Nekoloids Ch 8: England and Iggycat

"Can you stand up by yourself?" I asked her, having come to my front door.

"Yeah, I can stand." she says, as I put her down. Her legs seemed to wobble a bit, but she managed to stand on her own two feet. "Let me get Alfred, and I'll help you with whatever it is you need help with. She heads to her apartment, and returns with Alfred behind her, catching her a few times, since she's still a little hung over.

I greet America and Ash before I unlock my door but as soon as I open it I see something that is greatly thought to be a myth.

"ENGLAND!" I yelled for the brit, even if it was just a cute unicorn I was seeing this time.

"oh! He is so getting plan burgers for this." I grumble as I move around the unicorn, which may have looked a bit odd.

Ash tried to hold back laughing, and pets the unicorn. "I guess I can see them too now." I said.

"See what?" America asks, rather confused. We both just ignored the question. "Well, since you're still new to Ohio, I decided to whip up a batch of Buckeyes. A famous treat in this state." Ash says, holding a container of buckeye cookies.

"Thanks. Where are they?" I question going up stairs looking for the three nations.
"Canada? England? Para?" I called out confused and getting a little worried.

"They're like a peanut butter cookie, dipped in chocolate. They're shaped to look like buckeyes, a seed that's from the buckeye tree." She replies, setting them down.

"Y-yes Miss Yami?" Canada asks, coming out of his room.

My mouth waters at the mention of chocolate but I notice only Canada comes out.

"Where's England and Para? I'm about to start making dinner." I told him.

Canada blushes a little and looks at the floor. "W-well...Miss Para.....she found some things....and took England to his room....and well...I rather not go into detail." he says. There was a loud thump from the other room. "M-maple!" Canada says, startled. Ash looks like she's pretending she didn't hear anything.

I looked over at England's room confused before looking back at Canada with my face red. "Did she find the ridding crop?" I asked him before hearing something that sounded like something hitting skin.

"I'll take that as a yes. Come on." I grabbed his arm gently and lead him to the kitchen.  Then turning on my IPhone to play a randome song that happened to be Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen.

"Need some help?" Ash asks, ignoring whatever is going on back there. her phone vibrates all of a sudden and she takes a look. "Hey Yami, did you make sure to take warm clothes when you moved here?"

I blinked at her a little confused before I asked. "How cold does it get up here?"

"Well.....it varies. Today's the last day of Indian summer, so it's not a surprise if you see people out in t-shirts and shorts.....but....the temperature during this season goes from 30-40 degrees. sometimes below twenty." She says, showing me the weather for the week on her phone. "And let's hope you also got a shovel or at least a snow blower?"

"Ah? Nope. I'm not use to it going below 72 degrees." I told her nervously laughing a little.

"How much research have you done on Ohio?" She asks, raising an eyebrow. "No matter, I can lend you some jackets, and my landlord will let you borrow her snow blower." Ash says, helping me prepare the hamburgers. "Oh....and you might wanna start looking for the thermostat, so you can turn the heat up."

"Not much, a friend of my aunt got me this whole place. So I didn't realy know what state it was in till she told me." I told Ash, as I pull out the lettuce, tomatoes, and my special BBQ sause.

"Canada can you and America set the table please?" I asked him, washing the vegetables before cutting them.

"Well, that makes sense. I hope you'll get used to the cold weather though." She says, shaping the patties.

"Sure!" Canada says, as he took some plates out. America took out the cups and silverware, and placed them on the table as requested.

"Thanks." I started up the pan, putting very little oil in it before doing the patties.

~~FMB Time Skip!~~

"What smells so good?" Para asked as she appeared down stairs as the burgers where done and the table set.

"H-hamburgers." Canada says, blushing a bit, remembering his little encounter with the two. England walks in, his face a bit flushed after that.......incident. Hearing the words, "Hamburgers" turned his face ghostly pale.

"Lighten up Iggy. Hamburgers aren't that bad." Ash says, helping me with the meal.

"Not to mention there coated in my special BBQ sauce. It's really good." I told them happily as I set two piles of hamburgers on the table. Where there is also earl gray tea and lemon aid with berries in the ice cubes.

