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Jealousy....(Italy Brothers fluff)

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"Come on Lovino! It'll be fun, like last year-!"

"IT WASN'T FUN FOR ME, DAMMIT!!!"

    As the date edged closer and closer toward March 17th, it seemed that the two Brothers just couldn't agree on that one subject....their birthday party. In the past, they had always had a combined party, but it seemed as though the older brother, Lovino, just....didn't want it this year. Although, it was quite understandable if you saw it from his point of view. Feliciano, his younger brother, had always invited all of his friends, who had always given him the most amazing presents and always made him feel special. Lovino, on the other hand, didn't have quite so many friends....in fact, the only person he had ever invited was Antonio, the man who'd raised him. He didn't even count Antonio as a friend.....and he was almost positive Antonio didn't either. Lovino had always yelled at him, insulted him....it was a wonder that Antonio had even come to their past parties. Sure, he'd gotten gifts from all of Feliciano's friends as well, if just out of politeness. But they were never as heartfelt as Feliciano's presents. Just something cheap that they thought would be substantial. Overall, it had always seemed like it was just Feliciano's birthday party....not both of theirs.

 


Feliciano was currently running after his older brother, begging him to change his mind.

"But Loviiiiii~!"

"DON'T "BUT LOVI" ME! MY NAME IS LOVINO!!!"

The door of their room slammed just inches away from Feliciano's startled face. Why was Lovino so mad? In the past, he'd always go along with the idea of a combined party...even if each year Feliciano asked he'd just grumble a simple, "yeah, fine..."

But...they had always had a great time at their parties....right?


                                                                                                                 

     Lovino sat on their bed, feeling tears threaten to come to his eyes. He heard Feliciano's cries of, "Fratello, are you ok?!" from behind the door. Feliciano just didn't understand. He had all those wonderful friends... In fact, all through his life, it seemed as though his little brother had had everything handed to him. Yes, Feliciano had worked for Austria, but besides that...he always was his Grandfather's favorite, while Lovino was barely noticed. His Fratello had all the talent, and had even started the Renaissance. He made plenty of friends and alliances over the years, was able to manage an economy, and didn't have to deal with as much mafia. Lovino sat on the bed, pondering all of this. What had he, himself done in his life? What was he actually talented at? He could farm, shoot a gun, and swear. That was pretty much it. He felt something wet land on his hand, and snapped back to reality. He hadn't even realized that he'd started to cry.

    In spite of this, Lovino suddenly jumped up from the bed and punched the wall violently, cursing in Italian. "DAMMIT!!! Why must HE get everything!?!" He pulled his fist back, not surprised to see it scraped and bloody. 

He sat back down on the bed, frustrated and with tears slowly dripping down his face.

 "Why...does no one care about me, dammit....."


 

    Feliciano, still behind the door and crying out for his brother, heard a bang. He stopped yelling, and stood there; wondering what had happened. The bang was followed by a lot of loud words; mumbled by the door, that were most likely curse words. He pressed his ear to the door to try and hear exactly what his fratello was saying.

Faintly, just faintly, he could hear one sentence. One simple, weak sentence.

"Why...does no one care about me, dammit..."

Feliciano pulled back from the door, shocked at what he had heard. Why would Lovino say such a thing?! How did this come from...planning their birthday party...?

There must have been something....

Feliciano thought back to the past year's birthday party....


(Flashback)

    Feliciano spun around excitedly, the reason for the excitement being his Fratello's and his own birthday party. Lovino, on the other hand, was sitting at their kitchen table, a bored expression on his face as he watched his younger brother spin around. "Fratello, you look like an idiota doing that.", he said, breaking the silence.  "Veh~! But fratello, it's our birthday party!!", Feliciano exclaimed happily. Lovino just glared at his younger brother and sighed.

    Shortly after this, the guests arrived. Feliciano's best friend, Ludwig, arrived first (and was promptly given a hateful glare by Lovino). Afterward, Gilbert (Ludwig's brother, who was also subject to another of Lovino's glares) arrived. Alfred, Kiku, Francis, Roderich (who had raised Feliciano), Elizaveta (another of Feliciano's past caretakers), and at last, Antonio (who had raised Lovino) were not far behind.

