Japan was sure acting strangely over the phone England thought as he walked down the hall to the conference room. usually he's so stoic, be he seemed almost... nervous. Whatever, I'm sure it's nothing. England tried his best to push the thought out of his head. He was just worried he would be late. But something kept nagging at him, telling him something was wrong.

In the conference room, America, France, Lithuania and Belarus had already taken their seats. He assumed Russia was there too, but probably hiding from his deranged sister. So he was a bit early. England sighed and looked for his place card which, he noted with some annoyance, was right in between America and France. The latter smelled of cheese (as always) and his former colony was talking to his profane alien friend.

England waited impatiently as other countries started to file in. First came Estonia and Latvia who came in huddled together and trembling. They were about to claim the two empty seats Lithuania had saved for them, but were beat to them by Poland who stretched himself across the two chairs. Russia (who had mysteriously appeared as soon as Belarus had gone to other parts of the building to search for him) waved them over to the chairs near him. They walked, trembling, over.

Romano came in next followed by Spain. Surprisingly, Romano was quiet for one, but only because he was stuffing his face with tomatoes. Spain was also carrying tomatoes, but England suspected that Romano had made him carry them.

Of course, Japan will be a bit late England thought, Seeing as I gave him such short notice. I wonder why he sounded so nervous. England's thoughts were interrupted by his cell phone ringing. He sighed and checked the caller ID. It was Sealand.

England stood up and left the room which was getting progressively louder as more countries came in. It's not like I'll miss anything. Not even half the world is here yet.

"Yes, Sealand?" England asked as soon as he stepped outside.

"Englaaaand!" Sealand's whiny voice came over the phone's small speakers.

"What do you need, Sealand?" England asked exasperatedly.

"I'm hungry! And all that's left in the fridge are your leftovers!"

"You called me for that?" England asked, "And why can't you eat those? They're perfectly fine!"

Sealand made a gagging noise "No way! They're disgusting!"

"Why you little-" England started, but Sealand interrupted him.

"Why can't I be at the world meeting? I'm a country too!"

"You are not a country, Sealand" England sighed impatiently "We've been over this. You're a principality." He paused "Like Lichtenstein"

"Eeeew!" Sealand made another gagging noise.

What?" England asked mystified, 'Lichtenstein is a perfectly nice young lady who-" Once again Sealand interrupted England mid-sentence.

"She's got cooties!" Sealand sounded desolate.

"And this is why you aren't a country" England said, "good-bye" He snapped the phone shut before he could hear what else Sealand wanted to complain about.

Twit, he thought angrily as he walked back into the conference room. What he saw next he certainly wasn't prepared for.

Japan had gotten to the meeting right as England had left the room, successfully gotten from France who was acting... France-ish, and was starting to calm down when England came back in the room, And ruined everything.

England was thought to be slightly crazy among the other nations, what with the whole seeing-leprechauns-and-fairies thing, but usually he kept his insaneness to himself. Of course, now he chose to tell everyone about what he saw. Said thing was a certain Shinigami that happened to be floating over Japan's head. England was freaking out and was yelling something about a flying joker demon.

"Shinigami." Ryuk corrected him, which only made him freak out even more.

It took various countries to calm England down. America gave him a cheese burger for some reason, and England threw in at Ryuk. Of course, it passed right through him, which did nothing to calm him down what so ever. Italy gave him a white flag, and Romano gave him a tomato, both doing no good. Germany just sat back in his chair, trying to stay out of it. Belarus had also reappeared, much to Russia's discomfort.

"Dude! Why are you freaking out so much?" America asked. "You're always talking to your imaginary friends!"

"This isn't one of my friends!" England said "And they aren't imaginary!'

As the rest of the nations turned their attention to England Ryuk was finally able to talk to Japan, and Japan could answer back. The only person sitting next to Japan was Greece, and he was asleep.

"So he can see me" Ryuk said thoughtfully. "Which nation is he again?"

"That's England" Japan said, resisting the impulse to look up while talking."

"Oh he's the guy who called" Ryuk said, "but why can he see me?"

"Well" Japan began "England has this... thing where he can see imaginary creatures none of us can... I guess that includes you."

"Hm... and seems like everyone thinks he's crazy" Ryuk said noting the many nations who were rolling their eyes at England.

"It's a bit strange that-" Japan started, but was interrupted by England

"I'm going home, away from this crazyness" he said, and abruptly turned and left.

As the door closed there were mutters of "He thinks we're crazy?", but they were cut off by Germany.

"Never mind the insane brit! We need to keep this meeting moving!" Germany paused slammed his hand down on the table. "Russia, you're scheduled to speak first" He looked around. "Russia?"

Russia had mysteriously disappeared during the commotion, along with Belarus.

"Um, ok, next is America" Germany said, trying to keep the meeting moving.

"All right guys! Just sit back and listen to the hero speak!" America yelled as he ran to the front of the room.

Japan sighed. This was going to be a long meeting.