To Cage a Wild Bird
Somehow, a prisoner, a demon, had escape from the angels. Starving and weakened from her prison of a hundred years, she still managed to kill a few to make her escape to the living plane.
She went into hiding to recover her wounds but she was discovered by a twisted little boy and his demonic, smiling butler. Forced to work for him or in case her life be lost to the butler's hands, as she was too weak to defeat him, she must live with their oddities.
Pairing: Sebastian/Kagome/Ciel (Major, late), Oc/Kagome (Slight)
Note: This takes place sometime after 'Jack the Ripper' chapter/episode
Warnings: References to Christianity (possibly be wrong), violence, bad languages, and other twisted actions involved. Also contained possible OOCness of the characters and do contain few original characters of my own
Oneshot!
"She escaped! Capture her, capture her at all costs!"
"D…damn y…ou…"
"Never had I seen such a pitiful sight. All of you are so pathetic."
"But my love…why won't you come to the light? To me?"
"You? I would much rather kiss the devil's ass than be with you. Oh, wait. I am one."
A smile quirked on her lips, "You should never try to tame a wild animal…Pity you do not know that."
"Oh? There's somebody in that alley, Sebastian." The young master of Phantomhive lightly commented out as he noticed a pale grey light glowed briefly in the narrow, dark path and heard a pair of large wings flapped weakly. A lone black feather gently floated out of that path. The butler smirked in an amusement as he realized what it was. "Heh. Would you like me to check it out, Master?"
They had been shopping for an hour and currently just wandering around, because the young noble boy had wanted to stay out of his manor just a little bit longer. He had been so busy; he hadn't a chance to get some fresh air lately, so he chose to take a break for once. However the sky had begun to change colors as the night was falling.
"…I am curious, so yes." The boy nodded to his butler and he placed down the bags of the things the boy had brought for his amusements. He then went to the alleyway and his smirk widened, "Why, it's only a lost girl." His red-strained cinnamon eyes looked on the crumbled, heaving body of slender female with chains everywhere on her body in a glee. He took a notice of blood pooling around her. Sebastian kneeled in front of her, still unable to see her face as it was bowed and her long, inky hair was in front of her face like a waterfall, pooling around onto her blood.
He reached out to her, only to get grabbed by the female's tiny hand in a rather bone-crunching tightness. Sebastian let out a heckling laughter, so low that his master couldn't hear it. "Leave me be." The female, her head still bowed, hissed out in a warning. He smirked, "Hm. We'll see…" His head turned to the noble boy, "Master, I believe she's rather harmless. What would you like me to do?" He called out to his young master.
The boy quirked an eyebrow, "Let me see." He walked behind the man, knowing that his things won't be stolen and if they are, his butler can always get them back anyway, and took a look at the still heaving female. "I can't see her face. Lift it up."
The butler attempted to lift her head after somehow weeding away his hand from her grip, but had gotten bitten by the two pairs of rather sharp canines, "Oh! Feisty, are you not?" Despite his new wounds on his finger, he managed to get it out and tried again and did it successfully. They looked on in a twisted interest as a pair of deep blue eyes glaring daggers to them, a drop of blood slowly seeped off from her angelic face. She's also unhealthy pale, looking quite a bit ill, but yet still looking so beautiful. She huffed for air, also seemly out of breath. She was clothed into a rather loose one piece leather, looking more like a bag than a dress, which was down to her knees, with many sorts of silver chains and locks wrapped around and hanging off from her.
Although she's wearing a baggy dress, the wrapping chains did help showed her slender curves. Her hair was matted and untamed, like it hadn't been taken care of in years, but still somehow looked very appealing.
She growled in warning to them, "Ah, ah, that's might not be a good idea, pretty girl." The tall male smiled down to her like she was but a stray dog as his hand took on a rather tight grip on her chin to keep her head up. "What do you want from me? Leave me be!" The wounded female snarled at them. Sebastian took off his eyes from her to look on his young master in question.
The boy pondered for few moments, "Say…Do we need any extra hands in my manor?" The butler hummed in amusement and answered him, "Well, I like to think we don't but I supposed an extra hand wouldn't hurt. Perhaps she could be a stable caretaker? Or a housekeeper while we're gone?"
Hearing him suggesting such a thing caused her to snarl angrily, one of her hands snapped back to impaled the male into his stomach, the only area she could reach right now and the other snapped the bones into the hand that held her jaws hostage. The crack rang loudly as Sebastian fell back onto the ground, almost hitting his master, a thin line of blood dribbled out of his lips, as she pulled back a now bloody claw that had stabbed into his abdomen. There was a small hole in it; his vest already grew darker where it was from the blood.
"Sebastian…!" The boy master glanced at the female who had attacked his butler, unsure whether if he needs to be angry at her for being aggressive, but find that she looked too much like an animal that had been backed into a corner as she had backed against a bricked wall. She tried to protect herself. That's all to it and he found that it would be too cruel to be mad at her.
She just felt threatened by their forward approach.
His butler got up on his knees, his hand on his healing stomach, and chuckled, "My, my, that was foolish of me. I do apologize for that, madam." He smiled, even as he still had a line of blood on his chin. The female growled low, her eyes afraid.
