I have a lot of things to say at the end… if you care about why this was late and what I'm currently writing then read it… XD

XD WARNING: THIS CHAPTER IS NOT NORMAL AND AWKWARDLY WRITTEN. (If that makes sense… I'll explain at the bottom) I just needed Ciel and Sebastian to go to a… *clears throat* Oops! Almost gave the chapter away! *Awkward laugh* But I have AN AWESOME reason for it. And I had to make this happen. It was my STUPID STUPID STUPID FANGIRLING MIND AT WORK! *Another awkward laugh* Let's just move on, shall we?

"Ciel, please, this was a bad idea. Let me help you."

"No! I can do this by myself, Sebastian!"

"We're going to be late."

"But Sebastian-"

Ciel was interrupted by Sebastian's warm, sweet-tasting lips on his own again. He felt Sebastian hands wrap around his and finished the buttons on his shirt and tailcoat.

Damn demon.

When Sebastian finished he pulled back and smirked. Ciel reached out and tried to grab his tie which Sebastian quickly slipped on and tied. At the last second Sebastian turned slightly and caught Ciel before his face hit his own side. Sebastian pulled the smaller demon up and stood him on his own two feet. Ciel pouted and Sebastian only smiled in response. How cute his Ciel was!

"Now, Ciel, I believe we have someone here to see us, isn't that so?"

"Humph!"

Sebastian got down on one knee so he had to look up a Ciel, "Ciel, can I ask you for a favor? Don't take this the wrong way… but… can you, when we meet this person… act like your previous self? I don't know who this is and this could be the first impression you give to anyone. You must seem confident and… like you were."

Ciel's face fell, putting on that cold, hard image of himself was difficult and exhausting. He had to separate himself from everybody, including Sebastian. He actually had to pretend to care about some things he really couldn't care less about. But if Sebastian wanted it…

Sadly, Ciel nodded and looked down at Sebastian, "Give me a minute then."

Ciel closed his eyes but they snapped open when he heard his name again come from Sebastian, "Ciel, wait, open your eyes. I know you don't want to do this but it may be necessary. I know how hard it is for you and I know your real personality. No matter what, you will be my Ciel, not Ciel Phantomhive."

Ciel smiled and blushed a little bit. He closed his eyes again and focused on becoming Ciel Phantomhive.

Ciel Phantomhive. You are the head of Phantomhive family. You are a demon. You are not a little kid anymore. You have a very cold, hard outlook on everything. You have exceeded any expectations anyone has ever had for you. Your parents were murdered and you have exacted your revenge already and done something no one has ever done before. You have a demon as a butler. You run a large toy and candy company and it is more successful than anyone ever could have imagined. Everyone you know is constantly underestimating you. They don't understand you. They are puny and insignificant and will never accomplish as much as you have. You are Ciel Phantomhive. Ciel Phantomhive. Ciel Phantomhive, Earl of Phantomhive.

Slowly, Ciel opened his eyes, only to see his butler beside him.

"Are you ready, young master?"

Ciel narrowed his eyes slightly, enough to seem indifferent but not enough to seem too arrogant, "Yes, Sebastian. Bring him in" Sebastian bowed and was heading towards the door when Ciel remembered something, "Oh, and Sebastian?"

"Yes, my lord?"

"I want this meeting to go perfectly, understand?"

"Of course, my lord."

Ciel took his place at in his armchair, pushing everything that just happened to the back of his mind. He was going to make this a success. Meeting another demon was a challenge he was willing to face head-on. At least he knew this one was coming. He watched the door, waiting for his butler to come back in. Butler? That didn't sound right. But in this moment, he was Ciel Phantomhive and Sebastian was merely his butler. They could not be together in public, nor could they ever be. It upset Ciel but he realized it was necessary. Never in public could he feel Sebastian next to him, lips pressed against his…

No!

Ciel shook himself. He was veering off track.

