~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Tien's POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

My head was pounding when I woke up. D***, what happened? I let my eyes adjust to my surroundings, but they never did. "Oh great," I muttered. "I'm in some dark place."Someone moves and a chain sound enters my ears and something yanks my wrists. Then the ground seems to move, and I fell forward. Next thing I knew, a blinding light surrounded me and I had to use my hands to cover my eyes from it. Moving my fingers one by one, I noticed that people were wearing masks and were sitting in what seems to be chairs in a theater.

Something next to me shifted and that something was Ainsley. "Ugh, the light!" Oh, did I forget to mention we were in a human bird cage? I yank the chain connecting us together and hiss, "Ainsley, d*mn it! Wake up!" She just turned over and a voice says, "To conclude this auction, never before have we done this, we have two young, healthy women! This is a buy one get one free for this special occasion, but keep in mind that there are only these two!" After hearing this, Ainsley shot straight up.

"Hold on, we're being sold at an auction?! In that case," she stood up causing me to fall on my face and did a little leg kick. Normally, I would laughed but, honestly, what is she trying to do?! We're are being sold at black auction! Since we were handcuffed, I couldn't do much but I got the chain to wrap around Ainsley's leg and pulled. She fell down on her butt and the audience laughed.

"Oh, and I forgot to mention that they're foreigners. Yet, they speak perfect Japanese and the hold special talents that you are sure to love." I took an observation of the man hosting the auctions. He was strange, not like other hosts with suits and a stuck-up face. He looked like a mad-hatter from Alice in Wonderland. Wait, does this mean that this is the Mad Hatter's Tea Party?! My mind drifted back to Ota Kisaki. So this is what he meant! D*mn it! He must have cursed us! But how the hell did he know that we would be sold here or even come here? Unless... My train of thought was broken by Ainsley asking, "I'm being sold, right? And she is for free, right?" She referred to me. "Because you got to pay for this." She would have moved her hands over her body, but she was handcuffed so it just looked like a fish swimming up.

Another fit of laughter came about. Then prices that they were willing to pay. 1 million. 1.5 million. 3 million. They finally settled on 5 million. The Mad-hatter asks, "Any more bids? If not, they go to seat #5 for 5 million. Going once... going twice..." I think I wanted to cry. Seat #5 was the fat guy from the party that was hitting on us. I could see his cursed smirk. There was this loud buzz coming from the board displaying the bids. Instead of the 5 million, it displayed 20 million.

"Woah! 20 million! For me of course." Ainsley says. The auction ends with us and our bird cage was rolled backstage. At this point, I was banging my head on the bottom of the bird cage. Two masked guys came and got us. They freed us from the cage and Ainsley came bouncing out. One of the guys chuckled and walked toward the elevator. Ainsley happily followed him. I was forced along. I want to kill her right now. All right, we go up the elevator and I just need to remember the way to get out later. We ended up at the penthouse lounge. On the couch was sitting Eisuke Ichinomiya.

"We got them boss," said one of the masked guys. Behind Eisuke was the man I met in the hallway before. In the corner of my eye was another man. Curly hair and a goatee. What a odd bunch. Then again, I'm part of a weird bunch too.

"Ah, ok, dream ended. Tien, wake me up." Ainsley nudged me after she said that. She? She literally thought this was a dream?! Then again that would explain a lot.

"So we meet again. Guess you couldn't escape after all," said the man from the hallway.

"Sor? You know them?" asked one the masked men. Now they decided to take off their masks. My eyes widen in shock. One masked man was Ota Kisaki! That b*stard! He probably planned this out. And I could be at home sleeping! The other man had chin length, light brown hair and had a flirty air around him.

"Please, we just ran into each other earlier," said the man whom we ran into. It looks like his name or nickname was Sor. Just then Ainsley started to jab me with her elbow and said, "Tien, I'm serious. Wake me up."

"Ainsley, let me say something, WE ARE NOT IN A DREAM!" She started to laugh. "Tien, you can be so funny!" Before I can slap her, Eisuke says, "This is boring. Women, answer me this: what are you?"

"Well, to put it. Since you can't tell my white skin from black skin (no offensive meant. purpose of sarcasm). I'm black, not white. Oh and my Asian looking friend is Hispanic." Ota laughed and so did the other 2. All except "Sor" and Eisuke. She is trying to get us killed. Sor reached into his jacket and pulled out a gun. Maybe it was a side effect of being around Ainsley too much, but I just smiled, battled my eyelashes and said, "Y-you wouldn't shoot me right? You would shoot her right? After all she was the one being rude and a smart *ss. I'm just an innocent little girl." Ainsley just gave me a look and shook her head. Sor's scowl just deepened and he growls, "Do you not know your place? You two were bought."

"For 20 million to. Do you even know how to pay us back?" Eisuke jumps in.

"My presence is good enough!" Ainsley said. I stomped on her foot and covered her mouth before I said,"S-sorry! She's a little... Ouch!" Ainsley bit me. Sor, Eisuke, and the man's, near the window, eyes widened while Ota and brown hair laughed so hard that they doubled over. Yep. I think we're going to die. After brown hair guy calmed down, he says, "Eisuke, I think that payed off some money."

"How about a girl picks who bought her and the other picks another?" Ota proposes. Eisuke considers the idea an nods.

"Alright, time to introduce ourselves. Hello, my name is Mitsunari Baba but you can call me Baba. I'm 35, single, and ready to mingle," said the brown hair.

Ainsley, looking disinterested, says,"Next." Ota chuckles before beginning, "Nice to meet you. I'm Ota Kisaki, but of course, you already knew that." That smile is just too good to be true.

"Moving on, the scary man over there with the gun is Soryu. Sor, put your gun away!" You're scaring them," Baba introduces Soryu. At that, the gears in Ainsley's head began to turn. Why do I get a bad feeling from this.

"Just to be sure, you're Soryu Oh, right? Head of the Japanese branch of the Ice Dragons?" Ainsley asks.

Soryu looks at us suspiciously before answering "yes."

"Are you actually interested in Soryu and not me?" Eisuke asked surprised.

"Please excuse us," Ainsley says before dragging us away. Ainsley actually being polite?! I'm not liking where this is going.

"Tien, please do me this favor and pick Soryu!"

"Why won't you do that? This is your job."

"Because I'm too young to deal with mobsters like him! Besides both of you have scary glares! You two are perfect! And your current story you are working on might include some things that mobsters do so you can put it in perfect detail."

The idea was tempting but I questioned some of the things she said.

"I haven't glared at them yet."

"But you will. You just need to get into the feels~ Or be on your period." I glared at her.

"There it is!"

"How did you become a detective?"

"...idk"

My weird obsession about writing certain things was crawling up to the surface.

"...fine"

"Yay!" Ainsley basically bounced back to the group. Please God, I've been a good girl despite having flaws here and there. Please help me through this and maybe punish Ainsley.

I began to walk back.

So what do you think? And comment on who you think or want Ainsley to be sold to, you might have an effect on this! ^-^