Gokudera -X-Fran

Gokudera spotted a green head of hair in the flood of Mafioso. The green head was bowed and seemed sad, being curious, Gokudera stepped through the crowd of party guests toward Fran.

"Yo, *rana, what's up?"

Fran lifted up his head to the voice. "Oh, hello senpai, I was just thinking."

He stopped and Gokudera gestured. "Well, what were you thinking about?"

Fran looked up, half surprised that someone was even interested. "Oh, I was thinking, now that Tsuna destroyed the Non-Trinissette Policy, the Varia don't really have a need for a replacement illusionist." He held up a bulbous, black, frog hat. "I don't really know what to do with this."

Gokudera looked at the giant…thing for a minute before getting a mischievous smirk. "Oh, I have a few ideas…"

A few hours of work later, a conveyor belt was connected and ready to go.

Fran smiled as he placed the black hat at the end of the conveyor belt.

Gokudera bent down, lit a match, and straightened, grinning at Fran. Fran blushed and looked toward the now moving hat as Gokudera gently grabbed his hand.

They watched the hat travel down the conveyor belt, hit a dynamite that exploded when the lit fuse reached it, fly up into a wide bowl of gasoline, that spashed gloriously as it landed, and ignited on the heated parts of the hat. Gokudera grinned when his chain reaction of 24 one-after-the-other fireworks went off, all in different colors and all perfectly aimed to bounce the now burning hat from one explosion to the next.

Finally, Fran let loose a full on grin as the hat landed on a giant blender looking contraption that sent burning shards of frog-hat in all directions.

As the burned hat and dynamite cooled, Gokudera smiled and looked across the wreakage. "That was fun, too bad we have to clean up Juudaime's lawn now."

He looked down and gently gave the shorter, green haired boy's hand a squeeze.

"Ah, senpai, that won't be necessary." Fran slowly spoke back in a monotone. "Take a look, 'Dera."

Gokudera turned toward the wreakage, which was now "missing." He smiled as both boys started walking away hand in hand. 'Yes,' Gokudera thought, 'Illusionists do have uses after all.'

*Frog (in italian)