A/N: Poor Claude. He always gets the bad chores. XDD

Maow is © to Hieislittlekitsune (on deviantART); Alois Trancy and Claude Faustus are © to Toboso Yana's Black Butler/Kuroshitsuji II; Story is © to moi~

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." – Henry Brooks Adams

Alois Trancy grew accustomed to his new "pet" Maow: a girl who believes she's a cat. He would spend a lot of his time pampering her. He would spend a lot of his time playing with her or even spoiling her.

Maow definitely loved her home as well as her master. Being a spoiled kitty, she would roam around the Trancy manor and do whatever she deemed fun. But, in doing so, she would end up being chased by either the three triplet servants - Thompson, Timber, and Canterbury - or by the main butler Claude.

To be brutally honest, Claude hated the cat-girl. His job as a butler was stressful already and bringing Maow into the house only made it worse off for him. Maow loved to mess up his work and interrupt him whenever he was concentrating on a task. Even though it led her to be chased out by the demon butler, she kept coming back.

A very irritated Claude was redoing the laundry that Maow had muddied with her "paws". As soon as he chased her off, he put them back in the washing basket to clean off the dirt.

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Not too long after, the very irritated Claude was redoing the laundry. Maow had muddied the bedsheets with her "paws" and even Claude's shoes that he had just finished polishing. Once he chased her off, he put the sheets back into the soapy bucket to clean off the dirt.

I swear that cat-girl is a nuisance, he thought angrily. The master should separate himself from her for his own good.

"Claude~" called Alois. "I want you to come here!"

The demon butler sighed as he followed the voice of his master. In the bedroom, Maow sat on Alois' bed, tilting her head to the side with curiosity. Claude noticed that all the other servants were in the room as well.

"Yes, Master?"

The blonde giggled and told Claude to stand next to Hannah, the Trancy maid. He did so and Alois laughed again.

"Look, Maow! I'm going to teach you how to talk!"

"Meow?" The cat-girl tilted her head again, licking her paw.

Alois pointed to himself. "Master! Now be a good girl and repeat after me, Maow. Mas-ter."

Maow blinked and replied with a "Maows!"

"Close enough." Then Alois pointed to Maow and said, "Pet!"

"Maow!"

Alois blinked. "No, Maow. I said 'pet'. You're supposed to say 'pet."

"Master," Claude pushed his glasses up his nose. "I believe what you're doing is impossible. The girl has been manipulated to believe she's a cat and, therefore, no longer understand's human speech."

He pouted. "You're wrong! Maow will learn something from this. You're such an idiot, Claude!"

"Idiot."

The two turned around at the sound of Maow's voice. She was still in the same spot, staring at them with curiosity. Tilting her head slightly, she repeated the word, pointing at Claude.

"Idiot."

Claude glared as he clenched his fist while Alois clapped his hands. "Yay! Maow said her first word! Told you that she would, idiot~"

Again, the demon butler pushed his glasses up in silence. I hate my life.