Hi, everyone! It's been a while, hasn't it?

Well, this is the spinoff. And if you're reading this before you read the original story, 'Genderswapped Nations' , then I suggest you read the original first and come back to this one after you're done.

Anyway, if you didn't already know, here's the main logic of this all; This happens five years from now, in the year 2017 (That does not mean the characters are entitled to jetpacks or anything stupid like that), the original gender swaps (Ariana, Mattie, etc.) have aged (Duh) and they will continue to age until they hit their counterpart's human age, and then they will stop and be immortal like their counterparts. Oh, and remember Ariana's black magic in the last story? Well, the side effects still count, even though most of the originals aren't going to be featured. Just sayin' :D

So, to keep you from getting bored and leaving, I'll start now :3

"Guess what I found while I was looking through the book store today?" Edwina asked her friends.

"I don't know, what?" Tora asked.

"The manga section!" Edwina exclaimed.

"No way!" Raelyn vindicated. "I've been searching for that for two years!"

"Yeah, and I bought one to add to our collection," Edwina said. She held up a plastic bag, reached her hand in, and shortly after emerged holding a volume of Fullmetal Alchemist.

"Can I read it first?" Raelyn questioned rapidly.

"No, because you haven't returned my copy of Soul Eater volume 1 yet," Edwina said. "Give it back, and then I'll loan you this."

"But I'm only at the second chapter right now!" Raelyn complained. "C'mon, please?"

"No! And now I'm going to let Tora borrow it first, since you're being so whiny about it," Edwina said. She handed the manga to Tora.

"Hold on, I think you should read it first," Tora denied. "I don't want to take a long time reading it and keep it away from Raelyn when she finishes Soul Eater."

"Yay!" Raelyn exclaimed. "At least Tora's being nice!"

"Who said I was being mean?" Edwina questioned.

Tora, Edwina, and Raelyn are all really into anime and manga. But they don't have the status of 'weeaboo'. They just collect manga and watch anime. That's it. Okay? Anyway, the three of them have been friends for six years now, and have always had this interest. Between the three of them, they've voted their favorite manga and anime as Hetalia.

As Edwina and Raelyn kept going on about the manga, neither of them especially angry, Tora's mother entered the room. "Tonya, Raelyn's mom is here to pick her up," Her mom informed.

"Mom, I told you to call me Tora," the girl said.

"Oh, okay, Tora, will-do," her mom said, before leaving the room.

Tora's real name is Tonya, but Tora doesn't like that name very much, so she asked Edwina and Raelyn to make up a nickname for her one day. Of course, because of their manga/anime interest, they came up with the idea to call her Tora , the Japanese word for tiger, since it shares the first two letters and just sounds better on her. Tora liked this very much and told her parents to call her Tora from then on, but sometimes her mom forgot and called her Tonya instead.

Tora nudged Raelyn's arm as she went on about Edwina's kitten and how stupid it is. "Hey, your mom's here," Tora said softly.

Raelyn turned around. "Wow, really? It seems like I just got here."

"You've been here since ten," Tora informed. "Edwina's the one who just got here."

"Yeah, you're right," Raelyn said. "Well, see you both later!" With that, the small girl walked over the exit of Tora's bedroom and opened the door, before running off and leaping down the staircase leading down to the foyer by the sounds of it.

A few seconds passed, before Edwina picked up a conversation with Tora. "So, what are you reading right now, again?" she asked.

"I'm re-reading Haruhi Suzumiya. I'm halfway through volume one so far," Tora answered.

Edwina nodded. "I see."

"Why'd you want to know?" Tora asked curiously.

"Well, I woke up this morning and wanted to read Hetalia, but I couldn't find any of the volumes on the bookshelf, so I was wondering if you had borrowed them and I had forgot," Edwina explained. "But since you're reading Haruhi, it has to be Raelyn."

