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Alias: Ken’yuu
Contact Info: AIM - xcerpted
Other characters: None
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Character: Gokudera Hayato
Canon: Katekyo Hitman Reborn!
Point in canon: Chapter 175, morning of their attack on Millefiore base
Age: 15 years old
Personality: Brash, loud, violent, and foul-mouthed, Gokudera has very little patience, is very easy to anger, and is quick to jump to conclusions. His personality is as volatile as his dynamites; and just like how a small flame can set off a big explosion, the slightest of things can make Gokudera lose his temper. When he does he’s nearly just as loud, cursing and name-calling, likely to get physical, and, yes, likely to blow things up. He never backs down when challenged to a fight, but has a tendency to see these challenges even when they’re not actually present.
He has a competitive nature and is proud to a fault; when determined to do something he will do ANYTHING to accomplish it, even at the risk of life and limb. He is cocky and arrogant and will never admit to being weak or inferior to anyone. In the rare times that he fails he can get severely depressed and reclusive, but when he bounces back he is more amazing than ever. This is mostly because Gokudera is always pushed by the need to prove himself to others, especially to Tsuna.
Tsunayoshi Sawada, his beloved “Tenth”. After years of ridicule and rejection by one Mafia family after another, Tenth was the first person to accept him by saving his life even after Gokudera tried to take his. His loyalty and devotion to the Mafia boss-to-be is unparalleled, and he has gone as far as to risk his life for the other boy. He is protective of the Tenth to the point of being troublesome for him, although Gokudera himself doesn’t realize this. He considers even the slightest bad remark to the Tenth a major insult and is quick to bring out his dynamites, no matter who it is or where they are. He gets pissed off/jealous at most people who come close to the Tenth too, thinking they are after the position of being his right-hand man. A position Gokudera dreams to have in the future, and is very loud about.
As for the rest of Tsuna’s Family, Gokudera will rather eat his cigarettes than admit he actually cares for (most of) them. But he does. It’s obvious in the times he can barely conceal his worry for them, or become extremely angry when they are injured. Even though the Tenth is his top priority and will always come first, he will do what he can to protect them too and keep them from getting hurt. Most of the time though he acts disdainfully towards them, or like he is merely tolerating their presence for the Tenth’s sake. It is not rare for Gokudera to be fighting with them, or threatening bodily harm.
The rest of the Tenth’s Family make up all of Gokudera’s friends, and they all became his friends because of the Tenth and the Family. Gokudera himself is socially inept and is more likely to make enemies out of new acquaintances than friends if left alone. Strangers are all either a threat to the Tenth, or are after his position of the Tenth’s right-hand man. He judges people far too quickly and seldom correctly, which often leads to fights. Couple his bad attitude with his bad boy looks and fashion, and anyone will be hard-pressed to have a first good impression of him-- not that Gokudera cares.
There are very few people Gokudera considers worthy of his respect, and he talks back even to his teachers. He refuses to take crap from anyone, even if he knows that they are stronger than him. He finds children annoying and claims to hate people who are older than him. Growing up alone in the dangerous streets of Italy and believing no one loves him but his late mother, Gokudera is unused to acts of kindness and gets easily embarrassed when people are nice to him. He usually becomes awkward or even angry. The words ‘thank you’, ‘sorry’ and ‘please’ are hard for him to say, and he hates having to rely on other people.
Most of other people are idiots. Or so he thinks. The school delinquent who is also top of his class, Gokudera is a musical and mathematical genius. He is easily irked when other people make a mistake and hold no reservations about calling out their stupidity. He reads and researches a lot too and his preferred ‘training room’, if available, is the library.
Finally, despite the fact that he’s a theory and science nut, Gokudera is VERY superstitious and can be a total dork because of it. He is very much into the paranormal and occult as well. He knows Shinto chants and is interested in UFO’s and his favorite magazine is the monthly ‘The Wonders and Mysteries of the World’. He even has a list of legendary creatures to see before he dies.
History:
[Pre-series]
Gokudera Hayato is a child born out of wedlock. He was made to believe that his father’s wife was his real mother however, and did not know that ‘the beautiful woman who played the piano’ who visited him three times a year was his real mother. On his third birthday he waited for her the entire day but she never came. She never came again.
As a child, Gokudera was a celebrated pianist. He was a genius at it, but what really made him famous was his ‘contemporary’ music-- which was just really him too sick from his sister’s poisoned cookies and royally messing up his playing. The first time it had happened, he pleased the crowd so well that his father had Bianchi bake and feed him poisoned cookies before EVERY recital. Gokudera developed a trauma from this, and now can no longer look at Bianchi’s face without getting sick.
At some point his family managed to employ Trident Shamal, a hitman famous for his 666 diseases which he can administer to others through trident mosquitoes. Gokudera wanted to learn this technique from him, but Shamal recommended that he use dynamites instead. After coming home with an injured arm and the story that he had won a fight with the dynamites however, Shamal refused to teach him further.
When he was eight, Gokudera overheard some of the servants talking about how he was not a legitimate child, that it had been 5 years since his real mother's death and that his real mother was a pianist. Gokudera immediately realized that it was the beautiful woman who used to visit him a long time ago, and ran away from his father's castle the very next day. For the next six years he roamed the streets of Italy, trying to join other Families, but no one would have a ‘piano-playing oriental half-breed’ (his mother was half-Japanese half-Italian).
[Gokudera's Secret Bullet Novel: Bakudan Bambino]
At fourteen he met a stupid but kind man named Carlo and his son, Niccolo. Carlo played the piano very much like how his mother played it, and for a short time Gokudera stayed with them. When he realized that Carlo was a fan of the much younger him however, Gokudera ran away, not wanting to disappoint and believing that he did not belong with them after all. Shortly after he was recruited by the Formazo Family, who wanted him to set up a time bomb to cause panic during a concert and make the boss of an enemy Family lose face. After completing the task he bumped into Niccolo, but just ran away again.
