Something New 4
By Female Heero Yuy
Disclaimer: If I owned Kuroshitsuji this would be in the manga. XD
If we go by the manga cellphones apparently exist. (As well as a "Nintendo" though they call it Ninkyodo lol." So in case anyone is like, "WHAT THAT WASN'T IN THE TIME PERIOD? YOU STUPID BLOCK HEAD FEMALE HEERO YUY!" *Bangs me on the head with a sharp pointy object*, please do keep in mind the manga has these things. But i'm adding to the cell phone xD...because I can (Though truthfully i'm not sure what their cell phones can do).
I also want to thank everyone who's reviewed up until this point, it's greatly appreciated, and I hope to continue to meet all of your expectations with this chapter.
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Cleaning this house is such a pain at times. Dust collected in massive piles if you let it set for even so much as a few days. So cleaning everyday was a must. Sebastian was dusting all the various books in the library. He'd never tell Ciel but it was his favorite room inside the manor. While everyone was a sleep, he'd go in there at night and read to his hearts content until he had to perform his usual duties when he wasn't taking the time to sleep. He loved reading at night. It meant no interruptions from the other servants, except Tanaka occastionally and most of the time he went right to sleep.
"My my it seems soon we'll be in need of some new literature." he stated as he went over each title carefully. Some books he'd read a dozen times or more during his time in the house. He'd be thrilled if Ciel let him have his own small library in his own room. And he probably would infact as Ciel unlike other masters really could care less as long as his work got done. But it'd be above his station to have his own set of books in his room. Atleast, that's what he thought anyway. He really couldn't be sure about it.
If someone went to all the houses in England for every noble, they'd probably find the Phantomhive servants were indeed very spoiled compared to the rest. Their clothes were far more expensive than standard, Sebastian's alone costed over 100 pounds. And that didn't include his watch or pin. And as simple as the others outfits seemed to be, they were infact enough to get a home a good meal for a week with just one outfit. Everything was provided for them out of the expense of the Phantomhive income. Though they were to receive checks, they seemed far more content simply asking rather than receiving actual pay. A rather strange thing for a noble house. Maylene, Bard and Finni constantly worried about their jobs, but infact even if they were to get fired, Ciel would probably give them their dues since he added it up. They hardly spent a penny of their own money. So Ciel had taken to having books to do the math. Sebastian at one time had looked at it and smirked when he'd seen his master doing such a thing.
It seemed he wasn't sure how good they were with money, but turned out they weren't bad at it at all. Sebastian and Tanaka had no such worries thus Ciel never made an income book for either. Though Sebastian was getting paid on top of his payment for his contract.
Sebastian walked around as he secretly was selecting his next book for the evening. His master hated it when he read some of the newer books before he did, so he usually had to read them in secret before his master knew. He sighed, "My we really are in dire need of some new literature." he mumbled to himself. Not finding anything interesting in the least. He jumped slightly as he sensed someone was at the door. "A guest so early?" he questioned as he went to see who it could be so early in the morning. He figured it'd be Lau or possibly even Ciel's Aunt Frances as they were the only two who would come without sending so much as a letter before hand. Opening the door he was abit surprised at whom was at the door. It was the post man. But not any post man. No this post man obviously wasn't even human as he fluttered with his tiny bat wings in the air.
"Can I help you?" Sebastian asked in a calm voice. He'd never expected a demon post man to come to the human world.
"Package for Sebastian Michaelis." he said as he fluttered about. He was rather small, only two feet in height and looked very much like a centaur with wings. His dark purple coloring hued with crimson made him seem like he was a toy rather than a demon.
"Ah...a package for me? I wonder who could of sent it?" he pondered as he opened the door abit more.
"Stamp here please." it said, holding out a clipboard with the sending information and a empty square box in the bottom right corner that was clearly meant for the stamp.
Sebastian dug through his pockets for a moment. Then pulled out a small stick from his pants pocket and stamped the paper. When it was removed his stamped was shown to be the symbol of the seal of his and Ciel's contract.
"Thank you very much." it stated as it handed Sebastian black box that was about the size of a small cake box. And with that he disappeared with a puff of smoke.
