I've had this idea for quite some time. And I had been thinking of turning it into a one-shot but it would be really long and quite tedious for me. I really won't promise anything, since I lose interest in a story quite quickly unless I'm up all night working on a new chapter until I finish it. But I'll try.

This fanfiction goes to my roleplay partner. ¡Eres la mejor Agni de todas!

Anyway, enjoy Soma/Agni shenanigans, thanks for the support shown so far for this pairing! :D


Tea and scones certainly sounded like a great idea when Ciel proposed it nonchalantly, saying that "it's tea time, anyway, and you could use some relaxation from college assignments."

They entered a small coffee shop, indie rock and muffled conversations in the simplistic décor, Ciel walked with his usual suaveness and asked one of the waiters for 'you already know what,' whatever that was. Soma just sat in front of his friend, shuffling a little to get out a 'can I wait a little more to order?' at the expectant waiter, a guy, who seemed around their age, nodded and walked somewhere else to fulfil his duties.

"Lovely, isn't it?" Soma shifted his gaze from the bird flying outside the window to his friend, Ciel was waiting for his tea to arrive, a newspaper in his lap. The Indian chuckled a little under his breath, little Ciel looked like an adult sitting so regal in a chair that looked way too small for that. "Something funny, Kadar?" He shook his head, trying not to infuriate the boy.

"Not really, it's just that you look way too adult with that thing on," he glanced at the menu and wondered if he should go for herbal this time. "Maybe have a conversation with me like the high schooler you are?" Soma, with practice, patience and lots of cheerfulness, became an expert at resisting the furious glares from the youngest Phantomhive, who was at this very moment contemplating whether to commit premeditated murder was a good idea or not, that smile was truly infuriating.

He closed the newspaper and huffed, now looking younger than the seventeen-year-old he actually was, even younger thanks to his soft features. "I am not an amusement," he declared, trying to seem elegantly annoyed, "and by the way you used the term 'high schooler' in that sentence, it seems like an insult or something really amusing."

Soma didn't bother stifling a laugh, he was having fun and his friend knew it was all friendly banter, as the glare melted slowly into a neutral frown and a small smile. After a couple of minutes in comfortable silence, the waiter came back to finally collect his order, to which Soma answered 'chai would be wonderful!'

Ciel didn't wait for Soma to receive his order as the Earl Grey with scones had arrived, but he wasn't really bothered by this, it was his own fault he had taken so long to order, figures he just had to wait until his own order arrived.

"Sebastian, what a pleasure to meet you here." Soma frowned upon hearing the strange name roll from his friend's mouth, he looked away from the window to stare at a person who was all black: a black tee with black leggings, with some pitch-black sneakers and pitch-black hair, all accentuated by his milky skin and red eyes. At first glance, Soma couldn't help but feel wary of the guy, as his grin made him feel inferior.

"The pleasure is all mine, Ciel." Expressed the man, dragging along another person, this person Soma felt more at ease with. He had dark skin, just like him, and also wore typical Hindi clothes (take that, little Ciel! He's not the only weirdo now who does that), had white hair and a gentle expression to his face. Soma couldn't help staring. "Well, won't you introduce us to one another?"

Ciel huffed, but obliged nonetheless. "This person right here is Soma Asman Kadar, self-proclaimed prince of Bengali." Said boy got startled when he heard his name, coming from someone else's mouth, for he had been staring at the person accompanying Sebastian. He noticed a small frown upon hearing his name and maybe a glint of recognition. His name wasn't all over the news in England, was it?

"That's me," Soma answered sheepishly, maybe telling little Ciel of his title had been a bad idea after all, since it seemed to make their yet-to-be-introduced companion uncomfortable.

"Well, this old soul is Agni." Agni bowed. "He comes from India."

"You do?" Soma was eager to talk to someone about his culture! "Where from?" The man seemed to be trying to make himself inconspicuous, failing miserably at that, by the way.

"The same place where your friend says you are prince." Soma tried not to flinch at that, what a cocky acquaintance little Ciel seems to have. Nonetheless, he tried to keep himself cheery for the sake of his friend and the new person who he knew next to nothing about except that they came from the same place.

"Oh, so you lived in Bengali?" The waiter finally arrived with his chai and Soma wasted no second to drink it, all the more to have a distraction from the strange man who seemed to hate him. Agni seemed to be having a bad time deciding what to do with himself, he looked at Ciel then at Sebastian, as if asking permission to sit with them. Soma chuckled, as if sensing his distress and patted the seat beside him. The other man obliged.

"Y-yeah," he answered, a little forced for it to pass up as casual, and the inquisitive looks on his friend and his acquaintance were not doing him any favours.

"What did you like the best of India?" Agni gaped a little as that was a rather personal question and he was sure the boy did not want the answer to that. So he tried glancing at Sebastian, who seemed otherwise occupied humouring the small raven-haired boy.

He shrugged. "The food, I guess." He hoped that sufficed.

Dear lord, Soma was just getting started on small talk.

Strangely enough, Agni didn't feel slightly bored. Not a single second.


