Fran swung his legs while sitting on his bed slowly counting the money he saved up. He 'joyously' said to himself, "I have enough money to buy what I want~ yaaaaaay~" He jumped up and dashed out of the room with the money.
…
The front doors of Varia castle swung open as Fran dragged a large case inside.
Lussuria looked up from reading a magazine, "Hm? Fran, what's that you've got there?"
"An acoustic guitar," he bluntly answered.
"What for?"
"I wanna learn guitar so I can get girls."
There was an awkward silence between Lussuria and Fran when suddenly ANOTHER DOOR CAME CRASHING DOWN, FOLLOWED BY FURIOUS SHOUTING, "VOOOOOIIIIII! WHO STOLE MY PAY CHEEEEEEEEQQUUEEEEEE!"
Fran froze and ran towards his bedroom.
…
The little apple opened his laptop and entered the realm of Youtube. His fingers of the 'beautiful autumn leaf-like' hands (KHR chapter 364 anybody?) typed on the keyboard.
The video began the beginner guitar lessons.
Fran immediately dropped the guitar. "Woops," he mumbled as he picked it back up.
The instructor in the video rambled boringly.
He pouted, "I don't get it…" An idea popped into his head! I wonder if I can ask Kristina…?
Meanwhile in Japan….
Kristina lay on the ground with her feet resting on the kotatsu playing guitar. "This position isn't good for meee…." She mumbled.
A ringtone sung from her computer.
"Eh?" Kristina gently placed her guitar on the ground and rolled over, then sat up properly. "Who is it?" She answered the Skype call.
Fran appeared on her screen. "Herro," he greeted.
Kristina stopped. "…..Hi Fran."
"Can I ask a favour of you?"
"If it's to be your girlfriend the answer is no like every other time you've asked and ever will ask," she coldly blurted.
"No no it's different this time."
She raised an eyebrow, "Hm?"
Fran continued, "Can you teach me guitar please?"
His request made Kristina slightly widen her eyes in surprise. "Uh…any particular reason why?"
"I want to pick up giiirrrlssss."
Kristina gave him a blank stare through the webcam.
"Please?"
She shrugged. "Yeah whatever I don't see why not."
"Yaaaaaaaaaaaay," Fran 'cheered' without moving an inch.
"Okay first of all," Kristina cleared her throat, "can you read sheet music?"
"What is this sheet music you speak of?" Fran stared 'curiously'.
"….This is going to take a while…" Kristina tried not to facepalm.
Fran returned a poker face.
Kristina sighed. "I'm gonna quickly fax over a piece of paper with many lines and circles and I'm going to explain to you how to play it." She stood up and began walking towards a bookshelf. She gently pulled out a bright red folder and walked over to the printer.
"Can I get girls with this?"
The teenage guitarist returned to the laptop briefly, "With this song no because first of all it's called See-Saw which is something children play on at the park and secondly playing the same three notes or so repeatedly for 15 seconds is nothing that impressive." She walked off again and put the sheet in the printer.
Fran turned around at the sound of the printer. "There's something coming from the printeeerrr be right baaaack."
"Yeah….just faxed you the music…"
Fran slammed the door of Squalo's office open and ran towards the printer.
Squalo looked up from his tiring paperwork, "VOOOOOIIII WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?"
"Can't talk, Kristina's gicing me a lesson." Fran quickly grabbed the sheet music and ran out of the office.
"What." Squalo watched Fran leave.
20 minutes later:
Kristina continuously banged her head on the floor as Fran asked, "So these swirly things mean you spin?"
"No like I said: They. Are. Rests." She let out an extremely heavy sigh. "You stop playing, no spinning…."
"So you dance?"
"Fuck this I give up," Kristina slipped the sheet music back into the folder and stood up. She leaned into the camera, "Go ask Jana or something to teach you how to play an instrument…or just give up. Bye." She ended the Skype call.
An extremely upset face slipped on to the apple's face as he stood up with the guitar and slowly spun around.
THERE WAS A LARGE BANG AS SQUALO BARGED INTO FRAN'S ROOM. "VOOOOIII WHAT ARE YO-" he suddenly stopped when he saw him with the guitar. "You…"
Fran could only deadpan as his mind blanked.
