Most of the students that had woken up that morning were basically 3rd and 4th years, all sprinting to the gymnasium. A couple of them stayed in bed- knowing that the auction that day was going to be lasting until the afternoon. Obviously some of the students wanted to be better safe than sorry. Earlier the better I guess...
However, most of the 1st and 2nd years stayed asleep until seven AM, but a few did get up earlier and head down to the gym.
Roxas and Sora had been woken up - or in their case shaken awake - by Key and Luna, telling them to get down to the gym ASAP. Key hadn't known what that meant and needed to get an explanation from Luna, who then got irritated and realized they were running late.
But now everyone was inside the gym- everyone...
All except for one mindless 4th
year student named Loz, who was still sleeping peacefully in his bed
upstairs, dreaming of pretty little boys and the next day; the
auction...which was that day.
Yazoo and Kadaj had unplugged Loz's
alarm clock, knowing from past years that Loz would sleep incredibly
late without being woken up. So their plan had been completed
successfully, grinning and laughing as they walked down the hallways
towards the gym.
The gym was jammed packed with tons of boys, most of them crowded in the middle of the room. And those were only the 3rd and 4th years. Most of the teachers were there, all leaning up against the surrounding walls and looking impatient.
Up front was a long stage, dozens of the 1st and 2nd years sitting or laying down on the stage and waiting for the auction to start. Marluxia was seated behind a desk offside the stage and looking the most awake and perkiest out of everyone in the entire gym, telling the boys where to sign their name to enter the auction.
Roxas gave a long yawn, leaning against Luna who looked a tad bit naughty.
"I see no big deal in this, really," said the blond groggily. He was still in his pajamas, a pair of super tight white pants with knee high black socks and a baggy long sleeve tee. Sora was sitting next to him with very wide blue eyes and twitching, holding a mug of coffee. He had accidentally gotten extra caffeine today when he usually just got decaffe because he was awake enough by just sugar. Key was chit-chatting with Yue who looked like he had second thoughts about this auction. Demyx was sitting next to Luna and looking a tad bit anxious. Maybe not a tad, maybe ALOT.
"Hey guys!" came a happy and small voice. All of them glanced down to see little Dov stepping up onto the stage next to them and sitting down. "So all of you entered too?"
"Yep!" Key smiled. "Are you ready to have fun, Dov?!" The blond blinked at Key and then looked at Luna who was holding a hand up to his mouth to try and stifle his laughter. Roxas had fallen asleep against Luna.
"What?" came Dov. "Am I missing something?"
"Dov! Over here!"
The white-blond 1st year turned his head to notice his two friends Bunni and Len, gesturing for him to come sit down next to them. Dov slowly made his way to the other two boys, sitting comfortably down next to them and smiling.
"Uh, Dov?" came Bunni.
"Mmm?" Dov hummed, looking cheery.
"You do know what this auction is about, right?"
Dov blinked and stared at Bunni curiously. "Of course I do. All I have to do is just do a few chores for a student or help him with some studying. That sounds easy to me. Besides, it's helping the school, you guys."
Len sighed and scratched his black hair, crossing his arms and then shaking his head.
"Dov, honey, I think we need to get through that thick little adorable skull of yours..."
Dov raised an eyebrow, looking utterly and only confused. For the next thirteen minutes, Bunni and Len began explaining the real reason and probably the only reason for this auction, and what most of the other students are gonna want out of this. Not chores, not extra grades...
"They want WHAT!?" exclaimed Dov, face crimson.
"Yeah huh..." came the other two boys. Dov whimpered and rapidly shook his head.
"No, no, no, no, no! This can't be true! I--I thought it was just gonna be a few chores!" wailed the blond. "Why didn't you guys tell me sooner?"
"We thought you already knew," said Bunni.
"I guess you're a little more clueless than we thought you were..." murmured Len. Dov was panicking, shaking, sweating and whimpering.
The little blond stood up and scampered down the stairs, rushing over to the sign up table where Marluxia still was, sitting down and smiling at the boys who were signing up.
"Mar-Marluxia Sempai!" exclaimed Dov, rushing over to the table and placing his hands on the surface and looking terrified.
"Yes, cutie?" grinned Marluxia, leaning over and smiling widely at the 1st year.
"I--I don't wanna be in the auction anymore, Sempai!"
"Awww," Marluxia cooed, standing up when the last boy wrote their name on the paper. "Well that's just too bad, isn't it?" Marluxia ruffled Dov's hair and progressed away towards the stage.
Dov nearly fell over, panicking and whimpering loudly.
"Goood morning, Paopu Academy!" came Marluxia in the microphone, his perky voice waving out of the enormous speakers and over into the crowd. "How is everybody this lovely morning?"
"Ahh! I'm awake! I'm awake!" Roxas shrieked, sitting upright and causing Luna to stare at him awkwardly.
