First days of school never frightened Toris. No, first days of schools had only ever frightened Feliks. The thing that scared Toris were bullies; Feliks was never afraid of bullies. No matter how they might laugh and jeer at Feliks, he never backed down. It was more likely for him to stomp up to them and even if they were a head taller than the blonde, Feliks would stare them down. "What was that? Say it again!" on the first day of school, Feliks had protected Toris from bullies. Those words were only for people trying to hurt him, however, because Feliks could not even muster a sound when people acted polite to him.

"Hello, I'm Toris and this is Feliks," Toris would introduce both of them with Feliks clinging to his arm and hiding behind him. Their personalities were completely different, but worked well together. In fact, that was how they had made it through all those days of school until high school.

Toris let out a sigh as he stood outside the school gates. Making new friends was easy for him, but he really didn't have the heart to anymore. Just as he was about to take the first step into his new school, a voice broke his thoughts. "Hello, Laurinatis!" Toris felt someone's arm wrap around his shoulder, leaning their weight onto him.

"Hey, where's that little gay friend of yours? I still owe him a punch from summer break. If you tell me where he is, I won't hurt you," the boy's lips turned into a sneer and Toris felt himself shaking involuntarily. "C'mon, spill! We won't even lay a finger on you for the entire semester! No need to be scared!"

That was it, Toris shrugged his arm off and sent his heel flying backwards into the boy's shin, "Shut up! I'm not afraid of you and you'll never find out where Feliks is!" It was the same boy who was making fun of them when they were on the swings two weeks ago. "You're such a useless loser, a coward, don't you know how to do anything other than bully others?" he wasn't sure what he was saying or how he got the courage to, he was simply spitting out hateful words.

"Ow, quit it!" the boy yelled back as he shoved Toris and prepared for a fist fight. As he was about to land the first punch, Toris punched him in the gut. "You little brat-"

"Move," the command came from behind the boy and was icy cold.

Toris, who could see the person behind the boy perfectly, widened his eyes in surprise.

"Do you want to get beat up too-" the boy turned around and gasped in surprise as well.

Standing behind them was a girl with the iciest eyes either of the boys had ever seen. She was pretty, but her demeanor made her feel unapproachable-like she was an assassin and they were her victims. Her aura gave off the feeling that she could kill both of the boys right there and then without any guilt or care. Both boys felt frozen in place. They were scared of her, but they were also in awe of her beauty.

"Are you going to make me ask again?"

"Ah..." both boys shuffled out of her way and watched her stride past the gate and into the school. Toris had never seen royalty walk before, but he was sure she walked like a queen in front of her subjects. He glanced at the other boy and saw that he was still staring at the doors after her.

"Ahem," Toris coughed to catch the boy's attention, "Don't show your face in front of me again." He turned to walk away, it appeared that the boy was still too dazed after the girl's appearance to make a retort.

Toris didn't recognize anyone in his classes. This school was large, much larger than his middle school and although several of his friends attended the school as well, it was not enough of a mathematical possibility that they would end up in the same class as him. The teachers were only giving out contracts and explaining the class rules for the first day of classes and Toris zoned out like many of his classmates.

I wonder what Feliks is doing?

Is he making any new friends?

I hope he hasn't picked a fight with anyone yet.

Toris' thoughts circled around Feliks for the rest of the period and when the bell rung, half the day was over. As Toris walked into the lunchroom, he realized he had been so busy thinking about Feliks, he hadn't made any friends or even talked to anyone yet. Today would be the first time he has to sit alone rather than surrounded by friends.

The cafeteria was rather full so it wasn't as awkward for him to ask a group of students whether or not he could take the empty seat at their table. They appeared to be juniors, at least, and made no attempt to talk with a freshman like Toris. Instead, they were gossiping amongst themselves.

"Man, the freshmen this year are tiny."

"I don't know, I heard some of the entrance exam grades were the highest they've gotten in years."

"Rude little bastards."

"Ah, speaking of rude..."

That's when Toris perked up. He had been listening to them talk the entire time, but he hadn't cared much. Now, he wanted to hear what they were saying so he chewed slower and watched them while pretending to pay attention to his food.

"There's this one freshman who has quite the attitude."

