Author's POV:

"Are you ready to go Al?" Antonio asked, knocking on the door of the blonde alpha's dorm.

Alfred groaned at his desk. "Can't I stay here?"

"Don't you remember what the headmaster said? Get up! Matthew's already waiting for you downstairs!"

The alpha groaned again and got ready to go to the other academy. That one was actually quite close to theirs, which may have been another factor as to why they were paired up, and so any student whose classes ended early could go get a buddy before anyone else. Alfred and his group of friends were some of those lucky students, which made the alpha angry and annoyed. He didn't want to go, he didn't want to get paired up with anyone, and he didn't want to do this stupid academy volunteering stuff!

"Dude hurry up! We're all waiting for you!" Antonio yelled and banged on the door.

"I'm coming!" Alfred snapped, grabbing his backpack and putting it on. He can never escape homework, no matter how hard he tries.

He put his key in his pocket, happy that he remembered his phone and ear buds in there too, and opened the door just as Antonio was going to bang on it again.

"Finally! Now c'mon, we're getting paired up today amigo! I wanna know who I'm gonna get!"

Alfred and the rest of his friends from the academy stood outside of the main building's entrance. Alfred looked over to his left and saw a young boy peering from a door, then rush inside.

"There's kids here?" Alfred asked.

"Ja. Kids with disabilities like blindness, autism, mutism, deafness, stuff like that come here and learn how to do things and communicate despite the disability. Some are born with it, other get it from a life experience. There are even some amputee kids here who were in accidents and since then have been deaf or mute and were sent here to be able to communicate again." Ludwig nodded. "As for the case of my brother, he was born with it."

"Ohhh." Everyone looked at the door as the headmaster came out. He looked at the group and smiled.

"Welcome everyone to my academy created for the disabled. Oh, Ludwig, I see you're here too. Perhaps you can help with the tour?"

"Ja, I can do that." Ludwig nodded. His eyes looked around and the headmaster chuckled.

"Gilbert was still in his room last time I checked. I will ask for someone to get him. Now come along students, I will show you my academy."

Alfred looked around the campus as they took the tour and listened to the headmaster ramble on about when it was built and what each building was for (he was bored out of his mind already). He raised an eyebrow as a pair of older, similar looking alphas passed by, doing something with their hands.

"Gregory, Jonah!" The two alphas looked at their headmaster and smiled. They walked over to the headmaster and did a salute. The headmaster did it in return.

"Everyone, these are Gregory and Jonah. They are some of the oldest students here at age 26. They were in an accident which caused them to lose their vocal cords and some of their hearing. They are also some of our assistant teachers for sign language. If you would like practice with sign language, come to one of these men and they will show you."

They all nodded, while Ludwig did the salute to them.

"Hello Greg, Jon. Nice to see you again." Ludwig spoke as he signed with his hands.

'Hello Lu' They signed back. Instead of signing the whole name, most of the time they just sign parts of the name or the initials. They found it was faster to communicate that way.

"We should be on our way. We have finished the tour, now let's go back to the main office where you will be paired."

"Yipee." Alfred muttered sarcastically under his breath.

Francis (who happened to be Alfred and Matthew's omega cousin from France, who also, despite being older than them by a year, was in their grade) heard and smacked him.

"Be nice Alfred." The omega hissed quietly so the headmaster, who was speaking as he led the group away, didn't hear.

"Whatever." The alpha rolled his eyes. 'I bet my partner is going to be someone I can barely stand. That'll give me something more to complain about.'

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"Arthur! The volunteers are here!" A voice squealed as they entered the main building's library. The academy had two libraries, the main one which was much larger and filled with so many more books, and a room consisting of a bookshelf, a fireplace, and a few couches in the main building where some of the classes were held. Arthur loved visiting both spots on the campus. The person who spoke however, was not a student at the academy. She was a volunteer there actually, but the beta was someone who went to regular school. She mainly started visiting because her blind brother went to the academy. Her name was Michelle.

And for some odd reason, she had declared herself Arthur's best friend and would hang out with him when her brother went his classes. Like now for instance.

"What's this about volunteers? I thought you were the only one." Alister groaned. He was taking a nap on one of the couches so he could be close to Arthur in case Arthur had one of his...moments.

"No, the school from up the road is volunteering here remember? Well they're here and the headmaster wants us downstairs to pair you guys up with your buddy."

Arthur slowly nodded, putting his book down and getting up from his seat. He managed to catch Alister before he rolled off the couch and helped him to his feet, giving him his walking stick.

It was odd, how green his eyes were, similar to Arthur's, yet they could see nothing. Most of the time he had them closed and sometimes even blind folded, anything so he could feel like the darkness was caused by that and nothing else, like the accident never happened.

Arthur took his hand and led his brother down the stairs, straight into the living room of sorts in the main building were parents waited to see their child when they visited. It surprised Arthur to see a moderately large group of people that looked around his age there instead of adults. After looking at a few people, he made eye contact with one of them.

One he knew very well.

Ludwig.

Arthur smiled and signed 'Hello' to him. Ludwig smiled and signed back. He looked around and saw Feliciano, who was "speaking" to Feliks, a Polish omega who was also deaf. Arthur looked back to Ludwig and nodded over to the Italian omega with his head. Ludwig looked in the direction and smiled.

The headmaster noticed Ludwig communicating with someone and finished his speech prematurely. "Ahem, everyone, these are some of our students here at the academy." The headmaster turned to the students, all of whom looked up at him and did the salute (except the blind ones, they just waved). Feliciano saw Ludwig and couldn't hold his excitement, running over to him and hugging him.

