TITLE: Kinshitsuji! 金執事
SUMMARY: When Haruhi's family is murdered, she becomes the sole heir to her family's estate & legacy. Still, it's difficult for a young girl in the Victorian Era to hold her own in society against aristocratic men with knowledge & power. Thus she collects for herself some servants & uses their skills & good looks to get (basically) whatever she damn well pleases! (Kuroshitsuji inspired)
STORY PAIRINGS: Haruhi+Tamaki, Honey+Mori, Kaoru+Hikaru

PLEASE NOTE: This story is rated M. According to the FF site, that means it has to be appropriate for ages 16+ WITHOUT explicit content, which includes adult language, themes, and suggestions. This story meets those requirements.


A journey to Normalcy


Haruhi was awoke by light suddenly streaming into her room. Someone had pulled the curtains open. Wincing, she turned in the direction of the light and saw the Angel standing there. He was dressed in simple white attire, and his wings were either gone or just invisible.

"Good morning my Lady!" she said cheerfully, and she gasped pulling her covers up to her chin.

"What are you doing in here!?" she snapped.

"What am I? I am here to awaken the sleeping Princess of course!" he said smiling. "So come along, it's morning. I shall help you get dressed!"

"Wha! No way! Get out!" Haruhi snapped.

"Get out?" he said looking genuinely confused. "But you're a refined lady of high birth, I wouldn't think you are used to dressing yourself."

"I'll figure it out now LEAVE!" she spat angrily still shielding herself with her blanket.

"Nonsense my Lady, I—"

"I SAID GET OUT!" she snapped and feeling slightly scared Tamaki ran for the door so fast that he tripped as he closed it falling flat on his bum outside. He stared up at her door looking solemn.

"I don't understand, why won't she let me help her?" Tamaki asked frowning.

"You moron," said a voice beside him. Kyoya walked up, he was wearing a frown and had his arms folded. "Men don't dress women in this country or this time."

"Why not?"

"Because men are untrustworthy and they might try something…"

"Try what?" Tamaki asked.

Kyoya sighed, "Something perverted…"

"What's perverted mean?"

Kyoya glared at him, sure for a minute that he was joking. But then he remembered. Tamaki was an Angel. Not figuratively either, quite literally. Tamaki was not capable of impure thoughts or actions. "Right I forgot who I was talking to…"

"What does it mean?"

Kyoya ignored him turning to the door. "Well someone must assist her… Female garments of this time period are quite difficult to put on, and if she has indeed never had to do so herself before…"

"I'll help her!" said the childish voice of the demon as he headed to the door and reached out for the handle. Only Kyoya's scythe suddenly blocked his entrance.

"You, demon, are the last creature in this house who is going to help her."

"Huh, how come?"

"Because you're a creature of hell, and I don't know what you might do to her…" Kyoya snapped.

"She is my soul, I would never let her be harmed…" Honey pointed out, and he turned to Kyoya his eyes narrowing. "You on the other hand, I could tear asunder and not think twice…"

"I agree with Kyoya, demons are impure and if you touched her skin, you would only taint my beloved angel!" Tamaki explained getting to his feet.

Honey frowned, and then pushed aside Kyoya's scythe.

"Haru-no kimi," Honey said opening the door. "Do you need help changing?"

"Wha!" Tamaki gasped. "No don't go in there!"

"Yeah, thanks. That would help a lot…"

Honey smiled walking inside he slowly closed the door behind him tossing Kyoya and Tamaki a rather evil little glare as he did so.

"Wha! He's going to taint her!" Tamaki gasped.

"Relax," Kyoya sighed. "The little demon is right about one thing. As long as they have a contract, he won't harm her. Demons aren't worth much, but they are loyal to their promises. I'll give them that."

"But why did she let him in, but not me?" Tamaki sighed.

"Probably because he looks like a child."

Tamaki turned in the direction of the voice blinking. But he didn't see anyone.

"Hello?" Tamaki said looking for the source of the voice. Kyoya had already walked away and there was no one else there. He shrugged and hurried downstairs.


