I lied. Lizzy isn't a match maker in this one.

Plumcot-Senpai and I both say this is the best chapter yet. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

This chapter is dedicated to my friend Sebastian-Senpai who's never given up on me when waiting for me to respond to RP XD I've never given up on him either so I hope you like this...I was gonna give you the chapter that had hints of Kuroshitsuji in it but I think you deserve this awesome chapter more. Oops, spoilers XD

Warnings: Everyone is ganging up on Antonio today XD

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Hetalia. Period.

I'm sure you've thought once or twice about my strange love for children. I admit that I have too. I don't get it. Even my parents didn't love children as much as I do, which is kind of weird. I don't even have kids! What I can say was my first job was babysitting for...well...I actually used to babysit Ludwig - but you really couldn't call it babysitting at the age he was in. Even f I had babysat him at the proper age, it's probably impossible for him to be called a baby.

Since I needed to support myself in a better way than babysitting kids, I'm now teaching at the public school.

Maybe that was a bad idea.

Most of the kids were only a little younger than I was and I for sure didn't have the "commanding" voice like most of the other teachers have. I don't think it was possible for me to have one. It didn't fit.

Francis and Gilbert always told me I was too nice to defend myself and it might be true. I can't tell people off without feeling bad - not can I hit someone, even to save my life.

It's hopeless. I can't hurt people.

So it was came as a shock when a defiant brunette girl cornered me in the hall after school one day.

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"Antonio Fernandez Carriedo! Get your ass over here right now."

I winced. The brunette's voice sounded like how my mama sounded when she was mad. No one ever called me by my whole name. It was either "Antonio", "Carriedo", "idiot", or "Mr. Carriedo", which - to tell you the truth - I hated. But this was worse than being called 'Mr. Carriedo" by some preppy little student - this was like being called in for a death sentence. "Yes, ma'am?"

Then I realized the voice that had called me wasn't the voice of any of my superiors. It was the voice of a girl - maybe a bit older than the age I taught.

My eyes strained to see who it was standing at the opposite end of the hallway. God, I really need to get glasses.

The girl's hair was a caramel brown and tumbled well past her shoulders. Her red mini-skirt looked a bit too short for my liking. Her eyes glowed green like a black cat in the night - menacing and guarded. She seemed familiar to me, but I couldn't place her as she came closer to me.

"You! You idiot of all idiots!" She screamed at me. "What the hell do you think you're doing toying with Lovino's heart like that?! Do you know how much pain he goes through?! Don't act like the damn king of the world!"

I just stood there dumbfounded. Toying with Lovi's heart? I hadn't even seen him since last week, if you aren't counting the numerous times I saw him in the hallway. What was this girl talking about? "It's not your place to address me as that, young lady." I said with difficulty, trying to get into my respectable teacher mode.

Oh, did I mention that I don't have one?

I failed miserably.

The girl smirked and took several more steps towards me - close enough to slap me across the face. And slap me she did. A hard one.

"I'll call you whatever I want asshole. Now answer my questions!"

I was still as confused as hell as I rubbed my throbbing cheek. "Um...Who are you~?" I asked, taking a couple tentative steps away from the girl.

"Elizabeta Hedervary. Now explain. Now."

Oh yes. I'd seen this Elizabeta pick up Feli at the end of the day.

"I don't know what you're talking about." I told her.

"Elizabeta-Chan," A new voice came. "This is not the way to address the problem."

Kiku Honda stepped out from a classroom, his sandals scratching against the floor. His usually blank eyes looked as hard as glittering diamonds and I wondered if this also had something to do with Lovino.

"Hello Antonio-Sensei." He said, bowing politely. "Excuse Elizabeta-Chan's hurried actions and please be kind enough to hear us out."

"Hey!" Elizabeta made a face. I ignored it and nodded for Kiku to continue.

"Lovino is a...Well...He's a very close friend of ours despite his unsavory attitude." Kiku winced. "We do not appreciate you treading over his feelings without realizing it since he's very good at hiding it. We also..."

"Look," I said, interrupting him. "I don't even know what you're talking about. What's wrong with Lovi and what do I have to do with it? And who's we?"

"Well..."

"We is us!" Lizzy said, pushing Kiku off of the imaginary podium. "Kiku and I! We worry about Lovi! He's been cutting since the time we knew him and it only seems to be getting worse now that you're around! He loves you! He's giving his heart to you and you don't seem to notice! Soon he'll be ruined and it'll be your fault!"

"Elizabeta-chan, you're being rude." Kiku said quietly. 'But I must agree with you." He turned to me, his silent aura becoming more and more intimidating by the second. "Mr. Carriedo, you're being unfair to Lovino. He has feelings just like you and I do. And you're all that's on his mind currently. Try at least to say hi to him in the hallway even if he 'hates' it. He may be too shy to express it to you but he deserves some slack. His mother died and his personality changed because of it. He was a happy little child when I first met him but then..."

If it was even possible, Kiku's eyes darkened even more than before.

"You get my point. He's a broken, inexperienced child who needs more guidance in the world. Give it to him! He may seem abrasive and rude but he's not! You need to look deeper and stop daydreaming about...Crap!"

I knew Kiku Honda as the quiet Japanese boy two grades above mine. I knew him as scattered parental figure for my student Li. We all knew him as the only boy who'd shriek and cry if a centipede was crawling on the floor, but I'd never seen him or even imagined him losing it like this. We all have our internal monsters but most of us let it go enough to not blow up so badly as to give of such a...hurt aura...

"You guys are both being unreasonable."

I hadn't realized we were right by the counselor's office until he came out of it. Tino is twelve years younger than me. He always will be. But he is the one that seemed to achieve the authoritative teacher aura the easiest. Maybe it's natural to him but there's something about him that makes me suspect it isn't.

"Oh...Tino-Kun..."

Tino shook his head in disappointment. "You can't expect Mr. Carriedo to read Lovino's mind and feels those feelings with that dense mind of his. "

"Hey~!" I protested. "I'm not that clueless~!"

A playful look of challenge crossed Tino's amethyst eyes. "Wanna bet?"

I put my hands up in surrender. Sometimes you can never win. "Fine. I'll leave now." I said, edging for the door. These three auras didn't calm my nerves so I decided it best to run out of there as fast as I could - and so I did.

Lovino...I should talk to him sometime.

Well...How was it? I was stumped on it until today, so I wrote more than half of this chapter in less than an hour XD Not stumped anymore XD Review?