Spirited away 2: The return

Chapter 1: Chihiro, now age 14, was sitting on her bed. She lived with her grandparents. Her parents had been sick for the past week. They finally passed away a few nights ago. The people, the number one reason she left him, and all of her friends, were gone. Him. Not a day passed when she didn't think about him, didn't imagine her life if she had stayed with him. The boy she fell in love with. Haku. Kohaku river. The boy who had saved her, in more ways than one.

"I'm fine, I got my name back…"
"Will we see each other again sometime?"
"Sure we will."
"Promise?"
"Promise… now go, and don't look back."

Chihiro silently said those words to herself, like every night. Tears welled up in her chocolate brown eyes, and fell onto her cheeks. They kept falling until she finally drifted off to sleep, just to dream more of Haku.

She woke up to the smell of breakfast. Eggs and bacon. But Chihiro wasn't hungry, she wasn't really hungry a lot anymore. Mostly sick to her stomach due to all of her losses. Chihiro got out of bed, and looked at herself in the mirror. She had longer hair now, and her face wasn't so childish, and she was more womanly. She pulled her hair up into the purple hair band Zeniba had given her so long ago. She wore it everyday, it was the only thing she had left of the world she missed so much. She was home schooled now, she never made friends at school since she got back from the Spirit World. All she had in her life was her Grandma and Grandpa.

"Good morning, Chihiro!" Her grandmother said with a smile.
"Morning." Chihiro said, still rubbing sleep out of her eyes.
"Breakfast? I made eggs and bacon!"
"No thank you. I'm not hungry…" She said drifting off.

Chihiro…

She snapped back into reality. She often hears Haku's voice calling her… She learned to get used to it, but it still made her tear up. Chihiro walked out of the room, tears falling onto her cheeks. An idea hit her, she stopped walking, and ran out the front door.

"Ill be right back, Grandma!"

Chihiro ran as fast as she could, to Haku's river. All that was left of his river was a small stream. She took off her shoes and stepped into it. She was waiting for a feeling, any feeling. Nothing…

Haku felt something jump inside him, he was sitting in his room. He knew Chihiro was at his river, the thought made him smile a sad smile, and get up and think to himself. "I need some air…".

Chihiro was clenching her fists. Tears started falling, and she clenched her teeth and screamed. "Haku! I need you! Please, find a way to hear me… I… miss you."
Nothing happened, and she grabbed her shoes and stormed off.

Haku was standing outside of the bathhouse, he was no longer was Yubaba's apprentice, but he still worked there, because he had no where else to go.

Ha~~ Pleas~~ I… miss you.

He jerked his head up by the girl's voice in his head. Chihiro. He quickly put his hands into a sign. He mustered up all of his strength, and quietly said "I'm trying, Chihiro".
He tried with everything he could, nothing. He put his arms down, furiously. He then shifted into dragon form, and flew off. To where, he had no idea.

Chihiro was half way home, and she thought of something. "I guess, I could try the spirit gate again, it never has worked before, but this time it could." She started off for the Spirit gate, which were just a few miles away.

She made it there, in one piece. Quite an accomplishment, in the eyes of a 14 year old. She held her breath, and started walking through the tunnel. "Please work… Please work… the spirit world is my real home. My only home." Her eyes were closed, she knew the way by memory, just because she's done this so many times, she had a really big feeling that it would work.

At the end of the tunnel, she opened her eyes. Her eyes widened, and she smiled the biggest smile she had smiled in years.