Hello everyone, and welcome to the ATC for "Together Forever". As you may or may not know, we will be answering questions in several different ways. You may ask questions directly to one character, to a couple, or to me. You may also do dares, but please try to keep them within reason(remember I have to type all this). So, now that that's out of the way, let us begin.

Chihiro pulls on YF's ear: Forgetting something?

YF: Ow ow ow ow ow, Ok OK I don't own Spirited Away, you happy?

Chihiro lets go of ear: Better.

So now let's jump into the ATC. Giyatso sat in his office pondering the mysteries of the universe. His ponderings were interrupted by a lioness and a dragon bursting through his door, wrestling in mid air. They landed on the floor and continued to roll back and forth across the room.

"I don't mind you guys doing this, but could you get a room?"

The lioness reverted to Neko-Chihiro, "Get you're mind out of the gutter Giyatso." The dragon pinned Chihiro using it's front arms and then reverted to Haku, "I win! You are too easily distracted Chihiro."

"Yeah yeah, just get off me." As soon as he let her up she tackled him to the floor and gave him a big kiss.

"My Chihiro, I never knew you liked it on top."

Chihiro looked up, blushing furiously. Standing in the doorway were Minako (arm around Mikotah's waist) and Mikotah. Mikotah had the largest grin Chihiro had ever seen, so she could guess who said it. Chihiro pulled Haku up, wrapping her arm around Haku's waist. Haku placed his arm on Chihiro's shoulder.

"Did you at least bring everybody?" said Chihiro, ending it with what would be the equivalent of a hiss.



"Calm down, they are on their way." Minako pulled Mikotah into the room and had a seat at one of the numerous chairs around the room, pulling Mikotah onto her lap.

"How did you get permission from otou-san to be here (as she had started calling Neko-Kami ever since her transformation)? I thought you promised to stay there for a couple more years."

"Well you know," Minako looked warily at the ceiling, "he's really just a big softy."

"I heard that!" came the distinct voice of Neko-Kami drifting in from absolutely no specific direction.

"Sounds like somebody's in trouble." Came Kaola's voice drifting down the hall. The rest of the cast came drifting in behind her. Giyatso cleared his throat to quite down the excited chatter.

"Well, now that everyone is here shall we start the questions?"

"Yes," said my incarnation in the story whom I will be referring to as YF, "let's get the ball rolling with the biggest question on everybody's mind."

"Who are Minako and Mikotah based off of, and what Anime were they from? Why don't we let Minako and Mikotah answer."

"My character is based off of Mikoto from Mai Otome." Said Minako "This is most noticeable in the scene where Mikotah threatens to not give me any lunch, and I react exactly like Mikoto would have."

"My character is also based off of a Mai Otome character," said Mikotah, "although in my case, it is Mai I am based off of. There are several spots where YuriFan5 translated my character over. The first and most notable, was my fire powers, which Mai from Mai HiME and Mai Otome both had. The second was my great cooking, another direct translation. About the only thing that drastically changed was the one sided Mai-Mikoto relationship became a two way, and of course my outfit changed. YuriFan5 decided to be tricky and make my name sound like Mikoto, just to throw you off, but apparently it wasn't needed."



"My only real deviation from the Mai-Otome character Mikoto was that I went from being the cat god, to a demi god protector." Interjected Minako.

"The next question is for myself." Said YF "Why did you make Chihiro into a lioness?"

"That's a good question, and one that has a multi-faceted answer. There were several factors that went into the decision to make Chihiro a lioness. The first thing I'm going to point out is that I never actually intended to have Chihiro be a spirit at all. Let me give you a short history to help you understand.

As I have said before many times, I never actually expected this to go beyond the first chapter, but the demand became so large for more that I had to comply. The future of the story then shifted to them having hectic days in the bath house, but after a few chapters it became way too hard to do, so I sought the advice of a wise author by the name of Hinata020. She suggested that I make it so that Haku has an arranged marriage to someone other than Chihiro. Once again my vision of the end product shifted. My thoughts first jumped to a long journey to find a remedy for the situation. I set them off on the train and then to Zeniba's house. I finished up to Chapter 6, but I left the temple name blank. I then set off on the 18 day trip for Scouts. Throughout the entire trip, the plot bunnies were at work driving me nuts with the crazy idea to put Mai and Mikoto into the story. At summer camp, in the time between lunch and the second round of classes, I managed to get down the bare bones of what I had planned to be Chapter 7, but ended up fleshing out to become chapters 7-9 and the beginning of 10. I had originally planed, before the cursed plot bunnies, to make Chihiro a river spirit herself, and then she and Haku would go and both be the gods of one river, together forever, working in the title, boom story done. The plot bunnies insisted I use Mikoto and Mai, and since Mikoto is all about cats, the Cat God came into existence. The great part was, the relationship was already there, I just had to give them more life, since they only showed up in a few episodes. Believe it or not, I actually went back and watched all of the episodes with them in it to relearn the dynamics of their relationship. After the point of them arriving at the temple, 

which I had originally planned to be like how Mikoto had caught Mashiro and Arika, it sort of, scary as it sounds now that I think about it, took on a life of it's own. It was like there was a little growing and evolving movie playing inside my head, and all I had to do was to describe it as best I could. That movie lasted me through most of the story up until the part where Lin demands she be able to plan Chihiro's wedding, and then, having recently Breaking Dawn, I simply took Alice's behavior and applied it.

So to answer your question, however fantasy/scifi this may sound, I never decided that Chihiro would become a spirit lioness, the story decided for itself."

A/N: Well that's enough for one day, send in lots of questions so that I can answer them.