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Segreti (Secrets)

As I held the plastic bag in my left hand that carries a Digimon manga book, I huffed in exhaustion because I am not only completely lost, it is in the middle of the night and I'm going to miss the brand new episode of Black Lagoon just because of this idiot forgetting his bag. If he claims himself to be an otaku, he has no idea how hard it is to become one and I know for a fact that I, Erin Makato, am a true fledge otaku with badges to prove it!

"If you're going to mentally complain," my cousin Nico said behind me. "Then do it when we go home after you give Japan the book."

"Why are you even coming when I know where to go?" I asked him, not facing him as I march further away from him.

"No, you don't know where we're going and the reason I know is because you past the apartment everyone is staying at over there." When I looked over to him, he took his finger and points behind him where I see a tall apartment building with few lights on in their rooms.

I blinked blankly at the sight of the apartment, I shook my head and with my eyes rolled at Nico, I trotted away from Nico again and went over to the apartment's entrance. When I walked over there, I could see a tiny staircase made of stone and I took one step at a time. I hear Nico's footsteps behind me, ever since I told him that I will be going out to give this book back to Japan, he immediately came with me even though I was completely fine. Nevertheless, I stop at the glass doors and they open automatically for my entrance.

When I went in, I pulled the locks of my black hair behind my right ear and held the plastic bag firmly in my left hand. Why am I getting nervous? I thought to myself as I walk deeper in this apartment. All I gotta do is just leave it by the doorstep and he'll just find this there the next day.

This place looks very unique, orange-colored walls with bright chandeliers made by the finest Venice glass and the carpet is brown with golden trimmings. Nico walked over to the desk clerk so he could find the room Japan is staying in. when I saw the man, he seemed very snooty-like with his long nose almost resembling a water-tap and his fine dark red suit with gold, shining buttons all buttoned correctly. Talk about being over the top, I thought to myself. Now, what the hell is this? I asked myself as I look at the picture of a woman with brown hair cut into a bob and has a long nose that resembles the snooty-like man.

"Erin," I heard Nico call for me and I walk over to him as he continues to talk. "I found the room number, we can go over to the room and you can drop it off." When I made it to him, I smirked at him.

"I'll go and give the bag to him," I told Nico. "And you don't need to follow me, all right?"

Nico looks worryingly at me with his brown eyes and sighs. "Fine, you can do it, but see to it that you don't delay yourself. The floor is five and his room number is five-four-three."

"Since when did you get so fancy with sentences?" I question him, he flushes red and points over to the elevator that is silver and suddenly opens.

I dashed over to the elevator; I made it and the doors behind me close. When I turn over to see the buttons all shining with numbers in pure white, just waiting to be pushed…but as much as I wanted to push all of them, I took my finger out and pushed the number five. And with that, the elevator starts rising up like a rocket going up to outer space while I grip the plastic bag tighter so I won't drop such a precious treasure.

/\/\/\

"Dude, I can't believe I lost to a girl…" America-san muttered to himself as I cover him with a pale white blanket over his body.

"I told you not to do rash things such as this," I told him, America starts wincing in pain from his stomach and I took his glasses off his face. "If you don't feel well tomorrow, I'll go and call a doctor. Is that all right, America-san?" he didn't answer. "America-san?"

And then, I heard loud snores coming from America-san who opened his mouth with drool disgustingly forming out of the corner of his mouth. A smile formed the corner of my face; he's asleep after eating nearly twenty ice creams. I think Haley-san ate more, about ten times more because she was the first one to eat before he could. I walked out of America's bedroom, now it's time for me to get some sleep so I can be prepared for what's to come tomorrow. But then, when I stepped on the wooden floor, I sensed a presence behind the front door. Who could this be? I walked over to the door, I touched the golden doorknob and when I opened the unlocked door, I see a girl on her knees with black hair and shocked blue eyes gazing up at me when she was about to place a plastic bag on my doorstep. She quickly got up and with an embarrassed blush, she hands the bag to me. I remember her, she is the one I met today from the book store...what was her name again?

"I-I came here to give you this," she grunts, handing me the bag. "I didn't steal it or anything, so don't go and blame me for you losing it."

"I wasn't going to," I said, I take the bag and bowed to her. "Arigato." I thanked her.

We both stand near the door, she looks away uncertainly as I looked at her. She glances at me and points her finger at me, I found this a little rude in my opinion.