On the day of the concert he met an old man who was one of Carlo’s fans. The old man thought he was on his way to the concert, and that’s when Gokudera realized that the concert he was going to disrupt was Carlo’s. Yet again Gokudera chose to run away from the situation, but the old man followed him. After breaking down in front of him and being told that he had a kind heart, Gokudera chose to disarm the bomb.
At the concert hall, Gokudera ran into the men who had recruited him. They found out what he intended to do and the situation worsened to the point that Gokudera had a gun to his head. Gokudera wasn’t afraid though; all his thoughts were on disarming the bomb. He was able to escape when the men themselves were unexpectedly gunned down. When he finally reached the bomb however he couldn’t disarm it; his hands were shaking too hard. But then he heard Carlo speak to him, telling him how relieved he was to know that he was fine. Gokudera’s hands stopped trembling soon after and he was able to disarm the bomb. He listened to Carlo’s music from where he was, and it was full of love and made him feel the presence of his mother. Afterwards, he firmly refused to see the pianist.
The old man who had helped him turned out to be the Ninth boss of the largest and most powerful Mafia family in Italy, the Vongola family. The Ninth thought that he was
‘suitable to become the friend of Iemitsu’s son’ and for the following month he worked under the Vongola. He then received an invitation from the revered assassin Reborn to come to Japan.
[Meeting Tsuna]
Tsuna is ‘Iemitsu’s son’, one of the candidates for the position of the Tenth Generation Vongola Boss who is currently living in Japan. Upon arriving in the country, Gokudera entered Namimori Middle where Tsuna was studying. He ended up in the same class and scared the shit out of Tsuna by knocking his seat over angrily and for no reason after being introduced to everyone. Much later, he challenged Tsuna to a fight and revealed that he was part of the Mafia, the famous ‘Smoking Bomb’ who used dynamites he hid in his whole body.
Their fight consisted mostly of Gokudera throwing more and more bombs at Tsuna, and Tsuna defusing them all. He didn’t miss a single dynamite and it frustrated Gokudera to the point that he used a technique he had not perfected yet, and ended up dropping his dynamites all around him. Tsuna, still in a bomb-defusing frenzy, took these out too. Gokudera believed that Tsuna had saved his life even though he was an enemy and swore then and there to be his most loyal subordinate. As they met new people and the Family grew larger, Gokudera stayed by his side through everything.
[Kokuyou Arc]
Students from Namimori Middle were being beaten up by outsiders one after another. With Reborn’s help, Tsuna discovered that those being attacked were the school’s strongest, in order of strength. Gokudera was third on the list and the next target, but Tsuna discovered this too late to warn him; somewhere else Gokudera was already in a fight.
Fighting Chikusa was difficult, much more difficult than fighting high school gangs or the yakuza. The guy used poisoned needles and had two yo-yos he could put Gokudera’s dynamites out with. With a simple trick however, an optical illusion Gokudera managed by mixing mini-bombs with his regular dynamites, he was able to defeat him. But not completely. When Tsuna came and Gokudera recklessly called him the Tenth, revealing that he was the one Chikusa’s group was looking for, Chikusa attacked Tsuna and Gokudera had to take the hit for him. Luckily for both of them, Yamamoto came shortly after and Chikusa left. Gokudera was brought to the school clinic.
Under orders from the Ninth himself, it was decided that Tsuna’s group would storm Kokuyou Land where the attackers were hiding out. Gokudera was supposedly too injured to join them, but he forced Shamal to give him something so he could go. The treatment, however, did not come without any side effects. Gokudera burned a fever and was pretty much useless during the first few fights in Kokuyo Land. When he faced off against Chikusa again in order to let Tsuna and his sister Bianchi pass, Gokudera could have won, except the side effects made him falter again and Ken took him out from behind.
As he lay defeated, Gokudera heard a bird singing their school anthem and realized that their school prefect, Hibari, was being held captive in the room behind him. He blew up the wall separating them with a dynamite and Hibari quickly took care of Ken and Chikusa. Gokudera then gave him the cure to Shamal’s Sakura-kura Virus, which was the reason Mukuro and his gang had managed to capture him in the first place. Using each other as a crutch, they made their way to where Tsuna was already fighting against Mukuro.
Mukuro had the ability to possess people that had been cut by his trident. He first possessed Bianchi, Gokudera’s sister, and had her stab Gokudera. Gokudera was able to move away, but got cut and then possessed anyway. Mukuro used his body and skills against Tsuna until Tsuna found a way to knock him unconscious.
[Varia Arc]
One month later found Yamamoto and Gokudera up against a silver-haired swordsman named Squalo. The two of them were utterly defeated. Squalo was after a set of half-rings Basil had, which he got but turned out to be fake. The real set was brought to Japan by Dino, and Gokudera was given the Half-Ring of Storm. It was the symbol that he had been chosen as a candidate for the position of Guardian of Storm, one of the six guardians who supported the Vongola boss, the Guardian of Sky. Tsuna of course was the candidate for the Guardian of Sky, and other friends and allies received the five other rings.
The other candidates were in the Assassination Team Varia, which Squalo was a member of. Reborn warned them that it was only a matter of time before the Varia found out that the half-rings they got were fake, and that they should train to become stronger before the Varia arrived. Everyone got their own tutors except for Gokudera, who Shamal had turned down. Shamal hated the fact that Gokudera did not seem to care much about life, not even his own. After Gokudera nearly killed himself training alone, Shamal finally agreed to train him.
The Varia came sooner than expected and an all-out battle would have happened had Iemitsu not arrived in time to stop them. He had orders from the Ninth, who wanted each candidate to fight their respective counterpart for the ring and the title of Guardian. Gokudera’s opponent was Belphegor, the genius ‘Prince the Ripper’.
Shamal would not let him fight without first perfecting his technique, and Gokudera did almost miss his battle, but came just in time. Their arena was the entire third floor of the school, where ‘hurricane turbines’ had been set to periodically blow strong gusts of wind that made using his dynamites difficult. There was also a time limit to their battle: the turbines would explode after fifteen minutes if neither candidate had managed to take the other’s half-ring.
