Hey there guys! N3k0-sensei here! :3
This is the first ever real fanfic I have ever written, and it's also my first time really writing anything for Hetalia so please be gentle.~
Before we move along with the actual story, I need to address some issues that people might have with this story, so I am gonna give you guys a little background info. This story focuses mainly on the micronations of Hetalia, and since not much is really known about their characters I took it upon myself to change a few things. I made up names for some of the characters, changed ages, and had to tweak relationships a bit. (An example of what I mean by tweaking, in this story Australia is not England's brother. A lot of people apparently tend to make them brothers when writing fanfiction, I made them cousins instead. So any of the micronations related to England are only cousins. There's a reason for it, but I'll tell you that later.) I am saying this now so that if it bothers anyone, they'll know ahead of time and decide if they still want to continue reading.
You'll find out more detail as the story goes on. Please put up with the little changes my lovelies and keep on being awesome. I hope you like this little slice-of-life type story and hopefully it will inspire more amateur writers like myself to write their own stories. :3
I do not own Hetalia or any of it's characters, all credit goes to Hidekaz Himaruya.
The young man let out an annoyed sigh as he walked down the hall trying to find his dorm room. He reached into his pocket for the crumbled up piece of paper and looked door to door to find the number that matched his. Just how long had he been at this anyway? He was getting sick off staring at all these doors, he just wanted to hurry up and find his room so he could plop himself on the bed and rest. Guess this was just another thing he would have to get used to now that he was attending this new boarding school.
Alrick didn't always attend boarding school, before he came here he was just another average guy going to a normal high school. He lived in an apartment with his older brother Berwald, his boyfriend Tino, and their dog Hanatamago for a few years. He used to share a room with his adopted brother Peter Kirkland, but he'd moved out about 2 years ago to transfer to this boarding school. It was a little strange having that bundle of hyper energy out of the house, but it hardly felt like he left. Everyday after he would come home from school, Peter would spam his cell phone with text messages saying how great the school was. Apparently some of his cousins had also transferred there, so he'd go on and on for hours about all the fun they were having and how awesome it would be if Alrick could come along too.
Usually he didn't really listen to what Peter had to say-after all his 'brother' wasn't the most sensible guy around- but he was actually beginning to consider the idea. Being at that school sure seemed better then the alternative. After all, all Alrick ever did here was go to school, come home, and spend the rest of his time online. There wasn't anyone at school that he was really friends with and all his classes were boring. Maybe boarding school would be a good change, Berwald and Tino didn't seem to mind it either.
And because of all that, he now found himself here. In a hallway. Lost. Because of Peter.
No surprise there.
He sighed again and continued down the hall, carrying his luggage which only seemed to get heavier as the minutes went by. Maybe he should just ask for directions. But when all seemed lost, he finally spotted his room number and smiled. Thank GOD. He took out his key and opened the was at that moment that it hit him. If Alrick remembered correctly, Peter told him that around here it was a common thing for you to be assigned a roommate. He was so busying searching for his room that he'd forgotten all about it. It made him curious, just what kind of person was he sharing a room with? He opened the door slowly and took a peak inside...no one was there.
"Well this sucks." he mumbled to himself. All that curiosity for nothing, but whatever, he'd meet his roommate eventually. He took a step inside and found himself nearly tripping over something on the floor. "What the hell?!" He looked down at the ground annoyed and picked up the strange object. It was a clock. What the hell was a clock doing on the floor? Alrick looked around wide eyed, the clock wasn't the only thing out of place here.
The room was absolutely cluttered. Books and crumbled up papers were scattered randomly on the floor, brushes and pencils could be found in every direction, and there were so many paintings and sculptures that you didn't know where to put them all. Alrick just stood there in awe. This was where he would be living for a year. Of course HE would be the one to get paired up with someone so unorganized. Least he knew something about his roommate now. Whatever, he could worry about all this crap later, he just wanted to crawl into bed and sleep. He dropped his bag randomly on the floor since he knew his roommate obviously wouldn't mind, and jumped onto his bed. Least the bed felt comfortable then again he was pretty sure he could sleep on the floor at this rate. Alrick let out a content sigh and was about to close his eyes when suddenly his cell phone vibrated. Who could be calling him at a time like this? He reached into his pocket and glared.
