This is a spin-off one shot of my other finished KHR story, The New Girl in Varia so I would recommend reading that before going here.

DISCLAIMER I DO NOT OWN KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN

Sakurako's POV

The Celeste famgilia. This was my family. As the fourth generation boss I had traveled the world in order to find the best suited people to support me at a young age. The people that chose to stand by my side are my guardians. I've inherited both the name and the legacy and I intend to bring it back to it's former glory with these people by my side. The glory it had before my family was massacred five years ago.

The Varia, Vongola Ninth's personal assassination squad. They were responsible for it. They secretly broke a treaty to kill my family for no other reason than to kidnap my sister. My sister was not by blood. In reality she had a great potential to inherit one of the powerful families in the Mafia world. Instead she chose to stick by the people that took her hostage. She was perfect. Was. Not anymore. I've seen with my own two eyes just how much they mean to her. The way they were willingly to risk so much for her. I've forgiven her for siding with them. They had managed to help my sister out in ways that no one else could. Not even myself. Natsuki was my beloved sister that I couldn't hate.

I wasn't the only one that loved her though. I didn't think much about Varia besides the facts until I found someone interesting among them. The Indigo Arcobaleno. He refused to go along with my plans, claiming that he didn't think it would work. His emotions were easily read in a second. He feared that bringing her back from her suicide mission would only made her resent him. He feared her hating him because he loved her. I found that amusing. The known reputation of a frugal, heartless man loved Natsuki. There was one more that I found interest in.

Prince the Ripper.

He was silent unless spoken to. When he was speaking it was crude, cocky, and surprisingly caring. Not towards me but in an overall look he was always looking at another view. Alongside the Indigo Arcobaleno, he did not meet my expectations. He was holding back on something when we spoke about Natsuki. He held back when he heard that the Arcobaleno would be in charge of both the Mist flames and retrieval team. And, out of all of Varia, I couldn't read him.

The more that I tried to study him, the more that I found myself getting confused. What exactly was he hiding and why? Why was it around the Arcobaleno? They didn't have a strained relationship from what I've seen. There was something else that Prince knew about him that he didn't feel like sharing.

What was annoying was that he had the title of genius and lived up to it. He knew exactly what I was trying to do whenever I questioned him. He avoided the topic, he skillfully turned the questions back at me or escaped the question all together. As much as I hated to admit it, he was playing me more than I could him.

I finally figured him out at my birthday party. I was talking to Natsuki when he brought the Arcobaleno to us. He had told her that the Arcobaleno would teach her ballroom dancing. I scoffed at the idea at first. It was plain as day that he was purposefully putting them together in an intimate position. It didn't surprise me that the Prince knew his feelings for Natsuki.

I was going to give him a small praise for being able to push them together naturally when I found that he was quiet again. He resisted a frown that was forming on his face that I couldn't help but stare. All of my questions were answered following his direction. He didn't look at the pair together. Even without seeing his eyes I could see where all his attention was.

He loved Natsuki. With how dense Natsuki was he had an equal chance if he wanted. Yet he pushed the other two together. For someone that had been murdered his own family at the age of 8, he didn't pursue in someone that he actually loved. He even gave her to another man.

"Why?" He turned to me. He understood me in a second. He knew that I would pick up on his emotions at some point that there was no reason to hide it besides his pride.

"I'm no match for Mammy." I forgot how to breath at how softly he had spoken. I looked back to the pair slowly swaying to the music. Natsuki kept her eyes to the floor for the most part, not seeing how the Arcobaleno was taking care to make sure she was comfortable. He watched her like a child dancing for the first time. It was the first time that I could visibly see him relax.

"You know that even if you're family, you have an equal chance. Natsuki isn't the brightest light bulb with this kind of stuff. Why do you put yourself on a lower bar them him?"

"I don't need to answer that, Quarrto." He moved to leave when I blocked his path.

"You will if you don't want me to tell Natsuki about your feelings." He grinned leaning in closer to my face.

"Ushishishi go ahead. In the end Hime is the only one I care about. Get in the way of that and it'll be on you." He bumped my shoulder walking past me. I angrily watched him go back to Varia without so much of a second thought towards me.

