And I'm back! ^^ Considering this is exam week, I've decided it would be a good time to start another fic~ So just a little info before hand:
Main Plot: AU. This is going to be a murder mystery between a selection of characters I choose from Kuroshitsuji |D which means CHARACTER DEATH. If you can't take character death, well, the first few chapters will just be introducing characters and seeing their relations. For those who do read this, I hope you enjoy it and I wonder if you'll be able to figure out who the murderer is before it ends ;) Also, I plan on having it SebastianxCiel (and will most likely include some WillxGrell, 'cause I love that pairing), but this story does not revolve around romantic relationships.
Warnings: Character death, gore, language, shounen-ai, AU
Disclaimer: I don't own Kuroshitsuji.
Taking a step down from the servant's car, he peered up at the academy. A cool, summer breeze blew past his cheek as the boy cursed the worst day of the week: Monday. More specifically, it was the first day of school. For some reason, his father thought it a good idea to send him away to this academy instead of his usual school.
"With supreme schooling, you'll achieve greatness in life and will be the successor of Funtom Company, Ciel," Vincent Phantomhive had said.
"Yes, Father," the blue eyed boy agreed obediently.
However, he regretted ever relenting to his father's wishes. Glancing at all the exuberant and overly cheerful faces, he wanted to race back and dive into the silver vehicle. Unfortunately, the inanimate object must've read his desperate thoughts because as soon as he turned around, it sped off.
Ciel Phantomhive was not amused.
"Damn it," he cursed under his breath, turning back to the academy. "Well, I suppose there's nothing else to be done… Why I must suffer through this hell, though, is beyond me."
It wasn't necessarily the whole concept of learning that annoyed Ciel but the people that inhabited this school. Like always, he would be stuck in a class full of students who honestly had no right to be allowed in such a prestigious school. He just hoped that since this one was held in even higher regards than his previous school that the students might have a little more self control.
Straightening out the uncomfortable school uniform's jacket, Ciel checked his phone. He didn't have long until the 'Welcoming Ceremony' began. With much reluctance, he carelessly tossed his phone in the shoulder bag and wandered through the grand front doors of the academy. It opened into a large reception room. Spotting a hanging sign stating the direction to the auditorium, the boy headed over there.
After walking down the hallway a few paces, he spotted other students near his own age also going towards the auditorium. That was a good sign. It would've been embarrassing if a Phantomhive couldn't even find his way around an academy.
"Oh my god, did you see the Seniors?" a female student gasped. "While my sister was giving me a tour, I saw them all out back by the field! One of them even waved at me! Kyaa~"
"No way! I haven't seen them yet~ I heard they're so hot though! You're so lucky, Ayumi!" another girl gushed.
"Ladies, ladies, please," a confident looking blond walked over and placed his arms around their shoulders. "Who needs those seniors when you've got me, Ronald Knox, at your service~"
The girls blushed and stuttered something Ciel couldn't care to hear or pay attention to.
Finally, he arrived at the auditorium. The doors were open, revealing a room full of hundreds upon hundreds of chairs. Taking a free spot next to the wall, Ciel waited for whatever presentation they were going to do.
Glancing around, he saw hordes of girls sitting together, gossiping and flirting with guys already. Amongst one of the groups, he spotted Elizabeth, his cousin. Eyes widening, he immediately turned away. Not that he didn't like Elizabeth, he just preferred not having to listen to her hyperness whenever she was around him. He had actually forgotten she would be here.
Eventually, the headmaster came out, smiling at all the new students. "Good day, everyone. I'd like to welcome all of you to Blackhorn Academy, where we not only want you to succeed in your studies but also have great experiences and make lots of friends! To enforce this desire, as some of you may already know―" he said this looking pointedly at a group of giddy girls, "―you will all be paired up with a senior student for tours of the school. They will show you where your classes are, where the cafeteria is, the dorms and explain anything else you might want to know. Now, I'm going to go over the rules and expectations here at…"
Ciel stared bored at the man as he went on and on about how there were to be no students to be out of bed after ten, no sharing rooms with the opposite sex, no drugs, no plagiarism, et cetera… Unfortunately, Ciel couldn't very well just get up and leave. He'd have to stick it through with the rest of these students, it seemed.
