A/N:For those who didn't know, these are the main characters of my story (which means they appear often):

Elizaveta Hedervary – Hungary

Roderich Edelstein – Austria

Vash Zwingli – Switzerland

Gilbert Beilschmidt – Prussia

Feliks Łukasiewicz – Poland

Lili Zwingli – Liechtenstein

I may add some new characters later..I can't wait to write the chapter where HE (not Austria) comes along. Just wait for it.

The Beginning [PART I]

It was a peaceful day in Budapest. The trees swayed as the wind blew, the sky is clear and of a crystalline blue, and laughter from children playing outside can be heard through the streets of the town. But there was one girl, one girl who was holding her father's hand as they walked back to their home - the father holding a bouquet of roses for her wife and the girl, holding an Edelweiss that is in full bloom. The girl smiled at her father as they walked towards the door of their house.

"Will Mom like our gifts for her, Dad?", the girl asked, her big, green eyes focused on her father, who was now giving her a warm smile as he patted her head.

"Well, of course, my little girl. Mom will not only like these, but she would absolutely love it, I'm sure."

February 14th. Valentine's Day. It was a peaceful day in Budapest. A peaceful day, indeed.

"The awesome me's now bringing his awesome gifts!"

Elizaveta looked at Gilbert, who just barged into their house without even knocking.

"Ugh. Gilbert. You don't know how to knock before you enter someone's house, do you?", she asked, as she approached the little albino.

"Kesesese! Dad told me I should go over and bring this to you.", he whispered, as he dropped the big package on the floor. "Just keep it a secret, okay?"

"Gilbert, what is this?", Elizaveta asked as she tore open the wrapping of the package. She opened the box, and she found a toy air gun inside of it. Her mouth turned into a wide smile, and hugged the albino, repeatedly thanking him for the gift.

"I know you would like it. Dad was planning to give it to you on Christmas, but he was busy back then, so he only got the time to deliver this just now.", Gilbert said as he dropped another box in front of Elizaveta. "And this is my awesome gift to you. Happy Valentine's Day."

Elizaveta smiled as she opened the box. She found a pair of flower hair pins inside, and her mouth turned into a frown when she saw them.

"What the hell, Gilbert? You know that I don't use these stuff.", she said as she closed the box.

"Aww, but Eliza.. I'm just really curious as to how you would look like if you wore those pins..", Gilbert whined and earned a smack on the head from Elizaveta.

"Well.. Here. I.. bought it for you.", Elizaveta grabbed a big box from the other room, and showed it to Gilbert. "When my Dad and I were in town, I saw this and it quickly reminded me of you.", she said, as the little albino excitedly grabbed his present and opened it.

"Huh? A bird?", there was a look of disappointment on his face. "A bird? A bird reminded you of le awesome me?"

Elizaveta scratched her head as she tried to think of an explanation. "Well.. Yes.. I don't know what came over to my mind when I saw that little, yellow creature in the pet shop we passed by earlier.. When I looked at it, it kinda looked like something that I can give to you..", she answered.

The albino looked at the little bird again. 'Well, it's kinda cute, I guess', Gilbert thought to himself. He opened the lock of the cage and out flew the little bird. It landed on Gilbert's head, snuggling itself on its new owner's head.

"Look! I think he likes you already!", Elizaveta exclaimed, as she pointed at the little bird.

Gilbert chuckled as he patted the little bird's head. "Well, he's awesomely cute, just like the awesome me. Now that I think about it, I think I know what to name this little cutie."

Elizaveta looked at Gilbert with curious eyes. "What?"

The albino smiled.

"I'll name him.. Gilbird."

Two hours passed, and the two little kids were out playing on the lawn. Elizaveta chased after Gilbert with her new toy air gun, and the albino was running away, while laughing and screaming, "You can't chase le awesome me, you know, Eliza!", but then quickly stopped at his tracks when he saw a moving van park in front of the house next to Elizaveta's.

"Eliza.. We have a new neighbor! I wonder if there's gonna be a new kid in town! I hope he's as awesome as le awesome me!", Gilbert exclaimed, as Elizaveta also stopped running, and looked at the direction where Gilbert was looking.

"A new neighbor, huh?"

