Chihiro Ogino was a bright young lady. At the age of 17 she had the best grades in her unusually large class, she always turned in her assignments early, and she always got the highest marks on all of her tests. However, she was also very creative. When she wasn't working on her studies she could always be found i the commons area of her school, or at the local Sanji park, just down the street from her small home sketching in her note book. Chihiro had gotten good at recreating the extravagant characters she often dreamed about. These characters were not just a figment of her imagination though, not at all. You see, when Chihiro was young, about ten years old she and her family had ventured into what they thought was an old amusement park. However, it turned out to be much more than that. Unknowingly , the small family of three entered a strange and terrifying world Spirited Away. Spirited Away was an unusual world filled with flying witches, spirit Gods, and a young boy that Chihiro had deeply fallen in love with, a boy she knew as Haku. Haku, a few year older than Chihiro, had helped her understand the world in which he lived. He helped her make her way through this world, unharmed, but tied there forever with the memories of his generosity. After a long , tedious battle with almost all of Spirited Away's many occupants, Haku lead Chihiro back home, with the promise that one day, they would be together again. A promise Chihiro now thought to be empty and unfulfilled.
On this sunny morning in a small town in Japan, Chihiro walked home from school. Alone and day dreaming she clumsily tripped over something on the sidewalk. " Ouch, you stupid.... cat?" A small grey kitten lay on the sidewalk almost as mad as Chihiro was for being trampled on. "Oh, i am sorry, i didn't mean to..." Just then the tiny cat interrupted Chihiros apology and stated " You know, you should be more careful, i could have been a tiger, or a lion, then you would be in trouble!"
"a lion, in Japan, running free.... AHH ! you can...talk?" gasped Chihiro, realizing the insanity of a cat, talking to her in the middle of a side walk.
" What, you act as if you have never seen anything out of the ordinary before? Like you have not seen ....things" stated the cat.
"What are you getting at cat? You don't possibly mean..."
"Exactly!" the cat laughed and started to trot away.
"Wait! Who are you, where are you from?" yelled Chihiro running after this pestering creature.
"Oh, now you would like to pay attention hmm? Now you wish you didn't step on Oku?"
" Oku? Is that your name little kitten?" Chihiro said in a very sweet voice. Trying to win over this cat , this Oku, was the only way to get to the bottom of what he was here for.
The cat replied calmly , " Yes, that is my name Chihiro Ogino, you will do well to remember it if we are to be friends"
"Friends? " said Chihiro " But, i don't understand, why are you here, and how do you know my name Oku?"
"Oh, i know lot's of useless information."
"USELESS? Well i'll show you!" Chihiro ran at the cat, and just about the time when she was going to ring his scrawny neck, he yelped , " Wait! I know how to get you back to Spirited Away, Haku, YOU!"
" What? Haku? Spirited Away? Why would i want to go back to that awful place? To get turned into a fat pig? Or eaten by a Spirit? No way cat!" yelled Chihiro, angry at the thought that this cat could know anything about the land of Spirited Away.
" Well, if that's the way you feel about it , then i wont tell you the message i have from Haku, or what is going on over there, or anything!" and the Oku walked away , tail in the air.
" Fine! Don't tell me and i don't care anyway! Haku lied to me , he promised, and ...well... I just don't care!" Chihiro started sobbing and ran home to find an empty house and a lonely situation.