Pairings: Germany/Italy, America/Japan, France/Britain, Russia/China. Human names sometimes used. Hope you enjoy!

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"Woah…it's big!" America yelled ecstatically, dropping the bags he was carrying to rush into the living room.

This was rather obvious, thought Britain, eyeing the stripy wallpaper with vague suspicion, but he had a definite point. The place had the feeling of some sort of weird, modernistic Victorian mansion, all high ceilings and wide staircases.

It was nice, though; a lot better than he'd expected.

They had moved out of the separate places they'd all been living in for the past few centuries, to house share. Considering they had left their previous houses because of the global economic crisis, he was surprised by how large this house was.

Although, there were going to be eight people living in it, and there was some considerable wear and tear if you looked closely, not to mention the… rumours that had been circulating about the manner in which the property had been vacated of its previous owners, maybe it had been a lot cheaper than most houses like this would be.

He was brought out of this reverie by a hand on his arm. He turned around to see France grinning at him.

"What?" he asked curtly. Francis ignored this, trying to slip an arm around his waist, which Britain batted away. "What do you think of it?" Arthur shrugged. "Could be worse. It seems pretty nice."

The others were just starting to come in, Japan already taking out his camera to take pictures, China stretching and muttering about how much he disliked trains, and Russia walking creepily close behind China, who did not seem to have noticed his close proximity to the frightening Russian yet.

Britain was secretly sort of glad he had been told to share with these particular nations. While it was probably going to be fairly awkward, and he wasn't entirely sure he could apply the normal definition of "friend" to any of them, it would probably be marginally better than if he had had to share with the other countries. At least he knew these guys relatively well.

That and the fact he was kind of dating one of them. No matter how strenuously he tried to deny it.

America pointed at the clock (it was already half twelve at night) "Hey, guys its getting late. We should totally try and figure out who's rooming with who."

Ah. Yes. There were only four rooms. This could be interesting.

There. Hopefully that wasn't too atrocious. All reviews welcome, flames will be used to toast delicious marshmallows, which I shall give to you if you review!