TOCINO ARC – II. THE 13 BROTHERS AND 3 HINATAS

+—THE DAY OF THE WEDDING—+

After introducing the day's breakfast, Sebastian reminded Ciel of what was to happen today. "Master, as you've instructed, your only schedule for the day is Mrs. Asahina's wedding."

"Good," Ciel replied. "After breakfast, I'll take care of some paperwork and we'll be on our way. Is that alright, Miel?" The azure-haired boy faced his younger sister.

"Hai~" Miel cheered, biting down on her toast.

After about fifteen minutes, Ciel finally stood up and said, "We will be going in twenty minutes, OK?"

Sebastian bowed down, his hand on his chest.

"Yes, My Lord."

Miel stood up as well, bouncing on her heels, and went to her room.

Ciel, Miel, and Sebastian were finally ready to go.

Ciel was in his usual formal attire, and had his can with him as always.

As for Miel, she wore a violet dress going down until her knees, with puffed sleeves and a three-layered skirt. The skirt's first layer stopped at her knees, the next right above her knees, and the last stopped at mid-thigh. Her shoes were purple and laced-up. And her hair was styled into a braid going down her shoulder, with flowery pins.

Like always, Sebastian was barking orders at Finnian, Mey-Rin, and Baldroy. "Finny, Mey-Rin, Bard, I expect the mansion to be spotless—SPOTLESS—and in one piece once we get back. Understood?" He emphasized 'spotless'.

"Yes sir!" Mey-Rin and Finny saluted, while Baldroy simply picked something out of his ear nodding slightly.

"We'll be going then," Ciel said, stepping out of the Phantomhive Mansion.

Once in the car, Miel started grinning madly while looking out the window. "Ahh~ I'm so excited~"

Ciel simply sighed, looking rather bored.

Sebastian noticed this and asked, "Is there something wrong, Young Master?"

Miel faced his brother as well.

Ciel shook his head and faced out the window. "Nothing of the sort."

Ema accidentally pushes the door to the chapel open and falls in.

A person with orange hair inside the chapel looked towards her in wonder.

"What are you doing here? Only members and acquaintances of the family are allowed in here," the young man said, walking up to the vulnerable young woman.

"Um…," Ema stuttered before she was cut off by Tsubaki.

"Yaho!~ Are? Isn't that Natsume?" The white-haired twin was referring to the person Ema just met.

Ema looked towards the door and saw the rest of the Asahina Brothers.

The two started to question Tsubaki about the other. And once they cleared up everything regarding Natsume and Ema, there was a knock on the door.

Sebastian pulled the door open to let Ciel and Miel enter.

"Hm?~ Da re?" (Who?) Tsubaki whispered to his younger twin.

"Wakanai ne…" (I don't know…) Azusa whispered back.

Masaomi was the one to speak up. "Ah, you are-" He cut himself off.

There rest of his brothers and Ema looked expectantly towards the eldest of the siblings, hoping for an answer.

The pediatrician took a step forward and announced, "This is Earl Ciel Phantomhive, his sister, Miel Phantomhive, and who I'm guessing is their…butler? Their family have been acquaintances to ours for many generations, so Miwa invited them over. Thank you for coming, we appreciate your time." Masaomi bowed down.

"Are you in need of introductions?" Ukyo asked absent-mindedly. (After all, it would take like hell to introduce so many brothers one by one.)

Ciel cleared his throat. "That-"

"Sure!" Miel interrupted. She earned a glare from her older brother.

"Alright, then. My name is Asahina Masaomi. I am the first Asahina son and I work as a pediatrician," said man introduced.

"I am the second son, Asahina Ukyo. I'm a lawyer," Ukyo said with a gentle smile.

An arm landed on the former's shoulder, belonging to someone with red hair reaching the back and in a dress. "I am the third born, Asahina Hikaru. I'm usually out of the country."

"Eto… You're a…male?" Miel wondered, cocking her head to the side.

"Un~" Hikaru clarified with a smile.

Someone in the robe of a monk winked seductively at the girl and said, "I'm the fourth son, Asahina Kaname. As you can see, I am a monk."

"H-hai…," Miel mumbled, taking a step back.

"I'm the fifth-Asahina Tsubaki!" the white-haired twin cheered. "I work as a seiyuu."

"And I am Asahina Azusa, the sixth child," the black-haired twin introduced, smiling gently. "I am also a seiyuu."

"Seventh son. Asahina Natsume," Natsume said with a neutral face. "I'm a video game producer."

Tsubaki placed an arm around his twin. "Azusa and I are identical twins, while Natsume is a fraternal triplet who came form a different egg!" he explained oh so casually.

