I have no idea when this idea popped up within my mind, but it just did. I'm pretty sure that some of you are going to squeal with joy at this and some of you would probably not be happy with this. But considering that KHR is being dubbed in the Philippines... I'm sure some of you would understand. At least, I hope you do.

Just so you know, these are basically drabbles of MariaxVongola. But since Maria is an immortal country who will likely outlive them... well... there's nothing wrong with falling in love with a country, but it probably isn't a good idea. Just save yourself the heart break.

Disclaimer: I don't own KHR. I do, however, own Maria De la Cruz, the human personification of the Philippines.

Hibari Kyouya Pt. 1

"Gilbird! Where are you?" Maria cried out about after nearly two hours of running around the city of Palermo. She hadn't seen any sign of the fluffy yellow chick anywhere!

This year's UN meeting was being hosted by Romano, aka South Italy, and as such was held in the southern part of Italy. As usual whenever all of the countries of the world converged together in one place, chaos was the result. At least that was what Maria could assume from all the yelling that came from the room in which the meeting was held anyways.

It was her twin brother and the other half of the Philippines' turn to attend the current meeting. Only one of them was needed to be a representative and since she had gone to the one two months ago, Juan would attend this one. She had volunteered to take his place since she knew he hated having to go to the meetings because nothing ever got done, but he declined and said that having his sister attend for him was not the answer and that he would just have to suck it up and go and get it over with.

Maria pinned it down to being a guy thing.

So the female half of the Philippines decided that she would go and enjoy a day out in Palermo despite the warnings from Romano and Veneziano that the mafia operated in the city and that she should be careful. Especially since she was the Romulus family's Sun Guardian.

No one had been more surprised than she had when the Sun Pendant had chosen Maria as its host. Lovino, Juan, and her papa had particularly been against her being the Sun Guardian, but she accepted the role out of duty. Besides, the Sun Pendant didn't just choose anybody as the Vargas famiglia's Sun Guardian.

...though it did make her wonder why it chose her in the first place.

But back to the reason why she was searching for a yellow bird in Palermo in the first place.

Gilbert Beilschmidt aka Prussia had placed Gilbird in her hands and told her to look after his fluffy companion since he wasn't allowed to bring Gilbird into meetings any more if he was going to be crashing them. It probably had to do with the incident between his flying sidekick and Heracles' numerous cats that ended up with everyone in the room sporting many, many scratches trying to get the hissing kitties off of them when they had leapt on the countries trying to get Gilbird.

Knowing that the former nation of Prussia loved the yellow chick that he affectionately named Gilbird, Maria agreed to look after him. She didn't mind.

That was about four hours ago.

Now it was evening and she was still searching for Gilbird.

Gilbird was as spontaneous as his owner, so whenever something caught his attention his first instinct would be to chase after it. In this case it had been another fluffy chick who looked quite similar to him. She had tried to chase after Gilbird when he flew off, but was slowed down by the crowds. By the time she reached the spot where she last saw him, Gilbird and the other bird were gone.

Just when she thought that she would have to go back to the hotel that had been rented out for the countries to report the bad news, she was stopped in her tracks by someone singing.

Singing in an absolutely adorable high pitched tune.

For some reason it was being sung in Japanese which was strange considering that they were in Palermo, South Italy. It sounded like an anthem and if Maria was translating the lyrics correctly (she spent enough time at Sakura's house to pick up the language) then it was the anthem of a school in Japan called 'Namimori Middle School'.

"Cute." Maria giggled to herself.

She immediately snapped herself out of it. She had to find Gilbird!

But whoever was singing that song was still singing! Maria looked around for a few minutes, walking over to where the song was the loudest. As she got closer to the source, her eyes spotted the unmistakable colour of bright yellow within the branches of a tree.

"Gilbird!" She clasped her hands together, happy that she had finally found him.

And perched right beside him was the yellow bird she had seen earlier. Singing.

Ignoring the fact that she was wearing a dress and forgetting that birds had appendages called wings, Maria started climbing up the tree until she was at eye level with the birds (standing on her tippy toes).

"Found you Gilbird!" She chirped.

Gilbird chirped back and hopped onto her shoulder. She smiled at him and turned to the other chick who looked remarkably like the one sitting on her shoulder.

