'KIKU!' There was a desperate, cry behind him but the small Japanese teen barely registered the sound as a loud screech drowned it out, before the world went dark.
'Wha-?' Kiku awoke to find that he had managed to fall asleep under the shade of a tall tree. 'How strange' he mused to himself. Last he remembered he was in town with...someone. He couldn't quite remember who. But that wasn't important, it was probably a simple dream. The raven stood up, brushed himself off and took in his surroundings.
He looked to be in a large park. It was a warm spring day,lush green grass below him and tall trees surrounding him small flowers of all colours were scattered in places, the place seemed very calming and...well perfect. It was quiet for some time while Kiku glanced around until suddenly there was a quiet 'Oh n-no! I'm going to be late!' Kiku turned on the spot trying to pinpoint the source of the cry when his eyes fell on a strange human, rabbit like creature. He had brown hair with tall matching rabbit ears and bright green eyes which darted around nervously. The man was wearing a tailcoat and had with him a large pocket watch that was much too big to fit into his pocket. 'I-it's a rabbit' the raven whispered to himself, while the man hopped around nervously his nose twitching ever so often. Kiku then decided to follow it. Why? Well he wasn't quite sure but something made him want to follow this creature as he fretted and hopped away quivering nervously and muttering about being late, so horribly late. The raven got up and chased after the rabbit...man? he chased after the rabbit-man. 'Where could he be going to?'
kiku thought curiously as the rabbit hopped away into a oddly huge rabbit burrow. Kiku despite the nervous feeling crawled in after the rabbit. The burrow was extremley dark but the Japanese teen followed the nervous cries and the hopping sounds nevertheless.
Kiku crawled further after the rabbit, attempting to adjust his eyes to the darkness but to no avail. Suddenly the hopping and muttering stopped altogether and the tunnel fell silent. Kiku held in a breath and took one more small step forward. He let out a sharp gasp as the ground seemed to dissapear below him and he was quickly falling further and further into the darkness. The raven knew he was falling, yet it felt as though he was simply suspended in air, there was no sign of ground above him and no walls around him just darkness. Kiku felt strange...not panicked and not scared but... feeling was hard to explain. Kiku began thinking aloud 'Where in the world am I, how long will i be falling h-' his words were interrupted as he saw a large grandfather clock pass him, followed by another. Kiku watched them carefully. Before he knew it keys and small glass bottles filled with peculiar coloured liquids floated up too. He gazed at them all in wonder, completly forgetting that he was infact still falling and that the strange rabbit man had dissapeared too.
The clocks, keys along with other strange objects dissapeared from view and Kiku was left in darkness again, at last he noticed a sign of light below him. It was a eerie purple glow, but Kiku was still not afraid of this, after a moment he landed rather softly upon a small haystack. 'where am I? I was falling for so long...yet somehow I fell to the ground so...easily? No that's not the word...softly. That's it' He thought to himself as he glanced around. He appeared to be in a tunnel lit by purple lanterns, the ceiling was rather low and the tunnel looked endless. The Japanese teen quickly got off the haystack and ran down the tunnel, finally remembering that he wanted to find the strange rabbit. The tunnel went on with many sharp turns until finally Kiku came to a large opening and decided to go through it.
