America had searched for hours, and he still couldn't find that weed. He asked around, looked around, and even did a search online to possibly find the location of some, but he just couldn't find any.

He kicked the wall of a nearby market. "Damn."

"Is something wrong, sir?"

"I'm looking for remaio weed. You know where any might be?"

"Oh, yes. We have plenty at our house."

America nodded, turning around to face the speaker. He had dark brown hair that went down to his shoulders, wearing jeans, sneakers, and a green t-shirt. He had a cat inside of the basket of food he was carrying, with a bow around its neck.

He grabbed the man's hand and shook it. "Alfred F. Jones; the United States of America."

"Heracles Karpusi; Greece." He shook back.

»_«

"Honey, I'm home!" Greece shouted, setting the basket down on the kitchen counter and grabbing the cat out of it. He set it down on the floor and it scampered off. Greece chuckled, leading America into the dining room. America looked around, noticing the large amount of cats within the house.

"You guys have a lot of cats," he pointed out.

Greece nodded. "We love cats. Absolutely love them."

A door opened. "Welcome home."

Greece smiled. "I brought someone with me, but he just needs something."

"Okay." He stepped into view. He was dressed from head to toe in robes, with pale skin and short black hair. His big brown eyes reflected the shocked and confused face in front of him.

"Alfred?"

"Kiku?"

The American cleared his throat. "So. I can see you're pregnant."

"Yes. This is our first one. I'm actually a little overdue."

"Is it still kicking?"

"I make sure to keep a note of it every day. I don't want a repeat of what happened last time..."

"Do you blame me for that?"

"It was your baby."

America grumbled, using all of his power so he didn't end up physically injuring Japan in any sort of fashion. He wanted to be on Greece's good side; he needed that remaio weed. Latvia only had so long. He needed help, and he wasn't going to get it if America screwed up his only chance for the cure to his illness.

"Anyway," Greece said, "he's just here for a little remaio weed... unless you want to stay for dinner."

"In fact, stay the night," Japan said. "It'll do you some good to stay somewhere other than your own place every once in a while."

America gulped and nodded.

»_«

It was midnight, and he was still wide awake on the couch.

He heard footsteps in the kitchen. He stepped in. "Kiku?"

The Japanese man had poured himself a glass of water and pulled a pack of crackers put of the cabinet and began to snack on them. He sighed. "I was hungry, but I didn't know if morning sickness would hit or not, so I went with the crackers."

"Do you know what you're having?"

"We're going to find out when it's born. We have names, though. Sakura or Athena if it's a girl and Nihon if we're having a boy."

"What do you think you're having?"

Japan chuckled. "A baby." He took a sip of the water.

America a did a mocking laugh. "Ha, ha, funny," he said sarcastically.

Japan put a hand to his stomach and chuckled. "Anyway, why are you still up?"

"Couldn't sleep. You?"

"I've been having contractions all night. It's very hard to sleep when you're overdue and you know that the baby could come at any time."

There was a stray 'meow' noise. America chuckled, leaned down, grabbed the cat at Japan's feet, and handed it to him. Japan happily took it and pet it. "This is Cookie. She loves cuddles and to sleep."

"Hi, Cookie!" He pet the kitten happily.

Japan chuckled. "Do you have any pets at home?"

"Do my two rascally kids count? Because they're like feral animals some days."

"You have children? With who?"

"Torys; Lithuania. We have our five-year-old son, Rytas and our one-year-old daughter, Roze. But, when Roze was born, Torys became paralyzed from the waist down, so I do most of the work around the house."

"Hmm. I do a lot of the cleaning still, even though I'm overdue." He pet his stomach with his free hand. "Heracles doesn't like that, but he doesn't stop me either, so it's a win-win."

America nodded, but froze upon hearing Japan groan. "Kiku? What's wrong?"

"Get Heracles."

"Why?"

There was a short pause. "My water just broke."