A Tale of Love and Death

A/N: hey guys this is my first kuro fic and its a collab with my best friend lena chan, and we hope you like it. R&R and flames are also appreciated. please tell me if anything is wrong, or ideas you have to make it better. Thank you and enjoy this chapter!:)

Chapter 1

"Ciel come on and talk to me!" ciel looks over his shoulder and glares at the door while he stretches out his feet on the soft brown sofa. He picks up his tea and settles further into the couch as he takes a sip, he hears a voice continuing to yell his name. Ciel sighs, and moves towards the front hall of the apartment that leads to the front door.

"Go away Claude, I don't want to speak to you!" ciel yelled from the other side of the door, he began to put his hand up to his temple, as if sensing a headache approaching. Ciel began to turn and walk back down the hall to his living room. Ciel felt somewhat bad for leaving Claude on the other side of the door. But of course ciel wouldn't let that small sense of sympathy, make him give in. Claude on the other hand was thinking that if he made a big enough scene then he would be allowed in.

Claude began to bang on the door incessantly. Ciel ran to the door and threw it open "Alright what do you want? I'm trying to relax and you're not making things the least bit relaxing." Ciel said frustrated with the whole situation.

"We need to talk about this; you can't expect me to know why you are pissed all of a sudden. I can't help if you don't tell me what I did wrong." Claude said as he stared into Ciel's darkened royal blue eyes.

"You want to know how you can help me?" Ciel slowly glides over towards Claude with a sarcastic smirk. Claude looks down at Ciel in wonder of what the younger male has to say. "You can help me… BY GETTING THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE!" Ciel yells grabbing a hold of the door and nearly slamming it in Claude's face, only to be stopped by said man's foot. "C-ciel…" Claude says through gritted teeth a painful scowl crossing his features. "We need to talk about this so please just let me in." Claude says in a slight quivering tone of obvious pain.

"Fine then talk, oh and by the way, you have 5 minutes!" Ciel says as he steps aside reluctantly allowing the older male in.

Claude strides in the apartment over toward the coach, sitting down with an exasperated sigh. "I just want to fix this because I do care about you Ciel." Claude said his golden eyes looking over to stare into his lover's eyes with some kind of sincerity.

"Well if you truly cared you would respect my decisions instead of doing whatever the hell you please! You do this a lot but this time wasn't something I could easily brush off." Ciel said as he sat across from Claude his arms coming to rest upon his lap. "I'm surprised you haven't figured it out yet with the way I reacted at dinner, after all I'm pretty sure no one could turn a blind eye to the hell that was raised by my father when you told him we were together!" Ciel said utterly annoyed at this point.

"Well what is so wrong with wanting to tell the father of the man I love that I am his lover and very much proud of it?" Claude asked thoroughly (or seemingly that is) confused. Ciel's features began to soften once he heard such a sweet statement from Claude.

"Well no it is not wrong to express that and to the father of said person that you love, but it is however wrong that you didn't listen to me, you always knew how I felt about that." Ciel said as he sighed in exasperation. This night had grown way to long for his liking.

"Ciel I only want what is best for us. I didn't mean to tell him and cause so much trouble. You know I don't mean any harm." Claude said as he approached Ciel calmly and with firm resolve. "I guess I just want everyone to know that I love you and I want you to especially know that I will always have your back no matter what. We will get through this mess that I caused with your father with our heads held high and I'll take full responsibility for my actions in order to protect you from any form of persecution he may have toward us." Claude leaned down to kiss the younger male's forehead before embracing him in a hug as he finished his little apology speech. Ciel cracked a small smile, a soft contented laugh escaping his lips, as Claude proceeded with his apologetic actions.

"Well Claude you are one lucky bastard that's for sure you always seem to calm me down even when I am about ready to rip your sorry little head off." Ciel looked up at Claude with a roll of his eyes, a wide smirk, and a shake to his head. "I just don't know how you do it…" Ciel said before continuing "However you piss me off more than not." Ciel said that last part under his breath with only a slight annoyance ringing through his voice however much lighter than the annoyance he felt before.

"Thank God for that because I can't bear the thought of you upset for too long over something I did, you have a lot of stress to deal with already and you are starting to show signs of just how tired you are. How about we turn in for the night, just the two of us." Claude said a smirk playing across his lips and Ciel could swear he saw his eyes flash a darker gold almost demonic at this statement from behind his lowered glasses.

