Boredom was a natural state for Byakuran. very rarely did he find something to interest him to a degree that managed to overcome that particular emotion, so he just let it be. he didnt try to ease it by doing something, he merely sat there, or wondered aimlessly. it was on one of these wonderings that he came across something rather interesting. Rokudo Mukuro was leaning against a large sakura tree muttering to himself. however, this was not what was interesting, no, mukuro often muttered to himself. what was interesting was the topic of the kept hearing words such as 'stupid' and 'asshole Hibari'. deciding to listen a bit more, Byakuran used his wings to gracefully and silently land in the branch above him, so intent was he in his muttering that he remained undiscovered.

"no wonder they call him dame-Tsuna, if he falls in love with something like that Hibari twat, oh who cares, he can have the idiot, no way am i going to interfere, no, if he wants him he can have him, baka-dame-Tsuna"

Byakuran chuckled to himself, poor Mukuro was jealous of the tonfa wielding hottie. yes, even he had to admit that Kyoya Hibari was hot, downright sexy even. he could see why Tsu-kun would fall for him. and he only got hotter with age if he remembered from his time in the future. not that he was gay, no, he was actually quite interested in Yuni himself, but he was not one to indulge these sort of needless feelings. the muttering continued.

"if only there was some bloody way for me to stop them from being with each other, wait didnt i say just a second ago that i wasnt going to get involved? grr"

an idea sparked in the back of byakurans brain. he could help the young boy, well, help in a byakuran sort of way, which in reality helped no one but himself. technically, he would stop them being together, as in a human couple all la-di-da and whatnot. not that he expected kyoya to be that way, but Tsuna definately was. the vongola had been acting too normal for his tastes lately anyway. there needed to be something to liven them up a little. what better than a little prank on his favorite mafia boss in training and his lover boy? now he just needed to get Mukuro to help.

"so are you going to stand there mumbling all day or are you actually going to do something about it?"

suddenly being confronted by someone who has previously tried to kill you obviously was not welcomed. as he was immediately in a defensive stance with his earring turning into a staff looking remarkably like the khakkhara carried by fictional 'warrior monks'.

"whoa down boy, im not going to hurt you, im not 'that' byakuran, im more of a 'keep the peace and fawn after yuni-chan' byakuran" well, not nessecarily keep the peace, but definately the second half, and if Yuni heard he had hurt someone, he was going to be kicked out of his new little group. which he was surprisingly attached to. even Gamma, his 'rival in love' had accepted him to a certain degree. it was a refreshing break from the destruction of life as we know it.

"well what do you want?" poor boy, he sounds so dejected. maybe i should have given him a nice cheerful fight. instead of deciding to trick him into playing a prank on his 'loved one'.

"i couldnt help but notice something about the young vongole and his cloud guardian has you a tad upset" and boom. instant tomato face. obviously his affection towards him was not supposed to be widely known information.

"i-i d-dont know what you are t-talking about" awww.

"dont lie, i heard you just now, you wanted to get between Tsu-kun and lover boy, and i must say that is very bad of you, naughty mukuro" apparently all that teasing only amounted in an even more dejected looking death glare and some slumping down the trunk of the tree to sit on the ground. he must really be hurting bad. the mukuro he knew would of tried to at least stab at him with his staff (now earring again).

"how about i help you? i already have an idea, you just have to approve, yes?" he was thinking about it, thats a good start at least, well he was going to go through with it anyway, it just made things easier to have a mist flame user. if needs be he would use Fran. ooh wait, maybe he should get Fran in on it anyway? it would provide the power to cover not only Tsu-kun and Kyo-chan, but the entire vongola famiglia. hmm. he will contact the idiot later. Right now, mukuro was asking him something.

"so what exactly is your almighty plan?" he could laugh, putting on such a nonchalant air as if he was merely allowing him to state an opinion rather than create a scheme to get back at his one time love. bless him.

"how about we put your mist flames to good use? you already have verde's machine to make the illusions into reality correct?"

"...yes"

"well then, how about we get you and your little apprentice fran to put a real illusion on the entire vongola group? one that can only be undone under certain conditions"

"like what?"

"such as... hmm. our whim? we could release it whenever we wanted to of course. and as an added bonus, we could make it so that it would only work between the couples of the group for an extra laugh"

"well what did you have in mind?" As byakuran explained, the man in front of him was struggling to contain his laughter, and a cheshire grin spread its way over his face slowly. this plan was going to be absolutely purrrrfect.