A/N: HIIIIIIIII! We're back from our super long hiatus! :D SCHOOL LIFE IS CRAZY. That explains all. Why we had such a long hiatus. Yeah.

"Join the Vongola family." Those three words seemed to have the power to change their lives…

If only they knew what "Vongola" was.

"We're the strongest Mafia organization and that's our very unworthy boss standing over there who has yet to show his full potential." Tsuna was shoved to the front as he stumbled and scratched his head sheepishly.

"If you want to find the Poofer and go back to your world, join us. Your unique powers will be beneficial to the family and in return, we will assist you with our full power."

"How can we help you? And more importantly, how can you help us?"

"I know the location of the Poofer. It is certainly unreachable without our help."

"And why is that so?" Esabella asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Reborn, how can you involve strangers into these complicated matters that they have no need to even know about?" Tsuna's blatant refusal to his invitation made everything seem much more suspicious.

Where on earth could the Poofer be in which it would be so hard to reach?

"These are not just your average people." Reborn replied, his eyes stern and glinting dangerously.

"We will not reveal any information to you unless you accept this offer."

The trio glanced at each other uncertainly.

"I guess we have no choice anyway…"

The other two nodded in assent.

Mindy sighed in resignation and faced Reborn.

"…We accept."

"Hey… Do you know where we are now?"

The gravity of their decision had only struck them vaguely. The three girls were in a daze, everything was just too unreal.

"I know you know I know you know I know you know I know you know I know you know I know you know I know you know I know you know that WE DON'T KNOW! HAHA."

This grew into a heated HAHA-debate until Reborn the all-knowing opened his noble mouth.

"We are here."

…Right.

"We are here in the Vongola training facility. Everything has been accounted for, including your accommodation, clothing and meals. You will be shown to your dorm, which will be shared between the three of you. Assemble at the main gathering hall tonight at 7pm… we have something in plan for you."

Esabella bounced up and down, "Will there be Night Surprise?"

"No."

Mindy, Esabella and Peiyu were led into their dorm.

The blank white walls only served to increase the emptiness of the room. Three bunk beds lied neatly in a row, and aside from the large wooden wardrobe opposite them, the room was completely empty.

"Well… this room looks really interesting." Sarcasm is a virtue.

Esabella briskly walked across the room towards the wardrobe and poked her head in. After a strangely long while, she closed the door and turned back to her friends, saying, "Hey there's a lion in the closet and it says it's from Narnia and its name is Aslan… or something."

Mindy and Peiyu sighed, looked at one another, then looked at Esabella, shook their heads in utter despair and walked away.

While the three girls were digging through their wardrobe and stumbling across random clothes and 'ancient treasures' – Yeah right, I wish.

"Three-legged trousers!" *flings*

"Wedding gowns!" *flings*

"Birthday suits!" *flings*

".. Coca-cola bottle costume!" *flings*

"I'VE GOT LADY GAGA'S MEAT DRESS!" *throws up*

After digging through all the weird and wonderful mysteries and discoveries of the wardrobe, they finally found some normal clothes, (which are up to your imagination how it looks like depending on what your definition of normal is!) realized that it was nearly time to go, and set off.

The gathering hall was dark. It was creepy. It was eerie. It was.. FREAKY! But they didn't care. Because they have never cared about important things, and never will, until… the grass turns blue.

"WELCOME TO THE VONGOLA FAMILY!" A loud chorus of voices broke the eerie silence.

A shrill scream pierced the air, followed by a loud smash. Over Tsuna's unconscious figure, Esabella was standing victorious holding a frying pan.

"Where did you get it from?"

"Oh, Aslan gave it to me. It's the same one that Rapunzel used!"

A moment of awkward silence ensued.

The gathering hall had colorful streamers hanging from the walls and there was a humongous banner with the word "WELCOME" written in a messy scrawl. A wide circular table lay right smack bang in the middle of the room and had number tags pasted onto the back of the seats.

"Aaanyway, it's a Vongola tradition to welcome newcomers with a Family dinner. And by Family, I mean the whole Vongola. The Varia have also been invited to witness your glorious entry." Reborn said dryly.

"We are so terribly honoured." the retort equaled its predecessor in sarcasm.

"To be fair, we have (more or less) randomly allocated seats to all the people present. Please move to your respective seats and enjoy your dinner!"

Mindy was seated between a particular swordsman with silver hair that seemed long enough to compete with hers, and a black-haired boy with a jacket hanging off his shoulders, and an adorable little bird hovered around him, singing an incomprehensible song.

"Uhm.. hello? I'm Mindy. Yoroshiku ne." Mindy managed to utter apprehensively as she glanced at the two beside her.

"VOIIIIIIIIIIIII. Yo kozo! Squalo's the name." Well, she wondered how she managed to remain with perfect hearing after that bellowing, but he seemed nice enough… Until he grinned and ruffled her hair.

"Don't touch my hair!" Mindy swatted his hand away playfully and laughed.

"Hn." The anonymous black-haired boy finally muttered, casting them a cold glare. Although she smiled back at him warmly, her eyebrow was twitching in irritation to the one-syllable reply.

