SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL, SPEAK NO EVIL: Cheat Codes of the Universe

SUMMARY: Claude, Hannah and Sebastian thought that taking jobs as body guards to three overly privileged children would be easy. However, their is far more to this job than they ever realized especially when they find themselves running from gunman, dealing with supernatural conspiracies, and having to save those kids from damn near every threat imaginable both of this world and not...

CH 1.
Mizaru, Kikazaru, and Iwazaru

Ciel hadn't bothered to stay around to chat, so Sebastian decided to wander around the house. In the main hallway their were expensive looking and rather formal paintings which he hadn't had time to notice before. Their was a painting of Lord Phantomhive with someone he assumed to be his wife, she was a woman with blonde hair and the same eyes as Ciel. A little further down was a picture of Lord Trancy with a woman who Sebastian assumed to be his wife. The girl was way out of his league, and significantly younger than him... Just looking at this picture he would have put Lord Trancy in his early forties (probably wasn't too long ago... he looked the same as he did now), and she must be eighteen, nineteen. He hopped she wasn't younger than that. It was very evident where all of Alois' good looks came from and thank god for that. They had made the paintings in an old fashioned style and seemed to have even put on clothes befitting the Victorian era. He had seen people do that before. Like when you put on cowboy gear and pretend you're in the old west.

"Oh, are you lost Sebastian?"

Mey-Rin had walked in carrying a bundle of laundry.

"I don't believe we had a chance to meet properly, how do you know my name?" Sebastian asked turning around.

She suddenly started blushing. "Well, I... I overheard... Sorry..."

Sebastian smiled, "Don't apologize. It's fine. Yours was, Mey-Rin... right?"

"Uh... yes sir..."

"Do you need help with that?" he asked walking over to take the laundry from her, but she backed away. "No Sir! You haven't been made the official head butler here yet, so I wouldn't feel right..."

"Butler?" Sebastian said frowning. "I'm not here to be a butler, I'm here to be a body guard..."

"Oh that's right..." Mey-Rin said. "They were changing it this time, that they were..."

"This time?" Sebastian frowned.

Her face suddenly got very red and she turned rushing from the room. At that point two other people had walked in they were both carrying one end of a long table. "What's wrong with her..."

The younger of the two men suddenly grinned upon seeing him. "Sebastian!" he exclaimed rushing over to him he let his end of the table drop. He hurried over and gave him a hug that was so painful he thought his ribs had cracked. "Oh... sorry..."

"And just how do you know me?" he asked wincing after the guy had let him go.

"Oh..." he said having the same reaction as the girl. "So you haven't been... Well no matter, they'll probably do that in a few days..."

"Oi! Finny! If he it ain't him yet you might as well come help me with the table end..."

"Right, sorry," Finny said rushing back over. They seemed to be taking the table outside.

As the other man was walking by him he inclined his head. "Nice to see you again."

"Again?" Sebastian frowned. What the fuck was going on?

"Sebastian."

He turned. Lord Phantomhive had just descended the stairs. "Dinner is about to start. Do come and join us."

"Sure," he said with one last glance back at the two guys who had left...

Claude and Hannah were already seated in the grand dining room looking as confused about all of this as he was. He sat down beside Hannah throwing her and Claude a what's up with this place look.

The meal passed in almost complete silence other than Lord Phantomhive and Lord Trancy discussing various business things. The boys sat a little further down from thier parents in the center of the table. Ciel and Alois were actually talking quite a bit in sign and Luca was playing with his food until it was all pushed together into a giant clump on his plate. Alois looked over at him. "Eh... Luca. Look what you've done to your food."

"Huh..." he frowned. "What did I do to it?"

"It's all mixed together," Alois said smiling.

"I wanted my stick stuff in my mushy stuff," Luca explained. two inch bits of asparagus was haphazardly mixed into his potatoes.

"Indeed, that's what you've done alright," Alois said smiling.

