This is Hetaween
Part 3
It seemed he'd returned from his daily flash mobbing of Matthew just in time.
Yong Soo eagerly pulled his keyboard closer to him and began to type out a message. He was grinning as he hit send, wondering what sort of replies he would get from his silly statement. His smile quickly disappeared when he realized the thread had hit 5,000 comments and reCAPTCHA had come into effect. He further paled when he saw what one of the words was.
Steve.
If Ludwig expected anything once he and Feliciano finally arrived at Kiku's apartment, it wasn't the sight of every piece of furniture in the living room flipped sideways or upside down while Arthur and Alfred hid behind it. And he certainly didn't expect to get called a bastard by a strange round thing as it sprouted legs and scooted out the door.
"Ve~ Are you guys playing fort?" Feliciano asked as he skipped into the room, clearly not bothered by the weirdness going on. "Me and Luddy brought pasta and cake for Kiku!"
"Cake?" Alfred perked up at the thought of something sweet to eat.
Arthur smacked him in the head. "It's for Kiku! And what are you going to do about that creature from your refrigerator? It just ran out the door!"
Alfred shrugged. "Dunno. I figured I'd just let it go."
"Let it No. We're going to go find it before someone else does."
"But the threads!"
"I don't care!"
Ludwig and Feliciano moved aside as the two blonds left, arguing with each other like always. Feliciano waved goodbye to them and then bounded over to Kiku's room, for once remembering to knock instead of barging right inside. Ludwig slowly followed, resisting the urge to straighten up the disaster of a room they were walking through.
"Kiku, we brought you food!" Feliciano called out.
There was a shuffling sound from within the room and then the door opened slightly. A pair of tired brown eyes stared out at them. "Just leave the food outside please. I'm afraid I'm a bit behind schedule, so I can't stay and talk right now."
Feliciano pouted but set down the covered bowl of pasta. "Ve…"
Ludwig frowned and did the same. "Don't overwork yourself, Kiku."
"Yeah! Taking a break every now and then is a good thing!" Feliciano said, cheering up a little. "So if you ever need a break, give us a call and we'll come over!"
"You take too many breaks," Ludwig muttered.
"Ve?"
Kiku managed a small smile at his friend's antics. "Arigatou gozaimasu. I'll take that into consideration, Ludwig-san." His eyes fell on the box in Ludwig's hands. "Is that cake?"
"Ja," replied Ludwig, opening the lid so Kiku could see what it looked like. It was a simple, round design with pink icing cherry blossoms and brown icing for branches. The rest was plain white frosting.
Kiku opened the door a little more to get a better look, flattered that his friend had gone out of his way to personally make him such a beautiful cake. "It looks quite magnificent."
Ludwig blushed slightly as he set down the cake next to Feliciano's pasta dish, carefully pushing the lid back in place. When he stood up, it was to find that his Italian friend had vanished from the room and he wasn't sure which way he went. He sighed. "I'm sorry for leaving so soon."
Kiku smiled slightly. "It is fine, Ludwig-san. I believe Feliciano-kun saw a cat and went outside."
With a final apology, Ludwig left to hunt down his friend.
Eduard von Bock was having a fairly good day. He's awoken to find his brand new laptop had been delivered a day before it was supposed to arrive. He'd aced a test he was worried about. His roommate Raivis Galante had shown him the Halloween event for their favourite web comic, and since it was being updated throughout the day he knew he would go home to something good. And he managed to find his favourite cereal at the supermarket.
Life was good.
Something bumped into his foot and he shifted the grocery bag to one arm so he could look down and see what it was. He blinked in surprise when he saw what appeared to be a oblong white ball. He nudged it with his foot and it tilted up, revealing a pair of blue eyes and eyeglass-like markings. "Huh. Cute toy," he murmured.
It blinked.
Eduard took a step back.
"Food!" Yelled the round blob, somehow leaping for the bag of groceries.
Arthur and Alfred ran down the hall as fast as they could, trying to find the strange refrigerator before it could get too far away from them. They dashed past Dragomir and their quiet Bulgarian neighbor. The cheerful Romanian waved to them before going right back to his conversation while the Bulgarian looked as though he would rather be anywhere else.
"This is all your bloody fault," Arthur groused.
"Is not!" Alfred exclaimed. "It was Kiku's tofu! That means this is all his fault!"
"You're the one who let it escape!"
"Well I didn't see you try to stop it either!"
The two glared at each other as they ran. The momentary lapse of attention sent them running smack into Francis Bonnefoy and his cousins Monica and Angelique, causing the theater props they were carrying to clatter to the floor. Alfred and Arthur fought to keep their balance and not fall onto them.
