As it has been 3 months since I last updated I thought I might add a little recap in case anyone forgets what had happened in the previous chapters.
The story so far: Sebastian kills the demon Ciel Phantomhive which leaves him free to make other contracts.
In modern day London he comes into contact with a boy that looks exactly like him and has the same name and parents and his best friend is Alois Trancy. He follows the boy to find that his history teacher is Grell Sutcliffe and the head master of Weston College is William T. Spears.
After some investigation he find that the boy is not a reincarnation of Ciel Phantomhive despite the fact that his soul has the same scent. In fact it is his parents that are the reincarnations and Ciel is a product of IVF.
Ciel himself under threat by the Grim Reapers and has to make a contract with Sebastian otherwise his parents and best friend will be killed. However he is in possession of a ring contain fragments of Ciel Phantomhive's soul and has knowledge of his ancestor's real life.
To speed up events Sebastian murders a teacher at Weston College and leaves behind evidence to show Ciel that he is the murderer which leads to Ciel having to admit that he knows he is a demon.
Reincarnation:
Chapter 15
Ciel took a deep breath and filled his lungs. Tonight, his soul was going to be tied to a demon forever and he would never see any of his family or friends again. He knew that the reapers weren't just going to let him make the contract and walk away. He was probably going to have to stay in whatever realm the Grim Reapers lived in until he died.
He unbuttoned the top two button of his school shirt to ensure that he still had his ancestor's ring, an automatic reflex, as if he had lost it somewhere his plan would never work. Subtly, Ciel smiled, ironically he was going to end up exactly like the ancestor that he had once loathed- in contract with a demon.
Slowly and nervously, Ciel made his way down the hallways, taking small steps to prolong the short time that he had left as a free human. As he did the already grey sky darkened and it began to pelt down heavily with rain. Ciel smirked as he thought back to what he had said about Pathetic Fallacy that very morning.
"Young master Ciel, if you would like to see me, I'm in the library," the demon's voice called out to him, as if to mock his effort at delaying. "Your parents have gone out for the day so you don't have to worry about being overheard."
With bated breath, Ciel entered the library and brushed his hair out of his right eye. He stood opposite Sebastian and there was silence for a few minutes as they stared at each other.
Finally Sebastian broke the silence. "You're home early, didn't you have school today?"
"You know that I didn't; you committed the murder that caused the school to be closed."
"Whatever makes you think that I did that?"
"You're a demon," Ciel answered immediately without any hesitation. "You contracted with my ancestor and ended up killing him?" The other Ciel had written that he was going to goad Sebastian into killing him, but he didn't actually know what had happened as the journals had been written when his ancestor was still living in the human realm.
Sebastian picked up on the question and his eyes glinted a blood red. "Yes, I killed him."
"That was what he wanted. He had nothing left to live for and he wasn't happy with spending eternity with you."
Sebastian felt stung by the insult, but he realised that it was true. After his master had been turned into a demon, they had both changed and had treated each other with animosity and dislike.
"His last gift to you was his death," Ciel continued on. "It has given you freedom to do what you want and make other contracts, has it not?"
The demon was stunned by the words. The reason behind all the ridiculous requests that he had been given, had been that his demon master had been trying to goad him into killing him so he was free to make contracts again? The boy had clearly cared for him more than he had thought.
"Why would he do all of this for me?"
"Can't you see, Sebastian?" Ciel sighed in exasperation before continuing. "He asked me to give you a message."
The time had finally come for Ciel to carry out what his ancestor had requested him to do. He hadn't been looking forward to the moment as he felt very embarrassed saying and doing it, but now it gave him the means of persuading Sebastian to go to Weston College with him to make the contract.
"What did he want to tell me?" Sebastian held his breath in anticipation.
Ciel raised one eyebrow elegantly. "I will only tell you if you promise to come with me to Weston College tonight."
Now Sebastian fully understood why the Grim Reapers had been so active in manipulating the Phantomhive family tree. They wanted him, the demon that had an affinity for a boy called Ciel Phantomhive and could be manipulated by the aforementioned boy, or at least someone with the same face. Worst of all, he had fallen right into the trap.
"I want proof that you will actually tell me. You could tell me a part of it?" he said thoughtfully, now being careful not to full further into the trap.
