okay so far the poll is S/UT-2 S/G-1 and one person can't decide yet. And so people don't get confused I am doing a time skip. This chapter will be about when the girls have graduated. I'm sorry if this makes anyone angry but I don't see a point in writing about them repeating the same things pretty much every chapter. This time skip I hope will make the story flow better.
This is one of last few chapters I will post before I close the poll. Once it ends I will start writing all the romantic scenes you so dearly want XD. This chapter and next will be about Skullina making her big decision about her going over their good and bad traits. If enough people want it I will consider doing multi endings.
Normal POV:
Two months later the London Shinigami Dispatch center is celebrating. For today all new trainees have graduated and become full reapers, secretaries, scythe makers, and many more titles. Every Graduate no matter their job was given a scythe and pair of glasses. The older reapers decided to throw a big party, and that the main garden/courtyard will be the setting. And surprisingly Will was the one to suggest the spot, Grell and Ronald where discussing it with some of the other reapers, when he walked by and circled with a large red marker on a map the others were looking over. Then without a word he returns to he office, leaving a snickering Grell and confused coworkers. This planning started 2 weeks before the actual graduation, and the elder shinigami kept all the details about it a secret, only telling the younger shinigami to dress up nice, most of the young female rapers hit the stores looking for the perfect dresses. While the males just watched the girls scramble, the only girls that didn't go nuts trying to find a dress where Skullina and her girls.
When the day of graduation came the shinigami realm was filled with joy and laughter. Families of the graduating reapers gathered in the largest gym at the training center. The gym had been decorated plainly so no one could trip or get distracted. In all it looked like a high school graduation, but instead of diplomas death scythes and logs were given out. Skullina and the girls had already received theirs, so while the others where doing this they where getting their glasses. Will had wished to be there but sadly had to be the one to call names for the other graduates. The girls are currently waiting patiently outside the door, their mates leaning against the far wall smiling at them. Skullina is looking out the window a small smile on her face when she hears the excited chatter from her girls. She turns her head a second before the door opens, and silences the girls with a small wave of the hand. Everyone files in the girls start looking around excitedly, while the males just chuckle at them. The glasses maker an older man everyone calls 'Pops' tells them to look around for a modal type they like and tell him when they have decided on their designs. Skullina watches as the other girls rush off to look at the many types of glasses, and like when they picked their scythes waits until they have all chosen before she even moves an inch. She looks around while Pops starts working on Ro's glasses.
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Skullina POV:
I stare at all of the colored frames and designs of the glasses. Grell and Undertaker are right beside me, neither one of them says a thing as I pass by aisle after aisle. I surprise them when I ignore all the fancy new types and start looking over the older designs. After a few minutes I see a pair that have fallen off the shelf, I carefully pic them up and dust them off. The frames are black with little mechanical roses on the side. I read the tag attached to them and find the place on the shelf they fell off of. And like I had guessed a small box is placed on the back of the shelf, just behind where the glasses wound be placed. I reach up and grab this and open the lid, moving aside the old tissue paper reveals a beautiful golden bead chain, the beads rotate between roses,skulls,and little cogwheels. I smile and show my find to Grell and Undertaker, they look at me strangely but say nothing. When we rejoin the others Pops has just finished Seria's glasses. I hand him the old glasses and chain and a look of happiness covers his face.
"I was wondering when someone would claim these. Their a special kind of glasses, made when we still put parts of the shinigami's soul into the frames." Pops says starting to clean of the old glasses and chain. "This was done because often reapers would lose them in battle. Adding a bit of the shinigami's soul made it where the glasses could be summoned like a scythe." He starts working on the lenses and finishing up the glasses, he puts a fresh coat of paint on the frames and chain, then places them under a drying lamp. "You where born around when this was being put to an end, taking part of the soul usually weakens the user."
"So your saying that Skullina's glasses are a part of her." Lia says adjusting her black square glasses and silver chain.