"Next time, if you're really an otaku," she said to me with strong blue eyes glaring deeply at me. "Then you wouldn't be leaving poor, defenseless manga like this. Do you have any idea how long it takes to make a chapter of a manga? I shouldn't waste my breath on you, so night." She turns and starts to walk down the corridor where the carpet is brown with golden trimmings and orange-colored walls filled in each side with brown, wooden doors.

"W-wait," I stuttered. She turns to me and gave off a questioning face. "I just want to say thank you again for giving me this book," I said to her. "A true otaku like yourself wouldn't let another otaku down. You really are a great one."

I then saw her blush bright red, she turns away and said, "Y-you're welcome." And she marches away, going down the hallway so she could get downstairs.

I smiled as she walks away, I closed the door behind me and looked in my plastic bag to see my manga...happily in its home.

/\/\/\

I woke up early today, Veni is still asleep on my window bed where the sun starts to gleam down upon Veni as if he was a holy treasure. After my long hot shower and brushing my teeth, I start to put on my cloths for today in my room. Today I'm going to wear my black jeans that end my knees along with a black and white striped t-shirt and a pair of black ballet flats. As I walked over to the mirror with my outfit on, I wondered what everyone is going to say with my new sudden appearance since I wore only a summer dress to meet them. I looked at myself at the mirror, I could see a girl with light brown hair and amber-colored eyes staring at the twin refection of itself as Veni starts to make a bubble on his nose. Veni is finally asleep, so I tiptoed to Veni who found shade near my pillow and I started to pet his head ever so softly. Then I heard a sudden knock on the door, before I could even answer, I saw the door open widely by itself and two of my brothers' fell down on the hard floor to cause an outrageous ruckus to poor Veni. Veni starts pleading in soft, feather-like meows since he is just a baby and I start to pet his head quickly.

I glanced over to my brothers. "Hello, Italy and Romano."

Their heads jerk up and smiled to me. "Hello, sister!"

After they got up and Veni finally found the chance to sleep again, I looked at them and wondered what they want to do in this sun shining day.

"We want to go and shop!" they both said almost the same time.

"In the middle of the morning?"

They both nod their heads in union with gleeful smiles plastered on their faces, Romano pushed Italy by the arm and they were a little far away, but Italy moves back near to him...Romano hates him but Italy still loves him. I never understood their relationship together, if there even is or was a relationship that they shared besides the fact that they are my brothers.

"All right," I said finally. "We can all go shopping, but you guys better have money to buy your stuff because I'm now poor after paying my rent for my room." I glared at them seriously, Romano stood up straight and looked determined, but Italy smiles on childishly as natural vibes of positivity flows all around him.

Why must he be the favorite of Grandpa Rome is the only question I like to know, but since he's gone, I shouldn't care about that and watched both of my brothers going out the door. Romano and I have the same thing: we were both neglected by our grandfather and never acknowledged before. I got out of my room; I see Romano and Italy shaking in fear for some reason. When I looked over to see who they were in fear of, I see a man who is extremely tall with bridge-colored hair and violet eyes that showed kindness towards my shaking brothers. I raised an eyebrow in suspicion, why are my brothers afraid of this man? He looks like an average man who is very tall enough to hit his head on the ceiling, but I decided to introduce myself since it's the wisest thing to do when meeting someone. So I walked over to my brothers who hugged each other, looked at the man who noticed me and I smiled to him.

"Hello, you must be…Russia, right?" I guessed, and I guessed correctly because he smiled to me. "I'm Venice, but please call me Fio if you want."

"Thank you, Fio," he thanked me. As we both smiled at each other, my brothers cowered in fear behind me.

When I then heard a knock on the door, I went over the living room to go and open the door. When I did, I see a two women standing in front of the door. One looks very…huge, and when I meant by that, I mean that her chest is just huge for no reason. She has short blond hair like a pixie cut held back with a head band and hairclips and she wore a farmer's clothing, so I'm going to guess that she is Ukraine. But this woman looks very nice, so I smiled to her, but the other girl with long hair platinum blond and dark blue eyes that darted at me is Belarus…I heard many things from my brothers that she is dangerous and that I should watch out for her since she's considered a threat. But this girl looks normal so I smiled to her, only to be given darker glares from her dark blue eyes.

"Hello," I greeted to them while holding the door. "My name is Venice, but please call me Fio."

"Hello, Venice," Belarus said darkly, I guess I'm not well liked to her. "Have you seen our brother?"

"Oh, you mean Russia?" I asked, I pointed behind me. "He's behind me." But when I looked behind, I don't see him anymore…that's a little strange, he was just right there. I turn to them both a smiled apologetically "I'm sorry, I guess he's not here."