The two kids found themselves hiding in the bushes, looking at their new neighbors as they got off their car. A smiling man who didn't look Hungarian at all opened the passenger door of the car, and a beautiful woman in her early 30's got off and held the smiling man's hand. Two kids got off the car as well, the older one, a boy, was wearing an indifferent and aloof expression, while the other one, a girl, was holding a teddy bear, and was smiling while she talked to her older brother. 'I'm guessing that they moved from another country, because they don't look Hungarian at all.', Elizaveta thought to herself, while the obnoxious Gilbert got out from their hiding place and ran towards their new neighbor's kids.

"Hey! Le awesome me is here to welcome you in our town! Nice to meet you, the name is Gilbert Beilschmidt!", he exclaimed as held out his hand. The older boy just looked at the albino's hand, but didn't shake it.

Elizaveta facepalmed herself as she got out of the bushes as well. She approached the albino and their new neighbors, wearing a tired expression on her face. "I'm sorry for my weird friend right here. It's.. his normal behavior, really.", she said as she looked at the two kids in front of her. "By the way, I'm Elizaveta Hedervary, and I'm gonna be one of your neighbors here.." she introduced herself, then pointed at her house. "My house is over there, just right next to yours."

Gilbert put an arm around Elizaveta's shoulders as he pointed at his house as well.

"And my house is over there, right next to Eliza's.", he said, grinning.

The little girl were about to approach them with a smile when all of a sudden, her older brother stopped her from doing so.

"Stop. We don't know who these punks are. They look dangerous to me.", the older boy said, as he looked at the toy air gun Elizaveta was holding in her hands.

"W-wait! How dare you call us punks! And we're not dangerous, you rude bastard!", Gilbert said as he was about to lunge towards the older boy. Fortunately, Elizaveta stopped him just in time by grabbing the collar of the angry albino.

"Gilbert. They're just new here. Control yourself.", she said as she breathed in a lungful of air. 'This blonde little kid doesn't look very nice at all.", Elizaveta thought to herself as the older boy scowled at them.

"See? This weird albino even tried to attack me, Lili!", he told her little sister, as he urged that the two of them should go inside the house.

"Aww.. But brother.. I want to make new friends here.. And they look really nice..", the little girl, Lili, said as she looked at Elizaveta and Gilbert. "And it was rude of you to call them punks, you know?", she reprimanded her older brother as she placed her hands on her brother's arm that was stopping her from getting close from Elizaveta and Gilbert. "Be nice, brother."

The albino babbled on nonsense at Elizaveta, when she noticed that the little girl from earlier, was about to approach them, with a smile on her face. She gave the little girl a smile in return.

"Hello. My name is Lili Zwingli, and my family and I are from Switzerland.", the little girl said, as she held out her hand to Elizaveta. "Nice to meet you.. Elizaveta, right?"

Elizaveta smiled as she took Lili's hand and shook it. "Nice to meet you too, Lili. I hope we didn't do anything weird and suspicious for your older brother to act like that..", she said.

Lili chuckled. "No, no. Brother is always like that. He worries for my safety too much, and also, he's just a sour grape, as always.. I apologize for his rude behavior from earlier. I hope you don't take his words to heart."

"Well, no worries! Eliza and I aren't easily affected by the stupid remarks your brother gave us earlier..", Gilbert said, with a hint of sarcasm, as he glared at the older boy. The older boy glared back at Gilbert. It looked as if the two held a glaring competition. Elizaveta noticed this and gave Gilbert a smack on the head. Lili reprimanded her brother for glaring at Gilbert, and considered it a rude gesture.

"Well.. since my older brother obviously doesn't want to introduce himself, I'll introduce him for you. His name is Vash Zwingli, and I am guessing he's the same age as you, guys..", Lili said, as she tried to push her big brother towards the two kids in front of them. Lili noticed that their parents were taking a long time putting the crates in their house, and didn't even notice that the two kids were talking to their new neighbors.

Lili, pushing with all her might, accidentally pushed her older brother with a bit more force than she intended to, and her brother, accidentally, knocked Elizaveta over and landed on top of her.

"Hey! Are you all right?", Elizaveta asked, her arms loosely wrapped around the blushing Swiss. Elizaveta tried to get a better look on Vash's face, but he quickly stood up, trying to hide the blush from his face.