"YOU STOLE MY PAY CHEQUE DIDN'T YOU?"
He hesitated. "Maaaaaybe."
Squalo glared at him. HE STORMED THROUGH THE BEDROOM LOOKING FOR MONEY. "I'M TAKING MONEY FROM YOUR ALLOWANCE UNTIL I GET THE SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY I WAS SUPPOSED TO GET FOR TAKING A PICTURE OF SLENDERMAN."
"You saw Slender?! :OOO"
He stopped for a moment in his rampage and continued to glare at Fran as he took his money and counted it. "Still need 500 more euros." He walked out with no remorse.
The little apple could only stare blankly.
The next day:
Fran pushed the front doors of Varia castle open while carrying a violin case. Coincidentally, Marmon slowly flew by. He turned his head towards Fran, "Hm? Fran what were you doing?"
"Buying a violin," he blurted.
The Arcobaleno pondered for a moment. "How do you have enough money to buy a violin…?"
"I borrowed the money from a loan shark."
"And how do you intend to pay them back?"
"I~~~~~" his voice rung, "dunno." And he ran awaaaaay.
Back in Fran's bedroom:
He picked up the bow and gripped it extremely tightly (too tightly), gently placing the wrong side on the strings and ignored the rosin inside the case. Fran took a deep breath and bega-
SSSSSSQQQQQQUUUUUUUEEEAAAAKKKKKKSSSSSCCCCREEEAAAAC CCHHHHFOGFNJGN!
Meanwhile in the living room or something:
The rest of the Varia raised their heads and looked up from their activities. Bel couldn't help but laugh, "Ishishishi it sounds like something is dying."
Lussuria whined as he covered his ears, "It hurts~"
"WHO IS THREATENING TO DISTURB BOSSU'S SLEEEEEP?!" Levi abruptly stood up.
"VOOOOOOIIII DON'T TELL ME HE HAS ANOTHER INSTRUMENT!" Squalo readied his sword.
Marmon casually flew into the living room despite all the noise. "That sound is ear piercing and disgusting."
"OI MARMON, DID YOU BUY HIM A VIOLIN OR SOMETHING?"
"Of course not," Marmon frowned. "Why would I spend money on a musical instrument for a nine year old?"
"Okay then since yesterday Squalo took all his pocket money how did he buy it…?" Levi asked as Xanxus was kinda just waking up.
"Oh." Marmon remembered, "he told me he got it from a loan shark."
Xanxus jolted up, "WHAT."
"WHERE THE FUCK DID HE FIND A LOAN SHARK?" Squalo exclaimed.
"He doesn't know when or how to pay him back," Marmon sighed.
Lussuria stood up, "Do they know this address?"
"Probably."
"BUT IF THEY COME TO THIS ADDRESS THEY'LL SPREAD INFORMATION ABOUT US THROUGHOUT THE UNDERGROUND AND THEN WE WOULD NEED A NEW HIDE OUT WHAT THE FUCK!?" the angry shark began to storm out of the room.
Only to be overtaken by Xanxus, "RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGHHHHHH FUCKING TRAAAAAAAAAASH!" and so he rampaged to Fran's room.
"MARMON, MAKE AN ILLUSION THAT THIS IS A REALLY NICE AND PRETTY FOREST AND VARIA CASTLE IS A LITTLE COTTAGE FULL OF NICE PEOPLE!" Squalo ordered.
"'Kay. I expect some money on my bedside table tomorrow."
XANXUS KICKED OPEN THE DOOR TO FRAN'S ROOM. "FRAAAAAAAAAAAAN!"
SCREEEEAAAACCCHH!
Fran stopped playing and looked up to his boss at the door, "Hm?"
XANXUS GRABBED THE VIOLIN, SNAPPED IT IN HALF AND STORMED OUT OF THE ROOM.
Sheer devastation plastered itself on to Fran's face, "I was just getting good…"
Back in the living room:
Xanxus walked back in and lounged back on the couch. "Problem solved."
"Loan sharks," Bel reminded.
Levi rolled his eyes, "Just kill them."
"Ishishishi," he laughed with a smirk, "deal."
There was a knock on the door. Bel's dirty smirk grew wider as he made his way towards the knocking.
