As a side note, I never actually finished Hetalia, since I want to make it last longer. So if I do anything that is contradictory to what someone did, then sorry!
I'm still not swearing, even if Romano still calls everyone… I'm not saying it. Instead, he says (tomato, potato, etc.) jerk, by 4kids dubbing (MWAHAHAHAHA!)
I also have a hard time with accents. But since it was be a bit hard for some people to read foreign written accents, that's probably for the better. So far, only Germany (and possibly Prussia) has a W/V problem, and Japan has a L/R problem. Having China and Japan have Th- sound problems would make it too hard. I hear that Canadians have an a/ha problem (for example, in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Scott says 'Haiti' instead of 'eighty'), but that's too subtle, and probably can't be easily written or understood.
Chapter 5
"Twenty years…" I murmured. "No way…"
"Let's talk later. Just don't tell the others!" Nami said.
"Oi! Nami! We're seeing how many toothpicks we can cram up his nose!" Ussop yelled, half-drunk.
"Great! I'm betting 50!" Nami waved a bundle of Berries (the currency. Berries sounded best to me.).
"50 Berries? Isn't that a bit cheap for you?" I asked good-naturedly.
"50 toothpicks. I'm betting 50,000 berries!"
MEANWHILE (Neutral POV, therefore, Canada is visible)
Coincidentally, 50,000 was the distance in meters from which a group of disheveled nations were squatting on Sealand. Wait, I mean squatting on the floor IN Sealand.
"Okay, let the emergency world meeting commence!" America said, pulling a blackboard out of nowhere. "So, dudes, we're in the middle of the ocean, none of us can recognize the constellations, and no one we asked has ever heard of America! I mean, come on, who-"
"You think that the entire world revolves around you, huh, ice cream jerk?" Romano yelled.
"Romano, he has a point," said Germany. "I can't think of very many people who vouldn't know about him, especially since he takes up about a third of his continent,"
"Hey, has everyone forgotten about me?" Canada half-whispered. "I'm bigger than America, you know! [1]"
France shushed him without anyone noticing. "Well, I think that we should focus our energies of finding England, [2]"
"Hai. I agree with Flance-san," Japan said.
"Hey! Don't forget about me!" Sealand called "Even if no one acknowledges me, you're still on my land!"
"He has a point…" said Spain. "Oh well, who wants tomatoes?" he produced an entire basket out of nowhere.
"Ve~ I do!" Italy waved his arms around.
"Can I have some?" said Russia.
Spain and both Italies began to shiver. "T-take them!" said Italy franticly.
"Hey! Leave some for me!" yelled Romano, his love for tomatoes overriding his fear of Russia.
"Hey! Don't think that I'm gonna let you pick on the weak!" America said, to the embarrassment of the aforementioned 'weak'.
"You want another Cold War, capitalist pig?" said Russia with his voice dripping with malice.
"Bring it on, commie [3]!" America cracked his knuckles as Russia got out his pipe.
"As much as I hate him, aru, he's still the reason we're in this mess in the first place, AHEN," said China over all the fighting. "Snacks, anyone?"
LATER, in the inn, girl's room, Robin POV
"Robin, have you ever noticed anything strange about Arthur?" asked Nami.
"Hm," Let's see, he starts to blab about weird things whenever he gets drunk, wait, she already knows that… "He never gets injured during raids."
"Isn't that normal for most captains?"
"Hold on. I remember that the day he left, he was burned," When I saw the confused look on Nami's face, I said quickly, "We never went anywhere near fire on that day. It was too hot for either of us to even think of setting anything on fire,"
"But how could he have been burned?" Nami put her hand to her chin in the classic thinking pose. "Did he get burned afterwards?"
"No, I was with him the whole time. There wasn't even a lantern when I got to his room."
There was a very pregnant pause.
"Well," said Nami, breaking the silence, "We still know this. He looks the same after twenty years, but we don't know why."
"Maybe he ate a Devil fruit," I suggested.
Nami looked out the window for a while, and then sprang up. "I've got an idea!"
END OF CHAPTER 5
[1] Canada being bigger than America- It's true! I looked it up. America is just more noticeable.
[2] France suffers the most with my problem with accents. Germany and Japan have V/W and R/L problems, China has an –aru, I read enough Harry Potter books to get a half-decent British accent, Spain and Russia don't have any particular accent that can be written, and America and Canada are similar.
[3] Commie- I read in a few fics that had America call Russia 'commie', short for communist.
Like? The 'Coincidentally, 50,000' was a reference to Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy, when the chances of being picked up in space was 9 to the power of something, and that number was the phone number of the apartment where… that would take too long to explain.
What is Nami's plan? What did Iggy do? Why has he lost his memory? And what will Iggy do about all those toothpicks? Find out next update!
