"G-gomenesai!" Japan was sneezing every few minutes, and his voice was getting a little scratchy.

"Ya-ya-yaaa… " Japan sighed as his sneeze was suddenly dismissed, "Yao, please tell me you don't have a fever…" On the way back home, Japan had to cover his mouth so that the rest of the planes passengers wouldn't catch his cold.

"Aiyaa, you sound so sick, aru." The of China's congested voice made his message ironic. "Um…I-I'm fine, aru." China noticed the irony and assured Japan he was in a fine condition, but his voice was drowsy as if he were about to go to sleep. Japan sighed and told him to get appropriate rest. It was flu season anyway, their population was probably just acting upon them.

"Okay, just make sure you get well okay?" Japan ended the call and walked up to his house. Pochi (his dog in case you didn't know) ran up to him and yipped happily for his return.

"Hah, I'm sorry but I can't hold you today Pochi, you might get a cold." Pochi started pawing at Japan's feet, not understanding his words. "But I'm guessing your hungry? I'll go get the dog food." Pochi followed him willingly, circling around him as he poured the food into his bowl.

Riiiiing~ Riiiiiiing~ Riiiii-

Japan picked up the phone wuickly before it rang again.

"Moshi moshi. Ah, Alfred it's you… what? I don't think so. It what?" Japan paused for a slight second; everything became silent to him, even as the phone buzzed from America's voice.

"I-I'm sorry Alfred, but I'll call you later."

"Wait Kiku!" Japan hung up on the line leaving you to your usual 'world crisis' newscasts.

It appears to be a world pandemic slowly spreading throughout the six continents. Now we're just wondering, is this something to be worried about, or will it pass over like a normal flu season?

Alfred hated the news channel; no wait SUPER hated the news channel. It made him as a country look… bad. Which wasn't true of course, and he got to prove it to other's ALL the time. But he was still hated by many other people, including his own… Oh well, every super hero must have a villain.

"Shit, what the heck am I going to do?" Alfred whined to himself. Like every television rumor, there's always something to cover it up. BUT THIS WAS NO RUMOR. In fact, it was all too real, and with the swine flu pandemic just a few years back, this was not a great time to talk about a constantly spreading sickness. Luckily for him, he wouldn't be affected unless it hits at least 40 states or so (more likely the bigger ones).

He knew how his government would react. They'd be stricter with borders, they'd have constant meetings about it, they'd temporarily shut down public buildings, and all of that other crap… Damn! It's like he's in some movie.

Well, in a time like this you might as well call the next best guy you can trust.

Ring ring! Ring ring!

"Now who could that be…" With a sour mood and sarcastic tone to match, England picked up the phone.

"Arthur! Hi, and stuff, how's Europe doing?" He already knew about the pandemic acting upon the countries, it was just a cold right now, right now. He had enough of this crazy sickness stuff, he's had enough experience of it throughout his life, and his dope of a brother was coming to call him and act like he could make everything better. Great.

"Look Alfred, I don't mean to be rude, oh wait I do, but we can take care of ourselves."

"That's not what I called you for though, wait, how are you?" Wait, is he actually taking this seriously?

"Um yeah… Europe's doing just fine, it's nothing but a cold right?" Like before, he's dealt with things like the Black Plague, it's not like a little sneeze is going to scare him.

"Well um, can you… er…"

"Er, what?"

"Could you maybe, help me?" He was kidding.

"Oh uh, hahah, you got me there Alfred…" Silence. He was serious.

"Well um, my government and people and stuff are kind of paranoid about this stuff, and maybe if you could convince them…"

"Alfred, I don't think we could convince your people to forget about something like this. I mean, they go crazy over some tabloids."

"That's the point Iggy! I hate this! Every year there's some world crisis that they want to be shut away from! If for once, just once, we could actually take something like this er… calmly… Maybe we, I, could prove… comething?"

"…Alfred, are you okay?"

"Wow, didn't know I had that in me! Dude that should be like a speech or something!"

"Oh great, your 'normal' again… but about before… "

"Igg- no, Arthur, please?" He held his voice in the please, leaving Arthur no choice but to answer immediately.

"I can try Alfred, but please would you stop being so childish?"

"Alright! The please thing always works! Awesome sauce, I have a plan, I'll tell you later okay? I'm glad you can do this for me bye!"

"Wait Alfred it wasn't defin-"

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep-

"That stooge…"

"Privyet China!" Bright and smiling, Russia walked in. Then of course, the new virus didn't affect him yet.

"Ni hao, aru." China sniffed shortly after this. He had a hundred degree fever, and could barely drag himself out of the bed, but he wouldn't show anyone that! He was stronger better, he was China!

"I'm just fine, aru. You can leave now, I can take care of myself aru." Russia tilted his head confused.

"But Yao," He moved closer and laid his hand lightly on China's forehead, "your so warm."

"…what." China was blushing, his pale face turning into a bright red. Russia was so childish and oblivious sometimes, he had… selective thinking? If that was even real, he wondered what it would be like to be so oblivious to other people.

"Wow, it's a good thing I came here, you look flushed. That's why my government is deciding to help you, now to create a closer bond maybe…"

"Been there, done that aru." It seems as though China and Russia had a very close history through out their years together.

"Please? We can be one huge landmass, we'd already be one anyway so-"

"No, aru! I'm fine taking care of myself, and I could even use a little space…"

"Oh…" disappointment struck Russia's face then quickly changed back into his cheerful expression, "well I brought some food that I'll just leave here."

Russia walked out, then turned around and walked back in, "I almost forgot! Silly me," he reached into his coat pocket and went over to Yao's side, "here you go."

He carefully wrapped a fluffy red scarf around China and smiled. "You look great."

With a simple nod of China's surprised head, he turned and left, for real this time.

I-I don't know! Please, don't take me out of here, I beg you!

You are contaminated, you get out, or we make you get out!

Stop it right there!

I'm sorry sir but the virus' germs may have already spread… I think we need to dispose.

They grabbed the woman's arms and left the building…

I hope this chapter wasn't boring, in fact it wasn't supposed to have Alfred and Arthur's plan, so now it seems slow AND rushed at the same time to me -~-''

But then again this chapter would have been very boring...

Expect more action in the next chapter, MUCH MORE.

Oh yeah, tell me if there are any mistakes in here please (I know that in the dialogue they address each other by names unlike the narration, so if that bothers you just tell me and I'll change it for the next chapter).