Hi! This is a music pairing story, but the lyrics will be kept to a minimum. There will also be yaoi, but there will never be explicit content. Enjoy the fic!

Song: It's All Been Done

Artist: Barenaked Ladies


Pairing: HRE as Germany/ Italy

Germany held up an old deck brush. When and where he had obtained it, he had no idea. He continued to stare at it, and then he began to remember...

"Germany! I'm here!" Italy skipped into Germany's room. Germany had said he'd a surprise for him.

"Hello, Italy. Yes, I had something very important to tell you." Germany entered the room holding Italy's deck brush behind his back. With a hint of a smile on his face, he began to explain. "I knew you before the fall of Rome..."

"Italy! Come visit my house!" Holy Roman Empire chased a yelling Italy.

"Grampa Rome said not to!"

"Come on, Italy!"

"Goodbye, Holy Roman Empire."

"Goodnight."

"I knew you before the West was one."

Italy sighed. "Life just isn't any fun any more." Behind a corner stood a blushing Holy Roman Empire. He frowned. Italy wasn't happy, so he wasn't happy. Luckily, he knew just the way to fix this.

"I-Italy... I brought you s-some paints." Holy Roman Empire offered the paints to Italy, who just stared at him. With a burning red face, Holy Roman Empire said, "Well? Don't you want them?" To his great surprise, Italy pulled him into a hug.

"Thank you so much!"

Blushing as brightly as he had been all those years ago, Germany pulled out the deck brush from behind his back. Italy leaned in close to Germany's face. "You didn't remember that?"

Germany could only shake his head.