Lord Trancy suddenly frowned and he hit the desk hard making enough of a vibration to cause Alois to look his way. "You make him eat right! We have guests!"

Alois frowned he looked over at Mey-Rin who was standing against the wall. "Could you get him a new plate please..."

Mey-Rin nodded hurrying forward she grabbed his plate and hurried off to the kitchen with it. Luca frowned sinking into his seat. Alois ruffled his hair in an effort to cheer him up.

"We're being rude," Lord Phantomhive said and he suddenly looked up at the three of them. "Did you three wish to discuss anything? How do you like the boys and this manor so far?"

"Oh it's fine..." Hannah said nervously.

"Could do with some modern decor. This place looks old," Sebastian said rather bluntly.

"Indeed it is," Lord Phantomhive said. "This manor was built in the thirteen hundreds. Mind we've added a few aspects of modernization. Lights, indoor lavatories. Things of that nature. It's been some time since I've been back here, this was my childhood home, and has been in my family since it was built."

"Impressive," Sebastian said shrugging, clearly not actually impressed.

Lord Phantomhive continued as though he hadn't noticed this rudeness. "We were living in London my son and I, until quite recently when my wife and I had a bit of a falling out. Parental differences. So I took my son and moved him here. Of course I wanted the boys to stay together since their such good friends, and I invited Lord Trancy to stay with me for awhile as well."

"Anything to get away from that crazy bitch," Trancy said scarfing down on some more food. He had yelled at Luca not too long ago about manners and yet he was eating like that. At the last word though Ciel glared in Lord Trancy's direction with a look of the utmost dislike.

"Now now," Lord Phantomhive said smiling. "Let's not be rude. She is still my wife after all..."

Lord Trancy shrugged not looking up from his plate.

"I don't suppose any of you have made a definitive decision yet?" Lord Trancy said looking at the three of them. "Do you want the job or not?"

"I'm giving them twenty-four hours," Vincent said. "They can take as many of those hours as they would like."

"I'd like this done and decided soon... their is a full moon tonight."

"I'm aware of that," Vincent said softly. "If we miss it, we'll just do it on the next one..."

"Tsk..."

"Full moon?" Hannah asked frowning. "What does that have to do with anything?"

"It's a silly superstition, don't worry about it," Lord Vincent said politely.

Mey-Rin returned with a new plate for Luca and immediately started to do the same thing he had done earlier. Alois caught it quickly and grabbed his hand. "No Luca," he said warningly.

After dinner they were taken to the billiard room where they all played pool. Ciel was exceptionally good along with his father. Lord Phantomhive ended up being the victor. By then it was late and they were shown to their rooms. Each of them had a room right next to the child they were in charge of, with a door that actually led into their room. Ciel stopped Sebastian before he went into his and tried to sign something. "Sorry..." Sebastian said shrugging.

Ciel stopped Alois when he was heading to his own and signed something to him and then indicated Sebastian. "He wants me to tell you not to come in his room unless you knock first."

"Uh... yeah, of course," Sebastian said thinking this was common sense. Jeez, he doesn't trust me at all...

Alois stared at him and then signed to Ciel, who signed back before entering his room and closing the door. "Ciel says that it's not that, it's just you've never been one for boundaries."

Sebastian turned staring at Alois as he headed down the hall to put Luka in bed.

Sebastian ended up lying awake. So many strange things had happened today. This place was strange, these children were strange. Before he joined this madness he wanted some answers, so he got up from his bed and went over to the door and knocked. A bit of moment was heard and Ciel answered with a questioning look. "Can I ask you some things?"

Frowning Ciel stepped back to let him inside, he motioned for Sebastian to sit at a small table he had set up near his bedroom window and he went to get some paper and a pen which he brought with him when he sat down. He wrote something at the top of one of the pages and then turned it so he could read it.

First of it's: May I

Sebastian frowned. Cocky little shit... he thought but sighed. "Sorry, may I ask you some things?"

Ciel nodded.