There was a very loud explosion of cheers coming from the pack of 3rd and 4th years and a couple of, 'lemme at 'em's. Marluxia gave a hearty laugh and turned to the papers on the stand, looking very happy about what was supposed to happen.
"Now, this is our 13th Paopu Auction, brought on to begin with by our very special, very fantastic Sephiroth Sensei!" Marluxia gave a feminine gesture towards the tall sensei standing in the back with some of the other teachers.
Everyone stared at him and clapped, Sephiroth merely raising his hand and smirking under his breath. Vexen, who was standing next to him, rolled his eyes and clapped for approximately three seconds.
"And now that Sephiroth is a teacher here and he is no longer a Council President, I have become the President! And I was told to take over the great auction!" Marluxia giggled behind his hand. "Okay, okay, enough with the sappy speech about me..."
"Thank God..." came Riku out in the crowd, placing a hand on his face.
"Let's get this auction started!"
The crowd erupted in applause and screams again.
"Okay, okay, now...where's my list?" sang Marluxia, searching through all the papers on his stand. All of the boys on the stage watched him with slight amusement as he practically hummed and sang into the microphone without realizing it. He gave a groan and looked up. "Xemmy-Xem, did you give me the grade paper?"
Xemnas, in the back, blushed lightly at the nick-name Marluxia gave him. "Yeah, I did! Did you lose it?"
"Oh, wait, wait, wait! I found it!" he proclaimed, waving the paper around. "Now, I mine as well explain how this works to our fellow 1st and 2nd years- a couple of you have never done this before, so let me begin."
Marluxia cleared his throat and stared at the paper. "The way this auction works is not only by a donation of money, but by the 3rd and 4th years' grades. In act, that is the only way...however, we do include the money part." Marluxia laughed gently behind his hand again and continued. "Now, before I begin with the students..."
All of the boys on the stand stared expectantly at the Council President expectantly. Marluxia chuckled.
"As always, I will always let the teachers pick a student to go first before the 3rd and 4th years!"
Several appalled noises came up from the stage, some sounding quite negative by, 'wait a second!' 'you said nothing about teachers!' 'don't make me DO THIS!' and a loud yell 'pedophiles!'
Marluxia simply chuckled and laughed jeeringly behind his hand. "What foolish little boys..." He cleared his throat again. "Now, any teachers? Any at all?"
The first to move in the back was Sephiroth, marching straight forward with a sly smirk upon his face. However when he began towards the stage, he took a sharp turn and swerved into the crowd of 3rd and 4th years, earning strangled gasps and 'what the hells' from the crowd. There was a small pause and then a loud, "But I'm not in the auction, sensei!"
Everyone watched expectantly as Sephiroth moved out of the crowd, pulling on Cloud's wrist and yanking him out of the gym, Cloud crying out for help when the double doors swung shut.
Marluxia gave a nervous laugh and straightened his plaid tie. "Well, that wasn't exactly what I was looking for, but, anyways, on with the auction again! Who's next, anybody else? Vexen?"
"Pfft!"
"Okay no... Larxene?"
Larxene stared at Marluxia with wide startled eyes. "Are you serious?"
"Of course!" Marluxia smiled. "You can have a boy, ya know, lick your--"
"SHUT UP!" Larxene shouted, causing every boy to flinch. Larxene gave hard huff then paused a moment. "Oh God, think I'm gonna be sick..." Larxene hurriedly exited the gym.
"Um, sorry Larxy-baby, didn't mean to repulse you!" Marluxia gave a nervous chuckle again, realizing he'd probably get beat to a pulp later. "Okay, any other teachers? Come on, we don't have all day, guys."
Sighing, Saix slowly moved forward, taking his time towards the stage. Marluxia gave a low laugh.
The blunette stood in front of the stage, placing a hand on his chin and looking through each and every boy lined up the front.
Demyx, who was just a few feet away from Saix, watched with wide, nervous marine eyes.
'Oh, he's not gonna pick me! He's gonna pick somebody else! I'm obviously not good enough for him... I'm screwed, this is not good... I like Saix Sensei...I thought he liked me, too.'
Saix's ambers landed on Demyx and they stared at each other for the longest time. Demyx was on the verge of either trembling or crying. Saix slowly stepped over to the blond.
"I'll take this one," he murmured to Marluxia.
"Excellent choice, Sensei!" Marluxia nearly squealed. "Demyx, honey, you're free to go...with Saix Sensei."
Demyx looked back up at Saix who was holding out his hand, the blond taking it, glancing back at Roxas, Sora, Luna and Key with wide eyes and then smiling as he walked away with Saix. Several of the students standing in the middle of the room groaned in disgust and some of them left when seeing Demyx was taken. And both of them slowly vanished from the gym...
