Title: It's Always You

Chapter 11: Detention

Summary: Japan transfers to a new school~! But is he aware that China actually has feeling for him~? And Korea is trying to get them together~? O:

Genre: Romance/Humor

Rating: T for some reason XD (Maybe because it's shounen-ai~?)

Disclaimer: I don't own Hetalia! Himaruya-sama does~

"Yao..."

Groan...

"Yao...wake up..."

Yao's eyes slowly opened and fell on an image of a woman. She had a longer ponytail, and pale skin.

"Oh...morning, mom..." Yao groaned again. He wanted to fall back asleep, but he knew he had school again, and he was expecting detention for missing out on the whole day with a bunch of people he barely even knew.

"Good morning, Yao." The woman smiled softly. "Get up, or you'll be late for class." She said in a gentle tone, not scolding him at all for what happened last night. She was always a kind and considerate person, and only wished for her son's protection and happiness.

"Oh...right." He shufled to his left, to find Kiku sleeping beside him. He flinched slightly.

"Mom...you didn't wake Kiku up first, aru?"

"Oh, yes...Kiku." She clapped her hands together. "He's your younger brother now, isn't he? Now you should take responsibility on him. Just try to help him out on everything, alright?"

Yao just nodded. "Okay, okay. Besides brothers, we're also best friends now, anyway."

Next thing he knew, his mother had pulled him in a hug. "That's great! I'm happy for you!" She said happily. Yao flinched.

"Hey, mom, don't get so hyped up about it...it's not my first time having friends, y'know, aru..." He lowered his eyes a little.

"Oh? Isn't Yong Soo your only friend that time?"

"Y-yeah, aru. I had friends, but it's just that I never talk to them, aru..."

"Hm...well then, why would you call them your friends if you don't get along with them?"

"Uh...I guess you're right, aru. Thanks, mom." The woman smiled softly yet again. Yao smiled along with her. She left the room, and quietly closed the door behind her.

Even though he did love his mother very much, he did trust her, but he was just nervous to tell the 'things' that happened between him and Kiku. He was a little embarrassed, because that was his mother. He really didn't mind being together with Kiku and all, but he was just cautious and wasn't sure how his mother would react if she'd knew.

He sleepily turned his head toward the desk to see the clock which was sitting quietly on top of it. He checked the time: 7:23 A.M. His eyes widened in shock.

"Aiyah! We're late! We need to get up now, aru!" He said to himself. He shuffled and moved closer to Kiku, slightly shaking him to wake him up. "Kiku! Kiku, wake up! We're late for classes, aru!"

"Nnnh..." Kiku just fell asleep again. Yao repeated the process, and he awoke. "Oh...good morning, Yao-san..." Kiku mumbled, rubbing his eyes.

"Kiku! Get dressed, we're late! We have classes, aru!" He said, looking sort of desperate. He was never late for classes. He always made sure he was more punctual than Arthur, who always comes first in their class. Kiku was similar to him, he was also very punctual. But, he overslept, since 'his mother' didn't wake him.

"...what? Classes?" Kiku turned to the clock beside him, and noticed how late it was. "Oh, right! Classes! Oh, no, I forgot!" He quickly leaped out of bed, grabbing a random uniform from the floor and went straight to the washroom to change. Yao did the same, got a uniform from the once clean floor and got dressed. Five minutes later, both of them finished dressing and got their bags from the floor, at the side of the bed. They ran straight out of the bedroom, and not even bothering to get some breakfast. They ran down the stairs, passing the dining room; where Yao's mother was, cooking.

She noticed them, and called out, "Boys! Aren't you going to eat breakfast first? You haven't eaten yet!" She said, concern in her voice.

Yao replied to her by shouting back, "No, thanks, mom! We'll just grab something on the way, aru!" And accompanied by a small, "Thank you, anyway!" from Kiku.

Yao's mother just stood there, and heard the front door close. She sighed, "I hope they'll be alright."

They were running to their school, which was just a few blocks away, and it was already around 8 o'clock in the morning. They were tardy, and the school is very strict about tardiness. They always made sure the students of Gakuen Hetalia were disciplined and always on time.

They had reached the front entrance of their school, panting. They opened the silver doors, and ran to their classroom. When they got there, they found the group just standing outside of the room. Yao saw them, and asked,

"Hey, guys! Why are you all outside, aru?"

Arthur replied, "We got sent outside for missing a whole day of school and being tardy."

Yao groaned. He expected that's also what's gonna happen to the two of them.

Arthur noticed both Yao and Kiku's untidiness, and asked sternly, "...speaking of tardy, you guys look horrible. What happened?"

The taller Asian replied annoyingly. "What did you think happened? We overslept, and didn't have any time for grooming ourselves, aru." He crossed his arms, while Kiku just combed his hair with his fingers, making it neat again.

Now Yao noticed something of Arthur and Alfred-he saw that they were standing awfully close to each other, closer than usual. He shrugged, and decided not to ask about it. Suddenly Mr. Edelstein opened the door of their classroom, having a dark glare on his face. "Well. I see there are more tardy students in my class. All of you, five hours of detention after school. Think about what you've done, and write a 500-word essay about it." All of their jaws dropped. The teacher slammed the platinum door back closed, leaving all ten students speechless. There was a long silence that crossed their atmosphere, until a pissed-off teenage Brit spoke loudly,

"Well. This sucks!"

There were arguments going on in the school hallways. Some were shouting at each other, some were just being out of it, not wanting to get more detention and having the number of words in their essay increase. Besides, these adolescents didn't like to fight that much.

