Author's Note: Yay, Chapter 10, hopefully this story will get a little more interesting. Anyways, same rules apply like always nothing really has changed so yeah...thanks for reading and have a wonderful night/morning!

Note: Okay, so this is where Grell appears right, lol spoiler alert, and for those of you who prefer Grell to be known as "She", "Her" please don't hate me for referring to him as a male, it is just my personal writing opinion. Thanks guys and I am eager to start the next chapter so hopefully that will be out real soon, until then though, Ttyl! ^^

Edit: Had to edit the ending a bit, there were things I had forgot to add...ooopsies, oh well it should be fixed, enjoy none the less! ^^

Chapter 10: Parasite.

"This is not a time to be playing chess." Ceil informed his aunt who sat across from him, a small table placed in front of them, holding the said game on top. A smaller, rounder table placed next to Madame Red's chair held a small cup of tea on top of it. Madame Red moved her piece as she asked,

"Working obsessively at it will lead to no good, why not leave everything to Sebastian?" Madame Red was dressed in a long, red dress with puffy white sleeves. She also wore a large, white cravat around her neck that looked like an, open, upside down fan; it was weird to see her without her long, black and red coat on. Rin lay lazily on the couch behind her aunt's chair, her long, dark auburn hair draping off the side. Her hands, one on top of the other, were placed underneath her cheek; her body lay on its side, her eyes fighting to stay open as she tried her best to look over her aunt's chair and at her cousin.

"He's just my chest piece, I'm the one who moves him by giving him orders, but he's not an ordinary chess piece, he can advance as many squares as he likes at once, like this" Ceil replied to his aunt as he reached over the board to Angela's side and with a piece of his, he then knocked one of her's down and his took it's place at the end of the board. Ceil wore his normal, dark green coat with a white shirt underneath, a deep blue ribbon placed around his neck. Rin then heard Madame Red declare in shock,

"That's against the rules!"

"Yes, if this were a game, it would be, but rules have no meaning in this world." Ceil replied ominously, his head resting on his hands lowered a bit, casting a shadow around his eyes, "There are always knights who break the rules, and pawns who betray, if you let your guard down, before you know it…. it's checkmate!" and as he finished, Ceil took another piece from his side, and placed it forcefully on the board in front of his aunt.

"Revenge won't bring the dead back, and it certainly won't make them happy." Ceil stated grimly as the rain outside continued to tap against the window cogently, as if it were someone wanting and waiting to be let inside.

"But… Madame Red tried to interrupt her nephew, but he interrupted her instead,

"I didn't come back to the house of Phantomhive for my predecessors' sakes, I did it for me." And once he finished, he raised his head to look into his Aunt's eyes, the same angry expression he always wore was there, only this time, it seemed to intensify a bit more. Rin started to wonder what his words could have meant, what did he mean by his "predecessor's"? Now that Rin thought about it, she never did hear anything about Ceil's parents; she only saw pictures of them around the manor, what did happen to his parents?

"I just want to make the people who betrayed and defiled my family suffer the same humiliation and pain I suffered." Rin heard Ceil continue as she was on the verge of falling victim to sleep.

"I still remember the day you were born." Madame Red began to reminisce, lightening the mood a bit; Rin then heard her start to get up and listened closely to her footsteps as well as her voice,

"You were so tiny and so cute, I thought, "I'll have to protect him."" And Rin watched as Madame Red placed her hand gently atop of Ceil's head as she continued,

"I wasn't able to have a child, but I think of you as my own son, I wish you'd leave the under-but before she could finish, Ceil pushed her hand off his head and informed her sternly,

"Being here now is something I wanted, and something I chose, I don't regret it, and I can't let anyone spoil me."

Once Ceil had gone up to bed and Madame Red had left, Rin decided she should head up to her bed as well. With the help of her maid, she made it all the way up the stairs, and into her temporary new room, it wasn't as large as her room back at the Phantomhive's, but it was still pretty big. She made her way slowly over to her bed, the clean white sheets seemed to lure her in as she lifted them over her body and began to snuggle into them.