My guardians came up to me making sure that I was okay. I didn't answer them keeping my eye on the Prince. How dare he try to make a fool out of me? He was just talking with the other Varia members as if nothing had just happened.

He was the one that was giving up on his feelings before he had a chance to tell her. He was the one giving her away to someone that literally needed his assistance to get them dancing. He was the idiot that chose to watch them rather than do something productive. So why was I the one that was frustrated? I should be the one to be laughing at him not the the other way around. Stupid Prince the Ripper.

This may have been an act of pettiness but I was determined to make Prince the Ripper listen to me. I was not going to have him, a member of Varia, be the person to best me out of all people. I needed to get that stupid Prince in a state that would be the easiest for me to pry more. The best place would be somewhere that I can either get him alone or in a place that urged him to drop the act of solitary around him.

So I arranged for an outing for everyone to go out to Mafia land. Mafia land was the place that Mafiose go to relieve stress. I played it off as wanting to spend more time with Natsuki that I knew that the rest of the officers would come along as a free trip. As long as I didn't raise any suspicions on my true intentions, they don't need to know anything. It's not like I need to get along with them in the first place. I'll get what I want from the Prince and never associate myself with them outside the necessary again.

"You're planning something I can tell." Natsuki came up to me as the boat was pulling up to the island.

"What do you mean?" She rolled her eyes at me.

"You really think I wouldn't be able to pick up on you scheming? Of course Varia would want to come if you invited me here. You wanted them here for something. I know all of our histories is not the best but can you please try to get along with them?" She sighed rubbing her face. I didn't deny anything to her. I would have been stupid to try lying to her instinct.

"What do you think about Prince the Ripper, Natsuki?" She paused at the sudden question.

"Bel? He's the first one that I had gotten close to when I was taken. He's always been by my side since then as someone that I can easily go to whenever I needed something. Why?" She answered quickly with no hesitation.

"He's the reason why we're going to Mafia land today. If you want our two families to get along then I need to be able to trust the other side completely. I can't do that with him. He's made a fool of me." We heard the captain of the boat announce our arrival through the speakers.

"Sakurako-"

"Come on Natsuki. We wouldn't want to keep everyone else waiting." I turned away heading to the exit. She lagged behind a little not satisfied with my answer probably. Natsuki wanted what was best for the two families but that was impossible. I didn't need them. I formed an alliance between our two families in order to forge some peace. I did it for Natsuki. So that we wouldn't have to meet on such rough conditions. I will never forgive Varia for what they did.

When we had successfully all signed in we all silently agreed to try go in our separate way. The two families already had a line straight down the middle to signify that we had no plans to go together. I was going to give my guardians the day to relax while I continued my plan to read the Prince. I would have given an excuse to go on rides myself which would have been 'coincidentally' the same places he was going to.

Before I could do anything Natsuki linked her arm with his. He didn't react as if this was a normal occurrence. Again I couldn't understand why he would put himself in that position. "I'm excited that I don't know what to do first. Bel you choose where to go first."

"This is Hime's first time coming right? How about we go in order of the rides then?" She nodded then pointed to me.

"It should be Sakurako's first time as well. Can we bring her along?" I smirked seeing what she was trying to do. It was obvious that the Prince wouldn't say no to her and I wouldn't be able to deny if I had stated that my plan for today was to get closer to Natsuki. The Prince was smart too, knowing that he irked me on my birthday he could tell that I did not enjoy his company.

The others were tense at her question. To them they only could imagine that Natsuki was trying to create a bring between the two families. A bridge that will never form. But he only grinned at me all knowingly.

"Sure. If that's what Quarrto wants." He was provoking me again. Making me say that I would like to hang out with him with my own words. I almost bit my tongue as he was waiting for my answer.

"I'd love to accompany you two. I would like to recommend that the Indigo Arcobaleno would come along as well to have an even number." I didn't hold back hostility. If the Prince was going to play with me then I was going to use this chance to my full potential. I was going to watch more of his reactions to Natsuki and him together and compare results to come up with my conclusion.

