Thank you to Khrforever D for reviewing! I put in the beginning part because you requested more secret meetings between Natsuki and Yoshi.

DISCLAMIER I DO NOT OWN KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN

Natsuki's POV

I sighed as I fell, face first onto my bed. We had just finished hunting down another family. When in Varia targeting another family it was strictly business. Now I'm hurting them just because Nori wants to strike fear.

I felt so pathetic. I've have been on jobs, I've seen people in fear letting out a scream as their voices die down. I didn't feel guilty as it was my life work but this feeling now was different.

Nori was just being a jerk and I was weak enough to follow him. I lifted my head as I heard a knock on the door. "Who is it?" "Um it's me, Yoshi." "What do you want?" "To say sorry." "For what?" "For Nori-nii's actions. I know his actions are troublesome and don't seem right. But he is doing the right thing so don't worry!"

I got off my bed, placing my hand on the door. "What does that mean? The right thing?" "Yeah. Nori-nii told me that he plans on using this power to bring people happiness." "How is the thing that brings destruction bringing happiness? What good would come from scaring people? What good came from us following him?"

I slowly sank to the ground leaning my back against the door. We were in silence as I was waited for an answer. "I don't know. I guess I never thought of it that way." I heard him whisper. In all honesty I didn't have an answer either. "Natsuki when did you become like this? Before you would avoid people, hate Nori-nii, you hated people that didn't know yet those people...Changed you. Why?"

"People don't change, Yoshi. The only thing that changes is who they follow…Before I didn't follow anyone but stayed clear of anyone without any path to follow. But those people are my friends. I followed them to being the new me. They are my...Light." "I see."

I heard some movement on the other side of the door. I pressed my ear against the door trying to find any sign that he was still here. He was gone. I buried my face in between my knees. "I even pushed Yoshi away." I mumbled. "What's wrong with me?"

Bel's POV

All of us were attending a meeting to discuss what to do. After the Celeste family came back we sent some new people to their base. The place seemed to be abandoned, not a trace left of them.

We are now here to see if we could find anything. But it was like the subordinates said nothing was left. We were watching as Sawada was freaking out that we had no leads. "What should we do?! Even Sakurako couldn't do anything! What's going on?! Where's Natsuki?!"

He stopped moving once boss shot a bullet nearly missing his head. "Shut up trash." "HIIIIIIE!" He stood still, afraid to move. "We have do have a lead." Was all boss said. Sawada loosen up a bit, staring at boss. "Trash show them."

We all knew what boss was talking about. Mammon took out a small box and plugged it into the monitor. A map appeared on the screen with a flickering red dot along with a green dot. "What is this?"

"When we were doing the arcobaleno trails Natsuki was acting strange. So when she was sleeping we placed a GPS chip in her locket. The red dot is her while the green one is us." Mammon was the one to explain everything. "Why didn't you use this early?" Sawada asked. I sighed at his stupidity, saying "We did. Don't you remember we gave you the first coordinates?"

"Now that you mention it." He said rubbing the back of head, laughing sheepishly. "So how far are we?" Mammon started to push a few buttons on the box. "They seemed to be very far away. We're in their former base and they seemed to be on the other side of the world. It'll take about a day to find them."

"Wait I don't understand one thing." The silver hair, bomber said. "You said Shadows quit on her own will. How do you know that she didn't throw away her locket away?"

It didn't take even a second to know that answer. Hime may have said she moved on but we know her. "You think you know her but you don't. You may have spent some time with her but you peasants know nothing." I caught a glimpse of Lussuria and Squalo nodding.

"When Hime got the necklace she promised to never take it off. Hime never breaks her promise." "That's what I'm saying! Who knows she's changed! She fought her sister, making her fall asleep for who knows how long! She's been hunting people! She sided with Nori! She's not the Shadows we know!"

I threw a knife near bomber kid's head. "What was that for knife bastard?!" "For saying those things about Hime. You think Hime actually fought Sakurako? She would never full on fight them, putting them in danger. After we met Sakurako, the next day we listened to her talk non-stop about times she spent with her and Hoshi. Siding with Nori? Is something we can't explain. But that doesn't mean she needs you to tell her what she's doing wrong."

I kept glaring at the kid who was getting mad at me. "Anything more?" He was about to open his mouth but Sawada stopped him. "Ma ma Gokudera-kun, Belphegor-san please calm down. Belphegor-san you're right we haven't spent as much time with Natsuki as Varia but we're all a bit stressed out. Gokudera-kun I know Natsuki isn't very close to you but you can't be saying these types of things."

