It's been forever since I updated this, yes? It's so hard to get back into writing when I have to churn out at least one essay each week sighh...it completely ruins any motivation to write...
Anyways on to the story~ ^^ (I think there's only 1 chapter left after this)
"Where's Iggy? We haven't seen him in a while!" Alfred grinned, stretching his arms above his head.
Hong glanced towards the back of the house. "Um…"
Alfred didn't wait, pushing past Hong and loudly yelling England's name.
"Why are you here?" Hong asked, trying not to frown.
Canada opened his mouth to respond, but France beat him to it.
"The World Conference is in a few days, mon cher, but we always stay at England's house when it takes place in England. It annoys him that much more, you see." Francis snaked his arm around Hong's shoulders. "Perhaps you will share your room with me?"
France let out a loud yelp as he was tugged away from Hong by Taiwan. Her face looked rather annoyed and worried. Hong stepped closer to her, whispering, "What's wrong?"
"The children- Japan and I took our eyes off them for one moment and they both disappeared!"
"Les enfants?" France's ears perked up. "Did you two have children? I didn't even know you two were together. Congratulations! You two are, how you say, very cute together, oui?"
Taiwan glared at France. Hong Kong laid a placating hand on Taiwan's arm, though he was secretly pleased with what France said. "I'm sure the children will show up."
"Did England have children then? I thought la Chine was male. Did England cheat on him? Well, I suppose they've never admitted their feelings yet- but, I'll make sure to comfort la belle Chine," France mused with a smug grin.
The thought of their older brother in France's arms sent shivers down both the Asian's backs. Deciding it was best to simply ignore France, Hong turned to Taiwan. "Is Japan looking for-?"
A loud scream and a thump from the living room cut him off. Taiwan and Hong Kong exchanged a glance before running towards the living room, closely following Canada, though they did not notice him.
Taiwan breathed out a sigh of relief when they entered; catching sight of America sprawled on the ground with both England and China on his back. China smugly perched on the lower of America's back while England had divided parts of America's golden hair to yank on.
"England- no. Bad boy," Taiwan reprimanded, trying to hide a smile. England looked up at her, confusion written across his face. He furrowed his large eyebrows and experimentally gave the hairs in his hands a sharp tug.
From beneath, America groaned and tried to sit up.
"No, don't!" Canada cried, pushing down on America's head. "You'll hurt the children if you do!"
Hong Kong blinked curiously as America's head quickly hit the floor as if something had hit or shoved him. From behind him, France peered around and chuckled at the sight.
"Ah," Japan uttered, entering the room. He quickly scooped China up into his arms. "China-san, it is not good to jump other people." China cocked his head to the side before reaching up and slapping both of Japan's cheeks, giggling.
Meanwhile, the others were trying to pry America's hair out of England's chubby hands.
"England- let go!"
"No!" the baby cried, petulantly.
"If you don't, no more scones for you!"
England paused, though he didn't release the hair and glared at France.
"We'll take China home if you don't let go," Hong Kong threatened and England immediately let go.
"Good boy," Taiwan encouraged, ruffling his hair. England grinned up at her, then turned to Hong.
"Up!" he demanded, arms outstretched. Hong suppressed a groan and took the child into his arms.
"This is the last time, ok?" England cocked his head at Hong and bit his fingernail. Before Hong could lift him up into the air, America pulled him away, tossing the baby high into the air. England's squeals of delight quickly turned into screams of fear as he was tossed higher, far higher than normal.
Japan quickly stepped in and caught the child. The others glared at America who grinned back at them. Both England and China squirmed in Japan's arms to be let down. As soon as their small feet touched the floor, they took off hand in hand.
When the children were out of sight, France turned to the Asians. "And, ah, they are children why?"
"Do you even need to ask?" America chuckled. "Iggy obviously screwed up again."
Out of sheer politeness and courtesy (he would never admit it, but he had been raised by a gentleman, after all), Hong Kong invited the three guests into the sitting room for tea (ignoring the American's demands for pop). If it were really up to him, he would have turned out both America and France by now. Canada he was perfectly fine with, as he was barely aware of him half the time. England and China were already giving him headaches- he didn't need France and America to make it worse.
"Where did the kiddies go?" America asked, peering around the corners.
"Far away from you," Taiwan muttered. Hong shut his eyes. If only he could be away from all of them. Or, well, all of them excluding Taiwan.
"Take a seat please. I will boil you some tea," Japan said, politely.
France (and Canada took their place) while America trailed Japan to the kitchen.
"Don't ya have somethin' else?" they heard America say. "Tea's not really my- Argh!"
Hong rose partially from his seat and exchanged a half alarmed look with Taiwan, both stopping the smirk that was threatening to show. Their suspicions were confirmed as they heard Japan scolding both China and England.
Arthur sat quietly on Hong's lap while China struggled to get out of Japan's. Taiwan absentmindedly played with China's hair as she spoke. "I had forgotten there was a conference." A crease appeared between her eyes. "What are we going to do about them" She gestured to the children.
"If it is Angleterre's magic, then there is no telling when it will wear off-"
"I have an idea," Canada tried to interrupt.
"- or if it will wear off. His magic is usually very hard to fix. There's really no point in trying to solve this. Besides, they are very cute, non?" France grinned, reaching over the coffee table to pluck England off Hong's lap.