With his dynamites being blown away and turned useless, and Bel’s knives going after him no matter how impossible it was for them to, Gokudera was distinctly on the losing side at the beginning of their battle. However, he soon realized Bel’s trick--when Bel had touched his shoulder at the beginning of their fight, he had placed on him wires which led the knives to him. Gokudera quickly got rid of them and retaliated with his newly developed technique, the direction-changing ‘Rocket Bombs’ which managed to avoid the gusts of wind from the turbines.
Spilling Bel’s ‘royal blood’ however only made the assassin show his true abilities. The battle turned into a hide-and-seek game which Gokudera led to the library. In there, Belphegor set up a web of wires to trap Gokudera in. Gokudera merely blew up the bookshelves the wires were attached to however, rendering them limp and far from fatal. He then used the same wires to lead his bombs to Belphegor.
Belphegor should have been defeated, but his “Princely Instincts” to win gave him the strength to fight back as Gokudera reached for his half of the ring. A clumsy struggle ensued between the two, with Gokudera’s friends telling him to give it up as the fifteen minutes time limit was almost up. Gokudera refused, determined to win even if he lost his life. Even Shamal, who asked him if he had learned nothing and still didn’t value his life, was ignored. In Gokudera’s mind he knew his life was important, and that was why he was going to use it for this important cause.
Finally, however, Tsuna stepped up and asked him what they were fighting for. He told Gokudera that they were fighting so that they could all live happily and peacefully again, be able to see fireworks and have snowball fights together again. But even if they won they wouldn’t be able to do that if Gokudera died. Realizing his mistake, Gokudera abandoned the ring and escaped from the explosion. Belphegor was declared the winner.
During the Sky Match, Gokudera, along with the other Guardians, was poisoned so that they could not move. Except Hibari could, and managed to get the antidote set high above a stand between each pair of guardians. He helped Gokudera get his and Gokudera then went to help the other Guardians so that Tsuna would be able to concentrate on his fight and not worry about them. He deafated the Varia’s Lightning Guardian and helped Lambo, then Ryohei and even the Varia’s Sun Guardian. Hibari had already given Yamamoto his antidote, and the two of them met up and rushed to the gym to save Chrome.
However Belphegor, who was the first of the Guardians to revive with Xanxus’ help, had already helped their Mist Guardian and the two of them held Chrome hostage. Gokudera and Yamamoto had no choice but to give up the rings they had after being caught an illusion. Ryohei saved them by destroying the gym, but all of the rings were now in the Varia’s hands.
After it was revealed that Xanxus was adopted and therefore unqualified to be the Tenth Generation Boss, the Varia tried to kill Tsuna to take the title forcibly, but Gokudera, along with the other Guardians, came to his aid. Somewhere else, Lancia, a former subordinate of Mukuro, had already taken care of the rest of Varia and their group was forced to admit defeat and retreat.
With Full Vongola Rings, Tsuna’s family officially became the successors to the title of Vongola Guardians.
[Future Arc]
Gokudera was brought to the future shortly after Tsuna, who he found kneeling inside the future Tsuna’s coffin. Going through the things his own future self had left behind revealed a note written in G-Script, Gokudera’s self-made code, which told them to kill the man named Irie Shoichi. Realizing that they had been in the Future for longer than five minutes, the usual time frame Lambo’s Ten Year Bazooka allowed him to switch places with this Ten Years Later self, the two started to explore the forest they had found themselves in.
They soon met Lal Mirch, the corrupted Arcobaleno, who immediately engaged them in a fight. After losing to her completely, she decided to lead them to their future selves’ hideout. Before they could reach it however, they met one of the enemy Family’s machines, a Gola Mosca, and escaped only with the help of the Future Yamamoto. Future Yamamoto revealed that Lal Mirch’s information on the location of their hideout was wrong, and led them to it.
At the base, they found Reborn, who had been the first to be sent to the Future. The situation was explained to them, which included the fact that Future Tsuna was indeed dead and that everyone who ever had connections with them, such as Yamamoto’s father, was dead or being hunted by the enemy, the Millefiore Family. Furious, Gokudera lashed out at the Future Yamamoto, demanding why he had not done anything to prevent Tsuna’s death. Reborn pointed out that the Future Gokudera was the same too.
Tsuna, Gokudera and Future Yamamoto set out to help the Future I-pin, Lambo, Kyoko and Haru, who were being attacked by two Millefiore members, Nosaru and Tazaru. Kyoko got separated and Tsuna left to look for her, followed by Tazaru, while Nosaru stayed to take care of the ‘Vongola Rain Guardian’. After explaining to Gokudera how boxes and rings were used to fight in this era, Future Yamamoto began to open his box weapon, but got switched with the Yamamoto from Gokudera’s time. Somehow, Gokudera managed to open his own box weapon and defeat Nosaru.
With Future Yamamoto gone, Gokudera and Tsuna had no choice but to ask Lal Mirch to train them how to use box weapons. A member of CEDEF, which Tsuna’s father was the leader of, and a former COMSUBIN captain, Lal Mirch proved herself to be a strict task master. Gokudera, Yamamoto and Tsuna learned a lot from her, but not enough to battle the higher-ranked members of Millefiore.
Worried for her older brother Ryohei, Kyoko left the Vongola hideout to visit her home. At the same time Tsuna and the others received an SOS signal from Hibari’s pet bird, Hibird. With two equally urgent things to take care of, Tsuna decided to split their group into two: himself and Lal Mirch to go after Kyoko, and Yamamoto and Gokudera after Hibird.