"Is there anything else you might need, M'lady?" Utsuho asked, but her tone of voice suggested that she already knew the answer to that question.

"No thanks Utsuho, thank you." Rin mumbled softly.

"Very well, M'lady." She heard Utsuho reply in a hushed voice. Shortly after, she heard the small squeak and click of her bedroom door closing, darkening the room even more till Rin couldn't make out anything around her. The room was now pitch black and quiet, with only the moonlight peeking through the curtains of the small window in front of her, the rain slowing until she could hear nothing but silence. Rin felt the calm of the room take over her body, and she could feel herself start to drift off into sleep.

"Hey!" Rin heard Shizu's voice yell abruptly; making her eyes burst open, all serenity suddenly escaped the room as well as her body as she listened to Shizu's orotund voice,

"You're not going to bed yet princess, I have an experiment I want to try, and it involves you!"

"What is the experiment?" Rin asked sleepily, wondering what time it was.

"Well, you know that pain in your arm you've been feeling?" Shizu asked, and Rin could hear the anticipation in her voice as well as in the quietness that followed as she waited for her to answer.

"Yeah." Rin replied through a yawn.

"Well, you know that so far it only hurt when you near both Grell, and that mortician?" Shizu asked trying her best to keep Rin awake with her enthusiasm.

"Yeah, I guess." Rin answered trying not to sound rude, but the lack of sleep was making her groggy.

"Well, I think they're connected somehow, I mean, that's the only thing that would make sense, right, so what I need from you now is to test this theory of mine." Shizu finished as Rin let out another large yawn.

"How am I going to test this?" Rin asked, her curiosity peeking through her hazy brain. Suddenly, as if to answer her question, she heard the door to Ceil's room open and four pair of footsteps as they made their way quietly from that room past her own and she listened to hear them make their way down the stairs.

"You'll be following those idiots." Shizu replied with a small satisfied laugh.

"Ceil!" Rin called as quietly but as loudly as she could as not to disturb the others that may have been sleeping in the manor.

"Rin?" Ceil looked over his shoulder in alarm, he was already down the stairs and it looked as if he and Sebastian were all ready to go, but to where, Rin still wasn't sure, but she trusted Shizu and proceeded with the plan,

"Let me come with you!" Rin begged as she made her way down the stairs to meet with her cousin.

"Absolutely not!" Ceil replied firmly, "This is not a place you should be going, now go back to bed!" A large, sudden flash of lightning lit the room for a quick second, revealing to Rin the look of displeasure in her cousin's eyes, a look that sent a slight chill down her spine, but she held her ground. A loud blast of thunder shook the room, causing the sky to weep intensely, its cries becoming louder than the thunder.

"Please Ceil, I may seem weak, but I promise I can handle whatever you throw at me!" Rin promised her hands clenched tightly.

"M'lady, what's going on?" She heard Utsuho's voice ask from behind her. She turned around to see her maid standing halfway up the staircase, her right arm on the railing.

"I…I want to go with Ceil." Rin admitted, her head down, she was unable to look her maid in the eyes. There was a long, awkward pause, but finally her maid spoke, still on the same stair,

"Well, I'm afraid that's not for me to decide M'lady." Rin then looked back at Ceil, who still stood impatiently at the door.

"Fine, you can come, just don't say I didn't warn you." Ceil replied hastily as he and Sebastian started to head out the door.

"Well then, M'lady, I suppose you'll need a coat then, it looks a bit cold out there." Utsuho stated looking out the window into the dark, stormy night.

They stood against the cold, damp wall of a large brick building at the mouth of a narrow ally way with only a single street lamp to provide them light. Rin huddled in her lightweight; tan colored coat, her bare legs feeling the bite of the cold as she stood with only a light nightgown underneath her coat as well as a pair of fuzzy slippers she had already deemed not as appropriate in this situation, but she felt she was in no position to argue at the moment. Her maid stood on her right and her cousin and his butler at her left. The rain had ceased for the moment, and all that could be heard was the monotone voice of her cousin as he asked,

"He'll show up if we stake out this place, right?" This was the first time Rin had heard him speak since they had been at the manor, the idea that her cousin was upset with her made her uncomfortable and she started to shiver a little.