Arthur argued, "It's your fault! If you didn't have this freaking idea in the first place, none of this would've happened, you idiot!"

Alfred complained back, "Well, excuse me! Our relationship had already gotten better after what happened yesterday! Don't tell me you forgot all of it, you even said most of the things there!"

They continued on again, Ivan had left the group to roam around, and Francis and Matthew had also gone to do their 'personal business'. Kiku and Yao stayed out of it, they were in the washroom fixing themselves. Ludwig and Feliciano weren't exactly fighting, the German was just lecturing the Italian with something about pasta and the brunette was being noisy, covering his ears, and the tall blonde was struggling to make him listen.

It all went on until dismissal time. Everyone went out from class, except ten certain students who were just scolded and was told to wait until they start their detention at around 5 P.M.

Mr. Edelstein opened their classroom door once again. "Come inside." He quietly said.

The students all sat down on the seats nearest to the board and the teacher's desk. Mr. Edelstein sighed, and closed his eyes.

"Do you know why you all were sent out, and received detention?"

Feliciano excitedly raised his hand. "Ooh, ooh! Me, me!"

The teacher irritatedly pointed to him. "Mr. Vargas, do you know why?"

"Ve~ yes, I do! We all skipped class yesterday, and went to the theme par-mffff!" His words were muffled, and his mouth was covered by Ludwig's hand once again. The blonde used his other hand to grab his shoulderand force Feliciano back onto his seat.

The Austrian sighed heavily once again. "And what have you all learned from that?"

Silence.

"…alright. As I've said earlier, start working on the 500-word essay I told you to do. Write it quietly, and immediately." He strictly said, and left the room for a teachers' meeting.

Once the door was closed, everyone made noise. They didn't do the essay—even Kiku didn't. Even though he was used to even 1,000-word essays that his former school made him write, and he was an honor student, he was a little too tired to be doing such things. Instead, he was doing what everyone in the room was doing—partying. They didn't care about some dumb essay to pass their time, and even if Arthur loved literature and was used to writing, Alfred pretty much forced him to do some other things than keeping your grades high—things that are much more fun than that, things that he refused to try to do, even as a child. But now, he was around 19 years of age, and Alfred was 15, and he was just letting some guy four years apart from him tell him what to do. Well, it's kinda similar to Yao and Kiku's relationship. Yao just lets himself get caught off-guard for the first time by some guy he knew only for a few days. That's weird, 'cause you only knew each other for around a week, and the next thing you knew, you're brothers.

Yao thought about how all the things that happened to him the past week. He sighed in happiness. Kiku noticed that he was strangely happier than usual.

"Uh…Yao-san?"

Yao snapped out of it. "Huh? Oh, hey, Kiku." He turned his head to face the younger Asian, and smiled.

"E-etto…Yao-san, may I ask what you're so happy about?" Kiku curiously asked, scooting closer so he can hear better despite the noise in the room.

"Hm? Oh…what I'm happy about, aru?" He leaned back on his chair, and put his hands behind his head. "Well, it's pretty simple, aru."

Kiku's ears were open, ready to hear what the other was about to say. Yao took a deep breath.

"It's simply because of you, aru." He turned to look at him, and smiled softly. Kiku's eyes slightly widened and his face went red.

"M-me? Uh…" The Japanese looked away, flustered. It was the first time he had seen Yao just spit out something he wanted to know. Usually, he would just stutter, and take a long time to say what he wanted to hear. But Kiku didn't expect what he'd just heard right now. Because of him? Really? But they've met just last week…why is it because of him?

Yao noticed the face of the other Asian boy. He thought he looked slightly uncomfortable. Yao flinched.

"Eh, b-but I didn't mean to, uh, offend you of that, aru…! Um…" He looked down, rubbing his neck. He didn't know what to say.

Kiku turned his gaze to him. "No, no, Yao-san…I'm not offended, really…I was just…surprised, that's all. I-I'm sorry if I concerned you." He bowed.

Yao stared at him for a moment. "O-oh…is that so…well then, uh, this might sound awkward, but…"

His mind started to race, and he hesitated a little. He was afraid he might hear something that might hurt him. He really was never used to rejections… or any any news, in general. But this time, he was curious. He pushed the uneasiness away and asked, "…how do you feel about...me, aru?" His own face reddened, and looked away.

Kiku thought for a while. "You make me happy, too, Yao-san. In fact, since I didn't really have anyone care for me…you became the most special person in my life." He smiled sweetly. Yao's eyes widened slightly. Did Kiku really say that?

Yao looked at the ground, his face a bright shade of red. "R-really, aru…"

Yong Soo was watching them from behind the whole time with amusement. "Well, my job is done~" He said to himself. He decided to check out how close they've been, so he interrupted to them.

He put both his hands on each Asians' shoulders. "Hey, guys~ Am I dusturbing your moment~?"

Both flushed a little. "N-no, you didn't, aru." Yao informed. "Oh, hello there, Mr. Yong Soo." Kiku smiled.

"Eh? 'Mr.' Yong Soo~? But aren't we already best friends~? You don't need to be so formal on me, Kiku~"

"Ah, o-okay, then. Um…Yong Soo…isn't it?"

That's it!" The Korean grinned, and ruffled Kiku's hair playfully.

But, unfortunately, one of the teachers caught them partying and chatting loudly, so in the end they were all forced to do the essay by the end of the day.

A/N: Whew! I've finally finished it XD

I don't know why, but this actually took me pretty long to write ^^;

Maybe because I've been drawing all day and too lazy to use my PC?

I dunno. Happy Valentine's Day, by the way! XD