Sebastian closed the door and looked at his package. He turned it in random ways looking for the indication of who sent it. But found none. Demons were notorious for sending pranks through the mail to other demons for a laugh just to pass their boredom. So he was abit skeptical on opening it. Taking it to his room he set it down on his table and stared at it for a brief moment. He was weighing his options in his mind. 'If I open it there could be trouble within it...but on the other hand if someone took the time to actually send it to the human world it must be important.' he thought.
"Alright, i'll open it slowly." he finally decided. He couldn't take anymore time on it, less Ciel's snack be delayed. Peeling the black tape from the box from the top he opened it and cautiously looked inside. He gasped at the contents within. "Oh...my.."
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Ciel was very aggitated. Sebastian was a good four minutes late with his snack. And he hated it when his snacks were late. A knock came to the door. "Come in." he said in a calm voice.
"Forgive me young master, i'm late with your snack." he stated as he pushed the cart into the room.
Ciel clicked his tongue. "Don't let it happen again."
"I understand." he bowed, the proceeded to cut the dessert to serve. It was a strawberry cream pie, with light strawberry puree. He placed it before Ciel as he started working on fixing the tea.
Everything seemed to be going fine. Until two minutes, which was usually how long it took Sebastian to serve him his tea, turned into five minutes, five minutes turned into ten. Finally Ciel looked over, he could only see Sebastian's back, but his right arm seemed to be moving. "What's taking so long? Hurry up and serve me some tea."
Sebastian jump abit as if he'd forgotten what he was doing. Without turning around, "Yes my lord." Ciel found this to be very rude. Even for Sebastian. Finally he was given his tea, but it was luke warm. Not done to perfection as Sebastian norminally did it. And there was hardly any scent or flavor to it.
Ciel looked at Sebastian ready to complain, but again his back was turned. And his right arm moving again. "SEBASTIAN!" he growled. Making the demon break his concentration on whatever else he was doing.
"Ah forgive me young master it seems I was distracted."
"I can see that, what on earth has you so distracted." he raised a brow.
Sebastian gave him a look as if he had to think about what was distracting him from his work. Scratching his cheek he averted his gaze from Ciel, making it obvious he didn't want to say.
Ciel grew frustrated and decided to take matters into his own hands. Whatever was distracting him he was currently hiding behind his back. "Give it to me!" he shouted.
"I can explain!" Sebastian finally said as he held up his arm to keep the item in question out of his master's reach.
"You haven't until this point, let me see it!" Ciel tried to reach, but the height difference made it impossible for him to get it.
Sebastian suddenly looked at his hand, "Ah! I got another message!" he stated then suddenly brought it to his face, as if he'd forgotten he was trying to keep it from his master. Ciel got a good look at the item though. It was a cellphone. But obviously not one from any stores he'd seen.
"WHEN DID YOU GET A CELL PHONE?" he shouted in anger. When he wanted one Sebastian had stated it was unneeded as he was able to sense when Ciel needed him. But here he was with his own.
Sebastian looked at Ciel sheepishly. "This...morning." he stated as he smiled hesitantly.
"Your such a hypocrite! You said it wasn't needed and too expensive to even consider one! And here you are with one!"
"Ah..but I didn't even purchase mine. It was a gift sent to me air mail." he said calmly as he started clicking the keys again on his phone.
Ciel wasn't sure what he was doing, as he'd seen the cell phones in the shops, all you could do with them was make phone calls. The service was highly expensive, so it was much cheaper to have a house phone instead. But he saw an opportunity, and snagged it while Sebastian was clicking the keys.
"Ahhh! My phone!" Sebastian shouted unlike himself as he tried getting his back.
Ciel was looking at what he was doing. Now that he had it in his hands he could clearly see how different it was compared to the ones he'd seen. It had a colored screen, with a picture of a black cat on it. As he was looking a message popped up that stated, you've got a message. "A message? How can a phone get a message?" he mumbled as he wondered how he was supposed to open it. "What kind of phone is this?" he asked.
"It's a cell phone from my world young master." he replied, giving up on snagging his phone back for the moment.
"Your world has cell phones?" he raised a brow as he looked it over. It definately looked out of the human world. It was smaller than the smallest ones for sale. Shiney, smooth, and the screen alone showed how different it was. "What's this?" he pointed at the screen.
"That shows how good of a signal is reaching the phone."
"And this?"
