Ten days, woo!

Am I doing good or what? Ah, on second thought, don't answer that.

Disclaimed.

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Day 10: With animal ears

Lukas yawned, sitting up in bed. "And another morning begins. Fun."

"Mm? You say something, Ai?" Beside him, Kiku's eyes slid open. He blinked blearily, rubbing his eyes sleepily. "Oh… g'morning."

"Good morning, kjære," Lukas replied, tousling the smaller nation's hair.

He frowned. "Ah, Kiku…?"

"Yes?" The Japanese looked up at him. Blinked. Rubbed his eyes. Narrowed them.

Then he burst out laughing. "You, those things, oh kami- Ha ha ha!"

"Kiku, what-"

Kiku reached up and tugged at something on Lucas' head. "What are you- Owowowow! Stop that!" He pulled away, rubbing his head. "What were you- Oh."

The Norwegian spun around, staring into the mirror in shock. "…Rabbit ears. What… the… hell."

Kiku sighed happily, brushing tears from his eyes. "Ohhh, that's good. You look so cute!"

Lukas wordlessly turned the mirror. The Japanese blinked, reaching up to touch the fluffy red fox ears sprouting from his black hair. "Ah. Well. That's… interesting."

"To quote someone I know well: 'You look so cute!'"

"Ha ha, very funny." The ears flicked irritably as Kiku spoke.

"I thought so. Anyway, how do we fix this?"

The Japanese shrugged helplessly. "Why are you asking me? Transfiguration is hardly my area of expertise."

"Well, it's not mine either." Lukas pinched the bridge of his nose. "How did this even happen? It shouldn't be possible."

"Well, apparently it is, so do something!" He pinned his new ears back against his head. "This is weird…"

Lukas tugged on his rabbit ears. "How do you think I feel?" At least Kiku looked… well. Nice. "At least foxes are part of your mythology! I've got rabbit ears, Kiku!"

The smaller nation nodded. Then he burst out laughing again. "I'm sorry, I can't take you seriously like that!" He shook his head. "It's just- You look like something out of Alice in Wonderland and oh… Ha ha ha!"

"This is serious, kjære…" the Norwegian sighed. "We have to fix it."

Kiku leaned forward, resting his weight on his knees. "How?" He scratched behind his ear. "Oh, that feels good. Um, well, there must be a way to fix it."

"Ah, we should look through my spell books." Lukas raised an eyebrow. "What feels good?"

"Oh, it's just, I can see why dogs do this all the time."

The blond raised an eyebrow. "Scratching behind the ears?"

"Don't knock it 'til you've tried it, as America-san would say."

The taller nation reached out and buried his fingers in smooth black hair, scratching around the base of the fox ears. Kiku let out a noise halfway between a purr and a whine. "Ohhh, that feels good- Hey!" He smacked Lukas' hand away. "Stop it!"

Lukas smirked. "Are you… blushing, kjære?"

"Shut up," the other pouted. "Besides, this is probably your fault anyway."

"My fault?"

"Who else in this building can change things' shapes?"

Lukas opened his mouth, then stopped. "Fair," he admitted. "What bright ideas do you have?"

"Still none, Ai. Where are your books?"

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"Boring… Boring… Oh, look, poison apples… Boring…"

Lukas looked up. "Would you stop narrating?"

"Sorry. Ah, this looks promising! Spell reversal?"

"Ah." Lukas slipped over to kneel behind Kiku and read over his shoulder. "Yes, that should work. Shall we?"

Kiku turned to look at him. "No, I'm enjoying this," he replied dryly.

The Norwegian focused on the book, muttering the spell. "Well, that seems to have done it."

"Huh." The Japanese reached up gingerly and brushed fingers through his hair. "Good. Although, I'll miss you looking like the White Rabbit…"

"Well, too bad," Lukas retorted. "Should we figure out how exactly that happened?"

Kiku smiled cheerfully. "That's easy. You did it."

"Explain."

The older nation shrugged. "It's simple, really. Instinctive magic; something triggers a particularly powerful emotion and, well, that's it."

Lukas nodded. "So, last night-"

"We don't need to go into details, thank you!" Kiku interrupted. "We all understand!"

The blond smirked. "Should we test your theory?"

"Oh kami, yes."

"Shall we go?"

"See previous answer."

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I'll leave them alone now.

Next up: Wearing kigurumis, whatever those are. Research time!

See ya~!

-Bird