"That boy's virginity is gonna be gone quicker than you can say "suck me"." Luna said.
"Okay then! No more teachers I presume, then? Okay, that's fine!"
Vincent stood in the back next to Xemnas, arms crossed and head down, refusing to look up at the stage.
Dov was staring at him across from where he sat, wondering why he didn't choose him... He sighed softly and let his head drop, quivering slightly in anxiety as Bunni and Len petted and stroked him.
"All right, now it is time to start this auction! Now lemme see..." Marluxia stared down at the paper, full of names and grades. "The first to come up is--"
"Ahh! We're sorry, sir!"
"You can go first!"
"Just don't kill us!"
Marluxia blinked and watched as most of the boys in the crowd gasped and stood aside as they gently pushed Alucard up front of the line.
Yue squeaked in surprise and hid quickly behind Key.
"What's wrong, Yue?" came Key.
"Shh! Don't let him see me..." murmured the purple-haired bookworm, nearly shuddering as he crouched low behind the blond. Alucard began to stare down at the lines of boys. Marluxia coughed and covered his hand over the microphone and leaning down to whisper to one of the students.
"Excuse me...but, his name was the very last one on the list..."
"Don't say anything!" shushed one of the students. "You'll wish you hadn't..." Marluxia blinked a few times and shrugged, deciding to just let him go first.
Yue bit his lip and wrapped his arms around himself, face nearly pale with anxiety and fright. He knew for a fact that the only thing that Alucard wanted out of Yue was his sweet untouched and untainted body. Yue could tell these things- but he was quite curious as of why one of the most wanted guys in the entire school wanted a geek like Yue?
"Hey, blondie!" came Alucard, referring to Key. Kadaj, in the back next to Yazoo, gasped and bit his fingernails.
Key blinked and pointed to himself. Luna had very, very wide golden eyes.
Alucard wanted KEY!?
"Can you move over a bit?" asked Alucard.
"Oh, sure."
"No, don't!" gasped Yue as Key scooted away. The purple-haired boy laid red eyes on Alucard who smirked delightedly at him, placing his hands on his hips. Yue tried hiding again but he faced the facts and decided that it honestly wouldn't work.
"I'll take the little boy with the braid," Alucard informed to Marluxia. Marluxia gestured for Yue to go with Alucard, and the boy, sadly, stepped down the stairs and walked miserably out with the pink-haired motorcyclist.
"Okay now, boys, we can't cheat anymore!" tittered Marluxia. "We gotta do the rules of this grade sheet, I tell you! Now, let's begin!"
Reno chuckled as he awkwardly leant against Kadaj - who almost fell over - and smirked at Axel.
"Bet'cha your sweet ass I'll be the first one on that list..."
"Bet your sweet ass I'll be second!" Axel grinned. Riku coughed.
"Uh, Axel, it doesn't work that way..."
"The first one to come up is...Reno!"
"HAH!" Reno laughed loudly, pressing a finger into Axel's chest and moving up close to his face. "In yours, less-hotter-version-of-me..." Reno triumphantly did a spastic martial arts move then moved hastily up to the stage.
"Let me have the beautiful blunette, please..." Reno grinned, reaching out and pulling Luna recklessly off the stage, causing the blunette to tumble and shriek causing him to fall into Reno and then collapse to the floor.
Roxas, Sora and Key all blinked and watched the two on the floor.
"Luna, I told you you should've lain off the pocky this week!" came Key.
"Shut-up!" snapped Luna, sitting up quickly. Reno laughed, perching up on his elbows.
"What a cute little boy I have..." Reno said sweetly. Luna managed to blush lightly.
"What a sweet boyfriend I have..." Luna said in a sugary, mushy voice, poking the tip of Reno's nose.
"GET A ROOM!" yelled Axel from the crowd.
"Maybe we will..." Reno said slyly, getting to his feet and elegantly swooping Luna into his arms and exiting from the gym.
"I bet'cha anything the first five will the first ones to go..." came Key in a very 'eerie' voice.
"First five?" repeated Roxas. "Wait a minute, do I wanna know?" Key laughed evilly.
"Next to pick a boy is..." called Marluxia.
Axel crossed his fingers and Riku rolled his eyes.
"It is Kadaj!"
"What?" Axel said, aghast. "You mean, pretty-boy got better grades than me?" Riku laughed behind a closed mouth.
Kadaj dramatically ran up to the stage, falling down onto his knees in front of Key.
"I-I thought they were gonna pick you!" he wailed.
"Oh brother..." came Xac, placing a hand to his face, unable to keep watching.
"Aww, were you worried about wittle 'ol me?" Key grinned. "Hey-" Came Key, whispering and leaning down towards Kadaj. "Have you got a cowboy hat?"
"Uh, no?" said Kadaj, a little puzzled. "Why?"
