"Well, what do we have here?" an astonished Estonia asked as he lifted China up. He balanced China against his hip and adjusted his glasses. He glanced down at England. "You both look familiar…"

England tugged on Estonia's pants, cooing at him to be picked up. Estonia obeyed, gingerly picking the drooling child up. No sooner had he done that did the child yank his glasses off and Estonia remembered why he tended to stay away from children, as much as he liked them. They were something he sorted into the should-view-from-afar category.

He winced when England started to gnaw on his glasses. The other one was attempting to claw off his watch, though he was having no progress. Estonia could just barely see the face of his watch and it was telling him that he was going to be late for the conference. His watch never told him the right things.

Perhaps if he put the children down, he could leave them and make it to the conference on time. He quickly abandoned this idea (it wasn't a very good idea, after all) when both babies started to wail as he moved them.

Perhaps he could find an employee and hand them over. They were most likely the children of some employees who had just wandered off due to bad parenting and faulty observation skills. Regardless, they would deal better with the children than he would.

Of course, no employees were within his field of vision. No one was ever in a convenient location when he needs them to be.

Well, if no one was around, he'd just have to go find someone. This proved easier said than done. As soon as he started moving, both children started to squirm and attempt to climb up him. As skilled as Estonia was in many things, dealing and walking with squirming children was not one of them.

Estonia gave up attempting to walk and focused on trying to get the children to calm down and stay still. He really didn't appreciate the small feet that were kicking at his chest and neck. He had just about given up when a pair of hands took the Chinese looking child out of his arms. He didn't see who it was (he assumed it was one of the employees) and turned around to thank them. Instead, it was Russia who was smiling pleasantly at the children.

"I did not know you had children," Russia remarked, taking hold of China's smallest finger and waving it. China stared at Russia, unusually compliant.

"I don't," Estonia answered.

"Oh? Then whose are they?"

"I'm not sure…" Estonia discretely edged away from Russia.

"Then I shall take custody of them both," Russia gleefully declared, swooping in and taking England into his other arm. "Oh? Such thick eyebrows for one so young. Perhaps he is related to England. What do you think?"

"…I had not noticed…"

"How do you not notice? Perhaps we should fix it. We could shave off the excess amounts of hair, da?" Russia directed the question more towards the wide-eyed child. "It is good idea, da?" He acted out shaving off the eyebrows. A small whimper escaped England. "Or maybe get rid of the eyebrows completely."

"I- I think you are frightening him. I think it would be better if I…" Estonia plucked England away and held him securely in his arms.

Russia let it happen with a faintly depressed smile. "I am scaring the child? I think you are lying to me. This one is not scared. See?"

China seemed completely indifferent to Russia- the opposite of how England and Estonia were- and seemed quite content to just simply chew on the end of Russia's scarf. Russia frowned at this.

"This is not something you should be chewing, little one. It is not food." Russia tugged gently on his scarf. He growled lightly, "Let go."

China suddenly relinquished the scarf in his mouth, giggling and reaching up to pinch the Russian's prominent nose. Both children grinned when they heard the sound Russia emitted from that- it was somewhere between a squeak and an indignant growl.

Slightly terrified of what Russia's reaction might be and a little more amused than he should be at the shocked expression on Russia's face, Estonia figured he should probably take the children away now.

"Why, uh, don't you pass me the child now and I'll take them back to where they belong?" Estonia held out an arm, beckoning China to join him and England.

A frown quickly appeared on Russia's face. "I thought that you said you don't know whose they are."

"Well, yes, but-"

"Then I shall be keeping them. Whoever lost them is not good enough to look after them. They look familiar, though…" Russia seemed to be contemplating this while China had taken to playing with the strands of Russia's hair. "Well, I will keep this one," Russia continued, bouncing China in his arms and smiling slightly when China giggled. "The other one is too fearful. You're a very brave one, da, you are,"

Russia cooed to China. "You look a bit lonely, you won't look lonely if you live with me."

"Wait- you can't-" Estonia attempted to convince Russia, too rattled at standing up to Russia, though, to make a convincing point.

Russia chuckled at the flustered expression on Estonia's face. "I see no problem. We are late for the meeting, you must be worried, so let us go."

"I-"

Estonia was cut off as the blonde child in his arms opened his mouth and let out the loudest wail he had ever heard and hoped to never hear again. Even Russia looked perturbed by the child.

"Why- why are you crying. Do not cry," Estonia pleaded, jiggling England. "Crying is not good. Not good, don't cry."

England only raised the volume.

"Make him be quiet," Russia demanded, looking at the docile child in his arms with worry.

"Shh," Estonia tried, unsuccessfully. "A good and well liked child is quiet. You want to be liked, right? Don't you want to be cute? Then stop crying."

A second loud cry joined England's as China opened his mouth, squirming and thrashing around.

"This child is crying too. Do something about it." Russia thrust China towards Estonia, keeping him away from his body.

Estonia resisted the urge to snap at Russia for fear of how scary Russia would be later if he did. It was almost worth being terrorized, but not quite.

"This is hard. Let us get rid of them," Russia suggested. "I mean leave them," he amended when he saw the look on Estonia's face.

"We can't!"

"I can." With that, Russia dumped a screaming China into Estonia's arms and proceeded to stroll casually away, stubbornly looking forwards.

