Hello, my name is Clarissa Phantomhive. If you, dear readers, are reading this, you will know what really happened. The anime Black Butler is not entirely true, and there are more "rules" than what are shown through it. Let me tell you the truth:
You would not have heard of me because my parents sent me away as a baby and faked my death. That is because I had this thing, a light of sorts, quite literally, in my heart. People with that sort of light are extremely strong and skilled in whatever part of the body contains it. For example, Mey-Rin's eyes and Agni's right arm. This slowly spreads and makes the person stronger. Since mine was in my heart, it spread like wildfire and managed to reach my soul. Because of that, demons (real ones, mind you) could sense my presence for miles. They knew I was one of the few who could see past the matrix of this world.
That is why I was sent away, but not alone. Tanaka, who played the role of a demon in this matrix but wasn't really one, had made "the deal" with my father at the time (he made "the deal" with every head of the Phantomhive household) and was ordered to raise and protect me (which Tanaka wasn't too happy about and enjoyed making my life miserable). I knew about this from a young age so I decided to put my ability to good use and start training myself as well as learning (almost, I have limits, you know) anything anyone would teach me. I travelled all over the world trying to avoid real demons while having fun on the way and visiting my family in England when I could. This way, I could protect my family and still "have a life" as people say nowadays.
However, I was given my real reason for doing this on my sixth birthday: my precious little brother, Ciel Phantomhive. From the moment I saw him and his adorable little smile I felt that I needed to protect him. That's why this whole thing started. On that day.
It was one of my secret visits to the Phantomhive manor (for my sixteenth and Ciel's tenth birthday), and I was just about to go to bed when I smelled smoke. I turned around and ran to find my brother who, knowing him, was probably fast asleep. I was wrong there. I saw him running towards me at top speed.
"Sister!" he cried. "Fire!"
I nodded. "You need to get out of here. Then I'll find mom and dad." I looked around, searching for the quickest way out. Then, one of the few times I was happy to see Tanaka occurred. "Take him to Aunt Angelina's, where he'll be safe."
He nodded. "There's not much hope for your parents." He muttered as he passed me. "Even I wouldn't risk it." Then, he carried Ciel to safety. This wasnot good news. I sprinted past and through fire to the room I had last seen my parents. I almost let out a scream when I saw them. The scene was too horrible to look at. Then the ceiling fell. My hair caught on fire and I jumped out the nearest window and headed for the pond. When I was free of fire, I collapsed onto the ground with my back to the sky and passed out.
When I awoke, I was alone inside a cart. I heard the drivers talking about "the Phantomhive brat". I realised that I must have been mistaken for my brother, due to my singed hair (I'm blonde, btw) and the fact that I was dressed like a guy (I don't see how one is supposed to be ready to fight in a corset and skirt) with my breasts to the ground, and that they'd hunt down the real Ciel if they realised I wasn't. That was when I decided to pretend to be him until I could figure a way out. I disguised myself further using a hi-tech wig and a rubber-like band to hide my breasts (this wasn't the first time that I disguised myself as a guy) that an inventor-friend of mine gave me (I have some fairly strange friends).
I'm not going to get into the details of what happened next (last time I tried to explain it, the person listening apparently had nightmares for weeks), but you get the idea. I was desparate, near death, and pretty much hopeless when I made "the deal" with Sebastian. Another reason for this being that ten year-olds aren't supposed to be able to do half the things I was able to do (no offence to ten year-olds) and I needed to make sure it was safe for Ciel to return (hence making the deal in order to get rid of the people who did this). I suppose the anime does a fairly accurate description of that. In the next chapter, I suppose I will begin to explain things where the anime does, so we're on the same page.