"Master, what would you like to do?" He looked back on his master in question without any sort of curiousity in his eyes. "…Take her with us anyway. Do what you have to do, Sebastian. I do agree with you for the fact that we need more hands around the manor." He ordered him as he walked back to his things that he had brought. His butler smiled as he stood up, his wound all but gone, blood no longer seen, even on his dark-colored vest, as he bowed to him, "Of course, Master Ciel." Even a hole that the female gave him was gone as well. Is he human?
Fortunately for them, the female was much too tired to fight anymore and barely even give out a peep when Sebastian had picked her up in the bridal style. He walked over to the pile of Ciel's things with her in his arms and seemly to be debating what to do with them if he can't carry them himself. Then he looked at the woman and shrugged. She barely even reacted when Sebastian had dumped couple of the bags onto her belly and forced her to hold a bag or two in her hand. Her other hand was trapped between her body and the male's own so it couldn't hold a bag without dropping it.
Sebastian got last of them in his hands since it wasn't that hard to do as the female was tiny. She had fallen to half-asleep on their way to the carriage, her hand still held on the bags. She didn't realize that the tall male had placed her on the couch inside the carriage or that he had weeded away the bags from her to put them in the back. She didn't realize that the boy master had been staring at her skeptically or with interest on the opposite seat from hers.
She slept the whole way to the manor of the Phantomhive.
"Master, should I let her to stay asleep? And to bring her to a servant's room?" The female heard that tall male's voice after hearing the horses' hooves stopped abruptly and a door snapped open. She felt some movement in the carriage and guessed that the boy must have stepped off. The young boy's, "Yes, she'll need it for tomorrow. Introduce her in the morning then make her work. Perhaps she'll do better than the other threes. If she is, put her as a housekeeper but until then, she'll be the stable caretaker." He paused for a moment before continuing on, "If she's unsure of what to do, help her at least. If she's rebelling, restrain her in however way you can, if you're unable to, kill her."
"Yes, milord, I understood."
"…What happened to her? Do you know? I means she is one of your…kind, am I not right?"
"I do not know, Master Ciel, but I can find out. Yes, I believe so, but I don't know how…skilled she is. I supposed we can find out sooner or later."
"Hm. It should prove interesting."
"Yes, milord."
Then everything went silence and the sleep took her for the night, the shadow healing her wounds and somewhat satisfying her hunger for a time. She dimly realized that there was something different about her shadow and assumed the tall male in black must had been helping her in some way, just to get her to be ready for tomorrow.
Just who was he?
The woman woke up in the early morning, just as the sun was beginning to appear, and found herself in a comfy bed. Something she hadn't touched since she had been in prison and she appreciated that. She got up and again found herself without these annoyingly heavy chains and was happy to be able to no longer to carry these burdens. She looked around in the room and saw that it was a fairly small white room with a good-sized window.
She spotted a simple vanity mirror against a wall, not faced directly to her but rather to a door on the opposite wall. There was a small, simple dresser against the wall, faced to her bed. She noticed that there were folded clothes on top of it. She assumed that she was supposed to wear it for today. The female got off the bed, pushing off her blanket as doing so; her small feet touched the hardwood floor and padded toward to the vanity.
She frowned when she saw herself into the mirror. Her hair was a cloud of blackness, untamed for years and spotted a hairbrush. She sighed as she seated herself and ready to challenge her damnable hair. A half hour later, her hair was back into the straight, luscious black waterfall she recognized, her bang framing her face. She got up and changed into the clothes from on the dresser. She blinked when she realized it wasn't a maid outfit but since she was going to work as a stable caretaker, being a maid wasn't very suited for that type of the job.
The female patted down her button-up white shirt, almost seemed too large for her form, and tucked it in her blackish-brown slack. She plucked a black leather belt and looped it around her waist, through the loops of her slack, to hold it up. The female blinked, spotting the socks and the black working boots on the floor next to the dresser and sighed, she put them on as well.
"Meh." She took a look in a mirror and realized that she seemed too much out of the place being in this outfit but somewhat fitting for her. She was a bit taller than she remembered but shrugged it off. She glanced at a clock sitting on her bedside and realized that she was up, she guessed, little too early so she wasn't sure whether if she should wait for that man to come by or just to wander around the manor.
Speak of the devil, there was a knock on the door and she went up to open it, only to realize that it was the same man from yesterday. She quickly looked down, hoping that the man won't hold a grudge of what she did to him, already seeing him as her superior, even for a short period of time. She would mind about that, if she wasn't so weak from her starvation but now, she just wanted to live.
The man in black quirked out a sarcastic smile, seemly already read her mind, "Don't dread too much on that, missus. Past is past, after all…Now, since you woke up earlier than everyone here, I supposed I could give you a tour around here." He seemed to appreciate that she had woke up early but she wasn't so sure.
He gestured her to follow him around the manor so she made sure that the door was shut and did as he asked her to. He pointed out that the hallway they're in are the servant's hallway and mentioned the fact that the room she was in are now her room. He pointed out what room is what or whom they belonged to. So far he only mentioned four names of the servants of this mansion and she guessed that she's now the newest servant of this manor.
He said quite a few insults of three servants in particular and mentioned the fact that he hope she wouldn't cause him any problems as well.
Suddenly, he stopped in the middle of the hallway, nearly causing her to crash into him. "…?"
"I had forgotten to introduce myself, haven't I?" Seeing her shook her head in a negative, he kept on, "They called me Sebastian. I'm the butler of Phantomhive. Yours, missus? Or shall I name you instead?"
