Hello everyone! I just want to thank everyone for all the kind reviews, favorites and follows this story has received, and I hope you enjoyed reading this story as much as I did writing it. As promised, here is the one and only Reliving Childhood Epilogue! Hope you all enjoy this little drabble of the after-events of my story. I hope you were all satisfied with the ending as well. I made this extra long for you too, so I hope you are happy with it. ^.^

BTW: If you're curious about my next story project, read the author's note at the end :).

Disclaimer:I do not own any of the respective Kuroshitsuji/Black Butler characters. I do however, own Seiren, Sophie, and any other OCs :).

Without further delay, I bring to you, The Reliving Childhood EPILOGUE!

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-Reliving Chilhood: Epilogue

Over a month has passed since Ciel and Sebastian's adventure in the Blackwood household, and two weeks since the pair had moved back to the Phantomhive Manor. Now in mid December, the effects of the potion that had turned Ciel young had long since worn off, leaving Ciel in his normal, yet short teenage body. Since then, Ciel had been busy reporting to the queen, and dealing with the official documents and assurances that the supposed 'child murderer' was taken care of.

Meanwhile, Seiren had begrudgingly agreed to let Ciel and Sebastian leave Blackwood, on one condition: That Sophie and Seiren accompany him. Seiren and Sophie had been introduced to the queen as servants of the child murderer whom Ciel had supposedly 'taken care of' and the queen had, in turn, agreed that Ciel take them into his household. However, the queen had also picked up on the relationship between the two, and in turn had ordered Seiren be Ciel's official benefactor and/or guardian, in any sense of the word.

Ciel had mock argued of course, having a reputation of a hard attitude to uphold, and respectfully attempted to sway the queen's decision. However, once he had finally backed down, he couldn't hide a smirk in his 'guardian's' direction, who in turn hid a sigh at the teenager's practically suffocating amounts of pride.

Sophie had found her place in the manor as Ciel's tutor, relieving Sebastian from the 'small' burden of teaching a stubborn Ciel, and with her copious amounts of knowledge from living with an eternal being for years, it was easy to explain things in an understandable manner. Not to mention she had a knack for making even the most dull subjects sound interesting.

The servants had been curious at first, even going so far as to secretly call Seiren the 'creepier and scarier Sebastian' when ever he passed by. Seiren had enjoyed their fear immensely of course, and took great humor in frightening Meirin, who was notorious for screaming like a banshee at anything remotely frightening. Leaving Sebastian in the annoying position of cleaning up innumerable amounts of plates and fine china. As if he didn't have enough of them to clean up daily despite Seiren's antics.

Everything had-for the most part-been quiet in the manor, Ciel had been given 'leave' for his honorable work for her majesty, and had decided to simply rest at home and not risk any mishaps by traveling anywhere, seeing as trouble seemed to follow the dark duo wherever they went.

At the current moment in time, we find Ciel in the Phantomhive manor's kitchen. It was something he would normally never do, but given the current circumstances of not having any work, or paperwork that he needed to work on immediately, or any schoolwork to finish, he had come down to watch Sebastian do whatever it was that he did at this time everyday...

In other words, he was completely and utterly bored.

"Isn't there anything more stimulating you can do, my lord?" Said the black-clad butler as he removed his jacket and replaced it with an apron. "It can't be the least bit interesting to watch me cook your dinner."

Ciel rolled his eyes as the butler tied the strings on his apron especially tight and tried to think of something else he could be doing, but nothing had come to mind five minutes ago, and nothing was coming to mind at the moment either. Seiren and Sophie had gone out into town on some sort of 'secret outing', and although Ciel was completely sure it had something to do with his upcoming birthday tomorrow, he'd decided to stay quiet and simply let them leave. Ciel looked around the room again and sighed at the memory, dreading the mandatory visit from Elizabeth and the bone-crushing hug that was sure to come with her.

"If I had anything better to do, isn't it obvious I would be elsewhere?" Ciel snapped, answering Sebastian's question.

