Under the Rainbow

Chapter XXXVI; Elsewhere

A story of the Soviet House told in perfect 250 word segments

By: Chibi Ra Chan

Pairing: Korea/Belarus


I love time that's in between, the calm inside me in this place where I can breathe. I believe there is a distance I have wondered to touch upon the years, reaching out and reaching in.


Yong Soo knows that she knows about him, about the darkest part of his heart.

He also know that she knows that he knows about her knowing about it. Any further than that and his head started to hurt.

As it was they were at a standstill. Yong Soo remembered very little of the incident and was too ashamed to face her again. And Natalia seemed to be content with making herself as scarce as possible where he was concerned.

He saw the strange looks that the others gave them at breakfast each morning. He knew that moping wasn't the best way to handle the situation, but he was who he was and that was how he handled things like this; with a pout and a sullen attitude.

The only thing that really brought him out of his mood was having cooking duty with Lithuania.

Korea didn't mind the other chores; laundry was a time to pick up on gossip with Latvia, shoveling snow with Prussia provide some kind of exercise, and dusting was a good time to relax to Miss Ukraine's soft singing, but cooking duty was something he truly enjoyed.

Korea liked to cook, even if the food Lithuania taught him to make was strange and could be improved with Kimchi, it made him forget his situation for an hour.

Most days at least.

On this day Lithuania decided to throw a wrench in his plans.

"Something is going on between you and Miss Natalia. What is it?"