This is chapter two. I don't own SK- please, I suggest you read the chapter before this- chapter two! GAHAHAHA!

--CHAPTER 2—

"Can you help me with this-" Akio unlocked the door to the lab. "BlAZE! We're home!"

"Out here," Blaze said from his spot outside the door a ways. "I didn't want to stay in that place.."

With a quizzical look she went inside- followed by the pony sized Shii and Marik.

"Help me put this on the table," Akio said, grabbing one end of the large bag and pulling it off Shii. "Kudasai—Marik, Blaze?"

Marik grabbed an end and helped hoist the large bag on the table and then looked at it. "What is it?"

Akio was scribbling something down on a piece of paper and then taped it to the bag. "It's something Faust wanted me to get him."

"You got Faust a present but not me?" Blaze asked, looking at her. "What did you get him, it looks big enough."

"I didn't get it from him as a gift like that—I got it for him because I happened to be in Italy and he's still up here in Germany."

"Who's still in Germany?" Marik asked, walking to the door.

"Faust," Akio said, looking at him then Blaze. "And He wanted me to get him that because I could so I did," Shii shrunk greatly and then hopped up on the table, curling up on top of the bag as Akio shivered.

Mentally she wanted to yell at the cat to get off the corpse. "So I brought him what I wanted."

Blaze looked at her suspiciously before leaving the lab again- Blaze did not like the lab.

Akio smiled at Marik. "Thanks for your help Marik…Thanks for not saying anything."

"No problem, I'm used to those kind of things."

"Faust wants me to help him with a project he's been working on for quiet some time—and he wanted me to get him this girl,"

"Just a girl?"

Akio nodded.

Marik paused. "Just some generic, female corpse?"

Again, Akio nodded, showing how simple the matter seemed to her. "It is, and that's all he needs." She pulled her phone out of her pocked and called him as she turned away slightly. "Faust? I have it—yes—here—human, full human like you wanted—uh-huh—I can…I'll try…." She laughed. "Alright—yeah— It'll be here—bye." She hung up the phone then turned slowly to Marik before smiling again and picking Shii up like a teddy bear.

"I guess I'll be going home now, Thank you for taking me to Italy."

"Oh, it's not problem- thank you for coming with me and thank you for helping me with dead person over here." She smiled softly as Marik nodded.

"Anytime, I don't mind."

He left and Akio sat down, looking at Blaze as he curled up outside the door and went to sleep. "Blaze?" She asked- he did not reply but only slept on. "Blaze are you going to answer me?" she nudged him in the shoulder before sighing and going back in the lab. "I guess he's going to get some sleep then," she told Shii, setting the cat down on the floor and going upstairs. "I guess he's going to sleep for a long time."

Shii meowed and followed Akio down the hall. "I'm supposed to get some book out and start reading them now, since he told me I'd be needing them." She went to a closet and looked at a large stack of books and notebooks. "Wow, I have a lot to start with," Taking one off the shelf she opened it and looked inside- it didn't look like it had been used in a long time and she had to squint for a moment to be able to recognize the writing as small, German handwriting. "Oh wow." She said quietly, leafing through the book. "I have a lot to work on." She grabbed a stack of them and went to the bed room, setting them at the foot of the bed and picking one up to read. "I guess I have awhile to read these…" She said quietly to Shii, who had jumped up on the bed and was curled up at her side. "I don't think that Faust is expecting me to read them all now."

After awhile of not understanding Magen from Montag she set the book down and went to the lab to see if she could experiment with anything that could help her more than the necromancy books.

"You think I should do anything Shii?" Akio asked, smiling at the cat. "Anything I should practice on?"

The cat rubbed her head against the drawers and purred and Akio took out a needle from a drawer to look at it- sitting down on a chair. "I wonder what this does…"

She laughed to herself because she knew very well what it did but had never known how much was good or not- she had never had any medical training except that of her own workmanship and even that was not good enough. Through trial she pricked her arm and injected a small amount in, sitting there, waiting to see what happened to her. After a few minutes she injected more and more from the syringe to suddenly feel most, if not all pain leave her body. "So…that's how much a person like me needs…" she looked groggily at the numbers on the syringe. "People bigger than me need more…" she put the needle and syringe in the sink before standing up slowly, her head spinning, and going back up the stairs- that stuff went strait to your head and she couldn't feel much anymore.

Blaze yawned. "Sooo sleepy," He stretched an arm above his head as Akio walked outside, rubbing above her temples and smiling.

"Morning." She said slowly.

"Did you sleep lastnight?" Blaze yawned, looking at her.

"No, I was up very late last night reading—trying to read." She pulled a small dictionary from her pocket. "I went out last night and got a phrase book."

"There were people out that late?" He shut one of his eyes halfway as he looked at her. "Why were you up that late?"

"I was reading…" She smiled gently and rubbed the side of her head.

"Those Necromancy books?" He asked slowly, looking at her suspiciously with his tired eyes. "Why were you reading those?"

Akio didn't reply. "You look tired."

"I am tired."

