Hey! This is a little history that has been cooking on my head for a while, hope you like it!

Kuroshitsuji doesn´t belongs to me

It has been a long time but finally Grell was able to go out into the field again… and scissors free! Now the only thing she had to deal with was with the constant eyes on his back from both William and Senecius, that was acting more like a parent than her actual ones. It wasn´t as if she had a good relationship with them, hell, she didn´t even had a good one with her brother, but it wasn´t her fault. She at least tried… until they made clear that they didn´t want her.

"Hey, Grell-chan, would you like to take dinner with me?" asked the old medic, smiling to the redhead. He was accustomed to the company of the flamboyant reaper, he even left her sleep in his guest room at least three times a week.

"No, thanks, Sene-san" he rejected the invitation. "I was planning of going to my parent´s house and crash on the family dinner"

"Oh… okay" the ancient one watched her left with a frown on his face he retreated to a secluded area and quickly called the one person that would have the most of problems if the Sutcliffs managed to hurt Grell in any way. "Annafellows, are you there?" he asked with no real guarantee that the demon would appear. For his surprise, he did.

"Is there something you wanted to talk to me?" he asked.

"Grell is going to his adoptive parent´s home tonight and… I wanted to ask you to let me handle this. Having you attacking them would be bad and I don´t want any more incidents like the one of the red dress and the ball"

"The red dress and the ball?"

"Don´t act like a fool, you remember it as clearly as I" said the ancient, looking dead serious.

-Flashback-

After the graduation exam Grell was going through a change. He definitely didn´t feel like a man and that made him feel… because he was a man! His father always told him he has to act like one! And he would always want to please him… because that will please himself too. It was how it was, nothing more, nothing less. While he was fighting with his inner self, pretending to be someone he definitely didn´t was, Dorian Annafellows observed him with his demonic senses, hiding efficiently from the reapers. The demon sheath raised an eyebrow when he noticed the fight and went to hell to inform the Prince while he was sure the young master was safe. He kneeled in front of the bed that housed the great but injured demon and talked.

"I have news, my prince" he said and quickly explained the situation. Cases of close minded shinigami weren´t that usual, but still. His master wondered for a moment what he should do and finally gave his orders.

"Go to the Faustus family and ordered them to make the best dress in the Underworld"

"Red, my prince?"

"Yes, red would be fine"

Dorian went to fulfill his orders quickly and returned to the reaper´s realm to drop the present in Grell´s room. When the young reaper finally reached the place, he was wearing a black tux that wasn´t confortable at all. Then he found the package on the bed and opened it, finding a red dress he found the most beautiful one in the world, complete with a set of jewelry and a pair of high heeled shoes. At first he was against wearing them and threw them in the closet, but at the end of the day he took them out and try it on. He… she felt like herself.

"I´m beautiful" she told herself. She only need now to let her hair grow and he would be the sexiest woman in the dispatch.

In the end Grell went to the prom ball with that dress, earning some odd looks and cruel jokes from everyone. They even dared to empty a big can of liquor over her. She ran out of the ball room crying, something Dorian should have never allowed. Annafellows eyes turned deep red, he was protecting the pride of his Prince´s family… until the end. The silver haired demon snuck into those fool´s apartment that night and turned their clothing into shreds, thinking that attacking them would be bad for his young master. In the end all the new graduated except Grell had to attend to their first day in the Dispatch in underwear.

"It was not me, I swear…" said once and over again the red reaper to his furious companions. There was no way to prove his culpability, so they had to let go. But Dorian himself received a big reprimand from Senecius, that berated him for being stupid.

"What if someone have seen you?! All our hard work keeping this secret would have gone to the trash!" screamed the reaper, but the demon was not paying attention. To him, the young prince would be better and happier living in hell than in that place where some idiots only judged him and discriminate him for no reason…

-End of the flashback-

"I´m not going to say that I´m sorry and if those idiotic reapers made something to the prince then I´m crushing them like the vermin they really are" answered the demon sheath, crossing his legs. Senecius sighed and decided to spy the Sutcliff home. After all, it was his fault that Grell ended up in that place to begin with. "You know, it would have been better if you raised him yourself"

"It was impossible, I was being watched for my relationship with…"

"I´m not discussing that, you did what was best for that moment, but once the danger ended you should have taken him back"

"It… is true" Senecius went to the Sutcliff residence as quickly as he could, just to avoid things getting even worse than before. He knew that the couple hate their adoptive son, they have done that since their biological one was born. When he arrived to the place it was too late. The father was screaming at the red reaper some very hurtful things.