"We're both sorry about disturbing you," Ukraine apologized, then I saw her starting to go teary-eyed in her blue eyes. "Thank you for helping us, we can't find him anymore…" then she starts running away and from the distance, I could hear her chest bouncing up and downwards.

That was very strange, Belarus still stands on my doorstep and I was going to close it when she marches in suddenly and with her nose, she starts sniffing the room out. My brothers both hid behind the long black couch.

"Is something the matter?"

"It's Ivan," she said. "I can smell him in here…" Did she just say she could…smell him?

My brothers are right, she is a threat! The door was open from behind and I was going to close it when I saw someone on the ground, crawling out so he wouldn't get caught by Belarus. Russia looks at me and with his innocent violet eyes, he pleas me not to tell on him…

"Belarus, look over at the bathroom, he might be taking a shower!" I suddenly shouted, Belarus squealed as loud as any obsessed fangirl has ever squealed and rushes to the bathroom.

When she went inside the bathroom from the end of the hallway, Russia makes a break for it and starts running away. I was going to finally close the door when I saw Germany coming in to see inside Romano and Italy pop their heads up to see who it was now.

"Uh, Germany, how do you feel about shopping?" I asked anxiously, walking up to him when he gave a questioning face.

…

After the frenzy that was finally over from my room, all of us that included my friends all walked down the stone path to get to one of the biggest shops I knew well. I thought first we could go into a very fancy tailor shop where Lunaria works at, I remember that she told me she owned a tailor shop when she was just fifteen years old. But before that, she was under the apprentice of one of the most spectacular tailors in all of Venice, but I can't remember her name and Lunaria ended up going into business. We walked down the rose smelling path as scents of espresso filled the air as people from behind me start groaning for how long we're walking.

"This sucks," France shouted from behind. "Are we there yet?"

"Not yet," I said patiently.

"How about now?" someone asks me.

"No, not yet Prussia,"

"How about now?" Egypt asks.

I didn't answer, I felt a painful grin coming on my face.

"Now?" Sealand complains.

"Now?" Turkey asked impatiently.

"Can we stop and find a gondola?" Taiwan asked…

That's it, I have absolutely enough of these people complaining. Then, I walked over to a light pole that was very ancient and I grabbed it with my bare hand.

"Listen up," I barked at everyone, they all froze and stood straight. "I don't want anyone complaining about how their feet hurt or if we can get a gondola, so please…" I grip the bar in my hand tighter and when I let go, my hand-print is on it because I destroyed it. "Shut the hell up."

"That's my sister!" Romano shouted in glee from the large crowd.

Lunaria comes over to me and looks down at me…great; it's a lecture for her again.

"Venice, we're all sorry that we're complaining," she said. "But if you haven't noticed, we're here already." She then points forward at the end of the street and there we all saw the elderly shop that is open.

And from right then, everyone started walking over down the path and I joined everyone, I can't believe I overreacted in front of everyone. As I walked down with my head in shame, I felt someone walk next to me. I glanced up to see Germany walking beside me, and here I thought that he would be in fear of my unbelievable strength.

"What you did was rash," he stated. "But I guess everyone deserves that, you would make a great leader in my opinion."

My eyes sparkled in glee and I stood up a little straighter. "Thank you, Germany!" I smiled brightly to him and he glances anxiously away with his blue eyes. He's so shy.

/\/\/\

After that scary moment with Fiorenza, we all walked down to Lunaria's tailor shop where it is closed for the day. But when we all went up to the tiny place, Lunaria took out a key from her green skirt pocket that has flowery patterns all over and she unlocks the shop. We all entered this place and we all were amazed by the magnificent colors of the materials, from silk pink to violet cotton to even the finest types of wool that were smooth to the touch. The place is small, but it has such nice pieces of clothing all wrapped like carpets and hung from the walls like trophies.

I was going to see if there was any kind of crimson red silk when I noticed Nicole over the corner of my left amber eye to see her staring out the window in fear. She seems antedated, her hand into a fist and on her chest as she slowly sweats down her forehead. This is odd, I looked out of the window and see three girls far away from the shop and they seem to be taunting her.

I walked over to Nicole and touched her shoulder; she jerks up in shock and looked over to me with wide, shocked green eyes.

"Is everything okay, aru?"

"Y-yes," she said. She looks over to the window and starts to walk towards the door.

"Are you going out, aru?" I asked her, she nodded her head once without looking at me and she left the shop.

