Spain x Reader x Netherlands - Time For a Change

"Do you like me?"

"I don't think so!

That's how it always goes, can he ever consider him a friend? You sighed, you happened to be walking down the street with Romano by your side. Neither of you seemed happy, but for Romano keeping up a grumpy face, it seemed normal to you by now.. you rarely saw him happy at all.

"Is everything alright?" Romano eventually asked you, apparently you fell silent for some time, because normally when hanging out with the Italian you'd endlessly talk away about whatever you could think of.

"I'm just a little concerned about them" You honestly said, it made Romano stop walking in an instant and he grabbed your arm, causing you to stop as well.

"Forget them, they're hopeless. Spain is just helpless, he could barely even take care of me, it doesn't surprise me he can't make friends like that. And the Dutch guy.. he's just weird, his sister is worth hanging with though" Even though Romano made a joke out of it, you still didn't feel right about it. You let out a little sigh and put up a smile.

"I should try to get them to be friends~"  You happily said all of a sudden, causing Romano to let out a soft chuckle.

"Good luck with that, I doubt anything good will turn out of it" He responded.

It was by the time when you returned home that you started working out what to do, Romano decided to bring you back home. You lived with the Netherlands ever since he found you helplessly on your own after your parents passed away, you were young when it happened. And shortly after you were taken in you started to see the relationship between him and Spain, you never understood why he didn't like the guy at all.. the guy was always so bright about everything.

You remember when you asked the Netherlands about why he doesn't like Spain at all, but he always avoided the subject by asking a completely different question in return, or by asking you for a favor. So approaching it from Netherlands' side wasn't an option, maybe you could approach Spain instead to ask about his grudge against him.

You entered the living room of the house, finding your caretaker sitting quietly at his desk as he was taking care of paperworks. Even when you closed the door loud enough for the Dutchman to hear he barely flinched or looked up at all, he just sat there.. writing with his back facing you.

"Did you have a fun day?" Netherlands eventually asked with his thick Dutch accent, he didn't even once look up from his work. At first he didn't like the idea when you said you were going to hang out with Romano, but at least you prevented yourself from saying 'Oh, and we're going to visit Spain too!', he would probably get irritated just by mentioning the name.

"Yes, I've had fun" You frowned as you replied. You saw Netherlands' head bob up and down for a second, confirming that he heard you. Walking over to the Dutchman you looked over his shoulder to see his work.

"Mooi" Netherlands dully responded, he looked like he was dozing off.

"Huh.. you're still busy with those?" Netherlands nodded once more when you asked your question, this wasn't normal. He had tried to keep it a secret, but you figured out easily that he didn't sleep the past two days at all in order to finish the job.

"Then let me take care of the rest" You quickly snatched the papers he was writing on from the table, making the other snap out of his little daze. The Netherlands stood up from the chair, his emerald eyes attempting to stare at you with annoyance, but you saw the tiredness in them instead.

"Nee, you won't do it" Netherlands grumbled, he was about to take the papers back but you quickly held them out of his reach.

"Yes I will, you haven't slept in two days all because of your paperworks. You should stop stacking your work until the last minute before deadline, I'll finish it" You commanded. And it paid off when the Netherlands let out a little sigh, he knew that you could take care of these paperworks since he taught you, and besides that it wasn't that hard.

"Fine.. it's almost finished anyway" He chuckled, he put his hand on your head for a moment before he walked off into the kitchen. The Netherlands was so stubborn, you had to admit that.. he always did what he thought was best, while it often just seemed to be the complete opposite.

You quickly worked on the papers, writing down the most important things first before you added the rest. Eventually you could feel the Netherlands' emerald eyes on you again, he was looking over your shoulder just to see if you were doing fine. After he confirmed nothing was wrong he walked off, leaving you be with the paperworks.

After you finished you neatly placed them all on one pile before you decided to go and look for the Netherlands again, but since you didn't hear the door you figured he must still be in the same room right there with you. And it wasn't much of a surprise to you when you found him fast asleep on the sofa, he surely needed the rest. You quickly searched the closet, pulling out a big blanket which you covered the Dutchman with.

You weren't sure what to do next, now that you were on your own. You checked around the room, and eventually you found something in the far back of the closet. It was a small cardboard box, and it seemed to be filled with some letters all addressed to Netherlands. But the strange thing was that none of them were open, all of them were unread. Out of mere curiosity you took a couple of them and opened them. It was either a coincidence or not at all since all these letters were written by Spain.

Something had to be done about it.

The next day you decided to meet up with Spain. It started off normally, and eventually you just decided to make the very happy Spaniard hear you out.

"You never said you tried to contact the Netherlands again" You said straight to the point. Spain fell silent pretty quickly, but suddenly he put up one of his usual smiles.

"You never asked me about it" Spain laughed in return. "I'm surprised you found them though. And I'm not surprised he didn't even bother to read them"

"I want to help, I mean.. I like the both of you a lot, and I can't stand it that I have to see you separated from Neth the whole time" You said, you felt upset about it but you felt so useless about it. Mainly because even if you wanted to have something or needed something the Netherlands would already be stubborn about it and continue till he'd win.

