Chapter 1

Nine years ago I found you, nine years ago I lost you, now I'm ready to return to you nine years later.

Chihiro pased in her room. For the passed few days she had been having dreams about Haku and the others in the spirit world. She looked at the duffel bag packed in the corner of her room, 'Oh, Haku give me stregth.' 'Chihiro...' The wind came in through the open window of her shared apartment. She whipped around. She looked out the window and up into the night sky. She could see a silver ribbon flying through the air. She blinked and looked up, but the ribbon was gone. Chihiro sighed, "Where are you Haku?"

Haku gazed over the ocean and watched as the train carried spirits on their one way trip through spirit land. He sighed and looked towards the small village. "HAKU!!" Haku whipped around,

"Yes Yubaba?" Yubaba smiled,

"Mission time!!"

'oh goodie.' "And what is my mission?" Yubaba smiled,

"To save Sen." Haku's eyes widened, 'SEN?!' Yubaba chuckled, "You care for her, no? Find her and save her. Bring her back here. She has nothing to live for in her human world. Her parents are gone. All she has left is the memory of you." Haku nodded,

"How will I get there?" Yubaba smiled,

"Just go. It will come to you as you go along." Haku nodded and left towards the entance of the bath house.

Lin saw Haku walk towards the entrance. Lin ran up to him and grabbed his arm, "Where are you going Haku?" Haku turned around,

"To get Sen." Lin was confused,

"But why?" Haku sighed,

"It is my duty, and mission to retrieve her from her life in her human world." Lin nodded,

"Good luck." Haku bowed,

"Thanks, I'll need it." He turned around and began running towards the river that seperated the human world and the spirit world. He sighed, 'I hope this works'.

Chihiro sat on her bed and looked through her sketch pad, all of the drawings were of Haku. Ever since her parents died in a store robbery she had decended in a downward spiral of depression. All she thought about was leaving Haku and what might of happened if she had looked back. She got up and grabbed the duffel bag from the corner. She grabbed her keys and closed the door, of her room. She put a note on it. Saying, 'I'll be gone for a while. Don't know when I'll be back.-Chihiro' She sighed and began walking towards the bus stop.

Haku imerged from the amusment park gate and looked around. He looked down at himself and found that his clothes had been replaced with new ones. He looked around at the forest and changed into his dragon form. It was still night and the humans would think that he was a falling star. He took off into the night.

Chihiro got off of the bus infront of her old school and began walking to her house that she had moved into nine years ago.

Haku decided to look in the place where he had last visited her, in her dreams, her house that she had been living in nine years ago. He touched down in her backyard and jumped when someone opened the door. He looked through the window but could see nothing, thanks to the wall.

Chihiro put her bag near the door and walked into the kitchen taking some food out of the fridge. She put the food on a plate and placed it inside the microwave to heat it. She picked up a can of soda and pulled her large sweater around her tightly. She opened the heavy door and walked out to the patio. She looked towards the shed and saw a shadow, "Come out here, who ever you are!"

Haku paniced, maybe Sen didn't live here anymore. He looked towards the direction of the voice and saw a grown up version of the 10 year old Sen that he had met nine years ago. He smiled and walked out of the shadows, "Hello Chihiro."

Chihiro's can hit the ground spilling the sweet drink onto the concreate below her. Chihiro looked at the twenty year old Haku, "Is that really you?" Haku nodded and stepped closer to Chihiro and touched her cheek,

"Hai, it's me. Lets go inside you look freezing." Chihiro nodded and allowed Haku to lead her inside.

Chihiro handed Haku some tea and turned on the fire. "BE right back." Haku nodded and sipped his tea as he watched Chihiro dissapear into her room. Chihiro cahnged into some short shorts and an oversized sweatshirt. She walked back into the living room and grabbed Haku's hand dragging him into her parent's old room. Haku blushed,

"Where are we going, Chihiro?" Chihiro smiled,

"To find you something to sleep in." She opened the door and dug around for a bit before finding some flannel pants and a big tee shirt. She handed them to Haku and left the room leaving him to get dressed.

"So why did you come back? Not that I'm not happy, it's just you usually don't decide to just suddenly do something." Haku smiled,

"I was sent on a mission, and my mission was to get you and bring you back to the bath house. Yubaba wants you back. She says you don't have anything here. She originally said my mission was to save you from yourself." Chihiro nodded,

"I guess I do need saving." Haku sat next to her and she suddenly lunged at Haku, burrowing into his chest. He felt her warm tears dampen his shirt and loked at Chihiro's head, stroking her hair,

"What's wrong?" Chihiro leaned her ear against his chest crawling into his lap,

"They died. And I was all alone. You didn't visit me anymore, in my dreams, so I was alone. I didn't know what to do. I was kind of like a zombie. I was all by myself. That's why I came here." Haku smiled,

"Do you want to come back with me?" Chihiro looked up into Haku's face with hope filling her tear streaked face,

"Can I really?!" Haku laughed,

"Of course you can." Chihiro smiled, and hugged Haku, making them both blush a little bit,

"Thank you so much Haku." Haku smiled and picked up the young woman carrying her to her room. He covered her up with her blankets and sat next to her stroking her hair,

"Go to sleep. I'll be here in the morning." Chihiro flipped back some of the covers,

"You can sleep here if you want." Haku blushed a bit but it soon dissapeared and crawled in beside her wrapping his arms around her petite waist. 'I love you Haku.' "Night, Haku." Haku tightened his grip a bit,

"Night, Chihiro." 'I love you Chihiro.'