Estonia tried in vain to calm the two down, but all his efforts seemed to make them cry even more. Luckily, there was a light tap at his shoulder and when he turned, he saw Taiwan standing there. She looked a little worn out, but she gave him a distracted smile and took the two babies from him.

"They're yours?" Estonia asked when the two had calmed down.

"Sort of. I'm looking after them," Taiwan explained. "So thanks for… looking after them."

Estonia nodded in reply and took the chance to escape.

"You two are terrible," Taiwan addressed her two charges. "Much worse than when you're adults."

Despite all their pleading, Norway continued to refuse to help them, saying that as it did not directly affect him he did not care. Hong Kong could think of several reasons why it did and would impact him, but he decided that silence was better. So, they decided to take the babies home.

"What if they stay like this forever?" Taiwan asked Hong as she monitored the children playing a game, which looked more like China was tackling a defenseless England into the ground. "I can't look after them forever! Their people can't have babies as their country. And why aren't the Europeans looking after England? They're so useless."

"I thought you said you didn't care about what happens to China," Hong Kong observed, pulling China off of England.

Taiwan snorted. "I do, I just don't want gege to know."

"You have made him cry unnecessarily, then," Hong remarked, helping a dazed England up.

"I like to see him cry. Just when he's an adult, though."

Hong let go of China. Both adults watched as China flung himself back on to England.

"Dinner must be ready, want to come help me?"

Hong nodded and followed Taiwan into the kitchen. Everything was peaceful for a few minutes until they heard a loud noise and then screams.

Both Hong Kong and Taiwan ran back to the living room, where they had left the children. Taiwan took one glance and screamed.

"Why are- both of you are- you guys are naked! Why? Why are you naked?" Taiwan covered her eyes with her hands, but slyly peeked through. Hong Kong simply blinked and waited for the two on the floor to pick themselves up. The two were groaning and holding their heads.

China was the first to recover, swaying unsteadily on his feet. "Aiyaa, it feels like someone threw bricks at my head again, aru." He groaned. "What happened?"

England lifted his head, opting to stay down since he was pretty sure he would just topple over if he did get up. His eyes widened. "You're, ah, you're naked." He averted his eyes, but they disobeyed his mind and kept going back for a look.

"So are you, aru!" China shot back, his face much brighter than England's. "Don't look, ahen! I bet this is your entire fault! It's always your fault! What have you done now?"

"I didn't do anything…I think."

"This is a sick joke, aru," China muttered, but he was much less upset than he seemed.

"I really don't know what happened," England offered, struggling to look away from China.

"You-"

"Will the two of you put some clothes on?" Taiwan interrupted.

"So both of you really don't remember what happened?" Taiwan asked, failing to suppress her grin. The two (both fully clothed now) seated across the table from her shook their heads nervously.

"Taiwan, don't draw this out just to have your fun, it does not make you a good girl," China tried.

"Don't tell me what to do," she responded, coolly.

Hong Kong watched from further back, finding it interesting enough to observe, though he had no intention of getting involved unless Taiwan got into trouble with them. He listened without offering any more to the story as Taiwan explained what they knew had happened.

England cursed Norway afterwards, "Stupid, useless… It's a good thing all my spells and charms have time limits on them."

"So it is your fault!" China turned to England after.

England thought back. "It wasn't intentional, I was just trying to create some… ah, never mind that. It was an accident, anyways. I think I remember you coming in and surprising me."

"Don't try to blame this on me," China warned.

"Oh, stop arguing!" Taiwan snapped. "You two were much cuter as babies and a lot more honest. See? Look." She tossed the photos she and Japan had taken of them on to the table. England shifted through some of them while China gingerly picked them up, holding them up to the light as if to check if they were real or fake.

"Why am I dressed as a girl, aru?" China cried.

England leaned over to see the photo China was holding. "I'm dressed up too… Why?"

China flicked to the next photo. It depicted the two of them kissing.

"These are… these are…" China gave up trying to find a word to describe them.

"You two are very cute together. Are you going to admit that you love each other now?" Taiwan asked, quickly collecting the pictures before China could attack her. "I'll just keep these in case," she winked before running off with Hong Kong.

Once gone, China turned to England, coughing and averting his eyes. "So… do you?"

"Do I what?" England frowned, hiding the smile threatening to show.

China pouted. "You know."

"You're acting very immature. Still a baby then?" England winced from the punch China gave after. "Okay, fine. Yes, I do love you. Happy? What about you?"

China went quiet. "You know I do," he mumbled. He turned away from England.

"Don't look away. Are you blushing?" England pulled China to him.

"Stupid eyebrows, don't look!" China frantically tried to push England away, but there was no force in his actions.

Soft lips brushed over China's forehead. A chuckle: "Very cute."

China opened his mouth to retort, but instead found himself busy kissing England. When they broke apart, England gazed contently at China. "That was, er, nice, yes," he managed to say.

China pulled away, standing up. "Hmm… I think you kissed better when you were a baby," he teased, waving the one picture he had managed to save from Taiwan- the one of them kissing.

And this time it was China who leaned in to give a kiss, cutting off whatever England was going to say.

Soooo after quite a long time, I've finally managed to write the last chapter and finish this. And while I'm not exactly happy with it, well it's done :)

Thanks for reading/reviewing and for the favourites and follows~