She knows it was Raelyn because the three of them share a manga library at Edwina's house, since her's is the biggest. In the huge room that Edwina's library occupies, their manga collection gets its very own shelf in the far left corner. It's a very small shelf and they often find themselves stacking inexpensive mangas they didn't really enjoy on top of the shelf, causing them to fall off sometimes, but they don't really care; so long as they aren't piled up like columns and at risk of falling over. Edwina's the self-proclaimed librarian of this shelf, and has a very well organized directory of which books the three of them borrow. As it seems right now, Tora has borrowed Haruhi Suzumiya volume one, Raelyn has borrowed Soul Eater volume one (and has it overdue), and Edwina has borrowed an unspecified volume of Black Butler. Unspecified, because the book belongs to Edwina and Edwina knows exactly where it is at all times.

"That would explain why she's taking so long reading Soul Eater…" Tora doted.

"Yeah; even considering how slowly she reads, she should at least be three chapters in right now," Edwina said.

"Well, she's already left," Tora said, looking out her bedroom window and not seeing the silver SUV belonging to Raelyn's mother.

"I know," Edwina said. "I'll need to voice chat with her tonight. Hey, Tora, would you mind getting on too so that I have a bit of backup. You know, just in case she starts freaking out and crying because she starts to think we don't like her anymore?"

"Okay," Tora said. "The only other thing I have to do today is straighten up my room a bit because Felina's coming over later."

"Great, thanks," Edwina said with a smile.

Before long, Tora's mom came to the room again and said that Edwina's mom had come to pick her up as well, and Tora was left with her mom's reminder that Felina would be there shortly and her room better look nice.

Tora inspected her room; it wasn't that dirty, but it wasn't as tidy and organized as Edwina's room. But she did see that there empty cups and bowls lying around, so she piled all of them up in her arms precariously and left the room with them.

She cautiously made her way down the stairs, careful not to topple the leaning tower of dishes. She gave off a sigh of relief when she finally got to the bottom, and then went straight to the kitchen. When there, she laid the dishes on the counter and one-by-one put them into the dishwasher. Afterwards, she wiped the sweat off of her forehead and dashed upstairs and into her room, before slamming the door shut behind her (Not really slamming it, just closing it roughly).

Her room was completely cleared as far as she could see now. That being taken out of the way, Tora went over to the mirror in the room and inspected herself. Her medium-length brown hair looked okay, but she brushed it anyway. Then, as if on cue directly after Tora finished brushing her hair, Felina opened her bedroom door.

"Hey, Tonya, what's up?" the girl greeted.

"Ah, nothing," Tora replied nervously.

Felina had been Tora's friend since preschool, even if they didn't meet there. Tora met her because their mothers were old friends from high school and visited each other every Thursday. And since they both had daughters around the same age, they got the idea that bringing their daughters with them would be a good idea. Ever since the first time Felina's mother brought her to Tora's house, they've been friends, even if Tora's really shy and nervous and Felina's lively and social. And if you didn't already notice, Felina doesn't call her Tora.

Felina didn't respond for a while, and Tora started getting worried she had said the wrong thing to her, but then Felina finally questioned while pointing behind Tora, "Hey, what's that?"

"What do you-?" Tora cut herself off with a gasp. Sitting on the nightstand of her bed was the Haruhi Suzumiya manga she was reading. Tora froze, before she shook her head rapidly, saying, 'nothing' over and over and sliding the manga into one of her nightstand's drawers.

Tora was sort of to herself about her anime and manga. Around Felina, she hides all of her manga, turns off her computer as to hide the bright Hetalia desktop background, and even switches her iPod (Which has J-Pop and Vocaloid galore) with her mom's (which has classic rock like Aerosmith and stuff like that) to ensure her childhood friend doesn't ask any questions about it. However, it seems that this time, her Haruhi Suzumiya manga has made it past the radar.

Felina walked behind Tora nonchalantly and took the manga out from the nightstand. "'The Melon-cha-lee of Har-uh -hi Suz-um-my-ah'? What the heck is that?" she said, absolutely butchering the title.

"I was afraid this was going to happen," Tora thought helplessly. "Now what? She sees it, and she's waiting for me to tell her what it is!" "Uhh…" Tora said, unsure of herself. "It's the book I'm reading right now," she said, keeping the word 'manga' away from her lips.

"What's wrong with it?" Felina asked. "It's all backwards and stuff."

Tora just covered her eyes and freaked out silently, hoping that this was a dream or something so she wouldn't have to explain everything.