"He heard me!" Hikaru gasped.

He and his brother had been trying to talk to Haruhi and the newcomers since they had gotten back, but so far no luck. They could not see or hear them. But that Angel guy… he seemed to have heard him…

"I doubt it, he probably heard something else," Kaoru sighed. He had already grown bored of trying.

"No, he heard me! C'mon!" Hikaru called hurrying after the angel.

Sighing Kaoru followed him dully.


Haruhi came downstairs twenty minutes later dressed perfectly with Honey following looking rather pleased with himself at a job well done.

"Hello everyone," Haruhi said smiling at them. "Since… we're all going to be living here now, at least for a while. We should set some rules."

"Excellent idea," Kyoya said taking a seat. He did so love structure and rules.

"Um… I need to assign you all jobs I think…" Haruhi said looking around at them all. "Kyoya, you will be my head butler since you seem so organized."

"Wha!" gasped Tamaki. "What about me! I wanna be your butler Haruhi!"

"Fine," Haruhi said dully. Mostly because she hadn't yet thought of a job for him. "Then Kyoya, you'll be the house steward."

"Yes!" Tamaki cheered. He got the position of head butler!

"Honey, you can be a Gardner. Do you… like plants at all?"

"Hhmm…" Honey said thinking. "Not really… I like killing things!"

Haruhi blinked at him. "So you'll be my gardener," she said ignoring his last comment.

She turned staring up at the tall Mori who was leaning against a wall. "You can handle the animals I keep…"

"Takashi, you're good with animals, so you'll like that job!" Honey said cheerfully.

"HEAR ME!"

Tamaki blinked, looking around. "Did… did anyone hear that?"

Haruhi turned to him frowning, "Hear what? I didn't hear anything…"

"He's talking about the ghosts," Honey said smiling looking at something. Haruhi looked in the same direction but she couldn't see anything.

"Wait," Hikaru said looking at Honey. "You can see and hear us?"

"Sure can," Honey answered.

"What, we've been talking to you all since you got back! Why haven't you said anything before now."

"I've been ignoring you," Honey explained simply making Hikaru look even more furious (if it were possible).

"We need to speak to Haruhi, can you let her know we're here!"

"I just did," Honey said looking a little annoyed.

"I mean; can you tell her the things I'm saying!" Hikaru asked.

"I'll only told her because you guys were getting annoying. So just go on to heaven already. Or if you want I can send you to hell," he added that last part with an evil sort of grin.

"Honey who are you talking to?" Haruhi asked.

"I'm trying to convince the annoying twin ghosts to leave," he said.

"Twin… Ghosts…" Haruhi hurried over to Honey. "Wait, you can see them?"

"Yup," Honey answered happily.

"Are they younger boys? Named Hikaru and Kaoru?"

"I don't know what their names are," Honey answered getting really annoyed.

"Yes, we are!" the twins said in unison.

"They're saying they are…" Honey added.

Haruhi's eyes widened and she looked in the direction that Honey was looking. She still could not see them. "Why can you see them, and I can't?"

"Demons can see ghosts," Honey explained. "Angels are supposed to be able to as well, but this one seems pretty incompetent."

"Hey!" Tamaki snapped.

"Kaoru, and Hikaru…" Kyoya said looking through his book. "Yes, they died the day you were kidnapped… It seems one of my Shinigami coworkers were supposed to see their souls to heaven, and they didn't show. Thus Kaoru and Hikaru were left with an option to stay or leave. It's alright, I shall correct this immediately."

He held out his hand and the scythe appeared in it. "I shall send them both to heaven."

"Wait no!" Haruhi said at the same time the twins shouted, "No Way!"

"Is there no way to bring them back?" Haruhi asked and she genuinely looked sad. "They died trying to protect me…"

Kyoya frowned, "I can't return them to their bodies, but I can make it so you hear them and I can give the ghost forms a more physical appearance…"

"You can?" Haruhi asked smiling.