Gokudera did not like the arrangement, but could not refuse his boss. He and Yamamoto went to Namimori Shrine where Hibird’s signal had disappeared, and met with one of Millefiore’s captains and A-ranked fighters, Nosaru and Tazaru’s brother Gamma. Immediately Yamamoto offered the suggestion of a combination attack, but Gokudera rudely brushed him off, insisting that he would fight on his own. After standing aside and watching Gokudera totally outclassed by the much more experienced Gamma, Yamamoto finally stepped in and saved him, and then promptly told him off. He pointed out that the right-hand man was supposed to take care of everyone in the Family, but he only cared about Tsuna and no one else so he wasn’t fit for the position. He also told him that he was being a burden to Tsuna. Realizing his mistake, Gokudera agreed to a combination attack with Yamamoto.
And they could have won, had Gamma not previously been warned by Nosaru of Gokudera’s ability, and had Yamamoto already learned how to coat his sword with his rain flames. As it were the two were totally beaten and Gokudera was tortured for information about Tsuna, who was supposedly dead, the reason they all looked so young and the location of their hideout. Gokudera refused to reveal anything, even spitting blood on Gamma’s face. Fortunately for him, Future Hibari arrived before Gamma could kill him. Known to be Tsuna’s strongest Guardian, Hibari easily defeated Gamma.
Gokudera woke up to find Tsuna by his bed and apologize to his boss for his behavior, admitting that he had been very afraid ever since they came to the Future and that he had taken it out on Yamamoto. Shortly after that, the future self of his older sister Bianchi arrived along with Future Fuuta, who carried information on the location of Melone Base where Irie was. Future Ryohei also arrived at the base, bringing Chrome who had also been switched with her future self and news from Italy about a simultaneous attack against the Millefiore. Tsuna decided that they would storm Melone Base, and training began for him, Yamamoto and Gokudera.
Reborn took Yamamoto in as his student while Tsuna trained under both Lal Mirch and Hibari. Bianchi, being of the same flame type as his brother, became Gokudera’s tutor, but Gokudera soon ran away from her, locking himself up in the base’s library to train on his own. He made very slow progress and appeared to be depressed because of it, but eventually figured out the Sistema CAI his Future self had left behind, just in time for their attack on Melone Base.
When he woke up on the morning of their attack however, he found himself not in his room in the future Vongola base, but in a bus in a strange place he would later know as Lucerneridge.
Abilities:
DYNAMITES - Known in Italy as ‘Smoking Bomb Hayato’, Gokudera is an explosives expert who can hide an impossible amount of dynamites in his body. He has regular dynamites, smoke bombs, mini-bombs which are smaller and weaker and he normally uses on himself for extra speed, and Rocket bombs which can change directions twice before exploding.
SISTEMA CAI - a system of box weapons that utilize the different flames within his body to power-up various mechanisms for defense (shields) and offense (‘Flame Arrow’ arm cannon + different types of ammunition). The different attacks Gokudera can do with the Sistema CAI depend on the ammunition he uses and are as follows:
Non-flame ammo:
Lit dynamite - degenerates the flames of other users but causes no damage otherwise
Unlit dynamite - fires a powerful, but usually non-fatal, straight shot
Flame Missile - a special ammo Gokudera uses to cause extensive damage without the use of flames
Flames:
Storm Rockets - bullets that can degenerate flames, people and objects.
+ Rain - the Rain flame’s attribute is ‘tranquility’ and by coating the Storm Rockets with them, the enemy’s defenses are weakened.
+ Sun - the Sun flame’s attribute is ‘activation’ and gives his Storm Rockets a burst of speed.
Cloud - the cannon fires one shot that spreads in a tree-diagram like fashion, due to the Cloud flame's propagation attribute.
Lightning - A solid powerful beam due to the Lightning flame's solidification attribute. This is Gokudera’s most powerful attack.
Also part of the system is a ‘Storm Disc’ which he can stand on and use to fly, and a troublesome kitten named ‘Uri’, which, when combined with Sun Flames, turns into a powerful leopard. Unlike other animal box weapons, Uri regularly disobeys Gokudera and eats both flames and actual food.
INTELLIGENCE - Despite the "rebellious badboy" look, Gokudera is actually very smart and does very well in school, exerting little to no effort on homeworks and getting perfect scores on all of his exams. And despite his destructive, aggressive style of fighting, the first leg of Gokudera's training regimen is often to study theories and fundamentals. He is a mathematical genius.
Finally, while Gokudera practices no particular martial arts, he is good enough in hand-to-hand combat to beat up entire gangs and low-ranked yakuza.
Items brought along: dynamites, a couple of packs of cigarettes and a lighter, Vongola Ring of Storm, Sistema CAI boxes, special contact lenses
Stigma: finding out who his real mother was and that she was dead, the rejection and ridicule he received from other Families as a child, finding out his Tenth was dead ten years into the future, seeing Yamamoto injured and being tortured by Gamma
Samples
Regular Post: [Click. There’s Gokudera, eyebrows drawn together in both concentration and frustration. He doesn’t seem to have realized yet that he’s turned the thing on, and there’s the telltale sounds of him fiddling with the communicator.]
Where’s the Tenth? Why am I all alone here? Did the plans get changed?
[There’s a click and Gokudera’s on his feet. His face fills up almost the entire screen as he talks to it.]
Tenth! Yamamoto! Can anyone here me? Where am I? No one told me we were using a bus! And what the fuck is this thing? Where’s my earpiece?
Where…where the hell am I..?
Log Post: Gokudera woke up with a soft groan, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes as he sat up. It didn’t immediately register that he wasn’t looking at his room’s wall, but when it did Gokudera was on his feet with a shout.
“Where…where the fuck am I?”
Turning back around, it didn’t take him very long to find the bag that had been beside him, or the communicator inside it. He sat down and started fiddling with it, not realizing he had already turned it on when he did.
“Where’s the Tenth? Why am I all alone here? Did the plans get changed?” he muttered to himself, brows furrowed as he tried to get the damn thing ‘to work’. A soft ‘click’ sounded and Gokudera got to his feet, talking into the device rapidly.
“Tenth! Yamamoto! Can anyone here me? Where am I? No one told me we were using a bus! And what the fuck is this thing? Where’s my earpiece? Where…where the hell am I..?”