"Elizaveta! Are you alright?", Gilbert asked, as Elizaveta tried to get the dirt off her pants.

"Yes, yes. I'm perfectly fine. But what about Vash?", she asked, as she looked towards Vash, who was biting his lower lip, and still had a hint of a blush on his cheeks.

"Brother, are you okay?", Lili asked Vash, as she held her older brother's hand. Vash tried to hide his face from her little sister, trying to suppress the warm feeling that was building up inside him. He looked at Elizaveta, and noticed that.. she's kinda pretty, now that I think about it..

The words he thought were running inside his mind, accidentally slipped from his own mouth, unconsciously. Lili stared at her older brother, with her big, green eyes, in awe and amazement. She never heard her older brother compliment another person before, and she knows that her brother rarely even gives a compliment, even to her.

Elizaveta looked at Vash, surprised. 'Me? Pretty?' She asked herself. She can't believe the words the Swiss told her, for she rarely hears those words from other people, besides her parents, or Gilbert's parents, or when Gilbert knocks his head with something and starts babbling unbelievable nonsense.

At Elizaveta's side, Gilbert can't stop himself from laughing his socks off. "Pretty?!", he rolled on the ground, laughing. Vash glared at him, but his cheeks were obviously blushing from embarrassment. As Gilbert tried to wobbly stand up from too much laughter, he rubbed his eyes as he said, "You should get your eyes checked, Vashy, ole boy."

Vash was about to lunge at him, annoyed and irritated with the nickname the albino just gave him, when Lili grabbed her older brother's arm. "Brother.", she said in a pleading voice. Vash tried to compose himself, breathe in, breathe out. He wouldn't let himself stoop to the obnoxious, albino's level by fighting him. Yes, by doing so, he would show that he is more mature and responsible than this stupid little kid..

"Lili. Vash. Time for dinner.", the beautiful woman from earlier, called out to her children from the doorway. Lili and Vash's parents were already finished unloading the crates from the moving van, and the children didn't notice that the sun was already setting. Lili was the first to go inside the house. "Coming, mom!", she said as she excitedly went into her new home. Vash, looking hesitant to go inside, looked at Elizaveta nervously and asked, "Do you.. want to come over some time? I also have my own air gun.. We can play together.. If you want to."

Elizaveta looked at Vash, noticing how cute Vash's cheeks blushed furiously, as he fidgeted, and was now looking at the ground. She smiled at him. "Of course! Gilbert and I can come over tomorrow, and cool! You even have your own air gun!", she exclaimed, as she went and wrapped her arms around the blushing Swiss. "See you tomorrow, ja?", she asked.

Vash stuttered as he answered. "J.. Ja."

He quickly ran towards the doorway, casting one final glance at Elizaveta, who was waving goodbye at him, the corners of his mouth lifting a bit into a small smile, as he slowly closed the door. Elizaveta looked back at Gilbert, who was patting Gilbird on his shoulder, and was whispering something to the little bird. "Hey! Let's go home.", she told the albino as she started to get going.

"I think that Vash guy likes you.", Gilbert said, as he started to follow Elizaveta.

Elizaveta looked at Gilbert with a shocked expression. "What the hell, Gilbert? You always talk nonsense, and this is the most foolish thing you've ever told me, so far.", she told him, as they were about to reach the door of Elizaveta's house. "I bet you're just hungry, thinking about foolish stuff like that. You should go home now."

Gilbert chuckled to himself. 'Well, Elizaveta really was a naïve girl', he thought to himself. He smiled at her, and also went on his way towards his house. "Okay, okay. I guess I'm just hungry."

Elizaveta entered the house to find her mom smiling at her, holding the Edelweiss she brought for her earlier. She hugged her mom, and she can see her dad putting the bouquet of roses into a nice, white vase in the living room.

'This had been a nice, peaceful day.', she thought to herself, as she held her mom's hand.

A/N : Finally! I almost had a writer's block from writing this chapter. I was trying to force my brain to formulate ideas, but this was what I can only think of, as of the moment. This chapter is obviously a filler, but I want to show how the characters met, etc. And yes, this chapter has a lot of PruHun and SwissHun in it. Don't worry, I'm saving the best for AusHun, of course. You'll just have to wait for that chapter, okay? I'll try my best to write it as soon as I can.

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