Strike 1:

"Oh, look, Cala!"

the middle-aged woman grabbed her child with one hand while she kept the other on the driving wheel.

"What mom?" the girl asked somewhat agitated as her strawberry slipped from her lips' reach.

"There's a baby outside!"

The girl sighed and didn't even look outside, "Mom can't this wait till we've gotten to the new house?"

"But dear," her mother frowned.

"Mom…"

"Alright, alright! But you'd better get that baby off the wall if he's still there!"

"Whatever mom."

"Calandra…"

Calandra sighed again, "Yeah, mom, I heard you."

Her mother smiled, "Good, girl."

Then stopped the car, "Well, out you go!"

"W-What?!" Calandra gaped at her mom. They had stopped right in front of their new house. Only two houses away from where the "baby" was standing.

"Out, out, out~!"

"Bully…" she mumbled before unclipping her seatbelt and sliding out of the car.

"Make sure you invite him over for dinner!"

"Bye mom!" she said forcing the syllables out through clenched teeth.

She kicked a pebble beside her feet. Her mom was such a bully. Especially in trying to make her get out more. She hated going out. The sun killed her, quite literally too. Being albino didn't help very much. The pink eyed girl fixed her shades before continuing to walk.

"Stupid trick," she mumbled under her breath.

Just then a boy ran out of the house beside her. He ran straight into her. Calandra caught sight of the baby on the wall right before her head hit the ground.

"OH NO!!" "Look at what you did no-good Tsuna."

When Calandra woke up her head was still spinning. That's what she got for being anemic.

"Hey, Tsuna," a voice called, "Looks like she woke up just now."

"Oh, um, is she?" Tsuna panicked, "Wh-what do I say??"

Calandra groaned. She didn't want any of this. She sat up somewhat reluctantly. Then immediately regretted it as nausea came at her in waves. Her face blanched and she held her hand over her mouth.

"Do you need a bathroom?? This way right away!!" a female dragged her up.

"Tsuna you help too!" the woman said.

"Huh, oh right!"

Unfortunately, they didn't reach the bathroom in time. Calandra heaved whatever had been in her stomach, which wasn't much since she and her mother hadn't eaten because they were busily doing last minute packing. And blood come out, as was per custom of coughing or throwing up for Calandra.

"Eeee! Is that blood??"

"Cala???" Calandra barely looked up to see her mom running over to her. A man in a black suit and fedora stood behind her.

"Eh? Who's this Tsuna?" the woman from before asked.

"I don't know!!" he exclaimed still panicked over the sight of blood.

"I let her in," the man in black said.

"It appears she's Calandra's mother."

"I'm terribly sorry for the disturbance," her mother bowed again.

"I didn't think she'd have an attack again so soon."

Tsuna's mother clapped her hands together, "That's right! You're the new neighbors!! And don't worry about any of that!"

Nana beamed, "It's the duty of the neighbors to help each other!"

"Oh, thank you very much, Sawada!" Calandra's mother returned, teary eyed.

"Call me Nana!"

"Then, please call me Sana!"

While her mother was busily chatting away, Calandra was holding her knees, trying to clear everything from her mind.

"Um, Calandra??"

Calandra looked up. It was the boy with messy brown hair again.

"Tsuna," or at least she thought it was his name.

"You know my name!" Tsuna smiled, "How are you feeling now?"

"I'm fine."

"Your mom said it happens a lot."

"Okay."

"Do you always bleed like that?"

"…You're close." Calandra pushed the boy away. While he was questioning her, he had unintentionally gotten too close for comfort for Calandra.

"Eh? Oh, sorry," he said embarrassed.

"It's fine," Calandra stood up somewhat shakily. She walked over to her mom and whispered something into her ear, bowed to Tsuna's mother, and walked out the house.

"I'm sorry about that again," Sana said and held her face, "She always gets like this. I try to make her come out more since she didn't get to before…"

"Before?" Nana asked as she handed Sana some tea.

"Oh, well, Calandra lived with her father in Italy before this and ever since her father disappeared she's been living with me. Though we are divorced."

"Italy? Why that's so far away from Japan!"

Sana nodded her head, "He had some work there, never told us what. Cala never went outside either, since she's albino."

Tsuna glanced at Reborn. He really hoped that his new neighbors weren't part of the mafia too…

"Oh, that's terrible," Nana said distraught.

"I know!" Nana clapped her hands together again, "Tsuna can be her friend!"

"That sounds lovely!"

"M-Mom!! I'm not a kid anymore! You can't do this kind of stu-Ack, Reborn??"

Reborn had kicked him in the shin.

"Let's go Tsuna, you should be friends with your neighbors."

"…So tell me why Gokudera and Yamamoto are both here too…?"

"For support," Reborn said simply.

"And I-pin, Lambo, and Fuuta?"

"Everyone loves children," Yamamoto said with a grin.

"I agree." "Me too!"

"K-Kyoko and Haru??" Tsuna exclaimed while pointing at said girls.

"It's rude to point, Tsuna," Haru said disapprovingly.

"R-right," Tsuna put his hand down nervously.

His new neighbor was definitely going to hate him.

He took a deep breath and knocked on the door. No one answered. He knocked again and someone responded from the inside. The door clicked open.

"Oh, it's Tsuna and friends!" Sana invited them in, "Just in time too! I'm leaving with your mother Tsuna! Take care of Cala!!"

And so Calandra's mother walked out the door, leaving the teenagers and children in her home. Within five seconds the children had separated.