Alias: Ken’yuu
Contact Info: AIM - xcerpted
Other characters: None
IC Information
Character: Gokudera Hayato
Canon: Katekyo Hitman Reborn!
Point in canon: Chapter 175, morning of their attack on Millefiore base
Age: 15 years old
Personality: Brash, loud, violent, and foul-mouthed, Gokudera has very little patience, is very easy to anger, and is quick to jump to conclusions. His personality is as volatile as his dynamites; and just like how a small flame can set off a big explosion, the slightest of things can make Gokudera lose his temper. When he does he’s nearly just as loud, cursing and name-calling, likely to get physical, and, yes, likely to blow things up. He never backs down when challenged to a fight, but has a tendency to see these challenges even when they’re not actually present.
He has a competitive nature and is proud to a fault; when determined to do something he will do ANYTHING to accomplish it, even at the risk of life and limb. He is cocky and arrogant and will never admit to being weak or inferior to anyone. In the rare times that he fails he can get severely depressed and reclusive, but when he bounces back he is more amazing than ever. This is mostly because Gokudera is always pushed by the need to prove himself to others, especially to Tsuna.
Tsunayoshi Sawada, his beloved “Tenth”. After years of ridicule and rejection by one Mafia family after another, Tenth was the first person to accept him by saving his life even after Gokudera tried to take his. His loyalty and devotion to the Mafia boss-to-be is unparalleled, and he has gone as far as to risk his life for the other boy. He is protective of the Tenth to the point of being troublesome for him, although Gokudera himself doesn’t realize this. He considers even the slightest bad remark to the Tenth a major insult and is quick to bring out his dynamites, no matter who it is or where they are. He gets pissed off/jealous at most people who come close to the Tenth too, thinking they are after the position of being his right-hand man. A position Gokudera dreams to have in the future, and is very loud about.
As for the rest of Tsuna’s Family, Gokudera will rather eat his cigarettes than admit he actually cares for (most of) them. But he does. It’s obvious in the times he can barely conceal his worry for them, or become extremely angry when they are injured. Even though the Tenth is his top priority and will always come first, he will do what he can to protect them too and keep them from getting hurt. Most of the time though he acts disdainfully towards them, or like he is merely tolerating their presence for the Tenth’s sake. It is not rare for Gokudera to be fighting with them, or threatening bodily harm.
The rest of the Tenth’s Family make up all of Gokudera’s friends, and they all became his friends because of the Tenth and the Family. Gokudera himself is socially inept and is more likely to make enemies out of new acquaintances than friends if left alone. Strangers are all either a threat to the Tenth, or are after his position of the Tenth’s right-hand man. He judges people far too quickly and seldom correctly, which often leads to fights. Couple his bad attitude with his bad boy looks and fashion, and anyone will be hard-pressed to have a first good impression of him-- not that Gokudera cares.
There are very few people Gokudera considers worthy of his respect, and he talks back even to his teachers. He refuses to take crap from anyone, even if he knows that they are stronger than him. He finds children annoying and claims to hate people who are older than him. Growing up alone in the dangerous streets of Italy and believing no one loves him but his late mother, Gokudera is unused to acts of kindness and gets easily embarrassed when people are nice to him. He usually becomes awkward or even angry. The words ‘thank you’, ‘sorry’ and ‘please’ are hard for him to say, and he hates having to rely on other people.
Most of other people are idiots. Or so he thinks. The school delinquent who is also top of his class, Gokudera is a musical and mathematical genius. He is easily irked when other people make a mistake and hold no reservations about calling out their stupidity. He reads and researches a lot too and his preferred ‘training room’, if available, is the library.
Finally, despite the fact that he’s a theory and science nut, Gokudera is VERY superstitious and can be a total dork because of it. He is very much into the paranormal and occult as well. He knows Shinto chants and is interested in UFO’s and his favorite magazine is the monthly ‘The Wonders and Mysteries of the World’. He even has a list of legendary creatures to see before he dies.
History:
[Pre-series]
Gokudera Hayato is a child born out of wedlock. He was made to believe that his father’s wife was his real mother however, and did not know that ‘the beautiful woman who played the piano’ who visited him three times a year was his real mother. On his third birthday he waited for her the entire day but she never came. She never came again.
As a child, Gokudera was a celebrated pianist. He was a genius at it, but what really made him famous was his ‘contemporary’ music-- which was just really him too sick from his sister’s poisoned cookies and royally messing up his playing. The first time it had happened, he pleased the crowd so well that his father had Bianchi bake and feed him poisoned cookies before EVERY recital. Gokudera developed a trauma from this, and now can no longer look at Bianchi’s face without getting sick.
At some point his family managed to employ Trident Shamal, a hitman famous for his 666 diseases which he can administer to others through trident mosquitoes. Gokudera wanted to learn this technique from him, but Shamal recommended that he use dynamites instead. After coming home with an injured arm and the story that he had won a fight with the dynamites however, Shamal refused to teach him further.
When he was eight, Gokudera overheard some of the servants talking about how he was not a legitimate child, that it had been 5 years since his real mother's death and that his real mother was a pianist. Gokudera immediately realized that it was the beautiful woman who used to visit him a long time ago, and ran away from his father's castle the very next day. For the next six years he roamed the streets of Italy, trying to join other Families, but no one would have a ‘piano-playing oriental half-breed’ (his mother was half-Japanese half-Italian).
[Gokudera's Secret Bullet Novel: Bakudan Bambino]
At fourteen he met a stupid but kind man named Carlo and his son, Niccolo. Carlo played the piano very much like how his mother played it, and for a short time Gokudera stayed with them. When he realized that Carlo was a fan of the much younger him however, Gokudera ran away, not wanting to disappoint and believing that he did not belong with them after all. Shortly after he was recruited by the Formazo Family, who wanted him to set up a time bomb to cause panic during a concert and make the boss of an enemy Family lose face. After completing the task he bumped into Niccolo, but just ran away again.
