Raison D'etre ~Reason to Live~ (3/?)
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
This one's longer than the other 2, fair warning.
Title: Raison D'etre ~Reason to Live~
Author: Lauren
Character(s) or Pairing(s): Almost the entire cast. Main pairing USxUK, with GreecexJapan, FrancexSeychelles, SwedenxFinland and others in later chapters
Rating: PG, PG-13 maybe later
Warnings:Not many, maybe a little cursing, AU
Summary:Alfred F. Jones is trying to live a normal college life. He has a good paying job, a nice apartment (even if his baby brother is the landlord) and the best friend a guy could ask for. However his life was changed when he discovers an almost magical young man named Arthur lying unconscious in an alley.
The sun shone brightly through the windows of the apartment. Alfred opened his eyes a crack and quickly covered his eyes. “It’s so bright, I should really get some blinds.” He turned around to move his face away from the sun when he felt warm breath on his face. Barely opening his eyes, he stared in green ones.
“Ah….AHHHH!”
Before he knew it, Alfred was pushed against the wall, Arthur backing up about ten feet. “Why…were…so close?!” Arthur practically screamed. Alfred looked at him for a second, not completely awake. “Wha? Oh….oh! Arthur! Sorry, I must’ve fallen asleep…sorry, if I scared you or anything!”
Arthur looked at him and turned saying, “…what does…scared mean?” Al looked at him dumbfounded. “Don’t tell me…you don’t know your own emotions?” he said still in shocked. Arthur blushed immediately and started to walk away in a huff. Alfred followed him. “Wait, Arthur! There’s nothing wrong with it! I mean, well there is but…wait, um”
Arthur turned to look at him. “Look, I don’t know who you are, more or less who I am, but there’s no way in hell I’m staying here!”
Alfred was about to protest when a soft knock came at the door. “Alfred-san,” said a soft voice, “can you please open the door. I heard yelling so I am assuming the man is awake?”
Alfred mentally thanked God for Kiku’s perfect timing before running to open the door. Standing in the doorway was Kiku with a smile on his face. He was wearing a blue backpack and his usual white collared shirt. “Kiku, good morning!” Alfred said happily letting the young man in. Kiku walked in and stopped at the sight of Arthur. Kiku made a small bow. “I am pleased to meet you, I am Kiku Honda.”
Arthur imitated Kiku and said, “Um, I’m Arthur…I think.
Kiku looked at him confused. “You think?” he said turning to Alfred. Alfred sighed. “When he woke up last night, he said he couldn’t remember where he was from or who he was. His locket,” Alfred pointed to the object around Arthur’s neck, “ had the name Arthur inscribed in it. So I figured that was his name.”
Kiku thought for a bit. “So it’s amnesia,” Kiku stated. He started to pace the room, another habit that sort ticked Alfred off. (Even thought he did it himself) “Arthur-san,” Kiku finally said to the man, “do you maybe a cell phone in your pocket?”
Arthur looked at him con fused. He reached into his pockets and pulled out a red and blue LG cell phone. “Is this what you mean,” he asked. Kiku walked to him and took it. “Yes, that’s right.” He opened the phone and turned it on. Alfred walked over to Kiku to see what he was doing. The screen came up blank, with one number on it under contacts.
555-547-5263
“Maybe we should call the number, and see who answers,” Alfred suggested. Kiku thought for a bit. “That might actually work, Alfred-san.” Alfred smiled big and looked over to Arthur. He had retreated to a chair and was staring at him and Kiku. Alfred quickly turned and took the phone. He pressed call and waited for it to start ringing.
After one ring weird noises came through phone. It sounded like low screaming and then it got creepier. Alfred freaked out and dropped the phone. “Alfred-san, what wrong,” Kiku said concerned. Arthur stayed silent, but a look of concern crossed his face as well. Alfred slowly looked at Kiku. “There were….scary noises….I am not calling that again!”
Kiku picked up the phone. “That is strange,” he said thinking, “but I don’t think you’ll need to call the number again.”
Kiku then proceeded to go into his backpack looking for something. Alfred stood where he was, still a little shaken by the phone call. Suddenly he felt a hand on his back. He turned and saw Arthur behind him, with a small sad smile on his face. “Hey, are you going to be alright,” he asked. Alfred could only smile right back. “Don’t worry! A hero never stays scared for long,” he said. “Hmph! You know, if Arthur was like this all the time, I would like him more,” he thought. That’s when out of the corner of his eye he saw something small moving towards him and Arthur. He nearly jumped through the ceiling. “Kiku, WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!?”
