PSSHWEEAAOOO. We're taking a few steps back. TO BEFORE ARTHUR CAME TO OUR LOVELY PRESCHOOL

Disclaimer: I don't own Hetalia!

"No he doesn't!"

"Yes he does!"

"NO HE DOESN'T!"

"YES HE DOES!"

"Stupidhead!"

"Wuss!"

Ivan and Alfred were in a heated fight out on the playground. It all started with who was going to play with the new boy, Yao. It then got into if Superman could take out the whole country of Russia, and that's where Ivan had his last straw, "You don't even know what a wuss is!" The Russian boy shoved Alfred.

"Uh, ah... it means you like to wear dresses! Wuss!" Alfred stepped forward again and shoved Ivan back.

"No, you're a wuss!" Ivan tackled Alfred to the ground and the two were locked in a furious fight. The crowd they had drawn started to cheer them on, rooting for whoever they thought would win.

Ivan felt himself being pulled away from Alfred, just as the American was trying to choke him with his scarf. He looked over at Alfred, who was being held by Mr. Germania. One of the lens on his glasses was shattered, and he had a black eye forming.

Mr. Rome picked Ivan up and carried him inside to his office. He gave him a tissue for his bleeding nose and a band-aid for the cuts on his knuckles, "Ivan, what was all that about?"

"W-Well, I was playing in the sandbox with Y-Yao and Alfred came over, telling Yao he had to play with him. I told Alfred that Yao wanted to play with me and Alfred wasn't allowed to play with us," Ivan took a deep breath and pressed the tissue to his nose, "A-And then we started arguing and he said that S-Superman was gonna kill all of R-Russia and he called me a wuss but I'm not a wuss because I don't wear dresses!"

"Ivan..." Mr. Rome pinched the bridge of his nose, "Superman isn't going to kill all of Russia. But you can't just tell Alfred he can't play with you two. Everyone needs to get along,"

"Alfred's a big stupidhead though."

Mr. Rome sighed, "Ivan..."

The door opened and Ms. Egypt stepped in, "Caesar, we still need to pick up the registrations from the daycare."

"Right. I forgot about that," Mr. Rome smiled and leaned back in his chair. His eyes rested on his coworker's breasts, and then they trailed a bit lower, "Aegyptus, did I ever tell you how nice your ass-"

"Shut up before I have you filed for sexual harassment," Ms. Egypt glared at him, and then glanced with Ivan, "Aldrick won't be very happy if he hears you talking like that. Besides, you shouldn't be talking like that in front of the children."

"Aldrick knows how I am, Aegyptus," Mr. Rome chuckled, "When do I need those papers into the office?"

"By the end of the day."

Mr. Rome stood up, "Ivan, will you do me a big favor?"

Ivan nodded.

"Will you go over to the daycare and tell the teacher that Mr. Rome needs the list of students coming to his class next year? It'll get you away from Alfred, and I'll let you bring one of your friends with you."

Ivan quickly nodded and jumped out of his chair. He threw his tissue away in the garbage can and got the empty folder from Ms. Egypt.

"Yao Yao~" Ivan walked out to the gated playground, his eyes scanning for the small Chinese boy. He finally spotted Yao, who was playing tag with all of his cousins on the grass. With an innocent smile on his face, Ivan walked up to him and poked his shoulder.

"Hm?" Yao turned around, a little scared of the Russian who called him his friend, "O-Oh, hi Ivan, aru."

"Yao will come with me to the daycare, da?"

"Er, uh, I guess so..." Yao shrugged, "B-But why?"

"Mr. Rome asked me to get something for him, da? He said I could bring a friend, and I want to being Yao." Ivan grabbed onto Yao's hand and dragged him into the classroom, "Mr. Rome!" He called, "I'm ready to go!"

Mr. Rome stepped out of his office and handed the two a paper that had the room number on it. Ivan and Yao stepped out the front door of the preschool and looked down the long hallway.

"You don't need to hold my hand, aru."

"But what if one of us gets lost, Yao? It's best to hold hands and get lost together, da?" He glanced down at the paper, "Mr. Rome said that the daycare would be after the kindergarten classrooms, so let's go over there."

Ivan walked in the opposite direction, pulling Yao with him. The two walked past the kindergarten gates, and Ivan spotted his older sister, Katyusha playing hopscotch with a few other girls. Ivan waved to her and the pair continued on their way, Yao blushing madly.

"Big brother, big brother!"

A little girl with dirty blonde hair ran up to Ivan once they entered the preschool gate. The girl wrapped her arms tightly around the Russian. She looked up at Yao with a murderous stare.

"H-Hi, Natalia..." Ivan trembled a bit. His hand tightened around Yao's slightly, causing the Chinese boy to blush more.

"I-Ivan, we need to get the papers, aru."

"Of course." Ivan picked Natalia off of him and quickly ran inside of the building.

"Slow down, aru!"

Ivan quickly found the teacher and asked her for the registration papers. The elderly woman nodded and grabbed the papers from her desk. She happily handed Ivan the papers and he shoved them into the binder. He and Yao ran out of the classroom. Ivan wanted to get back to the preschool before Natalia saw him.

When they got outside, suddenly Ivan stopped. He was staring at the little garden on the side of the building. Tall sunflowers towered over the short gate, and he dragged Yao over to them, forgetting about bringing the papers to Mr. Rome.

"Yao, look!" He squealed in excitement as he unlatched the gate. Ivan let go of Yao's hand and marveled at the sunflowers. Yao smiled lightly. Ivan seemed so happy amongst the yellow flowers.

The Chinese boy heard the gate creek behind him, and shuffling on the other side of the flowers. He looked at Ivan with a worried expression, "I-Ivan, we should leave aru. I think there's bad spirits in the garden!"

Ivan only smiled and picked a small sunflower. He walked over to Yao and pulled out the hair tie that held up his long hair. He stuck the small sunflower behind Yao's ear. Yao's cheeks turned red and his eyes widened when Ivan leaned in a little more and kissed his cheek.

"You can't have big brother!" The same girl from earlier jumped out of the flowers and tackled Yao to the ground, holding a plastic knife to his throat.

"Natalia!" Ivan held onto his sister's shoulders, trying to pull his little sister off of Yao, "Please don't hurt Yao Yao!"

"He was going to take big brother Ivan from me!"

"N-No he wasn't!" Ivan said, pulling her off of Yao, who was close to crying now. He trembled and scrambled up, fixing his hair and putting the small sunflower back behind his ear, "Natalia, I promise he wasn't. If you go back to your classroom, I-I… promise to play with you when we go home."

"No. I'm going to go with you back to the preschool so we can play there!"

Ivan took a deep breath. He was at his last resort. Surely he'd regret this later, but…

he wrapped his arms around Natalia, pulling her into a tight hug.

The girl dropped her plastic knife and turned a dark red.

"B-Big… Big brother…"

Ivan let go of her sister and took a few steps towards Yao. He was shaking uncontrollably, "G-Go back to class, N-Natalia." The little girl nodded and stumbled back to her classroom. She was completely in seventh heaven.

"Ivan?" Yao looked at the taller boy with tears in his eyes. He was still a bit scared from Natalia's attack on him. He slipped his hand into Ivan's and gave him a quick, embarrassed kiss on his cheek, "Thank you."

Next is Spamano. My OTP. You can only guess how quickly I'll write that :3