"Uh…ok. I guess I am finding myself to be quite tired anyway." Ciel said before he found himself suddenly swooped up in the arms of the older male. "A-and just what do you think you're doing?"

"Oh just taking my sweet, sleepy, blue eyed lover to his room that's all" Claude said a flirtatious tone interlacing his voice, very faintly almost as if he was trying but failing to make it subtle.

"Damn you're cheesy." Ciel laughed dryly playing off the fact that he was in for probably more than just a good night's sleep.

Claude just looked down at his little love, a soft smile gracing his face. He bowed down his head and captured ciels lips in a searing kiss. Ciel just flushed for a minute not expecting the attack to his lips, but submitted none the less. Claude decided to test the waters and lick the bottom of ciels lip. Ciel parted his lips slightly to allow Claude access. When ciels lips parted Claude slipped his tongue in the cavern of his lover's mouth. Claude began to explore every part of ciels mouth, before their tongues clashed and began to fight for dominance.

Claude began to walk down the hall towards ciels bedroom at the end of the hall. They had to break apart for a brief moment while Claude opened the door to the bedroom. Once on the inside of the bedroom Claude tossed ciel on to the bed, Claude got on to the bed and began to hover over ciel almost predatorily. It was at that moment that ciel understood just what Claude was planning for the night. While ciel was in thought about whether he was willing to take that extra step in his relationship with Claude, the older male bent his body forward and began to kiss him.

Before the kiss could get to deep ciel turned his head to the side. Claude looked at ciel; his face had a mix of confusion as he waited for the younger male to say something. "Claude…. I don't think I'm ready to take that step in our relationship just yet…it's not that I don't want to but I don't think I'm physically or emotionally ready to…. I hope that's ok." Ciel looked down feeling as though he had just ruined the moment.

Claude grabbed the bottom of ciels chin and brought it up to his face. He laid a gentle kiss to his lips. "Ciel it's alright if you're not ready to go that far….. I love you regardless and I know it will happen when it's meant to." He gave an endearing smile, and gave a trail of kisses from his neck up to his lips.

Ciel just sat there happy, he was seemingly in a trance taking in every word that his lover had just said. Ciel submitted to the kiss and for a quick moment thought that he could actually continue the act, but that was quickly pushed to the back of his mind. "Thank you I know you care…" he thought about what he was going to say before he continued. "We can continue this on another day so it's more special." Ciel leaned up and kissed Claude on the mouth before lying down. "Now come lay down with me, I have a busy day tomorrow." Ciel said as he yawned.

Claude laid down and wrapped his arm around ciel pleased that he had gotten the other to agree to a night of pleasure in the future. "Good night ciel." He said as he closed his eyes and drifted into a blissful sleep. That night ended with sound of breathing as the two resigned themselves to their dreams.

It was around eight o'clock the next morning when the sun shined bright in the sky. The sun was peaking through the blinds shining right on ciels face. Ciel woke up in a less than pleasant mood, he tried hard to lay back down and go back to sleep, but the damage was already done. So Ciel got up, and at that moment his stomach made it clear just how hungry he was.

Ciel got up and walked over to his dresser to pick his clothes out for the day. Claude's phone began to go off while ciel was in the bathroom gathering the stuff he would need for his shower. Ciel ran out of the bathroom and to his dresser so he could shut the phone off. He didn't want Claude to wake before he was ready. Ciel grabbed the phone but stopped as he seen pieces of the text message cross the screen. Ciel went to messages on the phone and read all the messages that were related to this guy named Alois. Ciel was so shocked at the messages on the phone that he nearly threw it across the room. Ciel abruptly turned on his heel, throwing the phone down furiously and let it clatter to the floor as he took long determined strides to his closet.

Ciel slammed the door open and started rummaging through his stuff, finding every little thing he could find belonging to that bastard asleep in his bed! Ciel whipped his head to the side of the closet in search of a sack or something to contain all that burn worthy shit he gathered. Once Ciel found a useless packing box that he had forgotten to throw away, he stuffed everything into it with anything but tender, love, and care. Ciel marched over toward the door leading to the hallway, opened it and with all his furious pissed off power threw the box as hard as he could out the door making it slam into the wall with a thud and crash. As Ciel stormed back into his room to clear out more stuff, Claude awoke to something hard hitting his head along with a few articles of clothing that he found covering his face upon waking. When Claude managed to sit up and examine the ruin around him and whatever the hell was making all that noise, he saw that his phone was now resting upon his lap.