"Are you going to go to sleep?"

"Yes, I'm going to go to sleep."

She laughed- Blaze didn't need to sleep yet he chose to do so anyway- and she thought that was slightly funny. "If you go to sleep I'll wake you up when something important happens."

With a yawn he closed his eyes. "I'm not tired, I wont go to sleep."

"Ich werde heute gehen Verkaufssachen," Akio said with a yawn. "I'll come back in awhile after I sell some things?"

Blaze nodded sleepily before he closed his eyes. Akio took her coat off from around her waist and hung it up in the lab before going outside- she hadn't been outside in Germany for a long time and was beginning to grow very fond of the city.

"I think it's perfect."

With a small jump Akio turned around to see a tall, blonde man looking at the corpse that was on the table. "Oh, Faust, I didn't know you were here."

He looked up with his bright blue eyes at her. "I told you I'd come and see the body, didn't I?"

She nodded; she hadn't seen Faust in a very long time- only corresponded with him several times through phone and e-mails. "You did, I just wasn't expecting you…" she gestured over her shoulder. "I was, out—selling things—I needed to earn some money."

"Oh," he went back to looking at the body and Akio couldn't help but look at him. He was very tall, like her 'brother' Seto Kaiba- though he had a more overly obsessed look to him than her brother had. "Well, I like it, thank you- it will work perfectly."

Again she nodded silently. "I'm very glad."

"Where did it come from?"

"Italy… I was just down there and I had someone pick it up for me."

"Someone?"

"I.J.J…" Akio said quietly. "My secret service, I have one—they picked this girl up."

"Good," He smiled again. "Do you know how she died- if she was sick, things like that?" He looked at the body. "I supposed I will need to perform a biopsy."

"Then you should start with that." Akio said, smiling up at the very tall man. "I'll make sure you do."

He chuckled (HA, he chuckles and horo giggles) "Alright…"

She watched him measure the woman; she normally was very quiet and liked watching people do things so she could learn what to do. He looked at her again and then went back to measuring. "Why are you watching me..?"

"I'm just curious about this…" she smiled. "Do your biopsy."

"Have you read the books?"

"Some of them, yes, but they're in German."

"Oh, I forgot about that."

Mentally Akio blushed as she smiled. "It's fine, I got a dictionary."

"German can be hard to translate- maybe I should do it."

"I really don't want to cause you any problems…I'll be fine…"

"No, just hand me a book?"

Akio got up and went upstairs to where she had been studying the books and brought one of them back, handing it to him. He took it and a blank notebook and hurriedly scribbled into it. Akio felt her temperature rise and she blushed, sitting down.

"Are you ok?" He asked, turning a page in the books.

"Y-yes, I'm fine." She smiled.

"Are you hiding something from me?"

"No…"

"I can take the body somewhere else, if it bothers you." He stood up and Akio regretted her decision not to act.

"It's not you, it's just…It's me…what I'm going through right now."

"Hm…" He said, walking to the door. "Regardless, I think I shall go out for awhile, a walk or something…"

She nodded and let him leave, sitting in the lab. After a moment of hesitation she stood up and ran outside. "Faust!"

"Yes?" He stopped and turned around, waiting until Akio had caught up with him. "What is it?"

"I just have something to say." She said quietly. "That's why I was acting a little strange back in the lab."

"And what is that?"

"I…I…."

He waited. "You…?"

"I just…"

"I already understand that part…" He smiled. "Go on.."

Her voice shrunk and Akio felt like shrinking too. "I think I like you."

"Well, I like you too, you're a nice person."

"I don't like you like that, I like you like you."

"…like me like me…?"

"I really like you."

He shook his head, confused. "I don't understand what you're talking about."

"I don't know." Akio said slowly, not exactly sure of the feelings she had for him. "Maybe I don't know."

"You should go see Blaze." He paused. "Even though he is a dЃЭЖ…"

"I can't, he's asleep."

"Asleep?"

"He decided to go to sleep…"

"Then wake him up."

"I can," Akio looked back at the house. "I can't wake him up because he's asleep and he wont wake up."

Faust murmured under his breath silently for a minute. "I have to keep walking."

Akio nodded silently. "Alright, I'll let you walk."

He made a slightly muffled noise before he kept walking, Akio watching him walk. Silence overtook her and bothered her in her mind slightly. "Stop," She chased after him and caught up with him. "Let me keep talking…?"

"About what?"

"I'm trying to make this easier for you to understand, I know you don't understand what I mean."

He waited patiently. "Yes…?"

"Come down to my level please, eye level…?"

"Alright," He said slowly, crouching down to her eye level.

"I feel…like this…towards you…" She kissed him quickly then backed up a few feet. "Do you understand."

He straitened up. "Yes, I understand now."

She bit her lip. "Alright, just…so you understand…" guilt ate at her. "I'm sorry, I'll let you go on with you walk—I wont interrupt again."

"I don't mind."

She nodded slowly. "I'll let you go, I…I still have a lot of reading to get through…" With a weak smile she went back to the house to look through the books she was to learn how to read.