Hey everyone! This is my first fanfic on this site so DON'T EAT MEH D8.

If you don't understand something, please ask and I'll explain it. Enjoy

Disclaimer- I am not Japanese, therefore there is no possible way that I could own Spirited Away

Haku walked down the hallways that lead to his boss's office. The walls were mostly covered in red but it was hard to tell because of the giant vases that lined them. With one step at a time, he continued toward his destination.

Dressed in his usual outfit of white and blue with neat kept green highlighted hair, one might think that he was just going to see the old crone like many times before. He was, of course, the one who had to do all of Yubaba's dirty work and was force to do it all thanks to the black slug the witch gave him. That was all before a young girl saved him and gave him his name back.

Haku took a left turn though yet another red door. There was no emotion written on his face. His cold emerald eyes showed what seemed like nothing but deep down he was afraid. If Yubaba smells the smallest whiff of fear, who knows what the powerful witch would do to him. His thoughts wandered back to the very reason that gave him enough confidence to do this.

Chihiro. Haku felt something warm in his heart every time he thought of her. Her image was burned into his memory. Her dark chestnut hair was held up by a shimmering purple hair tie. The stray hairs framed her small child like face. He remembered when he saved her from his now long gone river. She fell in at the young age of three because she dropped her little pink shoe in the water. He had to save her of course being the great spirit of the Kohaku River.

His thoughts wandered back to the events that happened just a day before. A lot happened that day and it was all thanks to her. She gave him his true name back and saved him from certain death. The small ten year old girl broke the walls that surrounded his cold heart. It hurt him when she had to leave to go back to the human world but he knew that she didn't belong here within the world of spirits. He promised to meet her again but deep down he know that that promise could not be kept.

A pinch of gilt tugged at his heart. It was in the nature of a river spirit to value promises but this one was impossible to keep. The only way to the human world would be through his river but now it's gone. He was stuck. He only made that promise to see one more smile on her face.

Haku would always cherish the memory of her. Before setting off to see Yubaba, he talked to the old boiler man, Kamanji. The spider legged man told him that the young girl saved him from the oldest kind a magic, love. Haku has heard of love before from the elders. They said that love was a wondrous and rare thing. All filled with joy and happiness but can also be dangerous. Haku didn't understand this. How can something so filled with happiness also be filled with hurt? He just didn't get it.

Haku stopped in front of a rather large red door and knocked three times. There was something tugging at the back of his mind. Something screaming at him for him to stop, turn around, and forget it. He quickly shook it off when a loud cracking voice sounded behind the door.

" Come in"

The door opened and Haku stepped into a very interesting room. The room was filled with many clashing colors but mostly a ruby red. Papers were stacked on top of each other while a giant fire place filled with a hungry blaze lit the room. Soft snoring could be heard from the next room where Boh, Yubaba's son, was resting peacefully. A giant desk sat in the middle of the room where the giant headed, big nosed old crone herself sat. Haku gave a low bow.

" Why Haku, I didn't expect you." Yubaba didn't even look up from her paper work as Haku now stood several feet in front of her desk. "What's wrong now? Are the workers still all moping about because of that little brat? Or is it the foreman? That foreman is giving me a headache. That stupid spirit. I should turn him into a -"

" I quit being your apprentice." Yubaba's head snapped up so fast that stray hairs from her grey bun fell into her face.

" What did you just say?"

" You heard me"

Haku kept his stance while Yubaba got up from her seat and stood in front of him. He could already smell her anger flaring up.

" You little whelp! You failed your mission to retrieve my sisters golden seal AND stained my carpet with your blood! What in the whole spirit world makes you think that YOU can just walk up to my office ….and…" Yubaba looked into his bright emerald eyes. They weren't the steely grey that they were before.

"You have no more power over me. I have my name back and if you don't mind I would like to leave as soon as possible." Haku gave her the coldest glare that he could ever give. Yubaba didn't even flinch. She casually walked back to her chair and sat as if the scene before didn't even happened. With a wave of her hand, Haku's contract appeared.

"Well, I guess you don't need this thing anymore" With another flick of her wrist, the paper was sent into the fire and disincarnated on contact with the hungry flames.

Haku gave another low bow.

"Thank you"

Haku stood up from his bow and turned to exit. Just as he was about to step toward the door, he froze in his place. It was that annoying little felling again but stronger. This time it couldn't be ignored.

Haku turned around just to see a blast of blues any purples come at him that were too fast to dodge. Haku fell to the floor with chains on his wrists and legs. A cloth was stuffed into his mouth and tied behind his head. He looked up from the floor to see the evil bathhouse owner with a sinister smile on her face.

"You THINK I would let you out THAT easily?' Yubaba gave an evil laugh "Such a silly little whelp. Didn't you notice the circle of candles that you walked through? "

Haku's eyes dashed from Yubaba to the candles that he could see. The candles were black with markings on them. Indeed they were made of dark magic and seemed to be some of the most powerful. The fear that Haku easily hid earlier was starting to leak through.

"By the look on you face you know exactly what these are. Darkness candles, Very hard to find too. I went though a lot of trouble to get these and kept them just incase of an emergency," Her evil grin so wide that it could compete with the Cheshire cat. "and this was defiantly an emergency."

The old witch got up from her seat and brushed the imaginary dirt off of her blue dress. She walked over to the circle of candles and with the smallest twitch of her finger, she lit the candles making them glow a brilliant purple.

" You should know that after the spell is complete you won't be able to ask for help. Then again, you won't even be able to ask." Another evil crackle sounded though the room. " No one will remember you or your little brat of a human. Any last words Kohaku?" Haku tried to speak but everything was muffled due to the cloth stuffed in his mouth.

"That's what I thought." Yubaba closed her eyes and started to chant undecipherable words. The magnificent fire that once burned brightly in the fire place was nothing more then a few burning ashes. The room was filled with a purple light for just a short second and an invisible wave of magic swept through the entire bath house. Then all was quiet.

Yubaba opened her eyes and saw her result. A large emerald manned dragon with shining silver scales and half opened green eyes that seemed to pierce through the dark was lying on the floor in chains. His wolf like snout was wrapped with a piece of cloth that made him unable to admit any kind of sound. The chains were dark colored and were obviously laced with an unimaginable amount of magic.

The dragon was growing weaker and his mind was getting bleary. His heart was threatening to burst out of his hide. He felt, for the first time in centuries, useless. He knew these chains were sucking his powers away. Dragons need a certain amount of power to stay alive and he knew Yubaba was going to suck out as much as she can.

" My dear Haku," She said with much hardness in her voice. ",you will be my apprentice and do everything I command. You see," Yubaba held up a small bottle with green glowing substance inside." I have most of your magic. Dragons can't live without a certain amount. So luckily for you, you have enough to survive. Oh and what is this?" Yubaba took out what looked like another bottle but filled with a more bluish glow to it. " Why, it looks like your human form. It would be a shame if anything bad happened to this wouldn't it?"

That was the last thing Kohaku had heard before he closed his eyes and was over come by sleep.

A thin piece of T shaped paper slipped out of its hiding place behind the bookcase. The person who was controlling the enchanted piece of paper frowned.

She watched her cold hearted sister lift, using magic of course, the wounded dragon and place it in what seemed like a room that wasn't there before.

"Oh dear, it looks like my sister has gone too far." The enchanted piece of paper slipped

through the crack in the bottom of the window and flew back to its owner.

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