Madness

Chapter 2- The Banquet

A/N: I forgot the Disclaimer.

I do not own Hetalia: Axis Powers to Beautiful World nor any of the characters

"Italy! Are you finished cooking yet?" Austria said steadily as 'Holy Rome' glared at him.

"Almost!" He yelled back "Miss Hungary, would you like any particular dish?"

"Yes, Kifli please!" she shouted back

"Okay! I'll be five more minutes!" He answered

"S-so Holy Rome, what did you get up to in Greece?" Hungary asked shakily.

Holy Rome stopped glaring at the elder male and fixed his glare on Hungary.

"Why do you want to know?" He threatened

"That's rude!" Austria shouted, pointing an accusing finger at the small country.

"What's rude Mr. Austria?" Italy asked obliviously, two plates in his little hands.

"Oh Italy, Let me help you!" Holy Rome said in a much sweeter tone to when he was talking to his elders, jumping off his chair and grabbing one of the plates in Italy's hands.

"Thank you Holy Rome, but you don't have to. You're the reason were having this feast!" the littlest country cried

"I know, but I want to help you!" He said

"Oh… okay!" Italy smiled "Come with me! There are other plates I need help with!"

"I… I think Italy is taking advantage of his kindness…" The remaining countries sweatdropped

"Now about Holy Rome's strange behavior-" Hungary started and then was stopped as a loud

"Dinners here!" from Italy.

She was shocked at how fast the children had been, but waved it off. "Thank you Italy, this looks delicious!"

There were many types of food on the table, beef stew, the crescent-shaped pastry Kifli that Hungary had asked for, Käsekrainer (Austrian sausage), pizza, pasta, schnitzel, potato mash, and some pretzels on the side.

"Dig in!" Italy said happily

"Thank you Italy!"

"Looks delicious!"

"Yummy, Thanks!"

They started to eat, chatting happily in the process.

"-Do in Greece?-"

"-Cats everywhere!-"

"He seems normal." Hungary pointed out. The two adults were speaking in hushed tones.

"But that's now, and he is with Italy…" Austria whispered

"Could he just be the normal Holy Rome, but he just got colder when he was doing war?" She asked

"But that doesn't explain the notices of his death." He replied

"They could be fake, or he could of staged it," she mumbled, in her eyes you could see that she still had hope that he was the real thing.

He reeled back from her "Well…" he started

"Austria! Hungary! Can you believe it? Holy Rome has been to China!" Italy told them

"Really? What is he like, Holy Rome?" Hungary asked

For a split second he looked evilly at Hungary, before Italy could notice his expression, his features softened.

"Well, He was pretty weird," his voice was steelier then when he was talking to Italy, but not by much. "He kept saying… what was it again?" he paused to think. When he remembered, he snapped his fingers "Oh yes, -Aru at the end of all his sentences. He also had long brown hair. Like France."

"Interesting." Austria replied.

"I heard you also went to Russia. Is that true?" Hungary asked.

For a minute, he sat there shaking. It was like it scared him to even bring up the memory. "Y-yes, I went to Russia. I-It was freezing," He shook. "Russia," a chill ran down his spine at the mention of the country "was like a demon from hell. No, He could be the human embodiment of Satan when he's angry. He almost killed me."

"Nice." Austria said with dry humour.

"That isn't it though. He has two sisters, a younger and elder one. Ukraine, the elder is so nice. She'll help you with anything, even if you don't ask." His body, which had lost its shake, began again, with renewed strength and vigour. "The younger one, Belarus, is a silent demon all the time, but when she's angry…" His shivering was worse now and he looked as if he was going to shake to pieces "is a hundred times worse than her brother, and I'm not exaggerating. Probably under exaggerating."

The others were fully freaked out now, and Italy was even shivering. It was like Holy Rome was retelling some horrific event that had happened to him not to long ago.

"One, she was angry at me for no reason at all, and almost killed me. I still have nightmares about the torture she put me through to this day."

"Oh, Holy Rome…" Italy trailed off

"I'm so sorry for asking, Holy Rome." Hungary said

He shot her a look that said you better be, you put me through all this trauma for nothing. But said instead "Don't worry Miss Hungary. I'll be fine."

Italy had started to break into tears. "I'm so sorry, Holy Rome, Forgive me…"

"Don't worry, Italy, You didn't do anything." He assured the smaller boy.

"B-But," He hiccupped

"I told you, it wasn't your fault," He said in the sweetest voice he could muster, and then shot a look at Hungary almost as if to say, if you didn't ask that, Italy wouldn't be crying right now.

"Uhm," Hungary looked at the clock. It was 11 o'clock. "It's very late! You two should be getting to bed!"

"B-But, I have to clean the dishes up," Italy said

"Don't worry, I'll clean up" She told him

"Really, Miss Hungary?" He asked, almost thinking this was a dream. He always had to pack up, that was the rule.

"Yes, I don't mind. Just show Holy Rome to his room and it'll be fine." She replied. It was only because she didn't want to be anywhere near the so-called faux Holy Rome. He might just torture her worse than Belarus supposedly did to him.

"Okay!" Italy saluted her and ran off with Holy Rome to get his suitcases.

"Scared that you'd have to be alone with him?" Austria sounded, feeling he had been ostracized from the conversation.

"Was I ever!" She sighed "He is extremely scary, probably scarier than that Belarus he described."

"No, no-one will ever be as scary as her," Austria said his face covered by shadow "I've met her."

"Really? And she's like he said?" She asked

"That and worse." Austria mumbled, teeth chattering in fear, as if the little country was going to pop out of the shadows and strangle him. "She has this strange attraction to her big brother, and she wants to marry him."

"That is scary." She replied

He yawned and then said: "as you told the little ones, Its late and even we must be heading to bed. Hurry up and clean this mess up and head to bed. We're having visitors over for lunch tomorrow. They're staying over for a few days for business." He said as he headed to his bedroom, leaving Hungary alone.

"Ah… Okay." She said, stunned for a moment. She packed up the dishes , headed for bed and hoped like hell the visitors weren't Russia and Belarus.

A/N That took a while. Oh yes, I'm gonna add Japan in here somehow. I liek Japan.

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