This one is a slight long. So I hope you enjoy it. :) Now please be good readers and review lots and lots hehe. ^^ And Alois will probably always be annoying lol. Sorry to say but it's true. Thanks again for the reviews. I will post another when I see that this one is liked. :) I seem to have a lot of views so thats a good sign. Good luck. :P
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Before they went home, Sebastian, Ciel, Claude and Alois made a stop at a park to let the boys run. Alois went right on ahead and launched himself on top of a jungle gym that was there in a sand pit. The other blue haired Neko Ciel, however, decided against it. He simply sat on the bench beside Sebastian and without expression watched Alois swing along bars and fall every now and then.
"Ciel?" Sebastian asked after a moment of utter silence.
"Hm?"
"Don't you want to go play as well?"
The boy shook his head and leaned back, wiping a smudge off of the Phantomhive ring he wore. The butler was curious of his behavior but wrote it off.
"Perhaps another time then.." The demon answered as he returned his eyes to the loud blonde.
"Master...I have a...proposition for you.." The boy said after another few quiet minutes.
The butler raised a brow and turned to look down at his pet, who was looking straight up at him with a determined eye.
"What is it kitten?"
The boy looked back down at the grass below the bench.
"I wish to continue being a nobleman of London." He said with confidence.
"My where did this come from. You really do have the most intriguing mood swings. One moment you are submissive to my every whim, and the next your talking of things such as this."
Sebastian hinted a slight smile.
"You're my pet Ciel.." He said calmly but with a tone of authority.
"I understand that I can't yet rival your strength. However, If I agree to go along with this, and if I submit enough to your liking, I wish to be allowed to remain the queens guard dog. I wish to continue to work along side the police force."
The demon looked over his young Neko with a shine of interest. The boy was so delectable. Even in times such as these when he had no choice but to bow down to his orders and allow himself to be the pet of a butler, he still found ways to protect some of his pride.
"Hm...we will see what happens. I would assume that the telegram ash promised to send would be at the manor by now. Shall we see to it?"
Ciel nodded and stood, only to be knocked down when Alois came over and hopped on his back. The blue haired boy was able to steady himself for a moment with Alois on his back but then promptly fell down smashing his and Alois's faces into the grass below. Ciel jumped up to his feet raging mad, chibi flailing to try and kill the other Neko but Sebastian managed to hold him back and the blonde hid behind his master.
"Alois! You imbecilic son of a no good-!" Ciel attacked but had a had thrown over his mouth.
"My apologies Claude. Shall we be leaving now?" Sebastian corrected as Ciel fumed hot streams of steam above his head with fire in his eyes at the other Neko. His face temporarily grass stained and throbbing.
They made their ways home, Claude dropped off Sebastian and the furious Neko at the Phantomhive manor and then proceeded to go home to their own. Ciels butler helped guide him into the manor to get cleaned up. When they walked in they were greeted by the three servants all with evil looks in there eyes.
"Can I help you?" Ciel snapped as Sebastian stood by wondering whatever they were up to.
"We want'a know wha's been 'appenin. We all know full well that the young masta' Ciel wouldn't eva' allow himself to be leashed or collared like some stray dog." Bardroy said, flame thrower in hand.
"Yeah! That's right! We're gon'ta get to the bot'm o' this yes we is!" The oh so talented gunman maid chimed in, a frying pan in her grasp.
"Start talking!" Finny added, holding a pair of sheers.
Ciel looked on in shock and then tried as hard as he could but simply couldn't help himself, he burst out laughing in long drawls. Nearly collapsing to his knees and tears strolling down his face.
"M...Masta'?!" All three of the servants said at once.
Sebastian smiled and walked up to them.
"I do give my sincerest apologies. The young master Ciel has become my pet as I tried to explain before. He has agreed to it as it holds his best interests. We will be going to visit the queen tomorrow. Please, be sure to have all of your chores finished when we return home." He said.
Ciel finally gained better control of himself and walked up to the three.