"ARRRGGGHH! My head hurts from all this!" Seria yells pulling at her hair, her orange framed glasses slipping down her nose. Ro simply smiles up at me and murmurs out a little complement. I smile at the white frame glasses with sunflowers that she has on. Pops takes the glasses out from under the light and hands them to me. I slip the chain around my neck and clip it to the frame, them put the glasses on over my nose. I didn't really need them because of bad vision, but all shinigami need them to be able to read the cinematic records fully.
"Now Will should just be finishing up with the others, if you want to get dressed for the party you should hurry." Pops states as he stands and grabs his coat off the rack. The other girls scream in excitement, well Ro just did a soft yell, and rush out the door. I sigh and smile over at the males who are covering their ears.
"Can you blame them for being excited, it's their first event away from the female dispatch center." I head to the door and look over my shoulder at them. "You want to see some magic that only female shinigami can master?"
"What kind of magic?" Mark asks starting to follow me out along with the others.
"Yes please do tell us love~"Grell pleads latching onto my arm while Undertaker snickers behind his sleeve.
"Let's just say there is a reason only female shinigami become tailors." I pry Grell off my arm when I see the girls standing in front of one of the large windows in the lobby area. The windows have been opened letting the fall breeze blow in. I join them at the window and smile, giving the order in the ancient language we all step onto the window seal.
"OI! What are you doing we're on the 3rd floor!" Kail yells walking up to us the others not far behind.
"It is easier to make the change this way. And don't worry this was part of our training for the elder females." I say pushing Ro out the window, she screams in surprise, but it turns into giggles. A bright light encircles her making it impossible to see her inside the sphere.
"All right lets do this!" Seria yells fist pumping the air before jumping out the window. Lia just crosses her hands over her chest like a mummy and falls backwards. Both of them are surrounded in a sphere of light like Ro, I turn to face the horrified expressions of our mates. Giving an army salute I step out the window, getting surrounded in my own sphere. I can hear Grell yelling out the window worriedly, along with the others only Undertaker is quiet.
Inside the spheres all of us are using our powers to change our outfits. We can see each other but none of the males can, this is to give us privacy while we change. I focus on the outfit that I want and smile when I feel the fabric start to appear on my body. In my head I see a floor length dress, the top is a deep purple and as the colr goes down the dress it gets lighter, the very bottom of it being a bright silver. The sleeves of the dress are bell shaped and split down the sides and trail down to my knees, silver skull arm rings hold the sleeves just below my shoulders. A choker necklace with a tricolored rose, is around my neck the petals being red,silver,and purple. My long hair has been pulled into two pigtails and curled, my bangs have also been curled making my eyes just barely visible. ( I was thinking of the Greek goddess dresses, and the other dresses are similar in design.) I finish the look with a pair of silver heeled sandals that have ribbons that tie up to my mid-thigh, and light makeup, silver eye shadow, red blush and silver lipstick. I release the sphere and land softly on the paved ground below, looking up I see the girls doing the same. We all decided to have traditional dresses but in our favorite colors. I watch as they release their own spheres and jump to the ground next to me. Ro's dress is shades of blue and white with yellow makeup and accessories, Seria's is green and brown with orange makeup and accessories, and lastly Lia's is black and pale blue with white makeup and accessories. All of them have their hair up like mine but with different hair clips. Ro has water crystals, Lia has clouds, and Seria has trees, mine are of little coffins with chainsaws carved onto them.
Just as I finish checking over the girls outfits is when our mates arrive. All except Undertaker seems either angry or relieved. Grell marches up to me with a frown, he start checking me for injuries and only after he finds none does he stop. This is when they all seem to notice that we have new outfits on. Grell blushes and starts his gushing over how gorgeous we all look. I look at the girls and smile at the giving another order that the men can't understand. The guys all excuse themselves to go change as well, telling us to head on towards the gardens. On the way Lia ask the question that I was not wanted to be said.
"Have you decided which you will be with?" she asks staring up into my bangs, Seria and Ro join in after she seems to break the ice.
"Yeah which are you going to make the true alpha male?" she says wiggling her eyebrows at me, I blush and start walking faster.
"And what have you decided about Grell? I mean about what he did to that Madame Red woman." Ro ask in her whisper like voice. The mention of this brings back the memory from two months ago.
