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Japan sighed. He had been working so hard out onto his desk, what had happened to China. But every solution, every possibility, was either majorly stupid, or all together impossible. He sighed again. This was not going well. It was just making him more stressed and tired. He layed down his head against the table in exhuation. If only he could just rest for a bit like this...
"K-Kiku~aru...?" asked a small China quitely. Along with his voice being heard, Japan felt hands pat gently at his back. Japan squeezed his eyes closer together, please just let him sleep! He had been up all night...
"Kiku~aru..." The voice asked again. It was then that it hit Japan what had happened, and he shot up, almost making China fall back in the process. Japan quickly apologized and looked to the small boy. Hm...The clothes he had left by him fit somewhat well, better than his other ones. It was just a simple kimono, and for some strange reason, the sleeves were really long. Not super long like the other close but long like how China usually wore his sleeves. Huh...Were all clothes just like that on him?
Japan shook off his thoughts, and focused on the boy before him. "Gomenasai, Chyuugoku." He momentaily lapsed into his formal Japanese, but didn't noctice it, because China didn't say anything. He had raised the boy, so of course he knew his language as well as his own. Heck, it was even based off of his Chinese. So that's why he didn't really seem unfazed by it.
Instead, he blushed a bit and looked down, fidgeting with his sleeves, "Ano...Kiku...aru..." He mumbled. Japan looked up to him surprised, he had seen many sides of China, but a shy small innocent defenseless one? Out of the question. So it was a bit weird to see China in such a state. However...he still was so cute!
"Hai?" Japan pushed on.
"Ano...Um...Kiku...I'mreallyhungry." China mumbled and stuttered blushed even more and looked down. Japan looked at him confused. What?
"Excuse me, but could you repeat that China-san? I didn't hear you..." Japan looked at the boy. China fidgeted some more before finally saying in a clear voice, "I'm...I'm hungray Japan...aru..." He hid his blushing face in his sleeves. He had always been able to take care of himself, and he liked it that way, but...it when he felt so tiny and small...it didn't really boost his confidence. So, he had been afraid to make something while Japan was alseep, thus him coming to the Asian man, and asking for food.
Japan laughed. Oh! That's what he wanted. China peeked out from behind his sleeves, pouting slightly at Japan's laughs. Japan merely smiled at him, and raised quickly up off the ground, towering over the small China. Hm...So this is how Japan had looked to China when he had been younger...
Japan reached out a hand to China. He smiled. "Come, let's go make some food." China stared at his hand for a bit, before finally coming out of his sleeves, and reaching out for it. "Y-yeah~aru..." Japan then dragged the small nation to the kitchen.
Wait, Japan realized, if China's this small, was his country affected at all by this? He looked to the small boy, who seemed to be spacing. "China-san..." China quickly sapped out of his spacing, and looked to the now tall Asian. "Yes~aru..." He asked. Japan looked at him for a while, he had come here right after this happened, so would he know if anything happened? Well, he was a personification of China, so didn't he just feel if something was off? Well, no matter the reason, Japan still asked, "Has your country been anyway affected by this?" He knew China knew what he was talking off.
China looked off. "Hm...aru..." He looked like he was either trying to ignore the question, or trying to put it in a way Japan could understand. "I wouldn't know...but it feels kind of ...funny~aru..." He looked up to Japan with honest brown eyes. "It doesn't feel right." Hm...So that's what was going on...another problem to his multitude of them...Japan sighed and continued onwards. If not even China, the great wise nation, that was older than all of them put together, knew what was going on, then what chance did Japan have?
Only time with tell...' Japan thought sullenly as he began his cooking with China.
"What would you like?" Japan asked the small boy. China looked up to him with big eyes, starving for food. His head filled with so many possibilites, but it was then he realized, most of the food he wanted, was common food in China, this was Japan...
Japan looked at his distress expresssion, and he lightly laughed. "China-san. I was raised in China, by you. I know Chinese dishes as well." China's ears perked at he looked up to Japan with hopeful eyes. Japan nodded to him. China looked down,
"I-I want...Peking Duck [1]...aru" China said shyly. Japan nodded in acknowledgement. He knew how to make that...it was one of China's national dishes, so he had seen it, and eaten it more than anyone. It took a while to make, but he could do it, and being a personfication of Japan, gave him unlimited suppy of food, and certain ingrediants could be dropped off in but moments.
Japan looked down, someone was tugging at his robe sleeve...China looked up to him, a blush on his face, "I-I also want some of...Kiku's Ramen...aru" He trailed off, looking down. Japan was slightly surprised. Though Ramen had origainated in China, Japan had taken hold of the recipe, China was too focused on other foods. Two different countries. One dish. Changed to accomidate the taste of eachother's country...
So he wanted Japan's ramen? That was like a praise. China had always been specific with his food, wanting only the best and tastiest. Japan smiled. Huh...is this what China felt like? He know he had questioned himself that many times today, but he couldn't help it. Was this really how China felt?...Japan looked away quickly from China, hiding his sadden face, if this is how China felt, Japan could only imagine how he felt when Japan had...
