Disclaimer, I do not own Kuroshitsuji or any of its characters.

So um. Just tell me if this one sucks. And this doesn't really go with any of the story line of the anime or manga, but if I incorporate anything from the manga I'll be sure to explain it. Or just let you guess because I'm just like this.

Why am I so awkward at typing these?


"I'm fine," Ciel states plainly. "Elizabeth, I told you, I'm fine," he repeats, irritation seeping into his tone as he turns to the blonde relative.

"I told you to call me Lizzy!"

"Lizzy, I'm fine," Ciel huffs. Elizabeth's animated tone is replaced with concern. She narrows her jade eyes. Ciel sighs loudly. He leans forward on the table, resting his chin on his knuckles. He swivels his sapphire eye to Sebastian, who's standing beside them. One might be concern he'll spread gossip all over, but Sebastian is not the one to meddle with such human's lies, unless if ordered to.

Elizabeth shifts in her seat, the ruffles of her dress tickling Ciel's slender legs when it slightly billows upwards. "Ciel, look, you never told me what happened when you disappeared," Elizabeth mutters, her usual bubbly voice gone, with an adopted, worried tone to replace it. Ciel inhales sharply. He knew this was coming, he sensed it. But that doesn't mean he has a plan to avoid or answer it. "I mean, you've been more quiet after that, and serious," Elizabeth gripes. "If anything's wrong, you can tell me," She confides.

Ciel grins weakly at that with his signature smirk. "I know, Eliz-" Elizabeth's emerald eyes narrow into a glower. "Lizzy," Ciel hastily corrects himself with his drawling tone. "Maybe one day, I'll tell you." Ciel's smirk straightens out, letting a passive expression rest over his face once he decided he handled this situation smoothly. "Now, do you want to go play with Finny? Or maybe Agni and Soma," Ciel inwardly cringes at the thought of those two. Well, at least Soma's childish antics and attitude will match with Elizabeth's.

"But Ciel!" Her shrill, whiny tone startles Ciel, and his concern begins to inflate when just seconds ago, he was able to get rid of it. What now? Ciel stiffens. Please no more questions. "I want to play with you!" Elizabeth chirrups. His hackles lower. This is a common claim that Elizabeth always said. He'll deal with this easily with the huge binder of excuses he had stored in his mind. "And Soma seems very weird," Elizabeth admits. "He...acts like a kid," Elizabeth confides. Ciel snickers, and Elizabeth recoils, possibly offended.

"No, excuse me, I wasn't laughing at you, it's just that I think the same," Ciel admits, and a smile graces across Elizabeth's pale features. Months earlier, Elizabeth turned out to act all bratty and childish for Ciel's sake, wanting to make him feel older, the way he always wanted to. And it helped that she's able to fence. [This is in the manga, just go with it anime people.] "But please, I have some work to do, I'll join with you shortly," Ciel promises. Elizabeth nods, clearly satisfied with his claim, and she steps out of the room in her flowery flats. The moment she exited the room, shutting the door behind her gently, Sebastian slides up next to Ciel, and Ciel scowls, ready for the taunts.

"I never seen this soft side of you, young Master," Sebastian comments. Ciel emits a noise between a warning growl a dog would use and a scoff, causing that damn demon's smirk to spread even wider across his features. "And you handled this quite expertly." Oh, now, compliments are new, as this one didn't have its usual sardonic factor infused with the tone used to say that. "Now," Sebastian's sarcasm drops, ready to settle into business. "A man by the name of Jonah William is coming over this afternoon with his daughter to discuss over merging companies with him."

"Does he have to, I clearly stated over the phone I won't join with his industry," Ciel grumbles, standing up, and he grabs his cane leaning against the table.

"Yes, as it would be rude not to hear him out, as you only talked with him for about three minutes over the phone, which shouldn't be long enough to bicker over his contract." Sebastian responds calmly in his low octave tone. "Now, I assume you already know which industry he owns over, right?" Ciel doesn't answer, just stares at him innocently with one wide azure eye with strands of ebony bangs obscuring bits of it. Sebastian sighs, staring down at him.

Ciel drops his small adopted act, allowing his dilated eye to narrow back into its usual glare. "Why should I care about what he said? And of course I did, I just tried to forget it." Ciel mutters. "Why must he have the contract? My company has more power and it's bigger," Ciel questions this aloud to no one in particular.