"What the hell is going on?" he asked bluntly deciding not to sugar coat anything. "You can't speak, Alois can't hear, that Luca kid can't see... This whole house had different statues and artwork dedicated to monkey's exactly the same way as you three. This seems like the set up for a horror film. So what exactly is going on?"

Ciel sighed knowing that answering this question would take a lot of writing but he gathered up the pages and sat back in his seat grabbing a book to write on. There he sat for some time, his pen scratching away. Sebastian watched him working by the light of the small oil lamp on his table. Sebastian felt awkward. Not knowing what to do with himself which Ciel was writing away. At last Ciel sat down the page in front of him. He had taken almost the entire piece of paper to write:

Have you ever heard of the proverbial principal: See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil?

These three ideals are supposed to dwell in every person. A part of you that sees the evil of the world around you and they keep track on if you do nothing to stop it. A part of you that hears falsehoods and lies and that part waits too to see if you do nothing to stop it. Then their is a part of you that speaks the falsehoods yourself and they keep track on if you give into them and speak the evils yourself. These three beings were known as Sanshi, and keeping a depiction of the see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil proverb would block the Sanshi from knowing any and all of the evil performed. Every 60 days the Sanshi report to heaven and tell the Gods what evils were performed by the human in the last 60 days, and if you had the depiction in your home or on your person, then the Sanshi would have nothing to report.

Now the Sanshi are simply said to be observers who do nothing more but report back on which evils you give into or allow to pursue. The actual causes of the evil are demons known as Mizaru, Kikazaru and Iwazaru. Eventually so much evil occurred in the world that it made these demons quite powerful and the depictions were no longer enough to stop the demons from running about and causing chaos.

Sometime around the 8th century, but no one truly knows the exact date. It was decided that the depictions were more of a hindrance than a help. Because the Sanshi were no longer reporting the bad deeds of the people that meant heaven was no longer sending punishments for those deeds. People sometimes call this karma. It was decided that rather than shielding heavens eyes from the evils of man it made more sense to simply stop those evils in the first place. Thus, humans were chosen to take the forms of the depictions. Each sacrificed in themselves what was being shielded from the heavens. Luca sacrificed his sight to protect the world from Mizaru, the demon that allows the sight of evil to plague one's heart. Alois sacrificed his hearing to protect the world from Kikazaru, the demon that allow the evil hateful words of the people to plague one's mind. I sacrificed my voice to protect the world from Iwazaru, the demon that allow lies and falsehoods to roll from the tongues of the people.

It's not all sacrifice however, we were given things in exchange for what we lost. Luca lost his ability to see the present, but he can view the past or future. Alois lost his ability to hear the audible sounds of the world but he can hear the thoughts in one's head and the intents of your heart. I lost my ability to speak, but I no one can lie when they speak to me, and if I write a direct question to them they have to tell me the truth. For example:

Who is the person you hate most in this house?

When Sebastian read that line his mouth opened immediately, "Trancy," he said then he froze. He had not intended to say anything. Ciel smiled at him, and he continued reading.

See? But yes, Lord Trancy is a bit of a prick. That's the answer most people give when I ask that question. So I assume yours is the same.

Anyway, our existence keeps these evils at bay, but even with our sacrifices the demons gain enough strength to escape about every 100 years so we must capture them each time they are freed. Over the next 100 years they gain back their strengths from the evil of man to do it all over again. The longer we can keep them captured however, the longer it takes the evil to recover.

If that is all, I would like to retire for the night.

Sebastian looked up at him, Ciel was staring at him with those insanely blue eyes. "You have to be joking, this can't be real..."

Ciel picked up his pen wrote something else on another sheet and handed it to him.

I was simply answering your question. I'm not asking you to believe me. But... if you don't, you can leave tomorrow and never return. However, if you think their is even the slightest chance this could be real then stay and and I'll show you things you've never imagined.

I'm glad their was a decent few who liked this story. It's given me inspiration to continue. I hope you readers choose to stay and see where this story goes as well. :D