Author's Note: Italics=dream sequence. Poor Lui's gonna have a nightmare in the beginning of this chapter.


Chapter 2: Drunk People? Very Unlikely

The Beilschmidt family was sitting in their small living room of their apartment. They were watching reruns of "Seinfeld" on TV, and laughing at something Kramer did. It was just a regular family night for them, like any other night.

"So, Lui, Lise, how was school?" Elise asked her two older children.

"Great," said Liesel. "I made the volleyball team! Cool, huh?"

"That's wonderful," said Claus. "Lui, what about you?"

"Some people in class called me Mudgig," Ludwig mumbled, not really wanting to talk about his day.

"What was that?" Liesel asked.

"Didn't catch that, bro," Gilbert said. He was holding Prussia—his teddy bear—close, and he was in his footsy pajamas.

"Some guys in class kept calling me Mudgig, okay?" an embarrassed Ludwig said. "And then they called me ButPickBut, and LuLu, which I hate."

"Why would they call you ButPickBut?" asked Claus.

"I dunno," Ludwig said. "I'm hungry. When's the pizza getting here?"

"Yeah, I'm hungry, too," said Gilbert. "Oh, guess what? I get to take Snowball the hamster home this weekend! Mr. Grimmer said I could."

"Aw, that's great, Gilbo," Elise said. She picked Gilbert up and sat him on her lap.

Just then, the Beilschmidts heard three loud knocks at the door. Elise set Gilbert down on the couch next to her.

"That must be the pizza," Elise said.

"I'll be right back," said Claus. He got money out for the pizza guy and opened the door. Instead he found himself face-to-face with none other than Sosuke Aizen, one of the crime leaders in Hell's Kitchen. "Aizen. What do you want?" He backed away from the door, and Aizen let himself in without even asking.

"The money you and your wifey owe me," Aizen said in a scary voice.

"Dad, what's going on?" Ludwig asked, running up to his father.

"Claus? What's wrong?" asked Elise. She came up to her husband, but stopped and gasped when she saw who Claus was talking to. "Aizen! What do you want?"

"Give me the money!" Aizen shouted at the frightened couple. "Pay what you owe, right now!"

"W-We d-d-don't have your money!" said Claus. He stepped in front of his kids to shield them.

"Dad, who is this guy?" Ludwig asked.

"Lui, you and Lise take Gilbo and go to your room," Claus said urgently.

"But—" Ludwig began, but got cut off.

"Now, Ludwig!" Claus said. "Do as I say and go to your room! You'll only get in the way!"

But Ludwig didn't listen. Instead, he got an impulse and charged at Aizen, knocking the man down, because he saw that the man had taken out a long sword. Then he started punching Aizen in the face. "Get out of here! Mom, Dad, get away!"

Claus wrestled his eldest son off Aizen and pushed him away. "Lui, take your brother and sister, and get out of here! Now, son!"

"Mom—" Ludwig said to his mother, looking at her with pleading eyes.

"Do as your father says," Elise said as she picked up Ludwig's baseball bat, ready to help her husband in defending their home and their kids.

Aizen stood up slowly, wiping blood away from his nose; Lui had hit him really hard. "That wasn't very nice, brat." He advanced towards the three siblings, ready to take Lui down for punching him, then grabbed the young man by his hair.

"Let go, you son of a bitch!" Ludwig yelled. He tried getting out of Aizen's grip, but couldn't, because the guy had a very strong hold on him. "Let go!"

"Let my brother go!" Liesel said and hit Aizen with the mini lamp within her reach, making him let go of her brother. Then she pulled Ludwig toward her. "Lui, come on! We have to go." She picked Gilbert up, and together, the three siblings hid in the closet of their room, hearing Aizen shouting at them to "Get back here, now!".


Once they were in the room, Liesel slammed the door shut and herded her brothers inside the closet before getting in herself.

"Let me out!" Ludwig said to his sister. "Mom and Dad need me!"

"Ludwig Diedrich Beilschmidt, stay put!" Liesel said a little too harshly, not meaning to sound that way at all. Her tone softened. "Listen…I wanna help Mom and Dad, too, but…Dad's right. We'll only get in the way."

