Mathew had slept in that morning because he stayed up too late

talking with Ukraine. Gilbert and Peter had to go without him.

"Canada" had gained the respect of a lot of the other countries. By

the third day of the meetings he was practically running them! Even

though Al was hosting the meetings, he didn't' really take much

responsibility.

Hungary was excited to hear what "Canada" had to say today. He always

had interesting things to say and was great at defending his opinions.

He also had a good sense of humor. Hungary thought he was very

handsome. He was tall and had a kind face. He had interesting red eyes

and she loved the way he would grin when he was talking to her. He was

always very polite to her, he even saved her when France "attacked"

her. Not that she couldn't have beat the shit out of that bastard

herself.

She was falling for him. She winced thinking of Austria, back at home.

Things hadn't been going well between them for a while now. He broke

up with her a few weeks ago. Hungary was used to taking care of

herself, she used to be a really strong country before she started

going out with him. She wasn't used to feeling so lonely. That's why

she volunteered to help out with the meetings. She just needed to be

around others right now. She didn't realize that the G8 members were

all idiots. Except "Canada". He wasn't an idiot. She was really glad

she came.

Prussia was glad his plan was working. Hungary seemed to pay a lot of

attention to him. The only problem was that he didn't have any

instructions from Mattie today. He had no idea what to say. He had

sent Gilbird to go get Mathew but neither of them has returned yet.

Everyone looked at "Canada", waiting for him to start.

"What the hell are you staring at? This is the G8 not the G1! Don't

any of you guys have something you want to say?"

Everyone was silent. Prussia rolled his eyes. Then he got an idea.

"Hungary! Why don't you tell them about your idea you told me yesterday?"

Hungary blushed and came to stand next to him. She started talking

about her ideas. The others were interested in what she had to say.

She turned and smiled at "Canada" who walked away, blushing.

Hungary's speech lasted an hour. Once it was done Prussia began to

stress again. Where was Mathew?

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. Finally!

"That's my secretary!" said Prussia, running to the door.

"Where the hell were you?" he asked, closing the door behind him.

"I was asleep." said Mathew, embarrassed, handing Prussia his script for the day.

Prussia skimmed through the papers before realizing something was wrong.

"Where's Gilbird?"

"In a birdcage at the hotel."

"You put him in cage!" he asked loudly.

"He almost pecked my eyes out!"

"Whatever, let's just get back to the meeting before they get

suspicious." Prussia sighed.

The meeting went pretty smoothly after that until Peter began to pick

on Al. Everyone was aware of America's fear of ghost. They often

teased him about it. Even Canada used to take advantage of his

invisibility to scare his brother when they were kids.

Sealand would move Al's stuff around when he wasn't looking and make

weird sounds to freak him out. Anyone else would have realized that it

was Sealand messing with him, not a ghost, but America wasn't the

sharpest tool in the shed.

"Ooooooooohhh! I'm coming to get you Alfred!"

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"Peter? Where the fuck is that pillock? I'm gonna kick his ass!"

"Help me dad!"

"Shut it you plonker! I have to find Sealand!"

The invisible Canadian discreetly dragged "Kumajiro" out of the room.

"What do you think you're doing?"

"I'm teaching Alfred a lesson! It's his fault dad doesn't pay attention to us!"

Matt could understand how Peter felt. He had been through this
himself. Hell, he was still going through it! But he couldn't let his
brother blow their cover, so he half-heartedly told him: "It's not
Al's fault."

Peter stared at him with a look of disbelief

"It's dad's fault."

Peter looked up at him, shocked. Mathew knew that Peter looked up to
their dad, like he had when he was a kid.

"I have a son too and I love him very much but that doesn't mean I
treat everyone else like shit! It's not
our fault that dad doesn't care and it's not Al's fault either. It's
all that damn Brit's fault!"

Peter hugged his brother.

"I'm sorry."

"Al's not that bad once you get to know him. He's an idiot but he can
be a pretty good brother sometimes."

Peter nodded.

Mathew thought about what he had said for the rest of the meeting. He
may have really awful dads, but he had pretty cool brothers.

"Hello?"

"It's me again," Mathew told her, "I'm sorry about yesterday."

"It's okay. We're friends right?"

"Ukraine?"

"What is it?"

"Why do you never say my name?"

He immediately regretted asking. He already knew the answer. She
couldn't remember it. No one could.

"It's embarrassing…I never use people's human names. Well I do
for Ivan and Natalya, but that's different..."

Human names? He didn't even need that much. He would die a happy man
if he could just hear her call him Canada.

"What if you gave me a nickname?" he asked, not giving up.

"Ok...Matt." she said, blushing.

She actually did know his name! Mathew was so happy. This was the first
time he had heard someone say his name in what seemed like forever!
Well technically, Prussia called him Mattie, but that didn't count.

"What about you? What's your human name?"

After a long silence she told him she didn't have one.

"I don't have any parents so no one ever gave me one."

Matt felt awful. He was constantly complaining about his life for the
past few days and never thought about hers.

"It'd not that bad!" she said worried about the sudden silence from
the other end of the line, "Ivan calls me Katyusha sometimes, but no
one else really does..."

He was not going to use a nickname that Russia had given her. He'd
just have to find his own.

"I'll give you a name k?"

"...ok Matt..." she said, surprised. He didn't need to do that.

He absolutely loved it when she called him that. He needed to
find her a good name. It had to be cute and perfect like her.

"Just give me a sec to find the perfect one!" he said after a while.
"Why don't you tell me how things are going?"

"Um ... Ok Matt. Well my sister came over today and she flipped out
saying that Kumajiro was going to kill Ivan and take him away from
her. She calmed down after a while and we all played cards together."

"So this is your boyfriend's son?" Belarus had asked her.

Ukraine told her that he wasn't her boyfriend and, after half an hour
of questions, admitted that she was in love with him.

"I can lend you one of my knifes." Belarus had offered.

"W-what!"

"You'll need it to get rid of the competition and to make sure
he doesn't cheat on you!"

Ukraine felt bad for her brother. She had reluctantly taken the knife
and was playing with it while she was telling Matt about her day.

"Kumajiro's fever has gone down a bit."

"That's good. I hope he gets better."

"Me too."

"Nikita..."

"What?"

"Oh! Sorry, I'm just testing out names..."

"I like that one."

"Oh... Um... Alright...Nikita..."

He liked that one too.

Before you guys start wondering why I couldn't just call her Katyusha, let me explain:

I am Canada. I am Kumajiro (I hate summer!). I am also Hungary (according to my sisters). Katyusha translates to Catherine (aka my name). I can't be her too! Therefore I changed her name. It's not even an official name (the author didn't give her one D:) so I'm allowed to change it! And I like this name.

My friend Ary pointed out that it's a male name in Russia and I was like oh right *facepalm*

Whatever she's feminine enough with her huge tracks of land…