Francis and Kiku entered a room with a huge table and multiple chairs around it. Of course the chairs were all black and on the verge of collapsing. The two decided not to sit on them. The rest of the room was pretty normal. There was a chandelier above the table. Surprising that it hadn't fallen yet. There were some broken vases on the floor. Rugs were burned to pieces and stuck in the place that they had been originally placed. The parts of the rugs that were gone left ashes to stain the remaining areas. There were portraits and paintings, but the pictures for them had melted away. They just hung onto the frame now, but some pictures had melted to the floor.

"Aww. No offense, but I really wanted to be with Angleterre," Francis whined. "The fact that this place is so hideous doesn't help either. It doesn't compliment my looks in the slightest."

"Ah. It's okay," Kiku said quietly. "I'm sorry that you are stuck with me," he bowed frantically.

"Don't be sorry Kiku. It's not your fault," Francis patted Kiku on the back. "It's that American brat's fault. If he weren't here, then Angleterre would be with me," the Frenchman clenched his fist in anger. "Honestly, no one even likes that kid. He just gets in the way and screws everything up…"

"Alfred-san isn't that bad," Kiku tried to defend his somewhat of a friend. "He is just young and inexperienced. He doesn't know any better."

"When is he going to learn then. He's nineteen for god's sake, and his brother Matthew knows better than him. That boy is going to get himself killed," Francis argued.

"Well Matthew was raised by you for a time. That could be why the two are so different," Kiku tried to reason with him.

"That makes me a better brother than Arthur then," Francis beamed. "Let's get this exploration over with already! I want to see my Matty!"

'At least he has someone other than Arthur,' Kiku sighed with relief.

So the two began to explore the room that seemed to be a dining room. There was really nothing there so it was a quick exploration.

"Nothing here huh?" The Frenchman took a quick glance around the room to see if they had missed anything. The only thing interesting he saw was Kiku moving a curtain out of the way of a door. "What's that?" Francis walked over to the Japanese man.

"I found a door." Kiku finished moving the curtain out of the way. It was pretty hard to move because it was melted onto the pole that it hung from. He was also careful not to turn it into ashes.

"That's a bit obvious. What's in it though?" Francis motioned Kiku to open the door. Kiku did so.

Inside there were lights that were broken but they looked like they used to shine all over the room. They looked to be the kind that rotated and were able to shine all over the place. The lights were probably different colors too, but it was too hard to tell which were what color. In the middle of the room was a huge area and around it were the charred remains of chairs and tables on the sidelines. At the front of the room were a couple of steps that led to a higher part of the floor. Music stands stood up there. Maybe about three or four music stands, but now they were in pieces all over the floor. Broken instrument pieces lay around the stands, well three of them anyway. There were acoustic pieces, some violin pieces, and then there was a harp. The harp was still together for the most part, but the strings had melted away.

"What is this place," Kiku asked as he began to investigate and examine the tables and chairs. There were burnt pieces of cloth on the tables. 'Was this room used for formal events or something?'

"It looks like a party or ball room to me." Francis walked around in the middle of the room and stared up to look at the broken lights. "The lights look like they are…er… were spotlights."

"So is this a party room of some sort?"

"Could be. I'm not absolutely sure yet though," Francis said and started to examine the higher section with the instrument pieces.

"Do you know what exactly we are supposed to be looking for," Kiku asked. There really didn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary.

"I found something," Francis yelled, startling Kiku. Francis was trying to move a huge curtain that covered most of the wall behind the pieces of instruments. "I could use a little help though."

Kiku got the signal and quickly went over to Francis. "I'll try, but being as old as I am, I might just end up hurting myself."

"I'm older than you," exclaimed Francis. "Just hurry up and help me move this."

"Ha-hai!" Kiku immediately started to help. Ignoring the fact that he could possibly hurt himself because of his 'old' age.

After some struggle, the curtain was moved. Behind it was a giant purple tinted mirror with golden rims.

"Some how this mirror makes me uneasy," Kiku shuddered slightly at the sight of it. "It gives off a frightening aura."

"It doesn't really seem normal, does it," Francis stated as he was inspecting it.

Ten figures appeared in the mirror as the two gazed into it. The figures became clearer as the two fixed their eyes on them. "Th-that's-!" Kiku gasped, but couldn't finish what he was going to say.

"It-it's us…" Francis finished what Kiku was going to say in disbelief.

"They don't seem like us though. They seem like the opposite." Kiku went closer to the mirror to get a better look. The figures suddenly began to move. Yao, Ivan, Romano, Alfred, and Veneciano had walked away and into different mirrors. The other five had disappeared.

"Wh-where did they go?" Francis was even more shocked now, than he was when he had first seen them. "Ki-Kiku what are you doing?" Kiku was moving closer to the mirror with his arm stretched out. Francis almost fell to the ground when Kiku's fingers had started to go into the mirror. "Kiku! Wait, don't go in there!" Francis ran after Kiku to grab him before he was fully in, but he was too late. Kiku was in the mirror and he could no longer see him. Francis could only see his reflection in the mirror now. "K-Kiku." He fell to his knees in shock. "Francis-san," a soft voice spoke from inside the mirror. "Kiku?" Francis stared at the mirror joyfully, awaiting the Japanese man's next response.

"Yes, this is Kiku," he replied. "Don't be afraid, come in. I think this is what we are supposed to be investigating."