We kept glaring at each other then we averted our looks after a while. "So we need to go get Natsuki soon. Reborn can yo-" Sawada was interrupted by Mammon. "We should we just leave her. Why should we go after her? It was her decision to leave. I find no use in finding a useless girl that has nothing but weaknesses that make her run away when trouble came her way."

Mammon unplugged the chip and floated out of the room. I walked after him. He stopped a few rooms out of ear shot of everyone. "About the chip in her locket. We never gave Vongola the coordinates. You took the GPS and told them where to go, didn't you?" "So what if I did? We would have needed to use it sooner or later, anyway."

Mammon turned around. "That's beside the point. We agreed I'll be the one in charge of the chip. You took it without my permi-" "Besides you can't be lecturing me for using it...Seeing as you, yourself gave the idea for the chip and have monitoring the detector for days now." He kept staring at me with his covered eyes.

"What do you mean? I couldn't care less about Natsuki." I started to walk slowly towards him, hands in pockets. "Ushishishi what lies. Who was the one to suggest the chip? Who was the one who nearly broke all the walls once they heard the news of Hime leaving? Who was the one always watching Hime? I can tell you."

"I-I didn't..." His voice trailed off. I walked past him stopping right beside him. "It was all you, Mammon...Hime's best friend."

Mammon's POV

"It was all you, Mammon...Hime's best friend." I could hear Bel's footsteps walk away, leaving me alone in the hallways. I pulled out the gift she got me for my birthday. It was a special silver coin she made herself. On one side it had a group shot of Varia and on the other side had Natsuki with a speech bubble saying "Otanjōbiomedetō Mammon!" I sighed as I flicked the coin upwards. "Is this really how people make decisions?"

I swiftly caught it placing it down on my forehand. I slowly lifted my hand. If as it was fate the side I saw was Natsuki's. "Yeah, like a coin could tell me anything."

I fiddled with the coin trying to get her off my mind. But how could I? Every time something was wrong. Every time I needed something. Every time I saw this simple coin. She would appear out of nowhere in my mind.

I turned around still seeing Bel in the distance but still not far. "Bel." Somehow Bel always had a strong hearing sense. He stopped and looked at me. "Say...Say if I wanted to-"

"Ushishi do it. You plan to rescue Hime but you're afraid that she'll be pushed away even more, right? That's why you said to not after her. You say that she's the one with weaknesses but even if she did, she never stopped. Unlike you. You would run to her if it wasn't for your fear. What are you going to do now? Are you going to keep pretending or are you going to do something?" He continued to walk not saying another word.

I didn't know what to say. What was I going to do? 'Natsuki what would you do?'

~Flashback

I was counting my money in my room while Natsuki silently slept on my bed. We had an important job together so she decided to rest before we leave. I turned around to look at her and sighed. She shook a bit as she woke up. Rubbing her eyes, she said "Is something wrong Mammon?" "Why do you say that?" "Because you sighed, while counting money. Tell me. I'm all ears."

She used her illusions to create huge ears, wiggling them, laughing a bit. "Nothing is wrong." Her ears fell, returning back to normal size. She pouted as she walked up to me. Grabbing my cheeks then started to stretch them in and out. "Little liar. Tell me. PLEASE!"

"I told you I'm fine." "Meanie." She let go of my cheeks. She seemed to be in a deep thought while rubbing her chin. "Hmm... Ah! Can you give me a hint?" She said happily, clapping her hands together. "Fine. I want to do something but it'll only anger the person I'm talking to. What would you do?"

"Well you would have to ask yourself this. Are they actually going to get mad or are you afraid they will?" She skipped back to my bed, flopping backwards. "If it's something that truly angers them than change that. It's easy for people to get mad but it takes a real effort to calm someone down. Do you have that strength to so?...Whatever it is never be afraid to tell someone the truth."

"Fine. I don't want to go on a job with you." She swung her legs off my bed. "What?! Why?!" "A lot of money is on the line. Our job is to kill everyone in sight. But as Shadows you remain hidden only killing people when needed to. I plan on going with Bel who doesn't hesitant." She pouted, crossing her arms over her chest. "Fine do what you want."

~End of Flashback

I gripped tightly to the coin. 'It's easy for people to get angry but it takes a real effort to calm someone down. Do you have that strength to so?' Do I? I took a deep breath as I stuffed the coin back into my pockets. I floated back to the room we were in before.

Everyone looked at me worried. "Why are you staring at me? Get a plane already. Natsuki isn't going to come back just by you sitting here." The room burst alive as we planned for a strategy.

I looked at the right hand pinkie. The same pinkie I used to promise to her. 'I don't have the strength to face Natsuki nor bring her back. But I can do this for her.'

Glossary

Otanjōbiomedetō= Happy Birthday