Disclaimer: I do not own the characters, anime, or even the idea. All I own is the fic.
A/N: Writer's block sucks! I haven't worked on this story in ages!
"KOREA! GIVE ME BACK MY BRA!" Vietnam's voice rang out throughout the shared home. Then a flash of white and navy blue was seen running down the hall. Loud giggles echoed in the hallway and he ran from the furious Vietnamese woman wielding a large paddle. She was covered in a towl and she had obviously just gotten out of a shower.
"Aiyah! What is going on aru?" he was just coming in from the garden when he saw the chase.
"Korea! Give it back to her!" Taiwan came hopping out of their room more or less screaming at him.
"Damn it! I'll kill you if you don't give that back!" the paddle was raised above her head and ready to strike him but he ran fast enough to get out of her reach. He looked back laughing not realizing what he was going to run into. When he hit the solid figure he lost balance and fell to the ground instantly.
"Oof" was the small sound he made as he fell down. Judging by the height it was Thailand. And right he was. Thailand quickly grabbed the sea-green bra and gave it back to Vietnam slightly blushing.
"Uhh...umm. Here." he rubbed the back of his head not being able to think of what to say about it.
"Thank you." she said as she walked back to her room accompanied by Taiwan. After a few minutes of silence the two finally came out. Vietnam was fully clothed and the paddle had been put away but not so much that one couldn't grab it if it was needed.
"Young Soo, may you please tell us what that was about?" China was standing there giving him one of his most sternest look. Korea just simply shrugged with an indifferent look on his face.
"I don't know. I just wanted to do it." he gave them one of his huge smiles and ran out the door before Vietnam could go grab her paddle and before the chase was on once again.
When she finally realized what he had said fury and rage filled her once more and she was off to her room to get the paddle. Seeing this Thiland sprang into action, after she had exited the her room with paddle in hand he grabbed her and held her in a vise grip.
"Now now Hue. Please Calm down." he gently cooed her but it had no effect.
"Thai! Let go of me right now! Or else!" she was struggling in his grip. She was waving the paddle around without a thought and it looked like someone was going to get hurt if she didn't drop it soon. Thailand looked around to find someone to help him with Vietnam when his eyes landed on China.
"China!" Thailand hissed and the elder nation looked up at him. "Grab the paddle from her!"
"What? Are you crazy aru?" he had a slighly shocked and terrified look on his face showing that he had no intentions on going near the Vietnamese while she had the paddle in hand.
"Either you do that or we all might end up killed later!" he could feel his grip on her loosening because of all the thrashing. "Hurry! I can't hold her forever!"
"Oh alright aru." he walked quickly over to the two and grabbed the paddle "Vietnam! Let go."
"No! Korea need to be killed!" the two fought over the paddle and neither of them was winning.
"Keep her still! I've almost got the paddle aru." then her hand slipped and the paddle was now in his hands. "Got it!"
"Damn it China! You better give me that back!" she was now free chasing him around the home.
"How long before this all ends?" Taiwan sat on one of the stools and was swinging her legs back an forth.
"No idea." Hong Kong replied.
"Do you think we should stop them?" Japan stood on the other side of Taiwan.
"I don't know. Do you guys want to?" Taiwan looked at both men for an answer. Hong Kong shurgged his shoulders and Japan looked deep in thought.
"Why don't we just let them work it out? And besides its the most entertaining thing this morning."
"Hai. Maybe it is best if they work it out."
"Okay then."
The three fell back into a silence just watching the other nations trying to resolve their own problem. After about 15 minutes Vietnam cooled down enough to not try and kill the three male nations that were involved in the incident. Vietnam had that angry look on her face and the three nations in front of her trembling.
"Hue! We should go and play a game!" Taiwan slid off of the chair and pulled on Vietnam's arm.
"What?" Vietnam had confusion written all over he face.
"A game! We should play one!"
" Why?"
"Because its boring! So can we?"
"Uhh okay. What do you want to play?"