On the day of the concert he met an old man who was one of Carlo’s fans. The old man thought he was on his way to the concert, and that’s when Gokudera realized that the concert he was going to disrupt was Carlo’s. Yet again Gokudera chose to run away from the situation, but the old man followed him. After breaking down in front of him and being told that he had a kind heart, Gokudera chose to disarm the bomb.
At the concert hall, Gokudera ran into the men who had recruited him. They found out what he intended to do and the situation worsened to the point that Gokudera had a gun to his head. Gokudera wasn’t afraid though; all his thoughts were on disarming the bomb. He was able to escape when the men themselves were unexpectedly gunned down. When he finally reached the bomb however he couldn’t disarm it; his hands were shaking too hard. But then he heard Carlo speak to him, telling him how relieved he was to know that he was fine. Gokudera’s hands stopped trembling soon after and he was able to disarm the bomb. He listened to Carlo’s music from where he was, and it was full of love and made him feel the presence of his mother. Afterwards, he firmly refused to see the pianist.
The old man who had helped him turned out to be the Ninth boss of the largest and most powerful Mafia family in Italy, the Vongola family. The Ninth thought that he was
‘suitable to become the friend of Iemitsu’s son’ and for the following month he worked under the Vongola. He then received an invitation from the revered assassin Reborn to come to Japan.
[Meeting Tsuna]
Tsuna is ‘Iemitsu’s son’, one of the candidates for the position of the Tenth Generation Vongola Boss who is currently living in Japan. Upon arriving in the country, Gokudera entered Namimori Middle where Tsuna was studying. He ended up in the same class and scared the shit out of Tsuna by knocking his seat over angrily and for no reason after being introduced to everyone. Much later, he challenged Tsuna to a fight and revealed that he was part of the Mafia, the famous ‘Smoking Bomb’ who used dynamites he hid in his whole body.
Their fight consisted mostly of Gokudera throwing more and more bombs at Tsuna, and Tsuna defusing them all. He didn’t miss a single dynamite and it frustrated Gokudera to the point that he used a technique he had not perfected yet, and ended up dropping his dynamites all around him. Tsuna, still in a bomb-defusing frenzy, took these out too. Gokudera believed that Tsuna had saved his life even though he was an enemy and swore then and there to be his most loyal subordinate. As they met new people and the Family grew larger, Gokudera stayed by his side through everything.
[Kokuyou Arc]
Students from Namimori Middle were being beaten up by outsiders one after another. With Reborn’s help, Tsuna discovered that those being attacked were the school’s strongest, in order of strength. Gokudera was third on the list and the next target, but Tsuna discovered this too late to warn him; somewhere else Gokudera was already in a fight.
Fighting Chikusa was difficult, much more difficult than fighting high school gangs or the yakuza. The guy used poisoned needles and had two yo-yos he could put Gokudera’s dynamites out with. With a simple trick however, an optical illusion Gokudera managed by mixing mini-bombs with his regular dynamites, he was able to defeat him. But not completely. When Tsuna came and Gokudera recklessly called him the Tenth, revealing that he was the one Chikusa’s group was looking for, Chikusa attacked Tsuna and Gokudera had to take the hit for him. Luckily for both of them, Yamamoto came shortly after and Chikusa left. Gokudera was brought to the school clinic.
Under orders from the Ninth himself, it was decided that Tsuna’s group would storm Kokuyou Land where the attackers were hiding out. Gokudera was supposedly too injured to join them, but he forced Shamal to give him something so he could go. The treatment, however, did not come without any side effects. Gokudera burned a fever and was pretty much useless during the first few fights in Kokuyo Land. When he faced off against Chikusa again in order to let Tsuna and his sister Bianchi pass, Gokudera could have won, except the side effects made him falter again and Ken took him out from behind.
As he lay defeated, Gokudera heard a bird singing their school anthem and realized that their school prefect, Hibari, was being held captive in the room behind him. He blew up the wall separating them with a dynamite and Hibari quickly took care of Ken and Chikusa. Gokudera then gave him the cure to Shamal’s Sakura-kura Virus, which was the reason Mukuro and his gang had managed to capture him in the first place. Using each other as a crutch, they made their way to where Tsuna was already fighting against Mukuro.
Mukuro had the ability to possess people that had been cut by his trident. He first possessed Bianchi, Gokudera’s sister, and had her stab Gokudera. Gokudera was able to move away, but got cut and then possessed anyway. Mukuro used his body and skills against Tsuna until Tsuna found a way to knock him unconscious.
[Varia Arc]
One month later found Yamamoto and Gokudera up against a silver-haired swordsman named Squalo. The two of them were utterly defeated. Squalo was after a set of half-rings Basil had, which he got but turned out to be fake. The real set was brought to Japan by Dino, and Gokudera was given the Half-Ring of Storm. It was the symbol that he had been chosen as a candidate for the position of Guardian of Storm, one of the six guardians who supported the Vongola boss, the Guardian of Sky. Tsuna of course was the candidate for the Guardian of Sky, and other friends and allies received the five other rings.
The other candidates were in the Assassination Team Varia, which Squalo was a member of. Reborn warned them that it was only a matter of time before the Varia found out that the half-rings they got were fake, and that they should train to become stronger before the Varia arrived. Everyone got their own tutors except for Gokudera, who Shamal had turned down. Shamal hated the fact that Gokudera did not seem to care much about life, not even his own. After Gokudera nearly killed himself training alone, Shamal finally agreed to train him.
The Varia came sooner than expected and an all-out battle would have happened had Iemitsu not arrived in time to stop them. He had orders from the Ninth, who wanted each candidate to fight their respective counterpart for the ring and the title of Guardian. Gokudera’s opponent was Belphegor, the genius ‘Prince the Ripper’.
Shamal would not let him fight without first perfecting his technique, and Gokudera did almost miss his battle, but came just in time. Their arena was the entire third floor of the school, where ‘hurricane turbines’ had been set to periodically blow strong gusts of wind that made using his dynamites difficult. There was also a time limit to their battle: the turbines would explode after fifteen minutes if neither candidate had managed to take the other’s half-ring.