"Yeah, he's just way too stressed.. Netherlands really needs something to distract him from his job from time to time, I always do that too!" Spain chuckled, right at that time you started thinking about it. You instantly remembered how happy Spain always was, he never seemed to be bothered about anything.. except this situation right now that is.

"That's it!" You suddenly said, startling Spain as he looked confused at you.

"What is it, chica?" He asked. His bright emerald eyes were filled with curiosity, he wasn't sure what you were on about yet.

"Well, if you can take care of something fun to do, I'll make sure that Neth will be there!" You saw Spain lit up so fast that you just had to let out a little giggle.

"Sure, I can think of something, it won't be a problem. Just come over to the field when you convinced him" He happily said.

The plan was then set into motion, you went back home in order to pick up the Netherlands. But just as you expected he decided to be stubborn, even though you offered him to take a walk with you and didn't mention Spain at all he blunty refused.

"Why not?" You asked as you were facing the Netherlands, he was currently busying himself with the housekeeping. He really never gave himself some time off, at least it seemed like that.

"Because I don't feel like it" He shrugged.

"You never feel like doing anything but boring things, you need that fresh air" You replied in return, it looked so useless but you didn't give up at all.

And eventually at some point you managed to drag the Netherlands with you, all the while he was just cursing in Dutch under his breath while the two of you were taking a walk. Eventually at some point he seemed to calm down though, you were clinging onto Netherland's arm during the whole walk so far and he didn't even seem to notice it.. or at least he didn't mind it in the end.

You led the Netherlands to the spot Spain told you to go to, and upon seeing him the Dutchman wasn't very pleased with it at all. Setting up his grumpy face he shrugged as he now pulled himself out of your clinging arms.

"Hola, Netherlands!" At least Spain sounded excited, and he was probably looking forward to do whatever he had planned for the other. The Netherlands didn't even respond to it, instead he just looked away.

"Oh come on, Neth! Spain isn't a bad guy, really" You said, tugging on his sleeve. You watched as Spain extended his hand out to the Netherlands, but he seemed to doubt it.

"Friends?" Spain seriously asked, but he kept up his usual smile nontheless. You remained silent as your eyes returned to look at the Netherlands, he didn't even make a move. So you pushed him forward slightly, even though he didn't appreciate it he eventually sighed.

"F-fine.. friends, but only because it's for _____." The Netherlands mumbled, shaking the Spaniard's hand, who reacted very brightly to it. Spain suddenly moved from the handshake into wrapping his arms around both of your necks.

"Just... please don't do that" The Netherlands grumbled at Spain's action, who laughed in return.

"R-right.. sorry, I'll be right back!" Spain happily chirped as he ran off, now it was the both of you that were confused.

"What is he up to?" When the Netherlands asked that you lifted your shoulders. "No idea"

The Spaniard returned a while later, holding a soccer ball in his hands. He had this grin plastered across his face as he approached the Netherlands once again, offering his new friend the ball.

"You still know the world cup, right?" Spain said, he wasn't teasing the other man at all.. he was just trying to be friendly, you couldn't help but giggle a little, by chance you did remember that time. The fact that the both of these countries were in the finales of that year, 2010.

"So how about a friendly rematch.. you know, just a one on one spar this time?" When Spain offered that the Netherlands wasn't sure how to respond, he shrugged.

"You're on" Netherlands suddenly took the soccer ball from Spain's hands and walked ahead.

"Alright!" Spain eagerly followed the Dutchman on the grass field you led him to, so that's what he was up to.. it did seem fun.

You watched from the sidelines, and you could have sworn that this was one of the rare times the Netherlands was actually enjoying something. It couldn't be denied that you actually saw a smile on his face while he was sparring against Spain. Even though Spain ended up winning once again in the end, the Netherlands didn't mind it at all.. in fact he had a lot of fun.

You approached the exhausted pair as they sat in the grass next to each other for a while, which made you figure they were about done. You decided to tease them and sit right in between them, it was like a dream that because true.. they were actually talking to each other normally and smiling here and there.

"You see? You really need to have some fun from time to time, you can always come by if you want to" Spain offered, and the Netherlands actually responded to it this time and pretty interested too.

"Ja.. I guess so, thanks" The Netherlands said in return. You were so glad that they made up, it felt as if a huge weight was lifted off your shoulders now that this happened.

"You know who we should thank as well?" Spain suddenly asked, he prodded his finger against his own cheek and nodded your way with a wink. You were confused on what was going on, but the Netherlands seemed to get it and nodded in return, a light pink flushing his face.

All of a sudden you felt something on your cheeks, on both sides nontheless. Spain and Netherlands decided to give you a kiss on the cheek at the same time, you ended up blushing like mad.. but you wrapped your arms around both of them.

It seems everything turned out well after all!