As Kagome and Sebastian prepared for the evening meal, several loud crashes were heard throughout the manor. Sebastian let out a long sigh and turned towards the priestess. "I trust you can take care of things while I check on the others."

"Of course." She smiled as the butler left the room. Sebastian was grateful that Kagome was not as clumsy as the others were. She hardly caused any unnecessary problems for him. Kagome hummed as she continued cooking. It had been only been a few short hours when she was nearly forced into a dress by Lizzy. Kagome had let out a sigh of relief when the blonde girl had finally left to go home. She was too much to handle, even more so than Inuyasha.

Sebastian returned to the kitchen a few minutes later. "I will return shortly. I must go out and get replacements for the teacups that Meirin broke. I'm leaving you in charge of the manor."

"M-me? B-but wouldn't bard be more suitable? He's the adult!" Kagome mentally cringed. If she had been her actual age, she wouldn't have protested. However, seeing as how she is a mere twelve year old child, she wouldn't have much influence on them.

"No need to worry. I have given them each specific chores that are needed to be done. You just need to check on them every now and then." he said to her.

"Yes sir." Kagome grumbled.

"Take care." and with that he was gone.

Kagome let out another sigh and set the temperature to low. Dinner wasn't for another few hours, so there was no need to rush things. With nothing more to do, she decided to go and check on Meirin and the others.

As she got ready to jump off the stool, the door behind her creaked open. For a moment, she thought it was one of the others, but then she remembered that Sebastian had assigned each of them to a specific task, not to mention she didn't recognize the aura.

Her blood ran cold as the intruder approached her from behind. She quickly turned around, hands glowing with purification energy, only for the said person to grab a hold of her wrist.

"Now now priestess, you can't harm humans. But I'm not exactly human either!" He cackled. "My how the mighty fall! Now that that butler is gone, I can actually take the Earl and get a good ransom."

"How did you know I was a priestess?" Kagome hissed glaring up at the man. She cursed her small body.

"Every demon knows who you are." he grinned and held up his hand, showing her the two rings on his middle and index finger. "You see this ring here?" he wiggled his index finger. "This was made to block any human with special powers to sense my youki! So you're powers are basically useless. And this one." he wiggled his middle finger and his smile grew. "This one was made especially for your kind! You wonder why there are no more priestess in the world? It's because each and every one of them lost their powers. After years of research, my master developed this rings just for this purpose. And now, Shikon Miko, your powers are mine!"

Kagome struggled in the man's grip, but he was much bigger than she was. His hand gripped her head and she suddenly felt her energy being drained from her small body. She continued to struggle in vain as the main laughed.

"S-sebastian... When he gets... Here... you're dead." She hissed.

"That's where you're wrong." he said. "As soon as the butler was gone, I wasted no time in throwing up a barrier made of priestess energy. If he so much as touches it, he'll die! Did I forget to mention that? The ring also allows me to use those stolen powers! The other servants were no match against my demonic powers. Don't worry I haven't killed them yet. When I get done with you, I'll kill you and the others and then I'll take Earl Phantomhive and make a fortune!"

"Damn. You." Kagome reached behind her for anything. A knife hopefully. Instead her hand landed on the open sack of flour. She mentally smirked as she felt the sharp blade of the enough. Quickly locating the handle of the knife, she gripped it tight and jabbed him right in the eye causing him to let her go to hold his bleeding eye. She took this opportunity to dash out of the kitchen and in search of Ciel. He was going to be pissed when he found her.

Running up the stairs and through the corridors, she finally made it to his study. She slammed open the doors and closed them behind her, locking eyes with Ciel.

"What is the meaning of this!?" he snapped glaring at her. Kagome dove over his desk, taking him with her and hid beneath it and slapped a hand over his mouth. Ciel struggled in her tight grip.

"Shh!" her hand pressed a little harder against his mouth. Ciel stopped moving. The look of fear in her eyes was enough. Something serious was happening. After Kagome was sure he wouldn't yell at her, she removed her hand, but still kept close to him.

"Where is Sebastian?" he whispered.

"He went to go get more teacups because Meirin broke the others. It doesn't even matter, Sebastian won't be able to enter the mansion."

"Why?"

"The bastard pulled up a barrier after Sebastian left. Finny and the others are probably tied up somewhere." Kagome bit her nail. "And he drained the majority of my powers. What do I do? Come on Kagome think!"

The door slammed open. "Come out, come out, come out, wherever you are! I'll make sure to kill you nice and slowly as payment for ruining my ruin! I might make your death quick if you reveal yourself to me now."

