"Damn it! Veneziano! What the hell is wrong with you? Normal people would take their medicine and wake up feeling better, not have it the same as before!" Romano scolded angrily as he pointed to the reading on the thermometer, which reads 38.0 degree Celsius.

"Sorry… But it is not exactly the same; the temperature went down by 1." Veneziano pointed his index fingers together. Should he tell Romano that his fever probably did not go down fully because he was busy pulling the blanket up on Romano yesterday night that he forgot about himself…?

"IT DOESN'T COUNT AS LONG AS YOU'RE STILL SICK! Shit, I will go get you medicine and hopefully it will work this time." Romano snapped and stormed out of the bedroom, returning with a cup of water and the medicine.

Having learnt from his previous experience, Veneziano did not even struggle in the littlest and took his tablets obediently, that put a slight and grin on Romano's face for a mere 2 seconds, making it almost unnoticeable.

"Good, now rest." Romano ordered.

"Ve…? But I just woke up, there is no way I will be able to fall asleep again. Can't I at least have something to eat? It is almost noon." Veneziano asked and tilted his head slightly. "I really miss your cooking~."

"Fine, but you better sleep after that or I will knock you out muself." Romano gave in once again and marched into the kitchen, leaving an extremely delighted Veneziano beaming happily.


When Romano walked into the empty kitchen, he was surprised to find a sealed container containing porridge, a note was attached to the container.

"Hmm? It is still warm." Romano muttered to himself as he opened the the note up and read it:

Romano kun,

This is Japan. Since you forgot to lock the back door, i decided to come in after i was done with my meeting and was relieved to find the place still in tact. Seeing that both you and Italy kun were both sound asleep, i decided not to disturb the both of you and prepared the porridge for consumption should Italy kun or you be hungry. Please be careful though, it may still be very hot.

I am utterly sorry for not being able to be here though, i am afraid that some plans were brought forward and i may not be able to come visit Italy kun for the whole of today. Please take good care of him and call me should anything goes wrong. I will still make it somehow. Thank you very much, and good luck.

-Japan

Ps: Please come to my house at five pm today, i have found the solution to the second problem you asked me for help with.

Looking up from the extremely long and neatly written note at the container full of porridge, Romano smiled. Great, now that he did not have to cook, it had saved him lots of work and trouble.

"Hey Veneziano! Japan made you some porridge."Carrying a bowl of porridege, Romano said as he walked into Veneziano's room.

"Eh? Really? That is nice..." Veneziano was somehow disappointed.

"... Don't give me that look. I am not gonna fucking cook for you when the food is right here. Eat it or leave it."

"Um... I got it." Veneziano reluctantly received the bowl of porridge from Romano, "I really want fratello's pasta though..." He muttered under his breath.

"Huh? You said something?"

"Eh? Err, i was saying that Japan was so nice for cooking for me even though he was so busy." Veneziano pulled the lie off with some sheepish laughter and looked down at his bowl of porridge again.

It was not like he did not like Japan's cooking. In fact, Japan's cooking probably tastes better than Romano's cooking. But he just wanted to taste his brother's cooking, to remember that special taste and feeling once again. After all, it felt like centuries have passed since the last time his brother cooked for him.

Taking all these in, Romano felt his left eye twitched again. As much as he hated to admit it, he had a soft spot for Veneziano, and seeing Veneziano with a glum face was not exactly entertaining. Shit, why the hell did he have to care about his stupid and useless brother so much?

Snatching the bowl back, Romano looked to the other side and said,"Since you obviously no appetite, i guess i can make an exception and cook something for you... IT'S NOT LIKE YOU ARE SPECIAL OR ANYTHING AND IF YOU DARE ASK ME TO COOK AGAIN IN THE FUTURE, I WOULD PERSONALLY KILL YOU."

"Um! Thank you sooo much fratello!" Veneciano smiled warmly as Romano blushed visibly.

Crap, he need to get rid of that soft spot, quick.


So after getting Veneziano to eat the plate of pasta that he spent one hour on, Romano forced Veneziano back to sleep and started cleaning the house. (He only managed to make it messier and gave up after half an hour. Then after realizing that was not was he was supposed to, he started cleaning again and after 2 hours, finally managed to clean up the mess he made.)

When it was 5, Romano dragged his tired self to Japan's house and spent another tiring and slow 2 hours preparing for the marked day, getting reprimanded by Japan for every single mistake he made and/or every cursing and swearing heard. (He shouted that he give up for around 30 times, but since Japan was in charge, he ended up half alive, but managed to get the things ready.)

Finally, when it was 8, he got back to Veneziano's house and was glad to find Veneziano still sound asleep and his fiver had gone down too. Now he can prove to Japan about how responsible he was. But the day was not over for him as he sat down on the desk and started going through the pile of paperwork.

Yes, you read that right; Romano actually willingly sat down and started doing his work.

"Ahh heck, that freaking boss is making us do everything! Who the hell would ask a country to decide on the amount of tax to be collected?" Romano complained as he threw yet another piece of paper to the 'finished' stack.

Yet, despite Romano's rare hard work and persistence, the 'unfinished' pile showed no signs of decreasing in height, even when it was already 12 pm; after 4 hours of hard work... Romano finally understood how going through paper work could get his brother sick.

"Ah fuck. Looks like i'm not sleeping today." Romano cursed and snapped yet another pen into halves.

Shit, that was the second last working pen left...


Time check: 12.40 am, 14/3/2012

The marked day itself.


Once again, not been through beta yet.

Fuu, i rushed this out at midnight and now i am so sleepy i could barely keep my eyes open.

But i finally did it! So did Romano :) /clap clap/

By the way, any of you figured out what the marked day is about yet? :)

Oh and please review _

I don wanna sound horrible and all, but i seriously think i deserve opinions/flaming/a good job for you readers since i just sacrificed my 2 hours of sleep writing this.

So yeah.. Thanks for reading! Oh, and please inform me if you think i am writing OOC at any point of time :3