"Yea? He's probably going to have his spirit broken by some of the seniors pretty soon."

"No, no, you clearly didn't hear or see it. She's a girl. I only saw her in the hallways and she's really pretty."

"So she's a hot freshman? Eeew, pedo!"

"N-No, that's not it! I couldn't even approach her! She's really strange. It's weird, I happened to catch her eye when I walked by her, but the look she gave me..." the person paused, like he was trying to collect his thoughts, "...Like I was nothing to her. Like I didn't exist and she could kill me without any mercy if she wanted to."

The group was quiet for a moment before they all broke out laughing, "Whaaat, you're scared of a little girl?! That's hilarious!"

"H-Hey! I'm n-not scared of her!" but no matter how hard he denied it, there was no way any of his friends would believe him.

A scary freshman girl? Toris' thoughts raced back to the morning when he was entering the school. They couldn't be talking about that girl, could they? Toris could understand why the upperclassman who was just talking was scared of her. Heck, even Toris would admit that she startled him at the very least. But to think she was a freshman as well! She seemed so in control of everything...

The rest of Toris' day passed without much incident. It turned out that in his last class, the bully from this morning was his classmate. Nearly everyone attended the first day of school as well. The only absence had been a girl in his second to last period class. He didn't remember her name, but he remembered how he found it odd that someone would skip their first day of high school.

When the last bell rang and Toris packed all of his things, he made the mistake of waiting for Feliks on the first floor of the school building. It was what they had done in middle school and despite the fact that it was a new building, he couldn't shake the habit. Finally leaving the school, Toris peeked around the corner of the block to find that the bully and his gang of monkeys were waiting for him. Toris frowned, he didn't want to confront them. He wasn't scared, not anymore, but he didn't feel like causing trouble.

I suppose I'll just have to walk around them, he decided as he turned around and walked in the other direction, they are such trouble. He had been absorbed in his own hateful thoughts to the bully that he nearly missed seeing the limo parked behind the school. "...What's a limo doing here?" he wondered out loud. His first thought was that there was some celebrity nearby, but he quickly reconsidered-what would a celebrity do in a neighborhood like this? They would be at the city or the downtown area at least.

To his surprise, the freshman girl everyone was talking about walked out of the school with two men in suits a few seconds later.

Huuuuh, she really is a queen?! Toris stared wide-eyed as she was escorted into the limo. The Lithuanian boy stood stiff and frozen as he watched the limo drive away. This is amazing, he attended school with a queen. The entire way home, he thought about that girl and who she could possibly be. He had never seen her in the neighborhood before so she could very well recently moved here from another town. That said, what was a high classed lady doing in a... (he hate to put it this way) commoner's neighborhood? She probably wasn't anything as extravagant as a queen, but she looked rather important with a limo and her commanding, icy attitude.

When he got home, he placed his bag next to his bed and logged onto his computer to check his email and messages. Hmm...There was nothing from Feliks. Feliks updated frequently in all of his social network networking sites, but the sites showed that the blonde had not logged on to any of them for the past few days. Maybe he's busy with work, Toris thought as he put the computer back into sleep mode. He could do some homework while he waited for his friend to log on.

Feliciano could feel the room turn several degrees colder before the Pole jumped out of his seat and reached out to tackle Arthur. "No, Feliks! Violence doesn't get us anywhere!" Feliciano yelled as he reached forward and grabbed Feliks by the waist in order to prevent him from starting a fight with Arthur.

"I'M NOT A GIRL! I'M NOT A GIRL!" he shouted several times as Arthur tried to stay out of the blonde's reach.

"Lu-Lukasiewicz! Calm down!" Arthur stuttered as he dodged the incoming fists and kicks, "Don't make me get the strait jacket!"

Feliks paused, "...Why do you have like, a strait jacket?"

Arthur shrugged, "...Some of the students here are...rowdy." He coughed and Feliciano suddenly perked up.

"You put Ivan in a strait jacket?"

"Er...well, him and a few others."

In Feliciano's arms, Feliks paled, "What kind of school is this?"

Arthur shrugged again, like he didn't like this subject, "The dungeon isn't always effective."

"Dungeon?"

