The sun is slowly setting beyond the horizon, the sky turning pink, orange and purple as the air slowly, slowly turns from warm to cool. Spain is now taking the time to take a rest and just enjoy his surroundings. He's not quite sure what the Hotel has planned but he likes this floor a lot. The dude ranch has a couple of his favorite things, namely
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Well, the loud shout and the stamping of hooves is a good, if startling, wake up call. Spain, for all his inherent laziness, is able to move quickly and think on his feet when the opportunity demands it. He quickly gets up, alert and calm, and looks towards the horse coming his way.
The best thing to do is jump out of the way, run to the stable and get on a horse to chase down the spooked horse and its poor rider. However, that'd take too long and you just never know.
"Don't scream." Spain tells the man who is hanging on for dear life, his voice loud enough to be hard but calm. He knows it sounds ridiculous but screaming will just scare the horse even more.
He waits for the horse to come even closer.
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"I-I can't, this isn't exactly a pleasant situation for me!" The young man shouted, as he clung on to that thing called 'dear life' that Spain just described. But...if it was going to help...
Tsutomu closed his mouth, trying hard not to cry out or scream, but he was so scared, he couldn't help but whimper at best. Once he looked up, however...
"W-watch out! Get out of the way!" He cried out, waving his other hand.
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Seeing that he's able to wave his other hand, Spain asks, "Can you reach one of the reigns?"
If Tsutomu can do that, this'll be done easier. If not, Spain will have to jump in and risk injury to himself.
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just as his very fingertips barely touched the rein, the string that was pulling Tsutomu had snapped, throwing the poor guy off the horse, and onto the grassy ground with a large "oof" coming from his mouth. The horse itself ran for a bit, but appeared to have calmed down and eventually stop.
Meanwhile, Tsutomu struggled to get up from the ground.
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"I think it'll be best if you stayed down for a bit, amigo." He tells the man with a bit of a soothing smile. "How do you feel? Where does it hurt?"
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"I-I'm fine. It's just a stomach ache. I'll be okay." He looked up and tried to smile back, but his jaw almost dropped as he realized how...handsome this guy was. He forgot about the fact that there was a nice shiner forming on his eye.
"I uh...f-fine...I'm..." His assuring words turned into goofy stutters, almost as if he were an awkward schoolboy talking to his girl crush.
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And getting dragged around a horse like that isn't something you recover from that fast.
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But instead of stepping back right away, he found his face buried deep in the Spaniard's chest, taking in his spicy scent. He stood there, shaking and holding tight, making resistante noises as if he's trying to hold himself back from crying or traumatic screaming. Eventually, he pushed away.
"S-sorry! I kind of...fell. Anyways it's okay. I need to get that horse back to the stables." Embarrassed at what he just did, he started to hurry towards the horse, and away from the awkward situation he just caused. That is...until the shock had gone away, and the pain settled in.
"....Maybe I could rest for a few minutes."
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"Really, really sure?" The Iberian Nation asks again as he steadies the other man against him. Before he gets an answer, the man pushes away and starts to move towards the horse. But he doesn't get far.
Spain hums in agreement as he moves towards the horse himself. He smiles over his shoulder at the unsteady man as he makes his way forward. "Take as long as you need. I'll take care of the horse."
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After that, he limped over to the tree, sitting against it in the same position that the stranger was previously. He felt bad for taking his spot, but...the man didn't look like he seemed to mind.
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It was that man from before.
"No, I haven't. I guess that horse took so much energy that I got tired pretty fast, ehehe..." Tsutomu let out a loud groan as he sat up. His stomach hurt a lot worse than before.
"That horse only kicked my stomach, and ruined by shoes. I think I'm fine, otherwise. ...my eye hurts for some reason." Tsutomu's memory of hitting the fence had vanished.
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"Oh uh...I didn't get your name. I'm Tsutomu."
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And besides, those injuries could just get much worse and no one really wants that.
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