Heya you awesome readers! :D This is yet another chapter on Awaken of Ex Colonies :D This chapter is about China and Japan... Hope you like it :D
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Previously on Awaken of Ex Colonies:
"Maybe, you'd get angry after I'm finish with you"
"I was scared…"
"How does insulting a nation help them grow stronger?"
"Japan, where are you?"
*Cue Story!*
-China and Japan-
"What do you mean you were happy and sad about me leaving you?" Japan repeated.
"Japan, I was happy that you get to become a strong country-aru. Wasn't that your dream? Wasn't it your dream to become a powerful country others can depend on-aru? That's why you wanted to train so much, but I would always change the subject because I want you to be happy than serious all the time." China gently said. Japan's eyes widened. "I was sad because I don't want to see you leave… it was selfish of me to think that way-aru. I never wanted to ever think that way… but you're my brother and I wanted to stand by your side"
"But you didn't take my side in WWII! You sided with that Russian bastard and that gullible American! You became communist when I became democratic! You were with the Allies while I was with the Axis! What do you mean ALWAYS BY MY SIDE?!" Japan screamed. China tilts his head down. "You're never by my side… it's always the western countries by my side. Italy, Germany, they're my friends and you don't appreciate them. Why? I wanted to go and have friends from around the world, not only my family. You still don't understand, China!" Japan spat. He was gripping the katana handle hard.
"I was jealous-aru" China quietly said.
-Nations in Japan's house-
"Prussia, did you find anything?" Hungary asked, walking out of the guest room. Prussia turned his head at the Hungarian.
"Nope, did you?" Hungary shook her head. Prussia sighs. "Where the heck could they be? Hey West, do you know any rooms that Japan and China could be?"
Germany shook his head. "We have to keep searching the entire house if we need to find them"
"Wait Germany, do you remember back in WWII when Japan showed us his house? Remember that one room in his house where he kept those vases and paintings? We haven't checked there yet!" Italy asked. Germany nodded.
"Ja, I remember… but do you know where it is?" The Italian shook his head. Germany sighs. Why can't I remember anything? I have a pretty good memory when it comes to a friend's house… but why can't I remember Japan's?
"Something's wrong, West?" Prussia shook his younger brother's shoulder. Germany shot back to reality. "You spaced out for a moment"
"I was just thinking about Japan's home. I could remember Italy's, Austria's, and our home from the inside and out, but I can't remember Japan's…"
Austria turned to look at the Asians. "Do any of you guys remember the rooms in Japan's house?" All the Asian's looked at each other and shook their heads. "That is strange…"
"Actually it's not, we haven't been in Japan's house for quite some time" Vietnam spoke a little harsh than she supposed to.
"This is troublesome… Maybe if we go straight we might find something" Switzerland said. The nations nods and walked in complete silence. That silence soon broke.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU WERE JEALOUS?!" The sudden shout bounced from wall to wall around Japan's house. It was loud, but the nations didn't seem to hear it. Well, not all…
"What was that?" North Korea stopped. The other nations stopped as well and listened to the noise, hopping that it was a clue to find Japan and China.
"IS IT BECAUSE I'M NO LONGER YOUR COLONY?!"
"This way!" Germany pointed straight. The other nations began sprinting to Germany's direction.
"There, that room!" Switzerland pointed to an open room where the sound came from.
"AT LEAST I HAVE PEOPLE LIKE GERMANY AND ITALY WITH ME! WHO DO YOU HAVE? ANSWER THAT!" Another shout was made. This time, the nations stopped sprinting.
"Ve, it's talking about us!" Italy quivered. The other nations stood their place, unsure if they should be scared or not. Whoever's in there had the guts to shout that loud and scary. Taiwan wasn't going to stop. She immediately picked up her pace and was the first one to stand in front of the door.
What she saw was China with someone that looked like Japan. What she saw were bruises, cuts, pieces of broken glass and vase, and mostly blood coming out of her eldest brother. The China she saw had his hair spread out around his face, the palm of his hands were splattered with ruby red blood pouring down from the silver katana he's holding, his eyes were puffed up red, tears were streaming down his bloody cheeks, parts of his clothes were shredded, and the pleading eyes that China had versus the dull eyes Japan had. They didn't know Taiwan was at the door; they were too concentrated on their struggle.
