Summary: When Giannini tampers with the box animals without permission, Natsu and the others become human and are free of their ring forms. Now, until Giannini is able to solve the problem, Tsuna and the others must take care of the box-animals-turned-human, which leads to a bunch of misunderstandings.

SkyGem: I know I shouldn't start a new story, since I have so many going on, but don't worry! This is going to be a relatively short fic, with only eight chapters; a prologue, and a chapter each for the guardians. So sit back, and enjoy the show, ne?

Disclaimer: I don't own KHR.

Prologue

"Lambo-sama wants seconds!" shouted the young lightning guardian from the unusually crowded kitchen of the Sawada residence.

"Coming right up!" said Nana in a singsong voice as she picked up the cow child's plate and went to refill it.

"The food tastes delicious, Sawada-sama!" said a certain Gokudera Hayato enthusiastically to Nana when she came back to the table.

"Thank you so much, Gokudera-kun," said the brunette woman with a smile. Then, noticing a grain of rice stuck onto the young bomber's face, she smiled softly and plucked it off, saying, "I'm glad you enjoy the food."

Gokudera brought his hand up to his cheek, dumbfounded at the motherly gesture; he'd never really had a mother, so he wasn't sure how to react.

Before long, though, the silverette was brought out of his thoughts when a certain rain guardian asked enthusiastically, "You're an awesome cook, Nana-san! Can we come over again sometime?"

A vein appearing in his forehead, the ever loyal storm guardian shouted, "Oi! Baseball freak! Don't be so inconsiderate! I'm sure Sawada-sama has more important things to do than prepare your meals for you!"

Before Yamamoto could reply, a certain skylark spoke up in an icy voice, "Be quiet before I bite you all to death."

Now, you're all probably wondering why everyone was currently at Tsuna's house. Well, the reason for that was that Reborn had invited them all over for an important meeting. What that meeting was about, nobody knew.

The moment they all arrived, Nana had invited them to have dinner, and nobody had been able to refuse. When she saw the rings they were all sporting on their fingers, the woman had immediately requested for them to take them all off, insisting that it would be bad manners to wear them while eating dinner.

Before long, everyone had taken their rings off – whether it be voluntarily, by blackmail, or even at gunpoint (Leonpoint?)- and put them up in Tsuna's room, where they would be safe.

What everyone (even Reborn) failed to remember, though, was that earlier that day, Giannini had locked himself up in one of the upstairs rooms and was currently fiddling away with an invention.

When he heard the commotion of all the guardians putting their rings away, his interest was piqued. When the inventor realized that they had left all the ring animals inside Tsuna's room, he almost had a heart attack at the rare chance he had been given.

After all the guardians had returned downstairs, he sneaked into the future Decimo's room and gathered all the rings into his hand. Afterwards, he sneaked back into the room he had previously occupied and got to work on his new project.

Meanwhile, back in the kitchen, the situation had started to deteriorate.

Hibari had gotten into a quarrel with Mukuro while Chrome sat quietly in her seat, Ryohei was going on about how EXTREME everything was and Gokudera was yelling at him, Yamamoto was laughing for no apparent reason, Tsuna was freaking out, Lambo was being annoying, I-pin was trying to get him to calm down, Fuuta was watching what was going on with interest, and Bianchi (who was wearing ski goggles) was trying to feed people her poison cooking. Meanwhile, Nana was just watching what was going on with a smile on her face, happy at how lively the house was tonight.

Suddenly, though, a huge explosion was heard upstairs, and the kitchen was engulfed in silence.

Reborn, who was the first to realize what must have happened, ran towards the kitchen doorway. "Giannini…" he growled threateningly under his breath.

When Tsuna and the others heard the technician's name, they all ran after the infant-hitman-turned-adult with expressions varying from annoyed to panicky to curious.

Upon arriving at the guest room, though, all had on expressions of pure disbelief.

Why?

Because there sat Giannini in the middle of the room, surrounded by eight young, clueless-looking children.

SkyGem: *sticks tongue out* That's all you guys get for now XD. Sorry. Anyways, I hope you all like the idea for this fic; please leave a review and tell me what you thought, ne?

Chapter 1: Mukurou