A/N Spirited Away does not belong to me, wish it did but does not. Anyways Enjoy!

Chapter 1: River flows in you

"Where am I?"

There is only darkness surrounding. She can't hear a sound, she can't feel anyone's presence besides her own, she can't see anything around her, it seems that wherever she looks there is only endless shadows. She is drowning that she is sure of, sinking deeper and deeper into the sea. A sea of loneliness.

She doesn't want to be there, she can clearly notice the shadows that dance around her as if waiting for an oportunity to consume her. She is scared. She stretched her arms and desperately tried to swim but it was no use. No matter how much she struggled it had no effect whatsoever, she just continued to sink. Only then did she noticed she was running out of air. She tried to inhale but soon found out it was a foolish thing to do.

She was growing more and more distressed by the second struggling with effort hoping to reach the surface but no matter what she did she wouldn't get any closer to it.

Finally gave up when her lungs no longer had any air in them, her body felt tired and her vision was starting to get blurry. Many thoughts crossed her mind; but soon she found out none of them were the fear of dying, but of dying such death. She wasn't given any reason, an explanation; she wasn't given any chance of saying goodbye to those she loved.

But suddenly she felt an immense tranquility. She could only accept, if this was her fate, so be it. Perhaps it wasn't so bad, it was quite peaceful there.

She was about to let her heavy eyelids close but right before they did a hand coming out of nowhere reached out for her. Seeing that, she immediately regained the energy necessary to reach out as well. It took a few painful instants but she finally took hold of it and in a matter of seconds she was pulled to the surface.

She coughed and spit out all the unwanted water that got in her system. After the first moments of regaining her breath and realizing she was still alive, she noticed she was lying on a marble floor and that there was no sign of water in the area. Everything was white and some sort of mist clouded the huge area. Where was she now?

Her eyes finally fell upon the back of the person that had saved her life. He was standing a few meters away with his back turned to her. Judging by the height he had to be still a kid. She couldn't see much more than that due to the mist.

Slowly she got up to her feet and took a step forward Who is this person?

As she neared him the mists started to diminish, she could now see what was in front of her more clearly and at some point she abruptly halted in shock.

The boy had dark green hair that was styled in a bowl haircut. She immediately recognized him, there was just no way that she would ever forget.

"H-Haku…?" She stuttered covering her mouth with both hands feeling glad tears welling up in her eyes.

More hesitantly she continued going forward but with each step her enthusiasm would grow and her pace would increase. "Haku!" She called with a big smile on her face.

He did not turn or reply but that didn't make her slow down, she was just so happy to see him again.

When she reached him her arms immediately came to encircled him in a big loving embrace.

But as soon as she touched him, as soon as she hugged him, he simply vanished. She found herself hugging nothing but air, he was gone. How? Why?

She didn't react for a second. She was too stunned to process what had just happened. When she finally realized, she fell to her knees, trembling and shaking her head in denial.

"No… No… No. Don't leave me... Come back...I miss you… I miss you so much." She murmured closing her eyes and letting two lonely tears run down her cheeks. "I-I love you..."

"Chihiro…"