North American Hurricane (Hetalia)

Author: Ashynarr

Summary: In the same vein as Bunnies For Your Amusement, I now bring you my collection of oneshots and short stories featuring the North American twins, America and Canada! Now including non-LJ drabbles.

Disclaimer: Hetalia's not mine.

Warning: Random Shit, Bros Being Bros, human AU,

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Alfred knows he's hit his target when a string of foreign swears erupts from his headset, another point added to his tally as he brings his gun around to try and spot another target before he's forced to move again.

Moving to Ailateh U. had been rough at first, since he'd left most of his friends behind (asides from Mattie, of course, cause they were bros for life!), and he'd lacked interest the start of term parties around the dorms and apartments to try and make new ones. Since he was just getting used to his new schedules and not having a parent around to ease some of the household chores, he hadn't even really thought much about making friends until things started to calm down for him.

Then, of course, he'd run into Kiku, who was a new student from Japan and spoke only marginal English, though it was far above the American's Japanese to be fair. They'd run into each other at the local GameStop, where Alfred had been running a long string of WonderTrades on his Pokemon OmegaRuby to try and fill the last few spots in his shiny collection.

Kiku, who had been there to buy a copy of CoD, had glanced at his screen, frowned, and had raised an eyebrow. "Need pokemon?"

"Huh?" Alfred looked up from his screen, blinking as he realized the newcomer was talking to him. "Uh, a few, I'm trying to get all the shinies, but there's a few I'm having trouble with."

He pulled up his box, showing the empty slots in his collection while Kiku nodded or frowned. At one point he stopped Alfred, pointing to a particular spot. "You need Janovy?"

"Janovy?" Alfred looked between him and the space before ti clinked. "Oh, Servine! Yeah, do ya have a spare?"

"I do," The Japanese man replied, pulling out his own DS that appeared to have AlphaSapphire inside. "For your spare Luxio?"

"Psh, sure thing dude, I'm all for that!"

They quickly made the trade, Alfred receiving a shiny Snivy to evolve at his leisure while Kiku got a well-stated Luxio (courtesy of a lucky trade he'd held onto for potential bribery). After it finished the blond beamed, closing his DS for the moment to focus properly. "So, what's your name, anyways?"

Whether Kiku knew this moment had doomed him to a life of friendship with the American was hard to say, but he took it all in stride none the less as they exchanged friend codes, then later on xbox and Wii gamer tags in order to keep in contact in between classes and other IRL duties. They'd quickly found themselves embroiled in competitions over Mario Cart online, cheerfully telling each other off for the numerous shells, bananas, and stars sent each other's way.

Within a month, they'd ended up joined by Eduard, the guy who sat next to Alfred in calculus and turned out to be a nasty shot in combat games, and Yong Soo, who as it turned out was a friendly archrival of Kikus after an intense finals match of Starcraft for a competition being held in one of the school computer labs.

That making them a solid group of four, they then set out in a series of cooperative and competitive showdowns that often went hilariously wrong when the English they tried to communicate in got misunderstood along the way. Of course, considering Alfred was learning swears and insults in three languages, he hardly minded the slips, correcting where he needed to and otherwise doing his best to kick ass and take names.

A knife came flying from the side, inches in front of him, and he yelped before turning to fire at the assailant before he vanished back into the building he'd thrown in from. Seriously, whoever thought you needed to communicate clearly in order to understand each other had clearly never played CoD for several hours straight - there were plenty of things that crossed the language barriers once you got down to it!

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AN: Yeah, short piece altogether but I totes thing a gaming group where only one person actually has English as their native tongue and none of the others actually share a common language would be hilarious to read about, simply because of all the mistranslations possible. Still, video games are good bonding tools, so that's a thing.