A few seconds after he heard his name being called, Spanner was met with an arm full of Fran as the younger one wrapped his arms around the blonde's back.

Spanner wrapped one arm around Fran's neck and the other around his back, his fingers playing with the ends of Fran's hair, "What's up?"

"The idiot wants to race me."

"…Oh. That's my fault; I told him where you were. Sorry."

"I just got out of hibernation, Spanner."

Spanner sighed and allowed himself to feel guilty for not thinking about his actions sooner. Only the Ayres family knew what hibernation truly meant. It was a time for Fran to mourn the death of his parents and little sister in the safety of his bedroom. It was a perfect time for him to do so since there was no school and Fran could hide under the covers without overheating his body.

"I'm sorry," Spanner apologized sincerely and held Fran closer.

Fran buried his face into Spanner's chest and sighed, "Takashi and Haru wanted to see me race."

Spanner raised his head from where it was resting on top of Fran's to see Takashi and Haru greeting everyone there. The two turned to look over at Spanner and smiled when they saw him, he smiled back before he gave his attention to Fran again.

"They're your friends and they support you so of course they'd want to see you race," Spanner said as he rubbed Fran's back.

"Do you think I'm ready?"

"Maybe you should talk to Mammon."

Fran frowned, glad that his face was covered by Spanner's chest, "What? Now that Mammon's here you won't comfort me anymore?"

Spanner swore he felt his heart sink at those words, "I'll always be here for you, Fran. Always. I just meant that maybe…maybe Mammon has something interesting to tell you."

Fran nodded and tightened his grip on Spanner's shirt.

"Oi! Where do you keep the extra bandages?" a voice came from being the two best friends.

Fran wriggled a bit in Spanner's arms, silently asking the elder to release him. Spanner let him go and Fran left muttering something about going to talk to Mammon.

The blonde turned around to see Hayato and Lambo, small cuts covering the black haired males face and arms as well as his legs, wounds that were seen through his torn pants.

Spanner smiled warmly at Hayato before he took his hand, "Come on, I'll show you."

~0~0~0~0~

"Talk to me."

Mammon blinked up before he realized that it probably wasn't seen by his nephew, "What?"

"Spanner said you have something interesting to tell me," Fran said as he sat down beside Mammon.

"Something interesting?"

Fran nodded.

"Um…oh! Did you know that Hazama was a street racer? He was one of the best," Mammon said, a small smile popping up on his lips.

"My father…was a street racer?"

"Yup! That's how he met Noel…well sorta."

"How'd they meet?"

"Well from what my parents have told me, Noel worked at a car wash with a friend of hers, Rachel was her name. Hazama and his friends passed by there one day he instantly felt some attraction towards Noel but so did one of Hazama's friends, Ragna. So Hazama being the good friend that he was tried to set up Noel with Ragna," Mammon shook his head here at the thought of Hazama being a sacrificial idiot before he continued.

"There was a huge race in the middle of July which everyone who knew about street racing would attend to. Only the best got to race in this and of course, your father was one of them. Noel attended the race because Hazama asked her to go so she could see Ragna race. The race began and drivers began to wipe out one by one. Hazama was one of the last contenders and was close to winning when some jerk face bumped into him and sent him flying towards the guard rails. Luckily your father is smart man and he ended up saving himself" Mammon paused to look over at Fran to see if the younger's expression had changed at all. He wasn't sure how to feel when he saw that Fran's expression remained neutral so he continued.

"In the end, Hazama won the race and Noel, relieved to see your father was okay, kissed him and told him her feelings after she beat up for being a 'huge, careless, idiot. The end," Mammon finished with a small sigh.

"Your father was a pretty cool man," Fran heard someone say from behind him, he turned his head to see Takashi smiling at him.

"Whatever happened to Ragna?" Haru asked from beside Takashi.

"Who knows," Mammon said with a shrug.

"Where's Bel?" Fran asked lowly.

Mammon raised an eyebrow, wondering why Fran's first question after hearing his parents love story was about Bel before he realized that this was Fran, "He's with Shoichi, he needed to have his car checked before the race."

Fran nodded and left the arena seats to go look for Spanner. He found the blonde in the garage talking to Hayato and…Lambo.

"Ew, why is he here?" Fran asked Spanner, gesturing with his head towards Lambo who was covered in bandages.

"Hey there, did you miss me?" Lambo asked Fran as he walked closer to the younger boy, a small flirtatious smile on his lips.