At first glance it looked like a office. A underground office. There was a large table with papers littering it and a cup of stale coffee resting on the corner. A chair pushed back. A wall lined with large filing cabinets with documents spilling out from different shelves. And to top off the office look a square black rug was laid out in the center the only strange thing were the large game-room like machine of all different colours that stood on either side of the desk other than that a perfectly average office. However upon closer inspection one would notice that the walls were not made from plaster but infact dirt. So was the ceiling. The floor, well kiku wasn't quite sure about that as the rug covered up most of that. The raven was so busy with looking around the office he didn't quite notice the rabbit-man sifting through the papers on the desk, effectively spilling some over the edge, so when he did turn around to he jumped back giving out quite a loud squeak as he did. The rabbit man suddenly looked up from his papers 'W-who are you?! You shouldn't be here! What batch did you e-even come from?' He whisper yelled nervously stuttering every so often. Kiku was taken aback. 'Batch? What do you mean...batch?' The rabbit man sighed 'Yes a batch. I'm sure it needs no e-explanation. B-A-T-C-H see i-it's fairly simple'
'Eto...I-I don't know I simply know I was following you, for some stupid reason and ended up here' Kiku tried explaining. But the burnette gave kiku a unbelieving look 'T-there really is no need to lie. Miss...' Kiku looked at the rabbit-man with wide eyes, miss? But he was a guy. 'E-excuse me?' kiku asked, the poor rabbit man jumped up and began shaking 'o-oh I'm sorry,it's just t-the d-d-dress you're wearing and I t-thought...oh you must be l-like one of those f-flowers then. W-well anyhow...I'm Toris. You are?' He asked shuffling his papers again a bright blush dusting the mans pale features. Kiku looked down at his outfit. Why was he wearing a dress? A sky blue dress with a white apron tied around his waist and neck. And black & white striped tights to go with the outfit...sure it reminded him of a cosplay but..where did this even come from? He didn't own a dress like this... 'I am Honda Kiku.' Kiku finally replied, as soon as the words were said Toris frowned lightly 'Kiku? No no. Kiku no longer l-lives here...he...he left years ago But...you look familiar. Here wait a moment maybe the computers will know' And with that the brunette turned to the large machines and pressed a few buttons 'Ah yes. Your name i-is Sakura. W-welcome to the wonderl-land sakura' Kiku looked at the man curiously 'What do you mean doesn't live here? I was never- And Sakura? eto...I...I'm not quite sure I understand. I'm Kiku, not Sakura...'
'No no it clearly states here that y-your name is s-s-sakura...see?' The rabbit replied showing Kiku the papers that he had somehow printed from the computer. 'No...sir my name is Kiku. Kiku Honda..' Toris sighed softly 'Please do not argue...I am terribly late. Your name is sakura. Kiku is nobody. Doesn't live here. Now I must go. So I'll leave it up to the computers to decide wether you will be rejected or accepted.' Kiku was thoroughly confused. 'Wh...what?'
'You should know S-sakura. Rejected or accepted as it happens with all the batches...Oh dear. oh dear, I've lost my gloves...' The brunette explained before hopping around again in a attempt to find his gloves. Kiku glanced at the desk 'They're on the desk however...I still do not know what you mean' The rabbit-man grabbed quickly his gloves from the desk and turned back to Kiku 'I must leave Sakura. The c-c-computers will tell you which door to go through. I need to get to the wonderland. The queen is waiting. She'll have my head is I'm late' With that being said the rabbit swiftly turned on his heal and hopped through one of three doors.
Kiku stood dumbfounded for a few seconds after the brunette left 'Where did he go?' Kiku asked quietly before running to the door which the rabbit had just gone through. He pulled slightly but the door wouldn't budge, it was locked. Kiku tugged some more but soon gave up and simply slumped against the door 'What am I supposed to do now?' sighing he fixed a few creases on his apron and sat simply looking at his shoes, thinking about what had just happened. All of a sudden the computer screens began glowing bright red 'Beep! You have been rejected. Please proceed to the crying room with the other rejectees...' The computers all chanted mechanically Kiku scrambled to his feet and examined each of them. Each computer screen had a arrow pointing to the door opposite to the one the rabbit had gone through just moments before, 'But...I don't understand. Why?' Kiku had no idea as to why he was speaking to these computers but he was. Surprisingly enough the computers seemed to hear him 'You cannot enter the wonderland because you do not fit. Please proceed to the crying room...' Now they were chanting this. Kiku looked at the door and gingerly walked over to it. He turned the handle and the door opened wide. 'Well, I suppose this is where I'll be going' He muttered before stepping through the door.