"Oh!" Feliciano's voice rose an active in excitement, "You haven't been there yet, right? I'll take you on a tour sometime!"

"...Thanks?" Feliks didn't know if he should look forward to that at all.

"Well, I'm glad you've calmed yourself, Lukasiewicz," Arthur said, sitting down in his chair opposite Feliks again, "Feliciano, continuing restraining him, though. Anyways, back to the subject. We understand you want to stay here even though you're a gi-"

"I'm not a girl!"

Arthur let out a breath of air. This was not going to be easy.

A few hours later, Feliks finally gave up trying to explain that he was indeed, male. He even pulled his pants off in front of them at some point, but both boys had quickly covered their eyes and refused to remove them until he put his pants back on. At least they were gentlemen, Feliks could respect them for that.

One good thing came out of this entire embarrassment and that was the fact that Feliks got the room change he wanted. Rather, Arthur just decided to skip the whole process and simply switch rooms with Feliks because they really can't leave Gilbert in a room with a girl. There were just...so many possible terrible consequences of that happening. While Arthur and Gilbert didn't necessarily get along, Arthur was one of the few people who could deal with the delinquent and probably drag him to class every day.

Meanwhile, Feliks' new roommate (Arthur's old one) was a guy named Yao. Arthur said it was okay because Yao was polite and looked like a girl so Feliks might feel more comfortable around him. (And he trusted Yao a lot more than Gilbert.) After informing Yao about the situation, Feliks was more than ready to move in with his new roommate.

(Gilbert was rather happy that he didn't have to deal with Feliks either, until he realized his new roommate was Arthur.)

"I'm not a girl," Feliks said as he finished hanging up the last of his clothes.

"I understand," Yao said with a grin.

"Uh...no, you don't. I am male," deciding to try and get Yao to believe, he pulled his pants down again. But somehow, everyone here have super fast reflexes because Yao was wailing something in Chinese as he covered his eyes. "Alright, alright, I'm putting them back on, please! Just stop yelling!"

"Thank you, aru~"

Deciding to make some small talk with his new roommate, Feliks asked as he sat on his bed, "You're an international student?"

Yao nodded.

"Why did you decide to come here?"

"It's a good school."

"And the hair style?"

"Um... To be a little different, I suppose."

Hmm...It seemed like his new roommate didn't really want to talk. Maybe he should just go to sleep.

"Do you like it here?"

"Huh?" Feliks was surprised by the fact that his roommate suddenly spoke to him. "Well," he shrugged, "I guess so. I'm totally not having the best experience thanks to Gilbert."

Yao chuckled, "You learn to get along with some of the people here, aru."

"It sounds like you're talking from like, experience."

"I...I guess so," his lips twitched, like he was reliving a bad memory. "Have you made any new friends yet?"

"Not really. I think Feliciano's the only one I can count as a friend..."

Yao giggled and if Feliks doubted that the Asian acted like a girl before, he was one-hundred percent sure that Yao was far more girly than he would ever look or be. "I'll introduce you to some of my friends tomorrow, then!"

"Yea? That would be like, totally awesome!"

The two of them chatted easily for another hour or so before Feliks decided to get some sleep while Yao went to the common room to do some homework. It was as he was about to fall asleep that Feliks realized he hadn't contacted Toris all day. He felt guilty, but getting up to log onto his laptop while he was half-asleep was near impossible. It's alright, I'll catch up with him tomorrow, because even though it was his first day of school, there were already so many stories he could tell his best friend.

Perhaps he'll really like attending this school after all.

"It seems like the only one who could make it here today was Ivan," Yao apologized as he sat down at the lunch table next to Feliks. "Leon and Mac-Mac have class right now in the middle school section."

"You know people from the middle school section? You guys must like, get around."

Yao stayed quiet while Ivan spoke up, "What about-"

"Haven't seen him today," Yao cut in and Feliks guessed that this was the person Yao had to learn to get along with. "Anyways, Ivan, this is Feliks. Feliks, this is Ivan."