"I said I have an idea!" Canada huffed.
"Très mignon." France cradled the baby closer to him and blew a kiss. England giggled and copied him. France let out a sad sigh. "You were so much more cuter when you were younger."
Hong Kong felt his left eye twitch a little as he watched England stare up at France with complete adoration and awe. The things he never wanted to see…
Before Hong could reach over and take England back, China let out a loud screech and started sobbing. America groaned, the China's crying irritating his headache.
"China-san, what's wrong?" Japan held China away from him to avoid the flailing limbs. Tearfully, China insistently pointed at Kumajirou. The poor bear had been slowly edging its way back to it's owner. Finally being set down, China jumped on to the polar bear, rubbing his head against it's soft fur and cooing nonsense.
England wriggled his way out of France's arms, running up to China. An annoyed pout crossed his face and he grabbed on to China's hair, yanking hard and pulling him away from the bear. A growl of frustration erupted from one of them, though no one was sure whom. Kumajirou used this opportunity to try to sneak away back to Canada. He would have successfully escaped were it not for China flinging his chubby hands around a leg.
No one noticed Canada diving forwards, desperately trying to save his poor bear, only to have his hand bit by China.
France and Japan moved to separate the babies while Hong Kong leaned back against the couch, squeezing his eyes shut. He couldn't imagine how it would be like to actually have a child.
Once the children had been separated, China cuddling up in Japan's arms while England was playing with France's hair, Taiwan suggested, "Why don't you take them out for a walk."
Despite being rather out of it, America instantly agreed, grabbing China from Japan. Canada's groan went unheard.
Taiwan let the curtains cover the window after watching the group leave. Both China and England waved at her. She joined Japan and Hong Kong, both of whom were collapsed on the couch. Though not actually said, they would all rather take piles of paperwork rather than looking after the baby nations.
Taiwan let her eyelids flutter shut, trying not to visualize what her boss would be saying when it was discovered that she had left to go to England. It didn't seem that much time had passed, though it actually was quite a while, when a knock- of course there still had to be some sort of interruption!- caused her to groan and roll off the couch. She had half a mind to start screeching at whoever it was, but it turned out to be Finland, Sweden and that little nation that was always yelling at England.
"Yes?" she forced a sweet smile on to her face- it would reflect badly if she were rude.
"Where's Jerk England?" the little boy asked, pushing past Taiwan. Finland and Sweden filed in after.
"Not…here," Taiwan replied, cautiously. "Sealand, right?"
Sealand nodded enthusiastically. "You're pretty," he told her. "When everyone acknowledges me as nation, will you marry-" His words were cut off as Hong Kong lifted him off the ground with one hand.
"England's not here again?" Finland looked distressed. "He's so irresponsible. It would be better if Sealand just lived with us. Don't you think so Sweden?"
"Y's." Hong Kong noticed Sweden's face brighten up just a fraction.
"Well, actually, there's been a bit of an accident-"
The door behind them opened and the group that had gone for a walk filed in, the adults looking haggard. England and China still seemed to be charged up with energy and China was sporting a new Hello Kitty toy that England was eyeing.
There was an awkward silence as Finland, Sweden and Sealand stared at the children.
"As I said-irresponsible!"
Sealand's eyes were shining. "I'm a big brother now!" If one had stopped to actually look, they would have seen the evil grin that was spreading across his face. "Can I take them to go play?"
The babies let out spluttering noises as he dragged both of them off to go play.
"England's magic?" Finland guessed, though his expression said that he didn't expect anything else. "You know, I bet Norway would be able to turn them back- he uses magic too. Well, we'll take Sealand back with us- one less thing to deal with."
After collecting Sealand, and pulling a sobbing England out from behind the curtain where he was clutching on to China, Finland and his family left. The rest were left to wonder what Sealand had been doing as England remained frightened for the rest of the day and night, refusing to let go of China.
It had taken a while to drag both England and China to the Conference seeing as they both really didn't want to go anywhere. It was annoying how stubborn they both could be.
What was even more annoying and frustrating was when they approached Norway to ask for help, he refused outright.
From across the room, Finland shot Hong Kong and Taiwan an apologetic look.
"What do you mean 'no'?" Taiwan asked incredulously.
Norway gazed at the two babies in France's arms currently trying to claw out his hair. "I'd rather not get involved with English magic… and I'm finding this amusing."
For a good ten minutes, Taiwan tried in vain to persuade Norway, but to no avail.
"Dude…" America tugged on Hong Kong's sleeve. Hong Kong turned to him wearily. "We have a problem- the brats disappeared." He jerked his thumb towards France who was desperately looking around the room.
Suppressing the urge to explode, Hong allowed only one eye to twitch.
Off in a distant corridor, China was happily tugging England along. Their giggles echoed up and down the empty hall. Upon reaching the end of the corridor, they were faced with the choice of continuing left or right. China stuck out his lower lip, uncertain. England, sucking his thumb, gripped China's chubby hand tighter and pulled him left.
They continued running (though to where, they had no idea- this was all just fun to them), until China tripped, landing headfirst. Tears collected in his eyes and England bent down, alarmed by the tears. He quickly grabbed China's head, planting sloppy kisses everywhere in an attempt to stop the tears.
China smiled, reaching for England, when a pair of large hands wrapped around his waist, lifting him up.
"Well, what do we have here?" an astonished voice asked.
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