Chapter Three: Realizations.
A/N: Hi there! In this chapter nothing very important happens, I mean some things happen but it's not like 'OMG! I didn't see it coming' or 'What was that?' but I hope I didn't screw up... * frustrated sigh *. Anyway this story will have a bit weird twist because I wondered what would it be like if that actually happened, so I thought I could try it, but if you don't like the idea just tell me and I will keep on writing suppressing that part, okay?
Well, however let's continue with the story (and I'm sorry if I confused/scared you in the author's note, I have to confess that I am a bit weird sometimes... xD)
Disclaimer: Still I don't own Kuroshitsuji, if I did there would be more Grell :P
The red reaper was petrified. "S-Sebastian?" He repeated the name to make sure he wasn't hallucinating. And he wasn't.
"Oh, so you remember me, huh?" The butler asked teasingly. "At first I thought you had forgotten about me".
"I-I'd never forget you Sebby!" The redhead pouted, still a bit shocked "Am I dreaming? Are you just a beautiful nightmare that's haunting me?" The demon chuckled.
"No, you're awake and I'm really here" The confused shinigami touched the demon's arm.
"Sebas-chan! I'm so happy you're not a dream! But, why are you dancing with me?" The butler smiled softly at the insecure reaper "And didn't you go a hundred years ago to God-knows-where?" The redhead looked around looking for something "Weren't you contracted to that little brat for eternity? I don't see him around" The shinigami was about to ask another question when Sebastian spoke.
"If you keep asking I won't be able to answer every single question you say" The dark haired man stated calmly. The reaper nodded and stopped to let the demon respond. He held the butler close and focused on dancing while the butler thought about every question the flamboyant man asked. Just when he was going to open his mouth the DJ interrupted again. Grell didn't have time to complain because in that moment he was already being held by another.
"Grell Sutcliff! I want an explanation! Why were you dancing with that vermin? And why is he here in first place?" A very annoyed William was looking in the direction Sebastian was dancing, smirking to him. Will was willing to kill that bastard!
"Will! You saw him too! Oh, so it's true, he's back! I'm so happy I could die" The redhead said giggling. And that was making William angrier.
"Stop saying those things, Sutcliff. He's a demon and we're enemies. I don't know why are you so glad to see that thing" The dark haired shinigami glared the demon.
"Will dear, are you jealous?" The feminine reaper asked teasing his supervisor. William looked at him. He seemed to be in his usual flirting self, but someone who really know him could see something more. His eyes were glowing like they used to before the butler abandoned him. When the demon left the usually flamboyant and cheerful shinigami had changed. It was unnoticeable for those who weren't close to him but William, who had been with him since their academy days, realized it. Though he was still very annoying and careless he could see in his eyes pain, and sometimes when Grell remembered his beloved demon the smile on his face would drop. Other times he would disappear and cry his heart out. William was worried and tried to help his partner, but he was a mess with feelings. So he just comforted him and continued working. The dark haired reaper couldn't suppress a smile. It seemed that the redhead only needed to see again the demon to be okay. But when the thought came to his mind the stoic man felt a little pain on his chest. Grell needed the demon. He stopped smiling.
"William, are you okay?" Grell asked worried about the sudden change of moods of his boss.
"Y-Yes, I was just thinking... o-on the lot of paperwork I will have to do a-and..." Will was cut by the red reaper.
"Don't lie, you are a terrible liar" Will slightly frowned.
"Stop your idiocy, Sutcliff. First I am not jealous of that vermin, second I'm not lying and third-" The DJ shouted 'change'. Stupid DJ, William cursed and considered writing his name on his To Die list.
Sebastian was caught off guard when they had to swap partners. When he noticed he had wasted time thinking and he wanted to tease the red shinigami a little more, he looked for the flamboyant man. He caught the sight of him and then something made him smirk. William T Spears, that shinigami who couldn't stand him, glared at him. He was likely questioning the other to know why was he there. But something in the way he looked at him told him it wasn't just that. He had looked at him somehow possessive. Was that stoic reaper jealous of him? The thought amused the butler. His demonic side made him want to get there and figure it out. He was willing to drive the man insane. After all they were enemies and his sadistic self was screaming him to do it.
