When starting a story, there are many places in which it could start. For instance, perhaps at a world meeting? No much to common. A G8 meeting maybe? It is also to popular. We want to be unique don't we? Well then, what if we started in the middle of action? Something to get the reader's attention? No. That just doesn't fit. No, the only good place for the story to start is somewhere different.

We'll start with a few countries, all in America's house the day after his birthday. The day was July 5th in one of America's many places around the states. This one was a large house in Virginia.

America had of course, a huge party for his birthday. However as it turned out, more than a few of the countries had been a wee bit too drunk to make it to their hotel rooms the previous night. So personifications of the countries were sprawled around throughout the American's house.

Alfred had actually been one of the first awake, since this was his house after all and was currently cleaning up after his birthday bash. Soon after he awoke, Lithuania followed and had come to join the American in his cleanings.

"Dude, you don't have to clean up. I can handle this," Alfred said with his famous Hollywood grin as he pushed some more trash into the large plastic bag he had with him.

Lithuania shook his head. "No, I'd like to help," he said simply. The Baltic nation didn't let America object, and had already begun to pick up some of the trash. It wasn't overly obvious, but someone did appear to be bothering him.

Now, America wasn't exactly the most insightful nation, however when it concerned his friends he could always tell when something was bothering them. He placed the bag on the ground as he took a step closer to Lithuania. "Toris, dude. You feeling alright? You seem a little down."

Lithuania paused in his cleaning, letting his brown hair cover his face. "Nothing is wrong Mr. America, I am fine." The lie was obvious. Lithuania had been the only one of the three Baltic nations to come to the party. Though he wasn't very willing to explain why.

America didn't seem to buy this, and walked closer to the country. He put a firm yet comforting and on his shoulder. "No you're not. Please dude, just tell me what's wrong, maybe I can help." The man stiffened even more.

He seemed to be considering his options before finally, Lithuania let his guard down and relaxed his shoulders. "Have you heard the rumors of the missing countries?" He asked timidly, his voice was quiet and his face still hidden by his hair.

"Yeah." Of course America had heard the rumors. It had been going on for a week or two, apparently some of the smaller countries had started disappearing throughout Europe and Africa, but some people thought the missing countries were just avoiding everyone else. It wasn't enough to cause an alarm or search for them, and so America hadn't thought or even heard much of it at the time.

Lithuania began to feel weak. "Two days ago, Estonia, Latvia, and I were supposed to meet Mr Russia in his country." His voice shook ever so slightly. "But only Estonia and I showed. We didn't worry at first, but then hours went by and Latvia still hadn't shown." He paused for a minute, trying to figure out what to say. "Finally Estonia called Latvia, he didn't answer and it went to voicemail. I had talked to him right before he left, so we knew he was on his way...but he never showed, no one has seen or heard from him since." Lithuania looked down. "It would appear that Latvia has joined the missing countries."

America could tell this was hard for the Baltic nation. After all, those three were pretty close. "It's okay, maybe he just didn't want to see Russia," he joked. "I know I wouldn't." As America chuckled, in an attempt to lighten the mood, Lithuania shook his head, obviously not appreciating the American's attempts.

"No, we went to his house, Latvia was not there. He is missing, and I think the others are too." Of course by "others" Lithuania meant those that were supposedly missing. "America, I think the rumors are true, for some reason countries have started to disappear."

Before America could say anything, someone else entered into the room, and the time for such discussion was over. Though as America left to go greet Prussia a good morning, he couldn't help but think back to what Lithuania said, was it possible countries were really missing? If so, what happened to them? Where did they go? These were all things America didn't know, but being the hero he was, he was determined to find out.

It took most of the morning and afternoon to get everyone out of the house and on their ways back to their own countries, and by the time everyone left, America was already tired. But there was still stuff he had to do that day, starting with having one of his states or his capital gather together a list of all the rumored countries to go missing.

He was the hero, and if there were countries missing, that meant it was a hero's job to find them and that was exactly what America was going to do.

The blond American pulled out his phone, quickly calling his capital. "Yo D.C!" He spoke into the phone as someone picked up from the other end.

"What's up boss?" Came a man's voice.

America made his way to his study, walking in he looked through the stack of papers on his desk. "You know that rumor going around about those missing countries?" He asked, and it wasn't long before D.C replied with a vague yes. "Well I need you to get me a list of all of the missing countries," he explained, still looking through his papers.

A sound of annoyance came from the other end. "Do you know how hard that will be to get? None of the neighboring countries are going to willingly give a capital of the USA the names of which countries are missing! That's not really stuff people want known."

America frowned slightly, now that was true that most likely friends of the missing countries wouldn't want a big superpower like himself knowing their friends were missing. They might think he would take advantage of that and attack. Which he definitely would not, as that was not heroic at all.

"Please D.C? You're persuasive, I know you could do it!" America told his capital, he would do it himself but he had piles of paperwork that he was supposed to finish by...two days ago. Yeah the boss was not going to be happy about that.

The person on the phone grunted. "Why are you so interested all of a sudden anyways?" He asked.

America beamed. "Because, if they are missing then it's a hero's job to find them and I'm the hero!" He exclaimed excitedly. Of course, there were more reasons, after all he was curious as to why countries were mysteriously vanishing, and it was something that needed to be solved if they didn't want it to become anymore serious.

D.C let out a disgruntled whine, he didn't sound happy. It was likely he was a bit hungover from his own celebration last night. "Alright fine, I'll try and get you a list. Just please tell me you know what you're doing. I don't want this leading down another dead end."

"Don't worry Robert, I know what I'm doing!"

"You better. Goodbye Alfred."

"Bye Rob!"

Just like that, D.C hung up and America quickly put his phone away as he stared at the piles of paperwork. He sighed, knowing that he had to do it and sat down: ready for a boring day of paperwork. Even if he would much rather go out for McDonald's.

Hey everyone! Thanks for reading this far! I apologize if either America or Lithuania were out of character, this is my first time writing for Hetalia. Most likely the main characters will be the Allies and Axis powers. The next chapter will probably be about either Japan or Germany, I'll let you guys as the readers decide which one. Most likely we'll be switching between America, England, Japan, and Germany for who the chapters are about. Though I'm not so sure on Germany.

Alright, bye guys and please review! I love your reviews and I appreciate any comments as well!