"We should have never adopted you in the first place!" he ended up. Grell was in a state of shock. She was… adopted?

"Wait, dad, so we are not related at all?" asked Thomas, getting closer to the door and looking down at his adoptive brother. "What a relief, can you believe how embarrassment it was to be known as the one that shared blood with such a freak?" and then the door was closed.

"Grell, sweetie" said the ancient reaper, putting his arms around the redhead. "Come to my place, I will take care of you" he whispered and took the other to his house. He let Grell change into a confortable red dress and make him some dinner, more worried about his protégée than what Annafellows would do to those idiots. "Eat something"

"Sene-san… is that true?" questioned the red reaper. "Am I… adopted?"

"Well… yes. I… kind of arranged for that couple to adopt you when I couldn´t take care of you myself… even if I wanted to. I was the doctor that helped you into this world, you know?" he tried to smile, but the depressed younger shinigami made him lower his head again. "I´m… sorry. When I met them I thought they would be nice parents for you… after all they desperately wanted a child"

"But no one like me, Sene-san" said Grell. "Who was…? Wait, I don´t want to know. If they left me…"

"Grell…"

"Then…"

"Grell, listen to me" he said seriously. "It wasn´t their choice to leave you, it´s just that… things are a lot more complicated than you can thought. But they loved you… so dearly that they sacrificed a lot for you to be safe"

"Why?"

"You will know in the right moment"

-Time skip-

"Another one?" asked the red reaper, bringing the file to his face. It was a new To Die List that seemed to be recreating the one of the Campania. Ronald was at his side, reading the list too and wondering why the management people were asking for the impossible again and sending only two reapers to take care of such a big work.

"You are not going to be alone, Knox" said William, arranging his glasses with his scythe. "Me and Lucien are going to go with you"

"Lu-Lucien…" the red reaper shivered and the stoic supervisor catch that. He didn´t like how that sounded either, mostly because the older shinigami hadn´t been out on the field for a long time. For him to suddenly want to return to action was weird and he had the feeling that it had something to do with Grell and the obsession the man had with the redhead´s mother. So he was going too to protect the redhead, just as he has done since he saved him the first time. "Not that guy"

"Come on, Sutcliff-sempai" said Ronald, relaxed. "Are you still saying that he tried to rape you? Because no one believed that joke."

"It was true!"

"Shut up, both of you, and get going" ordered William. "By the way, Sutcliff, you will be by my side the entire time, so I can keep an eye on you. And, as the ship isn´t going to crash into an iceberg, then we will all got into it. Knox, buy the tickets."

"That sounds better"

-In the human world-

"Another trip in a ship?" asked Ciel to Lizzy, rolling his eyes at what happened the last time they took such a trip. It was Undertaker´s fault, but even so… he didn´t want to go on a trip with the Middford family. Sebastian by his side share a look with the young earl. "I suppose I could make some time to go" he accepted finally.

"Yay, Ciel is coming" and the Lady finally left with a smile on her face. Once she out of sigh the expression in her fiancée´s face changed and he looked at the demon with a serious one.

"Explain yourself, why do you want us to take that boat?"

"As keen as always, young master" congratulated him Sebastian. "I was researching for any clue of the former reaper Undertaker and casually found out that he is going to transport a huge amount of his so called experiments in a big boat. So I followed that clue and finally discovered that the only ship that could transport that amount of undead is precisely the one Miss Elizabeth just invited you in."

"So there is going to be another catastrophe" growled Ciel.

