--CHAPTER FOUR—

"I don't want to remember my past." Akio said, looking at Sachi as they stood in the streets.

"We could give you amnesia?"

"I would forget everything." Akio said. "I'd like that." I would get a way to forget what I have lived through in my old life… she thought sadly.

"So, what do you say?"

"To amnesia? Lets do it."

Sachi grabbed her bat and smiled before thwacking Akio in the head. She dropped to the ground, out completely cold.

Sachi dropped down and grabbed her, shaking her. "Akio!"

One of Akio's eyes fluttered open. "hhhhhhhhhhhhhuuuuuuuuuh……………?" she said hazily.

"What is your name!"

Akio looked at her, not knowing how to answer.

"When is your birthday?"

Again, she just blinked and looked at Sachi.

"What is today?" After Akio didn't answer Sachi screamed. "IT WORKED!" she kissed the bat then looked at Akio. "Your name is Muckluck."

In a very small voice Akio asked Sachi who she was.

"You are five years old—oh….And I'm Sachi, queen of France."

"Oh," Akio said in a small voice.

"There is an e-e-evil man out to get you, Muckluck."

"Who…?"

"He has red hair, with a blue streak in the middle- his name is Blaze. Don't talk to him- in fact- if you see him- kill him."

"Why is he after me?" Akio stood up.

"Because he wants to kill you."

In her little innocent mode, Akio looked at Sachi. "Why does he want to kill me…"

"He's a nazi from Germany, and you're the last heir to his throne so you have to not die!" she looked at her earnestly. "He wants your throne man!"

"Am I a nazi heir?"

"No, you're not the nazi, he is! So be careful."

"W-why does he want to kill kids..?"

"Because he's that evil."

Akio looked at Sachi, horrified.

"Oh…and by the way…You're a shaman…and a necromancer…and a moonwalker…and your favorite food is beer…and you drink it 24/7…And you hate boys…all of them…and you've always hated them- especially the tall ones and the short ones" Sachi handed her a pack of beer and Akio in hailed it down.

"Y-yougots anymore!"

Sachi smiled. "Yes."

Akio yanked the cans from her and guzzled them down. "Weeee!"

After a while of making each other horribly drunk they looked around. "Let's go cause havoc!" Sachi said, looking around for something to cause havoc on.

Akio bounded off to go look for something. "Look, I'm a crazy moonwalking shaman!" she smiled then opened her eyes. "BOY!" She screeched, taking off after it.

The boy looked over, unaware at the small drunker chasing after him. "What?"

Sachi watched, approving and clapped. "Yeah."

Akio jumped on the boy and knocked him to the ground. She grabbed his head by the hair and pounded his head into the cement a couple of times before getting up and running off.

Sachi took another beer and downed it as Akio fell over on the ground, making a small, terrified scream.

"When you see Blaze, you kill him." She walked over to Akio and sat down, patting her head.

Akio started to shake, very small shakes throughout her body.

"What's up?" Sachi asked. "You need more beer?"

Akio rubber her stomach. "Ja."

Sachi picked her up. "We should go to your castle."

"I have a castle?"

"Yes, but you need to drink more so we can get there." She handed her another beer.

"Asdalvmeiaoerasf…" Akio mumbled when she had finished.

Sachi pulled her around and put a crown on her head. "There…"

Akio touched it. "alfmaeialmf!" She said, looking rather noble.

"We shall destroy the city! Let me go get the pitchforks!" Sachi ran off.

Akio rubber her stomach, not sure of what the pain was caused by and then collapsed to the ground in pain. Sachi came back.

"I brought the pitchforks," she held out a flower to Akio. "Be careful, they're sharp."

Akio put out a trembling arm to take one and Sachi handed one to her and she moaned painfully. "Ich glaube, wie ich sterbe…"

"What?"

Akio contracted into a ball. "Ich glaube, wie ich sterbe..."

"GAAAAAAH!" Sachi screamed. "Do you want more beer?"

"Ich glaube soviel den Schmerz in meinem Körper.." Akio started to cry.