Sebastian simply smirked knowingly and turned to gather the necessary ingredients to create the child's meal. It was painfully obvious to anyone near that his young master was brooding about his upcoming birthday, and Seiren and Sophie's excitement was only adding to it. The demon, on the other hand, was simply amused to see Ciel agitated, knowing it would only last for a few days. His smirk widening as he grabbed a few extra ingredients and set them down, he turned back to his obviously bored master and gestured to the ingredients.

"If you're completely set on staying here, why don't you help me make your dessert?" He asked, almost chuckling as Ciel's eyes instantly lit up at the thought of anything remotely sugary, and pretended to nod in a bored fashion.

Sebastian then helped Ciel into an apron and handed him a bowl, pouring pure cocoa powder into it. Ciel watched in carefully hidden intrest as Sebastian poured and scooped various things including eggs, flour and sugar into his bowl and handed him a wooden spoon, giving him silent permission to begin stirring.

"What are you making with this anyway?" Ciel wondered, half to himself.

"Hm, with all your experience eating it, I would have thought you would know, seeing what ingredients I put into it." Sebastian teased, his eyes never leaving the yet to be cooked goose in his hands as he set it down on a board to begin preparing it.

"It's my job to eat the food you make, not to judge it and take it apart like a food critic." Ciel retorted, switching the spoon to his other hand when it began to grow tired.

Sebastian merely chuckled and set a small, round glass tray in front of Ciel, gesturing for Ciel to pour the contents of the bowl into it. Surprised by Ciel's obliviousness to the now obvious dessert in progress, Sebastian rolled his eyes in mock annoyance and put a had on his hip as the little master poured away.

"If you still haven't noticed, that's chocolate cake batter you just stirred up, young master." He said flippantly as he took the now-full tray of batter and inserted it into the already heated oven.

Ciel sat down on a stool and watched as the oven's hot waves skimmed over the newly made batter in silent excitement, ideas popping into his head of how he wanted Sebastian to decorate it, and how much he would enjoy devouring it. Consequently, he began thinking about how Seiren and Sophie were most likely going to be heading to a bakery and picking out cakes for him. His mood took a drastic turn in the other direction, and a frown smeared his pale face.

Sebastian looked over his shoulder at the daydreaming teenager and let a frown grace his lips as well. He was amused when his master was agitated, since he was not known for his ample amount of patience, but when he happened to get extremely depressed, he tended to be nothing but moody, and not the least bit fun to watch. Sebastian turned around and sighed softly, mentally preparing himself for the mess and mayhem that would ensue with his next question.

"Master, would you like to decorate the cake yourself?"

"Isn't this one simply gorgeous Seiren?"

The elemental creature looked up at hearing his name and walked over to where his wife stood, gesturing to large cake the baker had brought out to her. The two had been all over London since early in the morning so Sophie could find 'just the right cake' and naturally, Seiren was required to accompany her, despite his discontentment with being outdoors in the sun with hundreds of people crowding the streets...

"Isn't that a bit too girly for Ciel, love?" Seiren said, gesturing to the ribbons and bows adorning the rather massive cake.

It was a four tier chocolate cake, with light blue/grey frosting and grey lines striped downwards across the four levels. The top had a small, gold crown decorating it and, there were three dark blue bows on each tier, placed delicately around the cake with long, sculpted, thin tails.

"Look at it Seiren, its so adorable," Sophie said, her voice light in happiness. "Ciel doesn't care much for how it looks either way, its chocolate, so it should satisfy him despite how it looks."

Seiren smiled at the gold crown atop the sugary, cavity-inducing sweet and nodded, handing the necessary funds to his wife before leaving to retrieve Tanaka from the carriage to assist him in carrying the large cake. Sophie spoke nonstop about her plans for the following day, some of which even Seiren had thought were too grand and imposing for Ciel to appreciate. He was sure a marching band would only give their charge a headache, and a bad mood.

