Seeking Salvation

Warning: Claude/Sebastian lemon, AU, and OOC.

Disclaimer: Sadly we do not, nor will we ever own Kuroshitsuji or any of its characters!

Chapter 2

Only a few days had passed since Claude had met the strange boy at the tree house, and now here he was, climbing up the old steps and making sure that no one was there before he entered. He sighed with relief as he sat down next to his piles of misplaced books and picked up a comic. To his dismay, the corners of the book were folded over in several places. Claude sighed in annoyance.

"He could have at least left my books alone..." He said while he slowly unfolded the wrinkled corners one by one.

In his short six years of life, he had never met anyone that could frustrate him so much in such a short amount of time. Not only had he seemed cocky and annoying, but there was also an air of self-righteousness about him that Claude couldn't stand. Who was he to put on airs? It wasn't like he had been the to find the tree house in the first place. He hoped that the boy would not be coming back anytime soon.

Claude sighed exasperatedly as he placed the comic he had been tampering with neatly back on one of the piles. He looked out the window to see the once sunny weather was now starting to cloud over with the coming rain. He stood up, figuring he'd better head back before it started; he didn't want to be trapped in the tree house if it got bad.

Sebastian had finally cleared a path to the tree house; it had taken a few days and a few times getting lost to figure out where it was again, but now it was only a few minutes walk from his house. He stepped into the clearing just as he noticed a figure climbing down from the tree house up ahead. A wide grin formed on his face when he recognized the bluish-black hair.

"Well, well, well! What do we have here?" He announced his presence as he neared the boy, grin still in place.

The one in question froze with his back to the other.

"I thought I made it perfectly clear last time that this is my treehouse and not yours."

Claude squeezed his eyes shut and took a deep breath before turning around. " I thought I made it clear that it isn't." He gave Sebastian a sharp look before walking past him.

"Hey!" Sebastian grabbed the younger boy's arm and pulled him back.

"What do you want now?"

"Where are you going?" His red eyes squinted in the direction Claude had been walking.

The boy gave him a disbelieving look. Could he really be that stupid? "I'm trying to get away from you obviously." He ripped his arm out of Sebastian's grip.

"I bet you stole my things!"

Now Claude was annoyed. "What do you mean your things? They were never yo-" He was cut off by the sudden loud boom of thunder above them. It was then that the raindrops started, becoming heavier every second.

"This is your fault!" Screamed Sebastian.

"Yes, because I can control the weather." He inwardly rolled his eyes as he trudged back toward the tree house. "Well, are you coming or are you just going to stand there?"

Sebastian slowly walked over, his clothes beginning to get soggy the more he walked. "This was my favorite shirt..." he looked down at the bright red shirt with the nike symbol on it.

The blue haired boy sighed but didn't respond as he made his way once more up the uneven wooden steps leading into the tree house. Now he was stuck with the one person he never wanted to see again. The day was was just getting worse as it went on. The silence was almost suffocating as they were both uncomfortably seated on opposite ends of the small room. Both trying their hardest not to even look in the other's direction. What were they supposed to do now?

Sebastian's hands were folded in his lap. He looked coldly at Claude. "So what do we do now..."

"We wait until the rain stops. You can leave if you want, but I'm not going back out there." He said, pretending a large crack in one of the old wood panels was the most interesting thing in the world.

"I bet a monster put that crack there." He grinned softly as he spoke.

Claude looked at the other as if he had grown two heads. "You still believe in monsters?"

"Well only because they're real."

"You're joking with me aren't you?" An almost smile appeared on the corner of his mouth before it was immediately replaced with a scowl. He didn't like when people tried to trick with him, it made him feel belittled.

"You know they're real, right? I had a friend go missing because they took him into the woods."

"Yeah, whatever you say."

"No really, I'm serious! There's a wolf in these woods" His grin grew wider.

Claude couldn't hold in the condescending laugh that burst through his lips. That was the most ridiculous thing he had ever heard. "Where did you hear this?"

"It happened to me and my friends, I swear it. Do you want to hear the story?"

"Hmph, not really...but something tells me you're going to tell me anyway." He looked away with a frown.

"Well I would but babies shouldn't hear the story it would scare them too much and you are pretty young."Sebastian said with a smug look on his face.

Claude wasn't amused at all. "You do realise that we are only a year apart in age?"

Sebastian readjusted how he was sitting, he was now kneeling in front of Claude "Yea, I do but I have one more year than you do maybe in that one year my friend was killed by a werewolf."

The blue haired boy had lived his entire life on the other side of the woods and had been in them countless times but never had he heard of such things. 'He must be stupid if he really thinks I'm going to believe him.' "Fine tell me what happened and I'll try to control my fear."

Sebastian's smirk turned into a grimace. "It was the 4th of July and me, my friend Ryan, and Cody were shooting off fireworks on the bridge over the river. When it started to get late me and Cody went home together because my aunt's house was right next door to his. Ryan didn't want to go home because he still had fireworks left - you know like the spinners and sparklers - those ones were really bright and one time Ryan burned his arm when he dropped his sparkler. Anyway we left and the next day we went to go get Ryan to go swimming but he wasn't there and his mom was worried, so me and Cody walked back to the bridge and there he was; his top half was right at our feet and his legs were at the other end of the bridge. We didn't even know where his head was. The only reason we knew it was him was because when we found the rest of his arm, we saw the burn mark from when he dropped his sparkler on his arm."

When Sebastian had finally finished, Claude was wide eyed with shock. There was no way that could have actually been true! "I...I don't believe you..." The younger boy seemed to move a little closer to the other, though the action was barely visible.

"Well it's true so you should, I don't lie." The red eyed boy scooted next to him. "You want to know what's even scarier?" Sebastian's arm wrapped around Claude, "Its still out there, and we are all alone in these woods, where no one can find us." His arm slowly caressed his back.

The movement caused Caude to jump, his face starting to burn with embarrassment. He moved away from the older boy and glared. "Stop trying to scare me, it isn't working." He turned away while trying to hide the obvious blush.

Sebastian smirked but didn't comment on it.

The rain continued to pour with no sign of letting up. They sat in the silence for what seemed like forever, listening as the thunder got louder. Night had slowly crept on them and now Claude couldn't help the heaviness of his eyelids. I'll just close my eyes for a little while. Before he realised it, he was curled up on the floor, fast asleep.

The other boy smiled when he noticed Claude was softly snoring. He looked so sweet and innocent when he slept, completely opposite of his usual cold demeanor. Almost...like a kitten. Sebastian couldn't help but crawl over to his smaller companion and lay down beside him. Minutes passed as he too, finally drifted into a gentle sleep.

Authors Note:
Emi: Thank you to the two people who reviewed, we appreciate it! We are sorry for any spelling or grammatical errors. And just incase anyone was wondering, it probably isn't a good idea to go into tree house in the middle of a thunderstorm but I digress. XD

Ami: We didn't notice this until after we wrote it soooo it will stay that way because you know kids do dumb shit anyways. But thank you for reading don't forget to comment and tell your friends about it, it encourages us to write more, and follow us if you want! Oh and we are still looking for a beta if you are one or know someone please refer them to us!

Emi: We'll see you again next chapter, whenever that will be... :D