"What's an SOS Brigade?" Felina asked.

"Ah, no, she's actually looking in it!" Tora cried to herself. "Well, at least she didn't flip to any of the pages with Mikuru wearing-"

"What the heck are Playboy bunnies doing in this book?" Felina questioned.

"-Skimpy clothing…" Tora finished sadly. Finally, she brought her hands off of her eyes. "It's a romance-based visual novel! It's all messed up because of a printing mistake!" she lied loudly.

"Well, at least it's not Twilight," Felina said, before laughing at her joke and slipping the manga safely back into the nightstand.

Tora laughed weakly, as she didn't find the billionth Twilight joke ever made especially funny after that dreadful ordeal.

"So anyway, Tonya, you have your cell phone, right?" Felina asked.

"Yeah," Tora said, pulling out her black-and silver flip phone. "But just so you know, I got in trouble last week when you told me to prank call a sex hotline."

"No, it's not that! Calm down, will you?" Felina said. "I saw something on TV, and it says if you text the word 'Love' and your name to this certain number, it tells you what celebrity you're meant for! You should try it; I did that earlier, and it said I'm meant for that guy from the Hunger Games movies! You watched those, right?"

Tora nodded. "But you know those 'call-and-we'll-tell-you-X' things are stupid and fake, right?"

"No, they aren't!" Felina disagreed.

"Whatever you say, I guess. What's the number?" Tora asked, never being good at arguing.

"I have it written here," Felina said. She brought a tiny piece of paper from her pocket, and handed it to Tora, who in turn straightened it out and read the number.

"Okay, then; 'Love', 'Tonya', to…" Tora's voice trailed off as she dialed the number.

A few moments later, she got a text, but before she could read it, Felina grabbed her phone and read it for herself. "Omigod, you got that guy from the Hunger Games, too!" she exclaimed. "Now we have to fight over him!"

"Wait, wha-?" Tora started, before Felina pushed her over and laughed.

"Nyooo, he'sh mai mayun!" Felina said in an odd voice.

Tora closed her eyes, turned her head, and covered her face, expecting a barrage of light slaps, which soon came. "C'mon Tonya, do something! Say something! Protect yo' mayun!" Felina demanded playfully.

"Ah… No, he's my man?" Tora said awkwardly.

"No, you have to do it in a weird voice, like mine," Felina said. "Nyooo, mai mayun!"

"Nyo, he'sh mai mayun…" Tora said under her breath.

"Louder," Felina commanded.

"Nyo, he'sh mai mayun," Tora said a bit louder.

"C'mon, you can do better than that!" Felina cried. "Who's man is it?!"

"Mai mayun!" Tora finally shouted. Almost directly after, her mom called, "Tora, say goodbye to Felina!"

"See ya," Felina said as she waved and eventually left.

Soon after, Tora got up and took her laptop out from under her bed. She immediately noticed she was getting an AIM voice chat request from 'MangaOverload9119', which was Edwina's screen name. She accepted it, and said, "Hey, Edwina."

"Glad to see you're early too, Tora," She heard Edwina say from her computer. "I was just about to call Raelyn and tell her to get on AIM."

"Okay, so should I wait a little longer?" Tora asked.

"Yeah, but don't log off or anything," Edwina responded.

A little longer later, 'Meowzies177' (Raelyn) logged on and joined the chat. "What's up?" she asked.

"Raelyn, where are all my Hetalia mangas?" Edwina asked calmly.

"I don't know, what'd you do with them?" the girl responded.

"I didn't do anything, and neither did Tora," Edwina said. "That means it must've been you."

"What? Why are you blaming me?" Raelyn cried. "Does this mean you don't like me anymore?"

Exactly as Edwina had thought. "No, we still like you. We just want to know where our manga is," Tora comforted.

"Raelyn, you're fourteen, stop acting like a baby," Edwina said. "Just tell the truth and tell me where the mangas are."

Tora could hear Raelyn sniveling. "I swear, I didn't take them," she said.

"Okay, if you're so upset about it, I guess you're not guilty," Edwina said. "Tora, are you sure you didn't borrow them without checking them out?"