Tears fell on Taiwan's delicate cheeks. She wanted to run and scream and do anything to stop them, but she couldn't. Instead she fell on her knees, letting the silent tears fall. She can't place her palms on her face to prevent her from seeing the whole thing. The only things she could do were cry and stare.
The other nations saw Taiwan falling to her knees and crying. Something was definitely wrong. The others rushed to Taiwan's aid, but once they got there they knew what she cried for. For the first time, they're all thinking about the same thing:
Why can't I move and help them?
"Japan… I'm jealous of Italy and Germany because they can make you smile-aru!" China answered. "When I see you with them, you lighten up a bit and have fun. I've always done that with you when you were small but ever since that day, you've been going with the other countries than us-aru!"
"How could I talk to the people that I've hurt! I know in the inside they never forgive me for what I've done. They'd never forgive me for giving that scar on your back." Japan snapped.
Taiwan and the others gazed at the fight. Italy wanted to peel his eyes away from the blood and run to help his friend, but he couldn't. Instead, he clenches his fists and let the tears slowly fall. None of them made any sound but they wish they could control their body once more, especially in a situation like this.
"Japan, I told you to never doubt yourself… you're doing it again-aru! I know how selfish it is for me to be jealous of Italy and Germany but I wanted to talk with you more after WWII. Every time I walk towards you, you always go the opposite direction and find someone else to talk to-aru. I have this feeling that your inner thoughts kept making you believe that your family will never forgive you. We have told you multiple times that we forgave you, so please stop hurting yourself-aru. And please stop talking about how you hurt us and how you made the scar on my back, please… I know I'm asking selfishly… but please…" China pleaded.
"Why? Is it because bringing that topic up makes you feel embarrassed? Embarrassed of how your old colony hurt you unlike the others?" Japan snapped.
China locked his gaze back at Japan. "Japan, I want you to stop talking about that because I know it hurt you as well. I also want you to stop saying that you've hurt me… Japan, I was happy you gave me that scar-aru!" China gave Japan the kindest smile he could make. Even if the tear's still falling like waterfalls, even if the pain hurts him so much, he wanted to smile at his brother again.
Japan's eyes widened. "Wh-what…!" All the nations eyes widened in unison. All the Asian's tears burst out from their hiding place, and cascaded down their cheeks, including North Korea's.
"I was happy you gave me that scar-aru" China gently said, smile still in place. "I was happy because you were expressing your feelings towards me. You were expressing how you're stronger now and independent… is that not why you gave me the scar? I wanted to tell you that I'm happy you've gotten your dream, your wish, but you didn't let me explain this to you back then-aru. If you could've listened for a minute, you wouldn't doubt yourself all the time. The war wouldn't change but at least we would've understood each other much better than now-aru." Japan's eyes were surprised. He gritted his teeth and pulled the katana up with the strength he has, ignoring the loud groan coming from China. China removed his fingers quickly before Japan could slice it off his hand. He doesn't have the strength anymore to lift his hands up so it fell down to his side. The only muscle in his body that's working was his smile.
Japan's eyes beamed with furry as he thrust the word up. To his surprise, China was still smiling. It wasn't fake nor was it sad. His eyes looked gentle as he gazed up at Japan, smiling with those kind lips. China always smiled like that back then. Whenever his siblings were sad, he'll always smile to cheer them up. Is he smiling because he wants Japan to smile?
"Japan, even if you hurt me, cut me, torture me, hate me, kill me, betray me, or anything for that matter, I'll always be your brother-aru" China tenderly said.
Japan's mouth quivered. "N-No! Y-You can't still be my b-brother after I k-kill you!"
China shook his head. "Yes I can-aru. Japan, you're my brother and nothing can change that. I love all my siblings' dearly-aru! The things I did to them in the past still haunts me forever. I wanted to apologize and help them, but my people and boss need me more-aru. Japan, you and all the nations are right… I am a selfish freak."
Japan shook the disturbance in his mind, telling him to stop. With his dull eyes, he plunges his Kanata down to the smiling Chinese's head.
Suddenly… he snapped.
"C-China…" Japan's eyes unexpectedly transferred back to their original colour, just to watch his own body plunging the katana to his elder brother. His eyes narrowed and threw the katana to his left, just in the nick of time. The katana was happy enough to have cut two millimetres strand of hair standing above the rest.