"Do you mind if I smoke?" Soma blinked once, twice, confused by the question, and more confused once he processed what it meant. It had been quite a while since their conversation topics wandered astray to India-related topics, though Soma couldn't quite pinpoint the reason as to why that didn't bother him.

"Wait, you smoke? I didn't see you as the smoker type," he mentioned, staring inconspicuously at the cigarette box. Agni shrugged and looked away, a little embarrassed by the choice of words.

"Well, I was… a wild one, in my youth. I had all sorts of vices, smoking is the one that has stayed the most," he answered, trying his best to portray his thoughts without making them seem as dark as they actually were. He took a small white stick from the box and brought it close to his lips, then he placed the lighter near the cigarette and gave a small questioning look towards the boy. "Uh, can I?" He asked, a little awkward since he already had the cigarette in his mouth and he would feel way more awkward if Soma had any trouble with it. The green eyed male shook his head a little, apparently awaken from his stupor and made some gestures to his companionship.

"Of course, please suit yourself." He smiled at him, and leaned into his seat to stare at the window. People were milling about, and some hairs perked up by the subtle smell of tobacco that quickly reached his nostrils. He glanced back at Agni, and he stared entranced at the way his lips held the cigarette for a second, breathed in the tobacco and nicotine, then breathed it out through the nose. The older man became aware of the gaze on him, and grew uncomfortable rather quickly.

"Uh, is something the matter?" Only then Soma noticed he was staring, and he felt his cheeks flare up with embarrassment over the fact that he had been discovered.

"N-nothing at all!" He got out, hoping it didn't sound like a squeak, then he glanced up at the other man, a sheepish smile tugging at his lips. "I was just uh, wondering if I could perhaps try that?"

Agni frowned. Then looked at the cigarette. "This? Smoking, you mean?" Soma scratched his cheek, way too awkward…

"Yeah," he tried to shrug it off, after all, it wasn't that much of a deal, now was it?

The older man still looked unsure. As an addict, he knew the risks of trying a drug, no matter if it is only 'to try' as Soma claimed to. He felt extremely conflicted about it.

"Or… I could, you know, not…?" Soma shrugged again and made himself smaller in self-humiliation. He looked to the other booth, looking for his friend to make things less awkward between them and he noticed… they were gone!

"They ditched us!" He declared indignant, not like Agni was bad company or anything of the sorts (quite contrary, actually) but it was simply rude to leave your friend without telling them!

"It would seem so." His companion didn't seem half as upset over it, and Soma couldn't help but feel somewhat embarrassed over that fact. It motivated him to compose himself. "I'll pay the bill, if you want me to." Aaaaand here comes guilt. Why was this man being so nice?

"Y-you don't have to!" He explained whilst making frantic signs with his hands. "Only little Ciel and I ate, so none of the bill is yours!" He had more than enough money from his parent's allowance to pay for these kind of things, it would be so shameful to make someone else pay for him.

Agni seemed doubtful of that, but let him be, nonetheless. "At least let me accompany you to your dormitory, I'm quite sure those things have curfews of some sorts."

Soma shrugged that off. "They do, but I don't have to be there in the next couple of hours, so I guess we could hang out, to make up for our friend ditching us?" Agni smiled down at him.

"I guess we could."


He arrived at his dorm a few minutes before curfew, a slight bounce to his step and humming happily to a lullaby he picked up on the way. He fidgeted a little with the lock but managed to enter, so inside his reverie he didn't notice his dorm mate until he was almost crashing with him. "Edward! I'm so sorry! Are you okay?"

His friend just chuckled and waved his worry off. "I'm fine, don't you see? You just startled me, where had you gone?" He stepped back and crossed his arms, shaking his head at it all. "I called Ciel and he told me you went on a date with someone."

"Date?" Soma frowned, trying to remember if he had done anything remotely romantic with anyone. When he didn't remember anything he just said where he had gone off to. "I was hanging out with Agni, that's all."

"Who's Agni?" Well, the name certainly was new.

"Oh, he is the friend of little Ciel's strange acquaintance. He also comes from India, so I guess we got along well." He shrugged and walked to his bed, laying down and closing his eyes for a moment.

"And that's where you spent the whole day?"

Soma felt a little suspicious that his friend was asking so many questions. "Yeah. I invited him to hang out with together after Ciel and his acquaintance ditched us at the coffee shop." Edward certainly wasn't impressed by that behaviour from his cousin.

"Well, I'm glad you made a new friend (I guess)."

"Me too."

Meeting Agni had been an interesting experience, even though he didn't know the man that much, he had felt comfortable in his presence rather quickly. Which wasn't that weird for his standards, but just… only with Ciel and his family had he felt that sensation of familiarity. Of knowing him through all his life…

He decided not to dwell anymore on it and go to sleep.


I'm sorry it was quite short, but since the name of this chapter is "Meeting Agni" I couldn't include much more, besides, this was more like a prologue. The length of the chapter will vary, I think. I'll try to update this week if possible, this idea has been around since April, I can't let it root!

Matane!