"Never mind..." Key mumbled.
"I'll have this one please," Kadaj informed. Key stepped off the stage and then literally ran out of the gym, being chased by Kadaj. Yazoo shook his head.
"My little brother is a psycho..."
"Okay next is Riku!"
"Oh COME ON!" Axel yelled, falling to the floor. Riku walked slowly up to the stage, laughing loudly.
Riku immediately went straight to Sora, giving him a small smirk. Roxas patted the twitching boy on the shoulder.
"It would be an honor if I could purchase you, Sora..." Riku smiled. Sora smiled back - his smile a little wide and weird looking.
"I would love to, Riku..." the brunette grinned back. It was obvious Riku didn't need to say anymore, pulling the scrawny little boy off the stage and out the front doors.
"All righty, this is moving swifty along!" Marluxia grinned. "Who's next?"
Axel placed his face into his hands, begging softly he was next.
"Axel!"
"Thank you!" Axel exclaimed, jumping to his feet and sprinting wildly to the stage. He panted gently and looked up at Roxas, saying with his face that he wanted to be with Roxas more than anything in the world.
"You can go along now, Axel," Marluxia laughed gently. Axel gripped Roxas's wrist and tugged him gently off the stage and out of the gym.
The auction continued on and on slowly. Yazoo hadn't been called on yet, but he was very, very surprised that nobody had picked Dov yet- considering as he was one of the most wanted boys in the entire school. However, when he heard a guy in front of him say that he wanted Dov, that almost made Yazoo hit the roof. He hoped to God that he'd be before this other student - who TOTALLY wasn't good enough for Dov!
"I can't believe I signed up for this thing..." murmured a boy in the back of the crowd of boys, wearing a pair of camouflaged pants. A few of his friends had called him Hayner, and they were all alot prettier than he was and were chosen before he had.
"Okay, next is Seifer!"
"Finally!"
"Oh God..." murmured Hayner, squeezing his eyes shut and tensing up. "Please don't let it be me..."
"Hey you! Boy with the camouflaged pants! Get over here!"
"Damnit..."
"All righty, next would beeee..." sang Marluxia. "Yazoo!"
Yazoo cheered out but then quickly swallowed and regained his composure, standing straight and strolling to the front. Vincent had opened his eyes and looked up, watching the senior closely.
Yazoo nervously trailed towards Dov, who was sitting by himself because Bunni and Len had already been picked.
"Hey, Dov," smiled Yazoo.
Dov squeaked and turned red. "Yazoo?"
"Hey, how're you?" he smiled.
"F-Fine, I guess." stammered the blond.
"D'you wanna come spend time with me?"
"Um, is it all gonna stay...innocent?" whispered Dov. Yazoo blinked, and slowly nodded.
"Yeah..." he lied. "Come on, before somebody worse picks you." He pulled gently on Dov's hand and they slowly left the gym. In addition, eventually, every student had one by one picked off every single boy off the stage.
The only two left in the entire gym were Xac, who was standing in the back corner with his arms crossed and little Zexion up on the stage, looking quite irritated. The black-haired boy noticed him, however, and strolled over to him.
"Hey," greeted Xac. Zexion glanced up through his thick dark blue bangs.
"Hey..." he muttered.
"Um, I'm wondering why nobody picked you."
"Why? You think I'm cute or something?"
"Uh, no, I mean, you're not ugly or anything--" Xac stopped while he was still conscious and cleared his throat. "What I'm saying is, since there's really nobody left I want, do you just wanna hang out or something?"
"Sure, I guess..." Zexion said.
The gymnasium doors swung open again and Marluxia came waltzing inside, a proud, perky look on his face.
"I did it!" he laughed to himself. "I got every uke out of here with a seme and my plan is slowly unfolding--" Marluxia choked on his words a bit when he noticed that there were still two people in here.
"Oh dear! I'm so very sorry," Marluxia laughed nervously, approaching both of them. "Ohh, Xac are you picking Zexion?"
Xac blinked and flushed lightly.
"Uhm, no, Sempai. We're just going to talk and stuff..."
"Oh really?" Marluxia said, placing his hands on his small hips. Then, a sly smirk moved onto his dark lips. "WELL, since Zexion is the only one left and you have nobody you've picked...and I haven't picked anyone..."
Xac didn't like where this was going, and neither did Zexion for that matter.
"Xac, I would really, really be happy if I got to spend some time with you..." Marluxia nearly purred.
"What?" Xac said. "You serious?"
"Of course I'm serious, cutie!" Marluxia laughed. "Very serious... Now, I have to go do a few things for a while and I wanna see you here at around...let's say...five. Okay?"
"Uh..."
"Okay, bye Xac!" Marluxia quickly rushed away and out of the gym, leaving a very horrified, very scared Xac behind...