At times like this, he was reminded of the days when his father and he discussed his future. This meant learning how to run a company, how to make money and most importantly, how to be a good leader. He couldn't expect to be able to control all his pawns if he didn't rule with an iron fist, or so his father had explained.
Ciel wasn't sure how long he had been sitting there, brooding over Funtom Company, but eventually the monotonous speech ended.
Students immediately jumped out of their seats and raced towards the exits―and that was not an exaggeration. Ciel had been surprised at the exuberance and decided it would be safer if he just waited out for the storm to pass. When he was sure that he wasn't going to be run over by a mob of children, the blue eyed child casually followed after them. They were led outside to the football field.
Ciel glanced around and saw students breaking off into little groups and finding their guides. Stumped, he just stood there. Maybe he should have listened to that speech after all. Deciding that he probably looked like a fool standing there in the middle of this chaos, Ciel walked over to what he assumed must be a teacher.
The man was obviously Chinese, sporting a traditional grey coat and black slacks. However, he didn't look all too professional. Ciel wasn't sure, but he thought the young lady hanging suggestively off his arm might be why.
Ciel opened his mouth to voice his question, but the foreign man beat him to it.
The Chinese man turned towards him and said grimly, "You. I know what you need, though I never thought I would actually meet you here…"
An uncertain look crossed over Ciel's face. This man knew who he was? Damn it. He thought going to a different school in a different country than where his business was would assure him privacy. He would not make this mistake again.
"Who are you again?" the Chinese man said with a carefree open mouthed smile on his face.
Ciel stumbled. "You just said… You were just pretending to know what was going on!" Frustrated, but a little relieved, he continued, "My name is Ciel Durless. I'm supposed to be getting a tour of the school by some Senior student but I haven't been told who he is."
"Ciel Durless," he murmured as he flipped through some pages on his clipboard. "It sounds familiar, ne, Ran Mao?"
The young Chinese lady nodded her head.
"Ah! Here we are," he said happily and drug his finger across the paper to find the student who had been assigned to Ciel. "Ooh many would kill to be paired with this man~ Sebastian Michaelis is his name, the devil of our school."
Devil? Ciel frowned. What was that supposed to mean? "And where do I find this man?"
Ran Mao pointed in a direction.
Ciel followed it and caught sight of a tall man with pitch black hair walking towards them. He wore a smirk, his crimson eyes shining with some indescribable emotion.
"Professor Lau, Miss Ran Mao, what a coincidence. I was just on my way to question the whereabouts of my student," Sebastian drawled and his eyes flickered over to Ciel for a moment. "I'm worried he might have gotten lost on his first day here."
"Student," Ran Mao stated and swung her arm around to point at Ciel in turn.
"Ah, so here he is." The man's voice rang with amusement. "I understand completely; this school can be rather intimidating at first so―"
"I wasn't lost, you pompous jerk," Ciel snapped and crossed his arms. "Just because I didn't come racing out like the rest of these simple minded children does not mean I cannot navigate my way through this institute."
Sebastian's smile grew larger. "Is that so? Forgive my impolite accusations then…?"
"Ciel Durless. Shouldn't you know this already, since you're supposed to be my guide?" the smaller boy questioned.
Sebastian let out an annoyed noise. "No. Regrettably, that incompetent man who runs this school thought it would make good small talk if we did not know which student we were supposed to be helping. Just look at the chaos it has created." With that, he motioned towards the mass of confused students.
"Are you kidding me? And they let an idiot like that run a prestigious academy?" Ciel demanded, stunned.
"Indeed. Well, let's begin our tour, Ciel Durless. Professor Lau, Miss Ran Mao, please excuse us," Sebastian said easily and walked away, expecting the boy to follow him.
He did, though not behind him. A Phantomhive did not walk behind anyone.
Sebastian glanced at him in interest. "So, what classes do you have this semester?"
Ciel pulled out his schedule from his bag. "Social Studies, English Literature, Science―" Sebastian almost seemed to wince at this, "―and Mathematics."