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Skullina POV: ( flashback)
I was sitting in my room working on the assignment for John sensei. It took me almost 2 hours of searching through the cinematic book, but I finally got to the last question. Grell is lounging on my bed working on his own paperwork, well in his case trying to ignore it. Ever since this mourning when he saw the book I was assigned he has been acting weird. On the outside he was his usual flamboyant self, and no one questioned him. But I can tell he is faking it and how worried he really is. I don't see what is so wrong about this woman's book, except that she had a sad past and died very young. I sigh and flip through to the very end of the book to get the answer for the last question.
"How did the person die?" I read aloud to myself as the page I need comes into view. I drop my pen when I read what it says, my eyes going big and I swear my heart stopped beating. I read it aloud to myself my mind still trying to process it. "Angelina Durless was killed by Grell Sutcliff after the two had killed all women on her list that had gone to her doctors office. All the women where prostitutes and had surgery to insure they could not get pregnant. The local police labeled the pair Jack The Ripper, and to humans the killer just vanished. Angelina and Grell had just finished killing the last woman on her list, when Ciel Phantomhive and his butler Sebastian Michaelis arrived. After exchanging their stories about how each came to be where they are, Sebastian and Grell started to battle. Angelina started her own fight with Ciel,who is her sisters son, after getting him pinned against a wall she goes to kill him. His butler appears behind her and is about to kill her first but the boy stops her. After she refuses to kill the boy and turning to Grell, she is stabbed in the chest with Grell's death scythe. She dies at at exactly 2:47 am, to humans she simply died of a heart attack, but all immortals and those exposed to the supernatural can see the true reason of her death." I stop reading and turn to Grell who is now sitting up straight at staring at me with sad eyes.
"I told you that you wouldn't like it." he says sitting off the bed and turning his sad gaze to the floor.
"Can you at least tell me why you killed her?" I ask writing down the answer on my worksheet and closing the cinematic book.
"At the time I was just mad at her for being so weak. For losing her lust for blood and revenge." he looks up at me with a sad smile. "After Will dragged me back to dispatch I didn't even understand why I did it anymore. If you can't trust me anymore because of this I understand." he gathers his things and leaves my room, the door closing softly behind him. I fall back into my seat not quite sure how to handle this. Part of me is angry that he killed someone who trusted him, and the other is sad that he thinks that I would not trust him after this. I do feel a little wary of him now but i just can't feel any true hatred towards him. I sit there for hours it seems just trying to sort out my own thoughts.
"What have I gotten myself into now." I say to myself putting my head in my hands and crying softly. I don't know if they are tears of sadness or frustration but either way the still fall.
( flashback end )
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Skullina POV:
"Skullina!" I blink and focus on the person in front of me. Its Flame he is waving his hand in front of my face. I smile and swat his hand away before giving him a hug. He is wearing a samurai blue samurai outfit with his new scythe attached on his left side. ( I was thinking of the outfit like Sesshomaru wears, but in shades of blue. I will correct things later if my descriptions of things are wrong.) His long blue hair has been pulled into a high ponytail and braided. He looks like he just stepped out of a japanese samurai movie.
"Sorry flame I was just thinking some things over." I say releasing him from my hug.
"No problem, and by the way you look amazing. As do all of you ladies." he says smiling at all of us, his eyes seeming to be overrun in happiness. i then notice that he has already gotten his glasses as well. They are circular with somewhat bulky dark blue frames, the chain is made of blue beads that look like a dragon, the head of the dragon is where the chain connects to the glasses, making it look as if the dragon is biting down on them. "And your dates are walking up behind you now. I will see you later Skullina, I have to go find my parents."
"Okay good luck on finding them." I say waving at him as he heads off into the crowd. I turn around to see Grell and Undertaker walking up, my eyes going big when I see them. Grell is wearing a red and black silk dress that goes down past his knees. His hair is up in a bun with most of it hanging down and curled. And again if you didn't know he was male you would think he was just a flat-chested woman. (if you haven't seen the kuroshitsuji musical 2, i'm trying to describe the dress Grell wore in it.) Undertaker is beside him wearing his reaper outfit, making it look like his statue has come to life. His hair has been braided and his bangs pinned back letting his eyes show, I blush at the way he smiles at me and it makes another memory flash in my mind.