Ludwig smiled and when they released, they started signing to each other.

The headmaster let them and instead talked about some of the students, signing at the same time so the deaf ones knew what he was saying. "This here is Arthur. He is one of our best music composers. Don't expect to be given a performance by him anytime soon though. He's not one for crowds."

Arthur looked at the group and smiled, giving them the salute, which in fact meant 'Hello' in sign language. As his eyes trailed over them, he made eye contact with a tall alpha with blonde hair and beautiful blue eyes as clear as the sky in summer. He had a weird tuff of hair that sprouted upwards and seemed to defy gravity. They held eye contact for a bit until someone latched onto Arthur's shoulder.

"Hey headman, you're forgetting an awesome someone!" A voice laughed. Arthur looked at the pale arm on his shoulder and immediately knew who it was.

"This is Gilbert, he's Ludwig's older brother." The headmaster sighed and in turn, led the group outside to continue his speech from where he left off, leaving Ludwig inside.

"Hey West! Come here and give your big bro a hug!"

"Nein."

"Jerk."

Arthur snickered and removed the arm from his shoulder.

"Who is the not-as-awesome-as-me person I touching?" Gilbert 'kesesese'd and Arthur rolled his eyes, lifting the alpha's hand and signing the 'A' and 'K' on his hand.

"Oh! Artie! Take me to my brother!"

"My wee bro'her ain't gonna do no'hing for you, Gil! Not after last time!" Alister snapped, pulling his brother back.

The two started arguing and Arthur face palmed. He looked over at Ludwig, who was covering his face with his hands and mumbling in German. When the alpha looked up, Arthur signed 'help' to him and pointed at their brothers. Ludwig went outside and told the headmaster something, who also face palmed and walked inside again with the group behind him.

"Alright you two. If you don't stop fighting, you do chores for a week." The headmaster threatened. The two alphas let go of each other and started saying random things.

"What is this 'fighting' you speak of? I do none of this 'fighting' business! Is that a new drug? You know these kids and their drugs!" Alister snickered. Arthur smacked him, making his alpha brother yelp.

"Artie! What was that for?" Alister whined.

"'Cause you're being a big bitch, big brother." Maeve spoke from where she was sitting. Apparently she'd been there the whole time. Arthur also saw his three remaining siblings communicating, blissfully unaware their oldest brother was fighting with someone at the moment.

"Maeve, we've talked about this." The headmaster warned.

"No cursing when there's people." Maeve repeated with a whine. "But sir, they're teens right?...No seriously, are you teens? I kinda can't see so I need someone to tell me."

Arthur walked over to her and balled her hand into a fist, bending it from the wrist up again. "Oh, nice. Who is it?" He once again signed an 'A' then a 'K' on someone else's hand, this time it was his little sister's.

"Oh! Thank you Artie!"

Arthur ruffled her hair and walked back to his place next to Alister, passing his three older, alpha, and deaf brothers giving them all 'Hellos' as he passed. They smiled ruffled his hair as he walked.

"What Arthur demonstrated is a way of communication here. Blind students allow the deaf or mute students to do sign language on their hands as a way of communicating with them, at times using both hands. That student Arthur had communicated with is his younger sister Ma-"

"Sup, my name's Maeve! I'm related to Arthur, Dylan, Connor, Seamus, and Alister. No, I wasn't born like this. No, I will not tell you how I got blind. No, I do not want a buddy but I'm being forced into this. Any more questions, Headman?"

"Are you going to be quiet like Gilbert is now or will I have to send you to your room?"

"Which one gets me no buddy?"

"None."

"Then I might as well stay quiet. Give me my buddy, Headman."

The headmaster took a deep breath. "Is it too early for retirement?"

"Yes." Ludwig looked over at him with a pitiful look in his eyes.

"Great. Michelle," the beta walked over to the headmaster, a clipboard in her hands. "do you have the partners ready?"

"Yes sir." She nodded.

"Read off the list please."

"Yes sir." She nodded again and looked down at the list.

"Gilbert Belschmidt and Matthew Williams-Jones
Feliciano Vargas and Ludwig Belschmidt
Alister Kirkland and Francis Bonnefoy
Lovino Vargas and Antonio Carridero
Arthur Kirkland and Alfred F. Jones-Williams
Maeve Kirkland and Abel Mogens..."

The rest of the list was a blur to Arthur as he searched the group for who his buddy was supposed to be. Was it the tall alpha with piercing violet eyes? No, he walked over to Yao, a blind Chinese omega. The longish-brunette alpha with green eyes? No, he went over to Kiku, a deaf Japanese omega. So who was it? Was he even paired with an alpha?

"Hey, Arthur right?" A voice asked as Arthur looked over the crowded space. Arthur jumped and looked up at the person who spoke.

It was the same alpha from before, with the summer eyes.

Arthur slowly nodded, looking down at the hand held out to him. He took it and they shook hands. The alpha smiled at him.

"Cool, my name's Alfred. Do you wanna hang out?"

Arthur nodded again, and after taking a final sweep of the room to make sure his family was okay, he walked away and motioned for Alfred to follow him.

'I'm really starting to have second thoughts about this.' Alfred thought as the green eyed omega led him out of the room. 'Damn, this one's hot!'

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Gregory and Jonah are named after some of my OCs who actually had this happen to them in a fic I am writing. (That will never come out oops ;3)

Maeve is also an OC, my OC I roleplay with sometimes in Hetalia-Human!AUs. I'm either related to England or the Italian bros in some way.

The headmaster is Persia (not to be confused with Prussia), one of the Ancients in the Hetalia series.

Idk if any of you caught on but Michelle is Seychelles :3