Sup! Hideki here! End of half term… Back to school. But! Exams and all of that's over! We might not be doing fanfiction club in school anymore… So people like KillerBreifcase and I will have to keep things up now! Somebody had given me spoilers T^T so I have to read that part but I might have to put some things here but I'll try not to give spoilers. I am not going to put Soma in here. Yeah yeah, go cry in a corner Soma-sama fans, but I fear that if I write him here…I'll offend a lot of people, so sorry Soma-sama fans.
Ciel's POV
"What do you mean he quit!?" That complete it, his clothes, his hair, his glasses and now his face was red. Grell literally grabbed onto the label of Viridan's green blazer and was screaming and raging. "He was one of the main parts and he quit?!"
"Calm down Mr. Sutcliff," Derick approached Grell. "Like, we can find a replacement in time right?" Grell looked at him while still holding onto Viridian like a rag doll. "And, I think you're making Viridian uncomfortable," he muttered. She was still being held onto. Then. She gave me the look.
"Ciel!" She scrambled away from Grell and, literally charged past Derick and some other students and at me. "Help us! You need to fill in!"
"What?" No way was this girl serious. Me? Being in a play? Seriously? I mean, I played Hamlet before but… "Why me?" Hopefully she didn't know about that.
"I know you were in a play before!" Damn it… "You were in Hamlet!" She let go of me. "Besides," she whispered. "Remember, the play is about Kuroshitsuji, you're the main character you'd be playing yourself basically! You're perfect to play the part of yourself," she pulled away. "So then… Are you in?"
"I decline." The whole of the drama club looked at me like I was the worst thing that God had ever put on this earth.
"What?" Viridian's eyes seemed to darken. I'm surprised that she's not a demon. "You what?"
"I…" Now I know that Viridian wrote the play herself, and she was in it as well… Surely it didn't mean that much to her…right? Um… "I…"
"Come on now," she said as Grell and the others watched as Sebastian came into the room. "Spit it out Ciel…" The way her hair created a shadow over her actually made me scared. I was not going to admit it
"Ciel," great, now Sebastian was on my case. "Please do this for the students, they've worked so hard on this play… You wouldn't want your peers to hate you, would you now?" His dastardly smile… I was going to get him for that. "Especially Viridian, who wrote the play by herself," he raised an eyebrow.
"He's riiiiiiggght!~"Undertaker's voice just chimed through my head… Wait, he was staring through one of the windows and looking down into the hall.
"F-fine…" I had to admit defeat sometimes. "I'll play the part." All I heard was clapping, cheering and screaming. Then Viridian tackled me with a hug in front of everyone. "Air… V… Need… Air…" Viridian laughed and let go off me.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank y"- I covered her mouth with the script she was holding. "Okamph… Hess yomph scompt…" Okay here's your script. I was guessing. I took the script off of her mouth and scanned through the pages. "So Ciel is playing Ciel! Isn't that great!"
"Oh… So it's like that isn't it?" I whispered to her.
"Okay everyone!" Grell clapped his hands and stood up. "Everyone in positions, we're going to fill Ciel in with what we have so far, you can use your scripts as well," people scattered to and fro, getting to their pages. "Ciel, backstage now." I followed Derick backstage and sat down on the back steps.
The stage was set up so there was an upper stage and a lowers stage connected by a five steps of stairs. On the sides, behind covers were a set of stairs, I was sat down on the stairs next to Derick as Viridian, as her character Cocona, and another guy as his character, Seylon, a demon butler like Sebastian.
The stage was completely dark as Nigram Clavem was played. I could just about see people in black robes and white masks standing aound an altar where Viridian, or rather, Cocona was.
"Today we present Black Butler: Lost In The Shadows," the narrator announced, one of the black robed. "Thank you very much for coming. We have a few requests to make of the audience. We ask that you try not to talk to those around you as the sound will carry through the hall. Now, the show is about to start. Please take your seats immediately. Any human not seated at the start of the show will be reaped without mercy... Honestly," with that the robed returned to the side of the altar along with the rest.
Time passed quickly and it was time for me to go on. I walked onto stage with my Sebastian as another girl, a servant named Lorelai came on to offer drinks to those who weren't dancing in this scene. Since this was a masquerade ball, everyone was wearing masks.
