Please if you haven't yet, please please please with a cherry on top post happy 15th birthday Ash!

My Family

Some people may say that I was unlucky, I got the short end of the bargain, I was unwanted, unneeded, and abandoned; but that's not how I see it. I have two real families. There were times when I doubted, but I always got dragged back on my feet by the people around me who I love. My Senpai always reminds me that besides God, family is one of the most permanent things. Who else can you yell at, argue with till your blue in the face, and mistreat with them still coming back to you. Who else do you trust to return after seeing all your bad sides. Who else would come and save your sorry butt when they warned you countless times already about that same thing.

My family used to consist of me, my Mama, Papa, and Grandpa; but after a lot of things, it consists of more. I used to be all alone, I could feel my trust in others fading and myself becoming more cynical. Then she came, and just like that my family grew. At first I was unwilling to admit it, she forced her way into my life and made me open up to her. The first time I met her, she beat up three guys basically by herself and without breaking a sweat. She was the first role model I had. Let's face it, I was six years old and she was a strong, beautiful, smart, kind, and cool hitman. What else does a kid need to look up too? But soon, she became much more. She was nice and always looked after me. One time, this was soon after she and Reborn picked me up for my training I was about nine, She warned me over and over again that my new move was not ready and that I shouldn't try it out no matter what. I thought she was crazy. She was the one who taught me that move, and I totally nailed it in practice. So, throwing her caution out the window I went to look for someone to use my new move on. It went horrible. I approached some punks who were up to no good and prepared to use it.

"What's up with the kid?" one of the guys asked.

"Shut up stupid delinquent," I yelled back at him.

"I don't know," answered his friend. "But I don't like her attitude or what she is calling us."

"We'll see who is teaching whom a lesson," I replied smartly.

"Oh! Big talk for such a little girl," they taunted.

"When I am done with you, you won't be able to talk at all," I smirked. I was just about done with my preparations and was going to blow them away with my awesome new move, but something went wrong. I started my move, but them dodged in time. Now I understood what she had been telling me. She wasn't saying that I couldn't do the move, she was saying that my move was rough around the edges. It wasn't nearly as fast or powerful as it could have been if I practiced more, but too little too late. The punks were moving in, and I didn't have the power, speed, or move to deal with it. I cringed, preparing for the pain, but it didn't come.

"I'm sorry about my little one," said Annalisa showing up out of nowhere. She had coughed both punches midair. "Do you think we could give you nice fellows an apology, pay you for your troubles, and everyone walks away?" She said smiling sweetly at them.

"Yeah, and don't worry about paying us. Your apology is all we need," they answered very compliantly.

"Thank you!" smiled Annalisa, nudging Ash.

"Sorry," mumbled Ash to the guys.

"No problem, your lucky to have an older sister like that," said the guys waving over their shoulder as they left. And they were right. Annalisa sighed and turned to me. "What do you think you were doing? Pick a fight, using hitman moves on normal people, and a move that your teacher said was NOT perfected yet!" she had a stern face.

"Sorry," I said sullenly.

She sighed again, "What am I going to do with you?" she leaned down until she was face to face with me. She reached out her hand, I flinched thinking she was going to slap me but instead she rubbed me on the head. "Well, as long as you understand, but don't think you are off the hook yet. You are going to do the dished and cooking, wait that would just punish me if you did the cooking, you are going to do the dishes for an entire month."

"EHH?!" I said.

"No buts," she said. "Now, let's go home my little one!" She turned to face me and held out her hand to me.

"Hey, I'm not a little one," I screamed. But despite all that I didn't deny the 'my' part, I couldn't help smiling and chasing after her. It was around that time that I started to call her Senpai.

Reborn always played the bad guy. Whenever Annalisa was being to easy on me, he would come behind her and do the dirty work. He was also the one who protected us when Annalisa couldn't handle it. He always trusted us until the very last minute when he had to intervene.

