Good evening, my children. I am not dead! So enjoy another chapter! UwU

Cade peered through the binoculars at his brother talking to Arthur. "C'mon, can't you just kiss already?"

"Haha, if only." Matthew relayed through the headset. "Oh, shitos, I think Kiku's coming your way!"

"Huh?" Cade looked up to see the representative of Japan looking down at him.

"Herro, Cade-san." he greeted. "What are you doing?"

Cade slammed down the binoculars. "Hehe, nothin'! I totally ain't stalking my OTP!"

Kiku's dark eyes flicked from him to the two men talking in the distance. "You...ship them too?"

The younger instantly relaxed. "So it ain't just me an' Mattie."

"No. Many of us ship it."

"I mean, I love it, but I don't buy my brother as anything but a uke."

"Same."

Cade grinned mischievously. "Wanna go write some fanfic together?"

"Absorutery."

The two left, cackling about what to write.

Matthew. Heard. All of that. And he quickly grew to appreciate a new pairing. 

"Kiku x Cade. Kide? Caku? Both are equally cute." Matthew hummed softly, unaware of what the two were doing.

~Time skip brought to you by elections!~

"Aah~ I-I can't take it all at once~"

"You don't have to, just take it srowry."

Cade was attempting to eat twenty Pocky sticks all at once in celebration of writing out a UkUs fanfic and failing. Kiku was trying to convince him it was a mistake to do that, but Cade was stubborn. 

"Why are you doing this?" Kiku asked Cade.

"Because!" Cade said around the Japanese candy, "I gotta know if I can eat more than Al!"

Kiku sighed, going back to the manga he was designing for the fanfic.

And, yeah, Cade ended up choking on them. It was almost funny. At least Al, who had come when he heard his brother coughing, thought so.

"Al, I am not a kid anymore!" Cade protested when Alfred dragged him out of Kiku's room. 

"Yeah, you are." Al deadpanned, sick and tired of his brother doing stupid shit like that.

"I still ate more Pockys!"

"Sure." Alfred had once eaten 21 without choking. And Cade knew it.

"I am going to hit you!"

"Sure, sure."