Everything seemed like a 'normal' day to her. Hurrying to get on school in time alone, daydreaming in the classroom alone, eating lunch alone, waiting for her lift home alone, going to her room alone, and listening to music, alone. She really didn't feel like leaving her room. It was always the same outside. She closed her eyes as she turned the volume of her speakers up. No-one was home anyway. She felt something grab her T-shirt suddenly. The next she knew she was standing on a path littered with peddles, something in front of her. She knew it wasn't nice of her to say thing, but she couldn't make out a gender. Actually, she couldn't even make out what it was. In front of her was a black silhouette. Just a silhouette and nothing more. It was like a shadow... And it disappeared. It just dissolved into nothing.

And there she was, standing in the middle of a path, alone. She tried to take a step in the direction of what looked like a mansion in the distance behind a lot of trees, but peddles hurt her foot. Instead she just stepped on the grass and sat down, her back leaning against a tree. It didn't take long before a guy passed her by. She didn't say anything. She just watched as the guy with silver hair and a sword stuck on his hand passed her by, not even noticing her. A few minutes later, she saw the guy again. Only this time he stopped in front of her and yelled in something she presumed to be a communicator. 'Voooi! There's nothing at the entrance, have you guys found anything?' After a few seconds he yelled again. 'Keep searching! The origin of that energy peak must still be around here!' With that the guy walked down the path again, walking a bit faster than before.

After what seemed to be hours, the guy stood still in front of her tree again, only this time he was accompanied by four other people. One was a floating baby, the second was a blonde guy with a tiara and a Cheshire grin, another was an ugly guy with piercings and six umbrellas on his back, and she didn't want to describe the last guy. The only thing she could name about him was his green Mohawk and his sunglasses. 'Voooi! How come none of you found the source of the energy peak?' 'Shishishi, don't be angry with us. You didn't find anything either.' 'What did you say you stupid prince!?' 'My, stop fighting you two~' 'Mu, this is a waste of time.' Those guys were just arguing, how come none of them had noticed the little girl leaning against a tree? After at least ten minutes of constant arguing, she snapped. 'Are you kidding me!?' The guys turned around, all of them just noticing the girl sitting on the grass. The girl just continued like nothing happened 'How is it even possible you guys didn't notice me sitting here for the past few hours!? Are you fucking blind!?' In a split second, a knife bored in the tree next to her face, roots grew out of the ground, six sharp umbrellas were pointed at her, and a sword was held against her neck. The girl then realised she should have just kept silent.

She didn't like it at all. She sitting on a couch, sandwiched between guys they called 'Captain Squalo' and 'Stupid prince'. She was pretty sure the latter was just a nickname, but with everything that had happened those past two hours, she wasn't even sure whether her name was truly Vinny. But back to the story; the thing that was troubling Vinny was not the fact that she was in a room full of people that would most likely be able to kill her in less than a second, or that she had no idea where she was or how she even got there. The thing she didn't like was that she was sandwiched between those guys. She liked to be in a corner, no matter what situation she was in because you could see any potential threat. But now she felt pretty vulnerable. She had already told her name and how she got there. And as expected, no one believed her. The only one who didn't seem to think she was completely lying was that floating baby, and she wasn't exactly sure if that was to be considered a good thing...

The situation somehow managed to get out of the 100% life-threatening zone, or at least until that guy showed up. The door to the room got kicked open by a very cranky looking guy. Vinny sort of found him good looking, with that black hair and crimson irises... 'Trash, I ordered you to bring me my wine.' 'Voooi! I was busy with interrogating this intruder!' The cranky guy glared at Vinny, before kicking her into the wall. 'Done, now bring me my wine!' The guy said, leaving the room immediately after.

'Voi, is she still alive?' 'Mu, I wouldn't count on it. The boss doesn't really go easy on people...' 'I'm fine!' Everyone in the room froze. They knew there was a possibility that he girl hadn't died from just one kick for their boss, but they would never have expected her to stand up with only a few bruises. 'How are you alright after that kick?' 'He didn't kick me that hard.' Had she said something wrong? Everyone looked like she was crazy. Maybe they were mad about the damage to the wall? 'Sorry for the hole in the wall by the way...' Now they looked at her even weirder. Squalo couldn't believe it. The kid looked so weak, yet she stood up so easily after a kick from their boss? Squalo knew from personal experience how painful the boss' kicks were... And the girl even apologized for the hole. Who even thought about that in a situation like this? This girl had more to her than she let on...

Since then the Varia allowed Vinny to stay in their mansion. Xanxus didn't expect to see the girl alive again, but he couldn't be bothered with it. Although the Varia didn't seem like they would help her find her home, Vinny decided she had a bigger chance of sorting that mess out if she stayed. Besides, she welcomed any chance from her old life. And even if she had most likely found hell on earth, at least she wasn't lonely anymore... And again, she couldn't decide whether that was a good thing or not.

In the following weeks, Vinny learned quite a lot about where she was. For example: she now knew that she was in the Varia mansion in Italy, and that the Varia was part of the Vongola, a mafia family. She was more surprised to be in a mansion Italy, than that she was about the whole mafia part. She did find it strange though that that Squalo guy seemed so intent to train her. And even if she was kicked in a wall by him, she still found Xanxus good looking. She didn't think such a thought was appropriate for a 13-year old, but what would she know? She never got along well enough with her peers to know that for sure.

She found the daily life in Varia to include a lot of exercise. Her day started with running away from Bel, who was always trying to kill her. Then she had to run from Lussuria, who wanted her to wear the clothes he made. She found them way to frilly for her liking. She did think of Lussuria as one of the nicer members of Varia. Plus, his cookies were superb. After lunch she had to do exercises from Squalo. They mostly existed of sneaking, running, climbing and testing out various weapons. And after supper she could do pretty much everything she wanted. Bel was 'playing' with Mammon most of the time, Lussuria was preparing dinner and Squalo was or practicing or doing errands for Xanxus.

Vinny liked to explore the Varia mansion. Though she was much more discreet with it ever since Xanxus threw her out of a window after he found her exploring the room where he kept all his alcohol. Vinny was lucky Levi, who was patrolling outside, happened to break her fall. Most members of Varia soon found themselves taking a liking to this young, (most of the time) polite girl. Not so much that they would hesitate to kill her if given a reason, but enough not to kill her without one. She was polite if not angered, and helpful enough. Even Squalo found her decent. This of course didn't apply to everyone. And with everyone I mean Bel, Xanxus and Levi. Levi only cared about his boss so he didn't pay attention to Vinny, Bel just liked to see her running, trying not to get stabbed, and Xanxus... Xanxus didn't care about her. To him, the people were just useless thrash, some more useless than others. His opinion about Vinny was no exception. Though, later he was going to chance it to just thrash instead of useless thrash. But for now he didn't care.