She got a feeling that the name he had is probably wasn't his real name but kept it quiet anyway. She replied his question, "…My name is…Kagome. That is my original name, to be honest."
He seemed surprised of hearing her real name but quickly composed himself and smiled, "Kagome? Hm, that is a good name. Good to meet you, missus." He bowed to her, in which she returned the same gesture. "Same here as well, Mr. Sebastian."
"Ah. Let us keep on going on our tour, hm?" He smiled again before he turned around and resuming the tour.
After they finished the tour, it was about the time that all of the servants woke up and Sebastian told her to wait in the kitchen and to keep an eye on the cooking breakfast on the stove for everyone. Before he left, he had asked if she wanted some breakfast as well, unsure if she would eat them or not. She nodded; she was so hungry that she would eat anything, even if it would only satisfy her a tiny bit. The 'human' food wasn't exactly good for her lacking diets but it would do to keep her hunger at bay.
She sat down on a stroll, eyeing the morning meals to make sure that they won't burn. Few moments passed and Kagome heard few surprised voices and a stampede coming to the kitchen. She turned her head to the door and blinked, feeling very nervous. It was so sudden. A door burst opened, nearly giving the female a heart attack and there revealed a young red-haired maid with very thick glasses, a young boy-like male with short blond hair and a pair of green eyes whom looked like a gardener of some sort, and a tall male with dirty blond hair and stubbles of a beard and a pair of brown eyes with a burning cigarette dangling off from his lips. He looked like a chef.
Kagome absentmindedly took a note that it was the gardener boy who had opened the door and he had contained a power strong enough to damage the wall when the door hit it.
She realized her personal space was being invaded and had to bend backward to breathe her own air when the three faces were zoomed too close to her own, "Gah?" She wanted to kill them for assaulting her personal space so badly but held it in check, knowing that Sebastian would not appreciate the blood on the floor. "So you're the newest servant here? Kagome, right?" The gardener boy asked boldly, his face the closest to hers.
She could barely nod, "Yes. Mr. Sebastian was the one who had hired me, sir."
She again took note that the girl seemed a bit jealous and the chef man seemed interested and curious. Kagome had almost fallen off from her stroll with them being too close. "You three, at least be some decent and allow her have some space!" Sebastian's voice cut through the awkward silence like butter and the trios 'epped!' and backed off.
Kagome soon move forward in her seat in a normal position and sighed. She blinked when she noticed there was a laughing chibified old man sitting on a floor on the mat, sipping a tea behind Sebastian. "…"
Sebastian coughed, "I do apologize for their behaviors. They were so surprised to hear that we're getting another hired help and I couldn't discipline them in time…Anyway…Introduce yourselves!" He ordered the three servants and they yelped and obeyed him, the chef man was the first one to establish himself, "Hey, I'm Bardory, you can call me Bard and I'm a chef here. Nice to meet you, miss." He gave her a smile, a wink, and a thumb up. Kagome got a feeling that he's just a good-natured fellow.
The gardener boy was next and was very happy to tell her who he was, "I'm Finnian, I don't mind if you call me Finny! And I'm a gardener of Phantomhive. It's very nice to meet you, Ms. Kagome." He seemed like a very hyper-happy boy and he reminded her of a certain boy she knew and loved. She nodded to him and gave him a small, modest smile. He seemed embarrassed and had a blush on his face as he was rubbing his head. He went from a perky young male to a shy boy in a second flat when he saw the female smiling at him.
The maid girl was next and she was somewhat cold yet clumsy at the same time, "I'm Meirin. I'm a maid of this house." Sebastian seemed to be a slightly annoyed about her introduction but he noticed that Kagome just took it in the stride so he decided he won't punish her this time around.
Kagome looked at the old man, curious, and Sebastian blinked before realizing that he had forgotten to introduce him, "Oh, this is Tanaka, he's the steward." Sebastian told her and Kagome nodded in understanding. "It's nice to meet you all. I'm Kagome and I'll be working as a…" She looked at the butler before continuing, annoyance flashed through her azure eyes, "-stable caretaker for the Phantomhive manor. I hope I'll do a good job." She spoke quietly before she bowed to them.
Finny couldn't help himself, "So you'll be taking care of horses? I'll guide you to there if Mr. Sebastian is okay with it!"
The butler nodded in agreement but told him to wait a little bit longer because they're weren't exactly done yet. Finny smiled and was happy to wait, saying that he'll be outside in the back garden when she's ready. He then sat next to her and the other two sat the other side of the table. Sebastian had finished cooking the morning meals and served them to the servants. The breakfast wasn't as grand as the master's but it sure was tasty, Finny told Kagome as he kept on chatting about himself and the others all the while munching on his breakfast.
She found out that Bard had always carried a hidden flamethrower and that Finny still doesn't know how he could actually hide such a huge item under his clothes so well. Bard barked out a laugh at his confusion and told him that it was a secret and he's not going to tell anybody about it. Kagome realized that Meirin was actually pretty good with the card games and got really good eyesight for farther away but not so good if things are too close to her face, that's when she usually messed up from what Finny said. Meirin blushed, seemly already warming up to the taller female, protesting a little that she doesn't messed up that badly.
Then she learned from them that Finny was really strong and tended to break a tree (Really, a tree? She thought, surprised) in half sometime once a week because he doesn't know how to contain his strength. Finny had cried out that it wasn't true, it was actually once a month! But both Bard and Meirin shook their heads in disagreement and decided to change the subject.