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Skullina POV: (flashback: 1 month ago in undertakers shop.)
After saying goodbye to Grell me and Undertaker head off to his shop. He was made my official trainer for scythe control. Every new recruit no matter what type of job they are training for is assigned one. You are partnered with an older shinigami with similar or of the same scythe type. So for the past 2 weeks I have been training with him, and when we are not training I help him around the shop.
"M'dear I have to finish up one of my guests~" he says as we step into the front room of his shop, we remove our cloaks placing them over one of the empty coffins. "While I finish her up you are free to do as you please~" he says with a mischievous chuckle as he heads off to his operating room. It is by no means anywhere like a hospital's room but is designed like one, which is why I call it this.
"All right Undertaker, just tell me when you get hungry or need anything." I shout after him not fully trusting him to only be working on one of his 'guests'. I shake my head and decide to tidy up the front room while I have the time. I quickly sweep the floors and wash the windows and counter. I grab the duster and start to dust off the coffins, when I get about halfway done with them I start to feel like I'm being watched. I ignore it and continue to work, just as I get to the final coffin I hear the swish of a blade coming towards me. I jump swiftly to the right just as a large silver blade buries itself where I was just standing. I look up to see Undertaker smiling at me still standing in the position with both hands on his scythe. He pulls it out of the floor making it seem like nothing, like the stone floor was nothing but loose sand.
"I thought you had a 'Guest' to deal with?" I say summoning my scythe and dodging another attack from him. He chuckles and swings at me again forcing me into a corner of the shop.
"I finished her up early~ Eheehee~" He readies his scythe for another swing, giving me a cheshire smile. "So I thought we could have a little fun~" he swings his scythe and I jump up into the air. I land on it running up the staff aiming to kick him in the face, he grabs my ankle and holds me up in the air by it. He just stands there letting me dangle upside down. "Have I won already?~" he asks poking me in the stomach with his scythe and laughing madly.
"Not a chance in the realms." I say swinging my own scythe at him. He releases his hold on my ankle and jumps backwards, just barely missing my blade. I jump over him and run out the kitchen door. "We don't want to destroy your lovely shop, now do we?" I say as I lead him to the part of the cemetary that has yet to be used. I stop and swing my scythe behind me and answered by the sound of both our blades clashing. The empty grounds filled with the sound of metal hitting metal as we fight each other. This goes on until Undertaker catches me off guard. He using the blunt side of his scythe to knock my legs out from under me. I fall to the ground and my scythe is pulled from my hands, he presses the blade of his scythe against my neck.
"I win m'dear~" he says smiling down at me before removing his scythe. He holds out a hand and I take it, he pulls me up but misjudged the strength needed for it. He ends up pulling me into his chest and making us both topple to the ground. I had closed my eyes when he started to pull me up, and now I'm scared to open them. "Are you alright Skullina?" I do open my eyes when he says that, it's the first time he has used my name. He usually calls me deary or m'dear. I feel something shift under me and realize the position we are in. I am laying on top of him with one leg on each side of him at the hips. My hands are on his chest and I can feel his are both on my waist. I look up at his face and blush like crazy. His hat his nowhere to be seen having been knocked off when we fell. His silver hair is spread beneath him and his bangs have fallen to the sides revealing his eyes. I find myself staring into them, trying to find a word to describe them. They seem to hold so much wisdom and care, but at the same time I can see pain and anger in them. I start to wonder just what all Undertaker has been through to make his eyes like this. I feel him shift under me again, realizing how uncomfortable he must be and jump up. I back away hiding behind m mass of hair, and stuttering out a line of apologies. He waves it off and I see the blush he is trying to hide as he retrieves his hat. We both head back inside the shop spending the rest of the day in awkward silence, well minus his usual chuckles to his 'Guests'.
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