So! This Chapter is going to be a bit shorter than the usual… I'm sorry?~

The owner of the bakery Midori works in was sitting in the empty bakery. It was a Monday. It was a bit early to open up and no one came to work yet, so he sat at one of the many empty tables and drank some tea. Midori had already headed to school and he was alone. Everything is calm, quiet, peaceful, until he heard someone come through the doors.

"Well, it's been quite some time hasn't it Reborn?" He asked the mysterious figure by the door. "I suppose it has, Tokujiro Zen." 'Reborn' called out. As he came closer to the owner, that person seemed to be a baby with a black suit on. He had a fedora with a big orange band on it. Not only that, but he also had a green chameleon.

"What brings you here today?" The owner asked. "I'm here to talk to you about Hanabira Midori." The baby replied while jumping up on a chair, with that, their conversation began.

Midori!~

As Midori was running up to the entrance, Midori saw Hibari which usually meant she was late. "Haha hello Kyoya~ Am I late?" Midori asked cheerfully. "Yes, I suppose this means you will get bitten to death; by me." Hibari said dangerously as he pulled out his tonfas. Midori remembered the last time that she saw him, he has actually swung at her and this time she wasn't going to risk another possible bruise to her face.

"I should start running now…" Midori thought to herself as she sped past him and into the school; however she had to run pretty quick since she could sense Hibari chasing her. "Wahh! Where are you when I need you A-1?" She thought as she was frantically looking up at the signs that read the numbers of each class.

When Midori found her classroom, she was opened it halfway when she was stopped by Hibari. "Common! I'm here aren't I?" Midori whined trying to get Hibari to lose his grip on the door. "That's not enough you stupid herbivore." Hibari replied slightly amused at Midori's childish comments.

"If you don't open this door for me, I'm going to show everyone that picture I took of you last week!" Midori threatened. "You know that would mean I'd have to kill you for real right? I was only planning to break your bones but if you show that picture to anyone, I will snap your neck." Hibari threatened back as he slightly moved closer to Midori's face which made her back away a bit.

"Well, that's my problem to deal with later; your problem would be to deal with the frustration of everyone making fun of you, I'm sure you can't just kill everyone who laughs behind your back because you'd probably drag the population of Namimori down to one and then you'll be all lonely!" Midori shouted pressing her forehead on his.

Everyone in the class of A-1 was just gawking at the two outside through the window. (You know how in some schools in animes and stuff where there's like a window that's between the classroom and the hallways? Yea, that~) Even the homeroom teacher couldn't help but stare at them. Cold gray eyes met with glossy bright orange orbs and it would almost seem like lighting was drawn in between.

Nobody moved until Hibari averted his gaze and left. Midori then had a victorious smile on her face as she opened the door and walked into class. "I'm sorry! I woke up late and I was distracted for a few minutes back there haha~" Midori told the teacher whose response was "I-it's fine Hanabira-san, just take your seat." Midori nodded and walked down the second row to her seat. While she was walking, everyone was staring at her and making comments about how amazingly lucky she was not to get bitten to death by Hibari.

She simply walked to her seat and sat down to talk with her friends; or she was about to, when she got weird looks from everyone. "Umm… is something up guys? You're all like staring at me." Midori said a bit awkwardly. "Oh! N-no; I-it's nothing Midori-chan!" Tsuna said unconvincingly while waving his arms about. When Midori took a look around the group, she really sensed something different. Tsuna looked like he was afraid of something and was full paranoia. Kyoko looked like she wanted to laugh but instead went with a modest giggle. Yamamoto looked happy as always but his smile looked like it was telling something more this time. Gokudera just looked really mad about something, more so than he usually is.

Midori was really confused. "Did I miss something during the weekend?" Everyone stiffened up a little when they heard Midori's question only adding to her suspicion. "You know, if you guys have something to say you might as well get out with it." Midori insisted.

"Ahahaha, it's really nothing Midori-chan, really!" Tsuna said, trying to suppress her suspicion when Kyoko chimed in. "It's nothing for you to worry about Midori-chan, we were just remembering something funny that happened during the weekend." Although Kyoko wasn't exactly telling the truth, she was, and so her words came out smoothly. "Hee~? So what did I miss guys? You sounded like you had a lot of fun!" Midori cried. Now, no one knew what to do, they'd have to come up with an answer. That was when Gokudera decided to speak up.

"Che, if you really wanted to know, then you should have been there you stupid woman!" "Ehh? But it wasn't my fault! I was busy!" Midori argued back. "Then live with the curiosity!" Gokudera shouted back. "Psh fine! I'll drop it," Midori said calmly this time. "For now~" She thought to herself, she knew that if these guys won't tell her, then there's always Haru; she would probably spill everything.

School was once again, dragging by as always. But, today went a bit differently than usual, everyone was given stacks of homework and it was due the very next day. What was even stranger was that the amount of homework that was given was on topics that the teacher didn't even go over yet.

