A/N: Five follows and one fav I'm freaking out a little :) you guys have made me so happy seriously. Gihihi. So heres the next chapter!

Chapter 2

When I opened my eyes and glanced at the clock I ignored it for a moment. I'm not really a morning person…at all. Ever. I'm serious. Then everything from yesterday hit me like a fifty pound brick; SAO, people trapped, police department, Nerve Gear, Kayaba.

I jumped out of bed and scrambled into my computer room. I hit my desk chair with a flying leap and zoomed across the room to my desk. I nearly hit the desk and my fingers were already on the keyboard, I had seventy-two emails that mattered. My email always seemed to leak out somehow and I have a whole arsenal of depressing emails from people asking me to help the people stuck in SAO. I figured it wouldn't hurt and sent out a mass email saying I would do my best but that I was only human.

I figured it would hurt less if I took the hit rather than the several industries that helped Kayaba in the first place, though that would happen anyways at first I could take the hit later if this did turn south. Though frankly I'd rather be optimistic about the situation. I could handle people being pissed at me.

"Okayokayokay. Just bring up the stuff that I did yesterday… Aaaaand… wait what did I need again?" I paused as I searched my brain. "The master copy! Yeahyeahyeah! Hey wasn't Hibiki supposed to send me the master copy… maybe it's in all those emails I didn't check…" a few clicks with the mouse. "Grrr! There's too many of these! Okay I think it's time to launch that new program." I pulled up another screen and typed in a few commands. "Alright here we go. Kat can you hear me?"

A female voice came through my speakers, "Yes I can hear you. What do you need Kauze?" I had been working on a new program that could keep pace with me and my spastic brain. I jumped around so often that I couldn't work with anyone so I made a program that could keep up with me, so I could basically work with someone. She was capable of most human emotions along with sarcasm and a few other things because I was bored. I basically gave her a personality. A little crazy yes, but it was mostly because I had nothing to do and this is what happens when you only had contact with two or three people, you go crazy.

"Are all your systems up and running Kat?" I asked excitedly.

"Mm-hm. I could run a diagnostics check on them if you think I should."

I shook my head, "No need Kat. Now can you go through my emails and look for anything from Hibiki? And then once you're done start up some research on the Sword Art Online thing that's going on. It should be all over the internet." I pulled up my work from the night before, I couldn't do much until I got the master copy but I could definitely look up on how some of the gaming systems worked.

"Alright, I'm on it. It may take a minute to find the email though. You should really clean this out." She said wirily.

"Heyheyhey! I don't have the time! I have other stuff to do!" Great now I'm arguing with a computer. Did I really design her like this?

"Yes, yes you did."

I jumped. "Did I say that out loud?"

"Yup." Kat said in confirmation.

"Damn. I really need to stop that."

"I found the email. Want me to pull it up for you?" She asked.

"No," I said, "Just read it out to me."

"Okay lazy. He said he should have someone over with it at about eight, along with the people you asked for. He said they're coming with a police escort though."

"What time is it?" My eyes zipped over some tips by game creators.

"It's eight now."

I jumped from my chair. "What? It's eight already? It was six forty-five when I woke up!"

"You tend to tune things out when you type did you know that?"

"Shut up!" I yelled at my computer as I rushed back to my room to put some clothes on. I usually just stayed in my pajamas all day since I worked from home. I got some pants and a sweatshirt on just as the door bell rang. I pulled my hair out of the back as I ran to the front door.

I yanked the door open surprising the six people outside. Two of the game creators and four police officers stood at my door, startled. The officers collected themselves. The one who I'm guessing had run the door bell spoke. "We're from Commissioner Kayata. We've brought the people you requested."

I winced the cleared my throat, "Uhh… do you all, um have to stay?"

He nodded tersely, "Yes. The Commissioner said we were to stay with these two."

I glanced at their faces. One was a middle aged woman with short brown hair and glasses, her eyes were bloodshot. The other was an older man with blonde hair and bags under his brown eyes. He met my eyes and I gave him a smile, attempting to encourage him.

Inside I was bashing Hibiki on the head have so many people come over here. I didn't like being around so many people. If there were any more than three people in the room with me I'd start to get uncomfortable. Five people and I'd start fidgeting; at about nine I'd start to freak out. Last time this happened I was eleven at an event and I panicked, it took Yuu forever to find me curled up in a ball outside behind the bushes. I don't care what Kaito said! I really don't like people!

I sighed and let them in the door. They followed me back into my computer room and the guards moved around the room to stand in the corners as well as they could, seeing as the walls were mostly filled with shelves of electronics. One of them clearly said to the workers, "Don't try anything."

I held in my disgust, these two were obviously distraught over the situation and these guards were being nothing but rude to them. Assholes! I turned to the workers, "Ahh hold on a sec." There were two closets in the room, one was a pale blue and the other was a bright orange. I headed to the blue one. Out of it I shoved two rollie chairs and dragged out a foldable plastic table. The older man helped me set it up when I couldn't get one of the legs to unhook. "Thanks." I told him.

"No problem, miss." He replied.