"Young Master," Sebastian said. It was weird for someone else to say it to me, I had to admit. "Are you sure about this? After all, it has only been three years since your disappearance."
"I grew tiresome of staying in 'that' place," I answered. "Is your master not allowed to do as he pleases?" I felt so awkward. Since this was my first time, I was the only one using a script apart from a few others. We couldn't do any fight scenes as well which the others had hated.
"I apologise my lord."
"Besides, this is the home of the girl who has replace me. I would like to see if she is fit for the job. After all, what were to happen if the queen's guard dog was not up to scratch. What is her story then?" Did I really talk like this? I guess I'd have to watch an episode of my show or read my manga to find out. Sebastian read out a fact file about Cocona and then looked at me.
"That is it," since we were in our uniforms with just a few differences like coats instead of blazers etc, it felt so awkward. "Such familiaralities the two of you share."
"Indeed, common as to his..." Lorelai approached us.
"Would you like something to drink?" She held a platter with empty glasses. Since it was rehearsal, it didn't really matter did it?
I shook my head. "Odd pair they are, she muttered.
"Did you smell that?" I said, looking at Seylon who was on the lower stage sorting out tables. "Something is not right. It's just..."
"I sense it too," Sebastian said. "It seems there is someone else of our kind about here."
"What about the servant who just came by?"
"Probably mortal... But there is also another scent. You may not be able to pick it up but.." He sniffed at the air and looked at Viri- Cocona.
"Alright everyone," Sebastian clapped his hands in the middle of one scene. "That's enough for today. Next week and the week after we have rehearsal everyday until the day of the performance where we'll have a full day to rehearse. We have two hours of rehearsal then we perform for the students then we have a bit more time to rehearse some more, after school we'll also have to perform for the parents as well."
"Thank you everyone for working so well!" Grell piped. "You've all worked so hard!" He turned to me. "Can we also thank Ciel as well? He saved our play when he stepped in!" He started clapping along with everyone. It just felt too awkward for me.
When the applause had died down, I went home with Viridian on the bus again. Apparently, according to Sebastian, rather than staying at a hotel like we were for a while, he had found a flat in Viridian's block where we could stay.
"I'm sorry I pressured you back there," Viridian faced me with her back to window as the bus came to a stop, about one more till we had to get off. "I was just..."
"It's fine," I waved it off. "I know how important it was to you and everyone," I hated admitting this. It made me feel uncomfortable for some reason."So..." I said. "Who else do you think'll come over?"
"Hm?" She looked up again. "Oh, yeah... Um... I'm not sure. It's been a week and nobody else has come over. I'm not sure if anyone else'll come." I pondered over the thought. "This is our stop." She picked up her bag then went to the lower deck of the bus to get outside, with me following.
"Hey," Viridian said. "You need help to settle in and stuff?" The question brought a surprise to me as Viridian was about to open the door to her house, mine being right next to hers.
"Okay then," I shrugged my shoulders and opened my door as she came to where I was standing.
The house had almost the same structure as Viridian's, just if you put a line between the two, they'd be symmetrical. Her kitchen was on the left mine was on the right etc. The walls were a pale cream colour and the floors were tiled with a wood like pattern. When we went to examine the rest of the place, it was totally clean, no cobwebs. The living room was cosy, two sofas, a table, cupboards and shelves and a TV. The bathroom was clean and smelled fresh, a sink and a bath with a toilet in the room next to it. There were two bedrooms, one for me and one for Sebastian so it wasn't too terribly small. I was used to my huge mansion, but even if this was miniature in size, I still felt it was comfortable.
"It's quite a nice place you got here," Viridian said. "It's just I needs something..." She trailed off. "You know how my house is like... Me. You're house needs to be like you."
"That made no sense what so ever," I told her. "The only thing I really thought about was clothes, the only thing I have are things that were from my era." She laughed.
"It looks cute on you though, you can just go running about in little Victorian outfits!" She laughed. I scowled but then the expression melted.
"Cute?"
"Ah!" Her eyes widened. "I-I didn't. Mean. Like...It suits you!" She hid her discomfort with a laugh... She was weird. "I was just joking about the Victorian outfits actually," she regained her composure. "If you go out like that at a time where people aren't cosplaying, people are going to think you're weirder than actual cosplayers."
