"Oh, um, hello there. My name's Arthur Kirkland," Arthur said after clearing his voice and standing back up. He held his hand out, waiting for the 'girl' to shake hands. Arthur was somewhat taller than the Asian, with him being on land and the other standing in the water.
The Asian only looked at Arthur's hand then back up at him, making the said Brit feel pretty awkward. "Um, right..." He took his hand back after realizing the Asian was still holding the basket.
"Wang Yao. Or I'm guessing it would be 'Yao Wang' to you aru," The Asian finally replied a bit fiercely, "Now, I repeat, what are you doing aru?" Yao was not a big fan of 'outsiders' or anything; especially not some fancy British guy. Arthur knew that Yao was not taking a liking to him. He could tell from the tone of voice.
"Just looking around, waiting for someone by the name of 'Shin'. I'm here to get some paper work signed for a couple of peasants, like yourself, to attend Hetalia Academy," If Yao was going to talk to him as such, then Arthur wouldn't hesitate to do so either. Yao really didn't like Arthur at the moment. 'Peasant'? How dare some snobby rich kid say that to his face! "Now as a gentleman, I cannot stand to watch someone such as yourself, carrying... Whatever that is..." Arthur added, holding his hand out again. This time, for the basket Yao was holding.
"It's rice... And are you mocking me ahen!" Yao was starting to get even more irritated with Arthur, "I can hold this fine, so as a 'gentleman', go ahead a watch me ahen!" Yao was about to turn away and go back to harvesting rice when Arthur suddenly grabbed a hold of the basket. Arthur was not going to let some Asian peasant damage his self pride.
"I said I can help you, now just let go," Arthur said through a stained smile.
"No, you let go! I can do this fine myself ahen!" Yao said also through a strained smile. The two stubborn teens both started pulling back and forth; a game of tug-of-war emitting.
"I'm just trying to help, git!"
"And how is some rich bastard going to help when he obviously doesn't want to get dirty ahen!" The two continued to spat at each other until Arthur sadly lost his grip on the wet basket. Arthur accidentally released the basket, making both of them fall back. Arthur was able to regain balance on the thin pass, but Yao on the other hand, wasn't as lucky. "GAAHHH!" He yelped. Arthur tried grabbing a hold of Yao before he lost balance, but it was too late.
SPLASH! Arthur quickly shielded himself from the muddy water with his arms. He didn't really get wet or dirty at all. When he looked over at Yao, Arthur's eyes gaped open. Yao was sitting, soaking wet and more muddy, in the rice patties, the basket now empty and covering his head. Arthur was totally speechless.
"I am so sorry," He finally said, holding a hand out for Yao. The soaking wet Asian only swatted the offered hand away, glaring at the offerer.
"Don't touch me ahen..." Yao slowly growled, picking himself up out of the water. He grabbed all the rice that fell out of basket and got out of the water, squeezing out most of the water from his clothes from his spot next to Arthur. With Yao finally standing next to him, Arthur was able to tell his actual height; Yao was about where Arthur's eyes were in height. Still very wet, Yao started walking back to the house, Arthur following behind. The two walked back in silence.
"Master Shin! I found him and- Yao! What happen?" Yao and Arthur heard someone shout. Lin ran over to the two older teens, leaving Shin back at the house. "You're soaking wet!" Yao ignored his younger cousin, walking past him and towards the house. Lin watched as Yao left, Arthur next to him.
Just as Yao was about to enter his house, Shin blocked the entrance with his body. "You're not going in there covered in mud. Go rinse off first," Yao only groaned, setting the basket of rice down and walking around back. Once Yao walked around the corner, Shin started laughing, unable to hold it down much longer.
"I'm not deaf ahen!" Yao shouted, making Shin silence this laughing into mini chuckles. Lin walked up to his master, Arthur following next to him.
"So this is the boy you were talking about, Lin?" Shin asked. Lin nodded while Arthur put his hand out.
