Two updates in one day... :'D


Sanji/France set down the dishcloth he'd been using to dry the cookware and stared at England. "What do you mean, you don't know what happened?"

"Exactly what I said," said England, setting down the last plate for the cook to dry and folding his arms. "I have no idea how you and the frog switched bodies. I haven't done any form of magic for the past week, at least. The most recent one I did do was simply a potion, and that shouldn't have affected anyone; nothing went wrong and it would have affected you two sooner."

"So how exactly do you plan to switch us back?"

"I'm going to need the source of the spell; what words, if any, were said, the name of the spell itself, etcetera."

"You guys are really into this, huh?" America commented, watching them work from the kitchen table.

"Shut up," they said at the same time. Sanji/France looked at England and asked, "Not to be rude, but can't you just do what you did last time to switch yourself and Luffy back? The magic circle thing…"

"The problem with that is that the book is in your world. I didn't bring it back with me."

"Ah."

"Right now, basically all that I can do is check around for possible causes of this problem. Hopefully, it won't take too long."

"I see." Sanji/France finished drying and putting away the dishes. England turned to America.

"Alfred, while I'm doing research, would you mind entertaining our guest for a little bit?"

"Sure. I don't got anything else to do."

England didn't bother correcting his poor grammar. "Thank you very much for cooking breakfast, Sanji."

"My pleasure, Arthur."

"Oh, yes," added England, "may I speak to you alone for a second, Alfred?"

America shrugged and followed him out of the kitchen, throwing a backwards glance at Sanji/France.

"Yeah?"

"Listen; while you're entertaining our guest, I absolutely forbid you to enter my bedchamber."

"You mean your bedroom? Why?"

"That's where I keep the manga series One Piece. I've gotten quite interested in it after what happened last time with Luffy…"

"One Piece… sounds familiar. Anyway, what does that have to do with this?"

"Sanji is the cook from that manga. Once again, the body-swap seems to have transcended the universal barrier."

"…eh?"

"He came from a comic book, America."

"Oh."

"Anyway, if he were to realize that he's simply a fictional character in our universe; well, think about what kind of mental trauma that may cause."

"Oh, it's part of the joke. Sure, I won't go in. You have the hero's word!" America promptly took off his shirt (he'd borrowed clothes from England and changed at some point), took a cigarette lighter from his pocket, set his shirt on fire, and waved it over his head. England stared at the now shirtless America.

"…what the bloody hell are you doing?"

"Whenever I make a promise, I set my shirt on fire."

"Why on Earth would you do that?"

"Because that's what the hero does!"

"…you realize, of course, that you just burned my shirt."

"So?"

"…please make yourself decent before entertaining our guest."