"Hide and seek!"
"Are you sure? It sounds a little childish..."
"Yeah! So c'mon lets play! Who wants to go first?" there was silence as everyone looked around expecting one of the others to volunteer. Slowly one hand was extended into the air.
"I'll do it ana~"
"Great!" Taiwan clasped her hand together in excitment. "Whats a good number to count to? Hmm...oh! I got it! Thai count to 30 and the rest of us will hide!" everyone could see that she wa trying very hard to supress giggles. Amazing how childish she could be at times.
"Okay." he turned around and started to count, "One...two...three...four..." within seconds the other nations were gone and trying to figure out a hiding place.
"Hmm what is the best place to hide?" Vietnam was walking down one of the halls that she hadn't been down yet. She hadn't had the chance to explore the entire hut so she was a little unfamilar with her current surrounding.
"Oh! I'm sorry aru." she quickly reconized the voice it was China's!
"Haven't found a hiding place yet?" she raised and eyebrow at him.
"No not yet. Seems like you haven't either."
"...20...21...22...23..." they could hear Thailand's voice drifting down the hall.
"We should find a place to hide before he finds us. I don't want to be the first one to be caught." they both looked around until China spotted a closet. He went to open it and it was empty. It could easily fit the two of them. He quickly grabbed her wrist and pulled into the closest with him, shutting the door.
Opening the door Taiwan saw that Hong Kong was just laying on his bed staring at the ceiling.
"This isn't the best place to hide you know."
"I know." he responded with an indifferent expression.
"Why aren't you trying?"
"Because it may not seem like it but it is one of the best."
"I don't follow."
"People tend to not look in the most obvious places therefore, obvious places are the best places to hide.
"Ohhhh." after that they fell into a silence until they heard Thailand's voice.
"Ready or not here I come ana~" they heard footsteps come closer and closer but the door was never touched.
"Looks like you're right he passed right by us." he made a sound and went back to staring at the ceiling. "Hong?"
"Hmm?"
"Why don't you ever do anything other than read in your free time?" she could've sworn that there was a amused smile that flashed across his face.
"When I lived with Arthur it was rather boring. He had a huge private study that was filled with books. In my spare time I usually picked a book off one of the shelves and read it. Since it was often quiet there I was able to read books for hours. After I left his home the habit stayed. So now I read for enjoyment."
"Oh. Hey did you bring any books here?"
"Yes." they once again fell back into silence until the door opened.
"Found you~"
"Awww. Wait who's left?"
"Only people left are Kiku, Hue, and Yao."
"Well lets go and find them!" Korea's head popped out of nowhere and then he started to run off.
"C'mon let go!" Taiwan ran-well sort of-out of the room in a different direction. Hong Kong slowly got off the bed and left the room along with Thailand.
"I wonder why they haven't checked around here yet?" Vietnam was leaning against one of the wall of the closet that China had pulled her into. It was dark but she could make out his figure right in front of her.
"I have no idea aru." they waited until they heard light footsteps that could only belong to one person.
"I hear Mei coming."
"How could you possibly know that its her?"
"Listen to the footsteps, they're off beat and uneven. I learned this during my days with France. I used to hide from him and I learned what his footsteps sound like so I could advoid him." the footsteps stopped and the doorknob slowly turned.
"Found you!" she let out a sound that was a mix of a yell and squeal. The two exited the closet and looked around see that everyone but Japan was present.
"Hey wheres Japan?" Vietnam inquired.
"We have no idea. No one has found him yet. Hes really good!"
"Hmm anyone check his room yet?"
"First place I looked. He was nowhere to be found. I even looked in the closet."
"Hmm." Vietnam snapped her fingers and started to walk in the direction of Thailand and Japan's room.
"We've already checked. Twice!" nonetheless Vietnam continued on doing whatever she was doing. She opened the closet and knelt down on the floor, she stared at it intently before knocking on it softly. Then she pulled on something and to their surprise there was a hidden door.
