Chapter 4: School Incentives

"God in Heaven, Thank you for this opportunity that was so graciously placed into my lap… I got him all to myself. No way in HELL am I letting him go now!" Marluxia smiled to himself as he looked to the up close he was hot. Even better than if he was a few feet away. Naturally, Marluxia was going to take advantage of this. He wanted to prove once and for all that no one could resist him. No one. He smiled inwardly and flipped his hair back. "Thanks for the help, I can't ever get any of this."

The blond nodded. "No prob. I just need something to do while I wait for practice to start."

The pinkette grinned. "Ideal conversation, nice way to start." "Practice, you on a team?"

He nodded. "Soccer. If you don't mind, I would like to get this finished soon, okay?"

"Hell, this isn't going to be easy." "Right, okay." He tapped his pen on his cheek as the pretend to think. Half pretending, mainly. Marluxia was not at all thinking about his homework like Luxord thought he was. He was more thinking about what he should do to get Luxord to notice him. "Ugh, this is useless. I really hate small talk." "This is impossible."

"No it's not. If you just look for the right numbers, you can easily find the right element. Here I'll show you." With a reach, the tutor pointed to the paper, a blush found its way to his face. He was never one for close distances but this closeness wasn't so bad.

"Y-yeah…" Marluxia looked to his paper as they started. After a while, things weren't so bad. Marluxia started paying more attention to his work rather than the tutor. Once the work was finished, he sighed and sat back "That wasn't so hard."

"So, you got the hang of it?"

"I think so."

"Great. Oh, I better go. Soccer starts in 10 minutes and I have to go change. I'll see you around then." Luxord started packing up his bag, which caused a blink from the pinkette classman.

"W-wait th-there's still more I don't know!" He stood to grab his bag but Luxord stopped him.

"Hey, it's okay. Look, I have to go. If you still need help, then ask a teacher."

Marluxia sighed heavily in defeat before a light flicked on in his mind. His mouth twisted in a Grinch-like smirk. He packed and stood. "Sorry, it's just you make this stuff look sooo much easier than my teachers. They all seem to hate me. Maybe its just cuz they want me but the law says they can't."

For the first time since he saw him, Marluxia saw the blond chuckle a bit. He knew the other was good looking but he never saw him smile. It wasn't a big smile but it was a smile nonetheless. "Well, at least HE thinks I'm funny. Yes, I mean you, Axel." "I think it's true."

"Maybe you're right. I wouldn't be surprised. I don't mean to laugh but it sounded like a joke." Slinging his bag on his shoulder, Luxord turned to leave.

"Who says it's not funny and true? You never know what goes on in the mind of these administrators." Marluxia chimed, walking beside him. "I'll have you know I am very well liked in this school."

"Oh I believe you. You practically rule the school, from what I understand. But I must say, you're quite eccentric. You couldn't have thought of a more subtle way to get my attention?" Blue eyes averted to the body next to him.

Marluxia had to honestly say, he did not expect that. "Shit, he's going to hate me now…" "I-I was just trying to find out more about you, is all. There is nothing wrong with trying to get someone's attention."

He nodded and chuckled again. "I get'cha, Poppet. It's completely reasonable to break into someone's locker and stuff it with confections. Though I could have done without the confetti and glitter. It was a complete mess to clean up."

"Phew, at least he isn't pissed at m- wait, what did he call me?" "P-poppet? What does that mean? Is that a term you made to insult me?"

Luxord looked to him and shook his head. "Not at all, Poppet. Its just a nickname. Though I will say this, if you want to be friends, just talk to me. Nothing is worse than a stalker. You could have just tried to talk to me."

In the back of his mind, Marluxia saw a mini-Axel taunting him by chanting "I was right~ I was right~" and "You shoulda juuust talk to him." He made a note to not let Axel know about him being right (for once in Marluxia's school life)and just go on. "I did… you just ignored me…" "Okay, let's try the kicked little puppy act…" He put a slightly balled fist to his mouth and pretended to look hurt as he turned his head to the side. "You were always ignoring me I had to do something to get your attention… I wanted to talk to you but I was afraid you would brush me off. Like the first day we met, I offered to take you to class but you brushed me off. What's a guy to do in that situation…?" A dark smirk spread on Marluxia's mind. "Ha, no one can resist me like this. Many have tried but they all seem to-"

"You know, I'm not going to fall for that act. I'm not one for innocent looking person and me seeming like the bad guy. I have little brothers and sisters that pull that act and I can spot it a mile away even before it happens." The blond said, without looking twice at the pinkette.