"I'm scared," Gilbert said, his voice breaking as he hugged Prussia with all his strength.

The siblings heard what went on in the living room while they hid in the closet.


"You leave my kids alone!" Claus yelled. He pulled Aizen away from his children's bedroom door and pushed him back into the living room. "Now, I'm sorry, but we don't have your fucking money!"

"I gave you money so you could take your demon kid to the doctor," Aizen said coldly. "All because that brat had the fucking flu. Now, you couldn't have spent one thousand dollars in one week, right? Where is the money? It's time for you to pay me back!" He struck Claus with his sword.

Claus screamed in pain as he fell to the floor, holding his now bleeding arm.

"Claus!" Elise exclaimed. She bent down and applied pressure to her husband's wound, trying to stop the bleeding as she shook like a leaf. "Oh my God!"

Claus looked up at Aizen, glaring at the sword-wielding man. "W-We…put the rest of that money…into a college fund…for our kids." He was getting weak and dizzy from losing a lot of blood.

Aizen spat on the floor near Claus. "You put the money away for your brats? Puh."

"Just give us a little more time, and we'll have your money back!" Elise pleaded desperately. "Please!"

"I'm afraid that's not gonna work," said Aizen. He grinned as he lifted the sword into the air, above Claus and Elise. "You had your chance, and you blew it." Without another word he lowered his sword, bringing in closer and closer to the vulnerable couple.


"I can't take this anymore!" Ludwig shouted. He got up and stormed out of the closet.

"Lui, no, come back here!" Liesel said frantically. She would've run out after him, but she needed to stay in the closet with Gilbert.


Ludwig ran out of his room in time to see Aizen hacking away at his parents, splattering their blood around the room. He watched with horror as Aizen was finished murdering Claus and Elise, then wiped their blood on his Soul Reaper outfit as if he had just killed a cockroach.

Ludwig tried to move, but his legs wouldn't give. He was stuck! "Mom…Dad…"

Aizen walked out the door, leaving the bloody corpses of Claus and Elise on the floor, in the middle of the living room. Ludwig again tried backing away, but was still rooted to the same spot. His parents turned their blood-soaked faces towards him and glared.

"Why?" Claus asked coldly.

"Why didn't you help us, Lui?" Elise asked.

Ludwig screamed and fell to the floor on his knees…


...Ludwig woke up screaming for his mom and dad, then found himself in his room in Roderich's apartment. This dream always had a way of creeping into his mind at random times, so he never knew what was coming. The events in the dream were indeed real; that had happened one year earlier, when Ludwig had been sixteen, Liesel was eighteen and was in her senior year of high school, and Gilbert was only six. After their parents were killed, the Beilschmidt siblings went to live with Roderich. Roderich and Liesel had had no problem getting custody of Ludwig and Gilbert, because they were family, and they were lucky to get a family court judge who was big on family…VERY, VERY big on family.

"Big brother?" Gilbert asked. "You were having that dream again, weren't you? The one about Mommy and Daddy, and the bad man."

"Yeah," Ludwig said quietly. He really didn't want to talk about it. He slowly got out of bed and saw that Gilbert was ready for school, his Pikachu backpack on his back. "What time is it?"

"It's 8:30," Gilbert replied.

"Oh, that's alrigh—8:30?" Ludwig exclaimed. He was freaking out! "Scheiße! Why didn't you wake me up?"

"I thought you'd already be up," said Gilbert. "Lise left at 7:45, and Feli, Kiku, Savino, and Yong Soo got here at 8:00. They've been waiting here for half an hour. And I hafta get to school by 9:00."

"Oh, man, I'm gonna be late!" Ludwig said worriedly. He pushed Gilbert out of the bedroom, then got dressed in a flash, remembering to brush his hair in that same dumb hairstyle that made him curse in German at girls he liked. Finally, he was ready and came out of the room, dressed in his usual camouflage jeans, black T-shirt, and dark green jacket, since the weather was cool out. "Okay, everyone. Ready? Gilbo, did you eat?"