"Kiku?~aru" China tugged on his sleeve. What was wrong with Japan? However, Japan merely turned back and simply smiled tightly. "Let's begin, no?" He dressed in the proper attire to begin cooking, and since he didn't have something small enough for China, he wrapped a small clothe around the boy to keep from getting dirty.
Japan clentched his fist determined. He could do this. And with that, he began to make their food.
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"Eh~aru. Kiku you were so cool~aru." China said with sparkling eyes. "You made cooking look so easy~aru." China grinned. "How come you never told me this~aru?" China looked to the larger man. Japan merely politely nodded. It felt kind of weird, having a small child, talk about your past more than a couple of centries ago...
"Let's go and sit down now, before the food gets cold, you don't-"
"Want to waste food." China interrupted with a disappointed mad look, he hated when people wasted food. Japan laughed at his expression. China looked up innocently, "Come on~aru~ I'm hungry~aru~" Japan nodded, and took him to the dinning room. They sat and ate, enjoying silence. At first, Japan watched China with bated breathe, had he gotten the dish right? China lowered his head to the food, bringing it up to his face was rather difficult, so he had to lean over. After taking the first bite, his head snapped up, and little hearts and stars flowed about from nowhere, "Ahhhhhh~ aru! Kiku~aru This is so good~aru." China happily chewed away.
Japan was a bit taken aback, but was happy, really happy. If the one who not only created the food, but ate it more often than Japan had, and from some of the best chefs, liked it? That really made one grateful. He finished his food, more quickly than the slightly slower China, he made sure he enjoyed the food to the fullest.
"Kiku...aru...What's that?" China had stopped eating, and was looking to something behind Japan. Japan grew confused, what was he talking about? He turned around and sweatdropped. It was a 'Hello Kitty' doll. The newest version...He had been given a trail version, to see how it did, but he had, honesty, forgotten about it...until now...
"!" Yelled a hyper China, he jumped right up, and ran to the doll. He grabbed the big doll, and squished it against him, hugging it tightly. "Ne~ Ne~ Kiku~aru~ It's sooo cute~aru!" Again, little hearts appeared. Japan looked to him with an uneasy look, it seemed China never changed...
China had stayed in that place for a couple of minutes, tossing up and down the doll, when someone knocked at Japan's door. China, still busying gushing about how cute the doll was, didn't notice, so Japan was able to slip away unoticed, and go answer his door.
"Taiwan?" Japan questioned indifferently. She did come by often, but why so late at night?
Taiwan looked at him with a sad look, "Kiku! Did you hear!" She rushed into his house without being invited, "Sensei has gone missing! No one can find him and and and!" Tears started to form at her eyes. Japan was once again, taken aback, Taiwan didn't really like China...and yet here she was crying for him?
"Kiku! It's so horrible! I never thought he would actually disappear! I hadn't meant to say all those curses! " Japan took on a face of shock, curses? "I mean, I just, I just" She began to cry, "I never told him how, even though I hated him so much, I just wanted his love, and I wanted him to give me praise, but he never did, and he he!"
"Is that how you really felt Mei?" Japan and Taiwan turned to the small voice coming from the doorway to the dinning room.
"S-sensei?" She took one look at him, and fainted.
"Ehhhh! Taiwan!"
"Mei!"
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"I'm sorry..." Taiwan aplogized for the seventh time. She hadn't meant to faint, but what did you do when you father/brother/mentor/sensei was the size of a small child, after you just heard he had gone missing?
"It's okay Taiwan." Japan said with a smiling face, but he paused, "But would you mind letting go of China-san?"
Taiwan glared back at Japan. She had a tight hold on China. As soon as she had awakened, they had told her what happened, and realizing how real it was, she had immediately taken a hold on China.
"But~ Kiku~ He's so cute~!" Taiwan squished China, who was reaching out for help. "K-kiku!" He said in a breathless voice. They both hadn't expected Taiwan to do this!
"I mean, when he's all big and stuff, he's a jerk, but right now? Awww~ We can even play house! I'll be the mother~" She looked over to Japan with a blush, "Japan the dad, and China the child~" She said happily.
China looked back to her with a whimpering face, "Will you please let go of me Mei?" Her, hit immediately by the cuteness, let him go. "Ahhh~ And here you were, keeping him all to yourself!" Taiwan said accusingly to Japan. Japan laughed nervously. But China had come to him...
After all the fun and games had been through, China and Japan sat down seriously with Taiwan.
"We could use your help..."
And there you have it~! Thank you to all who reviewed~! I can't stress it enough~! Thank you~! :D Sorry if Taiwan's a bit OC XD I don't know much about her...except that she loves Japan, and hates China XD
Culture Index~! XD I did my research~!
[1] Peking Duck -is a famous duck dish from Beijing that has been prepared since the imperial era, and is now considered one of China's national foods.