"WHATS WRONG!"

"wie Säure in meinem Blut"

"I don't understand German!"

Akio cried harder and Sachi started to cry too, not understanding what she was talking about.

"JUST TELL ME!"

She pushed herself up and looked at Sachi weakly. "I…hurt…" She threw up and then went into convulsions.

Sachi grabbed her. "MUCKLUCK!"

Akio looked at her painfully and Sachi got a washcloth and put it on her head. " Ich glaube, wie ich sterben werde." Akio cried.

"Shhh," Sachi said, wiping off Akio's face.

"Ich glaube, wie ich sterben werde! Ich glaube, wie ich sterben werde!" She said painfully before going into convulsions again. Sachi layed Akio down and held her there while she started to scream in pain. After a moment she calmed down. "Ich sterbe.. Ich sterbe.." she whispered, getting quiet.

"You're not going to die." Sachi reassured her.

"Ich sterbe.." She whispered again before Sachi put her out.

"Well, we got her back to the lab." Azura said, dropping one of Akio's arms and letting her fall on the floor with a smack.

Shii came running into the room, meowing.

"Faust!" Sachi called into the lab.

Faust came in. "What is it?"

"Sachi tried to kill Akio." Azura said, looking at Sachi.

"SO!" Sachi retorted.

Faust turned and looked at Sachi darkly and she edged away from him, laughing nervously.

Azura pointed to where Akio was laying. "That is Muckluck the moon walking, beer drinking, five year old heir to Germany."

With a worried look, Faust looked at Akio, kneeling down by her.

"But she only drank a bit!" Sachi said.

"She drank 14 cans." Azura looked at her.

"Hm.." Faust picked Akio up and Sachi, Shii and Azura watched. He turned around and walked upstairs.

"Where's he going…?" Sachi twilghted as the two left the lab.

"I have no idea." Azura said, watching the skeletal cat bound up the stairs after them.

"At least she'll be ok."

Azura walked to the stairs. "What'cha doing?"

There was no answer and she turned to look at Sachi nervously. The two went upstairs and looked in the room. Akio was laying on the bed, Faust was sitting by it, holding her hand.

"Is she going to be ok?" Azura asked.

Faust smiled. "Ja, she just needs rest- when she wakes up she wont feel so great."

"Good."

"Having that much more than normal isn't going to hurt her this time." He glared darkly at Sachi.

Sachi coughed. "Ehehh…heh.."

With a small mutter Akio whispered. "Ich sterbe..."

Faust squeezed her hand. "No, you're going to be fine."

Azura leaned over to Sachi. "Maybe you should hit her again with your baseball bat?"

"Sure," Sachi took it and went over to smack Akio in the head again.

Akio made a small scream and Faust took the bat from Sachi. "Out, Sachi."

"NO!"

He looked at her.

"Fine, you big jerk."

"You want me to come with you Sachi?" Azura asked.

"Yeah."

Shii looked at them from where she was curled up on the bed. "Bai." They said, leaving.

Akio woke up later, clenching onto Faust's hand. "W-where am I…? Sachi…?" She looked over at the hand she was holding and found with a shock that it wasn't the Queen of France's. "Gah- who are you?"

"My name is Faust- Your name is Akio."

"No, my name is Muckluck- I'm the heir to Germany. Are we in Germany, Sir? Cuz if so, I'm you boss."

"We are, but you aren't the heir to Germany. You have amnesia…Let me go get something for you."

Akio looked at his very large hand as he stood up to go get something. He left the room and she looked at Shii, shying away from the skeleton that was purring softly. "Ewww…"

After a moment Faust came back up the stairs, holding a small vial of clear liquid. He put it into Akio's hand and closed her fingers around it. "Drink this and you'll feel better."

She squirmed slightly at his touch, her five-year old- boy hating mentality reeling. "O-ok…" she took some and then rubbed her head before falling back asleep.

