Sightless Love
By: Keetra
Keetra: Yeah, I know. I've started yet another one… To those who read only Spirited Away fanfictions, you have no clue what I am talking about since this is my first Spirited Away story. Though, Spirited Away and Castle in the Sky are by far my favorite animes (second only to CCS who I shall adore forever for getting me hooked into the anime world), I have been hesitant to write a fanfic on them until now. (Castle in the Sky has no section here! So depressing…. I wanted to read some. It is probably because Miyazaki ended it so well. I love you Miyazaki-kun! huggles)
Anyway, I hope you enjoy this story. I got inspiration from WhiteWolf125's fic, A Promise Made by Love. She had a chapter where Chihiro went blind and that got my brain thinking. After a while, I couldn't stand it anymore, the idea was tormenting my brain and so I wrote it. And I must say, I am very pleased with it so far. So all credit for my inspiration goes to WhiteWolf and this entire story is dedicated to her.
Warning: The prologue and first couple of chapters are purposefully short. They are short for a reason. They WILL get longer. So no complaining about it. Oh, and I am not doing chapter numbers because I will just get confused. There will only be titles, no posted numbers. I'll let to number them for me since I starting with a prologue. me saying it's chapter one when says it chapter two is just ack!
Disclaimer: The wonderful Miyazakiowns Spirited Away and all if the wonderful characters within. However, I do own all copyrights to the character Talya. She is a product of my imagination alone. So no stealing! As much as I love the characters of Spirited Away, Miyazakihas a much more brilliant of a mind than I have and he did a much better job with the characters than I ever could. He wrote and drew Spirited Away and directed it. I bow to his awesomeness bows I would never try to steal his characters.
Prologue
He said we'd see each other again.
He said not to look back.
It should've been so simple. Walk over the field, walk into the tunnel, walk out of the tunnel and live life knowing he'd come. Simple.
But goodbyes are tricky things. Humans take goodbye so casually. But some goodbyes are the last words you will hear, and you somehow know you will never see that person again. So, even though he told me not to, I had to look back at him one last time. I wanted another look at his face.
I came out of the tunnel into a world of darkness. It didn't sink in until my mother laid a hand on my shoulder and I couldn't see her. I didn't hear dad's exclamation on the vines covering the car. All I heard was my own scream.
My name is Chihiro Ogino. I am eighteen years old, and I am blind.
Everything was stressful for a year, and only half of it was my sudden lack of sight. I don't know what story my parents concocted to explain our disappearance, but they weren't fired from their jobs and we didn't lose the new house that hadn't been paid yet. My school was the most difficult to deal with on the list. Not only had I been absent for so long, but also now their student is blind and they had no program for blind students. Everyone was at a loss on what to do and I felt foolish. Foolish that I hadn't followed simple directions and had, instead, given in to a silly fear. Foolish, foolish, foolish.
After several months, my parents were able to afford the solution. They got in touch with an agency that went to all possible means to assist citizens with disabilities. A week after we called them, a girl named Talya came to live with us.
Talya was a gift from heaven, a true angel. She was thirteen years old and had grown up with her parents blind. They had died not long ago, and she volunteered to help the agency with blind people. We got along immediately. She told me her hair was blonde and her eyes were blue, but all I could tell was that her hair was long, down to her middle back, wavy and very silky. I loved playing with and brushing her hair, it was so soft. Talya was alsmost a foot taller than my puny three foot five inch ehight, which she would gently tease me about from time to time.
Since then, I have trusted Talya with my life. The school was still hesitant, but they finally allowed myself and Talya to enroll. Even though it was difficult, my grades were high and promising, which surprised my teachers and parents. The agency provided my school books in brail, which Talya taught me how to read as well as teaching me howo to use the new brail typwriter my parents bought me as a birthday gift. I even tol Talya about the Spirit World. She seemed fascinated by my story and the people in the world. She laughed and cried along with me and asked many questions about my friends there. She seemed most interested in Haku, and would tease me for blushing as I answered her. Despite her fascination, I couldn't bring myself to tell her how I turned and looked back, resulting in blindness. I didn't need to. She held me tight as I cried at the memory. She told me we'd meet again, that our strong friendship would bring us together. I believed her then. But we're older now. I'm about to graduate from High School and I found a good college that accepts blind students. The Spirit World has become nothing more than a childhood memory.
But some memories should always be remembered.
End prologue
Keetra: I think the hardest part of writing this was tring to keep the facts of the movie separate from author liberties. I hadn't watched the movie in years and have read a lot of fanfictions, and had a hard time remembering what actually happened, how old Chihiro was, etc. So I went and actually bought Spirited Away instead of borrowing it from a friend of mine.
Anyway, as I said, it's short for a reason. I typing the next chapter as we speak and it's short too, though it's longer than this one. The chapters won't get longer than the next chapter will beuntil about the 3rd chapter or so, so get used to it!I luv yas! Review please!