Squalo spun around, "VOOOOOIIII NO."
The prince stabbed the loan shark. "Whoops," he murmured as the body plopped on to the ground, "it's dead." And he walked away with Squalo facepalming.
Meanwhile:
"Maybe I should try another instrument to get the ladies~" Yet again his fingers brought him to Youtube but this time he continued to scroll down the homepage. "….Hey look it's Spongebob…wait a second…" Fran stopped scrolling and rested his chin on his fist. "Squidward plays clarinet…and everyone loves Squidward…" the idea popped! "I'M GONNA PLAY CLARINET :OOOO"
The next day (again)…
Yet again Fran came through the front doors of Varia castle with an instrument case. But this time, it was a smaller and rectangular case. However, Squalo walked down the stairs at the side of the corridors. He stopped and slowly turned his head to look at Fran…. "How did you pay for that?"
"I went back to school with an illusion that I graduated they let me borrow a clarinet."
"Return it. Now."
"But I didn't do anything wrong," Fran's smile turned upside down.
"….Give it back."
"Bye bye." Fran bolted past Squalo and towards his bedroom.
Squalo spun around shouting, "VOOOOIII!" but suddenly he froze at the sight of illusions of extremely dangerous traps to the extreme. His eyes widened.
…
Fran sat down on his bed. "At least I researched how to put a clarinet together," he smiled to himself cheerfully. "First I have to make the reed wet," he mumbled while putting the reed in his mouth. He applied the cork grease on to the cork of the lower register and attached it to the bell. He did the same and assembled the lower and higher register. "Then the barrel thingy mijigy a bob," he put them together, "and then the mouthpiece and the reed."
He gently held up the clarinet in the light of his bedroom and looked at it happily until he put it back on his lap. "Time to play!"
Levi walked past Squalo who stood completely still. "….What are you doing?"
"Traps….everywhere…" he breathed heavily.
The Varia octopus head couldn't help but burst out in laughter, "LOL ARE YOU INSANE? THERE'S NOTHING THERE!"
In anger, Squalo began to stomp towards Levi. "VOI I'M NOT INSANE YOU'RE THE ONE WHO'S INSA-" his foot stepped straight on to an illusionary mouse trap. The metal snapped forward and crushed his foot and Squalo wailed, "OWWWWWWW!"
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Levi laughed harder.
"SHUT THE F-"
SQUUUUUEEEEEEAAAAAAAK!
Squalo blocked his eyes and began to advance towards Fran's room, still screaming, "FRAAAAAA- SHIT!" He stepped on three more mouse traps.
Meanwhile:
"I sound like Squidward!" Fran 'exclaimed' proudly. "Now I need to go find the ladies." He began to run out of his room with the clarinet.
Upon opening the door he saw the rest of the officers surrounding him, glaring. His Autumn leaf-like hands gripped on to the clarinet tighter.
Squalo shook the last mouse trap off his foot and turned to frown with his murderous aura towering over him. He growled coldly, "You're grounded."
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!" Fran fell to his knees.
"Well that was quick…" Levi blinked.
"Kidding." Fran put the mouth piece in his mouth and furiously blew. Out came a loud and high pitched squeak!
"OOOOOWWW THAT HURTS!" Lussuria blocked his ears.
The cheeky Fran ran back into his bedroom and grabbed his guitar case AND HE BOLTED PAST THEM TOWARDS THE FRONT DOOR.
"VOI GET BACK HERE YOU LITTLE SHIT!" Squalo chased after him. Fran sprinted out of Varia Castle with his captain still chasing after him. He burst the front doors open and continued to chase Fran who was skipping into the sunset with his guitar and clarinet.
Back in Japan:
Kristina walked up to everyone in the classroom, "Fran is trying to learn an instrument."
Gokudera snorted and Jana spun around, "What?"
"It's true, he Skyped me."
"Why…?" Tsuna blinked.
"He said he wants to get girls."
Gokudera snorted again, "He can't get a girl just because he's walking around with an acoustic guitar."
"What's better is that he doesn't have a strap, so he was kinda just walking around holding up the neck," Kristina burst out laughing.
