Authors Note: Sorry it's been so long! I hope you didn't think I was going to NOT update this story. This chapter has been finished sense the beginning of July, but I was having internet problems. Now that, that's over I should be updating pretty regularly until I deem the story finished! Anyways please do enjoy the long awaited Chapter 2!

The First Days- Cleaning

_ woke up just as her alarm clock rang at 6am. She happily walked to the bathroom, washed up, lotioned her skin, dressed, and brushed her h/l, h/c hair. Then she went down the hall and had a small breakfast. When she was done, she put the dirty dishes in the sink, gathered her purse and keys and headed out the door. Luckily the funeral parlor was not too far from her home so she can walk there easily. She made it there with a few minutes to spare. She opened the door.

"Hello again Undertaker! It's me, _." She called out. At that moment he came out from behind a door to the front room. "So you were serious." He said slightly astonished, but he still smiled at her. He had never met a person yet who was so interested in his profession.

"Of course I was, when it comes down to my career, I don't kid sir." She said. "So what will be doing today?" She asked him.

"Well I was thinking about what you said yesterday when you came. You were right, this place does need to be updated and probably cleaned too. So for now, I want you to clean this place up to the best of your ability." He said.

_ looked down sadly as he handed her a newly bought duster, broom, cleaners, bucket and mop. She thought she would be doing what she loved right away but guess she was wrong.

Undertaker saw her sad face as she started sweeping the dusty floor. This usually wasn't the way he acted so just before he disappeared to the back room he got her attention. "Don't worry _, as soon as your done cleaning I will teach you how to properly dress a corpse for viewing. I just want you to get familiar where things are and the rooms around here. Oh and before I forget, around noon you can stop and come to the kitchen in my home upstairs for some tea and cookies." He said while smiling sweetly at her. This seemed to cheer her up a bit and seemingly sped up her cleaning. He shook his head as he went to the back room where he put bodies in the crematorium. "There is something about that girl that I am liking." He said as he shoved a body in the furnace and watched it burn.

A few hours later _ had gotten the front lobby cleaned and organized as best she could. No longer was there a coating of dust and dirt on the floor, no more cobwebs in corners and on the ceiling. There was so many spiders she came across and killed that she kept looking over her shoulder paranoid that one was on her body. She went outside, cleaned the clearly dated sign, as it had a few chips and cracks, and cleaned it. Next she had cleaned the windows and opened them to let in some fresh air, same with the door. People walked by and peered inside as _ was polishing off the wooden coffins that were shown in the lobby. They thought it was weird and creepy that such a young girl was working there. When she turned and looked at them, they were startled and started running. _ giggled at the sight.

"Wow, not even a full day working here and your already scaring people off!" Undertaker said from behind her. _ jumped out of her skin again and screamed. He laughed loudly at her reaction till the point the front sign fell off and hit the ground. Now she knew why the sign was in the state it was, his boisterous laugh!

"Yes and I wasn't even meaning too. They were just burrowing holes into the back of my head because they were staring at me for so long." She said as she composed herself, but was still giggling a bit from the memory of those people running off. "So what do you think so far Undertaker? I'm not done with this room yet, but almost, I should be done by lunch. But I do think I'll need help lining these coffins up against the wall. We certainly don't want anyone tripping over these and directly dying in your shop." _ said while smiling innocently.

He nodded at her, "Oh I love it, it looks so much better than before already and of course I'll help you. Can't very well let you lift these heavy things by yourself." He said as he then helped her lift them up and line them up vertically against the two bare walls. When they were done Undertaker disappeared in the room next door again while _ cleaned the shelves and the things on it behind the front desk and under the windows. She then mopped up the floor, and put up a wet floor sign after. Lastly she opened the old styled cash register to count the money and was surprised to find no money inside of it. She closed it and went to the room Undertaker was in. "Uh Undertaker, sorry for disturbing you during your work, but there is no money in the cash register." She stated. He looked up from a body he was currently examining and looked at her. "Oh yes I know, sometimes if customers give me a good laugh I don't charge them. I don't care for the queen's coins, but if they cannot give me a good laugh than I have no choice but to charge them in actual money. Rest assured if you need the money, feel free to charge customers, I have no use for it. Just make sure you charge them fairly. We want them to come back when it is time for them to make plans for themselves." He winked at her while smiling at her dumbfounded facial expression as he explained.

Kumi knew how much a funeral was going for these days and she couldn't believe what she was hearing! If she played her cards right, she could get rid of her school loans with just a couple of people paying.

Without trying to stop herself, she ran over to Undertaker and gave him a tight hug, whispering a thank you into his warm chest. He just stood there, unable to hug her back because he had just been messing with a dead body and didn't get to wash his hands yet.

"You have no idea how much that means to me! That would free me from my college debt which I had no idea how I was going to pay back!" She said while looking up at him with tears in her eyes. "You had just met me, but you have already been so kind to me. Thank you so much!"