"Ciel is so young, yet nothing I can think of that a child his age would like would ever interest him." Sophie said, sighing in defeat. Seiren reached out and intertwined his fingers with hers, smiling encouragingly.

"Ciel is different, we knew that from the start." Said Seiren. "But that does not mean he doesn't like childish things, it just means he hides it better than most adolescents."

Sophie smiled warmly in return and turned to the small window, realizing they had reached the mansion already. She and her husband assisted each other in carrying the cake while Tanaka put the horses away and made their way inside and to the kitchen. What they did not expect however, was to hear Ciel's voice coming from inside.

Seiren and Sophie made quick work of hiding the cake in a secure place to be moved later and stepped inside, their eyes widening at the sight before them.

"Young master, please be careful with that!" Sebastian's voice rang out, just as he grabbed the sculpting knife which Ciel had been haphazardly waving around as he placed edible beads around his frosting covered, sweets coated, sugar coma-inducing cake.

"Oh dear." Seiren said, his voice laced with amusement. Sophie had jumped forward as well and snatched the bag of beads from the table, her motherly instincts kicking into high gear.

Meanwhile Ciel simply leaned onto his elbows on the table and finished using the beads in his hand silently, his eyes scanning over his work with complete satisfaction.

"Please tell me that's not what you've been doing all afternoon." Sophie pleaded, though her mouth was turned slightly upwards with mirth.

"I had nothing better to do." Ciel shrugged, standing up and pulling his apron off.

He had gotten the entire table almost completely covered in toppings, frosting and multiple bags of edible decorations. After a bit of searching he had found every single type of frosting and topping and while Sebastian's back was turned he stuck them into the cake, covering them with frosting afterwards.

"Well now that you've made a significant mess for Sebastian to clean up," Sophie sighed, stepping forward and using a handkerchief to swipe at Ciel's face. "I think its best that you go take a bath now. Your covered in sugar!"

Ciel moved his face away in annoyance and grumbled out a 'fine.' before leaving the room to find Meyrin to draw his bath. As soon as he was well away from the kitchen, Seiren and Sebastian were able to successfully store Ciel's birthday cake in a secure place for the following evening, and Sebastian was able to clean up the mess created by his sugar-obsessed master in under an hour.

As Sophie and Sebastian got to work planning the next days events, Seiren headed upstairs to find Ciel. He looked in the boy's bedroom, finding it empty, and proceeded to go to his study. Again, he was faced with an empty room. Now slightly worried, Seiren began looking around in any place he thought Ciel could be, the classroom, the garden, the library...

It was while he was walking silently through a corridor however, that he heard an almost soundless hiccup from a room up ahead. He quickly approached the door, not recognizing the room or its purpose, and listened intently. Again, he heard a swift and heavy outtake of breath.

Opening the door quietly, he spotted his self-proclaimed son, sitting curled up in a window seat, his head buried in his knees. Seiren heard him sob quietly and there was no mistaking the heartbreaking sound he had heard had been his child's crying.

Wordlessly, Seiren sat beside Ciel and put a hand through his hair. Ciel's head shot up at the unexpected touch, tears falling soundlessly down his face as he locked eyes with his former oppressor.

Seiren opened his arms and Ciel couldn't help but jump into them, his sobs increasing in volume. Seiren wrapped his arms around the boy's tiny frame and looked down at him sadly as Ciel clung to his suit coat like a lifeline. Ciel had always become sad and depressed this time of year, and although he did his best to hide it, he had not expected to cry like he was at the moment, he hadn't cried since before his horrible imprisonment on his birthday all those years ago.

It took several long minutes for Ciel to calm down enough to pull away from Seiren and wipe at his eyes, desperately trying to rid himself of any evidence of his breakdown. Seiren watched in carefully hidden sadness as Ciel rubbed at his face, and thinking quickly, he snatched Ciel's wrists and pulled them away, holding them gently in his own.

"I-I...you weren't s-supposed to...find m-me..." Ciel stuttered. "I don't usually..."