"Because he has all the resources you need." Sebastian answers using his fluid tone. Ciel glares at him. He's quite aware of that. "But we do have Lau for that, and even though he's the president of a trading company, Mr. William is bigger. But I doubt we need him, Lau should be enough, and though he's cold-blooded and cryptic, he's usually willing to help us if we benefit him in some way, which I guess is a less costly price than Mr. William, as he probably has some rules and terms in his contract." Sebastian says.

"Yeah, I'm well aware of that," Ciel replies in his dry, flat tone. "When is he coming?" Ciel asks, not out of curiosity, but so then he knows when to escort Elizabeth out.

"This afternoon, within an hour or so."

"An hour?" Ciel sputters, and the passive smile that adorns Sebastian's face curls upwards on one side into a crooked smirk. "Ah, dammit!" Ciel snarls.

"Yes, but you promised Lady Elizabeth that you'd join her," Sebastian points out.

"So?"

"I figure that Lady Elizabeth will be of some help," Sebastian recommends. "She can keep the daughter of Mr. William company," Sebastian suggests, and Ciel ponders over that for quite a while, ending with him agreeing reluctantly to Sebastian's idea. "Great, I shall tidy up the mansion and create a meal for you and Mr. William along with his daughter."

"Sebastian!" Ciel smiles. After all the silent sniggers and scoffs from Sebastian today, might as well allow the emotionless demon to do something else as well. "Make me a chocolate sweet while you're at it."

"Master. It'll spoil your appetite." The usual sadistic tone is now monotone.

"Don't care. Now go!" Ciel barks out his command, leaving him smiling as Sebastian leaves the room.


"Oh, what are you doing?" Elizabeth skips into the kitchen, curiosity replacing her boredom.

"I'm currently cooking a meal for the Master and his clients," Sebastian answers, whisking something in a metal bowl. Elizabeth skirts around a tall stool pushed against the cabinets, and next to Sebastian. He's beating eggs. His white apron for some reason has various holes, the edges of the tears and lacerations charred black and brown.

"His clients? So...after that, he'll play with me, right?" Elizabeth concludes. Sebastian nods in response, as he begins to start on an entirely other plate, leaving the bowl of whisked eggs to the side. "Okay!" Elizabeth is cheerful at the conclusion. "But..." Elizabeth always realizes something's off. A butler is a butler. Ciel's staff consists of six people, including Bard, the chef. So why isn't Bard in here, helping Sebastian? Why is Sebastian here anyways? "Why isn't Bard helping you?" Elizabeth voices out one of her questions.

"Because he insists on cooking everything with a flamethrower," Sebastian responds dryly. Elizabeth blinks. She recalls the whole castle rattling before, and the smell of ash and burnt entities. Was that Bard? She focuses her eyes on the holes seared in Sebastian's white apron. Well, now she's sure she knows where they came from. "I'm surprised that he figured out how to use an oven," Sebastian adds. She never seen this meaner side of Sebastian, but then again, Elizabeth feels as though this is what Ciel would say.

"Okay. How does six people take care of this whole mansion?" Elizabeth asks. Sebastian sets down the gleaming kitchen knife he used to neatly slice the onion into even sections. He turns to her, his toffee eyes gleaming, as though they themselves are hiding a secret all on their own.

"We're a very special staff," Sebastian answers simply, as he tosses the onions into a metal pot, and the thunks indicate them hitting the metal bottom. Sebastian grabs the two carrots in the tray of vegetables and ingredients on a tray in front of his cutting board, and with a thicker, larger knife, he begins to cut the carrots into thick pieces. "Elizabeth, you know, the people coming over this afternoon, is a man with his daughter. While waiting, you and his daughter could become acquaintances," Sebastian offers.

"Oh, yeah, sure, of course!" Elizabeth agrees. She has a whole collection of friends that she's on good terms with, it'll be fun to meet another girl. "Is she my age?"