Sebastian looked to see what he mean. "Battery power."
"How can a phone receive messages?" he asked again, but this time he expected an answer.
"Oh..right...humans don't have text messaging on their cell phones." Sebastian stated as he grabbed his phone back. He started clicking away on his keys, obviously texting back whom ever texted him.
"Text messaging?" Ciel watched in interest.
Sebastian nodded, "Its like sending mail through the post, but you don't have to wait as long or buy a stamp." he replied. Then flipped his phone shut and put it in his pocket.
"...In any case if it interferes with your work again, i'm going to take it away. Do you understand?"
"I understand."
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Over the next few days Sebastian's phone hadn't been much of an issue. But Ciel could clearly see it kept his attention constantly, as when he'd get a message he wanted to answer it immediately. Once it went off while he was having his supper. It annoyed him to no end when his meal was disturbed. But Sebastian merely apologized and took his phone out, stated he was putting it on silent. Though it was obvious he was texting back the person as well.
He really wanted to know who this person was that Sebastian just had to text back all the time. But when he'd asked Sebastian would state there was something that he needed to do and run off. So today he'd called him to his office to do what he promised.
"Sebastian give me your phone." Ciel stated with the utmost seriousness.
"Young master that's..."
"I told you if it interfered with your work I was going to confiscate it. Now give it!" he held out his hand.
His expression was the same one he'd given Ciel when he wanted to keep the cat from the Rip Van Winkle case. Utter disappointment. Hesitantly he handed Ciel his phone and watched as Ciel put it into his desk drawer. "You may go."
But Sebastian didn't go, infact he did the complete opposite, he'd apparently moved so fast that Ciel hadn't seen him move and was now knelt by the drawer where he put the phone, almost as if he was wishing the drawer would give it back. He hands were up against it as if he was keeping it shut himself.
"Your addicted." he stated in shock as he watched his butler's movements from his side.
Sebastian looked at him as if to call him a liar, "I am not!"
"Yes you are, look at yourself, you can't even go five feet away from the thing."
Getting up he made like he was dusting himself off. "I'll prove to you i'm not addicted." he snubbed then started walking towards the door. And for a moment Ciel thought he could finally get some work done as he rubbed at his eyes for a minute. But jumped in surprised when he looked at his side again and Sebastian was back in his original position.
"Sebastian! Get back to work!" he shouted in frustration.
Sebastian turned at him with teary eyes, and whimpered. Making Ciel lean away in shock. Then he freaked out for a moment when Sebastian grabbed at his waist and hugged him. "Pleeeeeaaaasssssseeeee give it baaaaacccckkk! I promise I won't use it during the day!" he looked up at Ciel with puppy dog eyes, and pouty lips.
Ciel let his arms fall limply at his sides as he sighed. "Your not going to die if I hold onto it for the day."
"But if I don't stay in constant contact, they'll get suspicious." Sebastian responded but wouldn't let go even for a second.
This caught Ciel's attention immediately. "Who?"
"...My...my...mummethivis." he mumbled the last part incoherently.
"Your what?"
"My former classmates." he repeated this time so it was understandable.
"Whaa?"
"Well technicially they aren't former classmates as we're all still technically classmates, but that's who i'm pretty much being in contact with."
Ciel blinked then opened the draw with haste, " I wanna read those messages!" he shouted as he flipped open the phone and tried to figure out how to use it.
"Ahhh nooo! Those are private!" he tried to reach for it.
But it only made Ciel want to read them more, and he'd finally figure out how to get to the message box and started reading the texts aloud. "from:imasexydemon; have you seen the new hu man movie? It was awesome! reply from:i'mjustademonandabutler; no i'm under a contract so I can't go, lame! =(; from:i'mbetterthanahuman; how old is your master anyway?; reply from:i'mjustademonandabutler; in human years he's only 13.; from:i'mbetterthanahuman; ahahahaha sux to be you!; reply from:i'mjustademonandabutler; atleast I don't live with my parents retard. ={; from:i'mbetterthanahuman: ouch you kiss your mother with that mouth?; reply from: i'mjustademonandabutler: atleast I have a mouth to kiss her with homo.; from: i'mbetterthanahuman: hey i'll have you know not having a mouth has benefits!; from: imasexydemon; is Julley giving you crap again? Man he's lame!; reply from: i'mjustademonandabutler: yeah he just lost 10 cool points.; from: imasexydemon: haha!...Sebastian! What in the world?" he questioned, though he had to admit he was highly dissapointed at the messages. He thought they'd be more demonic and evil like. And his way of speaking in text seemed out of the ordinary too.