"I...hehe..I'm sorry for being so rude but..haha..you all looked so incredibly ridiculous and pathetic. However, I appreciate your concern..hmhm..What Sebastian says is true, please don't worry about it. I can handle myself, and one day when the time is right I will find a way to put him back in his place. Haha.." Ciel chuckled and wiped another stray tear from his eyes and allowed Sebastian to walk him to the baths now that he was thoroughly covered in dirt and grass stains.
"Wh...what do you suppose just 'appened? Have any of you eva' seen the young masta' laugh before?" Bard as but didn't get an answer. Instead the three simply sighed with complete confusion and went back into doing their duties.
Ciel slipped into the water without complaint and allowed himself to sink down until the only part of him that was not submerged was from his nose up. His ear twitched a little when Sebastian filled the bucket of water.
"Please allow me to wash your hair."
Ciel sat up a little more and did as was asked. He started laughing a little again.
"Ciel? Whatever is so incredibly funny?" Sebastian asked curiously with a smile.
"Oh it's nothing. Just imagining those three bafoons trying to stop you with a flame thrower, a frying pan and a pair of garden sheers."
"Hmhm..yes it would have been quite amusing however, I may have accidentally killed them had I played along."
"Yes indeed. Well, don't ever play along then."
After his bath he went to his room, where Sebastian refastened his collar and shined the tag which of course read that he was the property of Sebastian Michaelis. The boy allowed his ear to be scratched and felt rather lonesome as Sebastian left after redressing the boy in his night shirt.
"S..Sebastian..uh..master...stay with me." He said with as a soft pink colored his cheeks.
"Whatever for?"
Ciel blushed harder and sunk under his blankets more.
"Just...Just do it. I order you." He mumbled and the demon simply smiled and went over to him bowing slightly and laying across the bed beside him.
"Yes my lord."
Ciel was surprised to hear this but accepted it and drifted off to sleep, content.
They arrived to see the queen just before noon the next day, Ash of course meeting them upon arrival.
"I wish to speak with the Queen." Ciel said and Ash sighed but led the two back into the Queens chambers where they found her laying in bed, slightly ill looking.
"Ah, the young Lord Phantomhive." She said in a hushed voice. " It's wonderful to see you. What is it you need?" She said.
Ciel walked up to her only to realize that his leash wasn't quite long enough. He glared a little back at the demon but instead stood where he was and proceeded.
"You majesty, It is my most dire wish that you allow me to continue my work for you."
She looked saddened.
"Ciel I'm sorry but I-"
"Please allow me to finish Majesty. I have accepted my fate as the new pet of my butler. I understand that he is my master for my best interest. However, I spoke with him and he has agreed that I may continue to serve you under his guidance and command."
"But Ciel, with your new Neko instincts, you could become very easily distracted, and thus harmed if you were ever to confront an enemy." She said with a concerned expression as she laid in her bed.
"Please my Lady..please allow me to do this. If not this I have very little to live for other than to aven...well...very little anyways.." He said glancing back at his butler who nodded and his eyes glowed for a split second. The queen sighed heavily and looked up at the drapes that hung over her bed gracefully.
"Very well, I will see that your name is relisted as an official authority. But please, Ciel, your just a child. Be careful." She said and then Sebastian tugged on his leash a little and walked him out. He words penetrated deep. 'Just a child'? He wasn't about to accept that.
Ash came up with an official letter and Ciel went to take it from him but the man drew it back.
"Hmhm..not for you silly.."
Ciel looked incredibly insulted as the man in white handed Sebastian the letter. The boy sighed and closed his eyes, silently imagining the things he would have ordered Sebastian to do to this man if he had the right to say so.
"Thank you for your time. Please enjoy the rest of your day." Sebastian said as he began to walk away, but felt a slight resistance. Ciel growled slightly when Ash knelt down and patted him on the head and smirked.
"Be a good little kitty now..hmhm.."
Ciel clenched his fists so tight that his nails dug into his skin. Sebastian looked expressionless and tugged on the leash again, walking Ciel out to the carriage.
"That man has a lot of nerve.." The child phantomhive said to the butler who sighed.
"Yes it would seem so."
Before the Neko climbed into the carriage Sebastian noticed a drop of blood drip from the boys hand onto the ground below.
