Thank you for the review! :D I really appreciate it! Here's the next chapter. This one is a little different and may be only suited for some viewers, beware. Don't worry, there's no weird yaoi scenes or anything lol.

~Lessons~

Light penetrated Ciel's eye lids as he laid half asleep on the soft surface, he slowly opened his eyes, noticing he was at his manor in his bedroom. He slowly sat up and rubbed his head, his throat felt like it was on fire and he had a throbbing headache.

"S..Sebastian.." He stuttered in a slightly raspy voice, standing up and looking around. He went out into the hall and noticed the faint ache in his chest.

"Back to your room my lord." The voice came from behind him at the opposite end of the hall.

Before he could protest he was being guided back into his room against his will.

"Sebastian!" Ciel shouted.

"You no longer have the right to call me that. I am 'Master' from this day forward."

"Hmph, not likely. You are my butler, I am not calling you master." Ciel spit out. Then there was the sound again, only this time is was piercing and forced him to his knees. Whimpering in pain as he slapped his hands over his ears and his tail tucked between his legs.

"I won't tolerate that attitude either. What you did the other night was unacceptable." The demon said darkly as he closed the door behind him and walked over to Ciel, The sound ended. "I can't look over your antics anymore, attempting to drown yourself will not solve anything, I will simply see you in death. However, I will not allow you to harm yourself." He said as he walked a little closer and Ciel felt rather nervous and backed away, but still keeping his hard glare.

"I will not be treated as a pet!" Ciel returned as he backed away a little more.

"You know, Alois is chained to a wall and whipped if he acts the way you do. Perhaps I shall try it as well. He seemed to get fast results." Sebastian smirked as he set a glass of water down on the night stand.

"Heh, you wouldn't dare. I'll go straight to Scot-" He stopped for a moment and then shook his head. "Straight to Liz-" He stopped again and panted slightly. " Straight to-"

"I believe you understand what would happen. You would go to whoever you may and beg them to stop me, but they would remember what the queen herself informed them. You were turned into a Neko at the lab and no longer have the ability to manage the things you did before. Ultimately sending you back to me with their apologies and sympathetic regards." The butler answered as he stood before the young lord who stared up at him with a fear that he tried to hide.

"Tsk...the nerve you have is commendable. Maybe I'll get the soul reapers involved and have them take care of you." The boy snapped and backed away again only to find himself with his back to the wall.

"The soul reapers are also aware of the situation. So that would unfortunately prove futile Ciel."

Ciel moved forward and shoved the demon butler away from him.

"Well either way it's true! I would rather take my life than spend my days as your Neko pet." The boy spat furiously and pulled a dagger out of the nightstand drawer. "Get away from me, demon. You are a lowly butler serving me, your thirteen year old Master, and you will do as I order you." The young boy growled as he held the knife out in front of him. "If you don't leave this instant, ill lunge this knife into my chest and take my life here and now."

Sebastian sighed in an annoyed manor and ran his fingers through his dark as night hair.

"Really young master your acting like a toddler..this is far from necessary." The demon said as he went over to the bed and laid out some clothes for Ciel to wear.

"Grr..I swear Sebastian. Get out..I will not serve a lowly bastard like yourself. I can't believe I ever allowed myself to trust you...prick." The young lord phantomhive ranted as he still held the dagger out in front of him, blade pointed to his chest. Sebastian looked the boy in the eye and began walking towards him again.

"Stop! I'll kill myself right now! And you'll have to clean up all my blood off the floor and cry that my soul escaped!"

Sebastian hummed a dark laugh and continued to the child, Ciel made up his mind and plunged the dagger at his chest, but before he could even figure out what happened or if he was dead or not, he found himself staring at the floor.

"W..what?"

"I believe a general thrashing is in order.." Sebastian said as he set the dagger on the night stand again. Ciel looked up and squirmed finding that he was resting over the demons lap.

"Unhand me immediately Sebastian! How dare you handle me in such a way!" The boy kicked and writhed over the demons knee.

"Sorry my lord but you must learn your place. The things you've done as of late, especially attempting to end your life are well deserving of punishment." He answered as he brought a gloved hand up to his mouth and bit down on each of the cloth fingers to remove his hand, allowing the glove to drop to the floor. A new wave of embarrassment and fear fell over the child Phantomhive.