Sebastian smiled as if he was embarrassed, and snatched his phone back quickly, "What's wrong master? Not what you were expecting?"
"I have to admit i'm disappointed. And why does everyone's names start with I'm?"
"Lack of creativity?"
He glared at Sebastian hard, now that he'd seen the messages on the phone he wanted one...badly. How could he let his own butler have something that he didn't even have? "Sebastian I want a cellphone." he stated like nothing had even transpired.
"But young master who are you even going to call with it? It's pointless for you to even have one. And further more.." he was cut off.
"And I want one from your world." he continued.
He stared at his master for a moment. A human with a cell phone from his world? Even he'd never heard such a thing. Compared to humans and even death gods, Demon's were pretty technilogically advanced while at the same time maintaining an image of the current time...to a point. Whatever humans had demon's had a better version of it. He sighed, "I understand."
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Within a few days Ciel now had a blue version of Sebastian's phone. After alot of instructions he'd finally gotten the hang of it. And found he even enjoyed sending messages. Though he only had one person to send messages to.
":To: i'mjustademonandabutler: Where's my tea?"
Sebastian's phone started it's tune as he received the message, he opened his phone. "From: i'mjustademonandabutler'smaster: Where's my tea?" He sighed as he read it and sent a reply.
Ciel picked his phone up when it made a sound indicating he got a message. "From: i'mademonandabutler: I'm almost to your office young master." after he'd read it, there was a knock on the door. "Come in." he stated.
"Young master there's really no need for you to message me when I was only down the hall." he stated as he pour Ciel a cup of tea.
"I know, but I felt like it." he replied as he sipped his tea once he'd received it.
Sebastian gave him an awkward look. 'And to think you stated I was bad?' he thought as he put the cup before his master.
"Sebastian what's this?" Ciel pointed on his phone. It was one of the application programs on the phone.
"That would be the application to show how many messages you sent or received."
Ciel clicked it to open it, "I have 2 sent and 1 received..." he muttered. Agonizingly pathetic in his eyes. "How many have you done?" he asked after.
Sebastian started sweating a little. "Young master I don't really..." he stumbled on his words.
"Let me see." he said sternly.
"I don't think you..." he got cut off again.
"Sebastian this is an order let me see your phone." he held out his hand.
Sebastian gawked and slowly put his phone in Ciel's hand in defeat and waiting for the impending...
"YOU'VE SENT OVER 2 MILLION MESSAGES IN THE COURSE OF A FEW DAYS?" Ciel shouted in complete shock. He just couldn't believe someone could send so many in such a short time period. Where there even enough hours in a day to send a partial of that amount? Ciel's face twisted as he kept reading, "How?...How..? How on earth do you..? No...nevermind don't answer..."
"Young master if you'd allow me to explain, I..."
"I need to see how many contacts you have..." he hastily stated and clicked some keys. Obviously scrolling down Sebastian's contact list. "Why aren't I the first one on your list? I'm your master! I should be the number one person on your list!"
"Ummmm because your name starts with c?" he replied with abit of worry. Ciel was still scrolling down his phone list. He could see Ciel's eyes widened the longer he kept going down the list.
"...I don't even think I know over 700 people, even if I included the people I only know from history." he mumbled after.
"Well..I am a demon after all master." he sheepishly smiled. Though by demon standards Sebastian's list would of made him an amateur idol.
"Do you seriously expect me to believe these are all your friends?"
"Not all."
Ciel smiled for a moment thinking Sebastian was just adding people to his phone list.
"I still have other numbers I have to put in. But I only have a limited amount of time at night to do it. So it's taking me a bit of time to do it." he said casually as if he were talking about the weather. "But if i'm lucky they will message me and i'll only have to save it."
Ciel went into such a shock that he lost all his color for a moment.
