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Chapter 11

Norway enjoyed his time at his own house. He enjoyed being able to run free in the adjacent forest and found the government people who came to visit him interesting. Because of this, Denmark decided to extend their time at the house from a few days to a few weeks. Sadly, however, it soon became time when Denmark had to leave for his own home to work, so he ended up having to practically drag the unwilling child with him.

As Denmark feared, when he came back to his house there was a lot of work for him to accomplish thanks to his wanting to spend the last few weeks goofing off with Norway. Due to this, Denmark was forced to work more than usual in order to get caught up which only caused the days to seem to fly past him. In what seemed like only a couple days for him two months had passed and now Norway had grown from looking roughly ten to looking and acting like a thirteen-year-old.

One day shortly after he had finally caught up on work, Finland, Sweden, and Sealand decided to visit. Denmark did not mind this too much, he honestly did enjoy the visits from his other brothers and Sealand was cool at times, but he was slightly nervous as to how Norway would take meeting Sealand again since the last time they met was when he was really little. Denmark knew Norway was naturally shy around strangers, and all he could think of was how Norway acted the last time Iceland brought a stranger to the house.

However, Norway did not run away and hide from Sealand like what he feared. Instead when Norway saw the other child, he stood still and looked Sealand up and down. As Norway looked him over, Sealand decided to say, "Hi Norway. So I guess you're now my age. Last time I saw you, you were still a baby."

After saying this, Sealand walked forward to shake Norway's hand. In response to this, Norway hissed and stood up straighter in an attempt to look bigger. Upon hearing the hiss, Sealand became scared off and rushed behind Sweden for defense. When Norway saw this, he nodded to himself and began to walk back to his spot under a window in the living room where light was entering.

"Norway, I'm glad to see that you're not hiding from people this time, but that doesn't mean that you can scare them. What's gotten into you?" Denmark asked while crouching next to the already laying down Norway.

Norway looked up at Denmark and said, "Iceland's friend was bigger than me so I felt threatened, but that guy's the same age as me so I wanted to see if he's any kind of threat. Obviously he's not. Now I'm sunning so go away."

"Testing or not, you should still apologize to him. He's not exactly used to being threatened like that so right now you're just being mean," Denmark said while pouting and trying to wake the sleepy Norway up.

In response Norway scratched him slightly across a cheek while mumbling out, "Leave me alone…stupid bror."

"What's gott'n into h'm?" Sweden asked while watching Norway stretch for a moment in the sun before curling up asleep.

"I don't know, he just recently stopped being my playful little buddy and became moody. I thought at first that it was because he hadn't been home in a while, and going there did affect him, but he's just been so stubborn lately. I don't really understand it," Denmark said while holding his scratched cheek. Denmark then tuned from Sweden to Sealand and said, "Sorry, Sea-kun but I think right now it might be best to just let Nor rest for a little bit."

"Is he sick?" Sealand asked while stepping away from Sweden since he was no longer in danger.

"I don't know, I hope not. Even so, I don't really know how to tell if he is or not," Denmark said while glancing back to the sleeping Norway.

"I wouldn't be too worried," Finland said with a slight smile.

"Why's that?" Denmark asked.

"Well think about it. He's acting moody and weird right? Then put that with how old he is and it should be obvious. He's just going through puberty," Finland explained.

The others thought about this explanation while heading towards the living room to sit down; Sealand looking at Norway curiously from his place on the couch. They had to admit that Finland's idea did make sense, especially when they compared the moodiness to Iceland, the other teenager in their group. It also helped explain why Norway was acting so territorial since if he was a real cat he would be looking at forming his own area at that age.

After coming to these conclusions, the adults began to talk about the idea in more detail before going on to other topics while Sealand pulled out a handheld game to play. Eventually Sealand tired of his game, and started watching Norway doze in the sun; every once in a while waking up for a few moments solely to re-situate himself in the light. By this time, the adults had moved their talking into the kitchen, leaving the two boys alone.

Due to his boredom and the fact that it was already in the afternoon, Sealand gave out a yawn and walked towards the sunlight. He slowly held his hand out into the light and smiled to himself when he felt the soft warmth. The warmth made Sealand feel drowsy, so he at last decided to lay down in the sun with Norway.

His movements woke Norway up for a moment, and for a moment Sealand began to fear that the sleepy cat-person would scratch him like he did to Denmark. Fearfully, Sealand petted the top of Norway's head, only to then relax when he heard the other boy give out a long purr and fall back asleep. Sealand smiled again to this, and laid down next to Norway in the sunlight.

Half an hour later, the adults re-entered the room so that Sweden and Finland could collect Sealand and leave. In the room they were met by the site of the two boys fast asleep next to each other in the light. The adults could not help but think that the site was cute, and as sadly as it pained him to ruin the scene, Sweden carefully picked his son up and carried the still sleeping boy to the car. As they walked away Sealand mumbled out in a half-asleep state how they should add a sunlight to their house.

With this the others said goodbye to Denmark and went on their way home. It was not until the sun was completely away from the window that Norway finally decided to get off the floor and be awake, which made Denmark feel slightly better only. This changed, however, when he noticed Norway stare at his face.

"Norway… is everything okay? You're staring at me," Denmark asked that evening when he noticed that the boy had not moved his eyes off him in over ten minutes.

"What happened to your face?" Norway asked while looking at Denmark's scratched cheek.

"You scratched me there for keeping you from your nap, remember. Guess you got me pretty good," Denmark said with a quick laugh. He then halted his laugh as quickly as it began when Norway leaned into him, muttered sorry, and quickly licked the wound.

As soon as it began, it was over when Norway walked back to his spot on the couch leaving a blushing Denmark. After a few moments to compose himself Denmark stumbled out, "W-what was that for?"

Norway casually glanced in Denmark's direction only to say, "It looked dirty. Don't get any wild idea, bror, I just don't want you getting sick and being unable to care for me."

Denmark paused and blushed again at this, only to then give a large smile and walk up behind Norway. He then said, "Is that so, then I guess we are still best friends."

"Sure, now leave me alone to read before I give your other cheek a matching scratch mark…stupid bror," Norway said while looking at his book. Denmark laughed at this, but did move away. It made him feel better to know what Norway was thinking.

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