"They'd be proud of you, Ciel." Seiren whispered, his eyes serious. Ciel's eyes filled once again with tears and he looked down, his hair covering his face in what Seiren could only assume was shame.

"H-How could they?" Ciel cried. "I haven't avenged them, I haven't even gotten revenge for myself, I can't do what my father could...I couldn't kill madam red..."

Seiren pulled Ciel close to his side and gently ran his hands through Ciel's hair. He knew Ciel still kept plenty of things to himself, though the two were getting better at communication, and Ciel had openly confessed to murder at the queen's request, but to what extent Seiren had never asked. Though now he wished he had.

"You are all the revenge they need, Ciel." Seiren said seriously. "You are living proof that they were not killed for nothing, your survival and success is a mockery to anyone who ever opposed your father, that is something he could never do."

Ciel stayed quiet, though he felt immensely better about facing the next day, he wasn't content enough to leave his new father's side. He rested his head on Seiren's shoulder and sighed a content look overcoming his features.

"You do know that it's also your birthday tomorrow correct?" Seiren said in an amused tone. Ciel rolled his eyes and groaned, the foreboding name associated with the day slipping out of his mouth like a forbidden curse:

"Lizzie."

"Oh you're simply ADORABLE!"

Ciel's world tilted as he was spun around faster than a missile could speed through the air, and as soon as it started it was over, and instead a crushing squeeze was replacing his dizziness.

Since early in the morning Ciel had been out and about away from the manor with his butler, who was tasked with 'distracting' Ciel until all the guests had arrived and everything had been set up for Ciel's birthday ball.

As soon as he'd been asked to 'survey his factories progress' however, he'd immediately known what the butler's true intentions were, and although he went along with it despite this, he was still heavily annoyed by the whole concept of having a party at his mansion.

Now however, he simply wanted desperately for Sebastian to take his soul.

"E-Elizabeth, what a surprise..." Ciel gasped, his breath coming out in pathetic wheezes.

"It is your birthday after all! How could I ever think of leaving you all alone on the glorious day when you were brought into this world!?" Elizabeth's squeaked out, and Ciel was sure if there had been any glass in the room it would have exploded already.

"Indeed, and how could I let my dear sister come unaccompanied by her older brother?"

Ciel glanced to the side in surprise. "Edward, I wasn't aware you were coming." Ciel said.

Elizabeth's brother looked offended as he wrenched Lizzie's arms away from Ciel in a protective manner. Though a good brother he was indeed, he tended to be extremely over-protective of his sister, and saw Ciel as a monster waiting to steal his sister's innocence and light.

"I will always come to save my sister from you!"

Ciel resisted the urge to roll his eyes. He jolted suddenly when he felt a hand fall on his head and looked up at the familiar touch of his Chinese business partner-and sketchy woman companion.

"Evening earl, special day for you isn't it?" Said Lau, with Ranmao nodding on his arm.

"I...suppose so."

Ciel watched in silent annoyance at the steadily growing amount of people in the ballroom, his eyes staying glued to his adoptive father's back as he greeted the guests in his stead. Ciel was still unhinged as of yesterday, the memories of the burning flames engulfing all sense, the yells of his parents and the voices of his kidnappers... They were so fresh in his mind he was beyond crying in grief. All he wanted was to go back to his room and simply exist for a while, with no responsibilities such as birthday parties to deal with.

An arm enclosing around his small shoulders brought him back down to earth and he let his frown lighten as the worried face of his mother came into view. She brushed back a stray lock of his hair and have him an encouraging smile, her eyes bright with what Ciel could only describe as pure love.

"If you really don't feel up to this, you'll tell me won't you darling?" She said, her voice soft and sweet.

"I'm fine, really." Ciel said, though his eyes were evidently full of fatigue and lingering depression. Sophie sneaked a kiss to his cheek, making Ciel's face become red, and pushed him toward the waiting crowd.