Fast, the raven haired man approached the spot where they were dancing for observe the face of the jealous man. He wickedly smiled when he saw the desire of killing in the shinigami's eyes. The demon was enjoying driving the reaper crazy. Suddenly he thought of another way to annoy him. He crossed the room and got to the place the DJ was standing. He moved closer to the man with headphones. He had short green hair and gray eyes. Said guy looked at him.
"Hey dude, what do ya want?" The demon smirked.
"Could you say again that 'swap' thing, please?" The young boy raised an eyebrow.
"Why? I've just said it. I have to give people time to dance!" The butler's eyes turned pink and glowed dangerously. He slowly walked to the green haired.
"Just do it, please" The demon said calmly but his eyes could have terrified anyone who looked at them.
"Y-Yes, sir" The DJ said shaking. His gray eyes were staring at him, wide open. The butler thanked the boy like he hadn't even noticed the fear of the younger man, and went back to the dance floor.
Sebastian was next to the two shinigamis before any of them had noticed his absence and stole the red reaper from the stoic man's arms when the DJ did as he was told. But just before he took the feminine man away from his supervisor, Sebastian glanced the other man with a wide smile. Then the demon disappeared in the crowd with Grell, leaving a furious William behind.
The blue haired boy was having a great time with the blond girl, although he tried not to show it. They had been talking since the butler had left. The blonde had a bit mischievous personality, but she was kind though. At first she seemed a little shy but then they had started feeling like they were the best friends ever. Ciel was happy to find someone who understood him so well, but besides, he felt sad. The blue eyed girl was exactly like him.
"Ciel, are you alright? You look kinda upset. Did I said something wrong?" Jessica had worry in her eyes.
"No, you did nothing. I was just thinking... in a friend I lost some years ago" Ciel's expression darkened. If it were just some years... But it had been much more time since then. More than a hundred years. He lost him before he became a demon. At first he felt relieved because he didn't have to put up with him anymore, but as the time passed by he realized how much he missed the irritating blonde.
"I'm sorry" The girl muttered "Could you tell me how he was? I think that maybe if you talk about it you will feel better. But anyway, if don't want to, it's okay" Ciel looked at her. He hadn't talked about it with anyone. But then, the sincere smile in Jessica's lips made him trust her.
"Well, I-I don't know how to start..." The blue haired let out a small sigh "He could be, as I told you before, your twin. He had messy blond hair and the bluest eyes I've seen ever, at least 'till I met you" The boy chuckled a bit "He was taller than me and always had a malicious grin on his lips. He liked to tease me and he was a careless person. But he was also a poor boy who had been abused and needed someone to love him" Ciel dropped a tear at the last words came out of his lips.
Jessica's eyes widened in confusion and surprise. She got closer to the boy and hugged him. The blue haired stared at the girl shocked. "S-Sorry Ciel" The blonde was crying on the boy's shoulder. Ciel hugged her back and let another tear drop. They tried to comfort each other for a few moments until they could stop sobbing.
"I didn't mean to upset you too, I apologize" Ciel said softly caressing her cheek.
"If it have made you feel better then I don't mind it. Though I am not exactly sad..." The last sentence was a mere whisper.
"What do you mean with that?" The boy, being a demon, had heard every single word the girl said.
"Nothing important, Ciel" The blue eyed girl forced a little smile.
"I don't think so" The little demon made her look at him in the eyes "What are you not telling me? Don't you trust me?" Ciel looked hurt. He had told her something he hadn't told to anyone but she wasn't going to do the same. He was about to complain when Jessica spoke.
"Ciel, if I tell you this, please promise me you won't be mad at me" Ciel nodded "Nobody knows about this and I was trying to keep it as a secret, but when I saw you..." She sighed.
"Don't you worry I will not tell anybody whatever you tell me" The demon stated calmly.
