Title: Shiny Baubles
Fandom: Kuroshitsuji
Author: kira
Words: 300
Rating: G
Summary: Soma searches for the right gift to give the girl of his dreams, while Agni gently dissuades him…
Warnings: None

For Jen who suggested a certain prince's attraction to shiny things…

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"Oooh…" Soma said softly as he paused to look into the button shop's window. Meena would love that! he thought as he eyed the rows of shiny gold buttons.

"My prince?" Agni said as he came up behind him.

"I was just thinking how much Meena would love these."

"Yes…?" She would probably hate them as much as the gaudy jewelry you've pointed out two shops ago…

Soma nodded. "I told you I had a dream about her last night."

"That you did. It was a most wonderful dream too," Agni said. "Although, I think something that would remind her of home, would be a much better present than these shiny baubles."

"But that's what I gave her in my dream. The most beautiful and shiniest of … Ooh! You think she would like that candlestick?" Soma dashed across the street, Agni following a moment later. He stood there, gazing longingly at the brass candlesticks and candelabras when a crystal chandelier caught his eye. It shone brightly in the afternoon sun, blazing like a great beacon in an otherwise dull and lifeless street. "That! It is like liquid fire!" Soma breathed.

Agni squinted at it. "That looks like the chandelier Master Ciel has hanging in the dining room back at the townhouse."

"Then it must be good! Meena will love it! I just know it! Just like she loved that little brass monkey I gave her in my dream."

Agni nodded, although, he had the feeling the chandelier would be about as welcome as the brass monkey would be, which was not very welcome. Still, he was not one to disabuse the prince of his notion that Meena was just as in love with him as he her. "Shall we go now, my prince? It is nearly teatime."

"Okay …"