"-fail. Damn him! How can he just say that after I give him the performance of a lifetime? Ooh I'm going to enjoy reeling him in and totally destroying him! I swear I'll make him pay!" A nervous chuckle escaped his lips. "You saw through that? I just thought that maybe I would try one more time."

With another grin, Luxord chuckled and looked to him. "I'll tell you what, if it's really important to you, I'll take you out."

"Huh?"

The blond nodded as he looked to him. He couldn't help but think Marluxia was cute when he was confused. " And I'll help you with your homework. Only cuz chess club isn't meeting for a week and I don't want to go all the way home and come all the way back for practice. Though if you want my help, it'll give me a reason to stay and you can sit and talk to me all you want. And at the end of the week as a reward for being good and studying, I'll take you on a date."

In a moment, Marluxia's heart did two things at once. It stopped in dread at the thought of him actually doing his own homework and immediately sent more blood than preferred right to his face. "U-uh… s-sure! I-I just need t-to tell my friend Axel a-and you have yourself a deal!" "Okay, why the HELL and I st-st-stuttering? Maybe it's just the heat. Yes, that's all. And why did I bring up Axel? Of all people HE'S who I mention?"

Luxord nodded a bit and motioned to the locker rooms. "Great, well, I'm gonna go get ready for practice. I'll see you around?"

"Y-yeah! I'll see you later~" With a wave, the younger male walked in the opposite direction of the lockers. It was a more roundabout way of going home but he was in too good a mood to care. That was until he saw a certain figure walking to the field. With a groan, Marluxia followed the trail of an ever zealous Axel. "Where is he going, on the trail of another couple screwing behind the bleachers? …What am I talking about of course that's what he's doing."

Marluxia followed his friend to the bleachers (of course). Once there, he carefully made his way under the seats and looked around. To his surprise the only one there was Axel. "Axel, what are you doing here?"

The redhead stumbled and misstep. "Hey, keep it down! I'm trying to do some investigating over here." With a huff, he finally stopped and set up a camera on a low step in front of him.

Rolling his eyes, the pinkette walked to the journalist and looked out. He was looking right at the field but no one was there yet. "Huh, the soccer players must still be inside getting ready." "Axel, what are you doing out here?"

Axel let out a harsh sigh. "Truthfully, I'm spying on your little boy-toy. That and getting pictures of the soccer players practicing for the paper. But I just think its weird a new student comes and no one seems to know where he came from, when he transferred or anything. It's weird."

"Maybe he's trying to hide his past because he knows there's a nosy-ass reporter."

"OR maybe he's a government agent sent to our school because someone here is a lost heir to a kingdom or because they were implanted with this-this microchip and he has to protect them from our country's enemies."

Marluxia stared at him in complete disbelief. "Or maybe you have an over active imagination." Though now that he thought about it, Axel brought up a good point. Everyone at the school flocked to a new student immediately. The teachers would announce his arrival but there wasn't. "Maybe he IS a- NO, NO! Luxord is a good guy. If there's anything suspicious about him that needs to be investigated, it's why he hangs out with THOSE people. I REALLY need to stop hanging out with this guy. His thoughts are getting to me." "Axel, you're insane. He probably wants to keep secret. You are soo nosy."

"Yeah, easy for you to say. You just want to get into his pants, Marluxia. I can't shake the feeling he's hiding something. And I wanna bust it wide-open."

That was it. Listening to all this talk was making Marluxia angry and giving him a headache. "Whatever. I'm leaving you here to 'investigate' something that doesn't need to be. Good-Bye." Before he could leave, Marluxia looked out at the now full soccer field. He wanted to steal a look at Luxord before he left. It was kind of hard to tell the students apart since there were few with blond hair and harder still to focus on just one when almost all of them hand no shirt on. "Where is… there."

The blond was running laps around the field, most likely warming up. Marluxia felt himself blush a bit as he watched him. "God, thank you for rewarding me!" For his loyalty in believing in his classmate, Marluxia was happy knowing he had a better look at Luxord's body. Sure he could have waited until he had him to himself, or knew that they were both male. But the view was too great Marluxia now had a fond interest in Soccer. Maybe he would join the Support Squad. They went to every game the school had to support the players, so if he just went to give the players support, mainly Luxord, he would better indulge in his new found 'interests'.

A/N: Ugh, this story... I love it but I kept forgetting to update T^T. but yeah this is chappe 4... personally, I had fun picking at Marluxia. Just taking him down a peg was fun -w- . but Hope you like this fic. Though, if it doesn't get any readers, i may stop... and I didn't even gt to my favorite chapter!