Soon I met him. One day, a semi good looking guy came to visit Reborn and Annalisa, but he was a real dweeb. Oddly enough though, Annalisa seemed really close to him even if he was exceedingly clumsy. That was not allowable. I did everything I could to separate the two. I clung to Annalisa and growled at him every time he got close. I would preoccupy Senpai whenever he fell or something and need her medical attention. Put insects in his food and bedding, one time I even told Annalisa that there was something in the bathroom. I wasn't lying, Dino was in there. That was hilarious. Totally worth the scolding and chores I had to do for a month all to hear him scream like a girl. But he still stayed, after all that. I thought he was just a good for nothing air head, I couldn't believe that he was the boss of a mafia family. I really liked Romario, he is too good to be the right hand man of that klutz. My opinion of him all changed when he risked his life to save me. We were all going to have a picnic (me, Senpai, and Klutz) when we were attacked by a group of weirdos. It was getting dark, so Senpai was already on edge (At that time I didn't know about her fear therefore didn't do anything to help her). But get this, the creeps where dressed like ghosts and monsters. That threw Senpai over the edge. I feel bad for those guys. Not only did she probably burst their ear drums with her scream, but she beat them pretty bad. After it was all over, I approached her in my ignorance.

"Senpai? You okay?" I asked tentatively.

"Baka! Don't get close to her, don't move," yelled Dion tackling me.

"HUH?!" I yelled confused. I heard a whish. I turned to see Senpai's weapon just leaving the spot I had just vacated.

"Don't move," whispered Dino. He explained to me all about her fears and how she didn't know what she was doing. "Stay here," he instructed. "Annalisa," he moved slowly towards her. "It's me and Ash. Your friends!" Her eyes grew wide as he came closer to her. She freaked and swung at lightning fast speed, Ash could barely see it, let alone warn him about it. Dino amazingly blocked it. "Hey now, non of that," he said soothingly. She started to tremble and got teary. She dropped her weapon, luckily Dino caught it for her and threw it away. He opened his arms wide for her, and she cried against him. That was the first time Ash had felt like she had an older brother. It turns out that Dino wasn't only here to visit Senpai and Reborn, he had asked their help in capturing a mafia family. It happened to be the family that attacked them during the picnic. He apologized to Senpai.

"Sorry, I didn't know about how they dressed," he said sheepishly.

"No, problem. You didn't know," answered Senpai.

"Senpai, Senpai," I said tugging on her.

"Yeah Ash? I'm sorry about scaring you like that," Annalisa said shyly.

"It's no problem. I just wanted to ask you a question," I answered.

"Yeah?" she replied.

"Is he your boyfriend?" I asked pointing to Dino.

"Wha-" they both became red in the face, and rushed to assure me that it wasn't like that.

"Good," I sighed in relief. "I wasn't sure how to break it to you that I didn't approve of him." Senpai just laughed, Dino had a stupid look on his face.

For a long time it was just me, Senpai, and Reborn with Dino occasionally visiting; but then we went on a fateful mission to Japan. There I gained a few little brothers, some older sisters, and younger sister. Kyoko and Haru I really like. They are both nice and treat me like a younger sister that they love and take care of. I-Pin is nice too. It's fun to be an older sister because I only had older sisters before. No matter how much older they are to me, I will always consider them my little brothers. Loser (her nickname for Tsuna) no matter how useless he is he did help me when Senpai was gone, Baseball Idiot now that I mention him I'm not to sure about him I don't like him being Senpai's boyfriend, Extreme Idiot ugh next, Sutpidera he is good at explaining things and exorcism, and even the Stupid Cow who I don't need to expand upon all joined my family after a while.

So, I am very lucky. I don't know what people are talking about when they call me unlucky. Not only do I have two families, but I have more people surrounding me and supporting me than I could ever ask for. I love my families, all of them. From my favorite, Senpai, to my least favorite, Stupid Cow, and everyone between.