Peter.
Why was he not surprised?
Alrick groaned and answered the call.
"What's up man! Did you make it to your room okay?" Peter said, you could practically hear him smiling.
"No, I spent like half an hour just trying to find the dorms. You're the one who told me to come here, least you could do was help me find my way around." he said a bit annoyed, he sat up in bed.
"Didn't think you'd have much trouble. You tired or something Alrick, you sound a little sleepy. You should probably get some rest later."
"I will kill you Peter."
"You can do that later. Right now you gotta come outside and join the rest of us!"
"And by us you mean the new pals you made here right?" Alrick said as he got out of bed, stretching. Sadly sleep would have to wait until later.
"Yeah, and trust me you wont be the only newbie here. We actually have someone else that transferred today too! He's one year younger then us, but he seems cool." Peter said, finally having all his friends together was making him excited. "Hurry up and get outside man, we're gonna be at the fountain. You probably saw it on your way inside. Don't keep us waiting too long."
"Alright I got it, I'll be there. See yah in a few."
It wasn't as hard for him to find his way out as it was getting in. He only hoped finding his room would be easier the second time around. This time he was gonna drag Peter's ass with him if he had to. He spotted Peter and a few other people by the fountain, Peter was waving to him, that big cheesy grin on his face.
"ALRICK!" He jumped towards him and gave him a hug, he hadn't seen his brother in so long now. Alrick just stood there flustered pushing his clingy brother away.
"People are staring you weirdo! Get off!" he said feeling his cheeks heat up a bit. Peter just kept laughing but eventually he gave in and let go.
"Same old Alrick, just like you were when I left you." He said, " Well come on I wanna introduce you to some people." Peter grabbed his hand, Alrick just awkwardly followed, not being able to pull free from his brother's iron grip. Peter was always so strong for like no reason, it was mind blowing. When they stopped Alrick was greeted with a lot of new faces.
"Guys this is my brother Alrick Oxenstierna, the one I told you about. Alrick these are my friends." he motioned with his hand and stood beside one of them, wrapping his arm around their shoulders. "This girl here is Cali Kirkland, she's my cousin." The girl was a young girl, probably 17 like he was. She had brown eyes and beautiful dark brown hair that was tied in a sideways ponytail adorned with a red flower. Her style was simple, shorts and a tank top, covered by a bright pink smock and red ascot.
"Pleasure to meet you." she said with a small smile.
"These two guys are her brothers, Aiden and Toby." Peter said, placing his hands on the two male's arms. The older one, Aiden, was quite tall. He had wavy light brown hair and a curl coming from the part in his hair. His eyes were bright and amber colored, and there was a bandage covering his cheek. His overall appearance was very clean and stylish. He wore a collared shirt with a small black bow tie and was carrying a rather nice looking purple jacket in his arm. The other brother, Toby, was a lot shorter and younger looking. Alrick assumed this must have been the new boy that Peter was talking about earlier. His whole demeanor was so innocent and childlike. His hair was light brown with two curly bobs on each side of his head and large green eyes graced his face. His style was simpler compared to his brothers. He just wore a simple red shirt and black pants.
"And this guy right here is one of my new besties, he's pretty quiet, but he's cool. His name is Satoshi Honda, but you can call him Sato." Peter said and pointed to the last of them. This one was a little shorter then Peter. Unlike everyone else, this one seemed a lot more reserved and quiet. He had brown eyes and wore clothes as black as his hair. He was sitting there eating a bag of chips he'd brought along and Peter just laughed. "Yeah he really likes to eat." Alrick stared at the petite Japanese boy curiously and was met with a small smile.
"It's very nice to meet you." Satoshi said and bowed his head.
"Geez, Peter sure managed to attract a weird group of friends." Alrick thought to himself, they were all pretty diverse. He wandered how such different people could all get along so well. Suddenly he felt a pair of hands cover his eyes from behind. "Who the he-?!"
"Hey now, you better not forget to mention me Peter." Alrick stopped, he knew that voice. He took the hands from his eyes and turned around in shock. "Romeo?!"