"Arthur Kirkland; fourth child of the Kirkland family and school representative," He said, waiting for Shin to shake his hand. The head monk did so, a nice smile on his face.
"Nice to meet you. You can just call me Shin. I'm the head monk here and also the guardian of all the orphans here. Now, Lin said you wanted me to sign some paperwork?" Arthur nodded while Lin handing him his book bag that he left inside. Arthur was really curious about the Asians now. Orphans? He was never told anything about them being orphans. Arthur shook it off though, their lives weren't any of his business. He was only there for paperwork.
"All I need you to do is sign the bottom of each packet. I also need the signature of each student there, too. Each student has their own packet and information to fill out," Shin skimmed through each of the packets. The packets were already fill in with the correct information. Hetalia Academy must've taken the information from Zhongguo Gakuen.
Arthur handed the monk a pen, which he had taken and signed the paperwork with. Shin had already made sure the information really was accurate. He also noticed that each of the teens had signed their papers already, except...
"Oh, I couldn't find Yao earlier so there's no signature for that packet..." Lin said, his head down, "I'm sorry..." Arthur quickly took the packets from Shin, scanning through the bottom of the papers. They were all sigh already! Arthur couldn't believe Lin already had everyone sign without him knowing.
"W-when did they-"
"It's fine, Lin. We'll just get Yao to sign now," Shin patted Lin's head, ignoring Arthur's stutters. The head monk started heading towards the house, Lin following behind. Arthur had to shake off this disbelief a bit before he rushed off after them.
"Yao! Where are you? We need you to sign something!" Lin shouted once they enter the house.
"YAO-HYEONG'S BREAST ARE MINE DA ZE!" Lin, Arthur, and Shin heard someone shout, followed by some laughter and a scream.
"AI! LET GO ARU!"
"Found Yao..." Shin deadpanned. Arthur's face turned pink when hearing the Korean boy shout what he shouted. "Better get out the way..." Shin and Lin both stepped aside, leaving Arthur clueless and still standing in the middle of the hallway. The Brit heard loud footsteps coming towards him getting louder and louder by the second.
"YONG SOO!"
"Calm down, Yao-Nii-San!"
"IDIOT BROTHER!"
Arthur heard a range of different things. He also noticed the booming footsteps were even louder. Arthur turned around, facing where the footsteps were coming from and instantly froze. Part of the large group of Asians were all running towards him. First was Yong Soo, followed by Yao and Hyung Soo right behind him. Finally, Kiku and Hong at the end. All Arthur could do was freeze and stand there like a deer in front of headlights.
Yong Soo was laughing while he was running, quickly jumping towards the wall next to Arthur. The Korean used his one of his feet to push off the wall and continue running, hastily able to dodge the Brit. Arthur watched as Yong Soo ran off, then turning back towards the others.
Yao was next to come running up towards Arthur. With Arthur in his way, Yao swiftly jumped, spun, and flipped over him. Arthur was completely mesmerized by Yao's actions; it lasted for just a mere second, but it felt longer to Arthur. For just that mere second, the graceful Chinese boy (whom Arthur still believes is a girl)'s face was just barely away from his. Sure he was upside down at the time, but Arthur was still captivated. The short acrobatic show ended when Yao landed behind the Brit. Arthur briskly turned around again to see how Yao landed. For another brief second, Arthur was able to see Yao crouching down on one knee, both his hands down by his side. As soon as Arthur saw him, Yao took off once again.
"wow..." Arthur said under his breath as he watch Yao sprint off to murder Yong Soo. His breath was cut short however, with Hyung Soo shoving him to the side. "Hey!"
"Move it, Eyebrows!" The older Korean growled to Arthur. His shove made the Brit lose his balance and start to fall over. Luckily, as he was falling over, someone grabbed his arm and pulled him back up. Nonetheless, the same person had pulled him up with too much force so he had to spin Arthur around. That way, the Brit wouldn't fall the other way. While he spun, Arthur noticed it was Hong who saved him, but the younger Chinese boy was still running off with the others.
