My first time writing a Hetalia fic..so..._ meh, and I'm still not even done with the ones in IE aslkvjoej ugh but I REALLY REALLY wanted to write something about my own country CUZ IM AZN AND PROUD OF IT! Not to mention I was a bit angry that Taiwan never appeared in the anime at all, and she was only in the character intos. of the manga..._

Bamboo branches crackled underfoot, breaking the cool morning silence, and occasionally punctuating the cries of several very early morning, restless song birds. As a breeze blew past, the bamboo forest stirred and came to life; the leaves rustled and the birds broke out in song.

As China trudged up the steep hill that he was climbing, the early morning sunlight streamed down upon his face as the dawn broke and burst forth spill out golden light. The originally sleeping panda now popped his head out of the bamboo wicker basket on China's back, groggy from being wakened by the intrusive bright light.

Soon China came upon level ground as he reached the summit of the hill he was climbing. As China's are reached up to wipe the beading sweat away from his brow, Panda climbed upon China's other shoulder and admired the breathtaking view along with Yao.

Down in the valley below, surrounded by tall hills and forests of bamboo was a quaint Chinese village with a sparkling river that ran by the village's eastern side. Far off in the distance, tall rugged mountains, deep purple and blue in color were stark contrasts to the fiery sun slowly making its way higher into the sky. The oblique mist and clouds that usually shrouded the summits became transparent, dissipating the mysterious aura, but the grandeur of the majestic mountain range, rising high above everything remained.

Panda's hunger got to the best of him, and h started to squirm around hoping for Yao to feed him a bean paste bun or two, but the tall, long, brown haired man refused to budge form his place, caught in his own reminiscence of the past. Impatient and wanting to appease his own hunger, Panda descended down to the ground and went off to find some new shoots for his breakfast, after all, they were in a bamboo forest.

It was a couple of minutes before Yao was able to pull himself out of his reverie and remove himself from the spot that gave him a magnificent view of the new settlement that he had built just a year ago here in this new country after he had driven out Netherlands from the island. For the said nation had, along with Spain, plundering the beautiful island of its resources and exploiting it for their own personal gains. It seemed ironic that Netherlands and his people called the island Ilha Formosa when they had begun to deplete it of its natural splendor.

At the sound of his own stomach growling now, Yao pushed all his idle thoughts away and turned it toward breakfast. "Panda?" Yao called out as he remembered his little companion. "Panda?" he tried again as the little marsupial didn't respond. Quickly Yao scanned the surrounding area for the small black and white creature. Seeing as he was nowhere in sight, confirmed his growing fear and anxiety. Surely he had not gone off far now could he?

Deciding not to waste anymore time, Yao set off in search of his little companion, eating his breakfast of steamed meat and bean paste buns along the way. He swiftly made his way through the peaceful force of greenery.

In the dense forest, he was surrounded by a sea of emerald that gave way to lighter and brighter patches of yellow-green where the sun shone through.

Soon enough, he found himself standing in front of a giant dense patch of dark jade colored bamboo tall and thick; the bunch grew together, with the branches weaving in and out of each other forming an impenetrable textile like screen. It seemed to be hiding a clearing with in it. As China approached the tightly grown clump of bamboo, a soft tinkling laugh could be heard that quickly faded in to the old forest.

Yao paused for a moment, convincing himself that what he had heard was just a figment of his imagination as began to part the intertwined bamboo branches. He worked steadily and soon he had made a small opening in which he could attempt to squeeze through. Without any further thought he found himself in a big wide clearing of only grass with occasional small patches of tender young bamboo branches in which he spotted Panda lazily lounging next to a patch, calmly and slowly consuming his own hearty breakfast. AT the presence of his owner, he paused midway in his chewing and turned his small furry head to face the nation. China chuckled at the comical way his pet appeared and then attempted to beckon the critter over with one of his own buns. Panda slowly lifted his head and caught the scent of the mouthwatering food and was about to head toward it, but midway though making the distance between him and Yao he paused and looked back at the patch of bamboo as if thinking over something and then started acting reluctant to go towards China. Yao, taking offense to this thought that it was probably Panda still angry with him for not feeding him, reluctantly sighed and said "Fine-aru~ I see your holding a grudge for earlier this morning, so how about I make it up to you and get you something yummy when we return back to the village-aru~! I'll get you anything you want to eat? How about it?-aru~" in an attempt to coax the bear-like animal towards him, but what ever had caught Panda's attention eventually drew the creature away from his owner. Panda slowly crawled over to the small bamboo patch and slipped behind it. "AIIIYYYAA~! Are you really that mad at me ~aru? ." asked Yao as he walked slowly toward the back of the little green screen between him and his panda and peeked around out of curiosity.

There sitting behind the tender bamboo shoots was a little girl playing with the panda. She had on a small flowing pink dress trimmed with white and gold of various flower patterns on it. She had long hair that looked mousey brown in the light and on her head was a beautiful flower headdress. She giggled as the panda crawled over to her and started to nudge her and out of her mouth came the purest sweet innocent melody of her laugh. It sounded just like the one that China had heard before. As soon as she had sensed his presence her head snapped back, startled, and her liquid golden-brown eyes met his.

. kslvjoej how was it for the first time? ne? . PLEASE R&R and tell me how you think! Dunno if I'll be able to continue or not..depends of if people like this . ...and I still won't be updating regularly as I still need to take of my dad who's still recovering. Good news is that he's outta the ER AND THE HOSPITAL! :D...unfortuanately he can't really walk rite now.. _ so...meh. R&R PLZ!