"Uwahhh," Lambo gaped around him, "Look at all the sun pictures!"

Lambo had run into a room where Sun posters and pictures had been placed all on one wall while the uncovered wall was painted in yellows and oranges. Even the door was painted yellow.

I-pin and Fuuta had run into a room together. The green painted door.

"Look at all this!!"

"Weeeee!!"

"L-Lambo, you really shouldn't be running around like that," Tsuna said nervously.

He hadn't seen Calandra since their meeting at his house, and that had been several days ago. What if she popped up suddenly and declared that she hated their guts? Worse yet, what if she was part of the mafia??

Suddenly Lambo's exclamations stopped short. Everyone looked at each other. I-pin and Futa ran out of the green room and straight into the room that Lambo had gone into. Yamamoto walked over to the door. Everyone followed and listened carefully.

"Shhh," Fuuta was speaking, "She's sleeping!"

"I know that! I found her! So she's mine!" Lambo exclaimed. I-pin shushed at him.

"EEK! She woke up!" Lambo exclaimed and ran out the door followed by I-pin and Fuuta. Yamamoto, who had been closest to the door, almost fell over.

"Ah…"

Calandra poured the tea into the last cup and sat down, legs crossed. A frown set on her lips.

"My mom set you up to this didn't she?" she asked getting straight to the point while staring at Tsuna.

"Ahaha, well your mom said… that you might want some friends…"

"I don't," she replied immediately.

"Eh?" Tsuna was taken aback by her sudden answer.

"Why not?" Kyoko asked, "Surely you've had friends before?"

"None," Calandra said with some agitation since she had just woken up. Low blood pressure…

"Listen, you guys are some of the first people I've seen my age in a while, besides the three kids over there."

Everyone turned to where Calandra pointed. To her she saw a young man and three children, but to them, they saw four children, or at least a baby...

"…Three?" Tsuna asked.

"Yeah," Calandra rubbed her temples, "and ever since you guys came here, I've been feeling sick."

"Eh??" Gokudera exclaimed, "Are you talking bad about the Tenth?"

Calandra winced as the boy shouted while pointing at her.

"Can you get your foot off the table?" she asked, "We just got it yesterday."

"G-Gokudera please calm down."

"But Tenth!"

"Yeah, weirdo, sit down," Calandra said.

"You!"

"Haha, you're funny!" Yamamoto slapped the girl on the back. She immediately tensed and stared at the black haired boy.

"Did you just hit me?"

"Okay, okay boys," Haru said, "How about us girls just hang out?"

"Yeah, that sounds good," Tsuna agreed somewhat relieved. The others giving their agreement.

"Who said that was happening?" Calandra cut in somewhat upset.

"I'm going back to sleep," she said and opened the door to her house, "You all have to leave, I feel sick."

"Wh-What?"

Then the door slammed shut.

"What just happened?" Futa said lost as to how he suddenly got kicked out.

"Hey, where's the little guy?" Yamamoto asked.

"Stupid neighbors," Calandra mumbled, "Now I can't go back to sleep."

Her headache still wouldn't go away. It got worse if anything. She tied up her waist length hair and pulled up her sleeves. She might as well finish unpacking the boxes in her room.

"You can see me?"

Calandra jumped and turned around. The man in black was still in her house. The odd thing was that she heard a child's voice. She didn't relax at all.

"Do you have a kid with you?" she asked suddenly and shook her head, "Anyway, your friends left already…"

"Your father is Robert Moretti, isn't he?"

It was the child's voice again. But it was definitely coming from the man…it was just…his lips weren't moving at all. She looked down. Sure enough there was a baby at his feet, but she couldn't see it very well, more like it was covered in black with yellow wisps around it. Almost like a shadow. Calandra looked at the wall behind him. The shadow belonged to the baby, not the man. Actually the man didn't even have a shadow.

"You're Calandra Moretti. You can see through curses can't you."

It wasn't a question. More like a statement of fact. He knew who she was.

"Aha…" Calandra backed up until she hit the wall and fell to the ground. The man and his baby shadow walked up to her.

"I- I don't know what you're talking about!" she exclaimed. No she had left her father for this reason. He had made a profit off of her abilities and exploited her till she eventually started become to sick. She actually hadn't been 'albino' at one point.

"If I'm correct…" the baby touched her knee and there was a 'poof' of smoke.

"I see," a new voice said from the smoke. Calandra realized the hand on her knee was bigger, much bigger. The voice was much deeper too. When the smoke cleared, the man was leaning over her, his hand on her knee. She actually saw his eyes from under his fedora this time .

"You rid the curse by contact."

The voice came from him. The baby was gone. When she realized her face paled.

"You are cursed," she whispered.

"I am," he said. Neither moved.

Calandra jumped up and ran into her room and shut the door. She panted for breath.

"Calm down C. It was only a few seconds…" she gasped. She needed to calm down.

"So you need contact for a certain time to remove the curse?" It was the baby's voice again. And it was right beside her.

"H-How did you!"

"I am Reborn," he said and tipped his hat, "Vongola's best hitman."

"…You killed him," she said, and collapsed onto her knees again, "You killed my father…"

"I did."

Her head shot up, "I'm next aren't I?"

"No," he said.

"It was completely coincidence that you and I met," he said.

He jumped down from her bed, which seemed a little odd to Calandra. She saw the shadowed baby jump down, but the man behind him simply stepped out.

"Would you like to be a part of the Vongola?"

sorry xD another one but yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

psh.... i think Calandra and "ichiru" look to alike though.... xD