Miel's eyes turned mischievous. "Ah… They're twins but they seem so shippable," she muttered under her breath quickly.

Azusa cocked his eyebrow. "Sorry, what was that?"

The young girl waved her hands fast. "It's nothing, nothing! Continue on~"

The Young Earl turned his head towards his sister with a disgusted look on his face, sweatdropping.

Miel noticed this but simply smiled.

"I'm the eighth child, Asahina Louis. I'm a hair stylist. If you would like your hair styled, I would be happy to do the job~" Louis said, his eyes smiling.

"Hai~" Miel cheered, her eyes smiling as well.

"And I am the ninth, Asahina Iori. I'm a college student," Iori introduced himself calmly.

"Asahina Subaru, the tenth son. I'm a high school student," Subaru said.

Miel stared at him for a while before thinking, 'He looks like a typical Japanese person.'

Her older brother sensed her thought and shot her another glare, that which Miel ignore.

"There are a lot of you, huh?"

"Yeah… I'm the eleventh, Asahina Yusuke. A middle school student," a guy with red hair that looked remarkably familiar to Miel (because its ridiculous spikiness) said.

'I wonder if his hair is natural…,' Miel thought to herself.

"I'm the twelfth, Asahina Fuuto~" a male with a cat-smile (ish oAo) purred.

Miel grinned. "Ah, are you Asakura Fuuto?! You are, right?!"

"That's right, but—"

"You endorsed for us once~ Haha."

"Endorsed…?"

"My masters are the owners of the well known toy company called Funtom," Sebastian explained, facing the 13 brothers.

"Ah!~ That's were I got most of my toys! I'm the thirteenth and youngest son, Asahina Wataru!~" the youngest cheered, grinning, showing his white teeth.

"And I'm their sister from a different mother and father, Hinata Ema," a beautiful, brown-haired girl with her hair tied up to the side of her face introduced herself, smiling.

"Ah—"

"Gomen… Are we late?" someone said, cutting Miel off.

Everyone turned towards the door. And there stood two girls that were about five feet.

The one to the right had light blond hair braided to the back of her head, and rested on her right shoulder. She wore a pink vest with puffy sleeves over a black dress designed with white polka dots, and the straps of her dress were pink and ribbon-like, and they went up and crisscrossed around her neck. She has on a pair of heeled shoes—its body was brown with a wood-like texture, and its strap, pink ribbons that crisscrossed up until just above her ankles.

The one to the left has dark brown hair braided to the back of her head, and rested on her left shoulder. She wore the exact same thing as the blonde except instead of pink the colors were blue. One thing to take note of was that they had bangs covering one eyes on opposite directions—the bond to the right, and the brunette to the left.

'A~re? They look familiar…,' Miel thought.

"Oh!" Ema exclaimed.

The 13 brothers, Ciel, Miel, and Sebastian all looked towards Ema, with faces obviously asking about the presence of the two who just arrived.

"Ah! Oneesan!" the blonde and brunette said in sync.

"Onee…san?" Ukyo wondered, confusion obvious in his voice.

"I believe you've heard of them? Masaomi-san?" Ema clarified.

Masaomi remembered that detail. "Ah, your siblings. They'll be living with us, too, right?"

"Un!" the two said.

"My name is Hinata Maika~ I'm an idol, singer, dancer, actress, and TV host!" the blonde introduced herself.

"And I'm Hinata Keira. I'm an idol, singer, dancer, actress, and TV host!" the brunette said.

"We're identical twins!" the two of them said, entwining their hands.

Fuuto stared at them for a moment. "Ah, omae…"

Keira and Maika looked over to the twelfth son and exclaimed, "Ah, senpai!"

Yuusuke's eyebrows furrowed. "Are you from the same agency…?"

Keira looked towards the unnatural red-head and nodded.

"Ah~ I remember, now~" Miel recalled. "They're part of those who endorse for Funtom a lot!"

Maika and Keira browsed the faces of their new thirteen brothers. But only a pair of brothers caught Maika's eye.

"Uso…" (You're lying…) Maika mumbled, her eyes dazed.

"Nani?" Keira asked before she noticed what her twin saw.

They both ran forward and stopped in front of the two brothers.

"They're the real thing, right?!" the twins exclaimed with gleaming eyes.

"E-eh?!"

Tsubaki and Azusa were caught off guard, shocked at the two who ran up to them.

"Keira and Maika have always looked up to two voice actors… I never knew who, though, I'm guessing they were you two, then…" Ema explained, gently smiling.

"Maika looks up to Tsubaki-san, while I look up to Azusa-san," Keira calmly said as her twin nodded vigorously beside her.

"Ne, minna, the wedding is going to start soon," Masaomi announced, looking up from his watch.

+—CHAPTER END—+