~Submission~
~four hours later~
The Earl of Phantomhive awoke to dim light penetrating the room through the window. Evening was approaching fast, and its faded blue hues colored his room. Ciel got up and sighed, making his way to his door, but instead grabbed his winter hat and put it on as well as wrapping a blanket around him to hide his ears and tail. He was so ashamed of them. The only sound as he walked was the gentle padding of his bare feet down the hall. He made his way down to the kitchen where he heard slight chaos, Mayrin flailing around yelling that she was sorry, finny chasing Pluto as things crashed and sounded as if they shattered, and bard yelling about throwing water on the flames. The boy sighed and laughed a little under his breath. He was startled when a familiar tall slender man opened the door and Ciel for a moment felt embarrassed but then regained himself.
"Oh, my lord. You've awoken. Um..my lord? What exactly are you dressed at?" The butler asked as he looked down his master and his attire. "Your winter hat and a blanket? Are you chilled my lord? I could dress you in some warmer night clothes if you wish."
"D..don't be absurd, I just, I just wanted to be more comfortable is all."
"Is it possible you have a fever?"
"No. Just get back to your duties." Ciel said as he stalked off with a slight rose tinting his cheeks.
"Hmhm, my lord, you don't need to be ashamed of your appearance." Sebastian said in an amused voice. Ciel glared and spun around.
"Tsk, shut up. I will not be the laughing stock of London. I demand you to change me back!"
Sebastian's amusement faded and he simply walked forward, taking hold of the boys wrist and walking him down the hall. "Uh, S..Sebastian! Let go this moment! How dare you treat me as though I were a lost child."
"My lord, I have already told you there is no way I can change you back no matter how many times you order me to do so. If such a way comes up that I may, then I shall, but until then please try to accept it."
Ciel was lost for words, he'd never seen his demon act this way before. They stopped in front of his room, and Sebastian turned on the light.
"Please stay in here until dinner is ready, it shan't be much longer."
"W..wait! I don't want to stay in here." Ciel fussed and his ears twitched slightly. Sebastian would never admit it but he thought his young lord was quite adorable at this moment.
"Master, the letter from the queen said that I have a new authority over you, yes I will follow your orders as a demon, but there are certain things now that I also have authority over. And at this moment, I am telling you to stay in this room until I arrive with your dinner. Please try to behave yourself."
Again Ciel was lost for words. Did this lowly demon really think he could command him around? Sebastian must have picked up the vibe because he returned a dark smirk to his young Neko. He walked back over to Ciel and picked him up, setting him on the bed, careful of his tail, and scratching behind his ears. The boy went wide eyed and carried a furious expression.
"How dare you tou-"Ciel began but found that the massaging and scratching of his ears was quite enjoyable and relaxing, against his will, he lost all form of anger and leaned against his butler.
"Hmhm, that's better now isn't it. Please refrain from leaving this room until I say so my lord." With that he handed the boy a ball that had a bell inside. This made Ciel feel incredibly insulted but for some reason he didn't do anything about it, instead he grabbed the ball and tried to act as bored as possible, but he had a kind of curiosity about it. He thought he heard Sebastian hum a laugh as he left the room and closed the door behind him.
"Mmm..stupid demon." Ciel muttered to himself as he accidentally knocked the ball off the bed, he didn't think and just jumped off the bed after it, tail swishing around. He chased the escaping ball all around the room, even though his formal side told him to stop this ridiculous behavior, he simply couldn't.
It was about a half an hour before the demon returned and found his master was pulling all the tissues out of the tissue box and playing with them.
"Uh, Master." Sebastian said sounding slightly upset and walked over to Ciel, who realized what he was doing and stood up and folded his arms.
"What?" He said defensively.
Sebastian sighed and picked up the mess of tissues.
"It seems your kitten like behavior has already started setting in"
Ciel glared.
"Don't refer to me as if I'm some stupid toddler."
Sebastian smirked.
"My lord, you have just taken out almost all of the tissues out of the box and were playing with them." He said in a mocking tone. Ciel wasn't about to admit that Sebastian was right. He was acting childish. He couldn't figure out why though. Sebastian took the boy to his bed and set him there, he stabbed a piece of the salmon that Sebastian had cooked and held it in front of the boys mouth.
"Say ah..." Sebastian cooed holding his hand under the fork in case it fell.
"What?! I'm not allowing you to feed me! I can do it myself!" The boy snapped and nearly knocked the food off the fork. Sebastian looked irritated.
"My lord, please. You're going through some changes, you may drop it and I don't want to have a big unnecessary mess to clean up. Now, say ah..."The butler said in a commanding manner which Ciel did not enjoy, the boy knocked the fork out of the butlers hand, knocking it thankfully onto the cart and not the floor. Sebastian looked disapproving at his young Master.
"I will not allow you to degrade me anymore than I already have been!"