"You must be Gilbird's new friend!" She said. "What's your name?"

"Hibird! Hibird!" He fluttered his wings.

Maria blinked, tilting her head to the side. She was a little surprised that he had answered her question but pushed past it.

"Who do you belong to? You have to belong to someone since that song was in Japanese." And it was highly doubtful that this little creature could migrate all the way to Italy.

"Hibari! Hibari!" He chirped again. "Hibari! I'll bite you to death! Hibari!"

"Eh?" I'll bite you to death? Why was such a cute thing going around saying that?

Before she could ask where he learned that phrase, Maria found herself falling backwards as her feet slipped out from underneath her. Her eyes widened as she plummeted towards the ground as she lost her balance. She felt her head hit something and even though it wasn't hard enough to knock her out immediately, she could see the black edging into her vision.

She gasped once she hit the ground, the impact of hitting terra firma breaking her leg, her arm, some of her ribs and badly bruising the rest of her body.

The last thing she saw before darkness completely overcame her were two yellow balls flying towards her.

0000

"Nnngh..." Maria's head hurt and she felt like throwing up.

Something near her chirped and she groaned.

"You're awake." A deep voice stated from nearby.

Maria groaned again at the throb that voice brought on.

"Hibari! Break! Break!"

Something pressed down on her arm, causing pain to shoot up through it. The filipina instinctively reacted by using her other arm to lash out at who had put pressure on her broken limb. However, the person caught her arm before she could hit them. They chuckled in amusement.

"It seems that you aren't as much of a herbivore as you appear to be."

"I'm not a plant eater." Maria said, finally opening her eyes. "I eat meat too."

Staring down at her was a pale man with dark hair and steely grey eyes. He was still holding onto her arm and a smirk played on his lips, amused that despite being injured she would still try and strike him.

Maria tried to get up by a sharp pain from her rib areas stopped her mid-way. She winced, finding it difficult to breathe. Oh no... did she break her ribs too?

The man forced her to lie back down, making her cry out in pain as he had firmly pushed her shoulder down- the shoulder that was attached to her broken arm.

"Lie down." He said in a cold but firm tone. "Unless you want to break something else, I suggest that you don't move."

She didn't say anything, half listening to the man and half concentrating on the agony that was hitting her full force now that she was conscious again. Just because she was a nation didn't mean she was immune to pain; just that she couldn't die and that any injuries she sustained would heal far faster than that of the average human.

"Ow..." She winced when he positioned her arm carefully.

Looking up at the branches, Maria recalled what had caused her to break quite a few bones in her body. She had somehow slipped off the branch she was standing on and had hit her head falling to the ground.

"Um... who are you?" She asked him. Now that she thought about it, the man seemed familiar. Where had she seen him before?

"Hibari Kyouya. Cloud Guardian of the Vongola." He held something in front of her and she gasped softly. It was the Sun Pendant that Lovino told her to keep hidden at all times. "You are the Sun Guardian of the Romulus Family."

"HIBARI!" She heard another male voice call the man's surname loudly. "Where is the injured girl you were talking about over the phone?"

A dark-skinned man with silver hair came into her view.

Maria blinked. She definitely recognized this person; the Sun Guardian of the Vongola family. His name... it was Japanese but she forgot what it was. She usually tended to space out during the meetings with other influential mafia families.

"She looks extremely hurt!" The filipina winced, clenching her eyes shut and wishing that the newcomer would keep his voice down.

"I can see that." Hibari Kyouya sounded irritated. "Can you heal her?"

"I'll do an EXTREMELY good job of it!"

She could feel something warm around her left leg that she recognized as being the Sun Flame. Constantly healing Lovino's human mafia family, it was hard for her not to recognize what the heat was.

The heat of the Sun flames that were healing her was so comforting that Maria passed out for the second time.

Done the first chapter! Anyways... explanation as to why she would be chosen as the Sun Guardian of the Romulus Family.

One: Manny Pacquiao. Need I say more? She's inherited his skills.

Two: A good number of her people are nurses and doctors, thus amplifying her skills in the nursing field. Since the Sun Flames are capable of healing, it suits her.

Three: Her religion is Catholic. Do we remember what job the first Generation Sun Guardian had? Not to mention the main religion of Italy.

Oh yeah... guess what Romano's famiglia name is Romulus?