"No! Sebastian! You have no right to-"

But he was silenced when a hard smack fell down on the boys rear. He jolted up slightly and looked on in shock at the floor below. More stinging slaps followed and the boy clenched his teeth through the pain, there was no way he was going to allow himself to cry at something such as this. He'd endeavored far worse. He'd been sold to a cult for heaven's sake, and he survived that. He was not going to give that stupid son of a bitch the pleasure of his tears. He wondered how much more he planned to humiliate the him. A fiery sting engulfed his bottom as Sebastian laid down slap after slap, finally the boy couldn't handle much more and a few stubborn tears fell over, then a new sting made itself known as the demon targeted his more sensitive upper thighs.

"S...Sebastian! S..stop! This is undignified in every way!" Ciel cried out as a few more tears escaped making him feel incredibly childish and weak. "Stop! Pl..please!" He begged through the painful slaps. "Master!" Ciel finally shouted desperately through a few more tears, gritting his teeth again. With this the assault ceased and Sebastian allowed him to get up. He looked on at his pet with approval but surprise as well. He attempted to wipe away a few of the left over tears that the boy had missed when he wiped his face, hopefully unknowing to Sebastian. When he did however, Ciel backed a step away, and wiped his face himself.

"Y...you..you had no right..." The boy stuttered as his lower end screamed with pain, which he tried his absolute hardest to ignore.

Sebastian smiled lightly and stood, walking over to the pride-crushed Neko.

"I am proud to be in contract with you, such a strong soul.." The demon said as he helped the child into something appropriate to wear to lunch. "The Trancy's will be arriving today. We will be having lunch outdoors with them." Sebastian said as he finished pulling up the boy's socks and buckling them around his legs so they wouldn't fall, then proceeded with buckling his shoes and putting his eye patch on. He took the boy to the bed and rubbed his back soothingly, the Neko growled at first but stopped and reluctantly leaned against the demon.

One o'clock came around fast, Ciel had remained in the library reading random books to keep his mind off of certain current events. At the moment, he was reading Alice in Wonderland. It had only just come out, he had a first edition. Supposedly it was selling like hot cakes and had very good reviews. So far Ciel had concluded that the little girl in the story, Alice, was merely an incompetent child who followed the wolf into its den every chance she got. If he'd seen a rabbit in a waste coat he would have assumed it was a delusion his mind created possibly from the heat of the day or dehydration and ignored he ever saw it.

A knock came at the door and a certain butler came in, Ciel's face flushed instantly and he looked away, burrying his nose back in the book.

"Our guests will be arriving very soon. Please come out to the garden." Sebastian said calmly as he walked his way up to the embarrassed Neko to see what he was reading.

"Ah, that came in yesterday. Apparently Lewis Carroll is quite the celebrity right now." He said with a grin as the Earl of Phantomhive stood.

The boy dropped the book on the chair not caring to mark his page and walked out, leaving the butler behind. He made his way out and down the hall to the front doors, opening them after putting his top hat on, trying his best to hide his ears, then walked out into the garden. Sebastian already had a blanket laid out and a side table with several different silver platters with silver lids to protect them until lunch began. Ciel sat himself under the tree with small white flowers all over, picking up a bloom that fell and plucking off each petal slowly.

"Ciel..hmhm...you look quite cute with that pout on your face. Tehehe, I wish I could have you for my own. Lock you up forever as my precious belonging." Alois chimed out of no where, hopping the rose hedge and sitting beside Ciel a little too close for comfort.

"Afternoon Alois, please don't nuzzle up to me, it's annoying." The phantomhive said as he straightened up a little. Quite annoyed with the blondes energy level.

"Aww..whats wrong? You seem bothered?" Alois complained. "Did something happen?" The blonde watched as a pink shade accented Ciel's face. "Oh...you got punished didn't you." He laughed out right dancing around the Phantomhive. Ciel stood and dusted himself off, flicking the flower stem at Alois. "Tehehe, did he whip you like Claude told him to?"

Ciel took two fistfuls of the Trancy's jacket and held him tight with a deadly glare.

"Shut up!" The boy snapped as he let go of the blonde, sending him to the ground. Alois got back up and danced around Ciel again. "Ciel got punished~ Ciel got punished~ Tehehe..." Alois sang as he skipped about. The dark haired boy snatched up Alois by the jacket again and this time smashed him up against a statue hard.

"Shut up you stupid whore bait!" Ciel yelled in his face, his single blue eye pooling with fury and embarrassment.

"My, my that's not a very nice way to greet a guest.." The voice of Claude came from up the walk from the manor entrance. Sebastian walking along beside him with a curious expression. Ciel glared back at Alois and dropped him, almost sending him into the fountain.