Four Calling Birds
After the French hen incident, Japan simply gave the hens to China, mainly because she didn't know where to put them and he was asking if he could have them instead. The next day, she only had one meeting that was the Asian Meeting.
As the meeting went on, she was eliminating her list of suspects. There was America, Greece… But she really didn't have any evidence that was pointing to them. Although she knew that her admirer wasn't in the room, because she didn't receive anything when she got to the room. There was also France, because who else would send literal French hens, especially when they were in Paris? She still had a long list of suspects to think about when lunch break came around. This time, she ate lunch with Greece and Turkey, who had just come from the European Meeting. She waited for them just outside snow covered garden as she fiddled with her green scarf.
Japan frowned. Why had she been expecting another gift? It's not like anyone looked at her in romantic way, so why would they spoil her on the first three days? Had they been just playing around with her emotions? Japan lived long enough to learn that countries could fall in love just like any other person, but it just happened very rarely. She remembered the time when she was a young nation, when Rome came over, constantly declaring his "love" for China. It certainly hadn't ended well.
She sighed, was she only going to be a wallflower for the countries?
She noticed the two nations who were as always, bickering. She shook her head, why couldn't they just get along?
"Hi Japan," Greece greeted, yawning. Turkey pushed away Greece who glared at him, "Heya, Japan!"
She waved at them, "Where do you guys want to eat?"
The question caused another argument between the two. Japan shook her head, a frown on her face from her disheartened thoughts about her admirer. The two countries noticed the rather sad sigh from her at one point where they just glared at each other. Greece was first to ask, "What's wrong Japan?"
"Yeah," Turkey elbowed Greece as the latter glared at him "What's with the frown?"
"It's nothing," she lied. The two silently decided not to press any further. The trio simply settled to eat at the hotel's restaurant as snow started to dust the French capital, covering everything in a light blanket.
Once they were done eating, they just hung out for the rest of the afternoon. Despite Japan's rejection of letting the two men accompany her to her room, they still accompanied her with no questions asked.
"I do not see why this is necessary," Japan said as they got into the elevator. Turkey smiled, "Give us a reason why we can't."
Japan couldn't give a valid answer as the kitten that Greece had somehow managed to bring into the hotel, snuggled into her arms. Greece sleepily said, "It seems to like you."
The elevator got to the floor that Japan stayed on. France's hotels were too extravagant in her opinion. She prefers the country houses more due to the fact that it was more cozy. And some of the paintings on the wall were just too extravagant to be put in hotels.
As they approached her room, she saw something on her door handle which had her brighten up. On the door handle was a small cherry pink box, which was the color of her favorite kimono. It had cherry blossoms all over the box in a darker shade of pink. There was a small, red ribbon which sealed the box and also tied it to the door handle.
She gave the kitten to Greece before she untied it from the handle. She carefully removed the ribbon from the small box. Inside, she saw four of her favorite sweets from her house. There were four of her favorites, each with a picture of a songbird taped to the front.
"On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave me..."
"That's sweet," Turkey said. "Whoever he is, he sure knows you well," Greece added.
"A guy? How did you know?" Japan asked. Greece shrugged, "I guessed."
I have a headcanon that Rome had fallen in love with China once, like he had with Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt. But this wasn't the happiest as China kept rejecting him, hearing all the rumors surrounding Rome conquering his neighbors. But China knows that Rome is already too large as an empire, and he didn't want to be included in whatever trouble Rome would get in.
Keep those guesses on Japan's secret admirer coming in!