"What the hell…?... Ciel what are you doing?" Claude asked, his sleep filled eyes resting on the younger male's obvious pissed off form.

"Oh just cleansing my room of useless shit. Oh but wait there's still one large piece of shit laying in my bed that I have yet to get rid of!" Ciel said his anger clearly shown in his face before it dissipates into a sickly sweet smile "Glad to see you're awake. NOW GET OUT!" Ciel said before he threw his shoes at him, making sure it hurt. "Oh and don't let the door hit you on the way out!" Ciel proclaimed as he opened the door wider none too kindly.

"What? Ciel what is this all about?" Claude said as the last bit of sleep left him leaving behind a concerned and disheveled mess clearly shown upon his features.

"Heh. You want to know?..." Ciel said in a sarcastic tone before continuing. "Well check your fucking phone and you'll know, asshole." Upon receiving Ciel's response Claude first looked up at him confused, before looking down at his lap to see his phone already opened to his messages, revealing the small print he failed to notice the first time. When Claude picked up the phone and read it, his face immediately turned several shades of pale.

"Wha- this is, this is not what it looks like!" Claude stuttered out, as he abruptly stood from his bed to make his way over toward Ciel. Ciel grimaced before a low growl emitted from his mouth, in warning that he'd better stop moving any closer. (less he get his head ripped off like he once thought about doing before, because right now that thought seemed very appealing.)

"I don't want to hear your bullshit, I've heard it once I don't want to hear it again." Ciel stated before he grabbed Claude and yanked him out the door. "Hurry up! You're taking way too long for my liking." Claude stumbles out of the room, half naked and in a daze.

"Ciel, can we talk about this?" Claude said turning around just in time for the door to be slammed in his face.

Ciel takes a deep frustrated sigh before walking to the bathroom to finish getting ready for the day and maybe relax a little bit while he was at it. Ciel starts the shower, letting it warm up as he did so, he placed his hand on the sink in front of him, hunched over, with his head hung low and let out a deep breath that he didn't know he was holding. "Oh thank God I didn't sleep with that bastard!"

After ciel finished getting ready, he got in his car and drove to his father's house to finish getting the list of stuff that needed to be complete for the party that was being hosted that night. Ciel made it to his father's house within twenty minutes. He gets out the car and walks up the front steps of the house and knocks on the large double wooden door. It didn't take long for someone to make their way to the door to allow ciel in. " is my father here?" ciel asked wanting to get this whole meeting over with.

"Yes sir, Mr. Phantomhive is in his office, if you will excuse me for a moment sir, I will go and get him. Ciel gave her a nod and waited patiently for the servant to get his father Vincent from his office.

"Hello ciel how are you doing this morning?" Vincent said as he approached his son. When he reached ciel he put his hand on his back and guided him to the living room so they could speak in a more comfortable area.

"Well dad to answer your question I'm not doing so well, I didn't have the world's best morning." Ciel said as he recalled all the events that had transpired that morning. He hung his head low, and that didn't go unnoticed by his father. Vincent moved closer to his son trying to read into what happened, to have caused his son to be in such a state.

Vincent looked down at ciel as if to clarify the look he seen in his eyes. "Ciel what happened between you and that other man?" he ventured wondering if ciel would answer or not.

"He cheated on me…." Ciel said with a sigh before continuing "and I broke up with him this morning… after I seen the texts on his phone…" ciel let his head fall into his hands that were propped up by his knees.

Vincent then smirked as if he was glad that all of this had happened. "Ciel I'm sorry that this happened to you. But now you need a date to the party were hosting tonight, why don't you take Elizabeth? She's a sweet girl." Vincent said that in a more demanding way.

Ciel could not belief that his father would say something like that, at a time when he was upset. "Father are you mad? Why on earth would I go with her? And why would you ask when I just finished a relationship?" ciel was upset to put it simply. He turned away from his father for a brief moment before he looked back at him.