"Arthur?" Francis asked, staring at the British man as if he hadn't seen him in years. Meanwhile his cousins began picking up the props.
Arthur was too busy smacking Alfred's shoulder to respond to his friend/enemy. "None of this would be happening if you hadn't been such a pansy about going near the bloody thing!"
"Well I didn't see you going near it either!"
"What the hell kind of hero gets afraid of a living tofu creature?"
"I wasn't afraid!"
"You screamed and jumped on me because it moved!"
Francis blinked in surprise as they continued to fight right there in the hallway. Usually they at least kept it to a room with the door shut, rather than a public space where everyone could see them. He decided he had to do something about it.
"Arthur, you'll never believe what I did today!" He shouted excitedly, throwing his arms around the man. "I flew! Can you believe it?"
Arthur choked on air as he tried to throw off the Frenchman. "Francis, what " He felt a familiar pressure on his butt and his face went red. "PERVERT!"
Matthew moaned as he held his stomach, cautiously unlocking the door to his and Gilbert's room. He heard none of the loud Indian or German music from earlier that evening and assumed the dance competition was over. "I'm back…" He mumbled.
Gilbert looked up from his cell phone, on which he was furiously punching buttons. He stopped the second his roommate walked in with an utterly miserable expression. "You look totally unawesome."
"I feel unawesome," Matthew responded, slowly crossing the room to lay down on the couch, propping his legs up across Gilbert's lap. "I just spent three hours eating ice cream by myself."
The albino who claimed to be Prussian raised an eyebrow. "That goes beyond the realm of sad and straight into the realm of lame teenaged girl who just got dumped. Three hours? Aren't you supposed to be saving money."
Matthew closed his eyes and nodded. "Carlos was working. He challenged me to have a scoop of every type of ice cream they have. If I managed to eat all of each one, I didn't have to pay. If I didn't, I just had to pay a reduced price and promise to clean his room."
"So…" Gilbert paused for a moment, glancing at his phone and deciding the message he was sending to his brother regarding their father's birthday wasn't nearly as important as the conversation he was having at that moment. He flipped his phone shut. "Did you win?"
Matthew grinned. "Yeah. Lillie gave me a kiss on the cheek when I got through the last one. I think Vash wants to kill me now."
Gilbert let out a 'whoop' of joy. "Welcome to the club, Matt!"
"Sleep is a wish your head makes~" Alfred sang as he and Arthur continued their search for the creature from the fridge. "When you've been up for too long."
Arthur glanced at him crossways. "What the hell are you singing?"
"Disney song parody," Alfred replied with a grin. "Just thought I'd sing a few to pass the time."
"You have them memorized."
"Yup! Wanna hear more?"
"No."
They walked without speaking for a few minutes, listening to the shouting match between Sadik Adnan and Heracles Karpusi two floors above them. It'd been nearly an hour since they last spotted the tofu monster and both of them were getting a little tired. Well, Arthur was. Alfred was more antsy about getting back to his computer than anything else. Who knew what he'd missed while he was gone!
Alfred began to hum.
Arthur frowned at him, hoping he wasn't getting ready to sing what he thought he was.
"Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light,
what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming~!"
Arthur groaned. He was. "Alfred, why are you singing that?"
"Because I'm bored and you won't let me go back to my room and get on the computer," Alfred replied. "Dude, we haven't seen that thing in ages. It's gone. Lets go do something fun. I bet you want to get back to reading just as much as I wanna get back to talking to the awesome people on the threads."
At the thought of his book, sitting unread on the American's bed, Arthur began to weaken. He had wanted to get through at least a story or two before he had to go back to the chaos of his own house. That, coupled with the pleading look Alfred was giving him, weakened his resolve to continue the hunt.
"Fine," Arthur said. "Lets go back."
Alfred cheered and hugged his friend.
Kiku should have been sleeping. It was nearing midnight and he'd already been up for twenty-four hours. However, he'd decided when he began the event that he would do things by Japan's time zone.
He glanced at the cake Ludwig made for him and then to his camera. He could do a quick sketch relating to the event, take a picture of the cake, and then take a twenty-minute nap. If he had time afterwards, he could do a four-panel comic and post that along with the sketch and photo.
A quick sketch and one uploaded photo later, Kiku was setting the alarm on his cell phone to go off at twelve-thirty as he cut out the light and crawled into bed.
End part 3
Parody of "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes" = "An Update is a wish your heart makes", written by zantah on Livejournal.
The other song Alfred sings is, of course, the nation anthem of the USA.
I think there's just going to be one more part to this, since I'm starting to run out of material to use.