Having Allys like Italy and Japan did not only have positive sides. It also meant a lot of work for Ludwig. He and his Allys were complete different nations with their own interests and needs. But the tall German was determined to bring them all to the same level. At least in the case of national strength.

Ludwig flipped through the pages of his notebook. The word 'ROBERTO' was written on it, in golden letters on the red leather of the cover. Of course this had been Italy's idea to unofficial call their alliance 'Roberto'. Made out the first letters of their capitals: ROme, BErlin and TOkio. Though Ludwig actually didn't mind. He took it as secret name for the drill sections he planned for the three of them.

Training like today. It was already almost time to start with today's section and Ludwig had everything written down into his notebook. Today he wanted it to become a successful drill. Now he was just waiting for the other two man to appear.
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Reserved for the Axis nations.

When Japan joined the Axis Powers, he never thought that it was going to be easy. With those crazed Allied Powers roaming around, one had to remain vigilant. So when Germay proposed that he and Italy join him in training. Japan gladly obliged.

As he approached the Training Camp. Japan noticed that Germany was holding a notebook with the word "ROBERTO" embalonized on the cover.

Ah, so he decided to accept Italy's proposal to use that as this training camp's code name. This should be interesting.thought Japan.

Japan then signaled Germany of his arrival and asked...

"Where is our partner?"

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Wow. I just realized I can write out my responses and type it out later. (b")b

I hope this turns out great~ ^___^

It would not be a normal day if Feliciano had not slept in.

So, as predictable as the seconds ticking away on a clock, Feliciano hadm indeed, overslept once again.

He had awoken with a start, struggling into his clothes (wouldn't Ludwig be proud; he remembered his pants this time!), quickly grabbing a pastry to eat (because Ludwig never let him eat during drill!), and proceeded to run as face as he could to their meeting place.

Of course, running as fast as he could meant starting out strong in the beginning, quickly giving up on running, finding some cute girls to chat with, stopping at a gelato stand for a quick snack, playing a quick game of tag with some children, picking up and petting every cat he could find, and finally, skipping his way down the final stretch, whistling a happy tune.

"Ludwig! Kiku! Ciao~" He skipped up to the two other men, throwing up a sloppy salute with a big grin. "Ve, ready for training, Capitano!"

Ludwig turned to Kiku and greeted him with a stern nod. "Feliciano is never on time for training." The tall German got used to that. Once the Italian would show up, Ludwig would yell at him and scold his ally for the lack of discipline. "I have planned to train in the empty lot over there today." He closed his notebook and pointed to an old, half broken house on the other side of the street. "It is perfect to train hiding."

Once the small Italian arrived Ludwig shoot him a strict glare. "You are LATE!" His dark baritone echoed over to Feliciano, meant to scold him.

"Ah and so I see."

Then as Feliciano greeted both of them, Kiku replied "Welcome, I hope this will help us prepare for the eventual fight"

Kiku then peered to the Abandoned house that Ludwig pointed at, it seemed stable enough for training. Especially for hiding and ambushes.

"So how should we start?"

"A-ah! V-ve, mi dispiace, Ludwig!" The smile wavered slightly as he flinched at the man's voice, scratching his cheek sheepishly. "I slept in a little late, eh heh heh!"

He looked from Ludwig to Kiku, confused as to what the two where talking about. "Eh? Did I miss something?" Following the quieter man's glance, he noticed the especially creepy house looming nearby. "V-ve! That's a frightening house! I-It looks like it would be full of something scary, like the British!" A shiver ran down his spine and he hugged himself.

"W-why are we looking at such a scary house, ve?

Ludwig decided to let Feliciano off for now. The training haven't even started yet. There would possibly be enough time and opportunities tom scold the Italian later.

He just tilted his head towards the old house and gave a short explanation on the drill section he had planned for today. "We will do 'hide and seek' today. The training will take place in the house over there."

The tall man strained his shoulders, his green jacket hung open over his shoulders showing the dark tank top under it. "Any questions?"

As Kiku looked down his white Uniform he realized something...

"Yes. Are we required to bring any tools and change our uniforms?"
Kiku asked.

Hmm, I should bring a shovel to dig plus my uniform will get dirty during our training. Kiku thought.

"Ve? Changing? Should we change?" He looked down at his deep blue uniform (and don't forget the pants! He was really proud of himself for the pants), tilting his head. "Will it be d-dirty in that house? O-Or full of b-b-b-blood or something?" He looked back and forth between his two companions, shivering.