"Okay... The truth is that-" She couldn't finish the sentence as Ciel suddenly turned around. His demonic nature was telling him to attack, to kill. He didn't know the reason why he was willing to do it. But then he saw it. Near him were some reapers he met when he was still human, included the Undertaker. He slowly told himself to calm down. He hadn't been so close to shinigamis since he was turned. And he noticed that something was wrong between them. They looked kinda worried, Undertaker too, a fact that scared him. Undertaker was an insane reaper who was retired and spent all his time giggling. To see him so deathly serious wasn't a good sign. Ciel glanced in their direction only to see Sebastian dancing. Why were they looking at him like that? Sure that demons and shinigamis were mortal enemies, but they had dealt with Sebastian before, so why was it different this time? He focused in his butler to try to understand it, and then he realized the person he was dancing with him. That annoying red head who killed his aunt and stalked Sebastian. Ciel's confusion grew. But that was neither new. So why were they looking at them like that? The boy's head was starting to ache. Suddenly decided to ask the reapers and stop guessing. So he turned and started to leave when he heard a voice calling him.
"Ciel, where are you going?" Jessica looked like she was going to cry.
"I have to do an important thing" And he continued walking away, ignoring the the girl who was begging him to stay. She almost sounded heartbroken but the little demon, though feeling like it wasn't right to let her cry mercilessly, couldn't go back seeing the mad shinigami so damn serious.
The four shinigamis had seen everything that happened since William and Sebastian saw each other. They were practically fighting for Grell, although their motives were not the same. While William was trying to keep the redhead away from the demon because he was obviously in love with the feminine man, Sebastian was doing it just to make the stoic man angry and have some fun. And the problem was that Sebastian was succeeding in his purpose. William was so jealous at how the redhead would throw himself at the demon though this one ignored him, while William had been always there for the red reaper despite the fact that he wouldn't tell him ever.
"This is not gonna end well..." The two-toned shinigami let out a sigh.
"We should do something before those two have the great idea of killing each other here" Alan said concerned with the situation.
"I don't know why Grell doesn't notice what's going on there" Eric confessed, confused by the fact "I don't think he's that naïve" The blond frowned.
Undertaker was silently considering what would be the best thing to do to avoid a massacre. But then a very familiar voice slapped him out of his thoughts.
"Undertaker" Ciel Phantohive was glancing at him coldly but he was slightly frowning.
"Little Earl" His characteristic grin was again placed on his lips "I've missed your visits" The elder man chuckled.
"Enough idiocy, Undertaker" Certainly he had missed the crazy reaper too, he was quite amusing and entertaining "I'd want to know why are you staring at my butler and that nuisance like that"
The wicked smile disappeared of the man's face again. "You'll see little Earl, I'd gladly tell you the reason, but you know everything has a price" Ciel smiled. Though the reaper was obviously worried about something he still demanded the boy making him laugh in exchange of the information.
"Sure, I'll pay" The Earl whispered something in the elder man's ear and this one started laughing uncontrollably.
"I thought that only your butler could make me laugh like that" Undertaker said giggling. "I suppose now it's time to tell you what you wanted to know" The elder shinigami's smile was replaced for a concerned frown "As you already know the problematic ones aren't miss Sutcliff and Mr. Michaelis. Everyone here knows about their little relationship so it isn't anything to worry about. But the real problem is, no, are Mr. Michaelis and Mr. Spears" The Undertaker didn't laugh while he was speaking so the situation shouldn't be good.
"What about them, I mean they hate each other because of our condition as mortal enemies, but we can control ourselves. Just look at us." The blue haired boy didn't see the anything wrong there so he waited for a response.
"Well, it isn't difficult to suppress our instincts unless there's more than hate there" Ciel raised an eyebrow. What more could exist between those two? Then a strange thought came to his mind...
"Don't you worry, Little Earl, they're not in love" The mad man chuckled when he saw the younger boy's face.
Ciel let out a sigh of relief. "You scared me Undertaker. Those two..." Ciel made a face at the thought. "So, if it's not that...?"
"It's jealousy" Ciel's eyes widened in surprise "Sebastian has noticed that William T Spears, in spite of being the less expressive reaper I've ever seen, is in love with Ms. Sucliff. And Mr. Michaelis has decided to have a little fun making the other angry" The blue haired boy sighed. His butler was stupidly playing with fire and if he wasn't careful they were going to lose control. And with no control over his demonic nature he was going to put in danger all of the humans that were too close to the butler.
