Butlers and Nations
by RavenExpert
A Hetalia and Kuroshitsuji crossover.
Be careful of possible bloody scenes.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own both Hetalia or Kuroshitsuji. Every rights go to their respectful owners.
The sky started to darken further. Ciel went to the dining hall to have his dinner, which Sebastian made, due to Bard's mistake.
"Today's dinner is roast beef with sweet apple sauce and green peas."
It seems Sebastian made enough portion for Arthur as well. Although a little bit reluctant, in the end he ate it too. When he tasted it, it was more delicious than the foods he ever ate in the palace.
"Sir, does the taste pleased you?" ...so he asked Arthur.
"This is more than just pleased... Maybe I should try cooking this next time in the palace."
At the next morning, Ciel, Sebastian, and Arthur went over to the town by riding a carriage, with the butler driving. While they were going, Ciel talked with Arthur.
"So, you're going with us too, huh? You're ordered to stay, right?"
"Isn't it a little too late for that? This time, it's my own decision. I'm curious about the case too. Besides, if I had to stay behind, I'll go even crazier than before."
"Well, you're right about that."
There's a silence in the air for a while.
Arthur looked spacing out. He thought about the Queen's word about the case being abnormal. At first sight, one would think that this was just an ordinary case, just like what Ciel had thought. I wonder what makes the Queen's so worried about this...
Not long after, they finally arrived at the town. Sebastian opened the carriage's door to let Ciel and Arthur out. The three of them was walking down the road, when they luckily met a policeman.
"Yard." Ciel called the police, which is seems to be his name.
"You're... the Queen's Guard Dog."
Ciel showed the letter he got from the Queen to Yard. "It's the usual business."
Yard just looked bitterly at Ciel.
"So, the Queen has given the dog to handle this one too?"
"More or so. Anyway, I'll need all the information I need."
"Sorry, but we still haven't found the significance between the missing people yet."
"Who are the missing people?"
"Mostly young men, but recently, even children and young women too."
"The culprit only targeted young people?"
"That's what we assume. However, the victims have no similarities, except being young. All the scenes and time of operation are different as well. We're pretty much on the edge here."
"And so? Those are the information that you can get?"
"Yeah."
While Ciel and Sebastian talked with Yard, trying to make a few assumptions, Arthur just looked around. Then, he saw a shadow in a dark path, which was between two houses. He was suspicious of it, and thus he walked towards that path, unknown to the Earl and his butler.
As he walked a little, the shadow disappeared. Arthur grew even more suspicious, and decided to run and chase that shadow. He chased it in the dark path, occasionally shouted towards the shadow to stop. Then, the mysterious shadow stopped because of the iron fence, which blocked his way out. When Arthur cornered him, the sunshine shined through the path, and revealed the shadow.
However, Arthur was not quick enough. Before the sunshine was able to reveal who the shadow was, he climbed up the iron fence and ran away as quickly as possible, before Arthur could even ask.
He was shocked for a minute, as if the shadow was someone he knew. Knowing that nothing would happen if he stayed there, he returned to where Ciel and Sebastian were.
When he returned, Ciel was already in the carriage, and Sebastian had waited for him.
"We have been waiting for you." Sebastian opened the carriage's door.
"Sorry to make you wait." Arthur got on the carriage.
Sebastian began driving again.
"So, where do we go next?" Arthur asked Ciel curiously.
"Yard was not much help. We need to go there for now."
"What do you mean by "there"?"
"You'll see soon enough."
The carriage stopped at a place with a sign named "Undertaker" on it. Right after seeing this place, Arthur felt a slight chill down on his spine. Ciel showed no sign of entering the place.
"Sebastian, this is your job. You know what to do, right?"
"Understood."
The butler entered the shop, and then, not long after, a loud noise of laughing was heard. That laughing shocked Arthur, until he stepped backwards a little.
"What the heck was that!"
"C'mon. Let's enter."
What Arthur saw in there, was a man with black robe and clothing, wearing a long, top hat, and a long, platinum hair. He also had a stitch on his neck and face. He was pretty much eerie.
"I have so much laugh for today... ehehehe..."
His eerie laugh spooked Arthur for a second.
"Oh? What do we have here? A new face, Earl?"
"He's just the Queen's envoy who decides to tag along, Undertaker."
"Well, excuse me..." Arthur cleared his throat.
Undertaker walked towards Arthur and looked at him intensely. It seemed at Undertaker had taken interest in him, in which Arthur might never think.
"You're different than any other... interesting..." Undertaker chuckled.
"Anyway, I want to know more about the missing people. How about them on the 'other side'?" Ciel told Undertaker.
"Some of them have become my guests. But only a few."
"A few?"
"Yeah. Some issues in the back world also involved those missing people."
"What kind of issue?"
"Those people are dead not because of disease, loss of blood, or anything."
"What? What do you mean?"
"They die just like that. A sudden death, to be simple."
"Still, if there are corpses in the 'other side', means their lives are done for."
"Young Master, it will be wise to tell that some of the missing people are still safe. There are only few of those people who became corpses on the 'other side'."
"So, we still have a chance." Arthur stated his point.
"We're not too late, I guess. C'mon, let's go."
"Well then, Earl, I want to see what kind of mishaps that will happen from now..."
"I'm just erasing Her Highness's grief. Nothing more to it."
And so, the three of them left Undertaker, and discussed this case outside.
Ciel started to think about the case with the information they got.
"What does he mean by sudden death?"
"If I may state my point, it could be related to demons."
"You mean the demons ate the souls, which resulted in their deaths?"
"It is a possibility."
Arthur doesn't show any signs of wanting to think. When he's spacing out, he saw the mysterious shadow again. This time, it was hiding behind a wall, right across the carriage. Without thinking, he quickly ran to chase the shadow. Ciel realized it, and he asked with a pretty loud noise, where he went.
While this happened, Sebastian only looked at Arthur with cold eyes.
Arthur chased the shadow down. When they reached an intersection, the shadow tripped over at a dark, dead end. Before he could move, Arthur cornered him again.
"This time, I'll get you!"
Then, suddenly, another shadow appeared from the top, and threw dining knives downwards, locked the shadow's movements. It was no other than Sebastian himself. Ciel also appeared behind Arthur.
"So, this is what you're chasing..."
Sebastian quickly caught the shadow. When the path got a little brighter, it revealed a person with a brown cloak, which covered most of his body. The butler took of the cloak, and under it, was a person whom Arthur knew really well, and he was shocked.
He wore a dark brown, bomber jacket, and brown military uniform also a pair of glasses. He also had a dusty, blonde hair with a ahoge stuck out. This was a person that Arthur wouldn't forget for the rest of his life, even if he wanted to.
He looked at Arthur for a brief moment.
America! What are you doing here!
Author's note:
Hi again all. This is the last update for the week. Since I'm not at home until next week, I decide to update this. In order to make the dinner, I even make some research about UK's typical meals. And, that's the result of my research. I'm kinda having fun with this chapter, since it's America's first appearance. You may be wondering of why he's there, and all that, but all of them will be answered in later chapters. Thanks for reading and please review! :D