Sebastian took this opportunity to slip his phone from Ciel's fingers gently. Closing his phone list it showed a picture of a black cat on the screen with flowers surrounding it. His eyes glittered for a moment as he looked at it with a joyus look. "Ahhhhh how I wish to see you right now." he said with a heavenly sigh. His other hand resting on his cheek as he looked at it continuiously.
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"From: VampireHalfling: Hey! Hey! Are Acai and Sept minor?" was the message on Sebastian's phone. "To: VampireHalfling: Yeah, majorly. They are so underloved!" he messaged back. Then turned off his phone and placed it in his pocket. Getting back to his work he continued his cleaning duties. When he heard a knock on the window. Blinking he walked up to it and opened it. It was the delivery demon from before.
"Mail call." it said.
"Ah..thank you." Sebastian replied as he took the envelope and tipped the creature a gold coin that wasn't of human currency.
"Thank thee." it said before it fluttered away.
Leaving the window open Sebastian opened the letter. Though he found it wasn't a letter but a bill, scrolling over the contents he put it back when he was finished to deal with it later and left it on the end table. He left the room soon after he was done cleaning leaving it behind.
Ciel came in not moments after. "Sebas..." he started but saw the demon wasn't in the room. He turned to leave when he saw the envelope on the table. He found it very pecuiliar as he was very sure the post hadn't come yet. Thinking it was some old mail from a prior date he picked it up and took out the contents. His eyes buldged when he saw the contents of the pages. "EEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHH?" he shouted. Making Sebastian return hastily.
"What's wrong young master?"
Ciel turned at Sebastian with utter surprise and shock mixed into his face. "What in the world is this?" he shouted stunned.
Sebastian looked at Ciel's hands, "That would be a bill young master."
His eye twitched in annoyance. "I know that stupid! What I wanna know is where did it come from?"
"...You didn't think it was free did you? I seem to recall stating to you that it costs money for a cell phone."
"Not that you twit! I'm aware it costs money for a cell phone!" he held the page up as close as he could to Sebastian's face. "This is what I want to know!"
"Hmmmm...That's my number and a list of things i've done." he skimmed abit over the page. He's only read the amount and the due date when he'd initially looked at it.
Ciel's expression turned into anger, "I understand that! But how does someone even have the time to send over 5000000 messages in a two week time period!"
"...I'm dedicated?" Sebastian responded with a smile that looked abit puzzled.
Ciel gave him a wary look. "Face it your obessed."
"I am not." he snubbed as he picked up the papers and placed them in his pocket. "Your just upset because i'm the only one you have to text with."
"So your saying i'm jealous?"
"Indeed. Very much so." he took out his phone to send another text.
Ciel shook in anger at that point. Without realizing it he snagged the demons phone and threw it to the ground in one fell swoop. Sebastian was exceedingly shocked at such behavior and couldn't even utter a sound at such a display. After Ciel had done this, it'd taken him a few moments to realize what he'd just done. "Uhh...I..." he blushed with embarrassment. He couldn't believe that he'd reacted so irrationally over a simple set of words.
Nothing was ever said after that.
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After a few days. Ciel had felt horrible about what he'd done. He wouldn't tell anyone, but he had been rather jealous. He still couldn't believe how he reacted over such a small device. Sebastian came into the room with his days snack. Not stating anything. "Sebastian..." he started.
"Yes young master?" he turned to look at him.
"I'm sorry." he kept his face hung low in shame. "I overreacted. I shouldn't of broken your phone. I'm sorry."
"It's alright young master." he smiled as he placed the slice of cake in front of him. "I am at fault as well. Let us put it behind us and move on." Ciel simply nodded before taking a bite of his cake. Sebastian served him his tea and left him alone. Once he was in the hall, he pulled out something from his pocket. "Honestly the young master is quite the child at times." he muttered to himself. He had gotten a new cellphone and was texting. "Oh well. Atleast because of it I got to get the newest phone available." he smiled. Learning that if sometimes manipulating your master could benefit you. Especially if you wanted a brand new item.
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If parts of this seem off, it's probably because the vast majority of it was written over a year ago. xD I was looking it over today, to try to make sure it flowed properly. Honestly i'd kinda forgotten about it until in part of a conversation with theamazingfetus it reminded me of it. xD This was originally gonna be chapter 4 (yes that far back), but then I decided it was too soon to use it. . lol. Let me know what you think.
Reviews and comments appreciated.