By the end of the day, everyone was going home, dragging their bunches of paper of homework behind them. Midori didn't know anything to the homework when it was given to her. She could barely understand the math they were going over now, let alone these complicated problems!

"Hey, can we study together on this, guys? I have no idea what these questions mean!" Midori sobbed while gripping her papers. "I think the only person who could possibly solve this is Gokudera-kun…" Tsuna said while looking over to his storm guardian. "Don't worry tenth! I will make sure that you and all the other idiots will understand these questions before the day is over!" Gokudera shouted passionately.

"Looks like we're forming a study group huh? So would it be at your house as always Tsuna?" Yamamoto asked. "Sure, I don't mind." Tsuna replied. "Sorry minna-san, I can't go today, I'll see you guys tomorrow!" Kyoko waved to everyone and left first. Midori called the owner to let him know where she was going and they were on their way.

"Wao, I didn't know Gokudera was so smart," Midori said as the group was walking out of the school. "He doesn't look it…" "I'm right here you stupid woman!" Gokudera yelled, pulling out his dynamites. "I don't think we should be playing with fireworks right now Gokudera haha!" Yamamoto said, laughing. "These aren't fireworks! You stupid baseball freak!" Gokudera yelled, now changing his attention to Yamamoto. "Ahh! Wait Gokudera-kun!" Tsuna called out, but his words fell on deaf ears.

After some time of running around and chasing each other, (which was mostly done on Gokudera's part) the group had eventually made it to Tsuna's house. "Wao, so this is your how Tsuna?" Midori asked, taking in the sight of the house in front of her. "Uh, yea, let's go inside." Tsuna said while opening the front door.

As soon as he opened to door, a pink grenade hit him straight in the face. "Crap!" He yelled. "Shit!" Gokudera exclaimed, trying to get the grenade elsewhere before it explodes. "Huh?" Midori looked confused. "What's a grenade doing-" Before she could finish her thoughts, it exploded. "Wait, what? I thought it was just a toy! Holy baloney!" Midori yelled, clearly freaking out.

As Tsuna got up from the impact of the explosion, he was kicked back on the ground by a baby. "Your late." The baby said, and then he looked at the group in front of him. Of course he knew Yamamoto and Gokudera but the one person he hadn't exactly met yet was the girl with the green hair and bright orange eyes.

"Reborn! Get off of me!" Tsuna cried but to no avail. Midori looked at the baby and thought to herself "What kind of family is this? This is nothing of an average family!" "This isn't a normal family. I'm Reborn and I'm going to make Tsuna into the most powerful mafia boss ever!" Reborn announced as he made his way towards Midori. "Really? That seems a bit far fetched but you know what?" Midori responded while crouching down and poking Reborn on the forehead, "I believe you!" Now, she was getting shocked looks from everyone except Reborn who smiled, knowing that Midori had to believe him considering her past involvement with the mafia.

"What's all the commotion about Tsu-kun?" Another figure approached the scene. "Ara! You have a new friend Tsu-kun? Why didn't you tell me!" Tsuna's mother came out, completely ignoring the mess the explosion the grenade had left and cheerfully greeted Midori. "Hello there! I am Tsuna's mother and it's very nice to meet you! You can call me Nana!" "A-ah my name is Hanabira Midori; you can just call me Midori. Nice to meet you to" Midori introduced herself back to the woman. "What a nice name Midori-chan! Why don't you and everyone else come inside! I'll make some snacks!" Nana said, heading back inside.

"S-she ignored the explosion?" Midori voiced out. "It seems that Mom is completely oblivious to the whole mafia business…" Tsuna sighed; although he would prefer it so. Everyone headed into the house and to Tsuna's room where they were greeted with I-pin and Lambo who were fighting over something again. "Guys! Can you please get out of here? We're going to study!" Tsuna pleaded. His request was followed by I-pin but was not by Lambo. "Gyahahahaha! Lambo doesn't listen to Tsuna! Lambo will stay here!" Lambo pointed to the floor.

"Get out." Reborn said calmly as he kicked Lambo out the window. When everyone heard Lambo crying out side, they sweat dropped. "Hmm~ What an amusing family~" Midori expressed, as she took a look at Tsuna's room. "Messy, but all in all, average." She thought. Everyone sat around the table and were about to start when Tsuna asked Midori "Do you really believe we're all in the mafia?" "Yes, why not?" Midori asked back. "I-it just seems different, when Reborn was told you about this, how could you believe him so whole heartedly?"

"Well, I can't say I haven't seen what the mafia looks like…" Midori replied, her eyes darkening. "But! That's another story for another time!" She quickly added to prevent anyone from pressing on. Also to avoid an awkward silence, she spoke again. "Well? I came here to do my homework and I need it done so let's get started!"