"Why me?" The Arcobaleno questioned. Natsuki's hand glowed blue in his direction moving his pet frog to her head. They made looked at each other in silence in a way that made it seem like they were having a conversation between one another. He sighed once as her hand lost the colour around it.

"That's settled. Let's head off then!" Natsuki dragged the Prince away from the two main groups. My guardians were concerned over me going with them but I briefly signaled to them that I would be fine before going to catch up with them.

And of course the Prince had to pick the more extreme rides. Back to back he was purposefully picking rides that exhausted me. It wasn't like I couldn't handle them but all the constant fast speed and screaming scene gets annoying after the third time. I was use to staying in my room to come up with plans and designing machinery. Going on these rides were just as annoying as the Prince's smirk when he suggested them.

All of us knew exactly what was happening as we continued our track. Natsuki was clearly trying to pushing the Prince and I together in every way possible. In our conversations if it was between her and I she will automatically bring in the Prince into the topic even if he wasn't paying attention. She was focusing on getting us to loosen up. The Prince was clearly aware of that too but he never said anything about it. Only following what she was leading him into. The Indigo Arcobaleno wasn't stupid either. He barely spoke the entire time since he was the variable that Natsuki needed in order to group the two of us together.

"Next one up is that one." I pointed to the Haunted House.

"No. We're going to skip that one." The Prince turned away from the set towards the next park attraction.

"What are you scared of ghosts and monsters out of all things?" I snickered at him. He didn't answer back.

"It's fine Bel, let's go in order." Natsuki told him. She went ahead of us to get in line. The Indigo Arcobaleno followed her while the Prince remained behind for a second. 'Was he actually scared?'

I paid no attention to it going after the two. Of course we all couldn't go in the small hallway setting together so I was left with the Prince to though it. Upon request from Natsuki, we went in before them. With all the money Mafia land gets from donations this place was decorated to be top notch. Actors would jump out and scream in our faces every once in a while but when you're fully aware of the idea of them being there, there wasn't a lot about it that could frighten me.

I looked over to the Prince that acted no different then when he was outside. When we finished the course I thought that in the better light I would have been able to see that he was scared. But he wasn't? "I thought you were afraid of the haunted house. Why do you look okay?"

He threw his hand behind his head. "You're so focused on me that you didn't even realize the obvious. Hime doesn't like Haunting houses or scary movies. She probably agreed to go in so that we would be together."

"Natsuki doesn't? That doesn't make any sense, she's a killer."

"Then why did you think I would be different? Even with her hyper intuition she won't use that if she's not fighting or on guard. Why do you think she wanted us to go first? It's so that she can prolong the idea of going in there." He sighed looking back at the exit waiting for them to come out. As he had told me Natsuki came out clinging to the Arcobaleno with her eyes closed. It wasn't until they were fully out that the Arcobaleno patter her head to tell them that they were out.

I ran up to them checking her over. "You're afraid of Haunted houses?"

"Just a little I guess. Nothing too extreme. Don't worry about it." She adverted her eyes to the next ride, landing on the colourful carousel. "Can we go on that one next?"

There was some residual thought left in my mind about the fact that I had blatantly ignored that Natsuki clearly didn't want to go into the place. It wasn't anything that she was 100% devoted to avoiding but the idea that I didn't even notice that she was scared was bothering me. "Hime, you and Mammy can go it, I'll sit this one out. Quarrto can sit this one out as well since you'l probably pair us up anyways."

"Okay but why don't you want to go on?" He shrugged looking in my direction.

"Not my style. I would love to see Mammy on it though." Natsuki didn't think anything of it. No matter how good her intuition was, she fully trusted the Prince to tell the truth.

"Come on then Mammon." She dragged the Arcoabaleno away towards the ride. I was left with the Prince as he watched the two of them together. He was always watching them. Just like now when Natsuki was afraid to go in. Seeing what she needed the most and making it so that she would be happy. He always kept her eyes on them.

"You really love her." He didn't turn away as Natsuki hopped onto one of the horses. "So why do you allow her to be with him?"