"You can hardly call that a relationship ciel. And Elizabeth is very nice, and she adores you. Now there's no more questions on this matter, your taking her as your date at tonight's event." Vincent left no room for an argument. And ciel was already worn out from talking to Claude that morning, so he just agreed. Ciel left his father's house in a worse mood than when he came in. he got into his car with the list of events in hand. He backed out of the drive way and headed to the restaurant to pick up the food for the event later that night.

Upon arriving at the restaurant, Ciel had got out of his car with an aura of pure annoyance and a literal "back off attitude." He swore that if anyone else fucking dared to cross him that they were going to end up in a bloodied body bag by the end of the night. Ciel quickly walked up to the door of that dreaded place and strode in with a certain kind of arrogance to hide his true emotions. This place he deemed was nothing to look twice at. It was all the same, restaurants like these. They all try to put on a classy façade but really these place's are just as sad and pathetic as those who work in them, especially the owners. A waiter walked up to Ciel with a kind smile enveloping his features, it took Ciel all his will power not to gag at such fake displays of joy and hospitality for the sake of a pay check and messily tips. Ciel sighed at this point.

"Oh save it for someone who cares. I'm only here to pick up my order from the cook so where may I ask is he and I'll just be on my way." Ciel at this point was indeed tired of so many fakes surrounding him that it was hard for him to be civil. The waiter's seemingly genuine demeanor dropped, needless to say he was a tad peeved and frightened at this point, but he guided Ciel to his destination none the less, and with very little communication just like Ciel wanted. Ciel had to hand it to the waiter before him, he sure knew how to handle himself while under pressure, but that was about the most he could say about him. Ciel could only hope the same attitude would come of the meeting with the owner. He just wanted to get in and out as quickly as possible. The waiter lead Ciel to the back where the owner resided and told Ciel to wait for a brief moment.

"Hey boss some little brat is outside, gripping about his damn orders and asked for you up front. You might wanna give em what he wants and send him on his way quickly. He's not the most pleasant person on the planet that's for sure." The waiter said as he walked away.

"Alright Bard tell him I'll be with him momentarily." Sebastian responded as he continued the preparations.

"Sure thing boss." The waiter known as Bard replied as he continued toward the door mumbling under his breath about ungrateful brats and their tiny ass issues. Bard closed the door behind him and made his way over to the royal blue eyed customer, and to bard he truly was a royal. A royal pain in the ass.

"Boss'll be out in a moment. Make yourself at home in the meantime kid." Bard said as he walked off to attend to another table.

Ciel sighed for what felt like the hundredth time that day. "Whatever…" Ciel mumbled. 'I really don't have time for childs play.' Ciel thought as he sat down waiting on the owner of the place to finally show his face. A few minutes had passed since Ciel had sat down and the owner finally appeared.

"Sorry for the inconvenience sir. I'm Sebastian Michaelis and I am the owner of this restaurant. How may I help you today?" Sebastian greeted as he flashed Ciel one of his infamous smiles in which seemed to stop Ciel dead in his tracks, if only for a brief moment. Getting a hold of himself Ciel readjusted his posture and began to speak.

"Hello I am Ciel Phantomhive, and I came here to pick up my order." Ciel said as Sebastian pulled out an order list to look for his name amongst the inquiry.

"Ah, Mr. Phantomhive, yes I have you right here. Let me just go retrieve your order in the back and I'll send you on your way." Sebastian said with a smile. The owner disappeared briefly before coming back with Ciel's order. "Here you are, everything you had ordered for the night as promised." Sebastian said as he presented the items to Ciel. Ciel smiled in thanks, for the first time that day but just as quickly as it came, it disappeared and turned into a look of confusion.

"Yes this looks correct so far but where is the rest?" Ciel asked as he locked eyes with Sebastian in serious questioning.

"Hm? This was all that you had ordered according to my order roster." Sebastian said as he flipped through his orders thoroughly.

"What?" Ciel said pulling out the list that he had over all ordered. "No, not according to my list. There are still 6 things missing from my order." Ciel defended, feeling his annoyance coming back to him gradually. Before he let his emotions get the better of him he handed the list over to Sebastian to look at.

"Oh my, it seems you are right. Normally I have everything written down exactly how it was told…" Sebastian said, concern, and confusion filling his voice.