"The one and only!" The chipper Italian greeted him with a smile. Romeo Vargas was a pretty good friend of his and Peter's in the past. Yeah, admittedly, he found the Italian kind of annoying at first, seeing how he always went along with whatever weird scheme Peter came up with. Not too mention he was constantly trying to play the role of the responsible older brother and teach them about girl and love. But he got used to him after a while and became pretty good friends with him. He wondered why Romeo had suddenly stopped visiting them so often, but now it seemed clear why. The guy hadn't changed much since Alrick last saw him. Still the same brown hair with that odd little curl coming out of his head and cheery green eyes. "Bet you missed me didn't you my adorable amico." Romeo pinched his cheeks and Alrick blushed, pushing his hand off.
"Don't make a scene you odd ball. What are you doing here?"
"Well I've been here for a while-"
"Yeah I figured that much, but you should be 19 by now right? Why the hell are you still attending this school? Shouldn't you be in college or something?" Romeo gave him a sheepish smile and scratched the back of his head.
"Yeah about that...well...I got held back." He said with a nervous grin. "I got pretty lazy and didn't do so well. I sorta had to beg them to let me stay here another year. It's a good thing all the head honchos here are women. No lady can resist a man in tears!~" Cali was quick to meet his comment with a kick to the Italian's shin. Alrick just stared, he didn't know whether to be a impressed by his accomplishment, or be impressed by his stupidity.
"I'm not suppose to be in this dorm either, I'm 22. I only come here to hang out with these guys and see my sister. I am friends with security here, so I come and go when I please." Aiden said with a charming smile.
Dear God, Peter really was a magnet for attracting the weird ones...
"We're still missing Issac, but he was too busy to come today, but hey we got Alrick so tonight will be just as awesome!" Peter said hugging his adoptive bro close. Alrick just looked at him confused.
"Tonight? What's happening tonight?"
"Celebration of course! We're gonna hang out in my room and celebrate the addition of our two newest members. Tonight is your's and Toby's night, it's gonna be epic!" Peter said throwing him a peace sign. Well that meant sleeping was definitely off the table until after the party. " Hey if you want you could even invite your roommate to the party. How is he anyway?"
"Ugh, don't even get me started on him. I haven't met him in person yet, but I've seen the way he's left our room. It's a big mess, he needs to organize it better and clean up cause I sure as hell am not picking up after him."
"Aww come on, lighten up. A little mess never hurt anyone." Toby said with a smile. "I haven't meant my roommate yet either, but I am sure they'll be nice."
"Yeah, and I doubt your roommate is as messy as mine. Seriously, I thought girls were suppose to be cleaner then guys, but I swear when you boys aren't around girls become such slobs. It's annoying, I don't have any place to put my pictures." Cali said puffing her cheeks.
"My roommate has the opposite problem, he thinks he has plenty of space to put his pictures and because of that the room is so crowded. I like art a lot too, but it's hard to take the time to admire any of it when you're literally falling over someone else's masterpiece." Alrick said with a groan. He wondered how long he would be able to endure before he snapped at at his roommate about cleaning. Yeah he wasn't the cleanest guy either but still.
"Your roommate is an artist too?" Romeo asked.
"Apparently, but again, I've never seen his face so I wouldn't know who he is."
"...Well, I might know someone. But I can't be too certain if it's him." Cali said. Peter gave her a raised brow.
"You mean Engel?
"Who's Engel?" Alrick asked. Cali pointed behind him and everyone turned their head. Cali had pointed towards one of the large trees surrounded the school, and sitting against the tree, knees propped up and sketchbook in his lap, was a young teen. Alrick stared wide eyed, he thought it was a girl at first, the boy had such long ,gorgeous white hair put into two perfectly done braids and a red beret sitting on top of his head. His purple eyes were narrow, deeply concentrated on the picture in front of him. And yet something about that focused gaze seemed so...tranquil. So at peace.
"That guy is Engel, Engel Edelstein. I met him here in an art class 3 years ago, not too many guys seem to join art classes here so having him there was rare and he stuck out."
"What's he like?" Alrick asked, if this guy did happen to somehow be his new roommate, then it was best to find out as much about him as possible.
"I can't really say, no one can." Cali said honestly.
