A/N: Whee! Look, it's my first venture into the realm of Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi! *Cheers* I saw the movie last Saturday, bought it last Wednesday, and have now seen it about five times since then lol. It has become my newest favorite movie in the world!

Anyway, in this one, Chihiro doesn't remember a thing. Not like she's forgotten or anything, but she just doesn't remember. That way I get to torture everyone more! *cackles* I have some explanations as to little details at the bottom (like my reasoning as to the time between Chihiro and her parents entering the Spirit World and when they got back). Soooo. It starts off kinda slowly but it'll pick up more soon. I fully plan to develop some of the other parts of the Spirit World better, so yay! But other than that, I really haven't much of a plot . It shall be a Kohaku/Chihiro ficcie though, never fear! (In all honesty, what else is there?)

Disclaimer: As much as I fervently wish that I was, I am not either Hayao Miyazaki-san or Joe Hasaishi-san (he did the music for Sen and Mononoke Hime). Curse it all! Oh, and by the way, I saw someone say that Miyazaki-san did Grave of the Fireflies, and he sure didn't. It was his companion at Studio Ghibli, so the animation style is slightly similar, but it was NOT him ^_^;;

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"Daddy! Mommy!" The scream echoed throughout the world that was quickly becoming illuminated by lamps and signs of all shapes and sizes. Black masses of substance moved all around her, things that shouldn't have existed but did, eyes glaring menacingly.

Her feet flew down the stairs, past the shapes that beckoned to her, called to her without words. Fear made her breathing come ever more quickly. They were all around her now, everywhere she looked, the ethereal creatures. What had moments before been the desolate remains of a theme park were now alive and full of terror to the little girl that ran, screaming her lungs out. "Mommy!"

She ran and ran, remembering the odd boy's demand to get across the river. Almost there… her feet splashed into water. The field that she and her parents had crossed under the bright sun was now a humongous expanse of water, dark as the starless sky that it reflected. And there, where the old red tower was, was a city, glowing with an inhuman light. A city that had not been there before. And a boat out on the water, heading straight for her.

"No way… I'm dreaming, I'm dreaming!" The little girl smashed her fists into her head to dispel what was before her. "Wake up, wake up!" She sank down, huddled on the balls of her feet, rocking back and forth as terror gripped her ever more strongly. "Wake…up… It's just a dream, a dream…" The boat came closer. "Go away, disappear. Disappear, disappear!"

Some instinct made her look up. The boat was close to her now, docking but a few scant feet away. But that was not what was terrifying her. She was see-through. She held her hands up in disbelief, crying out when the brightly lit boat was visible through her body. She rubbed her hands together furiously, trying to make them normal again, to no avail. Throwing her arm in front of her face did not help, it only reminded her of her plight more. "It's a dream, it has to be!"

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"Ogino Chihiro!" A loud voice boomed in her ears.

The girl in question shot up and out of her chair with a cry, eyes flying open. "It's a dream!"

The giggles of her classmates brought her back to the room she stood in- it was Saturday, the last day of classes for the week, and her second to last class. Her English teacher stood, glaring. "Miss Ogino, if you'd please pull yourself away from the land of dreams, we might continue our lesson, hmm?"

Blushing furiously, Chihiro nodded and sank back down into her chair. The dream was fading quickly now, as her dreams always did. All she could remember was running, running so fast, and the fear that coursed through her veins.

"Now, class, back to the lesson. You must never use-" The bell rang out, cutting off the teacher. With an annoyed sigh, she gathered her papers and left the room, giving the students a brief respite between classes.

"Hey Chihiro, what was that all about?" Chihiro's friend Yuna leaned over, taking Chihiro's attention away from the window she had been staring at after she had awoken.

"Huh? Oh, it was just a dream." She smiled.

"Well, at least you didn't fall out of your chair or something," Umi said from Chihiro's other side, grinning. Chihiro giggled. It was great to have good friends.

It had been weird moving to her new home, six years ago. They had taken a wrong path and stopped somewhere to look around. But when they had gotten back to their car, everything was dusty and covered with leaves. But the oddest part was that when they got to their new house, standing out on the corner, vibrant in all its blueness, they found the movers long gone. In fact, the house had been sealed off and Chihiro and her family had been pronounced dead! They had apparently been gone a long time, and none of them had any clue why time seemed to be missing.

It had been hard at first, making new friends. She had been the outcast for a while, the freak who people said consorted with ghosts who had carried her and her family off into the Spirit World for a time. She had spoken to Umi and Yuna quite by accident one time, and they had become solid friends after that.

"Or slapped the teacher!" Yuna exclaimed. "You know, I saw that happen once. Sano was asleep and was dreaming something weird and the teacher was leaning over him and all of a sudden BAM! He slapped his Cram School teacher. That guy wasn't too pleased, let me tell you! Told him he'd never amount to anything and kicked him out!"

"Yuna!" Chihiro giggled. Full of silly stories she was, and always spouting them off at odd moments. Opening her mouth, Chihiro was about to say more, but a light snapping sound cut her off.

Her hair, up in her trademark ponytail, came spilling in brown waves down her back and around her shoulders. With a cry, she reached up and pulled her favorite hairband out of her tresses. It lay in her hands, desolately glittering purple in the fluorescent lighting of the school. She couldn't for the life of her recall where she had gotten it, but she almost never took it off.

She had no clue why, but she felt a sharp twang deep in her heart.

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A/N2: Hi again. Boy, am I talking a lot tonight! Sorry lol. But anyway. I had two things to bring up:

1: I know that almost no one knows this, but it's been bugging me throughout all anime fanfiction. Children in Japan go to school Saturday. That means that their weeks are Monday-Satruday. Sucks, doesn't it? And also, there aren't passing periods or anything. The students are assigned a class and they stay there all day, it's the teachers that move from class to class. It's just nice to see these things right lol. There really was no point to me telling you all this, but if I can spread the knowledge, I sure will! Lol :)

2: Okay. I know the time Chihiro spent in the Spirit World is highly debatable. I've seen four days, and I'm assuming that that's the amount of time that was shown in the movie. However, there is no possible way that it could have been that short an amount of time. The proof is when they get back through the tunnel. Before they left, the ground was stone and while grass was trying to grow, it was insignificantly small between the stones. But when they came back, grass covered the entranceway, tall grass. Plants were trying to grow over the tunnel, too. And the car was covered in leaves and dusty. There is no way that all of that could have happened in four days. Go look for yourself at both views ^_^

I'm going to shut up now. Have fun and until next time! :-)