Note: I forgot to enter one more reason why nations don't know Ilya. He always disguised himself as Russia's bodyguard wearing black spectacles.

Yao jumped away in shock to see who suddenly appeared from behind the trees, "Russia?"

Russia or Ivan was snatching the girl away from the masked man.

"IWA-CHAN!" shout the masked man in shock when the girl now dubbed Iwa was suddenly snatched away from him.

"BOU-CHAN, HELP ME~" Iwa wailed. Bou-chan and China stepped forward to save the girl but they halt when Russia growled and glared at them. He took out his prized faucet and pressed it at the girl's throat. Strangely the girl didn't gagged.

"RUSS, no, IVAN! WHAT ARE YOU DOING? LET THE GIRL GO!" Yao yelled and was walking faster to help the girl but stopped when Ivan snarled at him scarily with a hiss. From the corner of his eyes, Yao could see that people down the temple stairs could see the situation up there...and in interest too. But the strange thing was, they didn't even come up to help release the familiar looking and struggling girl from Russia's grasp. Instead they just walked away pointing at him(or group of people on the same floor with him) laughing and talking like they're crazy. He heard some girls screaming cute or handsome or sexy and cool at them. Some talked about them as if they were just acting weird. What the heck?

Ivan tightened his hold on the girl's throat and grinned as sniffed the girl's hair. "How long have I been waiting to get you back." Ivan said in a hissing voice before he lift Iwa in a tight hug and opened his mouth to bite her neck.

Iwa still struggling and kept calling the masked man's name. The man, Bou seeing the seriousness of the situation rushed forward to hit Ivan with his pipe. Before Bou's pipe hit Ivan, Bou whispered, "Sorry dear." and hit the man's head hard.

The hit made Ivan lost his grip of the girl and staggered back. Bou picked Iwa up and tried to calm down Iwa who was crying hard by patting her head and pulled her to hide behind his sleeves while looking at Ivan who was trying to regain his composure. Somehow, while trying to regain composure Ivan still manage to glare at the masked man even though his sight of the kimono clad man was blur.

Bou on the other hand tapped his kitsune mask with his smoke pipe and it changed into a white oval mask with a tear drop at the right eye and a bit smiling red lips. "Pity that I couldn't give little Iwa back to you my dear. You're not yourself right now. Until you're rid of that darkness inside you, then I will."

Yao heard that and looked at Bou and Iwa still standing there. "What are you talking about? And why are you not running away? Go! I'll help finish this up."

"Thank you, good mister." said Bou and turned away as Yao went to tackle Ivan.

Unfortunately, as Yao was going to tackle Ivan, the tall man had already healed from his concussion and run with an almost silent roar to the masked man. He hit Yao hardly once with his faucet that he hit a tree but not unconscious. As Ivan roared, his scarf suddenly came alive on its own and attacked Bou to bind him. Yao was shocked and thought 'Deities. His scarf is alive.' Next thing Yao did was to stand up and used his hidden sash to pull Ivan back from attacking the escaping duo.

Bou seemed to realized the scarf coming and then he sucked in his smoke pipe and blow purple smoke to engulf Ivan but it engulfed Yao too. Yao tried to fan the smoke away with his hand but the smoke faded as fast as it had appeared and surprisingly the two strangers were gone without any parting sound for example like jumping sound or running footsteps.

After the smoke vanished, Yao again was surprised to see the strangers gone without him knowing or hearing. "This is more stranger. They just vanish just like that. Who are they actually?" and the way the masked guy talked to Ivan before he left. Wait, Ivan? Yao looked at Ivan stood still at his spot before the tall man collapse to the floor, closed eyes and unmoving.

Yao getting worried went to the collapsed man and shook his body to wake him up. He even gave Russia a semi gentle slap on the face. Not long after that, Russia's eyes opened to reveal a pair of confused eyes that looked in to China's eyes. "Yao? What are you doing here?" Ivan asked sleepily before looking at a very strange sight.

"Wait...why are there stars in the room?" Russia asked again as his hands moved as if trying to find something. Then he realised,"Ilya? ILYA?"