I handed the phone as they sat down. "Call in something to eat. Whatever you want seriously, even the places that don't deliver. Just tell them you're calling for Kauze Hatashi and they'll get it."

The man stared at the phone for a minute glancing at me as I pulled a soda from the fridge for myself and offered them something. The woman took some of the coffee from the pot atop the fridge. The man spoke, "Are you sure?"

I nodded. "I haven't eaten yet anyways and I'd feel like a jerk if I ate in front of you guys. That and I can't cook. Last time I tried I nearly blew up the kitchen." I snorted, "Never again."

The woman smiled at me. "By the way, I'm Chiyo Fujioka." She waved at the man next to her who was placing his order. "This is Martin Shore. He's American, came over here to work with.."

"Kayaba," I finished for her. She nodded mutely. "We can't be afraid of his name," I told her. "If we do that it means that he's already won." She looked at me surprised before a form of confidence began to fill her eyes. I smiled, well I needed fighting spirit.

"Hey Kauze, are you done yet? I'm bored." Kat's voice flitted through the speakers, startling the others in the room.

I turned my head toward the computer. "Did you already research everything on SAO? I really don't want to have to explain it all."

"Yes and now I'm bored!" she whined, drawling out the last word.

I rubbed at my head, I needed food. "Shut up before I turn you off you stupid program."

Chiyo gasped, "A program?"

I nodded, "Uh yeah. I get kinda bored. So I made a program that basically has a personality. Though I don't know why I made her so annoying."

Kat gave a giggle and I winced, "She still needs some work."

Martin handed the phone to Chiyo. "I made a part of the game, something similar to that. She wasn't really a part of the cardinal system though. She monitored the mental states of all the players. So if any of them were mentally sick and playing the game we could get them help. She would go to them and keep them happy, a program made to feel human emotions. I don't know if Kayaba has shut her down or not though."

"Mental states," I muttered. What if the system was still up, the one that monitored the people's mental states, it could probably give me some insight… Maybe I could worm into the system from there. "Martin? Did you say that the Cardinal system gave orders to your system?"

He nodded, "Yes. The Cardinal system gives orders to the one that I created. I called it Yuui."

"Yuui," I smiled, "That's cute."

He smiled back at me, "Yes, it's the name of my granddaughter."

I snapped my fingers when I remembered something. "Oh, yeah! Do you guys have the master copy of the game I asked for?"

One of the guards came forward with a disk and I grabbed it from him, and slid the disk into my computer. "And the fun begins!" I yelled excitedly taking a sip of my soda. The drink fizzed in my mouth and as it slid down my throat. "Mr. Martin, where was Yuui placed in the system?"

He cleared his throat, "You could try the immortal objects or the player's assistance. Other than that I don't know where she would be."

I smiled at his wording. "Is she like you granddaughter?"

I must've caught him off guard because he didn't answer for a minute. "Y-yes. Her personality is biased off my granddaughters as well. She could always make you smile no matter how bad things seemed."

"She sounds like a sweet little girl. Hey is this your programming?" He wheeled his chair over next to mine and set my phone down on my desk. Huh, they must've been done calling in food.

Martin nodded, "Yes, that's the coding I used in my program. How did you access it so fast?"

I tried to explain, "I think of a program like a big castle, your program was like the under belly of it. So instead of trying to go through the walls like most others do I dig a tunnel underneath then worm my way around inside the program…" Silence. "Did that make any sense out loud? 'Cause it worked in my head."

Martin shook his head, "No, no that made sense. I just can't believe how fast you processed everything."

My face went a little red. I really can't take complements.

The next six and a half hours included this; twenty-one sodas (seventeen for me, two for Chyio, one for Martin, and one for one of the guards), eight bathroom trips (should not have had that much soda), seven boxes worth of takeout food (what? Police people get hungry too), two more foldout tables and four more chairs from around the house (ha, I knew they wouldn't last all day, suckers), fifty-two smart ass comments from Kat (and I threatened to shut her down all of those fifty-two times), two fits of rage at the computer (hey I have my moments, just saying), one surprise visit from Yuu (too many people!), a food fight that I may or may not have started (Yuu was sooo asking for it), a request to do an interview about the SAO thing (how did they find out I was working on this? It's only been a day!), Chyio's patience showing through as she tried to show me how to navigate in the outer wall of the Cardinal system (I am so sorry about that, I am the worst person to teach), and seven smiles by the end of the day (not including Yuu, who was always smiling and Kat who didn't have a face).

All in all, I think it was a rather successful day.

When everyone left I let out a sigh, it was fun hanging around them but that was still too many people in my brain. I flopped onto the couch and Yuu sat in the chair across from me. "Well that was fun!" She grinned. "I'm honestly surprised you could stand that many people in the room with you."

I gave a wiry smile, "So am I." I yawned. "'Mm tired." I mumbled.

Yuu caught my yawn, "Don't do that." She stretched as best she could in the chair, her legs dangled off the sides. "Screw it," she mumbled, "I'm crashing here for the night."

"Okay." I curled up into my ball and a thought hit me in the face as I fell asleep. Every time Yuu spent the night she tried to stretch out in the small chair while I curled up into a ball on the big couch. We should really fix that…