They had been eating their breakfast, Finny the quickest and Kagome the slowest. The gardener boy finished first and placed the plate into the sink, it took a minute for Kagome to realize that Sebastian the butler and the old man Tanaka had disappeared, probably tending to the master. It also took a moment for her to realize that she had been rather quiet around the trio because they looked at her a bit funny after Finny asked a question.
"Oh, I'm sorry; I was just getting being used to being here. Can you repeat that question again, please?" Kagome looked at Finny, apologizing as she took a small bite to eat. "Well, you had to know that we're the servants of the Phantomhive…So what can you do to protect the master?" He sounded so serious for a young hyper-happy male. She noticed the other two seemed serious as well, their eyes watching her sternly. Kagome frowned, realizing that there was a purpose under that question.
They were the bodyguards of the Phantomhive Manor.
Finny, the gardener, is the superhuman of the sort and he's the powerhouse of the manor, who wields a terrify strength to crush a human's body into the dust.
Bard, the chef, is the former soldier and is the tactician of the manor, should all else fails, they both turn to him.
Meirin, the maid, is the sniper assassin of the manor and could kill a man few miles away.
Sebastian, the butler, is the demon who can kill a thousand men in one go. He's the demon of the manor, although Kagome highly doubt the servants knew about that.
Tanaka, the old man steward…well, she doesn't know what he can do really, but something told her he's the last resort of the manor for the master.
And now her…
She took a brief moment to think before giving them the answer, "To be honest, I'm a jack-of-all-trades…I can do anything what the master want me to do…" She admitted, refusing to brag more about herself, especially when she had gotten very rusty over a century and need more training to catch up. So she left it very vague. Thankfully though, they understood. "Ah." Finny grinned, "That's awesome! I would love to see it myself soon! Whatever you can do."
Kagome detected a bit of skeptic from Bard and she looked at him, "…Heh." Bard blinked before grinning when he saw her looking at him, knowing of him being cynical. Meirin looked at her now with a bit of admiration in her glasses. Kagome still couldn't see her eyes but oh, well.
They all finished their breakfast and placed all of the plates into sink. Kagome felt a little sick in her stomach but somewhat better, knowing she will need to find another source of her meal to get slightly better until the butler will allow her to eat souls again.
She knew he wouldn't let her, even if she's starving to near death, because she can feel it in her bones. He didn't want her to have enough energy to fight back against him, until he's finished with whatever he's here for.
Kagome, personally, didn't like digesting human souls, seeing them as living entities, but she didn't have a choice. She became what she is now because she had to.
Finny bolted to the outside, to the garden, telling her that he'll wait for her. Bard remained into the kitchen, washing plates, and Meirin had left somewhere, presumably to dust something. Kagome wasn't so sure what to do so she remained into the kitchen with Bard.
A minute passed and she felt a shadow jolted her and realized that she was supposed to meet the master of the manor. She left with Bard's looking questioningly at her retreating back. He too thought that the butler was supposed to get her but shrugged it off as he was raising the plates out of the water.
She's really a mystery, all right.
Kagome found her way toward the master's study room without a help of the shadow, choosing to use her senses instead. Her senses had dulled an awful lot so she thought it would be a best time to start using them again. She stopped in front of a door and knocked swiftly against it. "Come in." She heard the young boy's voice echoed out and opened the door and entered the room.
She shut the door, figuring it would be best to keep the privacy in. Kagome looked up and saw the same boy from yesterday, relaxing into his plush chair, his eyes, almost the same color as her own, watched the newest servant closely. Kagome realized he no longer had that eye-patch on and that his right eye had a glowing lilac-colored pentagram on it.
That boy…he made a deal with the devil.
No wonder why that butler was here. He must be after that child's soul all along. Really, overly-selective much?
She stood quietly, refusing to speak until the master asked her to, her back straight. The child then seemed pleased with the female's body language before changing his expression into something like serious, "What's your name and why are you here?" Here, he meant on the human plane, not inside of his manor.
Kagome was taken back but knowing that the demon butler of his could kill her if she didn't say anything and answered, "You are welcome to call me Kagome and I…escaped and ended up here." She struggled to explain without revealing too much in which she does preferred to keep quiet.
Once again, he seemed slightly satisfied with her answer, although the butler, seemed to her, was very interested into finding her out. "Alright, Ka-go-me." The boy master struggled with the pronunciation of her slightly foreign name a bit, "You are…one of him, yes?" He pointed rudely to Sebastian, which seemed to have blanched a bit with his master's insolence.
Kagome merely nodded but to be honest, she wasn't so sure what sort she was and doesn't really care about it anyway. "Ah…Oh, yes, I should introduce myself, should I not?" The boy master set his elbows onto his desk with the hands clasped together and placed it under his chin, "I'm Ciel of the Phantomhive and I do hope you'll do well in this manor, Kagome."
Already, her name rolled off his tongue a little too easily, even after his brief struggle to pronounce it right. Kagome felt a little disturbed with how quickly he can learn. She bowed, "I do hope so as well, milord." Sebastian smiled at how quickly and easy it was to get her…loyalty, albeit unwillingly. He knew she was too much weak to fight him and didn't want to get killed already. But something told him he would need to find a way to get it for real when she is almost at her prime, however slowly that would be.
A sharp gleam appeared in his dark cinnamon eyes and vanished as quickly as it had come. He couldn't wait to enforce his dominion over her by then! Sebastian could just taste the power she would wield when she's fully recovered.