    After all the guests had arrived, everyone socialized. Even Lovino was trying to keep up a conversation with the rest of the guests. When it came time for cake, everyone sang "Happy Birthday", during which Feliciano smiled brightly (as he always did), and watched Lovino, who was tomato-red from embarrassment. Soon, the beautiful cassata cake (that Feliciano had picked out) was cut, leaving the only thing left to do was for the brothers to open their presents.

     Feliciano and Lovino alternated opening their presents, one from each person. Feliciano ripped the paper off of Ludwig's present, and found a beautiful new bowl, the perfect size for pasta. He looked excitedly from the bowl, to his brother, and back to Ludwig. It was quite possibly the prettiest bowl he'd ever seen, being a patterned robin's egg blue. He looked excitedly at Lovino as his gestured for him to open his present from the German. Lovino slowly ripped the wrapping paper off to find....a new black tie. Lovino hadn't looked excited, but Feliciano forced him to say thank you to Ludwig anyway.

    When they had finished opening presents, Feliciano had the new bowl (from Ludwig), a bag of pasta in the shape of chicks (from Gilbert), a pair of pastel blue chopsticks (from Kiku, who had gotten them to match the bowl), a suspicious-looking book (from Francis), a microwave pasta maker (from Alfred), a book of new, exclusive, sheet music (from Roderich), a new pair of boots (from Elizabeta), and a "Our King says shut up" tee-shirt (from Antonio). Lovino, on the other hand, had gotten a tie (from Ludwig), a card that said, "Happy Birthday! I am awesome!!" (from Gilbert), a box of pocky (from Kiku), a set of plain boxer shorts (from Francis), a gift card to a popular chain Italian/American restaurant (from Alfred), a tuner (from Roderich), a popular book (from Elizabeta), and a tomato-themed tee shirt (from Antonio).


            

    Feliciano was sitting on the ground, busily looking over his new sheet music while humming the rhythms, and from time to time asking Roderich about them. He quickly glanced at Lovino, having felt his brother's stare from across the room. In the brief moment his eyes met his brother's, he could've sworn that he saw a look of sadness and jealousy flash across his face. But Lovino quickly looked away, leaving his brother mystified as to what he saw. Soon after, he regarded it as nothing and turned back to his new music.


(Present)

    Feliciano's eyes widened. That moment. It made everything click into place. Why his brother refused to have a combined party, why his brother was hiding in their room, why his brother always was so rude to him, why his brother had done a lot of things, actually.

Jealousy. But....why would Lovino be jealous of him...? All he was was a dumb coward that used his alliances to hide behind.....

Still. He had to do something. He slowly turned the door knob to their room.

"Fratello...? Stai bene...?"

    As his eyes met his brother's, Feliciano saw a look of shock and...was that....pain(?) flash in his eyes. His brother was an absolute mess. He had tears pouring down his face, and a bloody hand that had ended up making his face bloody as well, due to trying to wipe away the tears. His precious Fratello was definitely NOT "Ok". 

    "Fratello...you're bleeding...!!" was all that Feliciano was able to stammer out. He sped to their bathroom, grabbing their first aid kit. Lovino looked back down at the bed, almost ashamed. Feliciano ran back, and quickly sat next to his brother, starting to try to clear away the blood with a (clean) washcloth. Thankfully, there was more blood than cuts, and even though his few scrapes were deep, they would heal. Feliciano did the best that he could have done gently wrapping his brother's hand, and then threw away the bloody washcloth. 

    He then turned to his brother. Feliciano was oblivious to many things, but he could tell that the wounds his brother had gotten were not just on the outside. The pain in Lovino's eyes had given him enough evidence to support his claim. Feliciano steadily put his arms around his brother, using that small gesture to try and comfort him. Whatever had been holding Lovino back before suddenly broke, and Lovino erupted in tears. All he could really think about at that time was how much he had made his fratello and himself suffer from his jealousy.


