The Funeral

Sebastian looked at the moon; he decided to check on things back at the manor. He called the front desk and asked if he could make a long distance call, "I'll pay for it. I just need to check on my boss." Sebastian told the man at the front desk, it was a different man this time. He gave the international code for long distance calls in Japan.

Back at the manor it was chaos, since Sebastian went to Japan Agni and his royal pain in the ass had been looking out for Ciel's well being. Bard and Finny weren't helping at all, if anything they were making things worse. They were trying to catch a mouse that had started it's own colony up in the attic.

The phone rang at the study desk Ciel picked it up. "yes hello?" he asked

"Hello young master. Just checking on how things are going at the manor." Sebastian's voice came over the other line.

"Terrible, have you got Meyrin back yet? It's been three days and I'm starting to run out of patients with those four."

"four sir?" Sebastian asked wondering who else he was talking about beside Bard and Finny. Then he had realization "do you mean Agni and Prince Sohma are there as well?" Through the line, Ciel smiled. "I'm sorry sir but I don't have Meyrin with me yet. I seemed to be in a bit of trouble sir, it seems that someone tried to kill me, when I attempted to rescue Meyrin." Ciel knew that this man was a demon and therefore could not die under normal circumstances. It seemed like Sebastian was implying that Ciel should attend the dead man's funeral.

"I'll be there by tomorrow afternoon I just have to book myself a…" there was a loud bang and a cry of horror from Finny, a cheer from the other three, they had caught the mouse. They came bustling through the study door proud of themselves for catching the mouse. "We did it without Sebastian! We got the pest!" Bardroy said happily, the other three clapped their hands. Ciel put the phone on the desk and looked at them extremely annoyed but he kept his voice level.

"Bardroy dispose of that properly, Agni take Prince Sohma out of here and book us a plane flight to Tokyo Japan tonight! Finny see what you can do about the rest of the mice in the attic for now just set traps." They all saluted him and went to do their jobs. Ciel turned back to the phone "never mind it seems that I'm going to have to bring the rest of them with me, do you think you can pick us up at the Tokyo Airport tomorrow?" Ciel asked his loyal servant

"Yes, my lord."

When the plane touched down in Japan, it was late afternoon. Sebastian had been to all the churches in Fukushima to ask if they were going to have a funeral for a man named Sebastian Michaelis. One, that was run by the Sohma family no less, said that they were going to bury the corpse by five in the afternoon. When the plane came, it was three forty-five, all of them came off like they were going to pass out, out of sheer exhaustion. It seemed that no one on the plane had slept because there was a disturbance by and exuberant Indian person.

Sebastian waited for them near the luggage holding area. Ciel was relived to see the man dressed in black. Sebastian came over to Ciel and bowed. "we should hury if we're going to attend that funeral sir, it might be the only time you'll get to see her sir." Luckily for them the others were busy getting the baggage. Ciel was too exhausted to answer he just stood there like a zombie. By the time, they were in the car that Sebastian had rented for his stay, Ciel had fallen asleep. It took them a few moments at top speed to get to Fukushima; even then, they were cutting it close. Everyone had changed into black suits and ties under Ciel's orders last night. They had not been told that it was supposed to be Sebastian's funeral they were attending.

Ciel burst through the doors to see Meyrin was crying her eyes out near the back a man had his arms around her, he thought that this must be the fiancé she talked about in the letter. He went over to her a fake tear in his eye as well. "Y….y…young m…m…master w… w… wh... what… a...Are... Y…you… d… d… doing... H…here?" she asked between gasps of desperation. She flung herself onto the small boy.

He hugged her and stroked her back "shh… I came here as soon as I heard, you invited me to your wedding remember?" She looked at him eyes full of tears, he saw that she didn't have glasses on this time. "Meyrin what happened to your glasses and what's this." He held out the blue necklace that Kagura had returned to her from Akito.

"I… it w…as... a present from h…him be...fore… I… w…as t… ta…ken…" She cried into his shoulder. Sebastian had told them that she was in trouble and forced into marriage he decided to change the subject and introduce himself to the fiancé.

"I am Ciel Phantomhive it's a pleasure to meet you sir." He said bowing to Hatori. Hatori was slightly taken aback but then he bowed back. "I'm Hatori Sohma; Meyrin was telling me that she used to work for you as your maid?" Hatori seemed interested to see that this man she was talking about was actually a small boy. Meyrin had gone to say hello to Finny, Bard, Prince Sohma, and Agni. They all burst into tears when they heard the news that Sebastian had died. They were mostly confused and was going to ask what she meant by he was dead, they had just saw him a few moments ago.

"wait a minute Mey, how can he be dead we…" They were interrupted by Akito who had just come over and slapped the girl in the eye. "How dare you invite these outsiders to this private thing, I was nice enough to give him a funeral instead of just burning the body!" He screeched at her, he saw that she was wearing the necklace and ripped it from her neck. "what's this I thought I got rid of this ugly thing!" Finny went over and slapped the man, he was mad that this man was the cause of Meyrin's tears.

Akito was surprised that someone would do that so freely to him. "how dare you brat!" He yelled at Finny this made Hatori and Ciel looked up. They saw that Bard and Meyrin, who got the full brunt of the punch to the face, had their arms out to protect the young man, no that he needed it. "I think you've been too chummy with this family that you live with! I think that they should see your secret or your true form!" He yelled at her. Hatori had come over to restrain Akito and so had some others but he was too strong for them. he took the maid to the door and pushed her outside. Everyone followed the ruckus outside he had taken a tight grip to her wrist.

He pulled off the black and white beaded bracelet that she had on her left wrist. Before everyone's eyes, she transformed into an ugly creature. All the Sohmas had seen this creature before and was terrified by it. It's pungent scent smelled like something went into the forest and died. Bard, Finny, and Ciel were also afraid by this creature. The monster looked into their frightened eyes and fled. Hatori ran after her into the woods, which he lost track of her due to the immense speed of this creature.

