Disclaimer: RawrziesDeLoli does not own Hetalia.
Also as a warning some of the characters will be OOC. Don't like don't read
Everyone knows school is a pain in the ass.
And Ivan is definitely someone who could tell you that. Especially when he works at the chemistry and astronomy department at G8 University. It wasn't an easy feat juggling two extremely complicated subjects at once, on a scholarship. But being a prodigy he managed to do it. Ivan, although a rather poor international student, had big dreams for such little hope. Hope that one day he could go to NASA and work for their department and hopefully becoming one of the top scientists in the department. Ivan knew it was a hard and nearly impossible to accomplish but with his brains and determination, he was very close to that dream.
However even though Ivan was piled with books and home work, his dorm room seemed to empty. Ivan was a rather...Intimidating student. Being that he had just grasped the English language, it was much harder for him to make friends since he's so big, and his words always seem to come out wrong in translation and scare people. His best friend Alfred, who was in the same astronomy class and seemingly the only boy who does not fear him tries as much as he can to keep the bulky Russian company, but having Arthur, his boy friend and other friends can't keep him as much company as he like has another idea.
And this is where the story starts...
A sigh is heard in the rather empty dorm room as the Russian finished the large amount of paperwork less than 5 hours. Three essays were completed and 2 halves of his Chemistry book had been done, thankfully starting straight after classes were done. Looking at the alarm clock he could see the bright red lights of his alarm clock flashing 7:00. Ivan frowned as he straightened his back hearing his spine pop back in to place with a horrid crack. He grimaced as he heard his neck and arms doing identical sounds one louder then the other. Ivan knew he should recheck his work; anything that could affect his mark could also negatively affect his scholarship. Looking at the time again, he shrugged as he got up from his study desk to go make popcorn or something light he could snack on. No point in starving himself and miss an obvious, but crucial mistake. Grabbing a flat bag from the cupboard, he undid the plastic around the bag and threw it in the microwave for two minutes. After twenty seconds he could hear rapid popping noises coming from the microwave and a lightly buttered scent. After two minutes was done the microwave beeped noting its completion and the Russian was hasty enough to grab it.
Opening the bag up he sat back down on the chair where his study desk was and went through his work, fixing up any mistakes he may have done in the process. As a half hour passed he deemed his work good enough to hand in and printed his essays and put his books back into his bag making sure that the next day they weren't crumpled or forgotten in his hast. Giving a weary groan he dumped himself on the bed, ready to sleep, from such stress he put his body through. Putting his arms on his eyes he was ready for that calming black to seize him.
However it seemed that fate had other plans.
There was a knock on the door as the sound vibrated across the nearly empty dorm. Ivan groaned, not feeling like getting up to answer the door. Besides he already knew who it was, so he had no reason to get up. "Come in Alfred." He said tiredly not moving a muscle, even though he heard the door creek open and the rather boisterous blond walk in. "Ouch Commie not even getting off your ass to answer the door for me. And besides, how did you know it was me? For all you know I could be Natalia trying ot molest you again." Alfred snickered at the thought of the mentally unstable sister of Ivan's that the poor boy had to deal with every few months. Ivan moved his arm from his eyes and shot a glare to the blond. "Not funny Alfred." Ivan's heavily accented voice responded. "Besides shouldn't Arthur be with you? Who knows when your stupidity might strike and your toy is not there to save you." Although those two fought and threw insults at each other like rivals or worst enemies would, Alfred was his best friend and he saw him as a brother would, and fought like one too.
Alfred stuck his tongue out childishly, folding his arms and trying to fight the blush that threatened to stain his cheeks. "You're too cute Vanya, and Arthur's my friend not my boy toy." Ivan shot another glare to the American as he used his childhood name his older sister, Katyusha gave him when he was younger. As much as he hated that name, Alfred had found out when his sisters had come over to visit and Natalia had called him Vanya while trying to force her rather unwanted and incestuous love on him. Causing Alfred to not only laugh at his misery, but use it against him too.
Fucking American.
Getting up from a comfortable position he gave the American a tired look as he scratched his head in fatigue. "What do you want?" Ivan said bluntly, the American however ignored the rudeness and flashed him a million dollar smile that made Ivan instantly suspicious. "Well, you always tell me how lonely you can get sometimes and I know that I'm not always here..." Alfred started, circling around the point, which made Ivan's short temper shorter because of his weariness. "Just get to the point Alfred." The sunny blond huffed as he waved at the air like he was waving away Ivan's rude words. "Well I think we should get you a pet!" The blond said excitedly, obviously thinking it was the best idea in the world. However, Ivan thought different.
"A pet Alfred, really?" Ivan said disbelievingly, wondering if Alfred was either off his fucking rocker or his translation was wrong...Nope the first one seemed more believable. "Come on Ivan! It's not like you're going to be a crazy cat lady or something, just one pet!" Alfred really didn't want to mention that Ivan would probably skin the cats and sell their furs to a black communist market. Ivan frowned at the idea and shook his head. This was a bad idea, besides the dorms didn't even allow pets. "Nyet, that's a stupid idea. Besides how would I feed it? I have trouble feeding myself and keeping a plant alive let alone a living animal." Alfred just grinned, a devious grin. A grin that even made Ivan want to jump out a window and cry to Natalia.