"You've known him for 3 years and don't even know what he's like?"
"It's not like I ignore him, if anything it's him who seems to ignore everyone else."
"My sister is right Alrick, no one really knows anything about Engel." Aiden said looking over at the mysterious boy. "He's very quiet, he never talks to anyone. Whether it be students, teacher, no one has ever really gotten the chance to talk with him about anything. He just sits there drawing during class and locking himself up in his dorm room."
"Yeah, the only time anyone ever hears him talking is when he starts mumbling to himself. Whenever he's alone or gets really into a painting, he starts talking to himself."
"One time I passed by his room and actually heard Engel yelling for the first time. I guess he must have finished some sort of great masterpiece or something, because he suddenly just started yelling 'This is art!' or something along those lines. It was freaky, it was the first time I ever heard him get so loud, I got scared." Seborga shivered a little remembering it.
"I guess if we had to say anything about him, it's that...well, to be blunt, he's weird." Peter said," A different type of weird then what we are used to. He just isn't the kind of person that's easy to approach."
Alrick sorta just stood there taking all this new information in and he just didn't know how to react. So not only was he spending the rest of the school year living in some cluttered hermit's cave, but he just found out that he might be rooming with some socially awkward weirdo. What kind of cruel fate was this?!
"Hey don't worry about it too much, I mean there are a few other male artists around here. I'm sure one of them could be your roommate too." Cali said trying to cheer him up a bit, it wasn't really helping much.
"With my luck, I seriously doubt that." he said. "Look, I am gonna go back to my room, I didn't get a chance to unpack any of my things, and I seriously need to try finding places for my stuff. So I am just gonna meet with you guys later, just text me the room number I'll find my way..eventually."
"Okay hope you find your way back okay." Peter said.
"...Your ass is coming with me. I refuse to get lost again." He pulled Peter away from the fountain and brought him back inside
"God, took a while but I finally unpacked everything." Alrick fell back on his bed and looked up at the ceiling. He managed to go through most of the mess and found suitable places for his clothes. He found more random color pencils and erasers in random places, but it wasn't too much of a nuisance. He sighed and turned on his side. Man was he tired, today felt so long and he just wanted to go to bed. But he'd promised Peter that he would go to his room later on for that party. Sleep was gonna have to be put on hold. He sat up and opened up his laptop, going online would keep him busy enough. He liked surfing the web a lot, there was always a lot of funny and interesting things to be found online. So many videos to watch and games to play, it was like a whole other world existed within the internet. It was his personal way of escaping things that bugged him in the real world or when he just had too much on his mind. And he had plenty on his mind today. A little online action was just what he needed.
The red head sat on his bed playing around on his laptop for a while. He was currently sitting back and laughing at some random YouTube vid he found when he heard the doorknob turn. Alrick looked up from his laptop and stared.
It must be his roommate.
Finally he would get to see the the face of this mysterious figure. The one who probably spent hours on end sketching and drawing pictures as if it were the only thing he knew how to do. The one who quite clearly didn't learn a thing about picking up after himself. He opened the door slowly and took a small step inside as he shut the door behind him. The teen stopped right in front of the door and looked over at his new companion, meeting eyes. Alrick gulped, he knew who it was gonna be before they even opened the door.
"...Hey, your names Engel, right?" Alrick muttered, and the white haired boy just stared blankly back at him.
Sort of a lengthy first chapter isn't it? XD Yeah, sorry if this sucks.
I was trying to set the scene and introduce all the characters but...I don't think I did all that well. I am bad with introductions. ^ w ^
Well regardless, I hope enjoyed this first chapter, tell me what you guys think and let me know if you want to see more! :D
And if you are still wondering who the characters are:
Engel A. Edelstein = Kugelmugel
Alrick Oxenstierna= Ladonia
Satoshi Honda= Niko Niko republic
Cali Kirkland= Wy
Aiden Kirkland= Hutt River
Toby Kirkland= New Zealand
Romeo Vargas= Seborga
And of course Peter Kirkland is Sealand. :3
Everyone except for Romeo, Aiden, and Toby in this chapter are 17.
Aiden is 20, Romeo is 19, and Toby is 16. :)
