Sometimes the one person you care about is hurt, and you don't know what to do to help them. Sometimes you see two friends with a gun pointed to one another and you don't know what to do. Sometimes you have to cross a line that no one should ever cross, even if it's for the one person you care about. Me and Romano, we weren't violent. (Well I wasn't.) But I knew he would protect me because he was my older brother and all. (A/N: I really don't care if this is true or not, but it make the story that much sadder and sweeter.) I could tell that he got jealous of Germany every now and again cause I spend more time with him and Japan than him. He won't say that out loud though.

"Hey Italy, why do you spend so much time with those two? They're just using you so they can get half of our land." Romano crossed his arms over his chest and pouted, I smiled at him.

"I trust them, they never tried anything like that to me before!" I said back to him. Romano gave me a look.

*FLASHBACK*

"I can't believe that I got over the border with only a stick and no resistance." Germany murmured as he carefully snuck through the forest.

"Help me! I'm stuck! EWAAAAAAAA!" I screamed in my tomato box prison. A crack then the top of the box was pried off. I slowly looked up. I saw him, he had a big sized rifle was pointed to me. I help up both of my hands. "Please! I want to survive! I don't want to die! I'll do anything please!" I knew Romano was watching me from high above the trees but I had to stop Romano from putting his life in danger. Romano had a pistol but he wasn't a good shot, this guy had a rifle and could probably kill him.

"Hmmm" Germany gave me a weird look, then he grabbed me by the collar of my jacket and pulled me out of the box single handed. I slightly blushed, I couldn't even carry a rifle without having to drag the barrel across the ground, he on the other hand could carry me with one hand and I weighed about 150 pounds. "Come on, you're going over the border."

"Really? Where?" I scanned the trees and saw Romano giving me a dirty look. I slowly waved and he gave me a rude gesture.

*END OF FLASHBACK*

"Then why did it take you so long for you to come back then? You're... You're a stupid younger brother!" Romano pushed me out of the way and ran out the door and out into the streets. I quickly turned and ran out of the room and stood in the door way watching him run away.

"Romano..." I murmured as I watched him run down the long street.

"Italy, what's wrong? You look like someone ate all of your pasta." Japan put a hand on my shoulder. I jumped slightly but calmed down. I looked at Japan and smiled, it's fine, I... I just need time to myself that's all." Japan removed his hand and nodded.

"Just don't worry about it much. America wants to have a meeting soon and he wants everyone to be there." I waited for a second and let it soak in my mind.

"Hey... Why is it that I'm always the last one to know about it?" Japan shrugged and walked the way he came. I looked back inside then out where Romano ran. I took in a deep breath and sighed it out. I ran after Romano. It started to rain. I let myself get dirty, Romano would have to worry about that. "Romano! We have to go back! Please! Romano!" I fell to my knees after I ran about a half a mile. I was breathing heavily and coughing. I let my eyes scan where I was. I didn't know. I started to shake then screamed at the top of my lungs. "Romano, dove sei? Io in realtà ti ascolta!" I knew no one could hear me. Untill I felt something hit me at the back of my head. I turned my head and saw Romano, he was gasping too. I had to smile. "Romano! You came and actully let me find you this time!"

"Let you fine me? I was chasing after you! Do you know how far I had to run to catch up to you? You're going to get when we get back!" He hit me across my head.

"Oww!" I rubbed my head. "Oh yeah, we have a meeting to go to." I looked away and blushed. "I can't go, will you go in my place Romano? You know what happened last time." He epicly facepalmed and let out a sigh.

"Fine but," he pointed to me, "give me your clothes, and I'll give you mine!" I nodded. Just as I was finishing getting dressed in Romanos clothes I heard a lot of foot steps. I quickly turned around and saw Germany and Prussia running to us.

"Hey, what's Germany and Prussia doing? I thought they didn't really care about us." I said to Romano who shrugged.

"There you two idiots are! America wasn't going to start the meeting with out you!" Germany grabbed Romano by his wrist and started to drag him away with Prussia following behind. They just left me in the mud. I followed slowly behind, now I kind of knew how he felt. He just felt left out because he was the southern part... wait, but southern korea is kind of popular. Maybe he was just wasn't having a good day. I shrugged off the lonelyness and followed Germany and Prussia.

