It was nearly dark. A fourteen-year-old girl who was somewhat tall for her age was running. Not away, but from. Three days before, her parents died in a car accident. She was going to a different place, a different world. She sprinted up the hill and saw the village. It had been four years since she had been here. She took a deep breath and sprinted across the flat land, racing the sun. She bounded through the village and onto the bridge that led to the bath house. She stopped and waited.

The lamps along the bridge lit up as soon as the sun sank below the earth. She adjusted her ponytail, held together by a band that protected her. It was what helped her survive the car accident. As she though back on the incident, warm, salty tears rolled down her cheeks.

Suddenly, a hand was on her shoulder. "You shouldn't be here," A gruff voice said. But Chihiro knew whose voice it was. The last time she heard it was four years ago. She whipped around and wrapped her arms around the source of the voice. "Haku," She muttered. Haku looked down at her and said, "Come with me, Chihiro." He picked her up like how a mother cradles her baby, and walked into the bath house, ignoring all the foremen.

"Master Haku, why are you carrying around a human?" The head foreman asked. The workers were in a frenzy. But the spirits visiting the bath house did not seem to mind Chihiro's prescence. Haku ignored the foreman and walked up to where Lin lived. He set Chihiro on the floor and kneeled beside her. Chihiro wiped her eyes on her shirt. "It's just not fair," She sobbed, burying her face in her knees.

"What's not fair?" Haku asked, feeling an air of despair around her.

"My parents died in a car accident not four days ago, and I was the only survivor." Chihiro cried some more. Haku stood up and walked over to the balcony. "You might get to see them one last time," He murmured. "How?" Chihiro wiped her eyes and stood up. "Well, whenever someone who has visited the Spirit World once before, when they die, they have to pass through it to get where they're going."

"Really? Like, how long do they stay in the bthouse and stuff or whatever?" She asked as she leaned over the balcony look at the stars. "Usually about a week," Haku said as he patted her back. Chihiro could'nt believe was going see her beloved parents one last time.