"Very well, if you will not allow me to feed you right now, you will not eat." Sebastian said as he stood and began pushing the cart out. Ciel panicked for a moment and jumped to his feet.
"W...Wait!" He shouted, Sebastian looked back at him curiously.
"Hm?"
"Fine. You can feed me." Ciel said as a ferocious blush spread across his face and looked down at the floor. He was starving, but at the same time he didn't want to be fed by the butler. He fought with his emotions endlessly.
Sebastian smiled approvingly and wheeled the cart back over to the bed. He sat down beside him and took the fork and tried again to give him a bite. For a moment the boy hesitated, and Sebastian raised an eye brow, but then the boy gave in and opened his mouth and Sebastian gave him the bite.
"Hmhm. Very good." Sebastian said, as he stabbed another piece of salmon onto the silver utensil.
"S..Sebastian. Why are you doing this. I am your Master." The boy stuttered as he took another bite off of the fork that was presented to him.
"Because it won't be long now before you lose most of your normal 'Ciel' behavior and become more of the Neko."
"What?! But I am the head of this household! I can't lose my mind to some stupid cat like instinct!"
"I'm sorry my lord, but it's inevitable."
"Will you still want my soul?"
Sebastian raised a brow at this, and smiled darkly.
"Of course, it will not change the flavor and richness of your already seasoned soul. If anything, this new way of life will add to it's delicate taste."
"Alright. Shut up. I don't want to know anymore."
Ciel sighed but then took another bite.
"Once you become the Neko completely, I will become your Master. It will be interesting to see what happens. I will take it upon myself to continue with our contract and find those who killed your parents. But I will also be taking you as my own charge, thus I will be your Master as well."
Ciel went wide eyed and stood to his feet, slapping the butler across the face hard enough to hurt his own hand. Sebastian looked rather dully at the boy.
"I will not allow this." Ciel growled. Sebastian's eyes glowed slightly in irritation as a dark smile accented his face.
"Nor will I this type of behavior. That will be all tonight. Please sleep well my lord." Sebastian said as he stood and walked out.
"Wait Sebastian!"
But he did not. Ciel heard the door lock and ran to it, banging on it and ripping on the handle. "Unlock this door! I demand you! Stupid! Stupid butler!" He screamed at the door until he found himself rather exhausted and let his arms fall to his side, making his way back to the bed and plopping down on it face first. Ciel was incredibly irritated and went to his window to see if he could get out that way. His butler was too far out of line, and he wasn't about to be controlled by him. Demon or not.
"Damn it all.." He grumbled to himself, seeing that there was no way down from that height. He fumed and went back to the bed and just crawled under the covers and let himself go to sleep.
The next morning the Earl found himself woken up by an uncomfortable bright light as Sebastian opened the curtains.
"It's time to wake up Master." He said gently and went to the boys wardrobe and pulled out his nicer blue outfit.
Ciel sat up and allowed himself to be dressed, ears twitching uncomfortably. Sebastian had apparently already mended all of this clothes to have room for his tail to go through.
"We are going out today after breakfast my lord. I must speak with a few people and then we are off to do some shopping."
"Shopping? Why should I go with. Thats servant labor."
Sebastian furrowed his brows and simply smiled buttoning the boys white under shirt. Once dressed Sebastian led him out to the dining room where he sat down and ate in peace.
"Not going to force me to eat from your hand today hm?" Ciel jeered as he took a bite.
"Hmhm, you were being stubborn last night and as I said, I didn't want to have to clean up a mess."
"Hmph." The boy said, finding he had an itch behind his ear and bringing his hand up to scratch it, but as he did he yelped a little in pain. He brought his hand down and noticed his nails were just a little more claw like. Just a little longer and slightly pointed. Not curved but a little pointed.
"Please be careful my lord."
"Is there anything else I should expecting from this blasted body of mine?" The boy prodded angrily.
"Hm, well your fangs may be in already, do try to be careful and not hurt yourself on them." Sebastian said casually as he set a parfait in front of the lord once he was finished with the main course of his meal. The raven haired butler then stood back and waited for the child to be finished.
"Stop stalking me, go get the carriage ready." Ciel ordered after feeling the gaze of his butlers red eyes rest on him for too long.
The taller man bowed deeply at the waist and spun on his heal and walked out. Ciel was finished by the time his butler returned. The boy stood from the table as the other three servants rather clumsily began the clean up process. As he looked up at his butler, he noticed a slight laugh and Sebastian trying to stifle it.
"And just what exactly is so amusing.."Ciel bit at the sharp words, as he slightly blushed a little.
The butler pulled out a handkerchief and wiped the strawberry cream off of the corner of the boys small mouth. Ciel turned a few shades of red but tried to contain himself.
"Hmhm, young Master, can't you at least keep your face clean?" Sebastian said with humor as he stood back up and grinned at his adorable Neko.