*At the meeting Ve~*

"Okay Dudes, here is what this is all about!" America said pointing to the clear chalkboard.

"You twit! Their's nothing on that bloody board!" Britian interupted.

"I know that!" America replyed. "Stupid punk rocker." He said under his breath.

"What was that you nothing of a stomach!" Britain yelled.

"I said you're a stupid punk rocker!" America said it again louder this time.

"You want me to hurt you!"

"You couldn't hurt a gnat!"

"Oh really?"

"Yeah! Really!" Both America and Britian started to skuffle on the floor, Which earned a long drawn out sigh from everyone.

"They really do act like little kids." Romano murmured to himself.

"Don't worry, they always do this, it's a brother thing." I wispered to him.

"You mean like we do sometimes, but they actully fight." I nodded. "Hey Italy, why don't we fight like that?"

"We always get our curlys stuck together. Then Germany and Spain have to untie us."

"Romano! Do you have something to say?" America said pointing to me, both me and Romano jumped in our seats.

"Ugh..." Both Romano looked at me and I looked at him, then at eachother then back at him again.

"N-no, I just had to tell my brother something." I lied parshaly. I sunk down in my seat and stayed quiet as the meeting went on.

It took about two hours because Britian and America kept arguing about this that and the other but it was finnaly over, and I didn't have to go back for another month, luckly that means that I won't have to be a bother to anyone. As I walked out of the room Romano grabbed me by my wrist and pulled me into the small guest room across the hallway.

"Okay now give me back my clothes. Why did you act so much like yourself when America was talking? You were supposted to act like me." Romano crossed his arms as he waited for my answer.

"I'm sorry... I forgot. I was just nervous." I looked down at the ground and kicked the back of my heels. Romano sighed roughly.

"Just give me my clothes back." We did and we both walked out of the room. "Next time don't forget alright pipsqueak!" Romano walked away and left me there alone in the hall. The lights flickered on and off. I looked up.

"They need to change the lights ve~" I smiled at myself and started to walk down the halls. It was raining hard. Everyone agreeded not to leave until the rain let up a little. Romano was complaining about how long it would take and it would leave everyone wide open for an attack from one of the other nations. No one listened to him and continued on talking to the other nations. A tick grew on his head.

"Why won't you listen to me!" He yelled at everyone. I smiled at him.

"Ve~ it's because you're all talk." He gave me a glare.

"What was that Venziano?"

"Nothing!" I chuckled and backed away. The lights flickered again.

"So what are we going to do while the rain is still pouring?" Britian asked looking out one of the windows.

"Oh! I know!" America blurted, everyone looked at him. "Remember when we all got stuck in the mansion? We can play around and pretend that one of us is 'Tony' and try to capture all of us. Just a scary game and all that."

"That is... Not a bad idea." France said and everyone but me and Romano agreed.

"I really don't want to be reminded of that." I murmered under my breath, Romano nodded but we were ignored.

"Hey Britian! We can use one of your old books as Italy's book! So... Who's going to be 'Tony'?" America stated. Everyone was talking how fun this would and this, that and the other. I still had a bad idea with this game.

"On the count of three we run." Romano wispered to me, I sighed and looked at him.

"But Romano~ I'm too tired to run... And I'm hungry. Can we eat first?" Romano facepalmed.

"Can't it wait? We're just going to prank them a little bit."

"I have a bad feeling. Why would they just agree to this? We just got out of there with all of our lifes. And Britian just got his sight back too."

"Why do you have to be a big baby Venziano? We all agreed to forget it at Japan's party."

"This isn't helping either."

"What are you two talking about?" Spain put a hand on both of our shoulders which mad us jump. Romano screamed, I laughed at him. He blushed.

"W-what are you doing listening to what we're saying? What kind of freak are you!" Romano yelled at Spain who just laughed.

"Come on. Boss Spain want's to know what my Ita and Roma are doing all alone. Are you guys talking about girls?" Romano snapped a look at him.

