Amore Mio, Aking Mahal

[Romano x Philippines: Philimano]

Chapter 6

Whether or not Feliciano can see why I disapprove of him asking Maria out on a date is a mystery to me. But she seems to be enjoying being around him. It makes me sad to think that Maria might actually consider that idiot as her first boyfriend.

Of course, she never did! Although, Maria was always with Feliciano like they were together. Time and time again she'd be with that potato bastard. There were times she was with Japan, but she was always scared for some reason.

The way she acts… She makes it as though I'll never have a chance with her...

"But I can't give up"

Every day, Philippines tried to find ways to pass her time with the Axis. Whether it was cleaning their houses, or playing with all the cats, she always found a way to pass the time. But most of the time, she would hang out with the other countries.

Most of the time, she would be with either Italy or her brother, Visayas and Mindano. Other times she would try to help Germany. There were times that she would be seen with Japan. But when she was around him, she was absolutely terrified by him. Either way, she never seemed to have found time for Romano at all.

This day was a day she gave to the cats of the Axis, her brothers, and herself. She loved the creatures and she felt bad that the boys never seemed to have time for the poor things.

"Miming is so pretty~" The young woman sang as she held her cats paws and moved her around in a dancing manner. Phillippines giggled. She let her go off her tiny kitty to let her play.

Philippines squat down, resting her elbows on her legs. She watched as all the cats would play. She noticed how Italy's cat, Gino, looked like he was flirting with Miming, making her laugh. Philippines continued to watch, it scared her when she saw Germany's cat, Bernhard, and Visayas' cat, Pantaleon, who she nicknamed, Leon, smack down Gino at the same time.

The Filipina woman ran immediately to the Italian cats rescue. She grabbed both Bernhard and Leon followed by a quick pop on both their noses. "No!" She shouted. "Bad kitties! You don't hurt little Gino!"

Romano walked in behind her shortly after she started to scold the little cats. He looked to the side and saw Miming and his cat, Luigi. He saw the two cats cuddle up next to each other. Miming actually licked Luigi's face. It made Romano smile.

Philippines stood up. She fixed her skirt and turned around to see Romano in front of her. "Diyos ko!" She screams falling back onto the ground. Luckily the cats got away from under her.

Romano sighed. He gave a hand to her pulling Philippines up. She took deep breathes until she gained her composure.

She looked up at him. "Hi Lovi~" She greeted the older man. "Are you alright?"

The older man sighed once again. "I should be asking you that question… Sorry for scaring you."

Philippines brushed the dirt from her dress. "It's alright." She said looking back at him with a grin on her face. "You know I haven't seen you in a while."

"That's because you'd rather be with everyone else…" He said under his breath.

"Ano?"

"Nothing…" Romano sighed. "It was nothing."

The pair watched as Miming and Luigi walked away together. Philippines giggled at the sight, "Aren't they just adorable?" She said. Romano just stared. He had no idea what else to say. "I never thought Miming would try to find a mate! It's so cute! And Luigi is your little kitty isn't he?" The girl said poking at Romano's chest. "What are the odds?"

Romano pouted and looked away. Philippines laughed at him picking up her brothers cats, Leon, and Mindanao's cat, Datu. "These two are cuties too huh? Kuya Criso found Leon sleeping on one of his fishing boats and Emilio found Datu fighting off some wild animals from little kids."

"How interesting…" Romano said in a bored tone.

Philippines looked at Romano with a disappointed look. "I can see you're not interest win what I have to say now…" And she walked away.

"W-wait!" Romano shouted. "Maria! I didn't mean it like…. Oh forget it…"

He kicked the ground and pouted again. When did she start sensing the mood in their conversations? That's what he thought. It was a rather depressing thought actually. He looked over to Miming and Luigi, both of them appeared as though they were snickering.

"Go look for food or something!" He shouted in a furious tone gesturing that the cats leave and walked away himself.

Romano found Philippines sitting down in the shade with her brothers. They were all talking and all, except Visayas were, laughing. He walked up to them scratching the back of his head.

"Yo! What's up mi hermano~?" Mindanao greeted with a cheesy grin on his face.

Romano waved back.

Visayas looked at him and looked away. "Hmph…" Was all that came out of him.

"Nice to see you too…." Romano said sarcastically to the elder of the Philippines siblings. He looked towards Philippines and looked away pouting, scratching the back of his head. "I'm sorry…" He said mumbled to the girl.

"What was that?" She asked with a puzzled look on her face.

Romano started to have an irritated look on his face. "I said I'm sorry…" He pouted, crossing his arms. "I didn't mean to sound like that. So… I was thinking you could forgive me! That's all…"

The girl narrowed her eyes at him and pouted. Romano flinched when he saw her face and stepped back. But the girl ended up giggling. "I'm not mad Lovi~" She laughed. "But there will be consequences…"

Romano had an uneasy expression on his face. He definitely did not like the sound of that. "W-Whatever Maria…" He said uneasily. "So you want to go get some Pizza?"