"Come on, dinner's ready."

We all sat down to eat, and Ash takes a bite out of her hamburger. "Oh wow, this is really good!" she says, then taking another bite.

America takes a bite of his burger and he couldn't agree more. "Dude, this is delicious! You work as a bartender, but not a chef?" he exclaims.

I laugh at their reactions, blushing a little. "No, I'm only good at grilling and baking , that it." I told them drinking some lemonade I look at Canada, England and Para.

"How do you guys like it?" I asked them.

"This is fantastic lass!" Para exclaimed happily eating her burgers, she almost ate like America.

"Well...I have to admit, it is delicious." England says, eating his. Ash and America almost choked, hearing those words.

I just smiled, my eyes sparking with happiness. I had gotten England to eat a hamburger and kinda like it.

"What about you Canada?" I turned and asked the Canadian.

"It's really delicious." Canada says, smiling.

Ash continues to eat her meal in peace. She started having a weird far off look in her eyes, just watching the five of us.

~~~~

After dinner was over there was little to clean up as we had used the 'Fine China', is what my family calls paper plates.

"So Ash which Nation are you going to do next?" I asked her, finishing of the last of the lemonade, eating some of the berries.

Ash thinks for a moment, and shrugs. "I'm not sure. I haven't thought about that yet. Maybe either Italy or Germany." She says. "The choices are endless."

A couple hours later, Ash and America say their goodbyes and thanked us again for the meal, before heading home.

-The next day-

The next morning, it was a bit chilly. Canada offered to make coffee, and as he started to fill the coffee pot, he was startled by some random from next door. It sounds like Ash.

"What's that all about?" I ask out loud confused as I ate some of the buckeye cookies with milk, some dark circles under my eyes. It was kinda cold but I still wore my tank top and shorts.

"I-I don't know, but Ash sounds upset." He says, as he listens to the yelling.

"I'm only asking for a little bit! Wha-No, I'm not changing schools, so I can come home! Why can't you just accept what I want to do? Fi-ARRRGH! FINE, DISOWN ME! I TRY MY HARDEST TO PLEASE YOU, SO I'm FINISHED!" Ash yells. there was a loud crashing noise, and then complete silence.

"What the bloody Hell is going on?" England asks, waking up from the noise.

"N-Not sure." Canada replies. suddenly we heard a knock at the door. Canada goes to answer it, and at the door was America.

"Is it okay if I stay here for an hour or two?" America asks, surprisingly not his usual cheerful self.

"I would hazard a guess that Ash has some issues with her parents." I said, eating a cookie before looking at America and patting him on the back.

"Sure, there's nothing scarier when a girl gets angry at her parents." I said before yawing and going to my office that I had on the ground floor, I had been in there all night making the designs and functions of the Nekoloids after I got a hold of some people, as well as something special for Canada.

Alfred takes a seat on the couch, and waits until Ash calms down some. England looks out the window while he prepares tea, and Para took a spot in the lazy boy chair. Canada knocks on my door, watching with curiosity.

"Yes? Is there something you need, Canada?" I asked him, still eating the cookies, danm! Why did it have to be chocolate and peanut butter!?

I was looking over the plans for Americat as I had been done with the plans for Iggcat and Canada's surprise. I really hope he would like it.

"Just wondering what you're up to is all." He says. "Would you like something warm to drink? It's a bit chilly."

"No thanks, I'm okay. Just working on Americat's design until the parts come in." I told him. Scribbling something on the plans, but I had written most of what was on the plans in either Spanish or German just to keep sharp.  

Canada nods, as he heads back upstairs.

a couple hours later, Ash knocks on the door. She was wearing a heavy black hoodie, with a cream colored scarf wrapped around her face, and grey wool mittens. her eyes were a bit puffy and red. She must of been crying for a while now.

"Care for some Hot Chocolate?" I asked her, rubbing my tired eyes a bit.

