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Forget me not. Let me go
By the river in the Spirit World there is a boy. A boy with green hair, and eyes the colour of deep water. He sits, forever still, gazing out from the window between the worlds. His eyes see only her – a girl who lives in blissful ignorance.
She cannot remember, and he cannot forget. And for this reason alone they are eternally bonded to each other. His remembrance traps her in a half-life, one confined by the attentions of a spirit she does not recollect.
He knows this and yet he cannot bring himself to let her go, to let this gods-touched mortal reclaim her own existence. There is a stab to the heart every time he watches her interact with a mortal boy and a guilt-ridden elation when the relationship inevitably fails. She will not find happiness – not when his love has entwined her life with his.
He knows he should give her freedom, but even gods have flaws and his is that he loves her too much, and not enough. He stays there, forever watching the window into her world; watching as she matures and grows, watching in vain as she searches for a way to be happy. It is cruel what he is doing to her, but spirits do not think in human terms. His mind pays no thought to the passing of time – that whilst he may have eternity, she is not so lucky. And so he does not let her go, but clings to a promise that he made and she does not remember – that they will see each other again.
And now he has seen her, half-fulfilling the promise he once made. And yet all she wants is to be free of it – this controlling influence, to which she cannot give a name.
A/N: Haku's probably a little OOC in this, as I can't really see him ever being so needy/obsessive over Chihiro - but hey, that's artistic license right?