She finally let go and let him wash his hands after he put the body back in the fridge to be finished later. "Well after all this excitement, why don't you close up the shop for lunch and we'll go upstairs." He said to her. She nodded, closed the door, windows and flipped the open sign to closed and followed behind Undertaker who was ruffling up her h/l, h/c like a child saying how good she did cleaning up the lobby. She smiled as she followed him to his humble kitchen.

It was a small kitchen with simple things in it. It was the first room you walked into when you entered his house. In the middle was a small square table with two chairs, perfect for the two of them. _ was expecting his house to be a tiny bit messier than his work space down stairs but was unnaturally cleaner! There wasn't any dirty dishes in the sink, the pots and pans were hung neatly on one side of the wall, and the spice rack was organized too except for the cinnamon spice which was still on the counter, recently used.

Undertaker went into a cabinet, he took out a glass canister that had a variety of tea bags. He then pulled out a chair for _ and she sat down in it and put the glass container in front of her. "Please choose which ever flavor you want." He said as he took out a tea pot, put some water in it and set it on the stove to heat up. While he was waiting for the water to boil, he took out two beakers, two spoons and brought over the sugar bowl. He saw _'s confused look. "Don't worry, they were washed out good." He laughed. _ laughed back nervously, unsure of what to say.

A few minutes later the teapot whistled and Undertaker took it off the stove. He poured her some water in her beaker then poured some in his. _ had picked a peppermint tea bag and set it in the hot water, then took the sugar bowl and dumped two spoonfuls of sugar in. As she drank her hot tea, Undertaker then took a jar that looked an awful lot like cremation jars. He opened it and _ was surprised to see bone shaped cookies. She looked at them confused. "Are those dog treats?" "Trust me, try one!" he said to her. She picked one up and bit into it. Immediately her mouth was flooded with the taste of cinnamon and sugar, but also had a light buttery taste. "Wow, these are delicious! Do you make these yourself?" she asked while stuffing another in her mouth. "Yup and those were made just this morning." He said just before putting one in his mouth.

An hour later they both came back down stairs with renewed energy. _ flipped the sign back from closed to open again. Then she went to the two viewing rooms. The floor was covered in a neutral colored rug that was faded a little. She saw a few vases filled with long dead flowers in them, _ picked them all up and threw them in the trash. Then she took all the vases to the sink in the dissection room and cleaned them out. She then got her purse and told Undertaker she was going to get a few more things and that she would be right back.

_ went all the way back home to get her car, then went to the nearest store where she could buy a vacuum. After she found one she liked and bought it along with some rug cleaner and air fresheners, she went to a florist shop and bought a couple bouquets of flowers. After she was done shopping she headed back to the shop. When she got back, she dragged the vacuum in, took it out the box and started vacuuming the floors of the two adjacent viewing rooms. It didn't take long and when finished, the rug looked a lot better. She then put new flowers in the vases and put them back. She cleaned the windows in those rooms, took down the curtains and sense Undertaker didn't have his own washer and dryer, he said he washes everything by hand and hangs them out to dry, she put the curtains in her car to be washed at her house.

"Once I start making money here, half will go to paying off my school loans, the other half will go into upgrading the shop." She said while talking to Undertaker as she sprayed some air freshener. "First things first, we should probably replace this rug, it's really old, like maybe a century." Undertaker giggled a little at that statement. "I cleaned it as best I could but I think it has had its day." He nodded in agreement. "Then I was thinking for the lobby, we could get shelves and put the coffins on them so they can be horizontal." "Yeah I wanted to do that for years, just never having any time." He said. "Well those we can start with maybe even as soon as tomorrow, you know, if someone just so happens to die!" She said, making them both laugh.

"Well thank you for cleaning and helping out today, you did a VERY good job. Please come back tomorrow and I can teach you the basics of preparing a body for viewing." He said as he kissed her on her forehead. _ blushed at the random moment of affection, but she said nothing about it. She waved back to him as she drove off to her home.

When she got home a few minutes later she took the dirty curtains out of her cars, put them in the washer machine. Then she went back out to clean out the dust in her car now on her seats. After she cooked dinner, (your favorite food). When the laundry was done, she put it in the dryer. When _ deemed the hot water back to normal temperature, as it was before the washer was on, she got in the shower. As the water cascaded off her body _ thought about the kiss. It was so quick but something about it made her heart flutter. His lips were so hot against her skin. She wanted more!

Soon she got out the shower, got in her pajamas and went to bed. Giving her exhausted body a well-deserved rest.

Authors Note: So what did you think about this chapter? I know it's a bit long and uneventful but I wanted it to be extra-long sense you guys had to wait extra-long for me to upload it. Again please, if you have and tips or critiques or even nice comments, don't be afraid to say something! Anyways see you in Chapter 3!