Maria shook her head smiling. "Sorry!" She apologized. Romano was in shock. Maria never declined an invitation from him. "This one country asked me out for a date~ Isn't that cute?"

The Italian's eye began to twitch. "What country…?"

"Heracles!" She smiled. "Or Greece rather~ Japan introduced him to me a while back! I saw him after I left and he asked me if I wanted to have a snack with him later. Wasn't that kind of him?"

"Greece asked you out?" Romano shouted.

Maria nodded. "I just explained that!" She said. "He isn't the only one Lovi… I mean Feli did too! And then there was that proposal from Mr. Bonnefoy and Mr. Kirkland, which I did turn down much to their dismay… I actually feel bad for doing that…"

The expression on Romano's face was becoming more and more irritated as she continued talking. "S-So!" He said trying control himself. "France and England were the ones that asked you to marry them?"

Maria nodded. "You mean I didn't mention that before? I could have sworn I did…"

"You said that some countries proposed and that was it!"

"I don't see why you're getting irritated about this Lovi…"

"I'm not irritated!"

"Then you shouldn't be shouting…" Philippines pouted. She pushed herself up from her sitting place. "I better get going… I want to make sure Heracles is awake when I get there…" And she ran off.

Romano tried to hold his anger in, at least till Philippines was far away. He threw a fit right in between Visayas and Mindanao. Good thing they both dodged.

"Yo!" Mindanao called out. "Watch it mi amigo! I don't wanna pull my dagger out on mi hermana's amigo you know! Mi hermana's amigo is mi amigo you know?"

Visayas slowly turned his head towards his little brother. "You begin to ramble you know that?"

The younger of the Philippine islands shrugged his shoulders. "Whatever mi hermano! I just say what's on my mind!"

Visayas' palm connected to his face. "I can't believe we're related…" Then he looked up to the Italian boy. "Why do you like her so much?"

"I don't like her the way you think…" Romano said, pulling back his fist. "I just don't like the fact of her dating that's all… She's still young."

"She's twenty mi amigo…" Mindanao stated. "She needs love! You know man! El amor!"

Visayas narrowed his eyes at Mindanao. "You need to be quiet…" He sighed then looked at Romano. "I hate to admit it but Emilio is correct. I highly disapprove of inday dating as well… That's why I don't like you…"

"You fish loving bastard…" Romano said under his breath.

"I know you like her…" Visayas sighed. "And I dislike every man that has an interest in her as much as I dislike you… So what are you going to do?"

Romano turned around. "Nothing you need to know…" Then he looked back at the brothers. "And just so you know…"

"I will get her."

AUTHOR'S NOTE

-I can't think of a little italicized thingy that I normally did put in this story… Forgive me lord for I have no clue what to put… But anywho… I skipped the Feli/Maria date… I couldn't think of a good idea of how it would work. But I will try to work with the Greece/Phili one. BEFORE ANYONE ASKS! I picked Greece because he was the only I knew of that had some contact with the Axis and has a relation to the Philippines in reality

Notes on Visayas and Mindanao:

-Based on research I had done, Bisayan is the language commonly spoken in Visayas while Cebuano and Spanish are commonly spoken with in Mindanao, which is why niether speak tagalog. Visayas can understand it though, it is one of the other languages some people can speak with in that island. Mindanao however can't because, based on research, tagalog is not a language spoken there.

Bisayan is somewhat similar to tagalog through most words base on what I saw, but some words are completely different such as when Visayas refers to Phili as "Inday" which is little sister in Bisayan(It would have been kapatid in tagalog).

In Mindanao, accordingly, there are a lot of Spanish speakers within the islands. Hence why Mindanao tends to say a lot of Spanish in his speech. As for a story to how he knows it for this story... Possibly Spain conquered him at one point but he was able to free himself sometime after.

Notes on the cat's names

-All the names of the canon characters cats (Gino, Bernhard, Luigi, Tama), Gino and Tama are canon as far as I know, the others are what I see most fans calling them. As for the Islands cats, Pantaleon "Leon" and Datu, are both named after Philippine heroes. Pantaleon is a hero from Visayas and Datu is a hero from Mindanao which is why their owner are as such. Miming, as far as I know, is a commonly used cat name in the Philippines which is why Phili's cat is named that.

P.S. I am in the process of writing 2 other Philimano stories both in an AU setting. I will post those soon if it is wanted. As a heads up though, the 1st one is more angst/drama/tragedy type setting and the 2nd one is more of a high school drama setting, both obviously have the romance. I won't spoil endings though.