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Russia, still holding Canada's hand, lifted his head away. He liked the taste of maple syrup on his hand. He wanted more but that would be going too fast, it would alarm Canada, according to Lithuania. Besides, Canada was already blushing up a storm on his face and he looked greatly confused, so he decided not to do anything more.
"W…what? W-What was that f-for?" Canada asked shocked at this action.
"Ah…" Russia didn't plan to answer that question. Not in a way that would scare the younger country. Right now he wished he had Lithuania's brain to get out of this situation, "Go get dressed"
That was all he said before pushing Canada out the door to his room. That was the only thing he could think of to say to him. Russia mentally beat himself up for not coming up with something better. He also hated himself for not telling Canada he loved him, for not being able to. When would be the right time? How? Where? Russia tried to shake off these thoughts but they stayed in his head, maybe more advice from Lithuania would help. Russia headed to the dining room where he heard everyone chatting. He stopped when he heard his name mentioned. Staying on the other side of the corner he listened.
"…I'm worried for Mr. Russia though, he's going through something he's never experienced before" said Lithuania's voice.
"But Lithuania, is my little brother going to be alright, what is it that he's going through?"
"I can't tell you, I think Mr. Russia would like to keep that secret"
"Does brother have a surprise wedding planned for me?"
"N-no, Sorry Belarus"
"That's ok, I can wait"
Russia didn't find any of this gossip to be interesting, until Latvia spoke.
"Is Mr. Russia dying?"
Russia giggled a bit.
"Uh, no Latvia, Mr. Russia isn't dying"
Once Canada was downstairs, he found Russia spying on the baltics and his sisters.
"Russia?"
Russia glanced back at Canada. Canada's hair and skin was now dry. He wore a light blue hoodie and lighter blue jeans. His cheeks were a little rosy and he looked as innocent as ever.
Before Russia could speak he overheard Estonia saying something about going out to the mall they had visited before. Russia liked this idea, he wanted to go out and buy something other than Christmas stuff, hopefully. Russia came from around the corner and Canada followed.
"That sounds like a good idea" Russia said cheerfully.
The baltics were a little surprised to see that Russia was eavesdropping on them, but since he looked happy they didn't worry too much.
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They entered the mall. The entrance was covered with various Christmas decorations. This didn't appeal to Russia, so he kept walking through the mall.
"Woah wait guys!" Poland shouted as he dashed to a window to a shop.
Everyone stopped walking and looked in his direction.
"There's like, some totally cute shoes in that store!"
"Figures…" Russia groaned. He didn't want to go shoe shopping at all. He wanted to find what he came to buy.
Canada was looking around nervously for his brother and anyone else that he might have dragged along with him. Still he thought, What are the chances of him showing up again?
Poland came out with about 3 pairs of shoes making Lithuania facepalm.
"Poland, You only need one pair"
"What? Liet, you like totally don't get it! I can't run in flip flops, and I need this one cause I CAN run in it"
"What about the other one?"
"…It was SO half off!" Poland said cheerfully.
Lithuania sighed and turned away from Poland, now looking at the impatient Russia that stood still arms folded. A cold chill ran up his spine when Russia stared at Lithuania with that irritated face.
Lithuania immediately turned back to Poland.
"W-Well, let's get going Poland, much more shopping to do!"
"Now THAT'S more like it, Liet!" Poland giggled taking Lithuania's hand and running with him ahead of the others.
After a while of shopping, Russia finally found a store that might have what he was looking for. He entered it without even telling the others.
Ukraine was the first to notice Russia was missing.
"Oh no!" She panicked, "Where's little Ivan?"
"He's in that store over there" Belarus replied.
"O-oh, ok then" They decided to wait instead of joining him. After all, since he didn't say he was going in that store he obviously wanted to go alone.
"I KNEW I'D FIND YOU HERE!" A voice came out of nowhere as Canada was tackled.
It was America! Leave it to him to be stubborn enough to wait for Canada to return, especially after what Russia told America before.
"B-brother? What are you doing here?"
"Mattie, I'm your bro, and as your bro, I'm worried sick about you. Not to mention I am sick, you know cause of the recession. Still I won't let that commie bastard have his way with you… what did he touch?"
"America!" Canada's cheeks turned a light shade of red.