"We can prevent Miss Elizabeth and her family from getting on board, but we ourselves would have to investigate… and get in" the demon smirked. "Do you think there is going to be a big deal for the Queen to lose a few of her citizens only to get us to capture that madman"

"No" answered the Count. "She was quite… interested in his work last time we talked. And after what we discovered in Germany even more. Sieglinde Sullivan was a huge gain for her but… just not enough"

"That little witch definitely is having fun now" laughed the demon. "The Queen gave her lots of toys to play with."

"Yes… but even so the Queen wants Undertaker" Ciel sighed and got up. "Prepare everything for our trip and let Snake know he is going to travel with us again. He resulted quite useful last time we had a problem with those monsters"

"I will make it immediately"

"And Sebastian" the little earl uncovered this eye and looked into his demon servant´s eyes. "This is an order: don´t let him go again."

"Yes… my Lord"

-The day-

"Wow, this ship is huge" screamed Finny, happy. At his side Mey Rin and Baldroy were waiting with Tanaka-san to say goodbye to their young Lord before he parted. Snake was holding his bag tightly, remembering what the young lord told him about this trip. They were pursuing the same criminal that made the last one sink, so he had to keep his eyes open… and his friends too. The snakes were all alert, specially Emily that couldn´t keep quiet.

"Nothing for the moment… says Emily"

"Yes, that was clear five minutes ago" said the chef, feeling a little annoyed by the snake´s incessant chattering.

"Forgive Emily, she is nervous… says Oscar" then he looked around and the snaked started getting their heads out of the bag. "This is strange, there is several something that smells like him, specially one… but deeply different at the same… says Bronte"

"How?" asked Ciel, not moving his lips. It was a good idea to warm Elizabeth and her family, making them and other nobles cancel their trips.

"I… can´t tell… says Bronte"

"Well… bet we are going to find out soon" smirked Sebastian, remembering what happened in the Campania. Yes, the smell was definitely more shinigami waiting for their jobs to begin and the oddly familiar yet different one… he could sense that too. It was too much familiar, a little red annoying thing he could identify as a reaper at the beginning. He narrowed his eyes, was that idiot really a reaper? Or was… something else? He wasn´t sure.

-With the death gods-

"You only got two tickets for the third class?" asked William, annoyed. Grell had yet to appear and they were getting late. Knox bowed his head and asked for forgiveness, while Lucien only shook his head, when the last member of the group finally showed up. He was wearing a red travel dress that was definitely more fit for someone of high social status than the third class. "Sutcliff, what are you wearing?"

"Well, last night this suddenly appeared in my room, with this" Grell took out of his purse two tickets for the ship… in first class. "So I thought…"

"This is good" cut him Spears, taking the tickets and arranging his clothes. "We can go on the first class and Lucien and Knox in the third. That way you will be less nervous and we can focus on our jobs"

"So we are going to…" started the red reaper, happy, but was cut by someone arriving. "Sene-san?"

"Yes… well… this was my free day and since I had nothing to do I asked permission to join your collection. I even got my own ticket" the doctor showed them the papers and smiled. It was second class, in the right place for him to watch both Lucien and Grell. William nodded, thanking him silently for the help, and the reapers got into the ship.

When they got to the dinning room, the supervisor found the demon and his young master in the same place. He narrowed his eyes, did they knew something? It was impossible, the only people that knew that secret were him, Senecius, Annafellows and the Prince.

"It´s something the matter, Will darling?" asked Grell, confused.

"No, everything is okay, ask for dinner"

-In one of the rooms-

"Anything else, mister?" asked the waiter to the strange person in the bed. He didn´t looked like a first class passenger, but he didn´t want to insult someone that could get him fired. The silver haired man on the bed smiled in a very creepy way.

"No… ehehehehe… just leave" answered Undertaker. Once the boy left, the former reaper walked towards the tray and fished for the food, but his hand stopped when he felt something strange. He took the object closer to his eyes and finally realized it was a blood red rose. "Red… blood red… it always made me feel strange… I wonder, was it part of the things I have forgotten?"

Outside the room a silver haired demon was walking back to his young masters side. He had already fulfilled his other orders and wanted to keep his entire attention on the redhead… even more if he was in the same place as that man.

"A gift from the Prince" he murmured before running away.

Hey, how do you think it was? Review, please.