The North American Trio

Interview pt1: Kiku

Kiku's POV

What are my thoughts on NAT? I don't know how to describe them all in one. So I guess I'll start off on who I meet first.

I must admit despite dating Alfred-san the first NAT member I met was Diego-kun.

I always had good relations with him and found him to be  a really good friend. Before I went into isolation I visited him before traveling to Europe.

I always thought of him as nice and funny. He had this deep chuckle that was very warm and I had no idea people could admit that much warmth. His land was vast and empty. Not in a barren way, there were trees and grass and things everywhere just that there weren't so many people around like I was used to.

His youth was incredible and made me feel much older than I was really.

Oh my the way I am speaking about Diego-kun might sound like I was enamored by him when I only ever saw him as a good friend.

Anyway I think I'll do Matthew-kun next.

He was the last one I met.

During an allies meeting in WWI.

He was shy and quiet and I didn't talk much to him. He seemed almost invisible

All I knew about him at the time was what Alfred had told me but other than that I knew next to nothing.

I didn't learn much more about him until WWII. Ludwig-kun was stressing over some losses and I asked who was the one who kept him up one night (Alfred-san wasn't in the war at the time)

He told me that Matthew seemed to be a demon in the battle field. His troops killed men easily and it seemed like the cold was nothing more than a chill even when most of his own soldiers had to bundle up in a few extra layers.

I had remembered Alfred-san talking about this before. How his brother was a demon. His gentle facade melting away to show the true warrior behind. He had explained how growing up they had to face the wilderness with near to no help. And Matthew-kun and his people were more used to harsher conditions than the ones they were facing.

How bears were a minor nuisance to them and where nothing compared to all the moose they had.

I told Ludwig-kun all that I knew seeing as we were allies I hoped to help him in any way I could.

And right then he needed some help with the Canadians.

Alfred-san. "Saving the best for last" As is a saying in his country.

He was the one to force me out of isolation though I would learn much later he himself was in one at the time and whilst not as strict as mine he was still a hypocrite.

He forced me out of isolation and showed me many things. I was so used to my own lands and I barely ever left my home.

He brought me to his country.

Showed me his sandy beaches in the west beaches then his rocky beaches in the East. Showed me the plains that he had filled with wheat and corn and anything you could dream of.

His mountains were so similar to my own but held a difference that was enduring.

His forest where mast and lakes I found amazing.

Everything about him was so different, so new, so refreshing.

He admitted to me that Diego was his brother one night and I almost couldn't believe it. They seemed so different but when you truly thought of it they were one in the same that it was insane to think of them anything but brothers.

I asked him about Europe one day.

His face turned sour and blank. A big difference to the laughter and glee that he had shown only moments prior.

He said a few things.

About how the "superpowers" were just overgrown children. Spain, England, and France always fight over this country and for wealth.

Acting like a child in its bratty stage.

He explained how they were hypocrites.

How they had gone against slavery back during and before his civil war and looked down upon him for having slaves. Then when the South was cut off and cotton became more expensive they would go and try to slip in and secretly aid the Confederacy in order to get cotton.

France even had plans of when he overthrew Diego-kun during the French Mexican war. Going to his borders with the Confederacy and getting cotton. Against the threats Alfred himself had sent.

He explained how England had come to him with poisoned food and while going to the treats France had offered and noticed England crying he had gone to him so see what was wrong.

That was the moment he had become an English colony.

He explained how his people were forced out making way for England's own. They weren't his at the time no. They weren't at all.

His people had tried to help them. Fed them, gave them means to go on, taught them everything to survive. And without knowing were sent to their death with diseases.

Fight where common. With Europe winning due to their guns he had explained. And afterwards they would rape the women, leaving them scared and sometimes with child.

I knew that was a normal part of war back then but he was only a physical child at the time. No more than 5 and from what Alfred-san had told him he had lived more in the wild and with nurses and maids then he ever did with England.

Spain was the one who had started it all. Alfred-san had said. And that was the end of that conversation. But I knew that there was more he wasn't telling me. Some secret buried deeper than the world could ever reach.

The years went by and we were allies in WWI.

WWII on the other hand not so much.

He had responded to war in neutrality like he did before all those years before in the first one.

But my government, ever the fool, decided to attack them.

Going after Hawaii and the Philippines.

The war was on the Axis side. Thinking they were going to win was not hard to do.

That was of course before I got Alfred-san involved.

His people went off in the thousands and turned the tide. They were newer, fresher. They carry new supplies and weapons. And were able to end the war in Germany with help from the other Allies.

I hadn't given up yet, and I should have.

Alfred-san has given me a warning. To surrender before they dropped what they called. "Little Boy" Or "Fat Man"

I ignored it.

They sent one.

The pain was incredible and no Nation had felt what I believed to be anything like it before.

The fools me and my government refused to surrender. Honor was not in surrender.

They sent one last one.

I surrendered after that.

I remember waking up afterwards.

Alfred-san was beside me tending to my wounds.

He looked sad and regretful.

He healed me back up.

I refused him for so long. I was cold and distant. Scared of what the man had done.

He never forced me to allow him in. Waiting and taking his time.

Year prior I knew I loved him and even then I still did. And even now I still do. But it took years almost decades after WWII to get together.

But that is not my story to tell.

That was how I first met them.

All of them.