Disclaimer: Does not belong to me. :(

Germany had known that becoming allies, friends, with Italy would only cause him pain. He expected a lot of annoying situations to arise. Germany definitely expected he would have to save Italy a lot. But…he never would have thought he'd have to do house cleaning for him.

"If you had just cleaned up your own messes better!"

"Ah~ Sorry, Germany! Really! I didn't think about how trash could grow! But then just a week ago, I noticed how messy it was in here! And then I tripped over a bowl and hurt my face because I landed on it. And it really hurt!"

The entire place was a mess and had every kind of garbage you could think of. Germany knew Italy was lazy and that he liked to sleep a lot, but this was just a little too ridiculous. How could he even stand the sight?!

Italy didn't take long to answer the question when Germany asked him.

"That's easy, I just go to your house!"

Germany sighed and could not bother to discipline him. There was no will to do so. After all, how many times had he tried and had gotten nowhere? So he picked up another garbage bag and stuffed a few food wrappers in it with some Italian brand German couldn't remember.

"Why didn't you just clean?" It was the only thing that kept entering his mind. Was that not simple? Didn't you throw things away once you were through with them? "It's not like you like filth. Out of all the things you are, you are not dirty."

"Well, when I did think about it, it was time for a nap. Then when I woke up, I was hungry and so I would make some pasta and then I'd get sleepy again! I kept telling myself I'd do it later and I never did. So here we are now!"

Only Italy would think like this. Only Italy…

Picking up more garbage, Germany noticed that even after all this cleaning, he still couldn't see the floor very well. Just how much garbage was there?!

Italy asked where he was going when he walked outside to get a shovel, but he didn't answer the question and came back inside, hoping with everything he had that his idea was wrong. But then the metal part was hidden when he pressed it down to a certain pile of garbage and he felt a headache coming to him.

"Italy?"

"Yes, Germany~?"

Germany glared at him. "You're going to need a shovel too."

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"This is so tiring~ Time for siesta?"

"No siesta!"

Notes: According to the article, dumps became full in Naples, Italy and garbage collectors said they wouldn't pick garbage up anymore. Italy asked for help from Europe and Germany came to help. They made a deal that allows Italy to give Germany 160,000 tons of waste to burn. I wonder when this will happen to the rest of the world. D: While this all happened in Southern Italy and this story isn't exactly like the news article, all I could imagine was Feliciano being too lazy to do house cleaning and asking Germany to help him. I know I do this sometimes with cleaning too. xD Thanks for reading!