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ItaPan: Urban Myth

"Ve, save me!"

Japan grunted as Italy latched onto him. The two were simply walking through Japan's streets when the Italian suddenly started with this strange behaviour.

"Feli-kun, what's wrong?" Japan asked.

"V-ve," Italy whimpered, pointing somewhere. "K-Kushisake-onna."

Japan blinked in surprise, before looking to where Italy was pointing. He sighed in annoyance.

"Feli, that is nothing more than an urban legend," Japan said. "I should have never told you that story."

"B-but…"

"A lot of my people wear masks like that. They don't want to get sick, and they don't want others to get sick if they were sick."

Italy looked towards the woman again and sighed.

"Come now," Japan said. "There's nothing for you to fear."

As Japan led Italy away, he saw another woman with a surgical mask standing in the shadows of an alleyway. It was only out of the corner of his eye, and he wondered how his attention was drawn to her in the first place.

She held up a pair of scissors with her one hand, and with the other hand she pulled the mask away. His eyes widened at what he saw.

"Ve, Kiku, what's wrong?" Italy asked.

Japan turned to Italy, seeing that he was unaware of what he had just seen, and turned back to the alleyway. The woman was gone.

"It's nothing," Japan said. "Sh-shall we get some ice-cream?"

"Okay!" Italy chirped, lacing his fingers with Japan's.

Italy babbled excitedly, while Japan was looking around for the Kushisake-onna.

The prompt is: 'Person A believes in a myth/urban legend and they're paranoid about it all the time. Person B thinks they're overreacting and doesn't believe in it. Whether the myth/urban legend ends up being real or fake is up to you.'