"U-Um...I have a question, Capitano! C-can...can we not train in the scary house and eat pasta instead? Pasta is very important, ve, and it's bad to train on an empty stomach, and I'm sure I would be much less scared if I ate some pasta before training, and I'm a little hungry; toast isn't really a filling breakfast, and I ran all the way here so I'm hungry already, s-so we should eat pasta!" He laughed nervously, backing away from the two.

"S-so...I'll just go...make some, ve!"

"You can change if you want but you don't need to." Ludwig's expression was stern as always while he spoke. "Imagine we were on a battlefield, the enemy about to attack. We wouldn't have time to change either."

Turning to Feliciano he interrupted the other's obvious try to get out of training even if it haven't started yet. "NO!" That was a clear and simple answer. "If you would get up at time you would've been able to eat breakfast BEFORE drill."

Ludwig crossed his arms for his chest looking at his Allys with a stoic glance. "Kiku goes first. Then I will count a countdown from 20 downwards. At zero it is Feliciano's turn to follow. I will go as last one after a second countdown."

"Ah, that does make sense, I will not change then."

Kiku then started his treck to the Abandoned house.

As he crouched and looked down the field, it seemed as if the ground was hard enough to continue.

"U-uuuh, ve..." The Italian looked at Ludwig as the smaller man slunk away, fidgeting as the man counted down, looking unmoved by the brunet's whimpering.

Did he risk getting scolded by Ludwig if he didn't go? Or did he just go through with it, sealing his fate at behind scared out of his wits?

He didn't really have much time to debate, his body almost moving of it's own accord when Ludwig reached one. He did make sure to give the German a long, tearful glance before scurrying after Kiku with a whimper, already eager for this training to be over.

Ludwig ignored Feliciano's weak whining and started to count down once he saw their Asian Alley disappear in the old house. Once he ended up counting by zero the Italian moved and slipped into the house without any further comment.
A slight smile appeared on the tall man's face. Maybe he was finally able to get Feliciano into serious training.

Once the Italian was inside of the house too Ludwig counted down for himself and scoots over to the old building when it was his turn. He pressed himself against the wall next to the front door frame. Ludwig carefully peeked into the house, checking out if one of the other man were hiding behind the entrance to catch him at the moment he would come in. Obviously the hallway was save so the blond slipped inside, holding himself still pressed against the wall.

Ludwig was pretty sure that he didn't need to think of the Italian. Feliciano would be loud enough. He wont be able to catch the German at all. But it was different with Kiku. The man from Japan was way more serious with this drill and the captain was determined to catch the black-haired man before he would get Ludwig.

As Kiku approached the abandoned house,he noticed that there was a second floor.

Hmm, since we are practicing evasive and hiding techniques, it might as well be best to hide in a place where I can easily hear and see someone approaching Kiku thought.

He then realized that he only had a minute at most to hide. So Kiku ran up the stairs and went in a spacious room.

Seeing that there was a wide bed with sheets covering it, Kiku decided to hide under it.

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I wanted to hide someplace harder, but I don't want to be mean. D:

Feliciano really didn't want to go into that house. Really. It looked even scarier up close! It was filthy and the siding was coming off...were those blood stains on the porch? It may have been the Italian's overactive imagination. The door opened to an ominously pitch black hole...It had to be haunted or something, he knew it had to be haunted!

"Ve..." He glanced around the dark room, more tense than a mousetrap, expecting something to pop out at him at every turn. He had to find somewhere to hide...if not for training, at least to hide from the ghosts!

"U-uwaaaaah, this is no fuuuuun...uuuuh...." Feliciano wandered around the house aimlessly, his soft sobs echoing through the rooms he encountered. "I-I wanna go home, ve...I wish I had eaten some pasta if I knew I was going to do something like--UWAH!" He covered his mouth to cut off his scream as his foot suddenly broke through a rotting floorboard. "E-eeeeeeh...." The Italian desperately tried to pull his foot out, hands still over his lips to quiet his panicked breathing. He worked at it for what seemed like hours, panic only growing worse until he wrapped both hands around the leg and gave it one last tug...!

"GYAAAAAAAAAAAAH...!"

...only to tumble backward, breaking through the rest of the rotting floorboards.

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Kiku needs to bring out his ninja skillz.