Authors note:
Me-wow Ciel look at all those lovely reviews! *gushes*
Ciel- they must have a lot of free time on their hands to be reading your work.
Me- why must you wound me so? *faints dramatically*
Alois- Oh No Ciel you killed the author! Now we'll never know what happens! *panics*
Ciel-the world shall be much better off now.
Me-No! I'm alive! Don't listen to them read my work! Enjoy!
"Ready to go?" Grell asked and at his quick nod Grell summoned his death scythe. Alois took a small step back but caught Ronald giving him an encouraging smile and returned it as Grell revved his scythe and swung it through the air literally ripping a hole through it.
"All aboard." Grell said taking Alois hand with his free one and walking into the swirling purple portal.
Grell felt his body slowly falling away into the swirling purple mist, being shoved through the air faster than the speed of light before coming back together and dropping him down to the familiar streets of the Shinigami city. Grell opened his eyes to the sun just peaking over the tall buildings that seemed to stretch into the clouds. He was vaguely aware of the smaller hand that still clung to his own with a death grip as he took in the sights.
"You can open your eyes now, were here." Ronald said from behind Alois poking the younger boy teasingly who had his eyes squeezed shut. Slowly he opened the right eye and the left quickly opened after it as he took in the glistening snow covered city. Grell took in a deep breath of air feeling tired from the journey, he wanted to go sit down but at the same time he wanted to take Alois around, maybe they could go to the park and sit down for a while.
"I'm going to go get him registered with the council and do those things for Will can we meet back up at the park in about an hour or so Sempai?" Ronald asked motioning to the elaborate council building behind him with what looked to be an endless supply of reapers entering and exiting through the shiny spinning glass doors.
"Yea that's fine I was going to head over there anyway. Thank you millions Ronnie!" Grell said smiling before taking Alois down the street that lead to the park. The blonde had removed his hands from Grell's and now had them in his jean pockets as he walked down the street his eyes glued to the towering buildings surrounding him. Several cars drove down the salt covered street but not many, rain and snow most Shinigami's still preferred to walk or teleport to their destination and very few even owned a car himself included. Eventually after walking in silence for a while Grell decided to start up another conversation hoping it would last longer than the one at breakfast.
"It's big isn't it?" Grell asked Alois who had turned his head to follow a car that drove down the street.
"Is it as big as London? The buildings are so tall; I've never seen anything like them before." The boy said quietly as if afraid to disturb the calming peace of silent snowfall.
"I actually never thought about how big it was, I don't even think I've seen all of it myself. Will has, he comes here at least once a week the only reason he sent Ronnie this time was because he's swamped with over time. He never really has no time for himself or anyone else for that matter it's always work, work, work I feel bad for him sometimes."
"Only sometimes?" Alois gave a quirky little smile his blue eyes shining with amusement.
"He's so mean to me! I got two hour's overtime because I handed in my paperwork five minutes late! He's so unfair to me!" Grell ranted loudly causing some of the reapers walking down the streets to give him odd looks before continuing on their way. Alois gave a quiet Laugh before the edge of the park caught his eye and he gasped in awe at the ice covered lake and the glittering trees with small festive lights hanging from their branches.
"Pretty isn't it? I love coming here whenever I'm in the city." Grell said following the blonde who was walking slowly over the fresh powdered snow to the lakes edge.
"It's beautiful…" Alois whispered referring to the sun that had finally emerged from the veil of clouds and was currently shining on the snow, lighting the tiny flecks of ice up like winter lights. Grell went and stood by him pulling his red coat tightly around his body as the icy wind decided to blow once more.
Grell noticed a few minutes that Alois was no longer watching the peaceful scene before them, but a woman and her two children who across the small lake were rolling snow into large balls before stacking them on top of one another.
"Me and Luka used to do that, it kept our minds off of how bad off we were. It worked most of the time…" Alois trailed off looking longingly at the two brothers who had now begun to pelt each other with snow, their joyful carefree laughter floating across the surface of the lake. Grell noticed the silver tears pricking the blonde's eyes and against his better judgment pulled Alois into him and let him sob quietly for his lost brother. Minutes passed and eventually the boy pulled away mumbling a soft thank you.
"You know we could make one too…"Grell suggested to the boy who was whipping the traces of silver from his eyes before looking up to him.
"Really?" He asked hesitantly as if Grell would take back the offer.
"Why not right? The last time I made one was when I was around your age anyway." Grell said with a warm smile as the boy eagerly crouched down to his knees and began packing a good size ball of snow with his bare hands. Grell smacked his head as he forgot to get Gloves for him so he removed his spare from his coat and passed them down to Alois whose hands were already turning blue.
"They may be big but at least we won't have to cut off your fingers." Grell said smiling and helping Alois into the gloves before starting on his own pile of snow.
Almost a half an hour later of rolling snow and sneakily cutting down some limbs of a nearby tree with his chainsaw, Grell and Alois had a somewhat lopsided snowman standing drunkenly in front of them.