With his dynamites being blown away and turned useless, and Bel’s knives going after him no matter how impossible it was for them to, Gokudera was distinctly on the losing side at the beginning of their battle. However, he soon realized Bel’s trick--when Bel had touched his shoulder at the beginning of their fight, he had placed on him wires which led the knives to him. Gokudera quickly got rid of them and retaliated with his newly developed technique, the direction-changing ‘Rocket Bombs’ which managed to avoid the gusts of wind from the turbines.
Spilling Bel’s ‘royal blood’ however only made the assassin show his true abilities. The battle turned into a hide-and-seek game which Gokudera led to the library. In there, Belphegor set up a web of wires to trap Gokudera in. Gokudera merely blew up the bookshelves the wires were attached to however, rendering them limp and far from fatal. He then used the same wires to lead his bombs to Belphegor.
Belphegor should have been defeated, but his “Princely Instincts” to win gave him the strength to fight back as Gokudera reached for his half of the ring. A clumsy struggle ensued between the two, with Gokudera’s friends telling him to give it up as the fifteen minutes time limit was almost up. Gokudera refused, determined to win even if he lost his life. Even Shamal, who asked him if he had learned nothing and still didn’t value his life, was ignored. In Gokudera’s mind he knew his life was important, and that was why he was going to use it for this important cause.
Finally, however, Tsuna stepped up and asked him what they were fighting for. He told Gokudera that they were fighting so that they could all live happily and peacefully again, be able to see fireworks and have snowball fights together again. But even if they won they wouldn’t be able to do that if Gokudera died. Realizing his mistake, Gokudera abandoned the ring and escaped from the explosion. Belphegor was declared the winner.
During the Sky Match, Gokudera, along with the other Guardians, was poisoned so that they could not move. Except Hibari could, and managed to get the antidote set high above a stand between each pair of guardians. He helped Gokudera get his and Gokudera then went to help the other Guardians so that Tsuna would be able to concentrate on his fight and not worry about them. He deafated the Varia’s Lightning Guardian and helped Lambo, then Ryohei and even the Varia’s Sun Guardian. Hibari had already given Yamamoto his antidote, and the two of them met up and rushed to the gym to save Chrome.
However Belphegor, who was the first of the Guardians to revive with Xanxus’ help, had already helped their Mist Guardian and the two of them held Chrome hostage. Gokudera and Yamamoto had no choice but to give up the rings they had after being caught an illusion. Ryohei saved them by destroying the gym, but all of the rings were now in the Varia’s hands.
After it was revealed that Xanxus was adopted and therefore unqualified to be the Tenth Generation Boss, the Varia tried to kill Tsuna to take the title forcibly, but Gokudera, along with the other Guardians, came to his aid. Somewhere else, Lancia, a former subordinate of Mukuro, had already taken care of the rest of Varia and their group was forced to admit defeat and retreat.
With Full Vongola Rings, Tsuna’s family officially became the successors to the title of Vongola Guardians.
[Future Arc]
Gokudera was brought to the future shortly after Tsuna, who he found kneeling inside the future Tsuna’s coffin. Going through the things his own future self had left behind revealed a note written in G-Script, Gokudera’s self-made code, which told them to kill the man named Irie Shoichi. Realizing that they had been in the Future for longer than five minutes, the usual time frame Lambo’s Ten Year Bazooka allowed him to switch places with this Ten Years Later self, the two started to explore the forest they had found themselves in.
They soon met Lal Mirch, the corrupted Arcobaleno, who immediately engaged them in a fight. After losing to her completely, she decided to lead them to their future selves’ hideout. Before they could reach it however, they met one of the enemy Family’s machines, a Gola Mosca, and escaped only with the help of the Future Yamamoto. Future Yamamoto revealed that Lal Mirch’s information on the location of their hideout was wrong, and led them to it.
At the base, they found Reborn, who had been the first to be sent to the Future. The situation was explained to them, which included the fact that Future Tsuna was indeed dead and that everyone who ever had connections with them, such as Yamamoto’s father, was dead or being hunted by the enemy, the Millefiore Family. Furious, Gokudera lashed out at the Future Yamamoto, demanding why he had not done anything to prevent Tsuna’s death. Reborn pointed out that the Future Gokudera was the same too.
Tsuna, Gokudera and Future Yamamoto set out to help the Future I-pin, Lambo, Kyoko and Haru, who were being attacked by two Millefiore members, Nosaru and Tazaru. Kyoko got separated and Tsuna left to look for her, followed by Tazaru, while Nosaru stayed to take care of the ‘Vongola Rain Guardian’. After explaining to Gokudera how boxes and rings were used to fight in this era, Future Yamamoto began to open his box weapon, but got switched with the Yamamoto from Gokudera’s time. Somehow, Gokudera managed to open his own box weapon and defeat Nosaru.
With Future Yamamoto gone, Gokudera and Tsuna had no choice but to ask Lal Mirch to train them how to use box weapons. A member of CEDEF, which Tsuna’s father was the leader of, and a former COMSUBIN captain, Lal Mirch proved herself to be a strict task master. Gokudera, Yamamoto and Tsuna learned a lot from her, but not enough to battle the higher-ranked members of Millefiore.
Worried for her older brother Ryohei, Kyoko left the Vongola hideout to visit her home. At the same time Tsuna and the others received an SOS signal from Hibari’s pet bird, Hibird. With two equally urgent things to take care of, Tsuna decided to split their group into two: himself and Lal Mirch to go after Kyoko, and Yamamoto and Gokudera after Hibird.