"Ugh... I have to go shopping then..." I hated shopping. But I just did it because Sebastian said I had to. But since Viridian was a girl I was guessing that she'd love to-
"I do too," wait what? Forgive me if I'm wrong, but don't girls usually love shopping? "Hey!" She frowned at me. It took me a while to realise that I didn't say that in my head, but rather out loud. "Don't go stereotyping me. I'm not like them make up plastic bags," she folded her arms. There was a pause. "Sorry. If you hate shopping that much, we can go now if you have money."
"I don't know what this is but Sebastian gave me this," I pulled out a silver card, "said the code was 1888." She looked at me like I was an idiot.
"This is called a credit card. It has money on it. You just need to type in your pin then you can pay. The only problem is how much money's on here... And it's Barclays."
"What's the problem with Barclays?" Did she hate a bank?
"Oh nothing, it's just that there's a Barclays near here so we can check."
"Don't tell me we're..."
"Yeah, let's go now."
"But I'm in my uniform!"
"Just..." She looked at me. "Loosen the tie, remove the sweater, untuck the shirt... Look in the mirror." I went to the mirror... Woah. It actually looked alright. It was smart yet casual, luckily the school crest wasn't on my blazer so I wouldn't really be mocking the school.
"Thanks. What about you?"
"I'm gonna grab my jumper, be right back," before I could say anything, she ran out of the house.
When she came back, her hair was let down and she was wearing a black jumper and black boots. We went to the bank to check how much money I had... And there was a lot. That was like all the money I had in my era but since the times had changed, it was even more!
"You're lucky you're rich you know," she said. "If you're that rich why don't you and Sebastian get a better house?" The question caught me off guard as we walked towards Tottenham Court Road.
"Well... It's easier to get to school for one thing..." I was trying to think of some other things. "It's really central and... I get to stay close to you."
"What?" Viridian blushed a bright red colour, me following soon after.
"I mean like," God, what to say. "We can tell each other something quickly if something comes up about why I'm here."
"Oh okay," she sighed with relief for some reason but then her expression changed. "Anyway, normally I wouldn't like this but... There's a shop called Primark. It's cheap but they have a lot of things there." I could literally see a look of dread washing over her face.
"We don't have to go there if you don't want."
"The other shops are longer to walk to."
"I can do that," she smiled at my response.
We both knew we didn't like shopping, but together it seemed so much better. It wasn't boring, it wasn't tiring. In fact we bought a lot of stuff... Was it normal for a guy like me to buy that much stuff? Hey I'm from the Victorian era, who cares? I'm going back there any time soon... I didn't know when though. I had spent like only a couple of weeks here though... Viridian was so nice to me and she treated me like a best friend or brother. I didn't know how she'd feel if I left.
We got back home after an hour but we talked in front of our houses first.
"Thanks for helping me Viri," I said. She looked at me with a puzzled look on her face. "What's wrong?"
"You're smiling... Happily," she started to laugh. "And you said," she put her hand up. "To smile happily... I've forgotten," she just mimicked me!
"Hey! Don't go laughing at and or imitating me!" She just ended up laughing even more.
"Hey but you're cute when you smile," she poked my face. "Don't forget that." That was the second time she had called me cute today. What was wrong with her? Wait, what was wrong with me? I had called her Viri? I sighed and went inside carrying all of the things that I had bought.
When I had fixed everything, I changed into my blue pyjamas and went to sleep. Well... I couldn't sleep really. It had been only a couple of weeks that I had been with those people at school. At first, I thought that they were pawns at my disposal, like stepping stones that I could use to get back home, but now... They were, dare I say, friends. There were random class moments. Sebastian wouldn't let our class watch Les Mis so we barricaded the door and screamed "VIVE LA REVOLUCIÓN" when he tried to get in. Random moments in class where Viridian would wait for me to look at her then she'd I've me a big wink like "HEY BABE." She was an idiot but she was a great person to be around. Yeah, they were all idiots but they were good people. There was something in that play that stood out to me. The actors... How all of the students put passion into all that they did... I didn't think I could be one of them.
I had a rough week, first comic con was ruined… (Screw that oh wait you're still here) Anyway, like I promised, I'll continue my other story so this is going to be updated every two weeks. So this then that then this then… I'm boring you aren't I? The next thing I post on this story won't be a proper chapter that affects the story line. I'm just going to give a bit of information on Viridian.