The female glanced up to the smiling butler before looking away, waiting to be dismissed by Ciel. The boy master stared at her before sighing and let her go, telling her that if he have a need of her, he'll send Sebastian to get her. She bowed again and left. Ciel unclasped his hands and backed against his seat, eyeing the taller male warily. He can always tell when his butler was up to something and most of the time usually spells disaster to a poor individual. He hadn't quite forgiven him of instilling an idea of his deceased aunt an idea of 'let's-make-Ciel-dress-like-a-girl!' incident.
He just hoped that it wouldn't be him this time.
Kagome met up with Finny outside, just as he was feting over a plant he had accidently killed. She scratched her cheek, unsure of what to do when she noticed Finny was in near tears. "Finnian…" Kagome sighed, spotting a potted plant nearby and looked around. It seemed to do well with the rest of the vegetation life so she decided to use that as a replacement, sensing that nobody will miss it.
"Why won't you use that one instead?" Kagome heaved it over to where Finny was crouching, getting his attention. "Hm? …Ah, that's perfect! I'm sure nobody will mind if I use that!" He perked up. Kagome nodded, crouching next to him, "Why don't I help you this time, kay?" Finny seemed to be hesitated but was willingly to have her help him. Kagome pulled the plant out, with the roots and all, out of the orange pot after Finny got rid of the dead plant and dug a decent-sized hole for its replacement.
Kagome carefully placed the plant into it and Finny closed the hole around the green plant. Finny set back on the ground, admiring it before grinning happily. "Well, whadda know! It'll do just perfectly! Thanks, Kagome!" He had a pink strain on his face as he was rubbing his head sheepishly. Kagome smiled modestly at him.
Then Finny perked up, "Ah, that's right. I'm supposed to lead you to the stable, right?"
She nodded. They stood up from the dirt, dusting themselves up, then went to the area with horses and few of various carriages, with Finny pulling Kagome along. From behind him, Kagome wrinkled her nose at the smell and sighing quietly, 'I always get the worst jobs. Oh, well. Nothing I can do, I guess.' She had nothing against the horses, really. They're one of most majestic beasts she had ever known, it's just that they're not one of the cleanest animals to take care of. Plus it wasn't that bad.
All she had to do was clean the stable often enough, grooms the beasts, exercise them, feed them and give them water. Just giving them their basic needs, really. Kagome do have common senses, after all, even if it were pretty left unused until after her escape.
Finny ushered her into the small barn when it finally came in view and told her of what she was supposed to do, which were what she already knew from right off. Then he happily told her the name of each horse, because all of them were trained for different purposes.
Such as racehorses (because Ciel does bet on horse racing, although he doesn't really like it. It was just a thing that most, if not all, nobles do to up show the others and Ciel does not like to be beaten or be called a coward.), carriage-pullers, hunter horses, etc.
Kagome nodded in understanding, although she may have to change some of the horses' name because some of them sounded truly ridiculous. She guessed either Finny or Meirin may be the one who named them. "Do you think you can handle it, Miss Kagome?" Finny asked as he was just about to leave to return to his gardening. "Yes, I think so. If I need your help in any way, I'll call you."
The boyish gardener grinned at her just as he vanished from her view. Kagome sighed as she looked at the neighing horses in their own individual stall. Most of them seemed nervous or wary of her and she can understand why. All animals usually do know from right of the bat that a person is not a normal human. Smart creatures, they are.
She supposed she may have to work a bit harder to earn their trust. Kagome then noticed one particular horse that had been watching her without a hint of fear in it's' eyes and realized that it might belongs to that butler. It was obvious. It was sleek black and had the same colored eyes that Mr. Sebastian had; the red-strained cinnamon eyes.
"Teh. Go figures." She mumbled to herself, eyeing that beast warily as she went to get a shovel of some kind to pick up their messes and something to carry them. Finny told her that sometime, even though he doesn't like it, they do make a great fertilizer for some plants, and it's better to put them outside on a pile somewhere close by. "Bleh." She wanted so badly to insult that bastard of a demon.
Months went by and the servants were already used to Kagome's presences, accepting her as a member of their little odd makeshift family. Already, she was near at her prime of her health, having been eating a large wild animal once in a while. It wasn't' something she really wanted to do nor was proud of but either it was starving to death or to eat something else other than human souls. They haven't exactly seen what she can do but they knew fully well enough that she was a pretty good servant because she worked hard and never once had she made either Sebastian or Ciel angry with her. That was a miracle in itself.
Because of that, she was technically promoted as a housekeeper, especially when the master and butler were gone. Kagome does a pretty good job of keep the oddball trios in bay. She still takes care of horses however.
"Hm?" Kagome sensed something a bit off. The others noticed. Kagome was fussing at Meirin for something she did, inside the kitchen when she quickly got distracted. They knew that whenever she seemed like she had felt something was very off, it was always accurate, and it was better to stay on the top of the things, and pay attention to her. "Hey, what's wrong, Miss Kagome?" Meirin softly asked, after her embarrassment wore off after accidently destroying a vase.
"…I think we should get ready. There are intruders coming by. And wasn't that brat staying here for a night?" The brat was Elizabeth Middleford and she was staying over for a night because she wanted to see Ciel for something or other. That little girl had lost Kagome's respect right away when she was trying to force Kagome to wear something she absolutely flat out refused to wear, was trying to make her to do something that Kagome refused to do, and she tried to force Kagome to tell Lizzie who she really was. The trios realized that Lizzie was trying to break into Kagome's past, just because she thought it would be a great story to tell.
