Bunnies For Your Amusement (Hetalia)

Author: Ashynarr

Summary: A bunch of cute and/or serious story ideas featuring my favorite Hetalia bros – America and Canada! May or may not be pairings depending on story. I guarantee all of these are, if not unique ideas, unique takes on ideas, so come check them out!

Disclaimer: Hetalia's not mine.

Warning: Random Shit, Bros Being Bros, State OCs, historical semi-AU sorta

Bunny: Hidden Away

~The States and Provinces of North America have mostly grown up, settling into their new responsibilities nicely. Then America and Canada show, and they have a hard debate over what to do before deciding the only way to preserve their own relevance in politics and the duo's childhood is to keep their existence hidden from Europe and the rest of the world.

No one said the task would be easy, though...

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In hindsight, she really should have expected this to happen. All people sharing a common identity eventually brought forth a Nation to represent them, and though the individual colonies had long had their own representatives, nothing had shown up for the British American peoples as a whole.

At least, not until Ginvera "Virginia" Johnson, the eldest and the de facto leader of the colonies when Arthur wasn't there, woke up to a child playing with a rabbit in her front hallway, humming cheerfully to himself as he pet it. He didn't spy her right away, giving her a few merciful moments to realize three things:

One, this was almost certainly the America she and the others had been wondering about for a while, considering she could feel his presence easily.

Two, as he was a full on Nation and not just a Colony, he was technically speaking her superior even though she was decades older than him and nearly of age in human years.

Three, if Arthur found out, there was no question that she and the others would be shoved to the side so that their colonizer could raise his colony up himself. It'd be a miracle if they ever had a chance to speak for themselves without going through the Nation again.

Just then, the young America looked up from his game, locking eyes with her before ducking his head behind his rabbit, bright blue peeking at her from behind soft brown fur. Any sort of resentment she could have felt melted at that, because there was no way for her to hate a child who just had the (mis)fortune to be the one person who could possibly ruin a lot of good things.

Not to mention he was adorable.

"Hey there," She greeted softly, smiling as she made her way down the stairs towards him. "That's a nice rabbit you have there."

"...Thank you…" The child muttered, staring up at her as she approached.

"Do you have a name?" Ginny asked, stopping far enough away to give him the space he seemed to want so far.

The small Nation frowned in thought, shaking his head after a bit before looking back to her.

"Would you like me to give you one, then?"

He thought for a bit longer this time, tilting his head in thought before eventually muttering a quiet, "Okay."

"I'll make sure to think of a good one for you, then," Ginny promised, leaning back slightly as she thought of what to do next. "Are you hungry? I could make you some breakfast."

"Food?" That sure got his attention, some of the distrust melting away at the word.

"Mmhmm," She smiled, turning away while still keeping an eye on him. "There should be some bread and butter left if that's alright with you."

"Okay!" He replied, much more enthusiastic as he followed her, the rabbit still calmly in his arms as she lead him to the kitchen. He bounced on his heels as she puttered around, grabbing the food before setting it at the table.

"Aren't you going to sit?"

He glanced between her and the chair, biting his lip before nodding and clambering up into it, his legs swinging as he waited for her to scoot the plate in front of him. He had just started to dig in before she lightly swatted at his hand.

"We have to give prayers first," Ginny told him, smiling at his frown as he put the bread slowly back on the plate. She did her best to make it a bit faster than usual, but he was still impatient for the end, even as he halfheartedly mimicked her. Once she finished, she smiled at him. "Now we can eat."

He grinned again, reaching back for the plate and tearing a large chunk out of it, humming cheerfully again while he ate. She could only watch in a bit of awe as he finished his food, looking to her expectantly even though he'd just had more than enough for a child his size.

'Then again,' She mused. 'He is a Nation. Maybe he just eats more?'

She relented to his puppy eyes after a bit, grabbing another piece of bread for him and shaking her head as he finished it just as easily as the first. Either she was going to have to be careful with meal sizes in the future, or he was going to eat her out of house and home.

"Thank you!" He beamed, looking much more relaxed now.

She smiled back, wondering just what she was going to tell the others in her next messages out to them.

~0~0~

"Oh man, it is him!"

"He's so tiny!"

"You just found him at your front door?"

Ginny smiled and shrugged, holding Alfred close so that he could hide his face from the strangers (to him) clambering around, all trying to get a look at him. "Yes, it is him, and yes, he happened to show up in my house. I called you all here because we need to discuss what we're going to do now that he's appeared."

"Do?" Benjamin "New York" van Laren asked, raising an eyebrow. "You mean before or after Arthur finds out about him?"

"That's just the thing, though," Ginny replied, looking down at the child. "I don't think we should."

"-What?" More than one person asked, staring at her like she'd gone crazy.