"Yes, I suppose," he said. "Demon, could you point me in the direction of the ghosts please? Since their souls were sent off properly I can't see them directly."

Honey frowned. "I don't like them. I don't want them here…"

"You little brat!" Kaoru snapped eyeing him.

"Honey, do it," Haruhi ordered. Then thinking that sounded rather harsh she added. "Please."

Honey frowned and pointed. "They're over there…"

Kyoya walked over to the direction that Honey indicated and he raised it into the air and sliced through the air. A glowing rip appeared, and the light from it illuminated the twins making them visible.

"It is them!" Haruhi said cheerfully.

Kyoya turned his scythe around so the opposite side without the blade was facing them and he sent it down towards each of them. The rip disappeared but the twins remained looking the same as they had when they were alive.

Haruhi felt a rush of emotion. She thought everyone she had known died, and here were Kaoru and Hikaru the two people who had tried so hard to keep her alive.

She ran over to them to throw her arms around their shoulders only she found she went right through and out of surprise she lost her footing and was thrown forward. Honey moved quickly and caught her before her face slammed into the wall behind the twins.

"Thanks," Haruhi said regaining her composure and shivering slightly. Passing through them had made her cold.

"Are you okay?" Hikaru asked her.

"Yeah… I thought I would be able to touch you…"

"Nonsense, they're still ghosts. They have to learn and practice in order to become tangible. Though for a ghost it is very difficult. Most ghosts only learn to hold or grasp things long enough to throw them," Kyoya explained.

"But we can do it right?" Kaoru asked.

"Theoretically, a ghost could learn to be as tangible as any human, but… I've never seen it happen."

Haruhi (looking slightly nervous) walked over to them. "Hikaru, Kaoru… I'm so sorry, you two lost your lives because of me…"

Hikaru blinked at her and smiled, "You were worth dying for…"

Honey made a motion like he was gagging on something to show how he found their sappy words sickening, but Haruhi couldn't see since Honey was behind her.

"Well, I'm glad you're here anyway," she said smiling.

Then looking around at them all she frowned. "This isn't good, Kaoru and Hikaru will have to be in hiding. If anyone were to touch them, they would know they're not human, and Honey… you look human enough but can you stay that way?"

"Sure, I'm super human!" Honey said grinning.

"Mori, just stands around quietly, so he probably won't have a hard time passing."

"Me either, my beautiful angel," Tamaki said rushing to her side. "I could pass for a very beautiful human!"

"You I am very worried about…" she answered him frowning.

"Ak! You don't think I could pass for human; all I really have to do is hide my wings right? They're not out right now! See!"

"It's gonna take more than that to not appear human…" she explained. "You sort of glow…"

"Glow?" Tamaki asked. There was a very dim glow about him indeed.

"Yeah… look at it…" she explained.

"Wha! I never noticed. Everyone glows where I come from!" Tamaki said looking panicked. "How… how do I make it stop?"

Haruhi took a deep breath. "All right, listen to me everyone. I'm going to teach you all about your duties here in the house, and we're going to practice being as human as possible from now on. When I see we are able to do this, I will let everyone know I am alive, and then we'll look for the people who took my family from me."

Weeks following that announcement Haruhi had been doing her best to let everyone know what was expected of them. The twins were making the most progress, they practiced constantly holding things. Kaoru was up to being able to hold an object for a minute before it fell through his hands. Hikaru was already going on three minutes, and that's only because one of his practice sessions was touching Haruhi's cheek, and he was able to hold that concentration for three minutes before his hand went through her face.

Kyoya, was able to act as a human quite naturally. He simply seemed like an overly meticulous person, and as long as he never made his scythe appear from nowhere. You would never have suspected.

Mori, was next person able to pass most for being human. Mainly because he just kept to himself, and he stayed out of his dog form.

Tamaki was trying very hard not to glow, but it seemed his body shined bright every time his emotion got away from him or when he got overly excited about anything. Which seemed to be every two seconds, for something about Earth always seemed to fascinate him.