Francis nodded in agreement. He trusted his friend so he went into the mirror without hesitation. Inside the mirror was just darkness. Kiku was there waiting for Francis though. 'At least I have someone with me. This is pretty creepy.'

Other than the darkness and now the two nations, there were other smaller mirrors. Behind Francis was the mirror he had just come in from. It looked the same as it had on the other side.

"Francis-san look," Kiku pointed to one of the mirrors.

Francis looked into the mirror. It showed Yao and Ivan. Yao was opening what seemed to be a freezer door, while Ivan picked up a broken piece of a pot. Ivan began towards Yao and then jabbed the broken piece at Yao, but he missed. "What is Ivan doing?" Francis was ready to jump through the mirror to help Yao, but Kiku stopped him. Kiku shook his head "don't be reckless Francis-san."

"But we have to help him! Can't you see, the Russian has gone insane!" Francis was angry with Kiku for holding him back.

"You mustn't," Kiku pleaded.

"Why not?" Francis had just looked back into the mirror to see Ivan stab the broken piece into Yao's stomach. Ivan laughed and turned to face the mirror. He had an insane grin spread across his face. Ivan looked into the mirror but quickly went back to attacking Yao.

"Francis-san…" Kiku's voice shook with fear.

"What now? You already let Yao get hurt! What else do you plan on doing? He's basically you're big brother!" Francis was furious with the Japanese man. 'It was his brother for Christ's sake! It would be the same with me and Matthew or Arthur and Alfred. I wouldn't leave Matthew to die, I would help him. I'm sure Arthur would do the same for Alfred.' "Francis," Kiku's voice broke his train of thoughts. "What?" Francis was annoyed with him.

"I'm sorry," Kiku said sheepishly and bowed, wishing for forgiveness.

Francis stared at Kiku. He sighed, "I'm sorry I snapped at you," Francis apologized. 'There's no way I could ever stay mad at Kiku. Who could.'

"Thank you for forgiving me," Kiku bowed again.

"Now Kiku, there's no need to thank me for such a thing," Francis laughed. "What are you guys still doing here," a familiar voice yelled happily from behind them.

The two turned around to see the dark haired Italian. "Romano?" They were both shocked to see him so suddenly.

"Why are you hare Romano? Aren't you supposed to be with Antonio~" Francis teased.

"I wish I was with Antonio, but I don't know where he went," Romano said sadly.

"Wait… You wish you were with Antonio? Are you sick or something," Francis went over to Romano to take his temperature. He didn't seem sick.

"Oh. You must be talking about the real Romano," Romano realized that these were the originals. "Yeah, I'm his mirrored self or opposite," he smiled.

"Mirrored self," Kiku asked.

"Yep! I just explained this to your friends, Antonio and Romano. You guys all have things like doppelgangers!" Romano said all of this so happily. He was like Veneciano. "They're the opposites of you though, and they want to kill you."

"What?" Francis and Kiku were stunned.

"Yep! That's all I really know right now though. I was just basically born after all," Romano apologized for the lack of information he had. His attitude creeped Francis out. Kiku was even creeped out, it was so out of character. It was too different. He even seemed happier than Veneciano! How was that possible?

"You were just born," Kiku asked. It was clear that both of them were seriously confused.

"Yep! Once you guys came here, the ten of us were born. Well, that's what I think anyway," Romano continued with his happy go lucky tone.

"So then those things we saw in the mirror were-" Francis started.

"Yes, that was us. I don't really appreciate you calling us "those thing" though," Romano was seriously hurt by such a term. He looked like he was about to cry.

"S-sorry…" Francis said. 'Even though this would have to be the weirdest thing I have ever apologized for, and especially towards Romano.'

"No problem!" Romano was suddenly cheerful again.

'This guy sure does recover quickly,' Francis thought.

'He reminds me of someone from a manga I've read. Also an anime I have watched, but they are the same series. Just the recovering quickly part really. There might be other qualities of his that might relate to the character as well. Let's see, he was half French, half Japanese. I just can't seem to remember exactly who it was.' Kiku was deep in thought of who it might've been until Romano spoke again.

"You guys had better get going." Romano began to push the two towards the purple tinted mirror.

"What? Why?" Francis wanted to know more about what was going on.

"Well, it seems that the others are coming back, so if you want to live. I advise that you leave immediately." Romano pushed them back through the mirror before they could even disagree with him.

"Geez. Are they that dangerous?" The two shivered at the thought of Francis' statement being true.

They looked back at the mirror but nothing appeared. All that was there, was their reflections.

"We should get back and warn the others," Kiku said. Francis nodded, and the two headed back to the entrance. Ready to share their set of information.

Author's notes

Finally chapter 7 is done! I'm sorry it's so short and it took a century to be updated. There's also no yaoi action in here, even though France was in this one. Although, I have a little challenge for you. The first person to guess and post the answer to Kiku's question in a review gets a request. It can be to put in a yaoi scene with any two character's that you select, but I get to choose if it is mirrorXoriginal or not. All you can do is pick out the two characters. I am only doing soft core, so no sex or anything like that. Just a nice relationship. If you don't know what Kiku's question was, then it was who the character is from the manga he had read/anime he watched. Good luck with figuring it out and coming up with the pair that you want me to put in the story. Ciao!

Translations (These are pretty obvious though)

French

Angleterre=England

Japanese

Hai=Yes