this story will involve other hayao miyazaki characters, although the main story line will revolve around Spirited Away charcaters, other film characters just being fillers. that being said, this will not be a crossover, the miyazaki characters i put into this story won't have the background as the movies they came from. if there is a certain miyazaki character you wish to make ab appearance, please, let me know. xoxo
Not for the first time, Chihiro sat on the large head carved from rock, legs tucked underneath her with her school book resting on her lap. The large, red, weathered entrance called to her, pulling her towards. She didn't dare to enter though, not after the time from ten years ago. She and her family had lost months off their lives after coming from there, none of them remembering what had happened.
Yet she couldn't find herself capable of leaving, something always bring her back to this exact spot, if she had courage she would have even entered it. She didn't, though, fear holding onto her tightly.
She looked down at her book, not quite seeing the words, instead eyes trained on the purple hair tie that was still as perfect as the day it appeared in her hair. Coincidentally the same day she came from the old plaster building.
Chihiro had gone through years of therapy, the idea of forgetting so much tearing her mind apart. She had no idea what had happened and it scared her to know something bad could have happened; she had always been an over the top child. She remembered begging her parents to tell her what had happened only for them to grow frustrated with her, screaming repeatedly that they didn't remember either.
No one had been able to explain the families disappearance, nor their magical reappearance. It had come as a shock to everyone, the family returning the exact same way they had left, nearly nothing out of place. Chihiro fought the urge to scream, memories she didn't know pushing against her head, fighting to be seen.
Like so long ago the wind blew towards her back, once more pushing to the large entrance. She fought the urge to shiver, the urge to run in screaming.
"So this is where you've been!" Chihiro jumped form her spot of the rock, tumbling to the ground.
"Nausicaä!" She screamed at her best friend, enraged that the girl would sneak up on her. The redhead knew of her friend's paranoia, more times than not taking advantage of it. "What are you doing here?" She'd kept the place hidden from her friend for a reason, not wanting anyone to know about her place.
Nausicaä looked around, wow etched into her face as she took in the large plaster building in front of her. "What is this place?"
"You don't know?" Chihiro questioned skeptically, butt still planted firmly on the ground; Nausicaä had lived in this town since the day she was born. Nausicaä shook her head in answer to Chihiro's question. "It's an old amusement park," she said, reciting the same words her father had said so long ago.
Nausicaä laughed, taking her best friends words as a joke. "I'd know if there was, or had been, an amusement park here, Chi. I've never seen this place, nor heard about it."
Chihiro nodded her head as she stood up, dusting dirt off of herself, bending over she picked her book back up repeating the dusting process on it. "Where are you going?" She screamed loudly, eyes focusing on the girl heading through the entrance way.
"I wanna look around," she replied, giving her friend a duh look.
Chihiro rushed forward, hands grabbing onto her friends arm, like she hand done to her mom so long ago. She shook her head, trying disband the past from her head, she couldn't afford to fall into her mind right now. "You can't! Nausicaä!"
Nausicaä froze and turned to her friend, looking the frightened brunette over. "What's wrong, Chihiro?" Her hands grasped said girls shoulders, expecting the girl for an injuries.
"You can't go in there!"
"Why not?"
"Please," Chihiro begged, tears rushing out against her will, "do not go in there." She hiccuped, a sob breaking her words.
Nausicaä nodded her head, "We won't then, we can just go home." Chihiro nodded her head, tears still streaming down her face. Pulling her sleeve down over her her balled hand, Nausicaä dabbed at the tear streaks. She cooed softly, "What's wrong?"
Chihiro shook her head, hands balled into the hem of her too big shirt, "Please don't ever go in there." Nausicaä nodded, intent on doing the only thing Chihiro had ever asked of her. "It's a dangerous place." The girl with a blocked a past didn't want her best friend to experience the same place.
"I understand," Nausicaä said softly, eyes taking in the girl, "I won't go in." She turned to look back at the building that had reduced her friend to puddle and sighed, "C'mon, let's get you home."
Home as in Nausicaä's house.
Chihiro nodded, arms once more wrapped around her friends, wanting to make sure the girl didn't disappear on her. Chihiro hopped her best friend would heed her advice, stay clear of the amusement park.