"Yeah," Gilbert said. "Feli made breakfast, and no, he didn't mess up your counter—WHAT ARE YA DOING?"

"I'm cleaning the counter," Ludwig said. He wiped the counter and everything else down until he was satisfied with the result.

"Are ya done yet?" Gilbert asked impatiently.

"Yeah, come on," Ludwig replied. Everyone got in Kiku's car and drove to PS 51, dropping off Yong Soo, Savio, and Gilbert. The trio then made their way to Hetalia Academy (where classes didn't begin until 9:00), not caring if they were going past the speed limit. Ludwig looked out the window for a moment, thinking about that dream he had, about his mother and father. Then he saw a guy staggering around as the car passed by another street. Ludwig just shrugged it off. 'Probably just some drunk,' he thought. 'Poor guy probably has a hangover.' He shook his head at the guy.


Ludwig, Kiku, and Feliciano arrived at Hetalia Academy. Kiku parked the car, and the three pals got out and sprinted to their first class of the day: Creative Writing, consisting of students from both grades 11 and 12. They barely made it on time and sat down just as the teacher was still on the "A" surnames.

Haruhi Suzumiya was wearing her hair in an unusual style, as usual. She looked over at the trio and snickered, poking another classmate, nineteen-year-old Alfred F. Jones (Liesel's boyfriend), in the ribs.

"What, Haruhi?" Alfred whispered in annoyance; he was trying to talk to Kamina, one of his BFFs. He saw Haruhi pointing to Ludwig, Kiku, and Feliciano and started laughing. "What happened to you guys, huh?"

"Overslept," Kiku replied.

"Uh-huh," Alfred said. "Right." He knew full well that Kiku was really watching anime until 2:00 in the morning.


The Axis (what Lui, Kiku, and Feli called themselves for some reason) went through their classes of the day, then headed out to PS 51 to pick up their little brothers.

"Hey, there's that guy again!" Ludwig said as they passed the street the staggering guy was on. "And there's more of them!"

"Huh?" Feliciano and Kiku said and looked out the window. They saw a bunch of people staggering.

"Everybody must be drunk," said Feliciano.

"Hai," Kiku agreed. "That's how Alfred's brother Arthur gets when he's drunk."

"Let's just go," Ludwig said, and Kiku quickly drove off until they reached the elementary school. There, they saw more people staggering around. "People at the school are drunk, too? WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?"

"Yong Soo, Savino, Gilbo, get in," Feliciano called to the three boys who looked scared of the staggering teachers, parents, kids, and other school faculty. Other children looked frightened, too, as their parents ushered them away as fast as they could.

Yong Soo, Savio, and Gilbert hopped into the car, and Kiku quickly drove back to the apartment building. Everyone got out and went inside.


"That was scary, Lui!" a crying Feliciano said and jumped on the blond. Awkward.

"There, there," Ludwig said in the same tone he used when Gilbert got upset. "Uh, guys, I've got the place to myself for a few hours. Wanna come in? We can play Wii baseball."

"Sure!" Feliciano and Kiku—especially Kiku, because he loved his video games—said enthusiastically. The Axis, plus Yong Soo, Savio, and Gilbert, went inside. Feliciano texted his and Savio's big brother, Lovino, telling him that he was going to be at Ludwig's place for a few hours, until Roderich and Liesel came home.

"Geez, is today 'Let's Get Drunk Day' or something?" Ludwig asked Kiku and Feliciano. The other two just shrugged, and the three pals got back to their game, while Yong Soo, Savio, and Gilbert watched cartoons.


Author's Note: Scheiße! - Shit (German)

Hai- Yes (Japanese)

P.S.: Alfred is nineteen and in his senior year of high school because he got held back a year. He did poorly on exams and stuff, so he couldn't graduate with Liesel or the rest of the class, and now he has to repeat the 12th grade.

P.P.S.: The reason Gilbert, Savio, and Yong Soo don't go to Hetalia Academy is because, in this story, Hetalia Academy is for middle and high school students.