Chapter 1: Part 2

"Wake up!" a feminine voice called out from the darkness.

"Who are you?"

"Wake up!"

Lei Fu Yang's eyes snapped open only to find a pair of green eyes staring back, he jerked backwards blinking stupidly at the beautiful maiden who was staring at him quizzically.

"W-Where am I?" the mage asked.

The girl stared at him for a few more seconds before she gave him her answer "The Infirmary."

Lei's gaze suddenly shifted his gaze to his leg, which to his surprise had a splint carefully secured to it. The raven-haired teenager brought a hand to his face and shook his head vigorously.

"No, No, No! I have so much to—" his sentence was cut-short when intense pain wracked through his lithe yet muscular frame.

The raven haired girl cocked lightly still looking at him with curiosity "Don't move, your body has received severe bruises all over." she paused, placing a hand on his injured leg "As for this, I need not explain."

"How long before it mends?"

"A week or two."

Lei sighed in exasperation, he resigned himself to the fact that he wouldn't be able to participate in most of the school activities he signed up for the coming week, then there was schoolwork, backlogs, missed lessons and—a frown flitted over his lips.

The raven-haired girl plopped herself down on the bed and placed her palm over his neck.

"Seems like your alright." she said in a flat voice.

It suddenly dawned on him, this was the girl who had so bumped into him as he made his was to the library, he had a lot of questions to ask, more importantly—

"Who are you?" he asked, simply because it would be stupid not to.

"Azami, Azami Koizumi." came her blunt answer.

The alchemist-in-training couldn't believe the absurdity of it all! Instead of getting back to much more pressing matters she had to endure a full four hours of watching over some boy she had the misfortune to bump into. What kind of an Infirmary was this that it lacked personnel?

Lei was captivated by this girl, she was a stark contrast from the shrieking misty-eyed girl who clung unto him awhile ago. The raven-haired teenager absentmindedly swung her legs back and forth, Lei's eyes couldn't help but caress those smooth shapely legs 'This is not good, think of something else…mathematics…' he tore his gave from her lovely figure despite the fact he was enjoying it. She seemed a bit more reserved now, but definitely no less gorgeous.

Yes, definitely gorgeous. Lei's eyes betrayed him, they seemd to have taken a life of their own, her uniform clung to her curves… she was… really…

"Your name." she suddenly said, breaking his train of thoughts.

Did she notice? Lei shook his head, of course not, who would… who wouldn't? At the way he was ogling her she would have already noticed.

"Lei Fu Yang." he replied while smiling softly.

He expected her to return the gesture but instead she stood up from the bed and returned to her seat. That was odd.

'Strange name, must be from Kunlun.' she though, well she would just have to baby-sit for another hour and she could leave, spending three hours with a boy… In the same room alone! She felt so dirty already, Azami frowned and shot him an irritated glance. Her eyes snapped open when she saw the boy snoring already.

"Wake up!" she told him tapping him lightly on the cheeks.

Lei's eyes fluttered open, his head was throbbing in pain, the only thing keeping him up was—she pinched his cheeks and his eyes snapped open.

"Ouch!"

"Good."

"Why'd you wake me up?" he asked irritably.

"Concussion, the nurse told me to watch over you for at least four hours and make sure you stay up." she brought a hand to her forehead and sighed "it took me a good three hours to get you up! So don't you dare sleep on a lady."

Lei just nodded at her explanation.

"Thanks." he uttered in a soft voice.

The girl gave him an appraising look.

"Why?"

"For taking care of me."

The girl rolled her eyes "I'm just making sure I tie up all the loose ends. Besides you owe me."

"I don't quite follow."

"Let me put it this way, when you knocked me—"

"knocked you? I broke your fall!" he interjected.

"Alright, broke my fall… whatever… You broke inadvertently broke a very expensive catalyst I had on my person."

Azami's eyes narrowed into two small slits "You now owe me five thousand zenny."

"What?"