Kiku picked said thing up. It looked like a little humanoid robot, with longish blond hair and big eyes. Said eyes were drooped a little making the robot look like it was just waking up. It wore a white shirt, with a frilly red vest, and black pants. It was so small that it was about the size of Alfred’s foot. Arthur backed off a bit, almost as freaked out as Alfred. Kiku just smiled. “This is one of my lasted contraptions. I’ve been working on him for a while now, and now I have one of the two in the world. It’s faster than a computer and I think he could help in this kind of situation. I call him,” Kiku cleared his throat, “the Fully Equipped Learning Intelligence with Kanji Software!”
Alfred and Arthur just looked at each other, then at Kiku. “The what?” they asked at the same time.
Kiku giggled, “Or just Feliks for short.” Feliks then started to twitch a bit. “So, like, what’s the like problem,” it said.
Alfred ran to Kiku. “It talks?! With a valley girl accent?! That’s….so totally awesome Kiku!”
Arthur stared at the pair. “He was just…what did he call it…scared a minute ago. He’s such a…something?” Arthur said, racking his brain for the right word.
Kiku brought Feliks over to the cell phone. “Feliks, can you use this number and see if you can find the address.” Feliks looked up at Kiku. “Like, totally can do that Master.”
“Wow, it can do that and it calls you master?!” Alfred said with delight, “what else can it do?”
Kiku smiled. “Well…” But before he could continue, Feliks spoke. “The number, like, takes me back to this address.” Kiku suddenly looked confused. “That is very strange.”
“What is it,” Alfred asked. As Kiku started to explain the problem, Arthur went over to Feliks. The little robot looked up at him with a big smile on his face. “Hey you, like, stop staring at me like I’m an idiot or something,” Feliks said. Arthur jumped. “That’s the word I’m looking for,” he thought. Then, very slowly, he picked the robot up.
What happened next shocked everyone. Feliks started to babble like crazy, and then he stopped moving completely. There was complete silence in the room, and then..
“AHHHH! MY FELIKS! WHAT DID YOU DO!”
Arthur backed into the wall, scared. Alfred reached to grab Kiku, but was too slow. Kiku charged towards Arthur and snatched Feliks from his hands. “ALL MY FILES! MY 2-D! MY ROBOT ARE ALL GONE!”
Arthur looked scared out of his mind. “I’m…I’m sorry! I just picked him up” Alfred could only try to calm Kiku. It only took things like this to make Kiku upset, and Kiku hardly ever got upset. What made it worse was that Arthur looked like he would pass out again, and Alfred didn’t think he could handle that again. How could this get worse? Then, just on cue, the door bust open. “Don’t worry, onii-san is here aru!”, Wang Yao shouted. Yep, it got worse.
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Alfred walked down the stairs of the apartment building, Arthur close behind. “What a disaster,” Alfred thought sighing. He was lucky Yao was able to calm Kiku down a bit. Quickly, he wrote a name and some directions.
“This is the place Kiku goes to when his things break aru,” Yao had said, “Kiku is in no condition to go, so you have to since it’s mainly your fault.”
“How is it MY fault. I didn’t break him!”
“Well, somehow, your friend did, so you are still responsible aru! This guy will fix the robot without pay if you tell him you know Kiku. Now go and don’t come back till it’s fixed!”
Alfred sighed. He was going to still be paying something, he knew it! He turned to looked at Arthur, who had decided to tag along, which was understandable. They walked down to the front door in silence until Arthur suddenly spoke. “So…your name is Alfred, right?”
Alfred was surprise and then nearly hit himself on the head. “Shit! I haven’t even introduce myself !” “Yeah,” he said smiling brightly, “Alfred F. Jones, at your service. But you could call me just Alfred, if you’d like.”
Arthur stayed silent Al almost said something else when they heard, “Alfred, who is that with you?”
Alfred turned to see his little brother and landlord (yes, landlord), Matthew. “Hey Matt,” Alfred said waving, “um, this is Arthur! I would really explain the story but I don’t have time!”
Arthur looked from Alfred to Matt. “Their…almost identical” Arthur thought. He looked at Matt again and said with a bow, “I am pleased to meet you.”
Matt smiled and said, “It’s nice to…meet you…for the first time…too. Ah, but you don’t have to bow to me!”
Arthur looked at him confused, but Alfred just waved it off. “Well, I’ll see you later, Matt,” he said pushing Arthur down the street. “Hey, don’t push, you idiot,” Arthur said in a huff. Alfred looked offended. “Hey, don’t you start calling me that too.”
Arthur looked at him surprised, then smiled. “Well, I can’t help it, you are one, Alfred.”
Alfred looked at Arthur and smiled too. “Hm, the way Arthur says my name, make’s it sound even more awesome! I wonder why?” He shook the thought out and then looked down on the paper Yao had given him. “Now, let’s see if we can find this Berwald Oxenstierna.”