"Why do you always think like that! You're just like Prussia and France!" Romano grabbed my wrist and ran down the hall. The lights all went out this time, luckly he had to slow down. I held onto his arm.

"Romano, do you think we should go back? I mean we don't know where we're going and it's so dark." He short stopped. "What's wrong?" I had no answer I was starting to freak out. "Romano! Answer me!"

"Venziano, run back to everyone. Tell them to come quick. If you don't," he turned around and looked me stright in the eyes "I will die. Tell them he's back." He pushed me and I felt scared. I took a few steps back. "Go!" I turned and started running. I didn't stop until I ran into something hard. I fell to the ground and looked up it was that thing. It looked at me with it's blacken eyes. My voice caught in my throat. I didn't know what to do. I heard Romano scream like he got hurt really bad. I started to shake. It kept looking at me like it was waiting for me to do something before it killed me. I could only do one thing. I screamed at the top of my lungs. Luckly it was loud enough for everyone to hear. Countless footsteps were comming my way. My heart was thumping heard in my chest and I didn't know what to do.

"Italy duck!" America started to shoot at the thing but it didn't do anything. It bounced off of it like it was made out of pure stone. It turned it's head and smiled in a evil way.

"Italy! Want you to get away from that thing! Where's Romano?" Spain yelled worried off his mind.

"He's back farther that way!" I stood. "I'm going to help him!" I ran back where Romano was I didn't listen to the yells of protest I slipped on something wet and fell to the floor. I was too dark to tell what it was. I heard a lot of dripping I felt some of it hit me.

It knocked the wind out of me, I slid to the ground gasping for breath. I looked up and saw it. It's stone face was tilted as it looked at me. Fear was all I had inside of me. I swollowed hard.

"R-R-R-ROMANO!" I screamed hoping that he'd heard me and that he was okay.

"Venenziano! Where are you? Ow...CHIGIIIIIII!" Romano screamed as he ran into me. He fell to the ground too. "Ow..." He rubbed the back of his head. "Were did you come from?" I held onto him.

"Tony's gonna get me." I said through his jacket. Romano groaned.

"Who's 'Tony'? I'll make sure that he won't get you." I looked at Romano with confusion writen on my face.

"Romano?" Footsteps quickly came up behind us. I looked and saw everyone running up to us gasping.

"What's your problem Italy?" Britian gasped as he and everyone else ran up to us.

"Yeah dude you just screamed out of no where and started running. We tried to call you back but you kept running." America said as he fell to his knees. He smiled at everyone. "Lets do that again."

Britian shook his head and sighed.

"You're an idiot." No matter how many times you nail it into his head he would not learn.

"So are going to play this game or not?" Spain asked helping both me and Romano up.

"I guess." Britian said putting a hand on his waist.

"I'm Tony!" America cheered and jumped.

"So do you have to drag us into a room or do you just grab us and we have to go into the room ourself aru?" China asked as he stretched his arms.

"How about you choose! If you're a fighter! You make me drag you. If you just give up them you walk." America said pointing to the meeting room which was compleatly empty. "If you get captured then you go into the meeting room and wait. Either you all die or you find the secret item that can defeat 'Tony'!"

"Why when it comes to games America-san is smart?" Japan asked which made everyone sniker.

"I'll give evryone a three minuet head start! Ready? Go!" America cheered as everyone but Me, Romano and Germany skattered like bugs. America laughed. "You guys better run too! The time's not that long once you start running." I looked at both Romano and Germany, hoping that they would help me.

They didn't. They turned around and headed different directions. I looked at both of them as I watched them disapear into the darkness. I turned and faced America who smiled at me.

"Just what is this secret item anyways? You never told us or gave us a hint." America smiled and pointed at me.

"See that's what makes you smart Italy, you acually listen when someone speaks. That will give you an advantage over the others." America put a finger to his lips as he shifted his weight from foot to foot. He snapped his fingers and gave a peace sign. "How about you find the largest clock here and turn the arms until it says twelve exsactly, then wait, once I find you there you win and I'll call everyone back that the game's over." I smiled.