China's smile turned to a concerned frown. "Japan…" The nations gasp. Japan bit his lip and looked down at his eldest sibling. His sleeves were nearly shredded, face and hands were covered with bruises and cuts, hair spread out and in clumps, feet mixed with blood and pieces of glass, palms all smothered with blood, and flood of salty tears cascaded down his cheeks.
Japan clenched his fists to prevent him from crying. "C-China… I-I'm-"
"Gomennasai-aru" China cuts Japan off which caused the quiet nation to jolt back up, looking at his former care-taker. China smiled. "Gomennasai for not being with you when you need me the most-aru. Gomennasai for not saying sorry to you first about the revolutionary war. I wanted to say sorry to you first but you were determined to be forgiven from the looks of your eyes-aru. Gomennasai for being a selfish brother."
Japan locked his gaze at his brother. He and all the countries at the door were shocked. Japan's lips quivered as he let the silent tears roll down his cheeks. This shocked Japan even more. His finger felt his cheeks as more tears fell.
"Japan…" China said, shifting all eyes at him. He gently smiled. "I found your tears-aru."
Japan's eyes fell into shock as more tears fell. The nations at the door were astounded as well.
"C-CHINA NII-SAN!"
And with those words, Japan thrust himself to China and gave him a huge embrace. China was shocked by this. He rubbed his brother's back and listened to his loud cries. Japan's not keeping it in anymore. Flood of tears filled the room. The Asian's who were standing on the door was able to walk towards the two older siblings, and waited for a couple of minutes before joining the hugs. Even Vietnam and Hong Kong were crying their eyes out. North Korea stayed leaning on the door, covered his right hand on his face, and cried clusters of tears out.
Italy was hugging his brother who smiled and patted his younger sibling's head while whipping small tears coming down. Spain let the two Italians be, and cried as well. Germany let a tear or two fall as his older brother patted his shoulder. Hungary was clinging onto Belgium and Liechtenstein as they cried and hugged each other. Switzerland, Netherlands, and Austria smiled a little, whipping small tears off their eyes. Turkey gave Greece and Egypt a big hug while sulking. Neither one of them pulled away from the hug as the two found themselves tearing up a little.
After for what seems to be an hour, the Asians pulled away from their group hug and focused their attention at their eldest sibling. China turned his head and looked around the room to find faces of people he knows.
"Aiyaa… w-what are you g-guys doing here?" His voice was croaky and shaky after crying so many times.
Taiwan smiled. "W-We were worried about you, Sensei!"
"Yeah Aniki, we were wondering why you weren't in the meeting, da ze!" Korea grinned. China nodded and fixed his gaze at Japan, still crying. He whipped his thumb on his shirt, clearing the blood away, and gently whipped the tears from Japan's eyes with his thumb.
"Japan, don't ever scare me again-aru!" China scolded before giving him a big grin. Japan nodded.
"Xie xie" Japan smiled at the surprised Chinese. China sighs and smiled back.
"No really, thank you for everything China" Vietnam blushed, whipping the tears of her eyes.
"Yes, Sensei!" Hong Kong agreed. Korea and Taiwan nodded in agreement.
China tried his best to wipe the tears from his face. He gave his family a reassuring smile. "You… don't really have to… say things like-"
-THUD-
"CHINA SENSEI!" Taiwan screamed at the unconscious body lying on the hard wooden floor. Everyone's eyes widened and ran to help. There was a gap after their huge hug and China chose the floor to faint instead of falling on one of their laps.
Japan ran to his brother and shaking him. "China-san! China-san! CHINA NII-SAN!" Japan tried his best but China didn't wake up. He bit his lips as more tears fell.
"We need to take him to a hospital!" Germany said urgently.
Switzerland nodded. "I think it's best if we go back to my home. We can take him to a hospital that's familiar with countries like us! We need to hurry!" Switzerland commanded. The nations agreed.
Please oh please be okay!
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"Thank you…"
That chapter was very sad... very... :( It was really sad typing that bunch up :( :P Was it good? Bad? Review! Okay, so... anyone have a clue to who the Stalker is? Anyone... hmmmm? :P Don't worry, more hidden clues and chapters coming soon :D
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Next Chapter on Awaken of Ex Colonies:
"Don't talk about my brother like that!"
"I would be very cruel…"
"Iggy? England? Big brother? ENGLAND!"
"No wonder it's always raining in London"
"Why can't my screams be heard?"
BANG!
*End dramatic music and.. CYA LATER XD*