Chapter 2
This one's longer than the other 2, fair warning.
Title: Raison D'etre ~Reason to Live~
Author: Lauren
Character(s) or Pairing(s): Almost the entire cast. Main pairing USxUK, with GreecexJapan, FrancexSeychelles, SwedenxFinland and others in later chapters
Rating: PG, PG-13 maybe later
Warnings:Not many, maybe a little cursing, AU
Summary:Alfred F. Jones is trying to live a normal college life. He has a good paying job, a nice apartment (even if his baby brother is the landlord) and the best friend a guy could ask for. However his life was changed when he discovers an almost magical young man named Arthur lying unconscious in an alley.
The sun shone brightly through the windows of the apartment. Alfred opened his eyes a crack and quickly covered his eyes. “It’s so bright, I should really get some blinds.” He turned around to move his face away from the sun when he felt warm breath on his face. Barely opening his eyes, he stared in green ones.
“Ah….AHHHH!”
Before he knew it, Alfred was pushed against the wall, Arthur backing up about ten feet. “Why…were…so close?!” Arthur practically screamed. Alfred looked at him for a second, not completely awake. “Wha? Oh….oh! Arthur! Sorry, I must’ve fallen asleep…sorry, if I scared you or anything!”
Arthur looked at him and turned saying, “…what does…scared mean?” Al looked at him dumbfounded. “Don’t tell me…you don’t know your own emotions?” he said still in shocked. Arthur blushed immediately and started to walk away in a huff. Alfred followed him. “Wait, Arthur! There’s nothing wrong with it! I mean, well there is but…wait, um”
Arthur turned to look at him. “Look, I don’t know who you are, more or less who I am, but there’s no way in hell I’m staying here!”
Alfred was about to protest when a soft knock came at the door. “Alfred-san,” said a soft voice, “can you please open the door. I heard yelling so I am assuming the man is awake?”
Alfred mentally thanked God for Kiku’s perfect timing before running to open the door. Standing in the doorway was Kiku with a smile on his face. He was wearing a blue backpack and his usual white collared shirt. “Kiku, good morning!” Alfred said happily letting the young man in. Kiku walked in and stopped at the sight of Arthur. Kiku made a small bow. “I am pleased to meet you, I am Kiku Honda.”
Arthur imitated Kiku and said, “Um, I’m Arthur…I think.
Kiku looked at him confused. “You think?” he said turning to Alfred. Alfred sighed. “When he woke up last night, he said he couldn’t remember where he was from or who he was. His locket,” Alfred pointed to the object around Arthur’s neck, “ had the name Arthur inscribed in it. So I figured that was his name.”
Kiku thought for a bit. “So it’s amnesia,” Kiku stated. He started to pace the room, another habit that sort ticked Alfred off. (Even thought he did it himself) “Arthur-san,” Kiku finally said to the man, “do you maybe a cell phone in your pocket?”
Arthur looked at him con fused. He reached into his pockets and pulled out a red and blue LG cell phone. “Is this what you mean,” he asked. Kiku walked to him and took it. “Yes, that’s right.” He opened the phone and turned it on. Alfred walked over to Kiku to see what he was doing. The screen came up blank, with one number on it under contacts.
555-547-5263
“Maybe we should call the number, and see who answers,” Alfred suggested. Kiku thought for a bit. “That might actually work, Alfred-san.” Alfred smiled big and looked over to Arthur. He had retreated to a chair and was staring at him and Kiku. Alfred quickly turned and took the phone. He pressed call and waited for it to start ringing.
After one ring weird noises came through phone. It sounded like low screaming and then it got creepier. Alfred freaked out and dropped the phone. “Alfred-san, what wrong,” Kiku said concerned. Arthur stayed silent, but a look of concern crossed his face as well. Alfred slowly looked at Kiku. “There were….scary noises….I am not calling that again!”
Kiku picked up the phone. “That is strange,” he said thinking, “but I don’t think you’ll need to call the number again.”
Kiku then proceeded to go into his backpack looking for something. Alfred stood where he was, still a little shaken by the phone call. Suddenly he felt a hand on his back. He turned and saw Arthur behind him, with a small sad smile on his face. “Hey, are you going to be alright,” he asked. Alfred could only smile right back. “Don’t worry! A hero never stays scared for long,” he said. “Hmph! You know, if Arthur was like this all the time, I would like him more,” he thought. That’s when out of the corner of his eye he saw something small moving towards him and Arthur. He nearly jumped through the ceiling. “Kiku, WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!?”