"I hope it works," Shii said, waking up as Akio hit the pillow. "I really don't like the five year old version as much as the older one…"

Her dark world twisted painfully and she felt a headache pulse in her mind. What was going on? She had regained enough to know that it might just be an extreme hangover- but it felt like something else somehow, she just wasn't sure what it was.

Akio felt Faust's hand and held onto it tightly, trying to figure out what was wrong with her- was this something besides the hangover? Headache from getting drilled with a bat? Something else? She wasn't sure so she gave up thought- blinking her eyes open slightly.

"Morning…" She said quietly, turning one of her eyes over to she could see Faust. "W-what happened?"

"You got hit with a bat- you had amnesia…You're going to be ok, just go back to sleep."

She nodded weakly, knowing sleep was the best medicine, and closed her eyes. "Alright…I'll go to sleep."

"Good girl." He said as she dropped off, that buzzing sensation in her head- she wasn't sure what was going on with her, but she felt that it wasn't a great thing.

Faust stood up. "I'm leaving." He walked to the door, Akio looked at him, very confused, her head buzzing slightly.

"What do you mean?"

"I'm going with Eliza, we're moving." He said, opening the door up. "We're moving to our other house- not the lab- the other one."

"Oh…" She watched him grab some things.

"What's going on?" Shii asked, jumping up on a table as Akio rubbed her cat's back. "Are you leaving Faust?" Shii sensed the warmth in Akio's icy hands that wasn't there and looked up at her, worried about what they had talked about earlier.

"Yes, I'm leaving." He grabbed his hat and his coat and put them on. "It will be better out there, less distracting."

"Good luck…" Akio said.

"Yeah, have fun out there." Shii looked around the lab. "More lab for us."

Faust looked at her. "Yes, I will have fun- good bye." He walked out and shut the door.

Akio sighed and sat down in a chair. "This means that no one is going to that dinner thing tonight…doesn't it Shii."

"Are you really sure that you want to go to that?" Shii asked, hopping in her lap. "I mean…After…"

"I'll go," Akio said softly, standing up and rubbing her arm. "I think that it'd be good to see people."

"Akio…!" Shii argued, following her upstairs. "This is stupid, don't go."

Akio looked down at the cat. "I'm going, I want to see my family, I want to talk to them!"

"Before you-"

Akio slammed the door in Shii's face and sat down, crying. Shii was right.

With a loud racket everyone piled into the Burger King- taking tables and looking around. They were not much of a talkative bunch, mostly tired and sleepy people not interested in hanging out with people today.

Blaze looked out a window, disinterested in what was going on with everyone and mumbling about why they had woken him up.

Seto, along with Irian, were pressed with time before they would go to France for a meeting and Shii and Sachi seemed the only ones who had anything to say.

After a while a small conversation broke out, everyone started talking, even just nodding. Akio slipped out of the room, blood covered and still not feeling to well, and hid in the bathroom.

Shii watched her leave, not hinting that anything was going on at all before getting grabbed up by Sachi so she wouldn't run to get Faust for Blaze- they were playing the dark secrets game.

Irian looked around for her mom late into the night, she hadn't seen her all evening and looked at Shii, who was laying on the table. "Where's my mom?"

"She's in the bathroom." She stood up and hopped off the table, walking into the bathroom with Irian following her.

"Okasan?" Irian said, opening the bathroom door and looking in, her mother was curled up in a corner, crying. (This was a sad IM conversation! TT.TT) "Okasan- are you ok?"

Akio didn't answer or look at Irian as she buried her head, which was buzzing painfully, in her arms.

"She's not one for answering questions lately.." Shii said from her spot on the sink. "Sorry."

Irian looked at her mother with concern. "What's wrong?"

"N-nothing." Akio said sadly.

"Does she talk to you?" Irian asked Shii.

Shii nodded. "She tells me everything, I'm not sure anyone really understands how much I know."

"What's wrong."

Shii didn't say anything and looked at Akio, who was not looking at anyone.

"Do you want me to go get Dad?" Irian asked.

"No…No…I'm fine…" she said, looking up for the first time since the two had entered the bathroom and wiping her eyes. "I just…don't know what came over me."

