Once again Japan had hid from his various home invaders inside the security of his closet and with his various manga on hand. He knew it wasn't healthy to be so isolated from everyone, but that did not change the fact that he was still unnaturally shy . As he flipped through the pages of his book, he was focused on this dilemma. Was it right for him to be so isolated? Should he be more outgoing? What do his friends think of him? And what does this all say about-

"Hehehe. Ayame is such an odd snake, Yes?"

He turned to his right and saw that he was accompanied by Russia.

"hello Japan."

"Greetings."

"you have a nice closet."

"thank you. It's newly refurbished."

"You must have gotten an excellent contractor, Yes?."

"He claimed his construction technique was passed down his family line for generations."

"That sounds impressive."

"Everyone seems to claim that nowadays. I pay no mind to it."

" I see..."

"..."

"..."

"...I'm going to go see what the others are doing..." He slowly walked out with Russia following him.

"Please refrain from following me."

"I apologize, but I don't want to risk walking alone."

" I see."

"You wouldn't happen to have any juice on hand would you?"

"I actually do. America gave me a mini fridge for Christmas."

Russia brooded over Japan menacingly. "WHeRe iS mY CHrISTmAS PrEsEnT JApAAan?"

Japan paused for a moment before he stealthily reached into his game drawer and quickly put a bow on his 3DS.

"Merry Christmas."

"You got me the pink one just like I wanted! How thoughtful! I feel sorry now that I don't have a gift of my own to give you."

"I do not mind." He pulled out two cans of orange juice and opened them. They both approached each other and absentmindedly bumped into each other. The juice spilled all over japans' pants.

"Oh dear. I apologize Japan"

"It is alright."

"I must assist you now." He reached for his pants.

"What are you doing?"

"I need to have your pants."

"Wait! Stop!"

"Please don't be stubborn Japan."

"Stop!"

"Just let me remove them."

"No!"

suddenly they turned and realized that they were not alone. Osaka stood watching. For a moment there was an awkward pause. Then she turned to Japan.

"You spilled juice on your pants and now Russia-san is trying to wash them?"

"yes..."

"Okay." Osaka said as she closed the door.

"So we all agree there is nothing risqué about our current situation?" Japan asked.

"Yes." Both of those present said.

"That is a relief. I feared for a moment we would have to rely on tired overreaction gags."

"We are far to sophisticated to do something as juvenile as that ye-"

"RUSSIA!" Belarus shouted from behind the door.

"Oh shit."

Meanwhile downstairs

"Did anyone else just get the feeling that someone just swore in a seemingly out of character fashion?" Nyamo asked.

"That tends to happen when Belarus is nearby." Estonia explained. "we've all agreed on a 'better him then me' attitude about it."

"I just hope Belarus-nee Chan doesn't do anything horrible to Russia-onii chan." Ukraine said

"Why the egregious honorfic usage?" China asked "Isn't she supposed to be speaking Ukranian in this story?"

"But then she wouldn't be as cute to the perverted author" Estonia noted.

"Can we talk about something besides what appears to be your schizophrenic muses on life?" Yukari asked

"Since when do you know what schizophrenia is?" Nyamo asked.

"Who says I know?" Yukari stated.

"Can we, like, actually do something? I'm like, bored, you know?" Poland stated.

"We do have to work on the festival." Nyamo pointed out.

"But that's like, work!" Poland said with revulsion in his voice. " I wanna do something fun!"

"But we have to start working now ! We've only got two weeks if we're lucky!" Nyamo said with conviction

"Just have china do it. He's like, a freak." Poland said

"We should at least come up with a plan!" Nyamo responded.

"Alright fine geez." He pulled out a tablet and a pen. "So like, does anyone have an idea?"

"well what did we cover at the meeting?" Nyamo asked.

"Just that we're all wearing foreign clothes and we're Chiyo and Italy are making pasta or something." Yukari said.

"Let's build off of that then"

"What's there to build off of?"

"Well, we could take that foreign clothes thing a step further and do it like the culture fests at school."

"So we're gonna have cafes and high school girls running around in an oversized cat suit?"

"That's not what I meant."

"Hey, ya know what!" Poland said "I got like an awesome idea! I was reading a manga? and it had these guys putting on a play of Cinderella? and like, this cute guy in cross-dress was there ! We could do that!'

"But I don't wanna mutilate myself!" Yukari said.

"That does sound like an alright idea" Nyamo said ,eager to change the subject and to not lose a halfway decent idea.

"Wait, I got an idea !" Yukari exclaimed.

Estonia turned an whispered to Nyamo "Should we be worried?"

"A surprising number of her ideas actually work after a certain amount of suffering on the part of others. Still, a dash of caution would help."

"We may as well hear it then" Estonia stated.

AN:this whole chapter is sort of a tease of what is to come. This must come as a disappointment to many but I will make the next chapter make up for it ten fold.

What will happen?

I'll never tell.

P.S If it bugs anyone I won't have Ukraine speak with honorfics . I only did it this time for the sake of the joke.