A cagebird out in the big wide world

Chapter 1

"I leave you two do your duties while the young master and me are in the mission and what happens? An expensive set of dishes is shattered and the kitchen is almost burned down. How do you explain this?" Sebastian asked calmly.

The manor's chef Baldroy and maid Mey-Rin glanced at each others with embarrassment. The manor's steward Tanaka stood next to them and drank his tea.

"I-I w-was polishing silverwares when I went to get a polish. When I returned with the polish, I stumbled and when I fell I accindently grabbed the tablecloth and then the set of dishes on the table fell in the floor and shattered! I'm so sorry, Mr. Sebastian!" Mey-Rin cried.

Sebastian just sighed and turned to face the chef. "Baldroy. The burned kitchen... Does this situation includes a flamethrower?" Sebastian asked with expressionless face.

"Yes..." Baldroy answered and ignited his cigarette: "I had tried to make my flamethrower little bit better and I would had like to see how much firepower I was able to add it, so I tried it with the meat in the kitchen."

"Of course," Sebastian sighed. Finally the dark butler said: "Clean your mess. After it you must meet our temporary guest."

Baldroy and Mey-Rin exchanged surprised glances. Tanaka gave a confused "ho ho ho".

"What a hell?" Baldroy said quietly. Baldroy and Mey-Rin had finished cleaning, so Sebastian has decided to introduce them their guest.

In front of them stood a boy.

The boy was young, maybe 14 or 15 years old, he has shaved head and big, turquoise eyes. But boy's eyes and face were expressionless. He was like a unfinished doll.

"Baldroy, Mey-Rin and Tanaka. Here is our guest," Sebastian informed servants: "He stay with us until further notice. Treat him well."

"Welcome in the Phantomhive... umm... What's your name?" Mey-Rin asked for boy. The boy said nothing, he just stared at her with expressionless look. This annoyed Baldroy a little bit.

"Hey! Hadn't anybody teach manners to you? She asked your name," the chef said strictly.

When Baldroy rose his hand to take his cigarette out of his mouth, the boy flinched and hid behind the Sebastian's back. Baldroy stared at the boy with confusion and gave a questioning look to Sebastian.

"He misunderstood your purposes," Sebastian explained: "He thought that you are going to slap him or something."

"What? I have never slap children," Baldroy said with hint of offend.

"Very good," Sebastian said. "Because you are going to share your room with him, Baldroy."

The chef stared the butler for a moment until he said: "Umm... Okay."

Sebastian picked his pocket watch, check the time and nodded to himself. "I must now prepare an evening tea for the young master. Tanaka, would you give a tour for our guest?" Sebastian asked from his predecessor.

Tanaka had changed his mini size into his normal size and he bowed while smiling friendly: "With pleasure. Please this way, young man."

When the boy shyly turned to follow Tanaka, Baldroy and Mey-Rin noticed a taattoo, S-012, in the boy's neck. Before neither of them get a chance to ask about the taattoo, Tanaka and the boy had left the room.

"What was that taattoo?" Baldroy asked from Sebastian.

"Don't worry about it," the butler said calmly.

"Oh! He didn't tell his name!" Mey-Rin remembered suddenly.

"He doesn't have name," Sebastian said. Baldroy and Mey-Rin stared at Sebastian with shock.

"How it is possible that he doesn't have name?" Baldroy demanded. "Of course he must have name. What does we call him then?"

"Call him something decent name," Sebastian said calmly. Then Sebastian shooed the chef and the maid back to their works.

Baldroy had finally ready with his works and now he was going to his bedroom. He was also thinking the boy and his talk with Sebastian just a moment ago...

[flashback]

"Baldroy. Because you will share your room with our guest, here is something you should know about the boy," Sebastian said after he returned with the cart in the kitchen.

Baldroy removed his cigarette from his mouth and turned to face the butler: "Spit it out."

"Just like I said, our guest have had a hard life. Don't force him tell anything about it and don't ask anything about his taattoo," Sebastian advised: "Remember also not to make sudden movements. The boy may mistake again and think you as a threat. Do you want to know what happened to people who were going to kill him?"

"Umm..." Baldroy said with a little uneasily after hearing this.

"He killed everybody who were in the same building where the man who tried kill the boy was. Everybody." Sebastian said calmly. Baldroy stared Sebastian with his jaw dropped.

Finally the chef got back his ability to talk: "Did I understand? The boy is cold-blooded killer and you put me share the room with him?"

"No, no," Sebastian waved his hand soothingly: "He isn't 'cold-blooded killer'. I think he will kill only if he feels himself threatened. So don't do anything what will scare him or we must hire a new chef... Althought that wouldn't be a big loss."

[flashback end]

"Well, I think I must hope the best... and prepare for the worst," Baldroy sighed before he opened the door of his bedroom. Just when he stepped in the room, Baldroy flinched when he saw the boy sitting on the another bed. There was utter silence in the room when they stared each others. Finally Baldroy opened his mouth: "Yo."

The boy stared him, expressionlessly and silently.

"Umm... Did you like the tour?" Baldroy asked little uneasily. The boy said still nothing.

Baldroy sighed. The boy definitely didn't want to talk so the chef decided to leave the boy alone. Baldroy walked to his chest of drawers, picked his night clothes and changed his clothes. Then he went to his bed and said: "Good night."

He wasn't surprised when the boy didn't answer. Baldroy closed his eyes and tried to fall asleep. He was finally sleeping when...

queak queak queak queak

"What a hell?" Baldroy thought drowsily.

queak queak queak queak

"What's that sound?" the chef thought to himself with knitted brows.

queak queak queak

Baldroy sat up and looked around.

queak queak queak

Very quickly Baldroy turned to way he heard the sound and he surprised when he discovered the sound's source: the boy jumped on the bed.

"Boy! What do you think you are doing?" Baldroy asked, annoyed that his sleep was disrupted.

The boy turned to face him and said: "Funny sound..."

Baldroy sighed annoyedly and didn't notice that the boy had said his first words during his time here: "Why must you now jump on the bed? Didn't you jump enought as a kid?"

The boy stared the man and just then Baldroy saw something in the boy's eyes that he had seen before: here was fear in the boy's eyes. That made Baldroy thought something before the situation would turn unexpected. Finally he said with as soothing voice as possible: "Hey, boy. It's 12 PM. People want to sleep now. Go under your blanket and try sleep. Okay?"

The boy obeyed timidly and curled under the blanket. Baldroy was going to get back to sleep when he noticed a burning candle on the bedside table and he asked: "Do you want that candle burn tonight? Does it feel safer?" The man saw top of boy's head nodding under the blanket.

"Okay. Good night," Baldroy said with yawn and pulled his blanket over himself.

To his surprise, he heard very quiet voice saying: "Good night..."

Okay. This is my first Kuroshitsuji – fanfiction, so characters may be little bit out of character. So what you think about? Should I continue this or just delete this? Review your opinions, please.