Ciel Phantomhive. Ciel Phantomhive. Ciel Phantomhive, Earl of Phantomhive, Owner of Funtom Company. Ciel-

His thoughts were broken by the familiar creak of the door opening. His eyes snapped open and he watched the door and entering demons with rapt attention. The female who walked in front, Ciel assumed was their 'guest', followed by Adelina and finally by Sebastian, who was looking quite shocked.

The guest spoke first, orange-red hair bouncing around her shoulders, "You must be Ciel, I'm presuming?"

From her first sentence, Ciel knew her type. Formal, stuck-up, rude, constantly underestimating people especially Ciel himself as he was just a kid, hated anyone who did better than her, always concerned about themselves or their companies. But here, what, or who was the company?

Ciel made to rise and properly greet her, "Yes, I am Ciel Phantomhive. it's a pleasure to meet you, Miss…"

"Apparently, as you do not know this, your manners are obviously lacking. Maybe it is different in England but down here, surnames mean nothing. You are no longer a Phantomhive, and the sooner you realize this, the better," She made no move to greet Ciel.

"Yes, Ma'am. I apologize for my ignorance," he said as he slowly returned to his seat

"Hm. Here, we demons call each other by our birth names or sometimes, our contract names. I am Lavernia."

"Thank you for enlightening me, Lavernia. I assure you, I will learn your ways as soon as I can."

"You had better."

Ciel chanced a glance at Sebastian who was standing beside him, watching the smaller demon's face. Their eyes met for a moment before Sebastian returned his gaze to the floor. Ciel turned his attention back to his guest who had situated herself in an armchair across from him.

"Of course, now I believe you said you had an important message."

Lavernia sighed, "Yes, I come here bearing a message. It is neither my message, nor my decision but I have been entrusted with the task of delivering it. It seems that many people wish to meet you. The Demon Lord wants everybody to meet you and it seems to me that it is only to stir up trouble. He seemed to be rather bored if you ask me… He has arranged a sort of, how do you humans put it… erm… sort of a welcoming type thing. Both you and your… butler are to attend as guests of honor," she cleared her throat, "Now, in my opinion putting you on the same level as… Sebastian now is it, is absolutely disgraceful. But what do I matter? Now you have to realize, you cannot decline this invitation. It is from our Demon Lord. It is not optional. You must attend."

"Of course, I could never even imagine declining. It is just an honor. I thank you deeply for delivering this message."

Lavernia looked pleased, "It was nothing."

Ciel almost smirked, he was right about this woman, compliment her and she's loosen up a bit, make it easier to manipulate her and use her as a simple pawn, "Oh no, it was such a huge help. You seem to be a very intelligent and diligent woman."

"Thank you but I must be going now."

"Oh, please, stay a while longer, it would be my pleasure."

Lavernia almost smiled, "No, no, another time. I really should be leaving."

Ciel sighed, "Well, if you insist. Sebastian will see you to the door. Sebastian?"

Sebastian stepped forward and bowed slightly, "Of course, my lord."

Ciel watched the two retreating backs walk out the door. He waited until their footsteps could no longer be heard before relaxing into his chair.

"Are you alright, Ciel?" Adelina came as kind and caring as ever.

Ciel closed his eyes and massaged the bridge of his nose, trying to fight back a headache, "Yeah, thanks. I haven't done that in a while, I forgot how tiring it was."

"Do you want to talk about it?"

Ciel popped his contracted eye open, "No thanks. I'll be fine."

"Sebastian will be back soon."

Ciel closed his eye and allowed a small smile to slip onto his face. Sebastian would be right back. Ciel could apologize better and everything would be great. Ciel already missed his Sebastian. It had been a week after all.

Adelina laughed, "I'll leave so you guys can talk some more."

Ciel didn't open his eyes when he heard Adelina leave and he didn't open them when he heard Sebastian re-enter.

"Ciel? Are you tired?"

Ciel laughed, "Nope. Far from it," He felt a hand caress his face and slender fingers push his hair behind his ear. Another hand came and brushed against his other ear, then traced down his jawline to his chin, then back up to his lips. Sebastian index finger hooked on Ciel's bottom lip and pulled it down. Ciel obligingly opened his mouth to accept Sebastian's tongue brushing against his own.