"Found you." she then offered her hand to him and he took it. "Looks like you're our winner."
"Lets play again! Korea was found first so hes next!" Korea then left the room to go back into the kitchen where Thailand had started.
"One...two...three...four..." they heard him start counting slowly but they could tell that he was excited.
"Hide!" Taiwan herself was determinded be the the last to be found. All of the other nations spit up to find a different hiding place around the large home.
After god knows how many round-which Japan won the majority of them-they got hungry and stopped playing the game.
"That was fun" Taiwan was helping Vietnam prepare some food in the kitchen along with Thailand and Japan. After they had finished preparing the food the set it out in the middle of the table for everyone. There was a type of food for everyone and more.
"We're done!" Vietnam called out to the rest of the nations, Korea was the first to rush into the room.
"Finally! I'm starving!" he quickly took a seat and grabbed a bowl and started eating without the others.
"Geez, save some for us." Taiwan then took the seat across from him and grabbed her own bowl.
"Don't worry I cooked a lot so eat all you want." Vietnam smiled warmly at the two. "Go on now the rest of you. Sit down and eat." they all took their seats and started to eat.
"Aren't you going to join us?" Taiwan asked looking at the elder.
"I will in a minute. I just need to go and check up on something for a minute." she then disappeared back into the kitchen.
"Whats she doing?" Korea was talking through a mouthful of various foods.
"I don't know..." Vietnam then reappeared and sat down in between Taiwan and China.
"What did you need to check up on aru?"
"Its a surprise. But we can't eat it until later."
"Why?"
"Because it still needs to set up. But that also means that no one is allowed to open the refrigerator. If you do you don't get any. If you guys need anything you ask me." the rest at the table nodded before they continued to eat. Once they finished China, Hong Kong, and Korea washed the dishes.
"Hey guys!" Korea was trying to keep his voice down. China looked at him while Hong Kong pretended like he didn't hear him.
"What aru? Why are you talking like that?" China asked.
"I'm going to try and look in the fridge."
"What? You heard Vietnam, if you look you don't get any of whatever it is!" China's voice was now hushed as not to alert Vietnam.
"She won't know. She isn't like Japan." that silenced China and Korea proceeded to walk slowly and softly over to the refrigerator and was about to reach for the handle of the refrigerator until a voice came out of nowhere.
"Korea! Don't even." Vietnam's voice called and Korea jumped. He whipped his head around a peaked out of the doorway to see that Vietnam was still sitting on the couch with her head turned around reading.
"H-how did you know that?"
"I know you well Korea and I knew that you would try."
"O-oh. Does this mean that I don't get any of whatever is in there?"
"Depends. Did you see what's in there?"
"No."
"Then no."
"Oh okay then."
"Guyyys? Can we play another game?" Taiwan half asked half whined.
"Why? We just finshed playing a game." Hong Kong was leaning on the couch reading the book Vietnam was reading.
"Because I'm bored and I wanna play another one."
Vietnam sighed and closed the book, "And what exactly do you want to play?" she said as she set down the book.
"Can we play tag?"
"But you can't play. Your foot is still bothering you."
"Who says I can't? Just because my foot is hurt doesn't mean I can't play."
"That just made no sense! You'll be super slow and always get tagged!" Korea threw his arms in the air being overly dramatic as always.
"Shut up!" before they could start another fight Thailand butted in.
"Maybe we should ana~ Besides none of us have anything better to do."
"He is correct. Only you and Hong Kong have something to do." Japan quitely spoke up.
"See! Even Kiku agrees! So can we? Pleeeeasse?"
"Okay. But we can't do it in the house."
"So lets go outside!"
"Fine." they all stood up and headed for the door. "Okay then. Who gets to be it?"
"I want to!" surprisingly it turned out ot be Taiwan.
"But you can't run that fast with your hurt foot."
"I know but I still want to play."
"Fine. Mei is it."
