A Cagebird out in the Big Wide World

Chapter 1

"I leave you two with your duties while the young master and I are in the mission and what happens? An expensive set of dishes is shattered and the kitchen is almost burned down. How do you explain this?" Sebastian asked composedly, a cold undertone hinting that he was rather angry.

The manor's chef Baldroy and the maid Mey-Rin glanced at each others awkwardly. The manor's steward, Tanaka, stood next to them, drinking his tea with his usual carefree smile.

"I-I w-was polishing silverwares when I noticed that was running out of the polish, so I went to get more. But when I returned back into the kitchen, I stumbled and when I fell I accidentally grabbed the tablecloth and then the set of dishes on the table fell on the floor and shattered! I'm so sorry, Mr. Sebastian!" Mey-Rin cried.

Sebastian turned to face the chef. "Baldroy. The burned kitchen... Did the situation include a flamethrower?" he asked with expressionless face.

"Yeah..." Baldroy admitted as he ignited his cigarette. "I tried to make my flamethrower little bit better and I wanted to see how much firepower I had been able to add it, so I tried it with the meat in the kitchen."

"Of course," Sebastian sighed. Finally the dark butler informed: "Clean your mess. Then you must meet our temporary guest."

Baldroy and Mey-Rin exchanged surprised glances. Tanaka gave a confused "ho ho ho".

"What a hell?" Baldroy said quietly after he, Mey-Rin and Tanaka had finished cleaning and were now greeting "the guest".

In front of them stood a boy.

The boy was young, maybe 14 or 15 years old. He had shaved head and big, turquoise eyes and he was wearing something that looked like a hospital gown. But his eyes and face were expressionless.

"Baldroy, Mey-Rin and Tanaka. This is our guest," Sebastian told them. "He'll stay with us until further notice. Treat him well."

Mey-Rin approached the boy. "Welcome in the Phantomhive... umm... What's your name?" she asked from the boy.

The boy said nothing, he just stared at her with expressionless eyes. This annoyed Baldroy a little bit.

"Hey! Hadn't anybody teach manners to you? She asked your name," the chef told sternly.

The boy still said nothing, he just turned his eyes towards Baldroy. This was really creepy in the chef's opinion.

"You better get used to this," Sebastian said suddenly, "because you are going to share your room with him, Baldroy."

"What?" Baldroy exclaimed, almost dropping his cigarette.

Sebastian picked his pocket watch and checked the time. "I must now prepare an evening tea for the young master. Tanaka, would you give a tour for our guest?" Sebastian asked from his predecessor.

Tanaka had meanwhile changed from his mini size into his normal size. "With pleasure. Please this way, young man," Tanaka said with friendly smile.

When the boy followed Tanaka out of the room, Baldroy and Mey-Rin noticed a taattoo, S-012, in the boy's neck. Before neither of them get a chance to ask about the taattoo, Tanaka and the boy had already left.

"What was that taattoo?" Baldroy asked from Sebastian.

"Don't worry about it," the butler answered calmly.

"Oh! He didn't tell his name!" Mey-Rin remembered suddenly.

"I doubt he has one," Sebastian stated.

Baldroy and Mey-Rin stared at Sebastian in shock.

"Uuumm… What do we call him then?" Baldroy asked.

"Just call him by some decent name," Sebastian told calmly before shooed the chef and the maid back to their works.

Baldroy was finally ready with his works and now he was going to his bedroom. He was also thinking about his talk with Sebastian just a moment ago...

[flashback]

"Baldroy. Because you'll share your room with our guest, there is something you should know about the boy," Sebastian said after he returned with the cart into the kitchen.

Baldroy removed his cigarette from his mouth and turned to face the butler. "Spit it out."

"Our guest isn't ordinary. Don't ask anything about his taattoo," Sebastian advised. "Remember also not to make sudden movements. The boy may mistake your intentions and think you as a threat. Do you want to know what happened to people who were going to kill him?"

"What?"

"He killed everybody who were in the same building with him and the man. Everybody." Sebastian told calmly as he unloaded the cart.

Baldroy stared Sebastian with open mouth until he finally got back his ability to speak. "Did I understand correctly? The boy is cold-blooded killer and you put me in the same room with him?"

"No, no," Sebastian waved his hand. "I think he'll kill only if he feels himself threatened. So don't do anything what will scare him or we must hire a new chef... Althought that wouldn't be a big loss."

[flashback end]

"Well, I think I can just hope the best... and prepare for the worst," Baldroy sighed before he opened the door of his bedroom. Just when he stepped in the room, Baldroy stopped abruptly when he saw the boy sitting on the another bed. There was silence in the room when they stared each others. Finally Baldroy opened his mouth. "Yo."

The boy stared him, expressionlessly and silently.

"Umm... Did you like the tour?" Baldroy asked little uneasily.

The boy said still nothing.

Baldroy sighed. The boy definitely didn't want to talk so the chef decided to leave the boy alone. Baldroy walked to his chest of drawers, picked his night clothes and changed his clothes. Then he went to his bed and said: "Good night."

He wasn't surprised when the boy didn't answer. Baldroy closed his eyes and tried to fall asleep. Time passed and he was finally sleeping when...

queak queak queak queak

"What a hell?" Baldroy wondered drowsily.

queak queak queak queak

"What's that sound?" the chef thought to himself with knitted brows.

queak queak queak

Baldroy sat up and looked around.

queak queak queak

Very quickly Baldroy turned to way he heard the sound and he was surprised when he discovered the sound's source: the boy was jumping on the bed.

"Boy! What do you think you are doing?" Baldroy asked, annoyed that his sleep was disrupted.

The boy turned to face him. "Funny sound…" the boy told quietly.

Baldroy sighed annoyedly, although he was quite surprised that the boy had already said his first words during his time here. "Why must you now jump on the bed? Didn't you jump enought when you were a kid?"

The boy stared at him and just then Baldroy saw something in the boy's eyes that he had seen before in the eyes of the men on the battlefield: fear. Baldroy quickly thought something before the situation would turn unexpected. Finally he said with as soothing voice as possible: "Hey, boy. It's almost 12 PM. People are sleeping now. Go under your blanket and try to sleep. Okay?"

The boy obeyed timidly and curled under the blanket.

"Okay. Good night," Baldroy said, relieved that the situation was solved without blood, and pulled his blanket over himself.

To his surprise, he heard very quiet voice saying: "Good night…"

To be continue...

Okay. This is my first Kuroshitsuji – fanfiction, so characters may be little bit out of character. So what you think about? Should I continue this or just delete this? Review your opinions, please.