognized her.

Maria Clara Alonzo Realonda Protacio y Dela Cruz or Maria Dela Cruz** for short, the personification of the Philippines.

"Li Xiao...I'm so sorry- I didn't mean to do it- I was simply helping the library lady carry some new books because they were really heavy-" the girl babbled.

Japan put his hand on Maria's shoulder, as an attempt to calm her down. "He seems to be alright. So please, do not worry about him Maria-san." As Taiwan helped Hong Kong stand up, Li scoffed at her apology. "Tsk. Always trying to kill me aren't you Maria?"

'What the hell did this idiot just say?!' she mentally screamed in her mind. 'All I did was apologize and this is how he reacts?'

Maria twitched for a moment, and forced a grin, in order for her to keep her composure,

"Eh..But the cart was rusty and old! And mind you, those were a LOT of books!"

"Well it's your fault for being clumsy." he taunted.

Maria dropped her forced smile, and instead put on an angry expression. Which pleased the city-state, as he takes delight in making the Philippines angry. As cute as she was when she was happy, smiling and all rainbows and sparkles, he found her angry face to be 'the cutest of all her expressions.'

"How the fuck is it my fault!?" she screamed as she was about to charge at him.

Vietnam and Thailand held Philippines back, preventing any further damages.

This only made Li Xiao smirk, amused. "Everything's your fault, Maria. Your suckish economy, the excessive amount of poverty-"

"Li Xiao Chun! That's quite enough,aru!" China cut him off.

He stared at his Teacher, confused as to why he didnt approve of the taunting he was doing. "You've hit below the belt already." China then looked at the Philippines, and started apologizing for Li's actions.

"Go apologize, aru."

"Like..How about...no?"

"PUTANG INA GAGO KA." ***

Her sudden outburst only made Thailand and Vietnam tighten their grip on her. Hong Kong smiled, "I have no idea, what on earth that means, but thank you."

Out of exasperation, Maria broke from the Thai's and Vietnamese's grasp and walked put from the scene.

"Oh for the love of rice..." Vietnam said as she chased after Maria. "Maria wait up!" Thailand sighed and bowed before catching up with them.

"Li! You went too far this time! You were really mean to Piri****!" Taiwan scolded. But Hong could only roll his eyes at his older-little sister***** as he didn't really care what anyone thought of what he did, because in his mind, he knew she deserved what she got.

A/N: Wow. isn't hong kong mean to piri? like wow. oh well. that's just how he shows his love.

* - temporary title

** - I still have to double check if its accurate, because i have a head cannon that Spain didn't give Maria's name, Jose Rizal did and some of the names came from his own name.

*** -A curse. Can be translated in English as: "You mother fucking idiot."

**** - nickname given to Philippines

***** - Although Taiwan is older than Hong, she's still shorter. Hence the, 'older-little sister'