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China/ Yao pov:

W-what is Russia saying? Room? STARS? He's actually sleepwalking? But...
Anyway, as I was going to think about the event just now, Russia on my lap was moving his hands around as if trying to find something I don't know what. And he suddenly rose up from my lap in urgency.

"Ilya? ILYA?"

Ilya? A new name. Subconsciously I asked him, "Who is Ilya?"

After I asked that, I saw his eyes looking fearfully to me, and then his eyes look at his surroundings and looked at me again. "Yao, What happened... just now?"

"You mean you don't remember anything?"

"No. I only remember I went sleeping in my bedroom at a small rental house. And woke up with chest pain here." Russia said. It seemed like he wanted to avoid my question about the new name he had slipped up by changing the topic.

Did he really forget the happening just now? I must ask who Ilya is and whatever happened earlier. I was going to ask him but the look of confusion in his eyes made me stop.

"Bou-chan?"

My eyes widen when he said the name the girl named Iwa had called many times. Before I knew it, I snapped at him with a question, "SO YOU DO KNOW THE MAN NAMED BOU-CHAN JUST NOW. WHY DID YOU SAY YOU DON'T REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED?"

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Normal pov:

"SO YOU DO KNOW THE MAN NAMED BOU-CHAN JUST NOW! WHY DID YOU SAY YOU DON'T REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED?"

Ivan was shocked to see China snapped at him. He snapped back at the Chinese man,"Why did you suddenly shout at me? And what ever happened just now? You're talking nonsense! I'm going back! I don't even know how did I come out here. Thank you and Farewell, Ya-...China!"

Russia stood angrily and groggily and went away not looking at China. The Chinese man on the other hand kept on calling the Russian's name. China was not feeling satisfied not getting answers from all the happenings tonight but he gave up on chasing the Russian man.

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Russia's pov:

Bozhe Moe! I really don't know what happened. I don't know why am I at the...where's the place again? A temple? Must be a temple. Could it be...I'm sleepwalking? But it's too far...maybe not too far from my temporary rental house but it's far nevertheless. Again, I'll emphasize it again that I don't even know what happened just now. My mind is completely blank and I'm just feeling angry right now because Yao-yao, tch, China just snapped at me like that. And who's this Bou-chan that was mentioned?

*Ivan stopped walking and face scrunched in confusion*

Bou-chan...?Who is he? Why does it feel like I know him and he felt important to me?

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Normal pov:

Ivan paused his walking in the middle of houses just to try to remember who Bou-chan was. He tried to dig deep into his mind while chanting the mysterious man's name but all he could see in his mind was a yellow...fox mask? Then Ivan became so frustrated that he shook his head just to forget that Bou-chan guy. The thing he thought important right after that was about Ilya. What would Ilya do when he saw his beloved mother suddenly was not at his side.

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Location: Rental house, specifically bedroom.

Ivan was surprised to see his son was not in the bedroom. He checked all other room and there was no sign of Ilya at all. "Is Ilya going outside searching for me?" Ivan thought loudly.

He then decided to stay in the house and gave Ilya a message. He just hope that his son brought along with him his cellphone.

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China or Yao was walking rather grumpily and faster along the crowded streets. The reason for his grumpiness was because of the incident just now. Everything were just so weird starting with the little girl with silvery blond hair who was called as Iwa. But Yao remembered that the girl was going to say her name that start with letters I and V, not I and W. And was interrupted by Russia's appearance. That aside, this Iwa was calling him by his human name, Yao. And big brother Yao Yao at that.

And when Russia appeared, Iwa and the masked man talked and acted as if they knew Russia and the girl was scared of Russia. Then Russia claimed that he didn't even know who the masked man was or what happened. It's strange and Yao don't like it at all because he couldn't understand anything out of this.

Yao groaned angrily as he shook his head while walking. He was too occupied in his thinking that he was going to...

"...Where are you? MAMA~?"

BUMP

The chinese man was colliding or bumped with somebody who was rather big. The two of them was going to apologize to each other but when both looked at each other, both was shocked, "China?"

"Russia? What are you-...I thought you're back there already going to your rental house as you said it."

Then China recalled something before he bumped into Russia, "Wait. Who are you calling mama?"Russia