A.N-Am really liking this story. Hope you like it! x Also have a Yu-Gi-Oh GX Oneshot called "Feelings" if you're into that, R&R always appreciated. x Jenna x
CHAPTER ONE:Chihiro's Return
There was chaos at the bathhouse. Yubaba was flitting her arms this way and that causing things to cascade and tumble from all corners of the echoing dark room. Her large blue dress flailed about with her and her gigantic nose twitched as she bellowed in frustration. The carpet was invisible, covered in papers and ornaments she had flung to the floor in outrage.
A huge gust of wind blew up behind her and smoke emerged from her ears and her large nostrils.
"Whaaaat do you mean, you can't find heer?" she wailed, inflating to twice her usual size.
Haku stood before her, bold and courageous and strongly pronounced;
"I returned to her world and found no signs of her. There's nothing I can do."
Suddenly, a shrieking cry bellowed from the next room, followed by a loud thud. It seemed her baby had inherited Yubaba's temper, as well as her good throwing arm.
Yubaba flew into the next room cooing softly something along the lines of "Mummy's little darling". Haku thought to himself how astounding it was to see such an irritable old witch become maternal and caring over just one sound. However, when she returned to him she was not so lenient. She barked something about Haku being hopeless and incompetent whilst he didn't really see the point in such an elderly woman throwing a tantrum; it was immature. She ordered him to return once again to the human world and search for Chihiro.
As he exited the bathhouse, he was surrounded by the spirits drifting pointlessly, this way and that. Bumping into him in a state of indifference. Haku marched across the open fields, amongst flowers and grasses. As he wandered, he wondered; Why was Yubaba so intent on Chihiro's return? What was her plan? And why wasn't he allowed to know? All of these questions ran circles in his head, none of which he knew the answers to. He hated the way she ordered him about to and fro. But he didn't know any other way. Imprisonment. That's what it was. Cruel, but necessary...
He walked through the tunnel and out the other side. He was almost melancholy. Chihiro was nowhere to be found and he loved her. He loved her so much that although he had so much sadness and worry, he was more concerned for her. Whatever Yubaba had planned, Chihiro could be in great danger. Danger that Haku could be assisting.
But all of these thoughts soon disappeared when he noticed her paddling in the river, His first love. It had been four years and she had blossomed into a young woman so gracefully.
She was a vision of beauty. Her short mahogany hair glistened and her soft porcelain skin make her chestnut eyes sparkle with innocence. His heart skipped six beats and he whispered; "Chihiro"
She turned, took one long look at him and ran through the river at full speed. The water speckled off her feet as she jumped into his arms and kissed him softly. Her first kiss.
She leant toward his ear and breathed softly; "It's been too long."