"Sure, thanks." Ash replies, her voice a bit muffled from her scarf. She walks inside and takes off her scarf and mittens, sniffling a little. "Is America here?" She asks, looking at me. "Oh....I hope I didn't wake you..." She mumbles, sniffling again.

"Yeah he's here. I didn't sleep last night, *yawn*was working on the Nekoloid designs and specks." I told her as I prepared the hot chocolate.

"Oh? How is that working for you?" She asks, still wiping away the tears from her eyes.
"A bit of a pain, I'm still waiting for their parts to come in and then I'm going to have to play mad sciencetist and get some sleep in there somewhere before I go to work." I told her, getting out two mugs, cinnamon, whip cream and chocolate sticks.

"Oh right, I forgot about working today.."Ash says, watching me get a few things out for the hot chocolate. "I can understand about the design. It took me a while when I first built america." She says, finally calming some. "Oh, Daniel wanted me to let you know that we're going to do a tropical theme tonight, so everyone can ignore the weather outside."

"Um? You mean like Hawaiian or the Bahamas?" I asked her, a little nervous, I did not like showing skin in public. I poured the hot chocolate once it was just under boiling and stirred in the cinnamon, and put the whipped cream on top and then the chocolate sticks, sprinkling a little more cinnamon on top before I gave one to Ash.
"Here. A Startbucks hot chocolate without the $7 price tag." I joked, smiling at her.

"Yeah, but more into a tropical luau. Daniel wanted us to either wear tank tops or floral hawaiian shirts with shorts, and he's going to turn the heat up so it's warmer. Thought it would be a good idea, so we don't have some of the customers sexually harassing us." Ash says. chuckling at my joke, she thanks me, taking the mug and takes a sip, letting the drink warm her. "Thanks Yami, that joke, and the hot chocolate cheered me up a lot.

"Ve~Il mio piacere~ my pleasure." I say in Italian, giving a slight bow.

"Ah, Non sapevo che parli italiano. Dove ho usato per vivere, era una grande comunità italiana americano." Ash says, grinning. "I may not be Italian, but growing up, almost everyone in the neighborhood spoke the language. (I didn't know you speak Italian as well. Where I used to live, it was a large Italian American community.)

I blinked, a little confused at what she said and laughed a little.

"Actually, I'm barely learning it. I only know Spanish and quite a bit of German." I told her.

"German huh? I think we have a club for those who want to learn more on that language." Ash says, taking another sip.

America peeked from the doorway, a little concerned. "I-Is Ash alright?" America asks.

"I'm fine America. Sorry about that." Ash says. America hesitated a first, but then hugs Ash tightly, who didn't struggle or push him off like she usually did.

Then there was a knock on the door and I went to go answer it, of course putting on a hoodie first, I didn't notice this one was my Canada one that was red with a white maple leaf on it and a cute little polar bear wallet in the pockets.

"Yes?" I asked as I saw a delivery man.

"Alexander, Yami?"

I nod.

"Sign here please."

I signed and he brought in several boxes, before he left.

"THEIR HERE! THEIR HERE!" I yelled happily, jumping up and grabbing a box and taking it to my office.

"What is?" Ash asks, rather confused.

"The parts for the Nekoloids!" I told her happily as I pertly much zipped past her like a 5 year old on a sugar high.

"That's wonderful!" Ash says, laughing. Looking at her watch her eyes grow wide. "CRAP! I forgot I have a physics test in an hour! Good luck with your Nekoloid, and see you at work Yami!" she says, making a mad dash out the door.

"Buona fortuna! Good luck!" I yelled before shutting myself in my office, working on my first Nekoloid.

~hours later~

"Y-Yami, you want to take a break and have lunch? I made some sandwiches." Canada says, peeking from the doorway, leaving Para and England to decide what they want with their sandwich.

"Meow~" came from a green eyed Scottish fold with orange spots on his white fur. He was sitting on the desk, pawing at Yami's head. Having crashed after completing Iggy cat.
Canada chuckles and gently picks Yami up, and carries her upstairs. Laying her gently in her bed, he pulls the covers over her and smiles. He watches as the Scottish fold seeks comfort near her feet, and falls asleep as well.

"Sweet dreams Yami." Canada says, quietly shutting the door.