Kagome was still pissed about that, apparently. Not even they would try to go that far. Sure, Finny, Meirin, and Bard are very curious about her past but even they had a past they didn't want to talk about so they understood and backed off. But Lizzie didn't get it. It was when that everybody, including her fiancée, Ciel, realized she was pretty dumb, well, more than they thought she was.
The little girl was very interested in Kagome because she had never seen an Asian person before and that she was very pretty, someone she would like to 'play' with.
Everybody felt sorry for Kagome. It was also humiliating for her as well so whenever Kagome figured out that Lizzie was coming over, she would just go and hide inside the stable, the only place that Lizzie wouldn't go because it was very 'stinky'. Because of that, Lizzie would be the very last person she would ever felt the need to protect her.
Everybody got tensed up and Kagome told them to split up to the every side of the manor and told the old man Tanaka to protect the brat. They all obeyed and disappeared to their position. The dark-haired female hissed out when she recognized some of the intruders and send out a shadow signal to the butler (much like telephones for the demon kinds, really), whom was somewhere else in the city with the master, to tell him of the coming intruders.
She then jumped out to the closed front gate out of the kitchen, since she was the one that would be guarding the north side of the manor. Kagome received a signal from Sebastian, telling her to do the best to keep them away, kill if necessary. She understood and found that Sebastian will be coming back with the master because Ciel demanded that he wanted to know who would dare to do such a thing. Until then, she must stop them from damaging the manor (or least to avoid having too much of calamity) and try to protect all of the servants if it get too much for them.
Kagome again understood and stood her ground, waiting for anybody who would be bold enough to attack her. She however didn't tell Sebastian who the intruders may be because she felt it was something she must deal with herself.
She hissed loudly, much like a feline would when pissed, when a person appeared in the distance in a fog that had somehow suddenly appeared, a person who had dare to wear such a bold white outfit and had a pair of large white wings upon its' back. "Ah…My, my, so this is where you had been, my love." The person purred out as they were approaching closer to her. Kagome let out a snarl when she realized there were few others with them. "Don't think you can take me down so easily, Gabriel!"
His ocean-green eyes looked longingly at her, his lips curved upward in a wicked smile as his long spider silk-like white hair whispered from behind him, "Ahh, still rebellious, are you not?" He gave her a mock sigh of a disappointment, his slender hand stroked through his long snow-hued hair absentmindedly, "Not even the hard time I made you spent in your prison seemed to do you any good. Now…how in the world had you gotten out?" His almond-shaped ocean-green eyes narrowed, instantly changed into the color of golden.
Kagome hated the fact that Gabriel carried his wings so proudly and so haughtily, when he was nothing more than a stain of dirt in her eyes.
She snarled, stubbornly refusing to tell him. "Lord Gabriel, we are here to recapture the lady demon, yes?" A tall slender male with long dark hair in a low ponytail and violet tinted eyes, dressed in white and grey, told the white-haired male softly into his ears, his eyes evaded the form of the female demon and only stayed at his lord. His white wings, unlike the male who called himself Gabriel, vanished into tiny white specks of dust.
"Yes, Mihael, we are. It seemed like another hundred years should do a trick." He nodded, his eyes still staying on her form, with lustful gazes. Mihael bowed low, "Understood, milord. How shall we capture her this time? There was no leverage this time I'm afraid…" He hadn't moved from his position, even as the female snarled out angrily, "My son is not leverage! How dare you!"
She was smart enough to not to lung at the angels because she didn't want the other servants to know who she really is and that she didn't want to let the other angels, soldiers as she dubbed them, to get into the manor and kill them. "Ahh, that little beast you had sired…Pity I never found him, I would love to skin him and hung his tiny body dry highly in an arch upside-down." Gabriel purred out, "Then again, I'm sure a beast probably already devoured him." He laughed when he saw the female snarled at him, fooling himself into thinking that she's all not that intimidating, despite she is with flickering of shadow at her feet, blazing like untamed fire.
"What a pitiful reason to be in the dark side, dear, over that little repulsive bastard. I think you'd make a wonderful priestess of the Heaven… Our Father is willingly to forgive you and would welcome you back very warmly." Gabriel told her, a smile stilled on his virtuous face. Mihael straightened up, his eyes no longer evading the female devil but instead with a hard glance at her. Kagome, however, noticed a tiny shine of something in those gazes and she smiled, cruelly so. "No thanks. What kind of a God is He if He wished for my beautiful little boy to be dead? I'm a mother and it's my job to make sacrifices for him. He's the reason why I chosen this path.
You were the one that had killed him in the first place and I merely gave him his life again by birthing him myself with a sire I'm sure you wouldn't approve. This is also his death wish and I simply carried it out." She gave out a dry chuckle as she explained her reasoning to Gabriel, the snarling darkness now coating her lower body.
A loud boom echoed out and a death screamed followed shortly after into the manor, Kagome snickering, her azure eyes now stormy. "Ah so you also have humans following you. What a stupid decision you made, Gabriel." The snow-haired male now had a worried look into his green eyes and took a nervous step forward. A bang and a clashing came, also followed by an explosion, the voices echoing out, some are stern and serious, unwavering, and others are nothing more than a death cry. "I must say…The servants of Phantomhive are quite impressive, don't you agree, Lord Gabriel?" The way she said Lord was very mocking, malicious.