"Well… That's quite alright as long as it's done in the next 3 to 4 hours, I'll be fine." Ciel said appearing to be calm. For some reason he felt a strange sense of comfort around this man and did not want to trouble him with his stress.

"Yes, of course! This all can be done within the next 3 hours. In the meantime would you like a drink while you wait?" Sebastian asked politely with a slight bow.

"Yes, tea please, if you have any. If so I prefer Earl Grey." Ciel said as he took a seat once more.

Sebastian disappeared behind the doors that lead to the kitchen. Ciel sat there in a daze just thinking about the older male. The older male had near perfect features. He had piercing red eyes that made you want to melt, while at the same time made you feel safe. He had dark black hair that framed his face in all the right ways. And the way that his body fit into his chefs uniform, was nothing less than hot. Ciel continued to think about the other male for a while, until he realized what he was doing.

Sebastian came out with his tea, and set it in front of him. Ciel blushed and said a quiet "thank you" before taking a sip. Sebastian noticed the blush, and smirked at the younger male. He moved a little closer to him.

"Your food has been started we are just waiting for it to be completed. If you don't mind me saying you seem to be a little upset, and if you don't mind me asking why?" Sebastian said. He wasn't really sure what prompted him to ask such a personal question, but at the moment he felt this weird urge to calm the younger male, and make him feel better in any way that he can.

Ciel looked up at Sebastian for a split second before putting his head back down. "no I don't mind…. Today has been bad ever since I awoke this morning." Ciel sighed and looked Sebastian in the eyes. Sebastian could see the hurt and anger in his eyes and found himself contemplating the situation.

"Ciel would you like to come to the back for a moment and wait for your food?" Sebastian said trying to make an excuse to be alone with him, so they could talk with out all of the formality. Ciel just nodded and followed Sebastian to the room. "So what happened this morning that made you so upset, because sad is definitely not an expression that suits you?" Sebastian tried to pry the answers out while flirting in a less than subtle way.

Ciel caught on to the flirting and blushed. "Well my boy-….. ex boyfriend was at my apartment this morning and I found certain messages on his phone….. so basically my relationship ended this morning…but that's not even all." Ciel let his head drop he just didn't understand what it was about this man that made him want to talk.

Sebastian smiled and slightly moved over to where Ciel was. Ciel looked over at Sebastian and couldn't help but feel the urge to lean on him, but he refrained himself. Sebastian looked over to the younger male "Who in their right mind would cheat on you? If you ask me he's not worth your heart or the emotion that your showing now. Who else made you feel so down?"

Ciels heart burst at the words that Sebastian said. "that's kind….. the other person is my father, he doesn't condone the type of relationship that I prefer. And because of the recent break up, he is forcing me to take a childhood friend named Elizabeth to the event he is hosting tonight."

"Our fathers seem to think alike mine is forcing me to stay with this women until his merger goes through, I have no feeling toward her at all but I will do as he says for now." Sebastian said as he sat really close to ciel. Ciel was starting to lean forward as if he was going to kiss the older male. Sebastian seen this and started to move closer they were inches from each other's lips when, one of the cooks came in to the room announcing that the meal was ready to be loaded. They moved away from each other, ciel a little embarrassed.

"Ok. thank you." Sebastian got up and walked to the corner of the room to write something down on a tiny piece of paper. He walked back over to ciel "would you like some help loading this stuff in your car?"

Ciel just nodded and they made their way back to the front of the restaurant, and out the front door with all the stuff in hand. Sebastian helped load all the food in the car, then very discreetly put the piece of paper he wrote on, in one of the bags. "have a nice day ciel."

Ciel looked over at the man as he walked to the driver's side of his car. "thank you for your help. Have a good day Sebastian." He waved and got into his car and drove off.

Ciel made it just in time to his father's house to drop off the food. He was glad it all got set up in time. While he was handling that, he found a piece of paper in one of the bags. He was happy to see that it had Sebastian's number on it.

When ciel got home he picked out his clothes for the party he had to attend later that night. He put his clothes in the bathroom, and remembered about Sebastian's number. He took it out of his pants pocket and looked at it with a smile on his face. He walked over to his dresser and put it on its surface. He walked back into the bathroom to take a shower, while thinking about texting Sebastian his number. He had come to a decision, he would get to know Sebastian a little bit better, starting with the party tonight.

To Be Continued…