"Oh! I almost forgot why I'm here ahaha!" Yamamoto laughed. "You stupid baseball freak! Alright let's get started." Gokudera decided. They got through it slowly although it wasn't so much of Gokudera teaching as much as Midori and Yamamoto just copying the answers. Every now and then, the two would glance at each other and laugh quietly when they saw Tsuna trying to keep up with Gokudera when they were just simply writing the answers over on their pages.

When they were finally finished, Midori announced that she would be the first to go home. Although Nana had offered her dinner, Midori insisted she was fine and was well on her way.

To Tsu-kun~

"Ne, Reborn, you don't have anything to do with the crazy amounts of homework we had today right?" Tsuna asked. "What are you talking about Dame-Tsuna? I had nothing to do with this." Reborn replied. Tsuna was about to sigh in relief before Reborn added to his sentence. "Although Doctor Borin might have convinced the teachers and pulled a few strings."

"You! You set this up! But why? Did you just wanted to torture us into hours of doing math homework?" Tsuna ranted. "I needed Midori to get accustomed to the people who she'll soon be working with." Reborn answered. "Wait- Reborn-san, you don't mean…" Gokudera started. "Does this mean that Midori will be in the game too?" Yamamoto asked excitedly.

Now there were two chibi's of Tsuna. One wanted to yell at Yamamoto, telling him that this whole mafia thing was far from a game, but the opposite! The other one just gave up on telling Yamamoto and thought he was better off thinking it was merely a game. While the trio was sorting out their thoughts concerning what Reborn had just told them, Reborn slipped out of the window.

To Midori!~

"Reborn? Shouldn't you be with Tsuna?" Midori asked, when she saw that Reborn was out in the open with her. "I came here to make a request Midori." Reborn made known of what he wanted with no hesitation. "I want you to join Tsuna's family, I don't think I need to explain to you what it is, seeing as you should know at least what that is in mafia terms." Midori frowned, although she had handled the news that Tsuna was to become a mafia boss insanely well, she did not think that it was a good thing nor did she expected to be recruited into one no less.

Before she could decline, Reborn spoke once more. "Not all of the mafia is bad and the main reasons why there are so many mafia wars and such would be one, for power. Two, for money, and/ or three, to protect their loved ones with their dying will. The Vongola just happen to be only number three. Should they ever fight, it is because they must; it is not because they want to for the hell of it. I hope you realize that." His tone had started out light but was now very serious.

Midori had no idea how to respond. But something did come up in her mind. "What can you possibly get from recruiting me? If anything, I'd probably just get in the way since I have like, no fighting skills." "That may be true, but I have seen your other skills." Reborn implied. "What skills?" Midori questioned, feeling a bit dumb that someone had uncovered a factor of her that she didn't even know she had.

"You like taking pictures?" Reborn asked although he knew exactly how this conversation was going to play out. "How did you-" Midori started but Reborn interjected.

"I saw you taking pictures of almost everything in front of you since I first saw you. You are observant although you are not always sharp. When you are, however, is when you excel in understanding the situation. You were also able to take a picture of our merciless cloud guardian Hibari, and he didn't kill you. Of course, that could be of other reasons…"

This shocked Midori, she had never seen someone who could make such a judgment about her that was so detailed. She couldn't deny it either. Midori was not of arrogant nature but she did consider herself an observant person. "You could be of use to the Vongola and I hope you will join Tsuna's family but this does not make you a guardian, all the spots are taken and you are simply their ally."

"You really are serious about this aren't you Reborn." Midori asked rhetorically, looking past Reborn's smile. "Of course, who do you think I am Hanabira Midori? I am the greatest hit man in the world and my job so far is to help Tsuna become a great boss. You've seen Tsuna, he may be in the mafia but he is not like the people who killed you're parents. I could sit here and try to convince you, but you have already met him so I doubt you will disagree with what I'm trying to point out."

Now Midori really couldn't think of anything to say. He knows of her past, he knows what happened all those years ago. As much as she wanted to cry, the memory of the incident long ago is but a dull pain now. "Is everything you're saying true? Tsuna really isn't that kind of person?"

"I have no reason to lie to you and I'll let you judge him yourself."

"I-I'll think about your offer, give me till the end of this week." Midori decided calmly. "One week, I will give you one week." Reborn said and he turned around and left. Midori also face the opposite direction she was currently and headed back to the bakery. When she entered the bakery, the owner was still there. "O-owner, what are you doing here? Isn't it pretty late already?" Midori asked as she walked in. "We have to talk about something Midori." The owner spoke softly as he prepared himself for what he was about to say.

AND That's it for now XD lolz I'll leave you guys with anticipation for the next chapter to come~ Now I know that this chapter really didn't have Hibari in it but the next one will! I just had to get this chapter out because Midori needed to be reminded to all that mafia stuff. Hey! Review this chapter guys ima getting lonely D: lolz yea, tell me what you guys think? Oh! And I really couldn't go through with the whole introduction between I-pin, Lambo, and Midori, but I will next time they see each other!~