I Am Your (Grand) Father

Chapter 3: I Don't Care!

Author's notes: Hiiii!, Thank you for those who have favorited this story and thank you for all the reviews too~ I'm so sorry for the lack of updates. It's been months since I started this one. I'm going to graduate this year so I kinda do not have time for updating the fic much due to thesis. But I'll do my best to give you a great story! So please bear with this humble author's late updates. I really want to give you guys a good story.

When Rome ran out of the house, Lovino was already miles away from home. This really had the old Empire worried greatly. He didn't know where Lovino had gone. What's worse is that his grumpy little boy ran out in to the rain without any protection or shoes at all!

"Lovi! Lovi! Where are you?"

Rome frantically looked left and right. He was about to lift that large boulder over the fence to search below it when he noticed two figures in the distance.

Feliciano and Ludwig (who made the Italian wear a raincoat) jogged carefully to where Rome was. They spotted him near the tomato fields.

"Did you find him yet?" the German asked.

Rome just shook his head.

Despite the rain and mud, Lovino managed to impressively run all the way to the Capital of Italy: Rome. Dammit, he was cold, he was wet, he was hungry, he has no cash, his feet hurt, and he's getting dizzy and people were giving him funny looks but he doesn't care. At all. No, he's not crying, bastards!

He carefully made his way to the ancient Coliseum. The ancient arena is one of his favourite places in the city. It was big enough to provide him with hiding spots and since he knows every nook and cranny of the place, he can find somewhere to think alone.

Lovino was thankful that there were almost no people around because of the rain. (He can sneak past the guards). He went down where they used to put wild animals to fight gladiators of the past. He used to be taken down here by Grandpa Rome when he was younger. He was often afraid of the lions in the cages but Grandpa would laugh and pat one of the big cats and would let the little boy pat them on the head as well. Why the sudden rush of memories right now?

When he reached the cages, Lovino felt chills. Why is the room moving so much anyway, dammit? Lovino slowly walked to a corner of the room and sat there. He slowly closed his eyes and tried to think how to kill the impostor in his home later. He fell asleep 30 seconds later.

Rome, Italy and Germany went home after three hours of looking for Romano. The rain wasn't going to stop anytime soon, so it better than to get sick themselves, they retreated back to the house. Germany made some hot coffee and served his tired companions.

"So what are we going to do now, Germany?" Italy asked with tears in his eyes. Germany thought deeply.

"Lovi~ My cute Lovi, why did you ran away?" Rome was covering his face with his hands and was weeping pathetically for a man his age. Germany was irritated at the noise. It only worsened when Feliciano cried along.

"Lovi come back!"

"Lovi!"

"Lovi!"

"Brother!"

"Romano!"

"Loviiiiiiii!"

Their loud cries hurt the German's ears but gave him an idea. He banged his hands on the table. It immediately shut the other two up.

"Will you two please be quiet? Your crying won't find Lovino, wherever he is. Besides, I think I know what we should do next." Germany turned to Italy. "Italy, call Antonio."

"Lalalala~ Tomatoes~Lalala~ So tasty~" Spain cheerily sang as he was watering his beloved tomatoes. Lovi would be so happy to see their tomato garden blooming quite splendidly~

His phone rang, so the cheery country of passion stopped his gardening and answered.

"Brother Spain! Brother Spain!" Aah, cute, little Italy called! He didn't sense the hint of panic and urgency of the caller's voice.

"Italy! So nice of you to call! I was just watering the tomatoes and I was singing to them so they could grow big and strong~ Looking at them reminds me of Lovi~ So how is Lovi? Is he still being cute? Does he still love tomatoes? Gasp! Don't tell me he stopped eating them?" Spain was about to break his phone in half with his grip.

"No, no, no, Brother Spain. I was going to ask if Fratello went to you."

Spain frowned, "No, he didn't come here."

"He didn't? Oh no! Brother Spain, Fratello ran away!"

"What? I'll be there ASAP!" Spain put his phone down and quickly ran all the way to his beloved's house.

"He said he'll be here . . ." Italy told Rome and Germany. "And Antonio said that Fratello wasn't with him . . ." He put the phone down.

"Who is this 'Antonio'?" Rome asked. He was suspicious who this guy was. From what he heard this 'Antonio' was the country of Spain (sounds familiar). This guy seems to be rather close with hi older grandson. He frowned. So suspicious, indeed.

"Ve? Um, Antonio used to take care of Fratello when he was young . . ."

"Take care . . .?" Rome imagined all sorts of things. Not one of them was good.

"Yeah, and he used to rule over him. Me too, but only for a while."

"Rule . . . over . . . him?" In Rome's time, rule over is synonymous to claiming another nation's vital regions. Which usually means that it leads to XXX, XXXX and probably XXXXOOOOXXX.

"Grandpa Rome?" Italy looked scared at his Grandfather's look. He looks like he's gonna kill someone and have his body thrown around like some . . . something. The old empire hasn't felt like this for a long, long time. How dare this Antonio take advantage of his grandchildren!

"Er, Grandpa Rome?"

Rome cracked his knuckles.

Spain is sooo DEAD when he comes here.

Meanwhile, Romano is currently curled up on the floor, shuddering. Despite that he has hidden himself well, he didn't notice a figure towering over him. The smirk on the masked man's face widened.

"Well, what do you know? Germania was right about ya being here." He gently lifted the boy in his arms and slowly made his way out of the dungeon.

And, fade out! Yey! Another Chapter done! Hope you guys like this one too~ Updates may be a long wait but I hope you will continue to watch this. Honestly, this story writes itself! I just write whatever comes to mind and suddenly, a lot of characters decided to jump in the story. But don't worry, this will have a happy ending Reviews are love~