His Butler: Lonely

The demon gazed out upon the human world with brilliant ruby eyes, a hand sweeping forward to push raven bangs behind his ears.

It was quiet for once. All the others were either asleep or staring out the window at the falling rain. It was beautiful in the light of the setting sun, each drop a vivid gold color.

He glanced out at the letter in his hand, temptation filling him. He wanted to soo bad, but the young master would be furious. He couldn't help but wonder if he could get away with it. If so, for how long? And would it in the end, be worth it?

He looked down at the letter once more before grabbing his coat. The young master would just have to learn to deal with it. This was a risk he was going to have to take.

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Sebastian walked inside the seemingly plain building, shaking the rain droplets off his ebony black jacket. Cages lined the walls, each one large enough to house a single person comfortably. The rest of the store was divided up with long aisles contain pet food, collars and other pet related things.

He looked down at the letter in his white gloved hand; he had not been sure when he saw that it was Claude who had forwarded the ad to him that it would be genuine.

Nekos for sale!

Lovely companions for other worlders!

Completely human in appearance save for animal ears and tails.

The perfect companion for an other worlders looking for a more desirable pet.

He didn't other to read the rest. He hoped that them being part human would save his young master from being allergic. He didn't know what he would do if that came to be untrue.

Curious, he walked down the long line of glass cages where the nekos resided. He waited for one to catch his vivid red eye as he walked down the line, the desire to own a cat of his own, strong within him.

When he finally reached the last cage he turned to leave. He couldn't help but feel disappointed as he walked towards the door. There would be no nekos in his future it seemed. What a pity.

He was about the grab the door to leave when he felt the burn of eyes upon his exposed back. He turned to meet the stare of the fool who had bothered to stare at him.

He turned to see a young woman sitting on the bottom of one of the few cages he had over looked. Her ears pricked forward as she stared at him avidly with curious blue eyes, her head tilted to one side. Long honey brown hair fell in softly rolling waves down her back, and ears the same color of her hair stood on top of her head, a black spot on the back of each ear.

She was quite lovely with her slender figure and her gentle curves, her blue eyes sparkling in her slightly oval face.

He walked over to her cage and crouched to be eye level with the little neko.

She studied him curiously before risking a shy smile, the tips of fangs peeking through her shell pink lips. He couldn't help the small smile that turned up the corners of his porcelain lips.

"Can I help you sir?"

Sebastian tore his eyes away fro the neko girl to look over his shoulder to see the owner of the store standing over him a slightly awed look upon his face, "We don't get demons in here very often."

Sebastian stood, towering over the man, "Yes, well not all demons have a liking for cats, and yes, I believe you can be of some help to me today."

He looked down at the pretty little neko sitting at the bottom of her cage, face tilted up so she could look up at his own. "I would like your information on this neko," he pointed at the neko in the cage whom he had been looking at.

The owner nodded and smiled slightly, but it was cold, "I see you found the jewel of our collections, aint she a beaut?"

Sebastian looked at the man impatiently and nodded.

"This here neko is unnamed; she's nineteen years of age, friendly and quiet, the most innocent little thing to ever come through theses doors."

Sebastian studied the girl thoughtfully as she pushed her sweeping bangs out of her luminous blue eyes, his mind already made up "How much?"

The store owner considered, stroking his thick beard thoughtfully, 'hmmm 19 hundred and she's yours, and that's quite a deal mind you."

Sebastian simply nodded and pulled out the desired amount from a hidden coat pocket and handed it to the greedy man whom he had decided he disliked greatly.

The neko watched all of this with wide eyes and stood excitedly. Her dark tail lashing back and forth behind her, swooshing the heavy folds of her dress. He couldn't but help but smile, she was simply adorable.

The man exited through a door that leads to a back room with the entrances to all of the cages. He then opened the door to her cage and roughly grabbed the girl by her arm and yanked her roughly out of the cage, pulling her behind him. This brought a disapproving frown to Sebastian's lips.

The man reentered the room, towing the poor neko behind him, her long hair swinging behind her as she trotted to keep but with him. The man stopped in front of the demon and stepped side with a flourish presenting the girl to him.

The girl froze for a moment before shyly approaching him, blue eyes wide with worry.

She is so cute, Sebastian thought silently to himself, smirking and resisted the urge to reach out and stroke her ears.

"I-I I cannot introduce myself Master, for I have no name," she stuttered and Sebastian startled at being called master.

"It's ok, I shall call you Aurora and I am not 'Master' but Sebastian."

The neko brightened and stepped closer to him tail swishing happily. "Thank you!"

The man returned with a silver pendent on s silver chain, the name Aurora engraved upon it and handed it to Sebastian :a collar.

Sebastian took it and stepped forward and placed it around her slender neck, purposely brushing her ears with his hands as he did so. She smiled happily up at him and moved to stand beside him, "Shall we go home now?"

Sebastian looked down at her and smirked, taking in her eager face framed by wavy locks, her ears pricked forward.

"Yes." Oh master was going to loooove this.