Okay so not that far where he would go Natalia, but you get the point.
"No Alfred I do not like that look." The ashen blond said wearily, his body hunched slightly with un comforting idea's of what Alfred might have planned. Alfred grabbed the bulky Russian from his bed a lifted him up to his feet with a surprising force that the athletic blond possessed, wrapping and arm around his 'Communist' friend the blond still gave his friend that look as they walked out the door. "Trust me; you'll like what you see."
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Ivan had absolutely no idea where there were going. It was pitch black outside and quite obviously it was out of town too, Ivan looked at his watch worriedly. 11:30 Pm. Crap, he was not going to wake up fully tomorrow, and if that happens, his work will be shoddy at best. That thought scared him since his whole scholarship was riding on his brilliant work. He turned angrily to his best friend knowing that Alfred knew he was a scholarship student. "Alfred lets go. I would like to wake up tomorrow and not screw up my scholarship I worked so hard to get." Alfred just shushed him and kept on driving. "We're almost there; don't get your panties in a bunch."
And just as those words left his mouth lo and behold they were there. It was a rather new looking building, but in a rather isolated area. The building was white with a good three stories to it, and white light flashing through the windows of the building. As they parked themselves to the edge of the building, Alfred flashed the bigger boy a smile. "Trust me, I've known this man since the day I was born, he knows what he's doing." However the lingering fear didn't dissipate from Ivan's stomach as he followed the blond into building. However, the inside was incredible! It was full of lab equipment and tubes of unknown substances; it was a lab Ivan wouldn't mind coming to again.
But what does this have to do with animals? As soon as that thought had passed the Russians mind, he heard footsteps clicking across the linoleum floor as Ivan's attention was taken by a rather handsome blond, who's age ranged from his late 20's to early 30's. His wavy blond hair reached his jaw and had a little bit of stubble on his chin. He flashed a grin at the American and ran over to give the younger male a hug. "Mon Dieu Alfred, I haven't seen you since you went to the university!" The French accent was incredibly noticeable in the bubbly man's voice; he pulled the younger blond away from him, but still keeps his hands on the boys' shoulders with a kind smile still on the man's face. "What brings you here to see me?" His voice heavy in curiosity, as Alfred's head directed to the Russian to his right side.
"You see Uncle Francis; I think Ivan here needs a pet, if you know what I mean." Suddenly the Frenchman's kind smile turned into one of perversion, which made the fear that had once been numbed return full force to the Russians stomach. The man let out a very...scary laugh that sound a lot like Hon hon hon. "Is that so?" He said looking at the Ivan with a glint in his eyes. He put an arm around the Russian boy as he dragged the two blonds with him. "Well then, let's see what I have for you."
As they walked down a long stretch of hallway, the two boys were lead to a metal plated door, as it opened Ivan could not believe what he was seeing. There was a clear plate over a large area of what looked like people in the large glass area. However they were...Animals?
"You like them? There hybrids of man and animal, it took years to perfect but I managed through it by fusing the DNA of the animal into a test tube fetus. It's rather risky, and only these few were able to live through the process un deformed. They all know English, but they also know one language they have been taught as well." He said, obviously proud of his work as well as he looked at his 'Babies' Fondly. Ivan looked at these animal/man hybrids in both fascination and horror. The science behind this was brilliant yes but...Was this even legal? However there was one that caught his eye, a rabbit hybrid to be precise. He was as fair as the snow and his hair was a platinum blond that shined in the artificial light with matching ears that blended into his hair perfectly. But what really caught Ivan's eye were the rabbits eyes that shone an astounding shade of ruby, it was a color that Ivan had certainly never seen before, at least, not on a human. Ivan nearly snorted at that though. But these things weren't even human to begin with.
Francis seemed to follow Ivan's gaze and smirk. As beautiful as that creature was, he was probably the most defiant, foul mouthed, and let's not forget egotistical of the small bunch. "I see Gilbert has caught your eye hum?" The blond said to the Russian, who responded with a light blush and a nod, but didn't lift his gaze of the rare creature. "There's a problem though." Francis continued as he walked into the middle of the room gazing at his beauties, which in turn paid no attention to him whatsoever. Ivan tore his gaze off of the rabbit and onto the Frenchman, curious and a bit worried at what could be wrong with the creature he was thinking of taking home. Knowing he had gotten Ivan's attention he continued on. "This one is probably the most defiant of all of them, and probably the most violent if he has taken a strong dislike to you." He took a quick glance at Ivan then back to the hybrid children. "It doesn't help that the blond next to him is his baby brother." Ivan looked at the stern and bigger looking blond with matching coloured ears and tail, who seemed to be cleaning the Albino's ears of the ruffled patched of fur sticking from his ears, which the rabbit didn't seem to mind and snuggled into the blond seeming content with cuddling with the younger sibling. "It also doesn't help that he has quite the mouth on him too." However Francis's lips quirked into a perverted smirk. "Do you think you can handle such a handful?" Ivan had no doubt he could handle the Rabbit, especially since he had a nicely sized dorm room which he shared with no one this particular year, and he could be quite...erm...Aggressive at times too. However, he felt bad by taking him away from the larger sibling. He knew how it felt not being near his sisters, so he felt a twinge of sympathy towards him. "Ah, I know that look. It doesn't matter; tomorrow the blond is being picked up by this adorable Italian boy, so they'll be separated anyway." Francis said leaning on the glass nonchalantly as he waited for the Russian to make up his mind. Ivan felt a little bit better about separating them, but not by much. They should still have maybe these few more moments before there separated but he might not have that much time...