"Not all at once, I only check out books in a series one by one," Tora answered.

"Ah, okay," Edwina said. "Well, I guess they'll turn up eventually."

"I hope you find them soon!" Raelyn said, excited the blame wasn't on her. "I've actually wanted to read Hetalia again, too."

"You know, so have I," Tora said.

"Yeah, and the only reason I wanted to read them this morning was because I had a dream about Hetalia that was really weird," Edwina said.

"About what?" Tora asked.

"I forget what it was about, I just remember it was Hetalia-related," Edwina replied.

"Hey, I had a dream about that last night, too," Raelyn said.

"Me too," Tora said. "I'm kind of creeped out now."

"That is really peculiar, that we all had a dream we can't remember that has to do with Hetalia," Edwina said. Just then, Tora heard Edwina's mother's voice, silent and incoherent. "Oh, hey, my mom told me to remind you to remind your parents to bring you two to my house at six tomorrow so we can have a sleepover. Y'know, because of our sightseeing tour to DC on Saturday?"

"Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about that," Raelyn said. "Thanks for reminding me."

"It was nothing," Edwina said. "Well, I need to go now. Bye!" Then, MangaOverload1991 logged off.

"Good-bye!" Raelyn called, signing off as well.

Tora nodded, and shut down her laptop, sliding it under her bed.

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That night, Tora had an odd dream. Basically, it was like Ao Oni, except she and her friends were filling the rolls with the one character being left out being Takeshi. Nobody died, so at the end, the monster came out and found them all and then four-wheelers fell from the ceiling and crushed the three of them and then the monster started doing the Macarena. Tora thought it was funny; every time a character has a dream in manga or anime, it's always relevant to the plot. And using that logic, they were destined to get locked in a haunted house at DC on Saturday, get chased down by a monster, get crushed by four-wheelers, and, if they weren't unconscious or dead, watch a giant purple/indigo thing with huge eyes dancing for eternity. Oh, joy.

She woke up at about ten AM to one of her favorite bits of Engrish ever as Edwina's ringtone; 'Herro, every-nyan. How ah yuu? Fine, sank you.' She answered it, and responded with an "Oh mai gah!".

Edwina laughed over the phone, and said, "I'm so glad you agreed to do that whenever I call you instead of saying 'hello'! It always makes my day!"

"So, what's up?" Tora asked.

"I wanted to wake you up so you wouldn't forget about the sleepover at six. You remembered, right?" Edwina verified.

"Yeah," Tora replied. "Is Raelyn up yet?"

"I called you first, so… no," Edwina replied.

"Hey, just wondering so this dream sharing thing doesn't get any creepier," Tora said, "what'd you dream about last night?"

"I dreamt that Harry Potter fell in a ditch and kept pressing a Life Alert button, and then got hit by some random Southern guy in a pickup truck," Edwina answered. "Why, what'd you dream about?"

"Well.." Tora began.

I suck for ending it here! Whatever, though.

I hope you liked the first chapter! :D I tried to add a lot of funny stuff to keep it from being as boring to read as the first couple chapters in Genderswapped Nations. I'd say I did pretty well.

By the way, the Harry Potter thing is an inside joke between my sister and I, so I'll explain so it'll be funny for everyone, not just us:

Basically, my sister is reading Harry Potter for the first time ever. I keep asking her, 'Has he gotten to Hogwarts yet?' and for two weeks she's always said no. So eventually, I finally said, "Jeez? What's taking him so long? Did he run out of socks? Or maybe he can't find his wizard sandals? No, wait, I've got it; He must've fallen in a ditch and can't get up! That's why it's taking so long!" And then on a separate occasion, she was going on about how in her Agriculture class, the teacher always has country music playing. So I said, "All of those songs are about something stupid. Like, here's one; I… drove my truck into a ditch to-day… I… hit-some-stupid-kid-in-the-ditch to-day…"

So, if you aren't familiar with how I end chapters, usually I end them like this: I promise I'll get the next chapter written soon, so see ya! :3

The important part is the cat face. Without that, it's an epic cliffhanger.

…

Oh, wait! It wasn't at the official end! I better hurry up and type it before I leave my fans waiting!

[Crisis Averted] :3