Medic Lessons ((China))

[Malaysia]

Malaysia layed mat on the floor and sat on it. Today, China, her "father", is voming to teach her about making more medicine and herbs. Mal took out her guitar and started strumming it. Her mind was full of thought now.

China was her father. Well maybe not her real father but close enough. She was always the left out child in the asia family. Due to the faact that she was in the malay archipelago. And China fancied countries like Japan more. This always somehow mde her feel jealous.

But that was the past. She should'nt think too much. Ever since she came to the warehouse, she found out that she almost crushed on her uncle she never knew,Spain, met her "mother", Portugal, and now speak to her father, China. This is one miracle to her. He felt closer to them now than before.

Malaysia stop strumming and took out a book to read. What was taking him so long?

[China]

China prepared some notes he had written for the lessons later. Malaysia had approached him on how to make more medicines and herbs. Not knowing how much she knew, he brought everything he had. He spent the night simplifying the notes he had. Hopefully she would understand it better.

He was rather surprised at Malaysia's sudden request but he obliged. It had been a long time since he had talked to her, thinking back on how he sort of neglected her, he felt a sense of guilt. As he was ready to make his leave, he noticed a panda doll hanging from his backpack. 'I wonder if Malaysia will like this aru?' he thought to himself, finally deciding to give her the doll.

He looked at the clock and went, "Aiyah!" as he quickly made his way to the forest. He was late, and he knew how irritating it is to wait for others. Making his way to the forest, he heeded the directions given by Malaysia for he have never been to the forest before.

There, he saw her, against a tree reading her book as she hummed softly. For a moment, he was mesmerised by her, but he quickly snapped out of it. She radiated a different feeling from before, she was more mature. He stood there for a moment before finally deciding to break the peace.

“马来西亚!" he called out, still rather nervous at how she will react to his gift. "I'm sorry that I'm late aru!"

[Malaysia]

Malaysia put her book down and stopped humming. Finally he was here! Its not like she waited for ages for him. She was actually was here 5 minutes ago. Mal stood up and went to greet her father. She was'nt very fluent in chinese bit at least she understood what he meant. Basically she is much more better in malay and english.

"Good morning..."She spoke softly. Malaysia waited a while to notice that there was an awkard silience. Panicing, Mal went back to her stuff and packed then up. She wanted to start the lesson. "S-shall we begin?" The babyface asked. It seems.harder to talk to him like last time.

[China]

China looked at the panicky girl, slightly amused. "Good morning," he greeted back with a smile, one hand in his pocket twirling the doll around with his fingers nervously. "I've brought some notes aru, what do you want to begin with?" said China, as he took the notes out and settled down onto the grass. 

However, his mind was filled with thoughts on how to hand the toy to her in the least awkward manner. She sure grown up to be quite a fine woman, however, there's also some parts of her which stayed familiar to China. It made China feel more at ease. 

[Malaysia]

Malaysia turn around and look at China. He seems nervous. "Well... Maybe about the kind of medicine and chinese herbs..." Mal asks. Well she was glad that he have brought notes. As Mal was very forgetful, she hardly remembers to bring anything. As for the guiter, it was just a habit.

She place her guitar away from the mat and move a little, making enpugh space for the chinese man to sit. She then patred at the spot, signalling him to join her.

[China]

China smiled and sat on the mat beside of Malaysia. He riffled his notes and took out the part labelled 'Chinese Herbs', "I think I will begin by explaining the individual herbs to you first."he paused and handed the notes over to Malaysia. "What do you already know?" asked China. There was once again an awkward silence but China just shrugged it off.

"Let's see, firstly, we have the Astragalus root. It has a milky colour, hence the name 黄芪(Milkvetch root). This has a slight licorice-like taste. It possesses manifold benefits for a wide range of illnesses, it will normally be made in herbal soups. As you know, in this zombie infested world, we do not have time to worry about flu or other illnesses like that. Understood?" he stopped as he glanced over at Malaysia and saw that she had a really serious face on. He stifled a laughter, "Relax aru. We still have some time to learn this".

[Malaysia]

For some reason, Malaysia was actually trying to listened to what China was teaching to her. She guessed since she was a medic that means she must be interested. But she would always ask herself if she was a good medic. Coming from the country who came in first in Asia in medicals, she was'nt sure if she could stay first. Maybe thats the reason why she was studying about medicine for the past few days in the warehouse.

"Relax aru. We still have some time to learn this."

Relax..? Malaysia was actually nervous now. Maybe she should loosen up a bit. Mal look at China and pouted. "I'm relaxed! Continue lah!" Mal eyes widened when she heard her blurt a singlish word. She immediately cupped her hands over her mouth and her face went red. "Not again..." Mal muttered. For many years she has been trying to get rid of her singlish. Spending too much time with Singapore made it hard to get rid of it. It's Singapore's accent and only hers. Mal does'nt want to claim this language as hers by accidentely saying it.

"W-well... L-let's continue..." Mal said shackily.

[China]

China stared at the country who had just spoke up, to his surprise. 'Continue lah?' he wondered to himself. He knew that in his language, that was a common word but would he predict that it could be used with English. Despite talking to Malaysia before, he never heard of it before. It was the first. He saw that she flushed red as she cupped her mouth in embarrassment.

"W-well... L-let's continue..."she stuttered adorably. He smiled at that sight and patted her head.

"Of course lah? Did I use it correctly?"teased China as he gave her a reassuring smile. "How about this, let's put the learning aside for a while and get to know each other better aru?"he suggested, with slight reluctance unable to predict how she will reply. After all, she seemed like a serious student to him.

