Now we get to see how the countries are doing with the chibi nations ^0^ I had to leave America and England and France and Canada out of this one, sadly ^^' Oh, and I'm sorry if Russia seems OOC, but he's a child now, so maybe it doesn't matter as much...? *hopefull face*
Well, at least Japan is pretty quiet China thought. After giving Japan and Russia some leftover food he had, he had tried to send them both to bed. Japan had gone to sleep quite willingly, but now he had Russia to deal with...
"Russia, you need to go to sleep, aru" China tried to say gently.
"But I'm not tired..." Russia tried to supress a yawn.
"Russia" China said more firmly. "We're going to have a busy day tomorrow, aru. You need to get some rest, aru."
Russia folded his arms. "No"
China sighed. He had to do something to get the small Russian to sleep.
"Who are you?" Russia asked suddenly.
"Excuse me, aru?"
"Who are you? All of you look familiar, but I'm pretty sure I've never met you. And the other people at the room acted like they knew me and everyone else..."
"Russia, you do know me, aru" China said softly. "I'm China, aru. We..." He hesitated "We're friends, aru" China said finally.
Russia blinked. "Friends? You're my friend?"
China smiled "That's right, aru"
"I...don't have many friends...At least, I don't think I do...I can't remember...but you really are?" Russia asked. China nodded. He couldn't help but feel bad for Russia. Russia had often gotten bullied when he was that age.
Suddenly Russia stiffened. He turned to look at the door.
"Is something wrong, aru?"
"It's dark..." Russia said quietly. "Why is it so dark?"
"Russia-" China stopped when the smaller nation grabbed on to China.
"Too dark!" He cried "I don't like it! It's dark!"
"Russia what's wrong, aru?" China asked urgently. What could be scaring Russia so much? Besides his sister, Russia never seemed to be scared of anything. "Is...is there something out there, aru?" He started to walk towards the door.
"No!" Russia yelped. "You can't! It's dark!"
China stopped at the door. What if there really was something put there? Something that could scare even Russia. He took a deep breath and slowly opened the door.
There was nothing there.
China smiled to himself. "There's nothing dark out there, aru. It's alright Russia, aru."
"But..." Russia looked into the hallway in confusion. "There...there really was something dark!"
"What do you mean by 'dark', aru?"
"I..." Russia looked up at China, puzzled "I don't know...it's just dark..."
China just sighed. "Russia, maybe you're just tired, aru? You should really go to bed, aru."
Russia seemed less reluctant this time. "But...I don't want to be alone..."
"It's okay. I...I'll stay with you until you fall asleep, aru" He picked up the Russian and carried him to the bed.
"Really?" Russia asked quietly as he allowed his eyes to close.
"Of course, aru" China put Russia under the covers, next to the small Japanese nation. He waited for Russia to say anything else, but realised that the he was suddenly silent.
Russia had already fallen asleep.
"Brother! Get back here!" Germany yelled at the Prussian child.
"No way!" He called as he swung from the lamp and landed on the table. "You can't catch me~."
"Brother! If you don't, I swear-!" Germany was cut off when he tripped over one of the many toppled chairs. He swore under his breath as he tried to get up again.
"Germany! The pasta's done~" Italy sang as he walked into the room. Since the Italian wasn't looking after a nation, he had decided to go to Germany's room and help him with Prussia.
As it turned out, Germany needed a lot of help.
Italy smiled at Prussia. "Ve~ Are you hungry Prussia? I made enough pasta for all of us!" he held up the plate of steaming pasta for the Prussia to see.
Prussia looked at it suspiciously. "What's pasta?" he asked.
Italy jumped, nearly dropping the plate. "You...you don't know? That's horrible! You need to have some right now!" He placed it on the table and gestured for Prussia to sit down.
Prussia peered at the pasta curiously before glaring at Italy. "You can't trick me! It's probably poison or-!" Italy shoved a spoonful of pasta into his mouth. Prussia's eyes widened as he swallowed. "Well...I guess it's...kind of awesome..." he said reluctantly.
Italy smiled triumphantly "Do you want some more?" Prussia nodded uncertainly. "Then you're going to have to promise to be good now and do what me and Germany says"
"But-!"
"If you do, then you'll get more pasta~" He held up another spoonful of his favourite food.
Prussia sighed "Okay...I'll do what you want..." Italy smiled again and handed Prussia the rest of the pasta.
Germany stared at the two of them in awe.
"How did you do that?" Germany asked the Italian quietly.
"Ve~ All children love food! And I haven't met anyone who doesn't like pasta~" Italy said cheerfully.
Germany made a mental note to never underestimate the power of pasta.
Okay, I'm ending it in an awkward place again XD I wanted this to be longer but I couldn't think of how to extend it :( Oh, and the dark thing Russia could feel will be explained in future chapters (hopefull not too far into the future though XD) Anyway, please review and tell me what you think XD