"Hime doesn't say what she wants very often. That was the only ride she asked to go on herself." Now that I thought about it Natsuki only asked to go on the carousel without it being next on our list. Regardless of whether it was because she wanted to relax after the Haunting House or because she wanted to actually go on it, it was the one time she asked for something. The Prince was giving her the chance to enjoy her one request with the Arcoableno instead of him.

The Arcobaleno stood next to her his mouth moving as they held a conversation. She was happily chatting away with him. For a moment I understood why he tried to push them together. It almost seemed like they were in their own bubble. "You've endured a lot then."

"I'm not some sort of brave soul Quarrto if that's you're thinking." For the first time since meeting him that I actually understood him. I didn't need to push for more. He loved Natsuki enough to put him in a lower standing. I had to respect him for everything that he's done for her up until this point.

"Thank you Belphegor." He didn't respond to me. We just watched Natsuki and the Arcobaleno slowly go around in a circle.

When the ride finished, Natsuki happily skipped over to us. She was looking a lot better than the previous attraction did to her. Her eyes went back and forth between the two of us. "You guys aren't fighting? Did something happen?"

"Nothing at all Hime." Belphegor decided to not push the topic further. She could probably tell that much by not prying for more about what we were talking about.

"I'm glad though. Out of everyone I knew it would be the hardest for your two get along. The fact that you guys aren't arguing right now makes me think that there's actually a chance for redemption."

"I honestly believed that this was impossible. Especially since this is Bel we're talking about." This conversation didn't sound right.

"Come on Mammon. Bel was only doing as what was being told. You have to admit Sakurako really lives up to her standards by being able to figure out the exact facts about everything. That's my sister for you." I don't understand.

"You can't deny the fact that Bel was the one to do everything." Belphegor did what?

"Hime. Mammon. Quarrto doesn't know. She hates me for another reason." Belphegor finally spoke up. Natsuki wanted to say something but quickly covered her mouth. What didn't I know? He faced me head on. "I was the one to kill the Celeste famigila."

He gave out his creepy laugh. The flames in me flared up as he continued to laugh without remorse. I had believed that all this time it was all Varia's doing. For it to only be this one man it boiled something in me. "Some of my grunts helped out but..." He paused, nodding his head. "It was only me."

"My mother?" I was reaching my end point as he was taking everything so easily.

A smirk slowly formed on his face. Everything seemed to slow down. "Celeste Terzo that old hag didn't stand a chance."

I threw up my arm with a freshly made crossbow aimed at him. Security was immediately alerted and yelled at me to drop my weapon. All my surroundings blurred with only the sight on him as my target. I was breathing heavily my arm clearly shaking in anger. "You bastard! You dare say that to my face!"

"The one time I answer you question truthfully and this is how you respond?" He was taunting me. I hated him.

"I'll kill you!" I was going to pull the trigger when I felt another flame flare up. Natsuki was being held back by the Arcobaleno but had her Stelle ring on her finger. Her white flame was flickering in my direction.

"Don't. Please." She pleaded at me with a small voice. Seeing her desperately call to me weakened me. I dropped my arm having the crossbow disappear. I ran off without saying anything.

I sat by the beach watching the waves move. I could hear the sound of people all around me. I don't know how long that I was here but I could clearly see the sunset falling. There was a lot going through my mind that I couldn't avoid. Belphegor was the sole killer to my family. Just when I thought I understood him, I found out this important fact. I couldn't pull the trigger though. Natsuki calling out to me so weakly. I couldn't do it. I couldn't hurt her even if the man to blame for everything was right in my range.

I know exactly why I couldn't pull the trigger. It wasn't just because it was Natsuki. It was because I could see clearly how much he cared about her. He may have taken out my family in cold blood but the one remaining member was the person he took care of when I couldn't. I couldn't pull the trigger to someone at him.

"Ushishishi regretting not firing at me?" I shot my head at Belphegor walk over taking a seat next to me.

"What are you doing here?" I mumbled at him. I didn't dare look at his face.

"Hime told me to go after you. I'm not sure what that will accomplish but I'll answer any questions you have this time." I scoffed at him.

"Doing this for her? I should have known."

"So? Your questions?" The whole purpose of us coming here was so that I would have him answer my questions. Now having him here I found myself running blank.