Kiku had only managed around 3 steps into the 'crying room' when the door slammed behind him. However the raven wasn't too bothered by this. Instead he glanced around the room, it seemed like something from a asylum/ The room was pure white, Kiku couldn't tell where the floor and walls joined. The room appeared endless when Kiku looked up to the ceiling he noticed something similar to the night sky but rather than stars tear shapes littered the midnight blue blanket. Kiku couldn't bring himself to even try to open the door, he simply sat on the floor sorting out the creases in his dress 'Sakura...I'm no girl. I'm Kiku Honda. But what did he mean, doesn't live here. And I didn't do anything yet I was rejected...what a strange place this is, I don't see any other rejects.' Kiku muttered softly. He hid his face in his hands as he had gotten sick of the bright floors and walls. The raven wasn't sure how long he stayed like this but when he did peek out from between his fingers he had noticed that there were more strange human-animal creatures crowded around him they had seemed to come out of nowhere, there was no rabbit, but there looked to be a mouse, a guinea pig, a squirrel and a parrot.
The mouse had long pale blonde hair, almost white but not quite. She wore a dark blue dress with silver lining and had a fierce frown on her face, not at all how a mouse should look,however she did have mouse ears and a mouse tail which gave away what animal she was. The guinea pig had rather short sandy blonde hair she was sat on the floor glancing at the squirrel every so often. She wore a longer pale blue dress and Kiku couldn't help but notice that she had rather large breasts. The japanese teen blushed brightly at this and looked to the squirrel. He had similar hair to the guinea pig girl however he wore a simple suit and glasses. His posture seemed more confident as he studied Kiku curiously, his bright orange tail swishing softly behind him. the last was the parrot, he had on a outfit in a array of colours and was perched awkwardly on the ground. Kiku looked at the odd group. There was a moment of silence before the mouse suddenly piped up 'Who are you?' the rest of the group looked at Kiku expectantly, the raven hesitated slightly 'eto...I am Kiku...or I was and now I am Sakura, I do not know anymore' He hid his face in his hands again. 'A-are you looking for anyone miss? Or were you simply rejected?' The guinea pig said. The raven looked up at her 'Both...I need to find the rabbit but the door he left through was locked and I-' He was interrupted as the animals burst into loud chatter.
'The rabbit? I would kill him with my own paws! The idiot wouldn't take me to my dear brother. Now I'm stuck here with a wimp, double dumb and the squirrel.' the mouse muttered angrily. The guinea pig smiled happily 'Oh yes the rabbit, he is always in such a hurry...' she said fondly more to herself than anyone. The squirrel pondered to himself as to where the rabbit might be meanwhile the parrot simply repeated every word he picked up. Kiku stared at them all shyly.
'Um...if you do not mind, I should like to know if I could get out of...wherever I am to follow the rabbit again and where might the rabbit be.' The animals stopped chattering and the squirrel stepped forwards. 'Well, I should imagine the rabbit should be in the wonderland by now and if you are wanting so badly to follow him, try that door. It only opens to the people whom the queen wishes to see, unfortunatly she does not wish to see us but maybe you..' he trailed off and pointed to a door Kiku hadn't even noticed until then. He slowly stood up and looked at the animals, three of them smiled at him encouragingly yet the mouse glared daggers at Kikum unnerving him somewhat. He slowly walked towards the door and turned the handle, the door immiadlatley swung open and Kiku took one step forwards. He glanced back at the animals,three of which were waving and one had retreated to her hiding place as Kiku could no longer spot the mouse in the vast room.
He turned back to the doorway and walked further forward into what looked like a large garden filled with tall flowers, much taller than Kiku himself. The sky was a vibrant blue and the grass a juicy green. Looking forward Kiku noticed a winding cobbled path leading to a large iron gate. He took a deep breath 'I guess the queen would like to see me then...' and with that he began walking forwards
So I really wanted to write a alice in wonderland story and what better way to do it then with hetalia :D I hope you enjoy the story and I know I should be working on my other stories, I promise I'll get to that XDX soon. soon. Anyway I will update this asap as it is alot of fun to write, drop a review if you enjoyed or if you would like to see something be improved :) Welp until next chapter guys :D
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