Sebastian who had parked the car in the woods outside of the cemetery saw this creature coming for the car. He had not seen this creature in such a long time but he had seen the cat in it's true form before, in hell. 'Meyrin!' he thought to himself and got out of the car as the creature came closer. When the creature saw the man that the human Meyrin had loved for over two years now, it stopped.

'se-Sebastian!' Meyrin thought but what really came out was just growling. Sebastian had a disappointed look on his face. 'what are you doing your supposed to be dead?' Meyrin thought

"Meyrin, I'm disappointed in you, you're supposed to be an expert assassin, you aren't supposed to be able to be captured that easily, you could have killed your captures." The creature looked at him angrily.

'what do you know about my captures Sebastian! Where were you when I needed you most of all! I gave up on you! I gave up! I hate you!' The creature swung at Sebastian who just jumped out of the way.

"maybe the reason you couldn't kill your capture was the fact that it was a family member?" Sebastian question he ducked as another swing came for him.

'shut up!' she swung the huge claws at him again and again at him. This talk that Sebastian was having with her was really annoying her.

"Meyrin most importantly why I'm upset is I'm concerned for your well being." Sebastian said his voice soothing. This made the creature stop.

'you don't care about me at all you liar! I gave you all of my love and you never gave me anything in return!' Meyrin's head yelled angrily.

"not care about you, Meyrin I care most about you I make sure you're safe in your bed everynight, I kissed you every Christmas as a present and every time my lips parted yours they wanted more. I couldn't because I had my obligations to the young master. I had to be your boss before your lover. I honestly and truly love you Meyrin. I don't us ever to part ways. I was so upset when you sent that letter about your marriage to someone else." It scared Sebastian that he believed his words that were coming out of his mouth. He had had a crush on the maid for the past two years. Every time she looked at him with a big smile on her face, every time she fell and he caught her. That uncontrollable laughter, her fear of the dark and thunderstorms he cherished those times with her. Every time he had to serve the young master and stay by his side, his mind would wander to her safety. He had kept his reputation as the head butler that he believed he couldn't love anyone, but he would be lying if he said that he didn't have significant feelings for this girl.

He went up to her and put a strong arm around her strange clawed ones. 'What are you doing get off of me, you're lying who could love a creature just as ugly as me?' her head hissed at him. He could hear her thoughts and was upset by them. He knew the cat's true form was just the cat's aggression and hatred toward the world for looking down upon it.

"How can you say such things about yourself, don't you realize how beautiful you are? Meyrin I am not lying when I say that I love you. I loved you in your human form, I loved you in your cat form and I love you in this form, it doesn't matter what form you take I will always love you." Meyrin was crying he really did care for her as much as she cared for him. He was looking away now; she had transformed back to a human and was completely naked. He wasn't looking away because she was naked he had something on his mind. "The truth is I've been hiding a secret from you as well. The young master is the only one who knows of it because he was the one that called me into this world, but I'm really a demon." He revealed his black wings and looked down at Meyrin's reaction she wasn't scared of his beastly form.

Instead she got up, drew him close to her, and kissed him. He put his wings away and kissed her back this was truly love. He had never felt this feeling for anyone before. At first he didn't like the girl at all and only thought of her as a coworker but seeing her in that pitiful state before he had pitied her. Then when he saw her with her fiancé, his demon eyes let him see inside the building, he felt a snap a longing for the woman in black. He felt the longing for another kiss he wanted to lay her down but she would turn into a cat if he made full on contact.

Hatori was the first to show up to the scene to see the two kissing like that he knew that he would not be marrying Meyrin anymore. He had loved her but not as a lover, more as a family member. Sebastian slipped his arm around her waist and the other one diagonally across her body. She transformed into the beautiful calico cat he loved so much now. "Sebastian what did you do?" She asked seeing that he was cradling her as a cat. He smiled down on her as he turned to Hatori, "Hatori can you take care of Meyrin for a while? I need to get the master ready for the wedding." The man was surprised that he would do this to her after what he heard and saw just now. It's obvious that they love each other but why? Sebastian winked at Hatori and then bent in closer.

"I would love to see that girl in a beautiful white dress myself." Hatori was still in shock by this. "WH-why don't you just marry her yourself you both love each other?" he asked him but Sebastian just shook his head. "It's not time for that, I have a plan in mind but you'll have to wait until the wedding to see what it is. He put a finger to the cat's whiskers and brushed them gently. It's maroon, sandy, grey and brown fur soft to the touch. Sebastian left before he was too enticed by the cat.

Sebastian got into the small car and drove to the steps of the church where the young master was waiting for him. He had told the young master about Meyrin being a cat but now he saw the true form it could take on would he let Meyrin come back to the manor to live? They got into the car they were arguing about something. "Did you enjoy the funeral sir?" he asked simply as Ciel slid in next to him, they would have to get a bigger car if the young master does let Meyrin come back with them.

"You could have done a better job, the man Meyrin is going to marry figured out it was a faked death. He wasn't sure how you did it but he was impressed. Sebastian we need to step it up in order to get Meyrin back she can't live here anymore she needs to come back. Do you understand I order you to marry her!" Ciel said forcefully, Sebastian's heart raced just thinking about that. He had finally admitted it to himself that he had fallen for the maroon haired girl and he had admitted it to her as well. However, thinking about seeing Meyrin in a wedding dress almost made him blush but he concentrated on driving.

"Yes my lord." He said

"I'm just saying that Meyrin would be better off with Sebastian than with any of those other people. The way that man treated her and they barely did anything about it, it's just horrible." Finny was saying and before they knew it they were back at the hotel.