Spanner frowned and grabbed Fran's arm, pulling him away from Lambo. He casually wrapped an arm around Fran's shoulder.

"He's here because well…what happened again?" Spanner asked Hayato who was scolding the black haired male for being an idiot.

"I almost ran him over, he jumped out of the way but ended up getting fucked up so I bought him here since it was closer," Hayato said with a shrug.

"You should have let yourself get ran over," Fran said.

"Aww don't say that. If I'm gone then who else are you going to dream about at night?" Lambo asked.

"I'd rather dream about that blonde idiot." Fran mockingly shuddered. "Then again I'd rather not dream about any of you at all."

"Same goes for you, brat." said Bel from behind Fran as he walked into the garage. "The only dreams I'd ever have of you would involve knives and a shovel."

"Kinky," Fran looked over his shoulder to stare directly at Bel.

Spanner tightened his grip around Fran's shoulders, causing the younger to break his staring contest with Bel, which made no sense since he couldn't see if the stupid blonde was blinking anyway.

"Come on, we have race," Bel said and walked out of the garage.

"Right," Fran nodded and pulled out of Spanner's grip. He shoved his hands down Spanner's jumpsuit before he pulled them both out, one of them holding a set of keys and the other lollipop. He moved past Hayato and Lambo and climbed into Murci before he started the engine, honked to get everyone to move, and drove on to the tracks.

Fran turned on his communicator as he drove over to where Bel was waiting with his Aston Martin at the starting line.

"You ready, kiddo?" Bel's voice came through the system.

"Ugh, why do you keep talking to me?" Fran wrinkled his nose even through Bel couldn't see him. Though he could already see the scowl that would be forming on the blonde's face.

"Fran! Good luck!" came the voices of Haru and Takashi, the two of the eagerly expressing their wishes for their friend to win.

"Thanks," Fran said and revved his engine when Spanner came through.

"Are you both ready?"

A simultaneous 'yes' came from the two racers before Spanner began the count down.

"3."

…..

"2."

Fran heard Bel sigh from the other end and he gripped the steering wheel tightly.

"1."

Bel took off a second before Fran did; easily gaining the lead while Fran hung behind. The blonde growled as he realized just what Fran was doing and he slowed down in front of the green Murcielago, causing it to hit the back of the Aston Martin.

Fran cursed lowly as he steady himself and sped up. He wasn't intentionally allowing Bel to take the lead. There was something wrong with the Murcielago and it was sending the teen into state of panic. He pressed on the gas which wasn't functioning as well as it should be and tried to get passed Bel just to get this race over with.

"Dammit brat! What the hell are you doing?" Bel growled from the other end.

Fran noticed that the older male was slowing down beside him.

"Spanner," Fran called out.

Spanner didn't fail to notice the hint of panic in his friend's voice and responded quickly, "What's wrong?"

"There's something wrong with the gas, the breaks aren't working very well either," Fran answered as he tapped on the breaks a few times.

Spanner felt panic rise in him at the news that the breaks weren't working and he turned over to look at Shoichi, "Does the Murcielago have an emergency break?"

"It should," Shoichi responded with a nod.

"The emergency breaks, Fran," Spanner said into his headset as he watched the green Murcielago from the arena. It suddenly jerked to a stop, the red Aston Martin stopping beside it. He watched as Fran got out of the car and kicked one of the tires. He heard Bel honk in a way of telling Fran to get in and the teen complied and climbed into the car.

Spanner quickly made his way onto the tracks when the Aston Martin stopped near the area everyone was sitting. He patiently waited for Fran to step out before he pulled the younger into a warm embrace which Fran returned.

"You want to send me into an early grave, don't you?" Spanner muttered into Fran's hair.

"Never. If you die then who's gonna wash my underwear?" Fran replied as he tightened his arms around Spanner when he felt two more bodies join the hug.

"Haru's so glad your okay!" the young girl cried into Fran's shoulder.

"I'm glad your okay too," Takashi chuckled into Fran's other shoulder.

"Sorry, I couldn't show you guys my super awesome racing skills," Fran apologized; hoping his honesty slipped passed his monotone.

"What 'super awesome racing skills'?" Bel asked from the side which caused him to receive a kick from Mammon.

The group broke their hug and Fran turned to Bel, a hint of seriousness slipping past the green eyes, "We'll continue this later."

"Yeah…we will."