After a grand total of 4 hours full of greeting and chatting with the guests, sorting through gifts, (throwing out Lau's gift of cigars and Chinese dresses for Ciel...) And eating in the grand dining hall, Ciel was officially exhausted. Even as a child he had hated parties and now he just wanted to crawl into bed and sleep the night away.

"I hope you're enjoying your party Ciel." Said Seiren, joining Ciel's side for the first time that night. "You aren't getting tired are you? That would be such a childish thing, and you're eleven already!"

Ciel glared half heartedly in Seiren's direction as he processed the teasing tone in the man's voice, his eye sharp and embarrassed as he scowled at him.

"Of course I'm not tired," Ciel said quickly in defense. "And for the record, I'm fourteen, not eleven."

Seiren merely chuckled and beckoned Sophie to join them from across the room, waiting patiently for her to arrive before tapping a spoon to his wine glass and quieting the crowd.

"I believe it's time for the most important part of this event." Seiren said, smiling pleasantly. "If you all would join me on celebrating the birthday of my newly adopted son, we'll bring out the cake now."

Ciel reddened at the applause that came from the impromptu announcement of his 'adoption' and stared like a deer in the headlights as someone began singing 'Happy Birthday' and the occupants of the hall began to join in.

At this time Sebastian and Bardroy had made their way from the kitchen to the hall carrying the massive cake, Meyrin and Finny taking the task of opening the doors and then clearing a space at the head of the table, directly in front of Ciel.

Ciel resisted the urge to drool at the sight of the sugary mountain of confectionary and stood just a tad bit straighter in anticipation. Sophie pressed her fingertips to her lips as she tried to contain her laughter at Ciel's reaction, and Seiren gave Ciel a thumbs-up as Sebastian cut the first piece, a rather large one, and handed it to him.

As everyone was served and seated Seiren knelt beside Ciel and turned his chair towards him, his demonic strength finding no hindrance. He smiled up at Ciel's curious and already crumb-littered face and pulled a small now m box from his pocket.

"I didn't think you'd be very much impressed with a large and boastful gift," Seiren said, smiling as Sophie joined him at his side. "But since you agreed willingly to accept us even with all of our past mistakes and evil actions, it's only fair to give you this much."

Ciel accepted the gift and peeled off the lid unceremoniously. What he saw was a gold ring, not unlike his own blue and silver one, but with an orange tinted stone and vine like engravings along sides, with the jewel cut into a perfect rectangle.

Ciel thought briefly that he has seen it somewhere before, and glanced up, seeing that Seiren and Sophie were wearing slightly different versions of it on their ring fingers. Ciel brought up the ring to the light and watched the stone shine in all its brilliant glory.

"We are not asking you to throw away the Phantomhive legacy," Said Sophie, taking the ring and slipping it into Ciel's right pointer finger, beside his Phantomhive family ring. "However if you like, you could share ours as well."

Ciel took barely a moment to ponder the offer before he lunged forward and grabbed the two roughly in a hug, his eye shut tight lest he cry in genuine happiness. Sophie and Seiren both engulfed Ciel in their arms as well, their eyes meeting in a single, perfect, happy moment of love and contentment. A moment that would follow then for years to come.

~Fin

Well what do you know, I actually finished a story!

I sincerely hope this satisfied you guys who were hungry for more of this, and as of right now this story is officially complete. However whether or not a sequel is made is up to the demand for it and my other projects in progress.

IF YOU'RE HERE TO FIND OUT WHAT I'M UP TO NEXT, that will be a whole other series, and it won't be a Black Butler fic unfortunately. I will finish up my other kuroshitsuji fics but I won't be starting another series until I finish those.

NEXT SERIES:Will be a Danny Phantom fanfic (If you're a fan say Going Ghost in your review ;)!) It will be similar to this one, since I'm only good for writing angst X/ and will be between Danny and Vlad. If you are interested in reading it, let me know! And if you have no idea what Danny Phantom is all about I implore you to check it out, you might be all up to date by the time we meet again ;) but until then,

Bye bye for now!

-Priscilla King