"L-look out!" Arthur, once again, turned around and was face to face with, this time, Kiku. Sadly, this Asian wasn't able to avoid Arthur. Hong had actually thrown Arthur towards Kiku, making the Japanese teen able to dodge him in time. He toppled over Arthur, making him fall, face towards the floor. Kiku fell on top of Arthur but was able to regain himself by tucking and rolling. "Gomen! Gomen ((Sorry))!" Kiku shouted back, still chasing after Yao and the others, "Mina! Yamete kudasai ((Everyone! Please stop))!"
"I'm sorry about their actions," Shin said to Arthur, giving him a hand, "They're all always like this. I did warn you though," Shin started snickering as Arthur grumbled to himself, taking Shin's hand and getting up, "We were able to stop Yao at least!" Arthur looked behind Shin and sweat dropped. He saw Yao sitting on the floor and rubbing his head. Lin was besides him, nervously chuckling. Arthur guessed that Shin was, not at all, a gentle guardian if he stopped Yao by grabbing his hair. "Yao~ We need you to sign something~" Shin said in a sing-song tone, freaking both Yao and Arthur out.
"Shénme ((What))?" Yao growled a bit, the back of his head still hurting from his hair being yanked. Lin quickly walked over to Shin and Arthur, taking the paperwork and a pen from them, then trotted back over to Yao. "Zhè shì shénme ((What's this))?" Yao asked after taking and looking through the papers. Arthur walked over to the Chinese teen, waiting for the paperwork to get signed.
"It's just paperwork you need to sign to go to Hetalia Academy," Lin answered. Yao's face darkened a bit when he heard Lin's answer. He looked up and first saw Arthur, making this facial expression darken even more. Yao did not forget what just happened earlier.
"Wǒ bù dǎsuàn ((I'm not going))..." Yao replied, tossing the paperwork to the side and purposely hitting Arthur with it. The Brit was taken back and was about to say something back, until Lin interrupted with more Mandarin.
"Nǐ yǒu ((You have to))!"
"Méiyǒu ((No))!"
"Yao-Ge!" Arthur stood there, completely confused as to what was going on. He watched as Yao and Lin argue in Mandarin, not knowing a single clue as to what they were saying. "We'll everyone else is going!" Finally, a language Arthur could understand! "What's going to happen to them when you're not there?" Lin added with his hands on his hips. Arthur noticed Yao was silent. The Chinese boy was avoiding eye contact with the younger monk, thinking about what would happen if he didn't look after them.
Yao grabbed the pen and paperwork out of Arthur's hands, signing it real fast before shoving it back at him. "Gāisǐ de ((Damn it))..." Arthur heard Yao mumble to himself, still unaware of what he was saying. Lin sighed as Yao started walking away.
"I recommend you stay away from Yao-Ge for a while when you're at school..." Lin warned Arthur.
"I'm sure Yao will enjoy your fancy pants school though!" Shin added, smiling.
"Sure... Fancy pants! Hetalia is not some 'fancy pants' school! It's the best in the world! Yao should be lucky she got accepted!" Arthur fumed, "Now if you excuse me, my work is done. Thank you for your cooperation," And with that, Arthur left, seeing himself out the house. Lin and Shin both watched as he left, then turned to each other.
" 'She'...?" They both questioned.
Hehe, had to make sure no one called Yao a 'he' or use 'him' or something~ Arthur does not know any Asian language so he doesn't know 'ge' and 'nii-san' means big brother. also! Lin will only occasionally use 'ge' when speaking to Yao. Hong, however, does it all the time since they really are blood brothers. Lin is just a cousin. ((yes they use 'gege' for cousins! i use it for my older guy cousin!)). also, really too lazy to double check it any of the Mandarin is correct, so that was DIRECTLY from google translate. Next chapter will show them finally at Hetalia Academy! Reviews are loved!
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