Yes." She heard Sebastian answer plainly.

"It's true that the murdered prostitutes had other things in common, besides having their organs removed." Ceil started to explain. He was dressed down from usual; he wore a long, white button up shirt with a brown vest on top. A small blue ribbon tied around his neck and a large green hat covered his hair. He wore black shorts and a bandage-like patch on his eye.

"Beautiful, glossy black hair." Sebastian began to remark, as if in a trance.

"But why should he have to kill them?" Ceil asked himself curiously.

"Sinfully lovable." Sebastian commented again.

"And I-Ceil began but was interrupted by another one of Sebastian's hypnotized statements and she watched Ceil start to shake heatedly as he tried to control his anger,

"So soft, yes, so soft."

"Listen to me when I'm talking to you!" Ceil screamed at Sebastian who was now revealed to be holding a single black cat in his hands.

"I apologize, she's a rare beauty." Sebastian affirmed as the cat stayed clinging to his jacket; a single "meow" escaped its lips. An abrupt, shrill scream then resonated through the darkness, turning everyone's attention away from what they were doing so they could look up into the dark, cloudy sky.

"No one could've gotten past us." Ceil commented shockingly confounded.

"Let's go." Sebastian commanded letting go of the cat and the whole group made it's way towards the source of the screaming, Rin's arm hurting more and more the closer they got until it felt like the arm itself was the one that was screaming. They finally made their way in front of a somewhat old, wooden door, Rin stopping to give her arm a rest along with her maid as Ceil and Sebastian made their way towards the door.

"Now, it's time for the big reveal!" Rin heard Shizu remark excitedly through the pain they were both feeling, but it slowly started to disappear until it was nothing more than a slight sting and Rin felt both perplexed and relieved.

"That's weird, why does it suddenly stop?" Shizu mused to herself as Rin started to breathe slow, deep breathes, hoping the pain wouldn't come back anytime soon. Rin looked up to see that her cousin had already opened the mysterious door, and now his butler was behind him, making it hard for Rin to depict what was going on, so she moved a bit closer, her maid at her heels, until she was finally in front of the door. A large splatter of blood as well as an unknown hand reached out from the darkness, the rest was concealed and Rin planned to keep it that way for now. She then heard the faint sound of footsteps making their way out of the pitch-black room, and Rin could feel her heart drop to her throat, her palms started to sweat and she felt as if she were close to nausea.

"That's quite a mess you made, Jack the Ripper." Sebastian started sarcastically as the said "Jack the Ripper" made his way gradually out into the open, and Rin could feel herself take a step back in fear of what he could look like or who he could be.

"Or should I say, Grell Sutcliff?" Sebastian asked as the criminal now stood fully out in the open, the pale moonlight shone down, revealing the features of the man to be that of Grell Sutcliff's. His face as well as his attire was splattered with blood, the darkness still concealing his right side added to the ominous affect of his appearance.

"Grell!" Rin screamed horrified as she tried to convince herself that all she was seeing and all she was hearing was all just a nightmare. She tried running towards him but only to be held back by her maid who had grabbed her arm and held her tight so she wouldn't be able to move. Rin struggled for a few minutes, but finally gave up as she allowed her body to relax to a certain point.

"Y-you have it all wrong!" Grell tried to assure the group in front of him, " I heard the scream and ran over here, but she was…" He trailed off in what seemed like defeat, a small drop of blood trickled from his outfit into a small rain puddle beneath him.

"I think you can stop playing innocent in that body, Grell." Sebastian seemed to assure him, and Rin heard herself start to wonder what he meant by "that body", she felt Shizu start to wonder the same thing.

"This is the first time I've met someone like you in the human world." Sebastian continued to explain as Rin could hear her heart to start to beat loudly in her ears, until it almost seemed to drown out any other noise she was hearing. "You preformed the role of "harmless incompetent butler" quite adeptly" Sebastian finished with a compliment.