The Lord and the Guider of the Angels growled, his eyes presently still have lustful gazes in them as he took few steps forward, leaving his dark-haired attendant and few other soldier angels behind, his hand now with a spear, "Our Lord Father and God, if I must, I will bring you back with me, my lovely Kagome!" He bellowed out, he had a crazed gleam in his now golden eyes as he lunged after the she-devil, his large white wings spread out. The spear had repositioned so the sharp blade would aim to impale her slim body.
Kagome dodged his weapon and now was perching on it like a little bird, giggling like a mad hatter, a shining glint in her clawed hand. "Oh, my dear Gabriel, if you haven't noticed, your friends are already in trouble." Kagome placed one of her hands on her pouting lips so to make herself look like an innocent little girl who was demanding a cookie and Gabriel gasped when he noticed there was bright red blood on it, dripping down from the tips of her extended nails to her wrists. He instantly turned his head around, hearing gasping cries, and he cried out when he saw twitching, dying bodies of his soldiers, surrounding a shell-shocked Mihael, blood spatters staining on his once white outfit and his beautiful tanned skin.
Gabriel growled out angrily, his mad lust heightened over the she-devil's slaughters of his best soldiers, and turning his head toward this woman once again, still perching on his spear, licking the blood off her hands and a small dagger she used to kill them. "Mihael! Come to me! She had you spared and together we can tame this beast at last!"
No longer seemly shell-shocked over the soldiers' deaths, the edge of his lips curved into a spiteful smile, his beautiful violet-tinted eyes shadowed, "Why should I? She's obviously much stronger than you thought and we both wouldn't have a chance against her, even if we worked together."
Gabriel snarled angrily at his long-time attendant, "Obey me, damn you! Do as I said! There's another devil approaching and we wouldn't have a chance against him! I am not as foolish as Ash! Even such as I had realized the true strength of that evil creature!" Kagome resumed giggling again, "Yes, he is, after all, my master now."
"What?" Gabriel looked at the female sitting on the sleek pole of his spear, still licking the blood off her hands like a feline cleaning itself, the weight she bears on the weapon now seemed heavier. He didn't look back to his servant whom he thought was his closest friend. Mihael doesn't seemed the same anymore, doesn't even feel the same anymore either and that frightened him.
Mihael no longer smiled but the both ends of his lips still contained the cruel quality to it, "And have we truly realized the true strength of she-devil you were so fixated with? No thanks."
"Why?" His voice now carried a frighten tone, unsure of everything that was going on around him, he could still hear the cries of the humans he manipulated into breaking in the manor that had hid she-devil and housed many powerful enemies. He heard them died.
"Because, why in the world would I want to kill my own mother?" The erratic gasp escaped his lips, his ocean-green eyes widened in a disbelief with the thought of his friend, the one he had known and was very close to for a hundred years, was the very son of the she-devil, the very beast he sought to destroy after laying his eyes on the beautiful former-human priestess with him, thinking he could contaminate her humanity and purity. The very son of the once-human priestess he had fallen in love with.
The angel laid his eyes on the grin of the she-devil and her now scarlet eyes. "Run, you little bastard angel, run and fight back. I have sought after the cry of your death for many years now…Run." She had leapt down from his holy spear and was patiently waiting for him to run, her arm out to gesturing him to flee, mocking him, "Run, my friend, she told you to run." Mihael smiled darkly, sarcastically to him, "You wouldn't believe how easy it was to get your trust…Everyone's trust…I only came into the Heaven to free my dearest mother and I laughed over the chaos she made there." He purred, explaining how he felt about the stupidity of the angels, "I hate you. I always had hated you, my friend. Ever since you killed me the first time. Ever since you had dare to laid your ugly eyes on my beautiful mother. Ever since you took her away from me. Ever since my mother made me to run away from you. So Run!" Mihael ushered him to retreat, "Run away and fight back!"
He barked out a laugh when he had heard Gabriel whimpered. The angel snarled out, "I'll be back for you, my love! And I'll be overjoyed when I finally will split your blood, Mihael! How dare you for masquerading as one of us! How dare you!" He cried out when he leapt up in the air, his glorious white wings spread out and took flight, withdrawing, his form grew smaller and smaller the farther away he had gone into the clouds of the Heaven.
"Mother, are you really going to let that bastard go?" The false angel sighed as he ran toward her, his arms outspread for a long-desired hug.
Kagome complied with his wish and had him into her arms, petting his dark hair softly as he had bowed his head to her neck from his relief, happiness, and sorrow from seeing his mother at last, "For now. I have no desire to slaughter him, for this moment, anyway. All I care about right now was to have you in my arms again, Shippou…But you had chosen a rather ugly look for a disguise, son." Her face twisted into disgust when she saw the ghostly image of his 'holy' wings on his back and at the color of his eyes. She wasn't bothered too much with his hair however since it was his original color to start with.
Well, his rebirth's original hair anyway.
"Ahh, my sincerest apology, mother. I was getting tired of flying with those things on anyway…" The illusion he casted onto himself was gone, "Better?" His eyes had returned to the color of the forest in the spring again, his features on his face were reverted back to his almost child-like yet handsomely-so mature looks, his rounded ears gave away to the pointed, elf-like appearance and he no longer carried the wings of the angel she had deemed ugly.