Before she could clarify, the door slammed open, a ragged Joseph "Quebec" Trembley stumbling inside, carrying a young child who didn't look in much better condition. "Please, tell me you know how to deal with this," He pleaded in French, before locking eyes on the child staring at him from Ginny's arms. "Oh Lord, you have one too."

"Quebec?" Ginny wasn't the only one startled by his intrusion, though she recovered the fastest on seeing the child he had start to sniffle, shoving past a bristling Percy to check on the boy. "Is this-?"

"It is," He frowned at her accent briefly, glancing between the two children. "And I'm guessing that's yours."

"He is." She shook her head, looking to Alfred who was staring at the other child hopefully. "Do you want to play with him for a bit?"

"Can I?" He asked, looking back to her before biting his lip, glancing to the northern Nation briefly, lowering his voice to whisper. "He looks really upset."

"Maybe you can cheer him up, then," She whispered back, setting him down and gesturing for Joseph to do the same. The man looked relieved at the chance, while Alfred grabbed the other's hand and led him away from the crowd, from what she could tell was up to his bedroom to play with his toys.

"How did you find out about our meeting?" Ginny asked after they'd left, turning back to the French colony with a raised eyebrow.

"I heard from New Hampshire, who heard from New York," He muttered, glancing over to Ben as he did so. "The others up north wouldn't hear me out, and since all of you were getting together anyways…"

"Mmm," Ginny frowned, sighing as she turned to the other colonies. "Should we let him sit in since he's in the same boat as us?"

"No," Percy replied at the same time Mary responded with, "Yes."

The two glared each other down, neither giving way. Susannah "New Jersey" van Laren sighed, shaking her head while replying, "Might as well, since he came all the way here anyways."

Mary smirked in triumph while Percy sulked, giving both her and Joseph a glare before retreated to the far side of the group.

Ginny turned back to the rest of them, bringing back the point she'd started to make earlier before they'd been interrupted. "I know not telling Arthur - or Francis, I suppose - about Alfred and-"

"Mathieu," Joseph added when she glanced to him for a name.

She nodded in thanks. "-about Alfred and Mathieu seems like it will only end in trouble. I originally wasn't even going to consider it, but I've been looking after Alfred for a month now, and I just-"

She sighed, shaking her head. "You know what will happen once they find out. All of us will be shoved to the side, while those two are given all the attention and responsibilities required to run the country, and I don't think any of us would win in that circumstance."

"Sure sounds like they would," Caroline muttered.

"No, they wouldn't," Ginny gave the other colony a hard look. "They're children; neither of them are anywhere near ready to take on so much responsibility yet, and we've only just started taking charge of things around our lands for ourselves. Do any of you want to go back to Arthur and Francis deciding everything while those two grow up?"

The others looked between each other, frowning as they realized that no, that wasn't exactly appealing to any of them.

"So we're lying to them, then?" Susannah asked eventually.

"We're just not bringing it up," Ginny corrected. "Arthur and Francis have no reason to suspect the two exist now, and if we don't mention it then we can make sure they never do."

"You know what'll happen if they do find out," Ben replied neutrally, though he wasn't protesting the idea.

Ginny shook her head. "I do, but what choice do we have if we want to give them a childhood and ourselves continued relevance?"

No one could come up with an argument against it.

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AN: Bunny 50! Hard to imagine I would be so different from the person I was when I wrote the first one of these three years ago, but hey, I can definitely appreciate where my writing's gone from then until now.

This one was inspired somewhat by the 'Nation was never found' prompts that popped up a few times on the km. Because really, you would think the nations would be more suspicious if one of their own DOESN'T show up for a new country, but if there were already personifications there... well then, that's a whole other story, isn't it?

I'm trying to be clear here that what the States are doing is mostly for selfish purposes, but that they also do care about the twins and want to make sure they don't have to grow up too fast like they or Europe did in order to survive. And yeah, the twins won't know exactly what they are for a while, but I'm thinking they do around the Revolution and they're upset but, having met some of the other Nations in passing, they agree they aren't people they want to deal with.

From here on, I'm thinking the two mostly stay out of politics until the Civil War, where Alfred sort of ends up taking charge because he's the only neutral party the States have to prevent future issues like that, and Matt does the same with his provinces just to keep them from doing the same. (They still don't get involved in global stuff until WW2 tho, but man are the other Nations surprised when they step forward instead of Ontario / Virginia.)

Friendly reminder that, since I don't know if I'll ever have time or the inclination to get to all of these, that all of these ARE open for you guys to write up for yourselves! Part of my goal on here has always been to inspire other people to write, and even though the Hetalia fandom is sort of dying, it's still something I'm gonna aim for while I'm here.