"How much does he cost?" Francis's smiles brightened, but Ivan looked weary. He was actually rather poor, and could only really afford to feed himself and pay off his books. 'For a genius I really didn't think this out properly' Ivan thought to himself, as he went for discussing the line of payment."Usually they're a grand each." Ivan nearly choked on his spit. A Grand! He couldn't afford that! "However~ because you're Alfred's good friend and he is my godchild this ones on the house." Francis didn't have t mention that he was glad to get rid of Gilbert. As much as he loved him like all his babies, Gilbert has to be one of the most infuriating one of all. "So, is it a deal?"
Ivan nodded, in agreement as the two shook hands and Francis left the room. Ivan's head was still spinning at the thought of buying one of these creatures, as he looked at the glass were all the hybrids were, he still wondered if this was a good idea.
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Gilbert nearly purred in contentment as Ludwig continued to clean his ears. West usually made the excuse that they were dirty and un kept and some random bullshit excuse so that he could touch and cuddle with his awesome big brother. They weren't anything romantic or anything, but they were probably the closest out of all there "Siblings" here. As Gilbert sat between the bigger but younger sibling's legs getting groomed, he saw Ludwig's ears twitch as Francis came in, probably to check on the others to see how they are, however today was different.
"Well my lovelies' today one of you is getting adopted!" Gilbert's ear twitched, but wasn't truly paying attention. He was never usually the one adopted, and slightly hoped that it was Ludwig. He deserved much better then in here. He glanced at Francis since Ludwig had stopped cleaning his ear's, The Frenchman's smile was bright, which wasn't exactly odd. He was usually happy when one of them was adopted. However, nervousness settled in both Gilbert's and Ludwig's' stomach as Francis began walking towards them. To Gilbert's surprise, he was the one who felt the rough material of the collar around his neck.
"Congratulations Gilbert, I hope your home is as 'Awesome' as you are." However, Ludwig seemed to get out of his stupor and wrap his arms around Gilbert. "They can't take my Bruder away!" the blond cried as he tightened his hold on the petit brother. Francis tisked as he tugged on the leash causing Gilbert to stand if he wanted to avoid pain from the collar. However Ludwig followed in suite refusing to let him go. "I won't let you take him!" Ludwig cried out hugging his brother tightly. As much as a pain in the ass that Gilbert was, he trusted him the most and they depend on each other. Gilbert clinged to the cat, not wanting to leave his little sibling alone by himself. Gilbert was shocked and above all petrified, he pretty much guaranteed himself that he wasn't going anywhere because of his attitude. Gilbert cried in surprise as he felt himself getting peeled off of his brother. He tried to hold of Ludwig's hand but his gripped slipped as he was being carried off by a stranger and Ludwig was being held back by their caretaker. "Ludwig!" Gilbert cried out as he tried to scramble out of the man's tight grip. He heard his brother cry out his name and could smell the despair coming from the room, even as he was being dragged out. He could feel the anger boiling in his chest as he released it by pounding on the strangers back. "You son of a bitch let go of me!" He growled out in anger as he felt his hackles rise.
"Hm I don't think so, for I own you now da?"
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A/N: Hey guys! I hoped you liked what you saw, and I'm hoping on continuing this story as well, but I can't continue unless I get reviews to know that you liked it and want me to continue. I wasn't too happy with the ending to be honest but I left it there for a decent ending to the chapter and hopefully you didn't mind that the quality seemed to lack. To be honest again with you usually my chapters are a little bit smaller then this, though not by much so they'll still be fairly long chapters. Actually some will be bigger and some will be smaller, it all depends on my mood and if I had been inspired.
For those who are reading this and getting pissed because I haven't updated LTAM don't worry I'm working on that one still, I have a chapter that might be up this week anyway, so yeah.
On another note, for those of you who are in B.C Canada, I'm sure some of you know of the cosplay convention (Cos&Effect) If any of you are going to be there message me, because I'll be there too! Being of course. Gilbert Beilschmidt! For those in the US, well I wish you guys could come. D:
Anyway don't forget to review my loves! I'll be waiting!Gibert