"You feeling ok?"

"I feel fine." She said, standing up slowly and taking a calming breath. "I just got overwhelmed… I guess…I'm not sure really."

"Oh…." Irian said.

Shii jumped up on Akio's shoulder and Akio rubbed her jaw. /Thank you Shii…for not telling…/

/It's fine./ The cat said softly as they left the bathroom.

"Lets go, Irian." Seto said, standing up. "We have to be in France."

"Good luck." Akio said softly.

Seto looked at her. "You're up."

"Yes…They just…got me out of my little spell."

"Lets go." Blaze said, getting up and walking out of the restaurant

Akio followed, smiling weakly at everyone as they left and looking up at the sky. "There's no stars tonight, Blaze."

"Are we going back to the lab?" He asked, sticking his hands in his pockets.

Akio paused sadly, looking down from the starless sky. "Oh… yes…" she said softly. "We're going back to the lab."

"Good, because I need sleep." He said, slight frustration on his voice. "I don't see why you made us all come here- it's not like it did anything."

"I wanted to see if it would work, instead of counseling…"

"Pft," He snorted. "I don't see why your trust in me is that thin, Akio—we don't need counseling. We don't even have a problem."

Akio sighed, She had a problem. She had feelings for Faust, she was scared of Blaze. "Oh," She reached a hand, which was getting a little paler and thinner, up to scratch Shii- the hand shook and Shii bit at it slightly, holding it. "I just thought so."

"Well we don't." Blaze said finally. "You just don't trust me."

Shii walked up to Faust later after he had left. She hadn't seen him since he left the house. "Hey…can I ask you a favor Faust?"

"What do you need?" He asked.

"I was wondering if I could come and live with you and your family?"

"I don't see a problem with that."

"I just don't want to live alone, that's very scary." Shii admitted.

"Why would you live alone?"

"Because…Akio…is going to Wales…" Shii said, trying to not give too much away.

"That sounds nice." Faust said.

"Yes, she's always dreamt about going to there…and…very soon…she'll make that dream a reality."

Faust smiled. "That's good."

"Then again, with leaving to go there- she'll also be having a pain to." Shii paused, masking the hint of pain in her voice. "She wanted me to tell you thank you again."

"She doesn't have to tell me thank you."

"She just wanted to, since she probably wont say it to you in person…"

He paused. "Oh…"

"Yes," Shii said, very quietly, sure that he understood what was going on.

"Well, I hope I'll see her again."

From that, Shii understood that Faust had not got it. "Oh… I don't think you will."

"Oh…Is that all you needed?"

"Yes," shii paused and twilighted. "You may see her again though."

"I hope so."

"So you'll be coming," Shii said, looking up at Faust.

"Coming where?"

"To Wales…You'll be coming?"

"No." he said firmly. "But you're welcome to come and stay with my wife and I, Frankensteiny wont give you any trouble."

"We'll just leave your things in the lab- alright?"

"My stuff?"

"The IV…the things you gave her."

Faust paused. "She can leave them in the lab."

Akio had been sick, growing very sick over the course of a few weeks. Her body had become very weak, very frail and thin and very warm. Atsumi had come to visit her and found that she was very ill, verging closer and closer to death, but unable to call for anything.

Atsumi had called Faust, when she could take no more of Akio's pain, to come and see what was wrong. Faust had come, quickly, and given her an IV- telling her to rest until her typhoid subsided.

Now, after that, Faust had been reassured that it was nothing- that the typhoid had passed and she would live on again as her cured, back to normal self again.

"She also wants me to tell you goodbye."

"I say goodbye as well," Faust said, smiling down at Shii.

Shii winced, knowing full well what was about to happen with everyone after the illness claimed Akio's body. "I'll tell her that before she goes…"

"That's good, I hope she has a fun time."

A small knot formed in Shii's stomach-less stomach. "Oh…I don't know…she may…"

"I really must go, goodbye." Faust said, leaving.

(Part one of chapter 4- its 17 pages, I'll break it up )