Everyone around me never noticed what Nicole looked like when she left the shop, so I decided to follow her. I quickly raced out of the shop and the bell from the door rung loudly, but everyone was just too busy with their personal time to notice.

/\/\/\

"What're you doing, you bitch," Lizzie snarled at me…

"Please stop doing this to me," I begged gently, I was powerless towards Lizzie.

Lizzie has long black hair that ended on her hips and it is tied into a ponytail, she wore a lovely silk dress in pink with puffed sleeves and she glares down on me with her violet eyes. I felt like a mouse being tormented by a cat.

"I thought I told you not to go around and make a fool of yourself," she said. "You're such a whore."

"Yeah, you tell her, Lizzie!" the twins, Jess and Lass, shouted from behind.

Jess and Lass are the only friends Lizzie has, they are only at their freshmen high school and they have long brown hair tied into ponytails like Lizzie. They refer her as their captain and want to be just like her, they even bought violet contacts for their eyes even though their eye color is just brown. Lizzie grabbed my left arm and she pinched my arm, it really hurts when she used her long fingernails to make it sensationally painful. I felt my skin being cut by her sharp, clean nails that made my skin drew blood.

"If I ever catch you with a group of men," she hisses dangerously. "So help me, I'll-"

"You'll what, aru?"

Lizzie, Lass and Jess looked behind their backs and I took the chance to see who it was that was idiotic enough to stop them. To my shock and surprise, it was the man that I met yesterday…he's getting himself into trouble. He stood tall and proud with an angered face, he walks over to Lizzie who looks at him angrily.

"Watch me," she hissed like a snake.

When she said those words, he took out his hand and then out of nowhere, he grabbed her throat and starts choking her with one hand! She lets go of my left arm and I grabbed it before she could get a chance to grab it again, I felt the hot red blood streaming down my arm and it hurts. I wanted to stop him from choking Lizzie, but for some reason, I didn't and watched this moment from afar.

"Ever hurt her again," he said. "And I'll kick your asses, aru." He lets go of her neck and she backs away, coughing hard as the twins hid behind their boss.

Lizzie and the twins moved away, they lowered themselves when passing him and he glares darkly at them as they walked away. I was in so much shock, no words could describe how insane this person was to just choke a person with one hand. When he turned around to face me, I straighten myself like a guard with my hand holding my bleeding piece of flesh that continued to bleed.

"Why did you let them do this, aru?" he asks, he then puts his hands on his hips and sighs in disbelief.

I didn't know what to say. "Please don't tell anyone…" that was all I could say, and he continued to stare before I shut my eyes closed tightly.

"Give me your arm, aru," he said, he walked over to me and waited for me to give him my arm.

"What're you going to do?" I asked, backing away by one step back.

He looks at me emotionless, but then he gives a smile. "I want to help you heal that," he digs through his pockets in the Chinese military pants and from the right side, he took out a small bottle of black oil…I didn't understand what that's for.

"What is it?" I asked, looking at the small, strange bottle that is the size of his hand.

"It'll help the pain," he said. "Don't worry, I practice this on myself and it works, aru."

I felt a little calmer now that he reassured me, so I slowly but cautiously lend my left arm to him. he took my arm and stares concerning-like at my arm, but he opens the small bottle which made a pop sound and gently poured a drop on my cut. Out of nowhere, my cut starts to seal itself and then my cut is gone in a snap.

I stared at my arm, baffled. "How did that happen?"

"I tested this on myself," he repeated himself. "How long has this been going, aru?"

I looked up confused, but then I knew what he meant. "About…" I almost trailed off but I stared at the window from the pottery shop next to me, "since my middle school." I just stared at the China pots and vases all neatly standing on their posts.

"That long, aru?" he asked, baffled as well.

I nod once, not looking at him as I stared at my reflection to see a girl with shoulder length dirty blond hair and green eyes. I heard him sigh, then I felt him touch my shoulder and I look up in surprise.

"Ni hao," he said in Chinese, if I'm right. "My name is China, I'll be your friend, aru. And you, aru?"

"M-my name?" I stammered. "It's Nicole." I then felt myself frown. "Are you going to tell-"

He shook his head. "No, I won't. It'll be our secret."

"In Italian, it would be 'segreti.'" I said, and then I smiled to my new friend. A friend I hope will never lie or hurt me…ever.

Segreti (Secrets)

After our days gone by, I start to know you more

Why is it that I yet to figure out a secret

But also, whose play is this for?

All I'm sure is it is set.