Between kisses Sebastian said, "I'm sorry you had to do that."

Ciel, never ceasing to recognize a good opportunity, acted mockingly upset and turned his face away rejecting Sebastian's kisses, "You should be."

Sebastian tried to twist around Ciel's head to get to his lips but was jokingly shoved away. "Come on, Ciel. Don't be like that," he said as he tried again and failed. He pouted, "Awww, that's sad. What's it going to take for you to forgive me?"

Ciel suppressed a laugh, "It's going to take a lot. Who knows, maybe I'll never forgive you."

In response, Sebastian captured Ciel's face and pulled it towards his. He urgently kissed the small boy's lips and smirked at the small sound of surprise that followed. Ciel's eyes flashed open and Sebastian's smirk widened, "I win."

Ciel turned his face back around and muttered, "This round. Don't get cocky."

Sebastian kissed him again, "Never."

In between many brief, soft kisses Ciel said, "Sebastian, I really am sorry. I never meant to-" He was cut off by another kiss, "Don't worry about it," the older demon said, "Or you'll upset the both of us."

Sebastian was caught by surprise when Ciel wrapped his skinny arms around Sebastian's neck and pulled them closer together. Ciel stuck his tongue into Sebastian's mouth and angled his face to get as close as possible. A shaky whimper-like moan escaped Sebastian's throat and Ciel could feel the raven's face heating up. Ciel had never expected to hear such a careless noise come from his demonic lover of all people. He smirked into the kiss a bit but paid it no attention after that.

Ciel moved his hands up to tangle them in Sebastian's raven-black hair again. He felt a bare hand slip under his shirt and run up his spine and he shakily gasped, arching his back, pressing closer to the demon. He gripped his hair and tugged at it teasingly.

Suddenly Sebastian pulled back, leaving Ciel to whimper for the loss of contact through their lips. Instead, Sebastian kissed up his jawline and down his neck which made Ciel bend his head back, revealing more of his neck to the demon. He moaned, and at that one moan, Sebastian seemed to go crazy. Without missing a beat he swiftly unbuttoned Ciel's shirt and tugged it off of him. He kissed down Ciel's torso, not going too far down as to make the poor, inexperienced boy uncomfortable.

"S-Sebastian," Ciel sounded desperate.

"Shh, shh, my Ciel, it's alright. I won't do anything," Sebastian mumbled into the boy's pale skin.

Suddenly, they hear another soft knock at the door and a cautious, "Guys! I need you!" from the other side. Sebastian growled like a wild dog, Ciel could see the beginnings of fangs starting to appear, "What Adelina?" he roared, "What is it now, that could possibly so important that it couldn't wait?! I swear it had better be goddamn Satan here if you have the nerve in interrupt again! What is it?!"

They heard a barely audible whisper come back in, "Sebastian, it's- it's-"

"IT'S WHAT ADELINA? OUT WITH IT!" Ciel had never seen Sebastian like this.

"It's- It's your father."

God, they keep getting interrupted don't they? Anyways I said I'd have an explanation ready and I do. If you're interested. I just started my homework and everything and then I had two super awesome ideas that I really wanted to write. Black Butler related of course. Even though they might be stupid I personally like them I uploaded one of them, it's called, Dreamwalking. I just have the first chapter but it should be a three or four chapter thing. I'm excited about that. Another one I'm still working on, it's a oneshot about a smutty fanfiction Sebastian is writing. I won't be writing any actual smut, just getting there. If that makes sense. But I really like it so far, it's in Sebastian's point of view and everything. And then I had my first writer's block! So my writing felt forced. I think I should have a celebration or something. My previous 'writer's blocks' lasted about ten minutes and were usually caused because I was hungry. XD

BUT! That is still no excuse for anything. I feel really bad about not updating in a couple days. Really, I feel absolutely terrible, I practically hate myself. Please, forgive me! You have to forgive me because that's what friends do. And we're all buddies here. XD I love you guys, see you soon!