The unconscious fail of a boss, aka Tsuna and a blond-haired creepily-smiling boy were plonked on either side of Peiyu.

There was yet another awkward silence.

The only sound that was vibrating through the air was the constant squeaking as Belphegor polished his knives one by one. "Which one should I use later…?" He seemed to be unconsciously thinking aloud, completely lost in his knife-polishing world…

"Nice knives…" Peiyu barely whispered, but Bel whipped his head towards her and replied, "Ushishishi. Arigatou, that's because I'm a prince."

"But princes always come with princesse—" Peiyu blurted out her immediate thoughts before clamping her hand onto her mouth. Oops. Never offend a prince. Lest you face the wrath of a never-ending lecture on the art of princeyness.

She could feel a weird look coming from Belphegor under all that golden fringe… maybe it was because she had many experiences of weird looks from her friends.

Esabella was flanked by a purple pineapple-shaped-haired boy who had a peculiar smirk on his face and a laughing retard by the name of Yamamoto. She looked uncertainly around.

"Errr… hey." Awkward turtle…

"HAHAHAHAHA. NICE TO MEET YOU. HAHAHHAH. HAHAHAHH. HAHAHA. HAHAHAH—"

"Kufufu. Why, aren't you such a pretty ojou-san?"

The reaction was immediate.

*SMASH*

And with one almighty whack from Esabella's frying pan buddy, Mukuro lost all consciousness and accordingly became the second victim of the day to succumb to the frying pan's awesome power.

Now the other guy had stopped laughing and was staring at her. Esabella didn't know exactly what to do next, but she sent him her best death glare just for a good measure.

As expected, it worked.

"Oh. This is a strange predicament to be in." Mindy mentally face-palmed as she looked at the 12323471920437 tangles that were threatening to ruin her entire life's work of conditioning, shampooing, combing…

"Mindy! I WHACKED HIM! …YESSSSSSSSS!"

"TRASH, GET YOUR ASS OVER HERE."

The very coincidentally (and unfortunately) well-placed cries of triumph and irritation respectively caused them to turn their head at such an immense speed that their hair went flying towards each other's… until they tangled together. Into one big mess with contrasting colours.

"How are we going to settle this? We could possibly try to use two gigantic combs and sort out the tangles one by one with our experience in combing through massive amounts of hair, but that would take quite a long time, wouldn't it? WOULDN'T IT?" Mindy was on the verge of hysteria – I mean, it has to do with her hair, HER LONG BEAUTIFUL HAIR! *gasps of shock*

"…well, maybe it's true I do need a princess." Belphegor theawesomeprince suddenly said, breaking out from his knife-polishing trance.

Peiyu was at a loss for words. Something seemed to hang in the air between them…

After proclaiming her latest victory to Mindy, Esabella's exultation quickly disappeared when she saw her friend's predicament of tangled hair with the guy next to her. Ack.

Speaking about guys sitting next to her…

Esabella turned and saw that weird laughing bloke still staring at her. Somehow the faintest inklings of a crazy idea crept into her mind.

Calmly lifting up her plate, Esabella slowly… carefully… SUDDENLY flung it right into his face. Seeing his expression of utter shock and disbelief, she laughed almost-maniacally then jumped onto the table, shouting, "FOOD FIGHT!"

And it was with that ringing battle-cry that the beginning of the end of everything arrived.

At the end of the very calm and enjoyable food fight, everyone was drenched in tomato sauce with an assortment of pasta, pickles, cheese, takoyaki, cookies and tiger prawns.

Esabella was still laughing blithely in a random corner of the room at the results of what had happened.

After all the mayhem and madness was over, Reborn once again restored order (sort of), and gathered those present for some important announcements.

"Here is the schedule for what you will be doing during your time with us. Rest assured, everything is absolutely essential and important."

…

None of them could even utter a word.

Because the only word that was present in the whole schedule was red and bolded: TRAINING

"WHAT?"

Authoresses' Note

Mindy: Hello my dear readers who are actually taking the time to read our nonsensical fanfic :P It's 2AM in the morning right now and I think all of us are going insane and braindead soon, considering that we're singing I GOT A FEELING in robot voices. Oh gosh, we're really losing it. Anyway, onto more serious stuff, I personally think this chapter was very weird and all, but I hope you will continue reading until it gets to the better part later on! (: I promise you it's much better… I think. Okay that's all, please read and review 'coz if you don't read, you can't review, and if you don't review, BILLY WILL GO TO YOUR HOUSE AND EAT YOUR BRAINS. Nah, just kidding.

Esabella: Mindy is ranting. Peiyu is playing music on her iTouch. I am doing nothing. You will be reviewing. Because I know you will be. Peiyu, your nose is running! Hurry go and catch it!

Peiyu: I WAS SLACKING THROUGH THE WHOLE THING! Well, not really. Idk. :\ Now we're listening to Namimori School Song! :D It's killing Esabella's (overloaded) brain, according to her. Anyway, Aslan was funny. And we watched Rapunzel together yay! :D I love Pascal but I love Bel more. :))))) Btw, my nose is still here even though it's running!