I've been working on this off and on, but for some reason I don't feel like this idea will leave me alone until I just get it out somewhere other than in my folder. I hope you enjoy it. Please R&R!

Katekyo Hitman Reborn (I do not own!)

Wishes of the Heart

Chapter 1 Half-Hearted Wishes

Hi!

I'm Lily Hong, and I…

Am completely, utterly, horribly, and unbearably lost.

F my life.

You see, all I did was walk like 15 feet (I swear!) from the shop my parents, older sister, and little brother were looking around in when I turned around and noticed that every alleyway looked the same.

Who knew the close knit buildings in a random spot in France could be so maze like, go figure!

"Ah, for the love of-!" I sighed exasperatedly and sat down roughly on a nearby street bench.

Really, all I wanted was some fresh air.

Suddenly an old lady plopped down on the bench next to me.

"Jiminy Crickets!" I shouted as I nearly jumped out of my skin. Jeez, I must be really out of it if I didn't see her walking up.

"Hello there young lady," The lady said kindly…ish.

Damn, this was a creepy old lady. Like, I've got nothing against old people, but this lady just gave me the heebie-jeebies.

"I apologize for giving you a fright." If the old lady knew of my discomfort then she hid it quite well.

Wait a sec. 'Gave me a fright'? Who the hell used that anymore? Wait, wait, wait. She's old. Of course she'd use some out of date phrase.

"Er… 'Sup…" Opps, I switched back to English. "I mean hello."

"Would you be more comfortable speaking in your native tongue?" The lady asked.

"I'm cool with whatever." Perhaps I should be a little more polite. She is an elder, no matter how similar she looks to Snow White's transformed evil step-mother. Curse you Disney Princess Movies for teaching me that ugly old women are evil!

The lady nodded. "Well, let's get down to business."

Excuse me?

"I'm here to grant that wish of yours," the lady said with a smile.

In all my years of school and speaking a fair number of languages, provided me the intellectual response of, "Eh?"

"Your wish three weeks and four days ago," the woman continued.

"I made a wish?" I think I would have remembered that. But I'll keep that comment to myself.

The creepy old lady giggled. "Correct! And I'm going to grant it for you!"

Ooooh. I see what's going on. This lady is senile.

I smiled kindly. "Do you want me to help you find your family ma'am?"

The old lady rolled her eyes. "I'm able to take of myself young lady. I'm not senile. Besides I only came here to grant your wish."

Riiiiiiiight. I nodded and continued smiling. "Okay, okay. We can wait here for them." I said as I patted the lady's knee.

The old lady huffed, but continued as enthusiastically as before. "Don't you remember? You wished that you could go to the past and meet Vongola Primo!"

Vongola Primo…Vongola Primo…Why did that sound so familiar…

"Oh! You mean Katekyo Hitman Reborn! I just finished re-reading the parts of the Shimon Arc where Giotto appeared!"

"That's it! That's it!" The old lady clapped her hands. "Keep going!"

"Um…" I scrunched my face as I tried to think. Then it dawned on me. "Oh yeah. I said I kind of wished to meet him and the rest of his guardians. But I didn't really mean it."

"But it's a fantastic wish! Aren't you glad you get the chance!" The lady cheered.

God, I really wanted to run away.

I laughed nervously.

"I'm even upgrading the wish for you!" The lady continued. "You're going to live with them for a while and help them!"

Pardon?

I… was going… to help… a fictional character…?

Okay, now we've crossed borderline of believable and tolerable insanity.

"Look, thanks…um…ma'am, but I have to go back to my family now, so…uh…bye." I got and started to walk away as quickly as I could.

"You'll see them later. You've got to get going quickly or the sun will set and you'll be wondering around in the dark!" The lady called after me.

Walk away quickly Lily, just walk away.

I think I might have heard the lady sigh, but I'm not turning around to check.

I looked around. There had to be some landmark I could identify with.

"Have fun!" The scary old lady called again.

Don't look around-

Holy $#^*! Since when was there a giant hole in the ground here!

Oh dear god, what have I gotten myself into?

And then all went black.

I looked around carefully as I walked down the unfamiliar street.

Well this was just dandy.

First I was falling to my imminent death only to suddenly appear in some random forest in some god forsaken place.

Not only do I have no idea where I am, but I am also unable to communicate with any of the local towns' folk.

It sounds like their words have some similarities to French, so I can assume that they have a Latin heritage. However, with my luck, it was going to be the one of the languages I hadn't started to learn yet.

And that would be Italian.

I would say Spanish, but if the skin tone of the people and the structure of the buildings told me anything…

Anyways, I knew about two words (and that was thanks to KHR). And that was ciao and…Arg! Now I can't remember what that other one was!

I sat down next to a tree in frustration.

I absolutely positively refuse to even consider that I had somehow been transported to Italy. And there is no f-ing way that I'm in the past…of a cartoon…

Okay. There had to be a logical reason why I ended up here. Perhaps I had taken a wrong turn while running away from that lady, and while I was running with my eyes closed I had somehow ended up in this village…where everyone speaks Italian…despite still being in France… That made sense…right?

I slapped my forehead and groaned.

I'm doomed.

With a sigh, I let myself fall onto my back. This just wasn't my day.

BOOM!

Okay, I'm not a rocket scientist or anything, but I'm pretty sure a low tech village like this doesn't have anything that could make that big of an explosion… Or other noises, like that popping sound that is suspiciously similar to those toy guns… Or make that many people start screaming…

And no, I am not in denial.

I am going to just walk away now. This has nothing to do with me, and there's a good chance I could die.

I stood up with the full intention of walking as far away from the village as I could, but then I saw a young little boy running down the road leading out of the village. The look of pure horror and fear was plastered on his face and he was crying.

A man with a sickening looking knife was chasing the child with an evil smile. And he was gaining fast.

Damn my soft spot for all things young and adorable.

I sprinted forward, slapped the knife away, and kicked the evil-henchman-of-some-evil-force in the jaw.

Thank you~ multiple self-defense and human anatomy classes, as well as my slightly irrational paranoia of the world that led me to taking said several fighting and self-defense classes.

I kicked the guy one last time in the stomach. The dude flew back into the wall and was knocked unconscious.

Well…that was a little freaky…

Since when did I have the strength of Godzilla?...

There was more screaming and the sight of more children as well as the women of the villagers running away.

I grabbed fistfuls of hair in frustration. "FINE! Fine, fine, fine! I'll do my best to save them!" I shouted out loud in irritation. God I needed to get rid of my conscience.

I ran up to the nearest bad guy and engaged in defending this random town in the middle of nowhere.

Several bruises, cuts, and scrapes (not from falling, but from bullets [Bullets? Bullets? Who the hell carries a gun in broad daylight? Just what has my life come down to?]) later I was panting behind a corner while I looked around for more of this outrageously large street gang.

I saw a man in strange foreign clothes and a man with vivid red hair (no way it was natural, it had to be dyed!) take down some men, but both of them had yet to notice the man aiming at their backs behind them.

"Look out!" I shouted. And in a rush of adrenaline (why else would I willingly take a bullet for a stranger) I pushed the two of them down just in time to take the bullet in my gut.

Great.

My day just couldn't get any better could it?

You know how in movies the person who gets shot will be bleeding a lot, but they have enough coherency to check on their precious ones, and they don't really look like they're in that much pain, before either blacking out or dying?

Well that is a big f-ing LIE!

It f-ing HURTS!

No way in hell would I be able to smile for a friend or family! Screw that I wouldn't even be able to notice if they were next to me in the first place.

Ithurtsithurtsithurts!

And then all faded to black…again.

Poor Lily. Well what did you think?