"Oh, yes, very much so." Kagome brushed back a strand of his dark hair to his pointed ears, touching the edge of it as doing so as she stepped back to admire how much her son had grown over the years she had been unable to see him. "My, my…How much you had grown…" She whispered out, her azure eyes saddened.
"Mother…"
"Hush, son, we'll catch up later. Unfortunately, since you looked too much old to be my son, you will have no choice but to say that you're my brother." Kagome kissed him on his forehead when she noticed he took on a pained look on his attractive face when he found out that he will have to impersonate as her brother rather than her son as he would liken to be.
"I understand."
"Right now, we're not sure of what to do but I will have to explain this to my masters. Surely they will understand."
"Masters? I thought you had only one? And why do you even have them in the first place?"
"Hush, my dear son, I told you we'll catch up later. Here they come now. I hope they won't be angry with the mess I made." Kagome looked pointedly at the dead bodies of the soldier angels she shredded apart as they both heard the hooves approaching the now opened gate.
"Kagome!" The youthful voice of a boy called out to her and she complied by immediately went to the carriage, gesturing Shippou to followed her.
"Milord!" The tall woman helped Ciel down from his carriage; his eye warily glanced at the stranger with dark hair and bright green eyes.
"Did you take care of the intruders already, Kagome?" The young boy master asked, unable to see the dead bodies of the angel soldiers as she had blocked the view of them by standing in front of him.
"Ahh, I'm truly sorry for that. It seemed like they were, supposedly, after me." She said that with an annoying smile, similar to his butler when he was trying to cover something up.
Ciel arched an eyebrow, "…I will make you tell me about it later but…who's he?" He rudely pointed to Shippou, who blanched at his discourtesy to a 'guest', a speck of jealously flashed through his dark blue eye.
"Errmmm…Do you want the truth? Or a lie?" Kagome coughed out in an embarrassment, looking away from her son and the young master, ignoring Sebastian after he closed the gate and then went to them, a question on his striking face.
"Well, the truth, of course!" Ciel looked like he was pouting.
"Oh! Okay then!" Kagome seemed no longer uncomfortable but now had an irritating cheery smile brightening up her face, a bit of sparkling going on, "His name is Shippou and he is my son!" Her hands were folded in front of her chest, ignoring the fact there was a rather heavy, tense silence hanging over the youthful master and his demonic butler now.
A few moments passed with the few failed attempts to open his mouth before he finally found a strength to break it, "Say what?"
Sebastian blinked for a few moments before realizing that the young boy doesn't really know much about demons, "Ah…I see, so you're married?" He asked Kagome, who in turned shook her head in a negative, "No."
Ciel seemed very confused now, what little he had known about the demons was briefly forgotten from his jealousy. "Well, let me put this in the simpler terms…The life of demons or devils are rather long-lived, longer than normal humans so it enabled them to still look younger than they should. Do you understand, young master?" The butler explained.
"Ah…" Ciel nodded in understanding, but his eye still look on Shippou cautiously. The older male gave him a fox-like grin, sheepishly.
"Anyway, Mister Sebastian, if you could, please escort Master Ciel, and my son if it's alright with both of you, in the manor while I go on ahead to clean the mess up. Also, please don't mind your other servants' messes. I'll clean those up too." Kagome told them and smiling minutely when she saw the youthful master, pouting, nodded affirmatively with her suggestions. Just as the boy master and the green-eyed demon was about to enter with Sebastian, Kagome stopped them, "Oh! Please do be quiet, the master's fiancée, the b-, I mean little Miss Elizabeth was inside as well."
She smiled sheepishly when she heard Ciel's groan at his fiancée's name as they went inside the manor before she went on ahead to pull the horses and the carriage inside the stable. And then she went to clean up the carcasses and burned them in a pit inside the forest away from the manor, making sure that no soul had left to the afterlife but straight to the hell instead so they wouldn't bother her, her son or the Phantomhive ever again.
It took her over an hour to do so, even with her special skills, as the bodies were rather numerous and burying their bones was long as to keep the bones separate from each other, for many reasons. With that done, she quickly went inside the manor to clean up the messes the servants had made, knowing she would have to explain things soon.
He heard a brief knock on the door and allowed the person to come in his study room; his eyes looked on with a slight angry expression flashed through. The eye patch had long since been off after his dinner. The dinner had been delayed due to the bodies littering around in his manor, which he, thankfully, didn't see too much of them. It's probably because despite the woman's insistence on cleaning up the messes inside the building as well, both of his butler and the stranger gone on ahead to clean them up.
Thinking of Kagome, he pondered on how much has changed since she came to the manor. Chores done by Bard, Finnian, and Meirin around the manor weren't much of hassle anymore. She seemed able to make sure they did their work correctly, and without many problems. Really, Sebastian has even commented on how she helps keep half the burden off of him. The burden unsaid being the three other servants, being the unsaid burden of course.
Sitting down behind his desk, he sighed.
"So tell me, what happened?"
A/N: *died* Good gods! Here's another one under a pile of dust! I do not like having unfinished shots in my folders. Might as well and toss it out in the open.
I MIGHT come back to it to try and complete it though, but I highly doubt it. I got too much on my plate as it is.
Oh, and I think…No, I'm pretty sure that my friend, DeathNoteMaker, probably pitched in too. Wrote a few paragraphs somewhere in this one.
Ah, well…Let me know what you think.
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