sneaks up behind her and puts her hands over his eyes. "Ni hao!" she chimes brightly.

startles at the sudden blindness, but Chun Yan's greeting makes it a little obvious. "Konnichiwa, Chun Yan..."

frowns at her dullness. "No hug to show you're happy to see me, aru?"

blinks at this, pulling Chun Yan's hands away from her face and standing to give her a gentle hug. "Good to see you again."

pauses, very unsure about her actions. Even now she was quite hard to figure out. "Did you grow big, too?" She brings her hands_

up to her face, squishing them playfully.

simply did as asked. She makes a face at the squish, pulling away. "I-I am the same size as last I saw you..." she says, shooing the

hands away.

giggles as she brings her hands up to her mouth. "Just making sure, aru ~ Yi didi grew too big for me to carry and cuddle!"

hums softly, and nods. "Yes, he's quite a bit taller than us now, isn't he..."

sways a little as she observes the other. "... ~So, what have you been up to, aru? Anything ... ... new?" She smiles expectantly.

blinks at her, debating about telling her about Alicia. "Ah... other than having to deal with being a world not my own, not much... how

are you?"

blinks at her response. "How.. .. interesting, aru. I suppose meeting other countries of different genders is interesting ~"

nods. "It is indeed. I have managed to meet a fair few of the opposite nations though, and mostly they have been kind.."

huffs gently. "If they did pick on you, I'd get extremely angry about that, aru! Only I can since I'm jie jie~" she gives her a wink.

smiles at her and shakes her head. It had only been one bad meeting with miss Belarus a while back, and even that had been resolved

quickly enough. "Ah, have you met any of the new nations yet?"

looked at her in confusion. "/New/ ones, aru?" She tilts her head in thought. "You mean like Heracles and my male counterpart?"

nods. "Yes, that is what I meant. The opposite genders..."

nods in return. "Shi a! ... Though just those two. I should venture out more to see ~"

smiels a little. "Yes, as I said, they are mostly pleasant."

makes a face at her. "I hope your male other is as cute as you are, aru." Even if he might end up being as blank as she is.

frowns a little. "Well.. I have been mistaken for him before..."

blinks at her. "Really, aru?!" She looks her over once more. "Well, Europeans usually can't tell the difference." She sticks her tongue out.

nods a little. She had worn a bow in her hair for a month straight after that. She frowns a little at the tongue

though. "Unfortunately true...."

gets taken back at her comment. "Unfortunately? They'll always be that way! Stupid and .... stupid!"

sighs softly, though smiling to herself a little with China's outburst. "It has been this long, I hold no false hopes that they learn

any time soon...."

sighs. Sakura has been pulled to the dark side, she just knows it. "They brainwashed you, aru!"

hasn't been pulled to the dark side, she's just taking it logically. She frowns. "No one has brainwashed me,"she defends, crossing her arms.

, being the childish older sister she is, simply pouts at her. "You woudn't know if you were, aru!"

why she had to be so weird all of the time. "Nonesense. I am very certain I'm not brainwashed at all," she huffs.

frowns at her. She was just worried for her. "What if they made you to think in such a way, aru?"

frowns still as well. "Who do you think would even do that? You're being ridiculous."

stutters, "I-I'm being concerned, aruu .. you're so cute and s-someone would want to taint your mind ..."

blushes a little at the cute comment, otherwise not changing her frown though. "No one's going to taint my mind... besides, Miss Alicia.

wouldn't allow it," she huffs

pauses and quirks her brow, now seeming unamused now. "What does that fatty have to do with anything, aru?"

flusters when she realizes what she said, but frown again at that. "M-miss Alicia is not fat! Don't be so rude..!" she scolds.

crosses her arms. "I have a good reason to be rude, aru. She still owes me a lot of money!"

shakes her head. "Just because she owes you money is no reason to insult her," she huffs.

stares incredulously. "She's fat and she owes me money, aru. She's lucky I'm not out for her head."

frowns. "And yet even she seems to have more manners than you," she huffs, turning to walk away.

quirks her brow in irritation. "You seemed to have changed, aru.." She turns away, frowning to herself.

huffs. "I have not," she mumbles. It's not like dating Alicia had anything to do with it.. right.. >3>