Hello! My name is Lunetheart, and welcome to my fanfiction, Not her first Auction.

This is an AU where Chise was picked up by the people that talked to her and brought her for the auction a few days after her mother...died. However, Elias wasn't the first person to purchase her this time. She was bought by a few people, and sold back to the auction people some time later due to certain reasons.

In all honesty, I think that not much would change, but I just think that it would be a fun idea, and maybe I'll do some about what other kind of people would have potentially bought her before Elias.

I usually plan on updating often. However, if you've read any of my other fanfictions recently, then you'll probably notice that I've been kinda bad about keeping that promise-but I'm working on it, I promise! Writer's block sucks, so I'm hoping that this'll help push away the writer's block and give me more ideas for my other stuff.

Anyway, enough of me blabbering on. Enjoy!

"Are you sure?" young Chise asked, looking up with wide eyes, which were still full of tears.

Seth, the man sitting in front of her, nodded. "It'll help you forget all the pain that recently happened."

Chise looked down at the paper in front of her. "I'm not so sure."

"Would you rather be passed from relative to relative?" Seth asked sharply. "Because I believe that it would best for you to take this offer. You can potentially get a new family-a new life, even. And all you have to do is sign this contract, and behave like a good girl."

Chise hesitated, then picked up the pen and sloppily signed her name on the sheet of paper, then she pushed it to Seth, who inspected it, then nodded, as if satisfied.

"Then it's settled," Seth said, looking up at Chise. "I sincerely hope that you have a good time and find someone that genuinely cares about you."

"I hope so, too," Chise said softly.

At the auction…

"We have a rarity, even among all of our other items being sold," Seth said into the microphone in front of the audience, who all gasped, whispering to the people next to them. Chise watched all of this with a white cloth over her head, doing her best to keep her face emotionless when, in reality, she was kinda scared. Was it really the best idea? What if someone that was mean to her bought her? What if she died? She still wanted to live. She still wanted to find her dad and brother. But what if she never got the chance to do that?

I have to try my best, Chise told herself. I'm gonna prove that mama should be proud to have had me. Despite these thoughts, she refused to raise her head, but she didn't lower it, either.

"The girl you see before you is a Sleigh Beggy, and what's more, she is able to see Fae!" Seth said. "Bidding starts at 500,000."

"Five ten!" someone shouted.

"Five thirty!" someone else shouted.

The shouting continued until a final person shouted. "One million five thousand!" Then everything went silent.

"One million five thousand!" Seth said. "Do we have one million five ten? Anybody? Going once, going twice...sold!"

An old-ish man stood up, chuckling. "Lucky me!" He walked up to the stage, grabbed Chise's chain-the one on her arms, not her neck, she noticed-then walked to the back-Chise had noticed people doing this with the others being sold, so they must've paid at the back then took the others away.

As soon as Chise and the man walked off the stage, the man turned to someone that was standing there. He took out a very thick envelope and handed it to the person. "I believe this is the amount I owe for this girl?"

The person nodded, then handed a key to the man. "Will you be needing this?"

"Yes," the man said, taking the key, then, to Chise's surprise, he unlocked the chains, letting them fall, then he handed them to the person, who nodded.

The man grabbed Chise's hand, who looked at him with wide eyes as the man smiled.

"Let's get going," the man said. "What's your name?"

"C-Chise," Chise said quietly. "Chise Hatori."

"Nice to meet you, Chise," the man said. "My name is Eden Dumont-but you can just call me Eden."

Chise smiled at the man. "Eden!"

"Yeah!" Eden said, then the two of them continued to walk away.

A few hours later…

"This is your new home," Eden said, ushering Chise into a large room of a large house.

"Woah!" Chise exclaimed, looking around. In general, the house seemed like a castle out of a fairy tale. The outside actually looked like a castle, but just a little smaller. There was a grand staircase in front of them, and the rest of the space seemed to be kinda empty, although there were plenty of doors.

Eden smiled at her. "Woah indeed. I live here with a small staff, but it's still rather lonely." His expression turned sad. "There used to be laughter running through the halls, but sadly my daughter grew up and moved away-she doesn't speak to me anymore." A few tears came to his eyes-tears that Chise knew that wouldn't've come to her mother's eyes if Chise had run away and never came back.

"I don't see why," Chise said, hoping to cheer him up. "You're a really nice person!"

Eden gave her a sad smile, then ruffled her hair, causing Chise to giggle. "Thank you, Chise. Same goes to you."

Chise's expression fell, and she looked at the ground, shifting on her feet. "My mama told me that she wished that I was never alive. I-I don't know what I did to her, but I think that she hated me."

"Oh," Eden said sadly. "So that's what's with the look in your eyes."

"Look?" Chise asked, confused.

"You look sad, really," Eden said. "But I'm sure that it's all going to change. You're going to be happy, I promise. Life's worth living. I'm sure that your mother just was so stressed that she said something she regretted."

"You think so?" Chise asked, her eyes wide.

"I know so," Eden said. "Now, let's get you settled in. There's a room prepared for you and everything-however, there are a few conditions to living here."

"Like?" Chise asked.

"While there are people who are here solely to keep the house tidy, there are still chores I want you to do," Eden said. "It's never a good thing to take one's help for granted. I also want you, once you're settled in, to start going to the nearby school."

"Alright!" Chise said happily. "That sounds like fun!"

Eden smiled at her. "Then let's get you settled in."

And that's it for this chapter! What did you think?

I hope that I'll be updating before too long, but knowing me, I probably won't-here's to hoping!

Lunetheart out.