Kiku picked said thing up. It looked like a little humanoid robot, with longish blond hair and big eyes. Said eyes were drooped a little making the robot look like it was just waking up. It wore a white shirt, with a frilly red vest, and black pants. It was so small that it was about the size of Alfred’s foot. Arthur backed off a bit, almost as freaked out as Alfred. Kiku just smiled. “This is one of my lasted contraptions. I’ve been working on him for a while now, and now I have one of the two in the world. It’s faster than a computer and I think he could help in this kind of situation. I call him,” Kiku cleared his throat, “the Fully Equipped Learning Intelligence with Kanji Software!”
Alfred and Arthur just looked at each other, then at Kiku. “The what?” they asked at the same time.
Kiku giggled, “Or just Feliks for short.” Feliks then started to twitch a bit. “So, like, what’s the like problem,” it said.
Alfred ran to Kiku. “It talks?! With a valley girl accent?! That’s….so totally awesome Kiku!”
Arthur stared at the pair. “He was just…what did he call it…scared a minute ago. He’s such a…something?” Arthur said, racking his brain for the right word.
Kiku brought Feliks over to the cell phone. “Feliks, can you use this number and see if you can find the address.” Feliks looked up at Kiku. “Like, totally can do that Master.”
“Wow, it can do that and it calls you master?!” Alfred said with delight, “what else can it do?”
Kiku smiled. “Well…” But before he could continue, Feliks spoke. “The number, like, takes me back to this address.” Kiku suddenly looked confused. “That is very strange.”
“What is it,” Alfred asked. As Kiku started to explain the problem, Arthur went over to Feliks. The little robot looked up at him with a big smile on his face. “Hey you, like, stop staring at me like I’m an idiot or something,” Feliks said. Arthur jumped. “That’s the word I’m looking for,” he thought. Then, very slowly, he picked the robot up.
What happened next shocked everyone. Feliks started to babble like crazy, and then he stopped moving completely. There was complete silence in the room, and then..
“AHHHH! MY FELIKS! WHAT DID YOU DO!”
Arthur backed into the wall, scared. Alfred reached to grab Kiku, but was too slow. Kiku charged towards Arthur and snatched Feliks from his hands. “ALL MY FILES! MY 2-D! MY ROBOT ARE ALL GONE!”
Arthur looked scared out of his mind. “I’m…I’m sorry! I just picked him up” Alfred could only try to calm Kiku. It only took things like this to make Kiku upset, and Kiku hardly ever got upset. What made it worse was that Arthur looked like he would pass out again, and Alfred didn’t think he could handle that again. How could this get worse? Then, just on cue, the door bust open. “Don’t worry, onii-san is here aru!”, Wang Yao shouted. Yep, it got worse.
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Alfred walked down the stairs of the apartment building, Arthur close behind. “What a disaster,” Alfred thought sighing. He was lucky Yao was able to calm Kiku down a bit. Quickly, he wrote a name and some directions.
“This is the place Kiku goes to when his things break aru,” Yao had said, “Kiku is in no condition to go, so you have to since it’s mainly your fault.”
“How is it MY fault. I didn’t break him!”
“Well, somehow, your friend did, so you are still responsible aru! This guy will fix the robot without pay if you tell him you know Kiku. Now go and don’t come back till it’s fixed!”
Alfred sighed. He was going to still be paying something, he knew it! He turned to looked at Arthur, who had decided to tag along, which was understandable. They walked down to the front door in silence until Arthur suddenly spoke. “So…your name is Alfred, right?”
Alfred was surprise and then nearly hit himself on the head. “Shit! I haven’t even introduce myself !” “Yeah,” he said smiling brightly, “Alfred F. Jones, at your service. But you could call me just Alfred, if you’d like.”
Arthur stayed silent Al almost said something else when they heard, “Alfred, who is that with you?”
Alfred turned to see his little brother and landlord (yes, landlord), Matthew. “Hey Matt,” Alfred said waving, “um, this is Arthur! I would really explain the story but I don’t have time!”
Arthur looked from Alfred to Matt. “Their…almost identical” Arthur thought. He looked at Matt again and said with a bow, “I am pleased to meet you.”
Matt smiled and said, “It’s nice to…meet you…for the first time…too. Ah, but you don’t have to bow to me!”
Arthur looked at him confused, but Alfred just waved it off. “Well, I’ll see you later, Matt,” he said pushing Arthur down the street. “Hey, don’t push, you idiot,” Arthur said in a huff. Alfred looked offended. “Hey, don’t you start calling me that too.”
Arthur looked at him surprised, then smiled. “Well, I can’t help it, you are one, Alfred.”
Alfred looked at Arthur and smiled too. “Hm, the way Arthur says my name, make’s it sound even more awesome! I wonder why?” He shook the thought out and then looked down on the paper Yao had given him. “Now, let’s see if we can find this Berwald Oxenstierna.”