"What the heck does that mean?" Shizu asked Rin angrily as if she was the one who knew the answer to that certain question.

"Adeptly?" Grell asked quietly, a single drop of blood dripping down from his eye looking almost like a tear,

"Do you think so?" Grell's voice seemed to louden to a more confident, high-pitched tone that now replaced the beating in Rin's ear; this wasn't the voice of the Grell she knew. Rin watched as he started to rip out his dark red bow and remove his blood stained glasses,

"That's right, I am an actress honey, and I'm absolutely first rate." He stated as she started to comb through his long, dark brown hair turning it into a bright red, "But you're not "Sebastian" either, are you?" Grell asked as he placed fake long, black eyelashes over his real ones, he then started to replace his white, bloody gloves with clean black ones.

"That's the name I received from my young master, so yes, I am, at the moment." Sebastian clarified.

"My, so you're a "Faithful dog" character, though for a fine-looking man like you that's fabulous too." Grell admired as he placed a pair of bright red glasses over his eyes, "Well then, Sebastian, no Sebas-chan, let me introduce myself." Then, brushing a piece of hair out of his face, he proceeded, with his fingers pointed towards his neck in a sort of pose, "I am Grell Sutcliff, butler to the Burnetts, I'm sure we two butlers can get along marvelously~!" He then blew an imaginary kiss in Sebastian's direction, Sebastian in response just stood there clearly disgusted.

"What the heck is this?" Shizu asked angered, and Rin could tell she was getting ready for a fight.

"Ah, I finally get to meet you in my true form, I've never seen a demon playing a butler before, so I was so surprised when I fist saw you!" Grell stated excitedly.

"That's my line, I never imagined someone like you would play a butler." Sebastian marveled not looking as if he shared Grell's same enthusiasm, "Someone who stands neutral between man and God, a Grim Reaper." Rin then heard a noise as if Shizu had just spit something out of her mouth, the next words that came out of her mouth contained more shock than she had ever heard in Shizu's voice before,

"No, that's impossible, that can't be…She trailed off leaving Rin to ask the question,

"What can't be?"

"Maybe I can see this creep being a grim reaper, b…but not that mortician, no way, there has to be something else that connects them to that pain, there has to be!" and at that moment, Rin realized that she had forgotten all about that pain in her arm.

"Why would a divine being such as yourself bother to play a butler?" Sebastian continued to question the reaper.

"Good question, perhaps I should say I fell in love with a certain woman." Grell responded with a smile. Rin felt Shizu tense at his words, then it seemed like all the shock Shizu had just been feeling was now being replaced with pure rage.

"Rin let me out!" Shizu commanded through what sounded like clenched teeth.

"No, I can't Shizu, you're going to kill him!" Rin refused as she felt the rage start to build up in Shizu, her next words she nearly screamed at Rin,

"Darn it Rin, what does it matter, he's going to die anyways even if I don't come out, so what's the point in protecting him anyways!"

"It's just, why do you want to fight him, what did he do?" Rin asked trying to hold back her tears at her friend's harsh words.

"Oh you mean besides killing twenty-something women, geez Rin, I thought you had some sort of common sense!" Shizu spat back at her. Rin felt that it was weird though; Shizu didn't usually get this mad about something unjust that happened to someone else, she seemed more like the person who would get mad because of something unjust that had happened to her.

"And that woman would be?" Rin heard Sebastian finish asking.

"You don't need to ask, do you?" Rin heard a familiar voice echo through the dark room in front of her. Rin listened to the soft footsteps that made their way out into the open only to reveal the appearance of Madame Red.

"Madam…." Ceil seemed to trail off. Rin looked over to see that her cousin had removed Sebastian's hand from his one uncovered eye. Madame Red just laughed, closed her eyes and turned her head slightly to the side as she stated,

"I didn't calculate on anyone being able to see Grell for who he truly is." Rin felt Shizu become even angrier, and she was afraid that if she got too angry, she might explode, like a volcano ready to erupt.