"What? I'm serious!"
"He didn't do anything like that"
Just then, France and England came running. They looked exhausted as if they had run 20 laps without stopping or walking.
"Took you two long enough" America joked.
"Mon Dieu! *pant* Can't you just *pant* wait up for us?"
"*pant pant* I have to agree *pant* with the frog, for once"
"You're both just slow"
"Aren't you supposed to be LAZY? GIT!" England argued.
"Pff, stereotypes"
Poland walked over to Canada and his family and the others followed.
"Wow, so you guys are Matvey's family? I'm Ukraine it's nice to meet you all"
France, England and America stared at her for a while before their eyes almost drifted lower.
"Mattie, I want to talk to you?" America said as he wrapped one arm around his little brother walking away from the others, "Mattie… uuuuh… Who's that?"
"That's my friend, Ukraine. She's really nice and-"
"Don't tell me you don't notice those balloons!" America whispered loudly.
"America! That's rude! I don't care that they are there!" Canada whispered as well.
"How can you NOT care that they're there! That's like ignoring a plane crash that happened in your own backyard!"
"Just drop it brother…"
"I'd like to but it won't go down" America winked in a joking manner.
Canada's face turned red from anger as he pouted at his brother.
"Alright alright, sheesh, you have no sense of humour" America headed back to the others as Canada followed.
Russia came out of the store to find Canada's family had found him again. He knew America would try to take Canada away, he didn't want this. Russia made his way to the others.
"Hello" He said wearing a child like grin.
"U-uh, h-hello Russia" England said shakily.
"U-um, Bonjour Russia"
"Hey Commie…" America growled"
"Hello America" Russia glared.
You could just see the flames around the two already. Canada got in between them and looked up at Russia.
"Why don't we keep shopping, eh?"
"Ah?" Russia liked the Canada standing right there in that spot. The sun from one of the windows beamed down on him making his skin and hair shine like an angel. He wanted to just touch his face right there.
"Hey Russia!" Poland shouted snapping Russia out of his peaceful thoughts.
"Da?" He said somewhat angrily.
"You two are like, totally standing under mistletoe"
Both Canada and Russia looked up to see the mistletoe hanging over them. To Russia, this was a gift. To Canada this was the start of a bad day.
This gave Russia a reason to kiss Canada, to have him for just a few seconds.
"You have to like kiss each other now" Poland laughed, liking this moment.
"Da. We do" Russia agreed happily.
"Oh no you don't!" America butted in, "No COMMIE is gonna kiss MY brother!"
"It's the rules of the mistletoe"
"Screw the mistletoe. I can easily burn the damn thing!"
France got bored of this real fast and stomped on America's foot making him yell, hopping on one foot while holding the injured one.
"Go ahead mon cher~"
Canada didn't feel saved by France at all, he felt more rescued by his brother, but now he had to do what everyone was waiting for him to do. He swallowed hard and looked up at Russia who also looked at him.
Russia stepped closer to Canada and wrapped an arm around his waist pulling his body close to his own and he placed a hand on his face to make Canada look up at him. Apparently Russia wanted to do this with style.
He leaned down face close to Canada's face. Canada closed his eyes awaiting the kiss from the frightening Russian. Then just like that, Russia kissed Canada passionately, in front of everyone, especially his brother who was now gawking at the two as France and England held him back from trying to break it up. Russia liked this, no, he loved this. He wanted more of him. Much more. Canada's face reddened to its fullest as Russia's face burned with blush itself. Canada at first didn't want this, he was scared of Russia, but somehow he calmed down and enjoyed the kiss himself. Russia pulled away from the kiss, hating every moment he wasn't kissing Canada anymore. Canada just stared at Russia not knowing what just happened, or why he enjoyed the kiss.
"HECK NO!" America yelled as he swung his arms out of England and Frances grasp.
America tackled Russia pinning him to the ground. He jabbed Russia with multiple striking punch's.
Russia fought back, both of them trying to pin the other. Blood ran down America's and Russia's nose and mouth's. Canada tried his best to break up the fight, but Russia pushed him away onto the floor.
Suddenly a shrill cry came from one of them. It was Russia. America had slashed him with a pocket knife across Russia's arm causing it to bleed plenty.
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