"We have to do something" Ronald spoke determined to save the innocent humans who weren't aware of the risk of being there.
"But the question is what" Eric narrowed his eyes thinking about the possibilities.
"What do you suggest doing, Undertaker?" The blue haired inquired.
"Mmm... I think the best way to end with this is taking Grell away from them" The four men nodded "Then Earl you should order Sebastian to regain control over his instincts and finally someone might need to calm down William"
"That sounds reasonable. Let's try it and see what happens" The two-toned shinigami decided "What do we have to do?"
"Well Ronald, I think you can be the one to make Mr. Spears come back to his usual self. Alan, could you help the Earl getting to the place where Sebastian is dancing?" The brunette nodded "Great, Eric look for the closest exit from here, we'll need to be fast" The blonde smiled.
"And what are you doing in this plan, Undertaker?" The boy asked narrowing his eyes.
"The most difficult part, Little Earl, 'kidnapping' Grell" And with that they began with the plan.
Grell was dreaming. It couldn't be happening, in spite of being able to feel it and knowing it had to be true. Since he had been aware of Sebastian's return, the shinigami had danced only with a very annoyed William and with his beloved demon. He was definitely in heaven. He didn't care anymore of having to change partner cause the only two who would dance with him were the men he was in love with. The DJ said the magic word (swap) and his grin widened. But, at that moment, something strange happened. The man dancing with him wasn't either Sebas-chan or Will! It was Undertaker! What was he doing? Why did he interrupted his beautiful dream come true?
"Ms. Sutcliff, I'm afraid we must leave" The redhead stared at him with wide-open eyes.
"You must be kidding, right?" The Undertaker, who hadn't been more serious in his entire life, sighed.
"No my lady, this is not a joke" He shook his head "You may not understand why now, but believe me, we should go"
"But-" Grel shut his mouth as he realized that he was already being carried to the closest door where Eric was waiting. Why were they acting so weird? Was it because they wanted to escape from loads of paperwork? No, they didn't give a damn bout that. Well, it didn't matter to him. Not after having such a wonderful time.
They exited the ball quickly, and stopped at the street. Grell supposed that they were waiting for Knoxie and Alan. The music was still audible from outside the building. The red shinigami lifted his head to look at the stars. He smiled. It was better for him to stay as optimistic as possible cause that would be the last time in a while for him to see the sky. He was already in trouble before the crazy idea of escaping existed, so he would probably have to persuade his boss to let him see the sun again in his life. A noise from behind him made him turn. Alan was there smiling at Eric. Suddenly he nodded and they started to leave. But, what about Ronnie? He frowned but didn't ask. Maybe he had met a beautiful girl and he refused to go back to the shinigami realm.
They walked down the lonely streets. It was nearly midnight. The weather was warm due to the closeness of summer. The redhead was wondering where were they going because they couldn't get to the realm walking, at least he thought so. The four reapers were silently walking, lost in their thoughts. Alan walked next to Eric and Undertaker was near him. They didn't say a word in all the way to God-knows-where. After a while they stopped in front of Undertaker's shop. So that was where they were going. But why? He followed his friends into the shop without complaining, he was just too happy to do it. They sat on some coffins and looked to each other. Then the retired shinigami broke the strange silence.
"Well I apologize for ending your fantasy Miss Sutcliff, but there were a few problems on the party" The flamboyant reaper didn't seem any annoyed with that.
"It's okay, I'm not angry. I could not be after discovering that my beloved Sebas-chan has returned! Oh and the first thing he did when he saw me was take me dancing. How romantic, my dear Sebas-chan" The scarlet sighed happily.
"Well I think the best I can do now is to pay a visit to my old friends and see the motives of this sudden return" The elder man glanced at the other two shinigamis "You shall wait here for Ronald before you leave" And then he was gone. Eric and Alan were arm in arm, talking, so Grell decided to let them alone and lay down till Ronnie appeared.
So, that was chapter 3, I hope it's not too bad, I wasn't inspired at all... * sighs * Anyway review please, cause reviews make me feel more confident about the story and also make me happy to see that at least one person in the world likes this n_n 3
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