For some reason Ciel blushed red and looked unsure. "All right... He also asked me to try something out. So... I guess I will do that part...Can you bend down a little, you're too tall."
Sebastian followed the order, wondering exactly what the boy was going to do. It wasn't possible for the boy to knock him out and then drag him to the Grim Reapers as he was a demon so he couldn't think of anything that Ciel was likely to do.
Ciel took a deep breath before pressing his soft lips to Sebastian's cold ones. His ancestor had wondered what it would be like to kiss his butler and had requested whoever found the journal to do it his place. Ciel drew his lips away after a second. However Sebastian pulled his face back and returned the kiss, but more passionately.
"Sebastian?" Ciel murmured against his lips and tried to pull away. "Stop Sebastian!" he said more forcefully.
Sebastian let him go and licked his lips, savouring the hint of the soul he had tasted. He had lost control once the boy's lips had touched his and he didn't regret it either.
With a tissue from his pocket, Ciel wiped his mouth. "Now will you come to Weston College with me tonight?"
"Yes I will, young master," Sebastian bowed and licked his lips again. "You are very delicious if I may say so."
Ciel scowled before walking past him to go upstairs to his bedroom and change. If he was going to end his life tonight, there was no way he was going to be wearing his school uniform.
He brushed back his hair and stared at his reflection in the mirror. He thought about the touch of Sebastian's lips on his and his right eye glowed purple momentary along with a flash of a pentagram. He smirked.
"Just as I thought," he said out loud.
As he placed his eye patch over his right eye and pulled his favourite pair of jeans on, he went over his plan in his head. Tonight he was going to take a gamble, the biggest gamble of his life. If it didn't work, then he would be doomed to spending the rest of his life in servitude to the Grim Reapers. For some reason the prospect was not particularly appealing.
If he had never found his ancestor's journals he would have never had any chance of escaping the Grim Reapers.
Ciel took his ancestor's ring off the necklace chain and placed it in his pocket. He was going to be needing it later.
For a moment he looked around the bedroom that he had been his for sixteen years. There was his prized bookshelf of Sherlock Holmes anthologies, his awards for Piano playing and his certificates for winning Maths competitions. He remembered that he always used to wear his lucky socks whenever he entered a competition so he fished them out from the back of a drawer and pulled the on.
Tonight he was going to need all the luck that he could get.
Once he was ready, he returned to the library to find Sebastian staring out the window at the now dark sky. There was a full moon and the milky light bathed the demon butler's form white, making him appear almost angelic which was ironic.
"The riddle you were so interested it led me to find a secret room below this floor," Ciel informed him as he walked into the library.
Sebastian quirked an eyebrow at the mention of the mysterious riddle that he had never actually seen. "I did think that the floor by one of the walls sounded hollow when I walked across it. Was the riddle easy to solve?"
"Fairly, there were a few puzzles to solve after the riddle though. My ancestor liked his games."
"He did. Young master, I think you may want to pull up your trousers. They look as if they are about to fall down," Sebastian said and walked closer to the boy, now noticing the strip of pale white skin that was showing, which made his craving for Ciel Phantomhive's soul even greater.
Ciel looked down momentarily before pulling them up. "It's fashionable."
"Is that so? Fashion certainly has changed since I dressed the original Ciel Phantomhive. You would look better in a pair of shorts and knee high socks as opposed to those jeans," Sebastian commented and waited for his reply. There was something that he wanted to check.
The boy glared at him. "This is not the time to be talking about fashion, Sebastian. Are you ready to leave or not?"
"Yes, my Lord," Sebastian bowed.
He was ready to follow his master to the Grim Reapers' lair. He had a very good idea about what was going on with the boy so he was confident that his master would be able to escape making a contract to the benefit of the Grim Reapers.
The game was afoot.
In addition, he was a little, more like extremely, interested in what the original Ciel Phantomhive wanted to say to him, if that chaste kiss had been any indication.
I will be updating once a week again as I have immediately started A2 coursework so I still don't have a lot of free time.
In response to the anonymous reviewer Arisa the name of the previous chapter, "Satsujin Jiken" is Japanese for "Murder Case". It is a phrase commonly used in the Detective Conan (Case Closed) manga which was my first manga and turned me into a manga fan. Some of the chapters names are references to my previous fanfictions and since this will be my last fanfiction under this name I thought I would add a reference to one of my favourite anime.