"I have a few. What about Natsuki made you fall for her?" I didn't want to hear about my mom's death right now. I need to reminder of why he wasn't dead yet.

He leaned back into the sand giving a sigh. "Who knows? She's stubborn, follows orders to an exact, brash, way in over her head most of the time and over all puts her life on the line like its nothing on multiple occasions."

"And?" He was silent for a little bit.

"Hime is the first to care for my life. Growing up Rasiel was the only one everyone cared about. After the Vongola Ring Battles, Hime remained by my side. Before that when I first met her, she was the only one that wasn't scared of me without having background in the Mafia. Hime was always the only one to me."

"Then when was the first time you wanted to push the Indigo Arcobaleno together then?"

"I've always seen how they treated each other. The time I started pushing them together? The Vongola hotel. Mammon had taken her Varia jacket that left her in despair. It was the first time I've seen her so distraught but I couldn't help her. In the end it was at that point that I realize that it was Mammon was the only one that could be for her. Those two are too dense too see anything though that they need a genius like me to help." His voice was lowering in volume as he continued.

"Final question," I took a few deep breathes, "did my mother have any last words?"

"Hmm, No. Not any that I remember. There was something different about Terzo I'll have to give her that. When I killed her she stared at me right in the eyes. She had no fear." I nodded taking it in. My Mother wasn't afraid of him until the very end. There was a certain sense of pride that came with knowing that she didn't scare away from him.

I'll never forgive him for what he did to my family but I couldn't bring them back by killing him. After hearing everything and seeing it all, I couldn't hate him. I hated that I couldn't bring myself to hate him further. Try as I could, I would only dig myself into a deeper hole with me ending up hating myself over him.

"You're quite the interesting one as well Quarrto. You could have pulled the trigger before Hime had a say but didn't. Maybe you're just as crazy as I am."

"What?" He sat back up. For a quick second I though I saw his bangs move to the side of his face. His eyes were crystal clear, a deep shade of red. It was beautiful enough to make my heart skip a beat. He reminded me of a real prince this time.

"Maybe instead of going for a princess I'll go for her older sister. A queen if you will." The part of me that always was able to answer back to these types of advances failed fast. He stood up laughing. Satisfied at his work he left me sitting there. When he was out of my sight I slapped my cheeks to regain myself.

I take everything back. I hate that stupid prince.

A/N: And with that this one shot is over and a complete story for The New Girl in Varia is complete. It still feels unreal to me. Hoped you enjoyed this story and this one shot. Below is what happen between Bel and Natsuki after Sakurako had run off.

"Sakurako!" Natsuki had yelled as Sakurako ran off. Mammon had released her from his hold but she didn't chase after her.

"Shall we go on our next ride Hime?" Natsuki stomped her way at Bel who couldn't care less about the angry boss.

"I thought you two were getting along. Why don't you care more about her?" The smile on his face dropped at how she spoke to him.

"We weren't getting along. How can we get along when I killed her family? She was just too blind to see it until now. I really don't care about how she out of all people sees me. I killed Celeste Terzo that will not-" She slapped him. Bel slowly brought his hand up to his face.

Natsuki's hands balled up into fists staring at him. "She was my mother too. She raised me too. Do you really think I completely forgot about that? Varia may have given me a place to be but that does not erase what happen." She suddenly buried her face into his chest. He didn't move.

"We never had a chance to say good bye. You were following orders so I can't hate you. But Sakurako... that was her blood you killed. Maybe you don't understand since you killed your family but things were not the same with us. I wanted you all to get along because you both mean so much to me. I never forgave you. I wanted everyone to at least not be at each other necks. Is that so much to ask!"

Mammon pulled her away from Bel. She clung to his cloak as Bel didn't move. He knew that Natsuki loved the Celeste familglia. That's why he never said anything about the deaths to Sakurako. Seeing Natsuki react so violently to Sakurako's reaction was showing the truth in how she felt. Since the beginning Bel knew that this would come back to bite him.

"I'll speak to her Hime." He just wanted to make her happy. Bel loved her after all. But he knew that it wasn't in his place to act upon it.

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