Chapter 3

4 days aboard the ship~

Calling Lovino unloving would be mean. He loved many things, like colors, tomatoes, pasta and his brother Feliciano. His overprotectiveness led him to chase away anyone who approached Feliciano. His brother was always clueless about even the smallest thing, like perverts. Lovino couldn't even remember how may times he'd have to drag his unsuspecting brother away from women and men who wanted to strip him of everything. This led Lovino to become cold towards strangers and aquaintances.

Though, that wasn't the only reason. During his whole life, people had chosen Feliciano over him. His cute, nice, friendly, almost airheaded brother over the grumpy, rude, unfriendly Lovino. Even his parents had favored Feliciano. He knew that it wasn't his brother's fault, but he both hated and loved him.

So it came as a surprise when Antonio actually favored him. Lovino, not Feliciano. For example, when they ate dinner, the older man gave Lovino the last tomato, or when they were stargazing - Feliciano's idea - he let Lovino use his stargazer. Okay, maybe he didn't favor him like everyone else favored Feliciano, but he did favor him. Like right now.

Earlier, their spacebike-teacher - some guy named Alfred - had taught them what all the buttons were meant for. Until Antonio had barged in and asked for Lovino. Of course, since Antonio were the owner of the ship, Lovino had followed him to just outside their classroom. There, Antonio had asked him if he wanted to go with him, Alfred and Feliciano to another planet called Bär. The reason he said favoring, was because Antonio wanted them to ride the same spacebike - each had two seats. Normally people would've wanted to ride with Feliciano, since no one could stand Lovino.

So here he were, sitting behind Antonio on a spacebike. Riding towards some silly planet called Bär. Not knowing why they were visiting it. Lovino actually felt pretty comfy behind Antonio. Sure, it was ice cold, but there was something about the older man that made feel needed. He was actually pretty kind and also really fun to be around. Though, Lovino would never admit it.

Anyway, what he didn't know was that Antonio pretty much felt the same. Sure, Lovino could be grumpy, but he had his reasons.

"Lovi, look at the stars! They're so beautiful!" Antonio said, pointing at some stars in the distance. "Over there's Taurus, and there's Capricorn!" He added, pointing at different constellations. Lovino could feel himself grin at Antonio's excitement. He could really behave like a child sometimes.

"And over there's... Lovi, are you smiling?" Antonio said, turning towards the younger man. Lovino felt his cheeks heat up. "N-no you bastard! I'm just sneering at your...childishness! I'm not smiling you damned bastard!" He said the last sentence louder than he were supposed to, since Antonio were writhing in laughter. Lovino could feel his entire body shake - not so hard when you're sitting right behind someone - due to his laughs.

"Don't crash into something, bastard!"

"Haa... I won't! I'm a great driver you know." Antonio said with a sigh, trying to calm himself. He never laughed that much.

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"How far away is Bär?"

"About an hour."

"Too far, shorten it you bastard!"

"I can't do that!" Antonio chuckled earlier at the way Lovino almost threw a tantrum earlier when he found out that they were visiting one of his friends. Now he chuckled to himself when he heard Lovino almost throwing a tantrum again!

"Gah, just do something!"

"Like what?"

"I don't know! Something!" Antonio almost choked when he heard a faint bit of pleading in Lovino's voice. He was sure that he'd never heard the younger man plead. Of course, that's if you can call shouting at someone angrily whilst wanting something is pleading. But Antonio didn't mind. He liked the way Lovino never said what he wanted to, and the way he always protected Feliciano. During these few days he'd come to admire the way Lovino always, always protected his younger brother. Antonio hoped that his friend's brother might make Lovino back off a little. After all, the brother and Feliciano might fit together pretty well.

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Okay, sitting in a waiting room for half an hour weren't something that was on the top of Lovino's bucket list. It weren't even on the list. But here he were, sitting in a room with a few couches and chairs.

They had landed on Bär a little while earlier, and they'd immediately been shoved into this waiting room. Ever since four days ago when they were waiting to board Antonio's ship, Lovino had come to dislike waiting rooms. You never knew what would happen after them. Sure, they were visiting one of Antonio's friends, but who knew if that person thought of them as friends. Apparently Antonio thought of everyone as a friend. So maybe they were just acquaintances, like their parents had been with Antonio.

Lovino couldn't help but feel angry at the older man. First, he took them away from their home planet, claiming that he knew their parents. Second, he never told them how he met their parents. Thirdly, why couldn't Lovino hate him? These thoughts circulated in his head, until they heard a knocking on the door.

"Ah, come in. It's not like we own this place!" Antonio said, chuckling. The door opened a bit, and the two brothers couldn't help but gasp at the sight of the man who entered the room.

"Bruder wants to talk to you, and it's only polite to knock."

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I think you all know who entered, and I think you all know what's going to happen soon.

Anyway, I forgot to put up the disclaimer in the two earlier chapters, so here it is.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Hetalia or any of its characters. I only own the story.

Bär = German for bear. Used a translation device for this, so correct me if I'm wrong.

The spacebikes are kinda like motorcycles that have a little glass bubble around it.

By the way, I'm not updating until a get at least one review. C'mon, it's not that hard.

Thanks for reading, and have a nice day! ( ^ω^ )