Coauthored with NemesisNine
Later on that evening, the siblings when out for a walk around the manicured gardens of the Phantomhiv manor grounds. They talked about how life was working for his young lord and about how many times he had been held hostage.
"I don't know, big brother, sounds to me, like too much trouble to go through for just one person's soul." Tora said as she flopped down on the grass next to the trunk of a grand willow. Sebastian just shrugged as he sat down next to her. "This is beautiful, do you think that Ceil will let me stay if I help with the chores?" Tora asked as she put her head on his shoulder.
"I think he will, as long as you don't cause trouble." Sebastian said with a slight smirk as he watched the night sky from under the great tree.
The two of them sat in comfortable silence for a few moments, before an all too familiar voice rang out through the trees. "BASSY!" A red hair man yelled as he went to throw himself around Sebastian only to fall short at the sight of Tora. "Um, Bassy, who is she?" He asked pointing at her nonchalantly.
"Hi, I'm Tora, his sister." She said looking at the man on the ground, the moonlight illuminating her scarlet eyes and highlighting her porcelain skin. She tilted her head in confusion when the man blushed a deep red.
"My name is Grell, I'm a Reaper, so, you're a demon too? I didn't sense you." Grell said as he got off the ground, dusting himself off slightly.
"Oh, you wouldn't, I'm not old enough yet for you to sense me as a demon, if anything I would either read as a human or as nothing depending on the type of sense." She said with a giggle while covering her mouth slightly with the palm of her hand. Neither one of them noticed that Sebastian was not happy with what was going on. He folded his arms disapprovingly while his eyebrow twitched slightly in a small amount of irritation.
"I have to go. I have to go do… Reaper things, yeah! That's it! Bye!" Grell said as he took off like a bat out of hell.
"Well he seems nice. That was a guy right?" Tora asked turning back to her brother, pointing over her shoulder with her thumb and a slight grin.
"I'm not entirely sure, although, that is the shortest amount of time he has ever stayed to bug me." Sebastian replied coolly.
"Well, I think he was cute the way he tried to tackle you." Tora started before the sound of barking hit her ears. About thirty seconds after, an unnaturally large white dog round the corner, and as soon as its eye landed on Tora it let out a howl and began to makes its way over to the pair.
With a frightened hiss, Tora, who was now panicked to the point where she could no longer keep her human form transformed into an unnaturally large cat, hopping into the lower branches of the tree. Her fur was standing on end from the tip of her nose to the tip of her ear. Her tail started to lash back and forth as the dog got closer, she released a deep feline growl. Once it heard the hiss, the dog tucked its tail and whimpered before running off in a different direction.
"A demon hound, you didn't tell me that your master owned a demon hound as well!" Tora snapped as she turned back shaking from head to toe, slowly climbing herself down from the tree. As her brother pulled her into a hug and began to whisper apologies in her ear and played with her paws. "Give me back my paws! You know I hate it when you do that!" Tora said, scowling while trying to pull her paws back out of his hands with very little success.