Kuroshitsuji- Out of Place 03

It was cloudy on the streets today. You might have found it dismal, but it seemed like a nice day to me. After all, any day that there were less people on the streets was a good day. The only downfall of today was that it would probably rain and there was no place for me to go. Right on queue, the rain started. I hurried to the nearest overhang to shelter myself and crouched there with the food I had stolen, devouring it greedily.

Out of the corner of my eye, I could see someone come and stand next to me to get out of the rain. I ignored them.

"Shouldn't you pay for that?" I jumped at the familiar voice.

"Ciel?" I blushed, "Have you been following me?"

He sighed, "If you're stealing food to survive then why don't you just say something?"

"Oh, I pay for it alright; you wanna see my scars?" I snapped.

He looked a bit surprised, then frowned, "Nevermind. What I really wanted was to ask you about someone,"

He asked about any suspicious people that were in the area around a certain time. I gave the description of a couple of people. I guessed I wasn't much help, because he seemed dissatisfied when Sebastian showed up to get him and they left.

So it was just about a case he was working on. For a second I'd thought the brat actually cared. It was my fault, though- I shouldn't think such wishful thoughts. I cried anyway. It was stupid and wasteful of energy, I know, but he was the closest thing to a friend I had and it hurt when he acted that way.

I no longer wanted to stay here, so, even though the rain was still pouring, I started walking. Once upon a time, the rain had been nice company. That was back when I had a house to dry off in. Now the rain was just cold and carried the danger of making me sick.

I walked back to the cemetery and wandered around for a bit before sitting against one of the graves and closing my eyes. A moment later I heard footsteps approaching and the raindrops ceased to fall on my face.

"Prince, is this her?"

"I don't know- she doesn't look like anyone Ciel would know,"

When I opened my eyes, there were two Indian men looking down at me. One was very tall and strong-looking with white hair. The other was pretty average in comparison with dark hair and eyes. They both wore fancy, foreign clothing and jewelry. For a moment we stared at eachother.

"Hi!" The dark haired one exclaimed suddenly, "Are you Ciel's friend?"

"Oh- yeah, I guess," I told him, unsure.

"Alright, come on then!" He grabbed my hand, pulled me to my feet and started dragging me away.

"Ah! What are you doing? Stop!" I cried.

He stopped and turned to look at me, "Huh? But Ciel said to find you and take you home with us and treat you like a guest,"

I started, "Ciel?"

"Yeah," He continued, "But if you'd really rather sit outside in the rain then I guess you don't have to come,"

I promptly agreed to come with them. On the walk over to Ciel's house I learned that their names were Agni and Soma and that Soma was a prince and Agni was his servant.

Soma was just explaining how Ciel had trusted them to look after his house in the city when suddenly he stopped walking and just started staring at me.

"What? What is it?" I stepped away from him, nervously.

"You look like Ciel," He said, out of nowhere. Then he gasped and grabbed my hands, "Are you his long-lost sister?"

I tried to pull away from him, "No, we're not related-!"

He wasn't listening, "Then you're my sister!" He pulled me into a tight embrace, then pulled back and looked me up and down with a look of horror on his face.

"Agni, my sister has been starving to death and sleeping on the streets! We must take her home and feed her this instant!" He proclaimed.

"Yes, Prince!" Agni agreed at the top of his lungs and lifted me off the ground. They then sprinted to the house with me as though I could drop dead at any second. Once we got there I managed to convince them to let me bathe and find dry clothes while Agni was cooking for us.

I walked into the dining room where Soma was sitting, "Where's Ciel at?"

"Oh, he left already," Agni explained, "I told him he should wait for you, but he left anyway,"

"Oh," My heart fell, why did that child always act so cold?

All throughout dinner Agni and Soma insisted on feeding me, even though I told them I really wasn't that weak. At first I was mad at them, but they just ended up making me laugh. With these two around, I didn't think I would ever be able to concentrate on sad things again.