"Well, for Social Studies, you'll have the teachers we just spoke to," Sebastian informed Ciel as he led him down a hall. "Lau is the teacher and Ran Mao is supposed to be an assistant. For English, Aleister Chamber will be your teacher. Be prepared to do many, many plays this year. The man who teaches Science goes by the name Undertaker. He is also the Biology 11 teacher, if you're planning on taking that. Math is taught by Grey."
"You don't like this man, Undertaker?" Ciel pursued.
Sebastian was silent for a moment. "It's only a personal opinion, nothing that you should fret over."
Ciel snorted. "You thought I was worried over something as trivial? You're denser than I thought. I was merely curious to why anyone would want to be called Undertaker."
"He used to be an actual mortician."
Ciel paused. "What?"
A dark smile crossed the man's face. "You heard me. He used to cut people's bodies up for fun; that's why he teaches biology. Why he decided to become a teacher is beyond me, but that man's screwed in the head."
"Sebas-chan, don't go around scaring the new kids~" a red haired man(?) scolded lightly.
Sebastian turned around. "Grell. I see you've found your student."
"Yep! He's so great~ Ne, Ronnie?" Grell gushed and glomped the younger student. "I'm glad I didn't get stuck with a little brat. My poor Will wasn't as lucky, though~ We should go save him, Sebby."
"Spears is none of my concern. However, maybe we should find him. I'd love to see who he got stuck with," Sebastian said with a sinister smile.
"Wait, Sutcliff-sempai, he was kidding about this Undertaker guy, right?" Ronald laughed uncertainly.
"Nope. Sebas-chan prides himself on never lying~"
"That's… a little disturbing. A mortician teaching a class?" Ronald commented.
Grell shrugged. "You get used to those kind of things. Besides, he's so hot. Almost as sexy as my Sebas-chan~" He then attached himself to Sebastian's arm, blinking innocently up at him.
"Get off me," Sebastian hissed and shoved him away. "I thought you wanted to find Spears?"
"Ah! That's right!" Grell grabbed Ronald's arm. "Let's go Ronnie~ I haven't finished giving you your tour of hot men in this academy yet!"
"Ah, Sutcliff-sempai! Please slow down!" the boy exclaimed but the flamboyant student wouldn't listen.
Finally, Ciel decided to ask what had been bothering him ever since he met the red head. "Is that thing a guy?"
Sebastian chuckled. What a brave boy he had met. "Indeed. What a curious child you are, Ciel Durless."
"I'm not a child!" the aggravated boy said.
"Your response begs to differ," the older student countered easily.
"Tch. If that's all, I do believe I have better things to do than talk to the likes of you," Ciel retorted and turned to walk away.
"I'm sure you do. I will see you later, Ciel Durless," Sebastian said with a small smirk before turning away himself and walking off. Truly, what an interesting being he was. Nobody's ever treated him as… well, rude. But the fact that he didn't instantly melt and become a stuttering idiot when he saw Sebastian was quite refreshing. There was something else, though, that seemed almost familiar to him. Indeed, he would see the boy again very soon.
Ciel stormed off to where he'd been told the dorms were. However, he hadn't been paying enough attention and crashed into a large form that was on the other side of the corner.
"Hyuk hyuk hyuk, please excuse me my dear boy~ I hadn't realized you were going to be rounding the corner so furiously like that~" the man said with a creepy voice.
Ciel took a wary step back and looked up at the taller male. He wasn't able to see the man's eyes behind the long locks of silver hair. It was quite disturbing.
"What were you doing just standing behind this corner?" Ciel demanded.
The man wagged a finger. "Demanding things like that won't get you anywhere, my little phantom. A word of advice though, hmm? The dead do speak. I look forward to seeing you in my class~"
Dumbstruck, Ciel watched as the creepy teacher pranced away, long black cloak flowing out behind him.
"Was that… the Undertaker? I can understand why Sebastian doesn't like him; he's bat shit crazy. The dead speak? What a moron," Ciel breathed before shaking his head and continuing on his way. "I've only been here for a couple of hours and yet I've already met an ex-mortician, a gender confused red head, a confident ass, an oblivious Chinese man, and said man's hooker. I knew this was a bad idea. Damn you, Father and Tanaka."