"Yay!" she looked around and chased after the first person her eyes landed on. She ran to Hong Kong and he quickly caught on and started to run away. He ran toward Japan and seeing this Japan started to run as well. Taiwan lagged quite a distance behind them but then stopped. "Ow! My foot!" everyone ran toward her to check up on her. "You're it!" she touched China's shoulder and started to run off giggling. They were all still blinking in confusion before her words sunk in.
"Run! Aniki is it!" Korea started off in a different direction than Taiwan and soon the rest of them started to run.
"Aiyah! I'm too old for this!"
"C'mon Yao! I'm almost as old as you are and I can do this!" Vietnam called as she ran away from him.
"Fine!" China started to run after Thailand and before long he had sucessfuly tagged him. From there the tag was passed on from nation to nation. Taiwan wasn't tagged very often because it seemed like a cheap shot to do so.
"I'm tired." Taiwan now sat on the ground panting.
"What time is it?" Korea sat a distance away from her panting as well.
"I have no idea we've been playing for a long time now."
"Yeah I know."
"I'm hungry again."
"Well I think the surprise has set now. So will you settle for a snack?" Vietnam got up and walked back into the house.
"Okay!" Korea quickly jumped up and followed her. Slowly one by one they all started to get up and follow the other two.
"Just sit down in the living room and I'll be right there!" Vietnam called from the kitchen. Once they all settled down Vietnam appeared in the doorway carrying a tray of jelly. It was cut up in little squares and aranged neatly on the play. She set it down gently on the coffee table.
"Oh! I know what this is! Sung sa. Right?"
"Close its sương sa."
"Looks like jelly." Korea picked up one of the forks before gently poking it.
"It is." Taiwan picked one up with her hand and put it in her mouth. "Yummy!"
"Glad you like it." Vietnam smiled. "Well go on! I want you guys to taste it before Taiwan and Thailand eats it all!" and true to her statement Taiwan and Thailand were eating the sương sa without hesitation.
"Hey! Save some for us!"
"Well its too bad that you've been staring at it like its posioned." Taiwan grabbed another piece of the sương sa and ate it. "Well? You guys going to try it or are me, Thai, and Hue going to have to eat it all?" the other nations then each took a piece of the jelly in their hand and held it up to their mouths to taste it.
After poping it into his mouth his expression turned into a surprise one, "It tastes like coconut! But it looks like chocolate!"
"I never got why you do that Hue." Thailand continued eating waiting for an answer.
"Its a part of the appeal. When people look at it it looks like chocolate, but when they taste it it tastes like coconut. Plus just being simply white doesn't look as nice."
"Ohhh. That makes sense." by now all of the other nations had joined the two in eating the jelly.
"Hahaha don't worry. Theres more in the kitchen, I knew that between Thai and Mei I would have to make a large batch. I will be right back." Vietnam picked up the almost empty tray and left for the kitchen. When she came back the tray was once again filled with the jelly snack. She placed it down again and before long the nations were talking happily and eating the jelly and Vietnam smiled to herself. They were her family and she would always be there to take care of them.
A/N: The begining was all my sister's idea! I had such a writer's block that resorted to asking my little sister! But it was a pretty easy begining to write so I sort of owe her something, too bad I'm not telling her.
I find it funny how people don't look in the most obvious places when they play hide and seek. I usually hide IN MY OWN ROOM and people don't look there. Japan is so ninja.
Somewhere in my head I see Hong Kong being really smart but doesn't really show it. About the mention of France Vietnam was under the French's conrol for about a century so since I had Hong Kong talking about England might as well throw Vietnam's relationship with France in there as well.
Translations:
Sương sa-Its Vietnamese jelly. I had some a couple days ago and now I want some more...And I do realize in real life it would take a lot longer for the sương sa to set but its the anime world time speeds up. I don't know of anyone else does this but my family colours it light brown like chocolate but its coconut flavoured. And the way Taiwan pronounced it was like the way my friends say it.
Love,
Dragon