"How do you like the gardens, ma'am?" Finnian asked Yami as they had tea in a room overlooking the grounds. "They're beautiful... May I ask a favor of you?" Yami asked taking a small bag out of her pocket with a picture of a seed on it.
"Of course, m'lady!" the blonde, excitable gardener exclaimed removing his straw hat respectfully.
"Can you plant these in the garden once the weather is warmer? They're a unique rose I made I call them Hikaris."
"Of course... I mean... Young Master, is that alright?" he asked Ciel. He hoped Ciel would say yes. He wanted to please the new lady who had graced their home. She treated him like the mother he never had. All he'd ever known before being employed at the manor was painful experiments that gave him his inhuman strength and never going outside. He was grateful to Ciel, Sebastian, and the other servants for their kindness and now Yami was like the cherry on the cake. "I don't see why not," Ciel said as Yami handed the bag over to the gardener. Yami then tilted his head a confused expression on her face as she listened to the quiet room. "Ciel, are you expecting any visitors today?" Yami asked. "Besides your maid and child, not that I know of. Why do you ask?"
"I hear someone coming by carriage, and it's not Atemu."
"LADY ELIZABETH!" called a voice from the front of the house. "Oh dear," Ciel sighed. "She'll no doubt redecorate the entire manor until it is..." he shuddered. "Cute." Yami laughed then paused. "Is she unaware of Demons existing?" He was thinking of something he had not before.
"Yes all she knows is that Sebastian is 'one Hell of a butler' as he likes to say," Cecil said standing as Yami also stood both heading towards the front of the manor while Atemu and Sebastian followed glaring at one another. "Atemu play nice with the birdie, or you'll end up on the sofa for a month," Yami said sweetly while a glare as harsh as ice made both butlers freeze in their tracks. Yami turned to Ciel. "Cousin, my son...mmmm...he's..." he showed Ciel, a full body photo of the child. From the waist up, he was a normal, if not smaller than usual child. But where his legs were...a serpent's tail. "He hasn't developed the power of body modification," Yami said worriedly. Cecil thought then an idea came to mind. "Does he have a wheelchair or something of that nature until he can learn to change his tail into legs we can use that and cover his tail with a blanket." "I hadn't thought of that! Oh if only we had..."
"Here you are!" came two voices. They looked up to see the two butlers both trying to present a tiny wheelchair. "Aw, look at you two working together!" Yami clapped in delight. Sebastian and Atemu gave a strained smile to Yami who looked over the wheelchair nodding with a seal of approval. "Its perfect now when we have guests, or we go out Yugi can ride in this until he can walk in a few more months." Lizzie's carriage arrived. She dove out to hug her fiancee. Meanwhile, another carriage turned up the drive. A tall, handsome man with purple hair drove it. His eyes were blue, stern, but not unkind. Yami could not wait as it came closer. He laughed and ran unlady-like to meet it. He paused as the driver jumped down and bowed before opening the door revealing a beautiful blonde woman holding a bundle. The blanket was white with stitch stars of gold. "Is that a baby?!" Lizzie gasped. "Babies are so cuuute!"
"Mahad! Mai! I'm so happy to see you!" Yami greeted. The bundle wiggled, and a rattle sound was heard. "Little One, please be..." Mai soothed to no avail. "Mama?" the now awake bundle chirped.
Yami smiled and took the bundle front, Mai. "Yes, little star I'm here now Mama is here now." The child exclaimed in delight as Yami carried him to meet the others. "Pa..." Yugi almost said seeing Atemu, but the tanned man raised a finger to his lips and winked. Yugi blinked. "Temmy!" he corrected himself using Atemu's 'name' instead. They had guests who were unaware of them after all. "Look here, Little Master." Atemu presented the chair. Yugi looked confused. "No, no, no." he shook his head. He was perfectly able to 'walk.' He had strong muscles perfect to glide along the ground and literally curling into his family's lap. "Would you prefer to be carried by me until your comfortable being able to use the chair my Star?" Yami asked as Yugi looked over to the others in the room giggling at Sebastian. "Pretty birdie like the blue lady," Yugi said giggling pointing to Sebastian and Ciel. Ciel stared until..."did he just call me lady?!" he pointed to the baby-sized toddler. "And you said he was three. Shouldn't he be a bit bigger?"
"He's premature, my Lord." Sebastian sighed. /And you shouldn't talk about him being small when a flour sack weighs more than you/
"Ciel please don't yell Yugi is sensitive to loud noises right now." Yami said calmly "why don't we all head inside where it's warm and introduce the house and guests to Yugi?" Yami suggested wanting out of the cold and back into the warm house. Inside, Yugi was bonding with the chair slowly. The blanket concealing his tail. "Ciel, won't the Frost Fair be lovely to attend tomorrow?" Lizzie asked as Paula; her maid played patty cake with Yugi. Lizzie wanted Ciel to take her for a special reason: she wanted to shop for her fiancee's birthday, and there would be so many shops open. "Yes, I can imagine it will be," Ciel said thumbing his ring Lizzie thought she broke. "I don't believe I've ever walked on frozen water before," Mai spoke up reading the fair was upon the frozen River Thames. "In fact, 'frozen' would be a foreign word in our homeland...oh my Mistress, an entire shop of clothes for children of all ages!" she showed Yami the newspaper with the advertisement while gushing at the thought of shopping. Their favorite activity together.