"I'm unsure of that," Sebastian responds. Elizabeth doesn't mind. If she's older, they're usually more willing to play with her, as they're happy to meet a younger kid. Of course, some of that find her annoying, but she could always be younger and easier to get along with. And it'll be perfect if the girl is her age. "Now, Elizabeth, excuse me..." Elizabeth steps out of the way across the tiled, polished floors, as Sebastian crouches down to open a cabinet, and he retrieves a pot with various holes punctured into it, acting like a strainer. He shuts the drawer with the toe of his gleaming tar shoes, and sets the pot down, next to the already crowded counter.

"Can I help?" Elizabeth is quite bored. "I never really learned how to cook, Mother always insisted I fence." Elizabeth explains. "And though most of my friends find it peasantry to cook as they always have maids cook, but I don't know, it just seems nice to cook all those cute cupcakes," Elizabeth squeals. Sebastian tosses her an odd look that Elizabeth is unable to decipher.

"My lady, I'd love to, but right now what I'm cooking aren't cupcakes. Later I'm going to bake chocolate cupcakes for Ciel, you can help then," Sebastian offers. Elizabeth nods vigorously. She'd love to, especially if it means they're for Ciel, he'd appreciate them, she's sure! "Okay, for now, you can play with Finny." Sebastian suggests.

"Why Finny?" There's nothing wrong with Finny except that his intelligence is quite low. Sebastian utters something. "What was that?"

"Well, Finny is always so happy to see you," Sebastian explains, his voice louder.

"Oh, well, okay!" Elizabeth chirps, before skipping out the kitchen.


In reality, the reason why Sebastian sent Elizabeth to play with Finny is to make sure he doesn't catch word of someone coming over, and try to help by trying to weed the garden and accidentally uproot a tree while at it.

"Sebastian!" Sebastian sighs upon hearing his christened name, and he goes off running up two flights of stairs, up into the Master's room. Ciel is sitting at his desk with his hands folded in front of him. "Are you done with my chocolate?" Sebastian inwardly scowls, but remains vigilant.

"No, not yet, my Master." Sebastian admits. "Lady Elizabeth would like to help me on them," Sebastian says. He swallows a laugh as Ciel visibly flinches, his face contorting. "Do not worry, I'll be sure not to have her accidentally poison you or have the consistency and taste be like sawdust," and before his young Master can reply, Sebastian rushes out of the room to complete his meal.


"Master, they're coming," Sebastian informs. Ciel nods mutely. True to his word, the cupcakes' texture and taste aren't like sawdust, except, maybe even better than Sebastian's regular sweet, small cakes. Maybe it's because Elizabeth helped, and her taste buds are normal, and well, she does know he likes sweet things. Ciel makes a mental note to inform Sebastian of that. A pleasant, muffled chime from below implies that they've made it to the door. "I'll get it," And just like that, Sebastian's gone. Ciel sighs, and decides to stay in his study, after all, he assumes this is where he and Mr. William will discuss over the contract. Then again, they'll have a meal first. Ciel groans, and starts to run down the flights of stairs, and stands to the side, as Sebastian is already talking with two figures below. "He's right there." Sebastian points upwards, and Ciel stiffens, startled that Sebastian is suddenly introducing him. The two figures below peer upwards, and the younger female one waves. Ciel does nothing in response. Ciel slowly walks down the rest of the remaining steps, wishing he brought his cane while at it, and returns to Sebastian's side.

"Ah, Ciel Phantomhive, what an honor to meet you!" Who Ciel assumes is Mr. William.

"I'd say the same thing to you, it's quite an honor to meet the man in charge of such a large trading company," Ciel compliments, his commanding, yet quiet voice contrasting against the loud, bellows Mr. William emits. The lean man smiles at him. Ciel observes him, what an odd man, with his skeletal structure.

"Please, join me in the dining room where we can have our meal, and discuss your terms." Ciel says. The lanky man nods, thanking him various times. The supposed daughter is quite distant. Ciel catches multiple times her staring at him shamelessly with her narrowed orchid eyes. Ciel automatically doesn't like her. her long, ebony hair that hangs around her waist is the same tar color as her father's thinning hair. Why does the man seem so familiar? Did Ciel meet Mr. William at some point in his life? Ciel opts not to gaze at him, as that'd be rude and questions would bubble up. Ciel enters the dining room, where a meal is sitting on the table.


So. Yeah. Thanks for reading. I guess I'll continue with this.

If there are any other characters from the anime or manga you want me to include, I'll do it gladly. Probably.