"That dosen't sound too hard." I turned my back to America. "Good luck and see you at the clock."

The game starts.

All I could hear was my own footsteps and heavy breathing. I looked back to see if America was following me, I saw nothing, suddenly I crashed into something big.

"S-sorry Germany." I looked up at whatever I crashed into and saw that it wasn't Germany, it was way worse. It was the Oni. My breath caught. It narrowed it's empty eyes at me as it grabbed me by both shoulders. My whole body felt numb, no way this could be in my mind. Maybe America did this on purpous so he would win this pointless game. I slowly started to back away until it pulled me back hard. I fell to the floor. I kept my gaze to the wooden boards on the floor. I didn't want it to see the fear on my face.

I glanced up every five seconds to see if it was going to kill me, it just looked at me with it's stone like features.

"Italy!" I felt something slender tap me on the back. I looked back and saw Japan, he was trying to catch his breath. "Why are you on the ground?" I looked back up, the Oni was gone.

"I tripped, I think I twisted my ankle so I couldn't get up." I lied through my teeth. Japan smiled and held out his hand towards me.

"Give me your hand, I'll help you up." I smiled and shook my head.

"You'll lose, I'll just slow you down if I came with you." Japan grabbed my arm and pulled me up and made me lean against him.

"It's just a game, by the way didn't we all get out by using teamwork? Germany is waiting for us lets go." I smiled at him.

"Thank's Japan, I think I can bear the night that much more now." We both slowly walked to a closed door. Japan hit it five time in dot-dash pattern. He looked at me and put a finger up to his lips. "Think you can remember that for at least tonight?" I smiled and nodded.

"It would be a real chore if you asked me what it means in code." We both laughed as Germany opened the door. "Germany!" I jumped and hugged him. He pushed me away.

"Italy, don't do that! You need to be more quiet so put your hands in your pockets."

"Sorry Germany but I have a game to win!" I twirled around on one foot. "America told me what the secret is. It's the biggest clock set on twelve." I stopped and smiled. "Wait for the devil to come and prove to him that you did the deed then you can get out." I covered my mouth.

"Italy? What's the matter?"

"I didn't make myself say that." I said in a soft voice.

"Then what were you trying to say then?" Japan asked as he put a hand on my shoulder.

"We need to find the biggest clock, set it to twelve then wait for America to find us." Germany raised an eyebrow.

"Then that was compleatly different from what you said. Almost the same jest but kind of creepy." I nodded.

"Germany, do you think that I've been seeing things? Or that I'm crazy?" I laced my fingers together behind my back. "I still feel the pull of the Oni on me. I think it wants us to go back." Germany sighed and shook his head.

"You're just scared. The oni is gone and it won't come back. If it wanted to get you it would come and get you here." I looked down at the ground.

"That's the thing, I think it's here, I know I saw it get Romano and it was about to kill me." Japan placed his hand on my shoulder.

"Don't worry, if it comes back then I'll stop it. Remember Italy, you are never alone." I smiled big at him.

"Japan you're so good to me!" I ran up to him and gave him a big hug. Blush spread across his cheeks, he pushed me away.

"No no no no no! Italy thats not respectful! Please don't do that again!" He looked away nevously, I smiled at him. Something smashed into the door making us all jump.

"W-what was that!" I gasped as fear raked its cold fingers down my spine.

"I'll go check it out." Germany said in a low voice. He looked at me and Japan. "Stay here and run if America is on the other side." We both slowly nodded. Germany swung the door open. Nothing complete nothing. Something was on the ground. He picked it up and walked back to us.

"What is it?" Japan asked as he craind his neck trying to see.

"A note."

"What does it say?" I asked now regretting that I did.

"Come back, try to win again. If you win I'll disappear but if I win you lose everything."

The real game now begins.

Edita: First chapter in a long time! I'm into Hetaoni and all the fan made games. For second semester I'm going to take a computer class and make my own. Might upload it sometime if i ever get it finished.

I'm too much like Iggy. Once i start something it takes me forever to complete don't worry all my other stories will be finished... Sometime. Like it? Hate it? Please review. Also if you have questions don't forget to ask.