Grell looked over to where the two kids and the woman had been twenty minutes earlier; the only thing left was the two kid's perfect looking snowman.
"I think the two little kids did a better job than us." Grell laughed as the snowman's head fell to the ground and splattered in a pile.
"I think they might have… want to go kick it down?" Alois asked shyly giving Grell for the first time ever a full-fledged smile.
"Dearie? Do you even need to ask?" Grell laughed before the two of them left their snowman to its melting fate and rushed over to the other side of the lake. Alois launched himself at the snowman's torso and successfully brought the entire snowman down with him. Grell kicked the snowman's head that rolled over to him making it explode in frosty white. He turned away to look at his watch for a few seconds and felt something icy and cold hit the back of his head and slip down his shirt.
"AHH! Get it out! Get it out!" Grell yelled trying to shake the melting snow from the back of his shirt as Alois fell back and rolled around with laughter.
"Alright that does it! This is war!" Grell yelled scooping snow off the ground and dropping it directly on the unsuspecting blondes face.
"AH! That's cold!" Alois whined rubbing the snow from his face, but the laughter never left his eyes.
"That's what you get when you mess with-" Grell's rant was caught off when he felt a ball off snow hit his side. He turned to see an obviously guilty looking Alois looking up at the sky. Grell took this as his opportunity to pelt his own snowball at the back of Alois head.
"AH! Cold!" Alois yelled getting off the ground throwing snow in Grell's face before running off hoping Grell would give into the chase. Grell balled a pile of snow in his hand and playfully chased after the younger one as he desperately tried to catch his breath in-between his laughing. Twenty minutes later they were both panting and soaked to the bone, Grell was extremely happy to see Ronald making his way down the park path and laughed out loud as Alois pelted a pile of snow at the unsuspecting reaper from behind the fort the two of them had made in a race to see who could build theirs faster. Ronald smiled and threw a clump of snow back at the fort successfully hitting the blonde head that was peeking out of the top.
"No fair! I wasn't ready!" Alois whined throwing his final snowball back at Ronald who blocked it with his arm.
"You guys are soaked! What the hell did you do while I was working, take a swim in the lake?" Ronald laughed seeing the frozen ice crystals in the elder reapers hair and the red wind burned cheeks of the younger.
"We'll explain later but I just want to get somewhere warm for now, let's go Ronnie!" Grell said shaking the access snow from his coat and dusting off Alois the best he could before pulling the both of them out of the park and down the street.
Minutes later the three of them were comfortably seated in a coffee shop with steaming tea all around.
"so... you trampled some little kids snowman because it looked better then yours?" Ronald laughed at their guilty faces and was quite surprised when it was Alois who spoke up next.
"Grell was the one who cut the trees limbs down at the park!" he chirped happily as Grell reached over the table and covered his mouth with his hand.
"Heh-heh what a kidder we have don't we Ronnie he- EW! He licked me!" Grell screamed pulling back his saliva covered hand and whipping it off with a napkin. Ronald watched as Alois laughed cheerfully at the red heads dilemma and wondered what happened to the shy little kid from this morning, not that he wanted him back he preferred the Cheerful Alois much more than the shy and scared one that barely spoke a word.
"So Ronnie! How did the paper work go this morning?" Grell asked after setting down the napkin and taking a sip of his tea.
"Really smoothly actually, well after I mentioned Undertaker anyway. Evidently he holds a lot of power with the council as well. Alois is all signed up and you're now his legal Guardian until he's old enough to want to leave. They're giving you the choice to train him yourself or send him to school." Ronald announced and watched as Grell made and obvious thinking face tapping his finger to his cheek.
"Well… I never really liked school much to begin with, what do you think Alois? They would give me time off of work right?"
"Two extra days Sempai plus the weekends. You would be in the office Mondays Wednesdays and Thursdays.
"Well Alois, it's your choice I'm fine with either." Grell said smiling at the younger reaper who quietly sat his finished tea cup back down on the plate.
"C-can I s-stay with you? I still don't know what I'm doing yet?" Alois asked quietly looking up to Grell with wondering eyes.
"Don't worry you'll be fine were gonna have much more fun than you ever would in school!" Grell enthused and Alois gave a wide smile in return.
"I'll tell the council tomorrow but make no mistake Will's going to be mad." Ronald and Alois laughed at the defeated look on the red heads face as he mumbled into his tea.
Authors note:
Me- Ha! Chapter seven is D-O-N-E. Done! *cheers*
Ciel-did you really have to spell it out? I would assume most of your weird reviewers can read.
Me- GHA! Don't listen to him! He doesn't mean it! He hasn't had his medication today! Yes that's it! Ha!
Ciel- Medication? What the heck are you on? And what makes you think I would lie? Furthermore I-"
Me- *covers mouth and whispers in ear* Now you're gonna get it. I'm throwing you into the next chapter whether you like it or not! *insert evil laugh*
Sebastian- Please review for the young master's sake.