Even worse at this than Tamaki was Honey. He didn't seem to understand the concept of doors, but treated every opening to the house as an entrance or exit. So he was constantly popping in and out of windows. Not to mention Honey kept dragging in stray animals, (most of the time dead).

But one day, enough was enough when Honey came trampling through the house with a bunny in his hand. The poor creature was scared to death and biting and kicking at him. "Isn't he cute?" Honey had said cheerfully holding him up so Haruhi could see.

"Wha!" she gasped. "Honey! You can't keep doing this. No live animals in the house okay!"

She had said that so he wouldn't one day go into the kitchen as start throwing out their animal meat that they would use to make meals.

Honey blinked, "Oh…"

He reached down and broke the bunnies' neck. Haruhi gasped staring in horror as the little creature's leg continued to twitch.

"There, no live animals in the house," Honey said smiling. "I really like bunnies! We don't have them in hell."

He glanced up at her noticing Haruhi had gone very pale.

"Haru-no kimi… what's wrong?" Honey asked frowning.

She tried to explain to Honey what was wrong with him carrying around the rabbit he had found, but Honey seemed to have a hard time understanding, and over the next few days he continued to carry the bunnie's corpse with him wherever he went, and in a very creepy way he would sit down occasionally and pet it. It's head flopping sickeningly as he did so.

"I don't know what to do… He can't be bringing those things in the house, but… He does seem to really like that bunny…"

"The creature really should stay outside…" Kyoya said. "Him and his little demon hound…"

Haruhi frowned as she, Kyoya, the twins and Tamaki watched Honey from afar. "I hate to say it, but you may be right…"

She sighed taking a deep breath she walked over to Honey.

"Honey," Haruhi said kneeling down next to him. "I think, it would be best if you and Mori live outside for a while."

"But how come?" Honey asked frowning.

"Honey… Manor life comes with a strict set of rule, and you… You don't seem quite able to follow them…" she said frowning.

"What rule have I broken?" he asked sulking.

"Well, the bunny… For one…"

"You said no live animals. Bunny isn't alive," he said holding it out by its ear.

"Yes… clearly," Haruhi said nervously… "But… we can't really have any animals in the house that aren't pets, or that we aren't eating…"

Honey frowned… "Bunny is a pet!"

"No… No, bunny is not a pet."

Mori who hadn't been too far away purposely walked by Haruhi before standing beside Honey. As he walked by her though he whispered very softly. "Order him."

Haruhi blinked then getting up her nerve she said, "Honey, I order you to stay out of the house and live in the barn."

Honey blinked up at her for a moment. "Okay!" he said throwing the corpse bunny up into the air and catching it as he left. Mori of course went with him. They left the house closing the door behind them.

"Well, that was easy…" she said smiling.

"Great," Kyoya said turning to the twins. "Well get to work cleaning up the mess and smell left by that disgusting rabbit."

"Why us!?" the twins barked.

"Because it's your job," Kyoya explained before hurrying off to figure out what tasks still needed to be done.

Another week and the house was running almost like a real manor, and Haruhi sent out word to the Queen and her extended family that she had survived and was fine.

She sealed the last letter with melted wax and the Fujioka family crest. "Done," she said at last.

"In a few days," she said to Tamaki. "Everyone will know I'm alive again, and that means the people who tried to kill me will know as well…"

"Well shall fight them when they come," Tamaki said smiling, taking her hand softly. He hardly glowed at all now, and she was proud of the progress they had all made.

Soon, she would be getting back to some kind of a normal schedule, and… hopefully. Everything would work out… She just wanted everything and everyone to be okay.

"Go ahead and give these to Kyoya, and have him mail them," she said handing the letters to Tamaki who hurried off immediately to complete the task given to him.

She sat in her father's office looking around. She could to do this, she told herself. She had all these creatures around to help her. Walking over to the window she saw Honey and Mori playing outside. Mori had turned into his giant dog form again, and she frowned.

She was going to have to talk to him about that.


Hope you guys enjoy!