[Malaysia]

Malaysia stopped and looked at him. Get to know each other better? Is'nt this a herbs and medicine lesson? Well, she was a bit confused with all the medicine and herbs. She guessed she should take a short break. Mal put her stuff in a corner beside her and shrugged. "Whatever... After that we continue..." She spoke casually.

((I have no reason for this being short... *flips a table like a pro anime stlye*))

[China]

'She's really cold, aru' China thought as he shrugged it off. "Hm, so let's start, aru." he said as he tried to think of what to say, "Ah! Let's start with the basics. What do you like and dislike?" he asked as he smiled at the other nation. He then began to feel around, 'eh? Where's my panda aru?' he thought to himself.

"哎呀!" he cursed and quickly shut himself up. "Sorry, please carry on..."

((FRONT FLIP but dad...that was a backflip. IDONTCAREEEEEEEEEE ))

[Malaysia]

(( Ah Pewdie :'D Btw, you should start a plotting thread XD))

If China was'nt her "father", she would have called him a direct stalker. But since he was, she can't say that to him. Malaysia stared at him, giving him the "you can't be serious" look. But after a while, she realised he meant it. Mal sighed and looked at the tree in front of her.

"This is stupid... But anyway, I like...." Malaysia paused. There was'nt much she liked to do anymore after the whole zombie thing started. And it would be crazy if she told him that she enjoys talking to ghosts. ".... I like little kids....." She nervously said, "But too bad there is'nt any left...." She lied. Right now, there were two little ghost girls playing with each other.

Right now, Mal was trying not to laugh amd smile, because she saw the ghost children happy. "And music too!!!" She smiled, hoping he took it that she was smiling because music and NOT because of the ghosts. The ghost which he obvliously can't see.

Trying to change the subject, she said,"What about you!? "She laughed nervously, trying to control herself from wanting to embrace the ghost, which she can't even if she wanted to.

((Sorry if this is messy, I was distracted XD ))

[China]

(( Sorry for the late reply D: ... Quite busy, but I'm finally free~ ( sorta >_> ) Heh, Im not really familiar with this~ and Whoa, Malaysia can see ghost ))

China smiled upon receiving a reply, though she did seem pretty distracted. But at least, that's a progress, right?

"Children huh..?" he began to drift off in his thought, cringing slightly at what could have befallen on them. He loved kids as well, but he noticed a slight hesitation in her reply. Though he knew she was hiding something, he decided to just let it go. However he was still curious as to what was distracting her. He glanced around. Nothing. With that he deduced that either she was just easily distracted, not interested, or mentally disturbed. Shrugging a little, he decided to just settle for the former.

He then noticed a significant change in her expression as she proclaimed her love for music. Her smile made him smile along. However, he could see that her gaze was somewhat far away. Once again, he looked around and felt nothing. 'Perhaps I will brew something for her to calm down her nerves later, aru...' He thought.

"Uh, I like the peace and serenity, aru. Especially family wise, but it seems impossible now, aru" he smiled weakly, "with all this stupid chaos going around" he added

[Malaysia]

((Er yeah! didn't you told me you read her app? And seriously, make a plotting thread!!!))

Mal let out a sigh of relief so soft the China couldn't hear. She was glad he couldn't see them like she could. Although it's a blessing and a curse. How would you like if you were woken up in the middle of the night by a ghost because he or she could not sleep or was afraid? She hated it. But they were just kids. They won't understand what was going on for her, so she can't shout at them. Ghost easily gets angry and can curse too. She would like it if she was normal.

"Uh, I like the peace and serenity, aru."

Typical old people.

"Especially family wise, but it seems impossible now, aru"

Mal continued to listen. Mix feelings were coming to her for no reason. She could feel her heart heavy and about to drop. She continued to show her emotionless face.

"with all this stupid chaos going around" He ended.

The chaos.... the reason she was unhappy. The reason why she was all gloomy and upset. The pain in her was overbearing. But she told herself many times, so many times that it numbs her head, that she wasn't the only one suffering. But it doesn't help. It made it worse. She hated the fact that more and more ghost children appeared wherever she went. She had empathy for them, but there was nothing she could do.

Mal blinked twice, stopping herself from daydreaming. She looked at China with her dull looking eyes, they were covering her sadness and all the mix feelings. She don't understand why some nations could still smile like her uncle Spain or Seychelles. They were always smiling. Mal's blinked once. Realizing that she was daydreaming for too long. She look at the ghost making funny faces behind China. He eyes were back to the original colour and the sides of her lips went a little up, not so noticable." Sorry for dazing off... Shall we continue?" She smiled softly, a rare sight to see on her face nowadays.

[China]

(( I don't remember seeing that~ I'm getting old
Long reply is long, and I might reply you with a much shorter one. Malaysia smiled, she smiled! Though its a little but she did~ Assist me <3 ))

China knew that she wouldn't really care about what he said, at least that was what it seems like. But still, he wanted to befriend her. After all, he felt a sense of responsibility over her. He still can't help but feel uneasy with her constant spacing out. Not that it wasn't normal for anything. But, for some reason it made him more aware of the slight chills around him.

For a moment there, he was sure she smiled. He may be old, but he was sure. Even if it was for a slight moment. That smile lightened his heart and he wished to see it again, sometime soon. Perhaps, after everything, they can have a proper date together. Not romantically, but just to get to know each other better.

"Sorry for dazing off... Shall we continue?"

He heard her say and he quickly nodded.

"Y-yeah, I guess that's enough rest, aru" he smiled, "lets get back to work then"

As he flipped through the notes. He set them aside and looked at her seriously.

"Hey Malaysia, do you think...there might be some sort of new herb, aru? I mean... I spotted some new species, but it's really hard to obtain... Currently, the medication I have only treats the superficial wounds. There might be an antidote of some sort, aru." He suggested, "though we haven't found the formula for it yet..."said China sighing regrettably.