Yamamoto joined in, "I thought a strap would've come with the guitar though," he said while laughing.
"APPARENTLY NOT," Jana cracked up.
SUDDENLY THE DOOR SNAPPED OPEN.
"HELLO THERE," a loud but monotone voice announced.
"FRAN?!" Tsuna exclaimed.
Jana jumped, "HOW DID YOU GET HERE SO QUICKLY?!"
"'Cause I'm mojik," Fran nodded proudly with a smug look on his face.
Calda chuckled, "Good for you."
Fran looked at Calda for a second and then summoned an illusionary pineapple to his hand. "Say hi to my cousin," he chucked it at Calda's head.
"OW!"
Nebbia mumbled, "You're related to a pineapple?"
"He means Mukuro," Jana explained and then looked at Fran, "Anyway Fran why are you here?"
"I'm grounded so I ran away to get help with my instruments and picking up girls. I already know that the swirly sign on music means spin." He began spinning with his guitar as Kristina facepalmed.
Yamamoto tilted his head, "Isn't it a rest though?"
"Even the baseball idiot knows," Gokudera rolled his eyes.
"Awww! He's so cute!" a girl screamed as she ran over to him.
"His apple hat is so adorable!" another followed.
"Isn't that a guitar?!" a third girl gasped. "Play something play something!"
"Okay." He put the guitar around his neck.
Vino glared at Kristina, "I thought you said he doesn't have a strap."
"Not that I was aware of I'm sorry…"
Fran cleared his throat and pulled a pick out of his pocket. He took a breath and began SOME REALLY RANDOM SHITTY STRUMMING and began to sing. "AISHITERUUUU! KIMI WA BOKU NO KOIBITERUUUU!" His Autumn leaf-like hand began strumming faster. "AISHITERUUU! ARIGATOOUUU. ARIGATOOUU."
A string broke.
The three girls stared at him blankly and started clapping slowly out of politeness.
"Thank you thank you," Fran bowed. "Have you fallen for me yet?"
They continued to stare at him and slowly backed away back to their desks.
"I'll take that as a yes~" he waved to them as everyone else facepalmed to the extreme.
"Ooooiii~" a middle aged man with a doctor's coat leaned on the classroom door. "I just heard someone singing a shitty love song. Gokudera was that you?"
"NO."
Shamal backed off at his angry response. "Okay…why's the green haired kid here?"
"He was just leaving," Jana frantically began trying to push him out the door.
Fran answered Shamal, "I'm picking up girls."
"Oh I see~" Shamal rubbed his chin and smirked. "Would you like some help?"
"No he wouldn't he's leaving," Jana began pushing Fran down the hallway.
"But I do," Fran complained.
"It's okay he doesn't," Kristina looked away, "he's just being sarcastic."
Shamal smirked again, "He said he did though."
Jana hastily shook her head continuously, "Nopenopenopenope he's going home." She continued to push him.
"But Jana~" Fran whined.
Yamamoto looked at Gokudera, "But doesn't Shamal not treat or help guys?"
Shamal shrugged. "This kid is hopeless. Just like when there was a time when the Vongola 10th spoke to Sasagawa Kyoko-chan for three minutes and that was his longest time."
"YOU STILL REMEMBER THAT?!" Tsuna backed off in embarrassment.
"Anyways," Shamal walked over to Jana and grabbed Fran by the back of his shirt, "From now on I'm this kid's teacher."
Fran stared at Shamal with awe, "Shishhhooooouuu…!"
…
"So why do you want to get a girlfriend so badly?" Shamal leaned backwards on his chair in the nurse's office.
Fran did not even hesitate to answer, "Because then I will be cooler than the rest of the Varia. They are all single."
Shamal stared at Fran for a minute analyzing him. The kid's blank look staring back at him didn't even falter once, "Hmmm, ok kid if you want it that bad, then I'll teach you my own personal skills." Shamal stood up and Fran followed after him. "Let us begin."
TO BE CONTINUED . . .
WOOHOO! IT'S DONE! Hey y'all! Haven't said anything for three months! How've you all been? :D
Yesterday I had to run 400m against all the super fast people and I lagged behind all of them by like 100m AHAHAHAHAHA it was actually embarrassing T_T
-leextremekid
