[Setting: 19th Century London]
The guests of the ball watches as a handsome blonde charms another lady while his companion, a tanned one, is being surrounded by girls. The women watch in envy towards the girl the blonde is flirting with, and the men wishes they were the tanned teenager.
Everyone sees as the other excuses himself from the ladies and went over to the blonde. "Kise, let's go!" Aomine hisses as he pulls Kise by the arm, dragging him away from the beautiful girl he was talking to earlier.
"Aominechii!" Before he can be out of sight, Kise shoots a smile at the girl, "I'll see you around, my lady!" The girl blushes and waves at him goodbye.
Once they were outside the ballroom, Aomine lets go of the blonde, faces him, and says, "Kise, stop fooling around! That Miyagi guy has already went out! Remember that we are posing as bidders for the auction of humans. Don't let your guard down, or else, Midorima will kill us."
All fun disappeared from Kise's face. He becomes serious, nodding at Aomine. They both sneak a glance at the ballroom wherein most of the comers have already gone for the auction.
Kise Ryota and Aomine Daiki are both sons of Dukes, earning them the title Marquis. Though they should be enjoying the aristocratic life, the two spends their time doing missions for the Intelligence Team.
This night, their current task is to see if the rumour about the auction of humans is true, and if it is, then they would need to bid for a slave themselves to bring back proof to the head of their team, Midorima Shintaro.
Posing as the rich men they are with the want to buy a slave, they have graced the party from earlier. Both men rarely accept invitations; even Kise who is very outgoing. As their sources have gathered, the one hosting the auctions is Miyagi, a Viscount.
Walking along corridors and entering doors, Aomine and Kise find themselves inside a room with the source of light coming from candles. People of high standing are all sitting in luxury sofas lined up in front of the stage while holding signboards of their name.
Aomine and Kise took the seat nearest the miniature stage. Miyagi appears in an instant, a spot light pointing at him.
"Everyone, I welcome you to another night of bidding! I know that we are all impatient, so without further ado, let us start the auction!" Miyagi says with a wave of his hand, the spot light transferring to the human slave who is standing naked with grey-brown hair and his hands shackled.
Before anyone else could bid for the man, or for Miyagi to describe him and his price, a guy wearing glasses with neck-length blond hair raises his signboard and shouts, "Five million."
Miyagi looks surprised for a while but the smile returns, "Five million? Anyone else higher than that?" Seeing that nobody is opposing the glasses guy's bid, Miyagi nods at the man whose face is covered by the darkness. The man nods back and shakes the bell, signifying that it is sold.
"Well, generous buyer, this man is yours! Congratulations!"
After three more human slaves, Miyagi announces, "And now, for the final one!" Aomine and Kise looked surprise at that. "Already the last one! Damn it, Kise! We have to buy this one then for proof of this stupid human trafficking business!"
Kise nods, "Right on!"
Miyagi sighs dramatically, his hands brushing his bangs, "As much as I want this human for my own, I don't seem to have enough money to buy him my self." His smile returns, "Now, for the main event, we have, Kuroko Tetsuya!"
Two men brought out a short boy with very pale and smooth-looking skin. His head is bent down covering his face with his blue hair. Like all the other slaves, he also had shackles. But unlike the others, he is being pushed on a wheelchair, seeing that the boy refused to move anyway.
His wrists and hands cover his lower body, and though he remains unmoving, Kise and Aomine can notice his shoulders trembling a bit.
"Kuroko Tetsuya is a rare beauty." Miyagi pauses and reaches out to cup Kuroko's jaw and show his face to the bidders. He has large blue eyes glossed and pink lips. "Doesn't he look like he is royalty? I admit that he is more beautiful than the girls."
"We start the bid at eight million." Miyagi announces, secretly hoping that no one would actually bid for Kuroko to keep him for his self.
"Nine million!"
"Ten million!"
"Twelve million!"
Aomine clicks his tongue in annoyance, raises his signboard and shouts, "Twenty five million!" The crowd went silent at the voice of the tanned boy. They know they don't have that kind of money, but he has, so why bother anymore?
With the help of Aomine's servant, someone named Sakurai, he and Kise have managed to escape out of Miyagi's home without being questioned anymore.
"Another successful mission!" Kise cheers once he, Aomine and the boy are inside Aomine's carriage while Sakurai is in front driving (using a horse). Aomine nods in agreement, feeling glad that once again, he has proved Midorima wrong that he is more than a pampered royal and can accomplish simple things. After all, he and Kise have gone into far more ordeals compared to this.
Aomine glances at his blonde partner when he stopped talking. It's rare for Kise to ever stop gushing about anything. Kise is looking at the boy they have bought. A blanket was draped over him, his bangs are covering his eyes, and he is trembling.
"Um, Kuroko-san, are you alright?" Kise asks, smiling politely at the other. If this was any other situation, Aomine would've hit his head. This boy just got through a human trafficking auction naked, and Kise is asking him if he is alright?
The boy nods, and after that Kise didn't spoke again. Aomine also notices that this boy has very clear skin compared to all the other commoners or servants auctioned. Like what Miyagi said, Kuroko Tetsuya does look like royalty.
"Kuroko-san, don't worry! Aominechii and I won't be doing anything wrong with you!" Kise exclaims with a beaming smile, "In fact, the both of us are-.. Mmph!" Aomine covers the blonde's mouth with his hand; effectively shutting him up.
"Kise, why do you need to tell everything to everyone!" Aomine shouts at him. Kise whines and bites Aomine's hand, making the other hiss in pain. He lets go of Kise to take a look at his swelling hand, "Why, you! Kise!"
He was about to punch the other who is taunting him when they heard laughter, no, a giggle coming from Kuroko. "Eh? Kuroko-san?" Kise looked at the boy as if he came from another planet, and so is Aomine.
"It's fun to have friends." He says softly to the two, albeit smiling sadly, "I wish I had friends too."
Kise, being the more emotional one, becomes teary-eyed. He pushes Aomine off and hugs Kuroko, "Wah, Kurokochii!" Aomine glares at the blonde, shouting profanities that will make his posh mother disown him out of shame.
Aomine didn't fail to notice that Kise also have already added the suffix 'chii' after Kuroko's name. He couldn't help but smiling a bit too. Maybe choosing Kuroko as the one to help them out isn't such a bad thing after all.
"Mister, what were you saying earlier?" Kuroko asks Kise. Kise grins and began explaining, "Ah, well, the reason why Aominechii bought you is because we will be using you as witness!"
A vein pops at Aomine's head, "Kise, shut your mouth! We were not supposed to tell it to him instantly!" Kise sticks out his tongue, further annoying his tanned friend.
"Witness for what?" Kuroko asked calmly, staring at the two. Aomine sighs, 'Might as well tell him.'
"You see, this idiot and I," Kise glares at him for that, "Works for the Intelligence Team; a group of detectives who are far more better than the stupid Scotland Yard. Our latest mission is to get a witness to say it in public that Viscount Miyagi is hosting human auctions."
The boy's next words made Aomine take back what he thought earlier about how buying Kuroko might be a good idea.
"I'm sorry gentleman, but because of reasons, I must refuse."
A new KnB story. I'll hope you support this story. By the way, I will be basing the settings from Black Butler (Kuroshitsuji) and Godchild. Also, the image cover is made (or more typically, edited) by me. The image used in there is not mine (I just edited it to make it black and blue), and so is the Black Butler font. I had to rotate it upwards so that it'll fit. To those interested to see the full image of the cover, please refer to my profile or I can PM you the link.
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