Grumbling, Ciel found his dorm and immediately fell onto his bed.
"All they did was giggle and run around," William said in an extremely frustrated tone. He sat down in a vacant chair and pushed his glasses up.
"Hehe my poor Will~ How ever did you get stuck with not one, but two little girls?" Grell said with great amusement as he sauntered over to him.
"How am I supposed to―"
Sebastian snickered from his position leaning against the wall.
William's eyes narrowed. "You. You're behind this, aren't you?" He got up and was about to strike him but Grell quickly raced between them.
"As much as I love this side of you, William, I really don't want Ronnie to get the wrong impression~" Grell explained quickly.
William paused, his eyebrow twitching. "Who?"
"The kid who's been awkwardly standing outside the door," Sebastian informed him. "You didn't notice him? I think you're losing your touch, Spears."
"Shut it, Michaelis. Having to be in your presence is insufferable enough, I don't need to hear you're disgusting voice either."
Grell sighed in exasperation. "Ronnie, why don't you come in? Really, we need a distraction before Will and Sebby end up trying to kill each other again."
"Again?" Ronald wondered as he poked his head into the room. "Umm, not to be rude, Sempai, but the atmosphere in here is so tense a lawn mower couldn't cut it."
"Lawn mower? Gah, isn't he just precious~" Grell purred. "He's the perfect successor, ne, Will?"
"Whatever. I'm leaving. There're still some forms that need to be filled out before tomorrow." With that, William got up and went to leave the room. Then he paused. "Speaking of forms, did you ever end up doing your share, Sutcliff?"
"Hey Ronnie, let's finish our tour shall we?" Grell said quickly and raced past Will, grabbing his new obsession in the process.
"Grell Sutcliff… I am going to kill you when I catch up with you!" William threatened. "Honestly, as if we didn't have enough work to do…"
Sebastian watched as the man he utterly despised walked off. He had always hated Spears. Everything about him thoroughly pissed him off; the way he talked, how he thought himself so superior… Indeed, he would be glad when he could finally leave this school and be rid of these people.
There was a knock at the door.
Curiously, Sebastian wondered who would want permission to walk into a class room. "Yes?"
A dark skinned man appeared, smiling. "Good morning. I hope all has gone well?"
A rare, actual smile found its way on the crimson eyed man's face. "Agni. Indeed. I met a very interesting child today. Very confident and cocky. He must come from a lot of money, though I didn't recognize his last name. I assume you were quite glad to see your dear friend?"
Agni nodded, beaming. "Yes! I am so glad that Prince Soma is finally here. But who is the boy you speak of? Perhaps my Prince has classes with him."
"His name is Ciel. I'll introduce you to him later," Sebastian offered.
Agni smiled. "I look forward to it. Oh, but the reason I came here. Do you recall that third year student, Bardroy I believe?"
"The one that almost burnt down the school last year?" Sebastian deadpanned.
"Ah, yes, well he was supposed to help cook the dinner―"
"―What idiot gave him that permission?"
"You must give them a chance, Sebastian!" Agni pleaded. "Everyone has got their own talent."
"Yes. But for Bard, it is not―I repeat―not cooking."
Agni sighed. "Well, I can't argue with that. Anyhow, he forgot all about that while he was giving his tour so he completely panicked when he got back to the kitchen and realized none of his food was cooked. So he decided to, ah, speed it up by using another flamethrower."
"…And now everything's been destroyed," Sebastian concluded. He could feel a migraine starting to form.
"Yes."
Pushing away from the wall, Sebastian spoke with great annoyance. "Honestly, wouldn't it just be easier if we ordered all the food?"
"I apologize for dragging you into this," Agni said somberly.
Sebastian waved him off and started towards the kitchens. "No, it's alright. After all, I'm just one hell of a cook."
Five more months. He'd only have to wait five more months until… Well, that depended on how things played out. In less than one hundred and fifty days, though, everything was going change.
So this was just the intro to see the characters and stuff ^^; As I mentioned above, the murder mystery part of it will start in a few chapters ;D I hope you guys will stick around and please leave a review if you think I should continue with this idea.