"Ciel, your hurt." He said and kneeled down taking out a handkerchief tearing it and wrapping each piece tightly around the boys injured hands. Making him wince a little.
"It's nothing really."
"Your well being is not nothing Ciel..remember that.." Sebastian said as he climbed atop the carriage and cracked the whip for the horses to take them home.
That night while Ciel was asleep, he felt a form laying next to him, assuming it was Sebastian he snuggled into the warth, but heard a childish sigh of pleasure. Ciel sat up and was about to scream but he had a hand cover his mouth.
"Shh...hmhm..we have some work to do.." Alois said in the dark. " Try not to speak until we're outside or your master might hear you. Hmhm.." He removed his hand.
"Nya?" Ciel mewed and went wide eyed and through his hand over his mouth. "Why do I keep doing that? Nya.." He complained and covered his mouth again.
"Shhh..he'll hear you, shut your trap." Alois said and then jumped out the window.
"Are you insane?!Nya!" Ciel screamed but Alois again covered his mouth and landed gracefully, running off with him. After they were off the phantomhive property Alois stopped and set him down. Ciel shoved him.
"Are completely mad?! Sebastian will kill me!"
"Oh he will not, stop being such a drama cat." Alois said as he took off a back pack and hopped on the still tired Neko, forcing him to swallow a small blue tablet.
"What the hell was that?!" Ciel bellowed.
"Listen, tonight me and you are going to find that fat fool from the Hotel and make him pay for getting us into trouble. Plus I have a feeling he is scheming something and I want to find out what. Hehehe.." Alois laughed.
"I'm not going to...going to..." The phantomhive boy started but began feeling a little more happy-go-lucky and his eyes dilated a little more.
"Hehe, it's okay, I love cat nip too ^^ Does that make me a druggy?" The boy asked himself but then took hold of Ciel's hand and they took off into London.
"I'm not even dressed though!" Ciel complained.
"Oh hehe, I have you covered. I brought you something to wear ^^" The blonde Neko purred as he stopped again and shoved Ciel in a bush throwing him the back pack. " Put those on."
The phantomhive boy blushed ferociously but complied. It was better than being seen with his night shirt on. He walked out a few moments later with the clothes on, his shirt buttoned crookedly. The wrong buttons in the wrong holes, and his bow tie a little crooked as well which Alois actually straightened out for him.
"Alois..what...what if we get caught? You know what, I'm going back and I'm blaming all of this on you. Besides, this attire is definitely not for me." He said as he turned around and began walking back, his high boots clicking on the ground. Alois ran up and grabbed him by the arm.
"But just think how proud they will be if we find out that they were up to no good and stopped them?" The blonde suggested as he again pulled Ciel down the road further towards the city.
"Alois, I can't. I'm not going to get punished for something you came up with and dragged me into!Nya" He stomped his foot. " Damn that stupid nya I can't stop saying it! Nya!"
"Hehehehehe, it's okay, master says that some Neko's take on that trait and can't help it. I fortunately didn't Hehe. You sound positively adorable hmhm..Now here, take this." He said holding out a pill.
"No." Ciel snapped looked off in the distance at the manor which was almost out of sight.
"Damn it you stupid fraidy cat, here!" The blonde said, again tackling Ciel to the ground and forcing another blue tablet down his dry throat. " Try to fight this one! Hehe.." Alois said but Ciel could feel it already, he lost all concern and perked his ears up, which the blonde through a hat over. "We can't let any one see we are Neko's or they may try to capture us for ransom. Keep your tail under your coat. Hmhm."
Ciel nodded and followed. The night sky bore no moon tonight due to cloud cover, so the darkness engulfed everything which surrounded them as they walked.
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Sebastian: Hmhm..I will come after you Ciel..
Ciel: o.o But..It was Alois! Not me! You read it yourself!
Alois: Tehehehe..*snicker*
Me: Oh come now Ciel, your to crafty for old bassy. Hmhm..You managed to get him to kiss a soul reaper hehe this should be nothing.
Ciel:Heh...r...right..um...yea..too crafty.
Sebastian: Hmhm...I'll enjoy my wait to the next chapter..