Sorry this took so long (I had exams and writer's block) Thanks for reading and Taka...I said I'd write more ^_^

As it turned out, Vash had been given more instructions from Lili than to simply say hello to Natalia. He'd been told to give her some photos and that years Christmas present (Which Lili didn't manage to send in time) The present was a stack of CDs by various bands which she'd expressed an interest in. It may be surprising but Natalia hadn't even listened to metal until she started writing to Lili. And then Vash was dragged away because the men were going skiing that day. Looking at them Natalia thought that watching them ski would be hilarious. The ones with the weird curls were not dressed for snow, they seemed to think that there would be a hoard of fashion conscious photographers out on the slopes lying in wait to take photos of them. The happy without cause one with brown hair who seemed to have made it his life's duty to further aggravate the grumpy curl brother (she assumed the ones with curls were related) wasn't dressed for snow either, although he didn't appear to have had fashion on his mind when he got dressed that morning.

Very few of them looked prepared for snow apart from Vash, one of the flirts (The blonde one) and the one with slicked back hair. She over heard the one with massive eyebrows saying that the snow where he was from was awful, half an inch deep my God how did he cope!

Katyusha tapped her on the shoulder "Thanks for helping, I'll do the washing up, Yong Soo is waiting outside for you!"

Yong Soo was Natalia's best friend, he was the only person who really understood her feelings towards her brother, sometimes they followed him together. Apart from that they had literally nothing in common. Natalia trotted over to the door and opened it. "Hello"

Yong Soo grinned at her "Hey Natalia, I'm bored and Yao kicked me out. Are you guys still serving breakfast?" and with that he pushed past her and strolled into the kitchen with a cheery "Hey Kat, your breasts originated in Korea, whoa sorry Sadik I didn't see you there"

Natalia forced down a smile and followed her friend.

Ludwig thought that even Gilbert knew that the skiing idea was a bad one. Few of the group had brought practical clothing, Gilbert and Feliciano were the only ones with an earthly clue of what was going on. So Ludwig had bundled himself up in as many clothes as humanly possible and followed his cackling brother out to the cars.

Once again Vash and Marcello were stuck sharing a seat belt, The pair weren't the best of friends, which mostly had something to do with Marcello having taken Lili out to the cinema and returning her ten minutes past her curfew (seven o-clock in the evening) in which time Vash had contacted the police and called up a search party. Ludwig remembered it vividly because Feliciano and Lovino had been frantic because they automatically assumed that if Lili was missing so was Marcello, He'd had to deal with the pair of them having a monumental freak out and then had to inform them that their brother was safe seven minutes later when Vash called again. They were squabbling now. Ludwig made a dash for the drivers seat but was shoved out of the way by Lovino who was beaming wildly. At which point Vash made a desperate bid for freedom because no one wanted to be in a car with one of the Vargas brothers behind the wheel. Antonio took a running leap into the passenger seat...it appeared that someone didn't mind. Ludwig tried to casually walk over to the car which Arthur was driving, but Feliciano grabbed his arm "You're sitting with us, right?" he asked.

Ludwig had never been able to say no to his friend's puppy dog eyes.

"Ja, I'm sitting with you" he sighed, rubbing his temples.

"Good, can you help me catch Vash so we can leave?" Feliciano smiled.

Yong Soo was now tucking into a massive plate of breakfast, this happened fairly regularly, he just showed up at their house and ate all their food. Sometimes Natalia wondered why they were friends. "Tali, do you have any more sausages?" He asked through a mouthful of food.

"Not for you we don't" She replied sharply. Yong Soo's face fell a mile.

Ludwig had been right, the skiing had been a metaphorical blood bath. Roderich had been the first to go. He had some how managed to come loose from his skis and slid along on his front, effectively ruining his jumper lovingly knitted by his fiance, with the words I heart Yaoi on the front (It had originally been knitted by Lizzie for Lizzie...but it had turned out too big for her and had been claimed by Roderich...he still didn't know what it meant. All Ludwig knew was that it made Kiku double over from laughter every time he saw it) The final straw was when Gilbert careered into Vash (the only one of the group who actually knew how to ski) causing him to crash into Francis who grabbed hold of Antonio to steady himself but instead dragged him down with him, Antonio brought Lovino to the floor with the rest of them. The Italians present were all shivering anyway because they placed fashion higher than warmth. Ludwig wished he could have been angry with Feliciano but they'd been friends for too long for him to manage that.

Gilbert threw an arm around Ludwig's shoulder "So, you gonna talk to that blonde girl?"

Ludwig felt his face redden "No"

Feliciano, who seemed to have some kind of gossip radar (possibly concealed within his curl) appeared beside Gilbert "You mean the pretty one that Ludwig likes?" he grinned.

"Ja, that one" Gilbert replied.

Feliciano and Gilbert gave each other matching (admittedly very scary) smiles.

"You should talk to her, you like her, OH We can help, can't we Gilbert!" Feliciano rambled

Gilbert pretended to flick his hair over his shoulder "Yes, we are the best with girls out of everyone here, after all"

Ludwig frowned "I thought that was Marcello, Gilbert, you cried when you found out Liz was female and Feliciano, actually...I don't know about you"

Lovino strolled past "Feliciano fell in a bin while trying to impress a girl last Tuesday"

And then Ludwig as off the hook, Feliciano started whining at Lovino about how "pinky swears mean you don't reveal your brother's secrets!"

Ludwig let out a sigh and stepped towards the cars. "Where do you think you're going?" Grinned Gilbert. Shit.