"In your country what do people do when you like them?"
"Um….kiss…I think"
"… kiss I see… I've liked you for a very long time."
"Really?"
"Yes really, I wouldn't lie to you"
"Yay that's happy!"
"Hm...Well I'm off, be careful. When this war finally ends I promise to come and see you again."
"Okay then I'll miss you! I'll be waiting! I'll make you lots of treats for when you get back!"
West groaned sitting up from the bed, what time was it?
He looked around the room "I wound up sleeping here?" he looked next to him expecting to see Feliciana asleep but she wasn't there.
"Someone woke up before me?" he grumbled yet somehow sounded astonished. "Out of everyone it could have been it had to be this girl…."
West sighed acknowledging that he had had a rough evening, those dreams were odd and then he was woken up by her grandfather.
He gulped.
"Her grandfather!" he thought apprehensively jumping out of her bed.
"What's he going to think!? I know he suggested it but I'm sure he was only joking!"
Approaching the door he peeked outward "Coast is clear" he thought stepping out.
He heard noises down stairs and decided to check it out, he made it down stairs and following the noises he wound up in a large kitchen and a dining hall where he saw Sakura.
"What's going on?" he asked, mostly to himself but Feliciana turned hearing his question.
"Hello good morning!" she said happily "I'm glad you're awake sleepy head, I hope you don't mind I invited Sakura over for breakfast."
Sakura waved and smiled sweetly "Ohayo" she said happily.
"Good morning…" he mumbled backing up; he was embarrassed that he was only wearing a night shirt and his boxers.
"I washed your clothes; I left them in my room you can go ahead and get dressed."
"Ja…" he said shyly leaving the kitchen.
Feliciana laughed "Breakfast is ready" she served Sakura
"Thank you so much for inviting me over." said Sakura.
Feliciana's eyes drifted to the wrapped bento's that were next to Sakura.
"Hey what are those?" asked Feliciana.
Sakura blushed "Ah...just my lunch box"
"Really? But it seems like a lot of food" she said, setting a plate for West and herself.
"Y-yes, I accidently made a bit of extra food this morning…and I decided I may as well pack it and give it to Alfred-san since his kitchen exploded." Mumbled Sakura, Feliciana giggled. "Your secret is safe with me ragazza"
Sakura sighed and blushed "It's not like that…he saved my kitty a long time ago…and I want to thank him…"
As West walked up the stairs, he heard the Feliciana giggling, he blushed
"My head hurts so much today, I really don't want to go to school…" he thought.
When he reached her room he quickly took of the nightshirt then thought about Feliciana's grandfather.
"Why haven't I seen him?" he thought, he ceased getting dressed and decided to take a peak in the room next to hers, which to his understanding was her grandfathers room, using the night shirt as an excuse to see him.
He knocked and the door opened.
"Hello?" he said entering the room.
He looked around and it was empty.
"Weird…" he said his heart sinking a bit. The room looked untouched since Feliciana had entered.
Downstairs, Sakura had finished her food normally she would have waited for West to join them but she didn't want to be late for school Feliciana understood and insisted she eat.
"I really don't care about being late to school" she told her as Sakura exited her mansion.
"Thank you very much" she bowed.
"Good Luck with Alfred" said Feliciana "West and I will see you at school, okay?"
Sakura nodded and left.
Feliciana looked up in the direction of the stair case.
"I wonder what is taking him so long?" she wondered heading up the stairs.
"The bed looks like it hasn't been slept in…maybe he slept in another room…" said West analyzing the bed.
"West?"
He turned and met Feliciana's worried gaze "What do you mean `slept in another room` who do you mean?" she asked.
"Your grandfather." He told her.
Feliciana looked at him as if he were crazy. "What...? He's been dead for years" she told him.
West went pale.
"WHAT!?" he yelled on the inside.
"You're not looking so good? Are you okay?" she said worried.
"H-he…visited me…" he mumbled "A ghost?" he said to himself.
"Are you sure it wasn't just a dream?" she asked him.
He relaxed "Yes…" he breathed "A dream…I hadn't thought of that"
Feliciana smiled taking the night shirt from him and folding it "You should probably finish getting dressed" she told him "Or we'll be late for school" she giggled as she looked at him, kind of happy to see him shirtless "Could you not find where I left your clothes?"
She grabbed his wrist and dragged him to her room
"Hey-I don't need your help" he struggled snatching his wrist free from her grasp.
She acted like it hadn't happened since they had made it to her room and she grabbed the neatly folded clothes that were on top of the dresser.
"Here" she told him handing him the clothes.
West's headache was getting worse, he wobbled a bit and lost his balance falling, Feliciana cushioning is fall. She hit the floor rather hard, his weight crushing her. As they fell they landed on the box that Feliciana had opened the previous night breaking the cardboard box causing its contents to spill all over the floor.
West's and Feliciana's eyes were wide with shock as they stared at each other and their hearts beat rapidly and in sync.
Their lips finally parted, Feliciana's face slowly became red. That kiss was an accident and this time West was conscious.