Yugi was holding a small doll. He suddenly dropped it. His purple eyes seemed to sparkle with white lights in the fire. "Fall down, fall down, fall down...lady." he sing-songed.
/Ate,/ Yami said via Link. /He saw something/
/yes I can see love what did he say I'm too far to hear what he said./ Atemu asked as Yami smiled at Yugi. /fall done fall down fall down lady it sounds like the nursery song London Bridge./
/his eyes glowed white while he said it Atemu./ Yami said looking at the doors Atemu had gone through with Sebastian to cook some lunch for the house full of people. /We will talk to him in private later. His visions are usually indicators of misfortune/
/alright... Is the food coming soon? I need to feed Yugi his milk soon, and that usually leaves me tired if I'm left hungry without lunch./ Yami huffed through the link hearing comforting chuckles as Yami bent down picking up the little doll and giving it to Yugi.
/I'll brink him his 'juice' instead, love/ The 'juice' was main made of blood collected from unsavory folk he had collected from when he had gone out shopping that morning. /good I hope you're playing nice with the Raven in the kitchen and not throwing knives at each other./ Yami sent feeling the link reside to only emotions. "Here you go my Star Atemu will be back soon with your punch," Yami said smiling to Yugi who smiled and clapped after taking the doll.
The link broke. The two butlers glared at each other covered in food and holes in their clothes. "Shall we call it a draw?" Atemu asked holding a butcher knife.
"For now we have food to serve and masters to please. Until the next battle Atemu," Sebastian said as the two demons got back to cooking. Atemu was making an ordinary Japanese for high nobility while grabbing the baby bottle with Yugi's juice opening it and cutting his palm put in three drops as the skin stitched itself closed. Sebastian had made fried shrimp with a coconut cream cake. "I'm sure this will please our guests the most." the raven smirked. "Oh, and they'll like your... meal."
"It may look ordinary, but it packs a kick," Atemu said as he was the only one allowed in the kitchen back in Japan at everyone's agreement with how brilliant his dishes were. Plating the lunches Atemu and Sebastian made enough to have seconds for everyone.
"I thought you were from Egypt."
"I am, but Anku let me read various cookbooks that I had added my style of spices to than what the books call for, Anku had even made me the sole cook for the household because of how well my cooking turned out to be. After only a month of testing and three years of practice, you learn to perfect your style to do more complicated things." Atemu said not bothering to put his gloves back on as he covered the bowls of Beef Lo Mein. Sebastian's eyes narrowed. "You've fallen. Letting in trivial emotions such as love, into your heart."
"I may have, but then again Yami is far more unique then any mortal you'll find to persuade when the time is right," Atemu said with a lazy glare of his own. "I hear from the grapevine that you're being chased down by an eccentric Reaper of Red."
"Don't speak of that abomination? I will be glad when it is away from me for good." Red did not attract Sebastian... Dark blue though... At a proper age.
"I see wheels turning in that thick head of yours Sebastian. You seem to have your mind on someone else already. I'll leave you to sort out your thoughts but best hurry before the chill sets into the food." Atemu said chuckling on his way out the kitchen doors.
Sebastian caught up. "I won't be outdone in /my/ household."
"Territorial now aren't you." Atemu chuckled only to cause both to stop when an angry looking Yami stood in their path tapping his foot eyes hard and a watch in his hand. "Mind telling me why you both are so late?" Yami asked his voice dripping with a sweetness that did not match his dark looking face that made even Sebastian the master of dark expressions shiver a bit.
"Our cook has a nasty habit of messing around in the kitchen, and we had to decide what to prepare," Sebastian said. "We wanted to take extra care to make the dinner perfect for you." They heard a wail. "That's my son," Yami explained. "Wanting his Papa to feed him. He's been begging me to let his beloved Papa feed him since we sat down."
Atemu sighed with a slight smile "i swear our son takes after you more then he does me when he wants food." Atemu said with a shake of his head "Sebastian nothing in your food is made with nuts right?" Yami asked wearily. "No, ma'am. Despite the name, coconut is not an actual nut. I followed your instructions exactly." They went to the dining room. Yugi raised his arms to Atemu. He liked one parent to feed him some days and the other parent on other days.
Atemu chuckled picking up the young one and handing him his bottle letting the young boy drink it on his own as Atemu handed out his dish. "For the first course, I have prepared a Beef Lo Mein dish with some influences from my home to give it a unique twist in flavor."
"Really good," Ciel said. "Please leave the recipe with the chef." This ruffled the jealousy feather in sensation.
Yami giggled "why do you think I have him as the soul cook at home cousin?" Yami asked while Mai and Mahad nodded in agreement with their lady.
"Please enjoy the fried shrimp," Sebastian said. "And a slice of cake. The cake itself is vanilla while the icing is a rich coconut. For Master Yugi, a pot of applesauce is being prepared."