Gokudera did not like the arrangement, but could not refuse his boss. He and Yamamoto went to Namimori Shrine where Hibird’s signal had disappeared, and met with one of Millefiore’s captains and A-ranked fighters, Nosaru and Tazaru’s brother Gamma. Immediately Yamamoto offered the suggestion of a combination attack, but Gokudera rudely brushed him off, insisting that he would fight on his own. After standing aside and watching Gokudera totally outclassed by the much more experienced Gamma, Yamamoto finally stepped in and saved him, and then promptly told him off. He pointed out that the right-hand man was supposed to take care of everyone in the Family, but he only cared about Tsuna and no one else so he wasn’t fit for the position. He also told him that he was being a burden to Tsuna. Realizing his mistake, Gokudera agreed to a combination attack with Yamamoto.
And they could have won, had Gamma not previously been warned by Nosaru of Gokudera’s ability, and had Yamamoto already learned how to coat his sword with his rain flames. As it were the two were totally beaten and Gokudera was tortured for information about Tsuna, who was supposedly dead, the reason they all looked so young and the location of their hideout. Gokudera refused to reveal anything, even spitting blood on Gamma’s face. Fortunately for him, Future Hibari arrived before Gamma could kill him. Known to be Tsuna’s strongest Guardian, Hibari easily defeated Gamma.
Gokudera woke up to find Tsuna by his bed and apologize to his boss for his behavior, admitting that he had been very afraid ever since they came to the Future and that he had taken it out on Yamamoto. Shortly after that, the future self of his older sister Bianchi arrived along with Future Fuuta, who carried information on the location of Melone Base where Irie was. Future Ryohei also arrived at the base, bringing Chrome who had also been switched with her future self and news from Italy about a simultaneous attack against the Millefiore. Tsuna decided that they would storm Melone Base, and training began for him, Yamamoto and Gokudera.
Reborn took Yamamoto in as his student while Tsuna trained under both Lal Mirch and Hibari. Bianchi, being of the same flame type as his brother, became Gokudera’s tutor, but Gokudera soon ran away from her, locking himself up in the base’s library to train on his own. He made very slow progress and appeared to be depressed because of it, but eventually figured out the Sistema CAI his Future self had left behind, just in time for their attack on Melone Base.
When he woke up on the morning of their attack however, he found himself not in his room in the future Vongola base, but in a bus in a strange place he would later know as Lucerneridge.
Abilities:
DYNAMITES - Known in Italy as ‘Smoking Bomb Hayato’, Gokudera is an explosives expert who can hide an impossible amount of dynamites in his body. He has regular dynamites, smoke bombs, mini-bombs which are smaller and weaker and he normally uses on himself for extra speed, and Rocket bombs which can change directions twice before exploding.
SISTEMA CAI - a system of box weapons that utilize the different flames within his body to power-up various mechanisms for defense (shields) and offense (‘Flame Arrow’ arm cannon + different types of ammunition). The different attacks Gokudera can do with the Sistema CAI depend on the ammunition he uses and are as follows:
Non-flame ammo:
Lit dynamite - degenerates the flames of other users but causes no damage otherwise
Unlit dynamite - fires a powerful, but usually non-fatal, straight shot
Flame Missile - a special ammo Gokudera uses to cause extensive damage without the use of flames
Flames:
Storm Rockets - bullets that can degenerate flames, people and objects.
+ Rain - the Rain flame’s attribute is ‘tranquility’ and by coating the Storm Rockets with them, the enemy’s defenses are weakened.
+ Sun - the Sun flame’s attribute is ‘activation’ and gives his Storm Rockets a burst of speed.
Cloud - the cannon fires one shot that spreads in a tree-diagram like fashion, due to the Cloud flame's propagation attribute.
Lightning - A solid powerful beam due to the Lightning flame's solidification attribute. This is Gokudera’s most powerful attack.
Also part of the system is a ‘Storm Disc’ which he can stand on and use to fly, and a troublesome kitten named ‘Uri’, which, when combined with Sun Flames, turns into a powerful leopard. Unlike other animal box weapons, Uri regularly disobeys Gokudera and eats both flames and actual food.
INTELLIGENCE - Despite the "rebellious badboy" look, Gokudera is actually very smart and does very well in school, exerting little to no effort on homeworks and getting perfect scores on all of his exams. And despite his destructive, aggressive style of fighting, the first leg of Gokudera's training regimen is often to study theories and fundamentals. He is a mathematical genius.
Finally, while Gokudera practices no particular martial arts, he is good enough in hand-to-hand combat to beat up entire gangs and low-ranked yakuza.
Items brought along: dynamites, a couple of packs of cigarettes and a lighter, Vongola Ring of Storm, Sistema CAI boxes, special contact lenses
Stigma: finding out who his real mother was and that she was dead, the rejection and ridicule he received from other Families as a child, finding out his Tenth was dead ten years into the future, seeing Yamamoto injured and being tortured by Gamma
Samples
Regular Post: [Click. There’s Gokudera, eyebrows drawn together in both concentration and frustration. He doesn’t seem to have realized yet that he’s turned the thing on, and there’s the telltale sounds of him fiddling with the communicator.]
Where’s the Tenth? Why am I all alone here? Did the plans get changed?
[There’s a click and Gokudera’s on his feet. His face fills up almost the entire screen as he talks to it.]
Tenth! Yamamoto! Can anyone here me? Where am I? No one told me we were using a bus! And what the fuck is this thing? Where’s my earpiece?
Where…where the hell am I..?
Log Post: Gokudera woke up with a soft groan, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes as he sat up. It didn’t immediately register that he wasn’t looking at his room’s wall, but when it did Gokudera was on his feet with a shout.
“Where…where the fuck am I?”
Turning back around, it didn’t take him very long to find the bag that had been beside him, or the communicator inside it. He sat down and started fiddling with it, not realizing he had already turned it on when he did.
“Where’s the Tenth? Why am I all alone here? Did the plans get changed?” he muttered to himself, brows furrowed as he tried to get the damn thing ‘to work’. A soft ‘click’ sounded and Gokudera got to his feet, talking into the device rapidly.
“Tenth! Yamamoto! Can anyone here me? Where am I? No one told me we were using a bus! And what the fuck is this thing? Where’s my earpiece? Where…where the hell am I..?”