"Naturally, you were on the initial suspect list." Ceil informed her plainly after wiping his mouth, "But your alibi was perfect."

"You suspected even your own aunt?" Madame Red asked her nephew innocently.

"If you had the potential to be Jack, any blood relation was irrelevant." Ceil continued to notify her, "None of the humans on the suspect list could have committed all the murders, but if one had an inhuman accomplice, that would change everything, if he could enter the room in an instant without our noticing, he could also instantaneously get from Viscount's to the East End, you two are the only ones who could be Jack the Ripper, Madame Red and Grell Sutcliff." Ceil Continued, "Jack the Ripper's victims had other things in common, they all underwent a certain surgery at London Central Hospital where you work, the only patient on the list who hadn't yet been killed was Mary Kelly who lived in that flat." Ceil explained as he took a small folded piece of paper from the inside of his vest, unfolded it and showed it to the group in front of him, "I thought you'd show up here if I kept an eye on the place, I couldn't' save her though…Ceil trailed off in dismay.

"This is unfortunate my beloved nephew Ceil, if you hadn't figured it out we could have stilled played chess together again." Madame Red remarked in sadness. Rin watched as her aunt then clenched her fist tightly and screamed in anger,

"I won't give anything up this time!" she then heard the sound of a loud engine mix with her aunt's scream. The person holding that engine was Grell and he was running straight towards Ceil with the large spinning blade of the machine pointed towards his target, but his blade was stopped short by a larger, unmovable blade.

"Whoa there, you didn't think I was just going to let you have your way did you, no sadly for you, I'm not that kind of person." Shizu stated with a large smirk.

"Who the heck are you?" Grell asked shocked at his new opponent his spinning blade clashing with her newly acquired weapon. The weapon she wielded had a long sleek black handle, which she clenched tightly in her two small fists, and a large silver blade that curved outwards.

"Are you wielding a Death Scythe?" The reaper asked the girl with shock as she held standing her ground, her teeth clenched tightly as she kept her smirk.

"A What?" Shizu asked loudly over the roar of her opponent's weapon.

"Grim reapers possess tools for harvesting souls, he's asking if that's your sickle?" Sebastian informed the girl plainly.

" "Sickle" is such a dull name don't call it that, not after I've customized mine to my personal specifications!" Grell whined removing his weapon from Shizu's, "This is a "Death Scythe" only I can wield and it can hack any being into pieces." Changing his tone Grell continued putting his thumb to his in a small pout, "I've behaved myself so well lately, I"m out of shape now, I want to have some exercise for a change, with you."

"Could I ask you not to say such repugnant things, I am on duty." Sebastian asked trying to hide his disgust.

"How stoic you are, yet another thing that makes you irresistible!" Grell cooed as he waved his death scythe in the air, changing his tone yet again, he continued, "You see, I love the color red, red is my favorite color for hair, clothes and lipstick so I paint those ugly women with pretty pretty red blood, Sebas-chan, I'll make you even finer-looking then you already are, I'm going to tear you up inside and make you red like beautifully scattered rose petals." Grell finished as he held his death scythe out in front of him.

"Eww gross, and not just the fact that you were just hitting on that piece of garbage over there !" -Shizu pointed to Sebastian-,"But also the fact that you could find a color such as horrid as red to be pretty" Shizu spat angrily, "And just an F.Y.I , this is no "death scythe", I'm human you moron, this weapon was given to me by the heavens to take you and your little priss down, and for those who are still curious, my name is Shizu, Shizu Kanjiru!" Shizu finished with a laugh.

"Aww, so are you the parasite who's been living in the little Miss this whole time?" Sebastian asked with a secret smile as Shizu started to become furious, he really had been listening to Rin and her the whole time.

"He really did know about us?" Shizu heard her host ask horrified from inside her head.

"Parasite, what are you talking about Sebastian?" Utsuho asked becoming worried as Sebastian just simply laughed and responded,

"It would seem the little miss is not alone in that head of hers." He paused for a moment. "Although miss Reiuji I believe you can stop acting surprise."