    After about 45 minutes of crying and being held by his younger brother, Lovino spoke.

"Mio Fratello....mi dispiace....I...I...."

"It's ok, Fratello....Ti amo."

"Anch'io ti amo....."

He looked over at Feliciano, who had a hint of a smile on his face. Suddenly, that smile vanished, and it was Feliciano's turn to vent.

"Fratello....why were you jealous of me..? I..uh..well, everyone says that I'm a coward.....a..and stupid...and it's all kind of true...."

"Fratello, you're anything BUT stupid. Also.....I...I think that it's ok to be scared once in a while....." Lovino looked away and turned tomato-red; embarrassed at the cheesiness of what he was saying.

"B...but I'm scared ALL the time!! I...It's true that I make alliances so I can hide behind them......"

"Feliciano, I..I guess the reason why I was...jealous of you was because of your alliances....I mean, I don't really have very many friends....so I was always jealous of yours...."

Feliciano mouthed a silent, "Oooh...." and hugged his brother again. "But I think mio fratello is my best friend!! He shouldn't be jealous of my other friends!

Lovino turned a deep red apon hearing this, and slowly hugged his brother back.

"Ti amo fratello. Ti amo troppo."

"Anch'io ti amo, Lovi!~"

Lovino didn't even mind being called "Lovi" for once. Suddenly, Lovino thought of something. 'Hey...fratello?"

Feliciano looked up. "Si?"

"Remember our last party, what I got from Francis?"

Feliciano looked at him, confused. "Didn't he get you underwear..?"

Lovino looked at him, confused. "Si.....I've been wondering since that day...how the hell did he even get my size in underwear...?!?"

Feliciano giggled softly. "I don't know! Oh! Oh! Fratello! Remember what Ludwig gave me...? My pasta bowl?"

"The one with the pattern on it...?"

Feliciano smiled sheepishly. "Si! That one! Uh....I might've broke it last month...."

This went on for quite some time now, with them just chatting, laughing, and recovering from their fight. Soon, Feliciano thought of something important.

"Fratello....can I ask you something..?"

"Si....what is it?"

"Could we....maybe not have a big combined party this year?"

Lovino looked at his brother in surprise, feeling confused and...slightly hurt. Did Feliciano not want to have any more parties with him? Did this whole ordeal finally convince Feliciano that he'd be better off without his jealous brother? "But...fratello....I thought you really wanted to have one....", he said, slightly hoping for his brother to get excited and go along with the original plan, even though it would end up the same way...

Feliciano pondered his brother's sudden change of heart, but ultimately decided to stick with his own plan. "No, fratello.....I meant to ask...can we have a small party this year?"

Lovino looked at him, confused. "What do you mean, Feliciano?" He had already considered their parties to be small, or at least normal-sized. They only had eight guests altogether...

"W...well...I was thinking...I'd only invite you, and you'd only invite me. That way we can only get presents for each other, so fratello won't have to be jealous!~"

Feliciano watched as a smile came over Lovino's face, something that only happened once in a great while.

"Sure, Feli....that sounds like a great idea."

Now it was Feliciano's turn to smile. His brother had called him Feli!! He wrapped his arms around his brother happily. "Veh~ Ti amo, Lovi!!!"

Lovino turned red and slowly hugged back. Huh. He could get used to this.... "Ah...Anch'io ti amo, Feli..."


 

THE END

 

 

 

 

 

Well, here it is. My second fanfic~! ^^ I started working on this during the summer, angot the inspiration from my family birthday party (I had to share my party with 2 of my cousins and my Dad...we all have similar birthdays. I didn't mind, but it inspired my to create THIS.)

I've already posted this on Tumblr, and I needed to put it here, too. XDD

Translations: si=yes, fratello=brother, idiota=idiot, stai bene?= are you ok?, ti amo=I love you, ti amo troppo= I love you too much, anch’io ti amo= I love you too. (As long as my translator is correct...)

Please enjoy, no hating, and no stealing~
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I can't function properly-
I THINK THIS BROKE ME-
IT'S TOO CUTE-
Ahhh, You did a really good job!