Hey everyone! Lieselotte here! This is my very first published Hetalia fic, and I'm super excited to show it to y'all! A few informations before we begin :

-I KNOW Königsberg should NOT be here for many historical reasons, but I didn't aim for historical accuracy. Righto? ;)

-Königsberg and Berlin call each other "Bruder" (Brother) and "Schwester" (Sister), but they're technically cousins. I think.

-"Roma" is the TOWN of Rome, I just called her "Roma" to not get her confused with Grandpa Rome :3

-Enjoy! 33

Roma was not prepared for this. Definitely not.

When she had invited all the other Capitals for a meeting, she thought it was going to be a pleasant first encounter, she thought they'd just... discuss. (Even though when she invited Edinburgh and Königsberg, she should've have felt it. With those two, NOTHING could be calm.)

And so, when everyone arrived, Roma immediately regretted her decision.

Edinburgh and London were already arguing, Königsberg and Berlin were, well... sort-of-teasing each other while Paris was desperately trying to calm them down. Moscow was enthusiastically proposing vodka to everyone, which led to Edinburgh butting in and screaming that "SCOTCH IS THE ONLY GOOD ALCOHOL OUT THERE, DON'T YE GET IT?"

Until finally...

"ENOUUUUUUUGH!"

This yell wasn't coming from Berlin, surprisingly, but from Bern.

"I'M TRYING TO READ! RIGHT? SO JUST STOP YELLING AND GET THIS MEETING OVER WITH, OKAY?"

He then shook his head angrily and resumed reading his book, glaring at everyone to ensure the arguing didn't continue.

"Hrm... Grazie Bern." Roma said, still shocked from her Swiss 'counterpart''s outburst. "Now that everyone is calm... please all have a seat."

The capitals who were still standing seated, a bit sheepishly.

"Good." Roma sighed. "So, I'm proud to welcome you all for the first Capital Meeting!"

"No." London simply said.

"What?"

"No." she repeated. "You're not proud to welcome us."

"What makes you say that?" Roma protested.

"You CAN'T just be proud to welcome Edinburgh. Dublin either. Or-"

"HEY, WHAT MAKES YE SAY THAT?" Edinburgh revolted.

"OI, LONDON, CAN'T YA JUST CLOSE YER MOUTH AND SHUT UP?" Dublin yelled.

Roma sighed one more time. This wasn't a good idea. She knew it was going to turn chaotic.

Suddenly, Moscow's soft voice raised :

"Please... could you stop yelling?"

He said that with a smile his father Russia would've been proud of. Both Dublin and Edinburgh seemed to calm down a bit (although the latter let out an audible annoyed groan.)

"Oh, Romenka..." Moscow continued, in the same soft, almost whisper-like, tone "I...um...I was wondering why you called us here? There must be a particular reason, da?"

"Um... no? I-I-I just... I just thought it would be c-cool to meet you all? I mean, I know our parents to meet frequently and... OK, right, I didn't know it'd turn into such a mess..." Roma shrugged, nervously playing with a strand of her brown hair.

"Oh! I see." Moscow stated. "Now... it sure sounded like fun to meet y'all... see people. Only... I didn't know there would be that much arguing..."

"C'mon Moscow, arguing's not THAT bad!" Königsberg burst out laughing.

The Prussian capital's laughter startled Athens, who was sleeping in the chair near hers.

"W-wh-wh-wh-whaaaattt?" he stuttered. "W-what did I miss?"

"Oh, nothing much!" Königsberg answered, patting Athens on the head.

The latter pouted. He didn't like to be treated like a child, but Prussia's daughter treated everyone like a child anyways.

"Nothing much? Oh, fine, then. But I was sleeping and you woke me up... that's not nice."

"You're not supposed to SLEEP during the meetings, you Dummkopf!" Berlin exclaimed.

"C'mon Bruder, cut him some slack!" Königsberg sighed in an overly exasperated tone.

"SLACK? Look, Schwester... Slack. Is. Not. Good. Didn't Dad teach you at least THAT?" Berlin protested.

For all answer, the other stuck her tongue at him.

"...Hrm-hrm! Sorry but... If this is the first meeting... wouldn't it be bienséant to... make a round of introduction? Just so we can have a look at each other's personnalité?" Paris suggested.

"Grazie mille. Seriously, grazie, Paris. AT LEAST someone says something sensible. Um, I'm Roma, um, I'm the representation of the town of Rome and um, the leader of this meeting."

No one said anything for a few minutes, debating whether or not to take part in Paris' suggestion. Finally, it was the French Capital herself who took a shot at it :

"Bonjour tout le monde! I am Paris, Paris la belle" she chuckled. "More seriously, I am happy to be here, among all of you... (her voice lowered to a seductive whisper) ... and I hope I can get to know you all better... Ravie de vous rencontrer!"

There were a few flustered laughs in the room, before the calm came back and Moscow started talking:

"Privet! I'm Moscow... uh, n-nice to meet you..." the Russian capital murmured. "I'm... erhm, mne zhal', I'm not very good at communications... and... nice to meet you I guess..."

Without missing a beat, Beijing (who was holding a box full of seemingly useless plastic things) took after :

"Hi! I'm Beijing-aru!" he exclaimed cheerfully." Nice to meet y'all-aru! Anyone wants some good luck charms-aru? It's ONLY a little hundred yuans! It's an occasion-aru!"

"Shameless advertising much, eh Beijing?" Seoul chuckled lightly. "No one here has any yuans. That said, those introductions are becoming fairly boring..." she admitted. "I'd rather be drawing..."

"Seoul, I'd leave the drawing to me if I were you." Tokyo simply said, glaring coldly at her South Korean counterpart.

"C'mon-aru!" Beijing protested. "Seoul's manhwas are kinda ni-"

He was interrupted by an ice-cold "WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?" from Tokyo.

"I-I-I just said that Seoul's manhwas were kinda nice... but y-your mangas are b-better-aru!"

"Good." Tokyo said with a satisfied smile.

Usually she was calm and composed, polite with everyone in the purest Japanese style but when it came to mangas v. manwhas, she was absolutely merciless.

"Hey..." Roma suddenly called out. "Has anyone seen Washington? I notice that only now, but... she isn't here!"