The two of them shook hands and Feliks immediately got a bad feeling about this boy. His hand was ice cold and there was a strange look in his eyes. The conversation Arthur and Feliciano had yesterday popped back up in his mind as well, something about a strait jacket. They had to put this boy in a strait jacket. Feliks didn't know why, but he could clearly imagine why. Ivan was tall and big. Both him and Yao looked miniscule in comparrison.

"Nice to meet you, Feliks!"

"...Nice to meet you too." Why was Yao friends with this guy? They looked totally incompatible.

As the lunch period went on, however, Feliks could see why they were friends. Both of them seemed to emit a similar type of inexplicable loneness. He wasn't sure why or how he came to this conclusion, but Feliks wondered if they were each other's first friend in this school.

"Hey, Feliks! Do you have any siblings, aru?"

"Ah, no," the blonde quickly shook his head, "I like, wouldn't be able to live with a whiny brat."

"...Huh?" Yao mumbled, confused. It sounded as though Feliks called himself whiny.

"How about you guys? Do you have like, siblings too?"

"Yea," Yao grinned proudly, "Three!"

"...How do you live with that..." Feliks mumbled.

"I have two, da," Ivan answered, his thoughts seemingly elsewhere, "An older brother and...a younger sister. My older brother graduated from here two years ago."

"And your sister?"

"Well, she doesn't attend here," Ivan let out a nervous laugh, "Thankfully..."

Toris spent his second day of school much like his first day. Feliks never did contact him and he couldn't help but wonder if his best friend was actually having a lot of fun over there and had forgotten about him already. Toris had made a few new friends and while he was currently sitting with them during lunch, he had no wish in joining their conversation. They were only talking about classmates and teachers anyways.

"Did you spot any hot girls yet?"

"Well, when it comes to girls, it has to be that one, right?"

Ah...here it comes again, non-stop talk about the cold as ice freshman girl. There was endless gossip about her and Toris couldn't help but be interested every time she comes up in conversation. He wondered if all these rumors about her was true. Every time someone talked about her, he felt like he learned something new about her. It was strange, they didn't even have a proper conversation yet.

"But she's so scary! ...She does get high points, still."

"Did you hear, she only attended one class yesterday."

"Man, whoever was in that class with her was lucky! I'd like to be in a class with her."

"Really? I'll bet you're the first one she'd murder in that class."

"What do you have against her anyways!?"

This conversation was...really stupid. But Toris did learn something new about her (again). Maybe she'll go to all of her classes this time. Toris wasn't sure why, but he wanted to meet her all of a sudden.

To his surprise, in his second to last class of the day, she walked into class. Toris' eyes nearly bugged out of their sockets, did everything really fall into place so nicely? The girl who was absent yesterday was her!

Being the only one who was absent, she had to introduce herself in front of the whole class.

"Natalia Braginskaya," she said in a voice that sounded as though it was made of steel, "Please to meet you all." Her tone of voice made it clear that she didn't want to meet a single person in the entire room. And it just so happens, she ended up in the seat in front of Toris. At the moment, Toris thought this was perfect, but he would soon change his mind.

Toris didn't know why it took so long for him to notice it, but it was at the end of lecture when he saw it. He was getting bored of the teacher's voice and finding Natalia very pretty to look at. His eyes happened to glance downward mid yawn and he saw that under the desk, her fingers were clenched around a knife. Toris' eyes widened in shock, what was she doing with a knife in school?! And it wasn't even hidden in her bag, it was held that if a person happened to look a few inches below her desk, they would see the knife there. Toris felt very nervous for the remainder of the lesson.

When the bell rang, Natalia picked up her bag and walked quickly towards the door. "Wait, Natalia!" Toris called out and immediately regretted it. She turned around to face him with cold eyes, but didn't say a word. What was Toris going to say? That he saw her with a knife? She could easily just stab him with it and walk away. She didn't look like she cared for consequences, "Ah...um, nothing."

Toris walked quickly to his next class. He kept glancing behind him to make sure Natalia hadn't followed him. When he finally got to his classroom, the teacher wasn't there yet and he was too busy looking over his shoulder to see the leg stuck out in his way.

Toris crashed to the floor as he heard laughter above him. That stupid bully again! He just never stops!

Annoyed, Toris stood up and reached over to grab the bully's collar. The bully, who was laughing too hard, wasn't aware until he was caught in Toris' grip.

