Important Author Note: I took this story down and edited the first four chapters. I read through it and saw all the terrible grammatical errors and fixed all the ones I caught. I also added some text and took out some to even out and smooth the story over. Enjoy!

A Thirst For Royal Blood

By: Priestess Kohana

Summary: Yubaba's after Chihiro (19), and she knows a secret about the young girl that could seriously affect her current position in the Spirit World and Bathhouse.

Couples: Haku/Chihiro and possibly Lin/OC (my own character)

Disclaimer: I do not own the fabulous Spirited Away the utterly amazing Miyazaki-san does. Aside my possible one or two characters….

Note: This is my very first Spirited Away fic and I say Lin and Rin but in this story I will be using RIN. Ok….enjoy hopefully! And if it seems like something I have written is not original…I don't know why that would happen, but I'm sorry for it now.

Chapter 1: Chest Pains

Prophecy:

'The spirit of the Chi Forest,

Will be the ruler of the

Spirit World…'

"Chihiro Ogino, 19 years old and has a creepy obsession with dragons. Stay away from that freak." voiced Mika Suigi, the most popular girl in this college told another freshman. She was one of the many Student Ambassadors taking another group around.

Chihiro growled, she heard that same phrase whenever a new kid happened to wander in, which was every semester. They were in college and still teasing was a habit to all. It's not like it's her fault she was obsessed with dragons! Well, at least not the whole reason.

No matter, she had more pressing matters to attend to. 'For Instance,' Chihiro thought sarcastically, 'Like these weird razor slitting pains.' Ones in which she kept getting all over her body. They usually only happened while she is near the Chi Forest and what they were? She had no clue, just that she didn't like them very much. But what could she do about it? 'Nothing,' she thought, answering her own question.

She really wanted to see Haku again, he would know what was happening. Though, she hadn't exactly seen him for nine years and still counting; so wishing for his guidance was just out of the question.

Which dragged her mind back to the whole dragon obsession thing, which incidentally was the reason she had no friends. It all happened after she left the Spirit World, and after Haku's promise.

Obviously he was not very keen on keeping it, she hadn't seen her favorite dragon for so long. It made her just a little mad that her once trusty river spirit, never came back.

Chihiro had fallen in love with him, she figured that out when she was old enough to understand the feeling, sixteen, but she'd never be able to act on her aggressive feeling. She could feel it's need to get out and for her lips to form, "I love You" to his beautifully chiseled face. But where was he, or did he even remember her at all?

She slammed her locker ---something she was surprised about at first, that a college used lockers---and turned to walk to her class.

- - - - -

Chihiro got up from her desk as her last class of the day ended. She sighed happily, she loved going to college; the classes were scattered to every other day if wanted.

As she walked home, preferring the walk then drive; she ended up stopping near the Kohaku River, or at least where it used to be. The apartment complexes left only a small stream from where the once great river laid.

Tears of loneliness filled Chihiro's eyes, whenever she visited this spot it always reminded her why she lacked friends and Haku's promise to come see her again.

She left as a tear dripped down once of her rosy cheeks. As she continued to walk the long trek home, she yelped out in pain clutching her chest. It was another one of her stupid and irritating chest pains.

When she looked up finally, she was in front of the Chi Forest. She had always felt a strange connection to this forest, like it called out to her.

Sadly, it was getting cut down so what could she do? But she did give her best regards to the spirit of that grand forest. It really was big, it was the same forest that shielded the entrance to Spirit World but thankfully it was getting cut down on the opposite side of the path. The forest itself stretched for what seemed forever and beyond the horizon.

As she walked away, the pains started to be eased. But then another unexpected, horrible pain came when she peered into the destroyed zone where houses were being built. The pain pierced fiercely at her chest, making her whimper. As it subsided a little she thought that this was almost like what happen to Haku's river, or Kohaku's if you want to get technical.

When she turned from the destruction the painful sensation faded completely once more.

Chihiro was almost home, passing the entrance to her favorite place The Spirit World, her normal detour. Her beloved dwelled there, directly through that very entrance somewhere. She used to be sure she could get back through, she wasn't one to wait around like a damsel in distress; but when she tried to get through countless times, it never worked.

She tucked her tears away and ran up the hill to her two story blue house; once she walked inside she was surprised at the bigger mess from what she had left it in, earlier that day.

It looked as though a tornado had whipped right through here. She knew it couldn't be her parents, they had moved to America when she turned 17, saying that they couldn't love her anymore because of the odd feelings they got from her, had supposedly scared them off.

Some parents they were but it didn't bother her as long as she didn't think about it; and it wasn't like they were her real parents, they said they had adopted her and that her real parents must have been scared off too.

When the young Ogino looked all around, fear was present in her brown orbs.

A silhouette figure stood in the doorframe of her living room.

A/N: Sorry the first chapter is short…it was originally and coincidentally still is. I hope the edited version is clearer! I'll have the edited second chapter up in a few minutes!

Thanks for reading! 3