Kagome visibly shook. Never had she felt so scared in her life and never has she felt so pathetic. She bit her lip. Ciel was nothing without Sebastian. After all, he was just as small and weak as she was.

"Once I get rid of you I'll sell the Earl and make a fortune!"

"That's it!" Kagome looked at knife she still had in her hand. Wiping the blood off she looked up at Ciel. "Forgive me Ciel." she whispered.

He opened his mouth to answer, but she shushed him. Taking a hold of his hand she crawled out from beneath the desk and stood up. Instantly the crazy demon spotted her and started her way. "I wouldn't do that if I were you."

"And why is that?" he asked, voice laced with menace and lust for blood.

Kagome yanked on Ciel's arm and pulled him up. She turned him around so he'd have his back against her chest. She brought the knife up to his neck. "I'll kill him and then your dreams of being rich will crumble."

"You wouldn't dare." He said.

"Oh?" She pressed the cool metal against his neck, causing him to wince a little. "You took my powers from me, I have nothing left. It would be easy to slit his throat right her, right now."

"You're bluffing."

"Am I?" She pressed it a little hard, causing a trickle of blood to trail down his neck.

"Is she mad?" Ciel couldn't tell if she was serious or not. He wasn't willing to take those chances.

"You know who I am. You should know I've purified many demons in my life time and even killed a few humans." Techinally It wasn't a lie. She has killed humans before, but they had already been dead.

The demon let loose a low growl. "Why you..."

"Now of course I'm willing to negotiation with you." She smirked. "I'll let you have Ciel if you give me my powers back and leave and never return to the Phantomhive manor EVER again."

"Tch. I couldn't do that even if I wanted to."

"Oh?"

"The ring was designed to TAKE your powers, not give them back." he explained. "My master fully intended on taking over the world using this ring, but was killed shortly after creating it."

"Take the barrier down." Kagome demanded.

"Now why would I do that?" The demon took a step forward.

"Take it down NOW!" Kagome yelled applying more pressure on the knife. Ciel stiffened. Would she betray him and hand him over to that man?

"Alright! Take it easy!" He snapped. Kagome may have lost almost all of her powers, but she was still able to sense small things like barriers and Aura's. The barrier shattered, leaving the butler outside free of entry. "Now, give me the boy."

"Or what?" She mocked.

"I'll kill you!" He took another step.

"Another step and I'll slice his throat." she threatened.

"Why you backstabbing bitch! I don't care what happens to him as long as I have your head on a stick!" He bellowed as he finally lost it and lunged for the two of them. His human appearance dropped and he was left in his true form. Both Kagome and Ciel closed their eyes, waiting for an impact, but it never came.

Ciel peeked open his eye as did Kagome. Ciel was an inch away from losing an eye.

"I see I made it just in time." Sebastian said. Kagome's gaze traveled down to the man's stomach where she saw Sebastian's hand, covered in blood, through it.

"Damn... You..." the demon fell limp and Sebastian yanked his hand free and the demon hit the ground.

Kagome released Ciel and dropped to her knees, breathing heavily. She looked up and met his gaze. "I'm sorry Ciel. It was out of line to do something so reckless." She stood back up on shaky legs.

"W-well don't let it happen again." Ciel looked away from her, a small blush forming on his face that he tried his best to hide.

"Yes sir... For now I think I'm just going to go lay down..." Kagome took a few wobbly steps to walk past him, but the events of what had just happened caught up with her and she fell forward, right into Ciel's arms.

Ciel's face turned a deeper shade of red as he supported her. With a sigh, he lifted the girl into his arms, rather shocked that she weighed little to nothing, and headed straight for her bedroom.

"Clean up the mess." he ordered Sebastian as he left the room.

"Yes, my lord." Sebastian smiled as he set to cleaning up the mess the demon had made and locating the other servants.

Ciel opened the doors to the room she was occupying and laid her out on the bed. He allowed a small smile to grace his lips and his visible blue eye softened. He turned to leave, only for a small hand to wrap around his wrist.

"Don't go..." she whispered, though her eyes were still closed, he could practically feel the fear radiating off of her. With a sigh, and a slightly red face, he kicked off his shoes and crawled into the bed beside her. Almost instantly Kagome had snuggled up to him, causing his blush to deepen, and was sleeping soundly.

It wasn't long before Ciel Phantomhive had also fallen asleep with the former priestess.
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A/n:

Ehhh Is Ciel a little OOC?

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