"I've had enough of you!" he raised his arm to punch him-

"What do you think you're doing!" the teacher just had to walk in at that moment.

Of course, he didn't see the bully trip Toris earlier and only Toris got in trouble at the end. The punishment was one week's worth of detention. Toris couldn't believe it! He had always been the good kid and never got into trouble. This came to him as a shock, but even more shockingly, he wasn't sure if he could bring tell his parents when he got back home. He still had the childish habit about telling his parents about his school day and he had a tendency to be very thorough about it, even if he meant to keep things a secret.

Still, the teacher wouldn't budge and when the last bell rang, Toris found himself walking into the detention room. What he didn't expect was to see Natalia Braginskaya there as well.

There weren't any other students in the room to compare to, but Toris was sure that detention didn't involve tying someone to a chair. He looked at the half asleep teacher watching over them, then back at Natalia. She was silently glaring at the teacher. Toris knew they weren't allowed to talk, but it didn't look as though the teacher would notice anyways.

"N-Natalia?"

She didn't move her face or neck, just her eyes moved to the corner to look at him, "...?"

"Uh... Fancy seeing you here?" she returned to glaring at the teacher.

"So, uh, what got you into trouble?"

No answer.

"It's been a pretty bad day for me, I suppose," Toris didn't know why he was trying so hard to make conversation, "My best friend went to attend Hetalia's School, it's pretty lonely here."

That's when Natalia seemed to snap her attention to him, "...Brother's school?!"

"Huh...Your brother attends there?"

Slowly, she nodded, "I'm here for attacking a senior today. I knew her, she made fun of Brother."

Toris wasn't sure what to say, she seemed protective of her brother and looked as though she would snap any moment.

"I will...I will go find him!" she began tugging at the rope around her wrists and rocking the chair.

"Woah, woah, shh, shh..." he glanced at the teacher, who was still half asleep.

"I will go find Brother! They can't separate us, I'll go and attend that school!"

"How?! You're a girl!"

"That doesn't matter, I'll find a way to do it!"

The thought suddenly popped into his head and Toris wasn't sure why he decided it was a good idea. "...If you go, can I come with you?"

Natalia's eyes showed something aside from icy coldness for the first time, "...Why?" her tone full of curiosity.

"Like you, there's someone, I..." he held his voice steady and looked at Natalia in the eye, "Someone I really, really want to be with attending there as well!"

There was a pause before Natalia chuckled, "You can't be serious! That school is highly protected and only for the best students! You think you have what it takes to get in there?"

"Do you?"

"Of course!"

"Maybe get in, but staying in? I don't think they appreciate having girls attend an all boy school."

At those words, Natalia's face fell into a scowl again, "I'll find a way."

"I'll help you. Once we get into the school, I can be there to help. It's always easier if there's someone there to share your secret," at this point, Toris was saying whatever bullshit he could come up with to get her to let him in on her plan, he was sure it wasn't going to work, but it was worth a try.

"...Untie me."

Toris was uncertain if it was really safe to do that, but he supposed winning her favor could take time and every little bit counts. He quickly undid the rope around her wrists and in seconds, she had picked up her knife and the teacher was now tied to his chair.

"W-What, hey, what are you-!" looked like he finally woke up.

"C'mon!" she yelled as she grabbed Toris' wrist and pulled him out of the room and ran outside of the school.

"We're leaving tonight," she yelled at Toris, "Pack everything you need and prepare for a journey!"

All Toris could think of was, whaaaaat! Things were moving too fast.

If anything sounds strange in this chapter, it's cause I wrote most of it at two in the morning. I feel like I should really update on the kink meme as well, but I've gotten a new laptop and all my old bookmarks are lost forever in there orz. (If there is a way to retrieve it, I'll have to check when I go back home...) For now, I'll just be updating here. :( Also, I just wanted to say...both Lithuania and Poland's personalities are so hard to write! Feliks is supposed to be shy around strangers, yet isn't afraid to pick a fight... Toris is an introvert, yet a formidable opponent... About pairings, I said I was making this Lithuania/Poland and I intend to keep it that way. I don't know about the rest of the characters, though. Anyone have any suggestions?