West pushed himself up but stopped leaving him in a sort of plank position above Feliciana as his attention was drawn to the spilled contents that came from the box.
He saw an opened letter and saw his signature at the bottom.
"Love Ludwig"
Could it be a coincidence that Feliciana had a several letters that had his signature on it?
His eyes drifted to some of the pictures. He felt faint when he saw the man that had visited him last night in one of the pictures, her grandfather. Since West felt the touch of her lips his flash backs were coming back all at once! They were making sense!
He saw a picture, this picture included a small blonde boy that after a moment he recognized…as himself.
His eyes went to Feliciana once more.
It was his Feliciana! He promised to come back for her because he loved her so much!
He loves her! For a few seconds West was the happiest man alive all he wanted was to kiss her, kiss her until he asked him to stop.
"I promised…" he mumbled lowering himself onto Feliciana.
She blushed and freaked out a bit "W-west? Wh-what a-are you d-doing!?"
"I…I never told you my real name…." their lips were inches apart now.
"…It's…Ludwig" he told her, their lips were barely touching now but Feliciana was in too much shock to realize.
The seconds of happiness were over.
Ludwig twitched and every single one of his missing memories came flooding back to him.
Every single nightmare he had ever had was a reality.
All those flash backs connected and they were no longer flashbacks they were full fledge memory's.
He sat up, and tears over flowed his eyes remembering the tragedy he had suffered…the tragedy he caused.
Gilbert tapped his foot impatiently, as he watched his father take a sip of tea, slightly enjoying the impatience he was getting from his son.
Gilbert sighed loudly "Stop messing with me! You don't even drink tea! You drink beer!"
His father cleared his throat "It's for my health boy, I don't want to die just yet since it seems I have no heir to the business. Unless you've changed your mind Gilbert." He told him.
Gilbert chuckled "Unless you want the company to crash to bankruptcy…anyways you know I'd just give it to Ludwig who is by far more suitable for the position than me. He graduates this year you know, nearly an adult Ja!"
His father groaned and set his tea down, his son continued to talk about Ludwig.
"I can't help but notice that you don't have any pictures of him, which is odd because I sent you a lot of them."
The old man sighed "You really don't give up do you?"
Gilbert grinned "The awesome me never does!"
"You gave up on Eliza" chuckled the old man.
"That was uncalled for! We are talking about my brother!" snapped Gilbert.
He shrugged "I don't understand why you stuck with him for so long, if you ask me that bastard has ruined your life the most: You lost the school, you lost the friends, and you lost the girl I heard she got married did you know?"
"Yes, but it didn't last" grumbled Gilbert, annoyed that his father kept dancing around the subject "and quit calling him a bastard, if he is one then I'm one. You and Mutter were married."
"Is that what that means?" he laughed.
"Vatter…" said Gilbert sadly "He is regaining his memories, and he is sure to remember you. Now I am asking you to please come and talk to him"
The man's eyes widened, and then became very serious.
"I promised your mother that I would never see that boy…"
"Ja well…I'm sure if Mutter were alive then she would tell you to go see him! You made that promise without her consent. How? Because she was dead when you made it!"
The man stood up angrily "Shut Up! Don't you dare speak about your Mother like that!"
Gilbert realized that he may have been too forward with his words but he was becoming frustrated his father.
His father exited the room, Gilbert stood up "Hey-! We are not done talking about Ludwig!"
His father ignored him and continued to walk.
"I don't want that boy in my life…" he mumbled. "Let's save this discussion for another day…Go home Gilbert and come back another day…understand that this is a sore subject for me"
"Oh ja?" said Gilbert sarcastically
"Understand Gilbert…come back tomorrow and I`ll meet you okay?"
Gilbert sighed taking his hollow victory; this was the farthest he had ever gotten. He stood up exiting the mansion but he halted at the door frames.
"He's the spitting image of you. I'll see you tomorrow" and so he left.
He sighed as he walked down the street "It looks like we are finally getting somewhere with this….but how do I explain to Ludwig that I've been lying to him for years…." He rubbed his face with his hands "It was for his own good. He has to understand that."
Back in the mansion, Gilbert and Ludwig's father stood in a darkened room staring of a picture of himself and his family. Everyone was in the picture including Ludwig who was only a baby. They all had smiles those were the good days the days before he so foolishly took his family to Germany.
They were a respected German family, the father not only being a successful business owner he was also a military general. He thought his family would be safe so he took them with him, thinking that the war would never reach them.
"I'm so sorry…" he spoke to the picture "I'm too ashamed to see him…what...what should I do…?"
He decided to go to sleep. Sure that the answer would come to him in a dream hoping to receive a visit from him late wife. In a dream it should be possible.
A/N: It occurred to me that I should clarify who Sakura is, she is female Japan. I love her character so much…also Ohayo is good morning in Japanese. Ragazza means girl in Italian. Mutter is mother in German and Vatter is father in German but correct me if I'm wrong so I may fix it. Thanks for reading, I cut this chapter in half so…that means the next chapter is half way written…AND THE TRUTH IS FINALLY REVEALED! We find out what happened to Ludwig and his family and how he got amnesia.