Okay I would appreciate it if you could be nice; this is my first Spirited Away Fan fic.
Disclaimer: I only own Shizuki, Yomiko, Bob, Bobby, Sesshy, The world and the hair on my back!
"Talking"
'Thinking'
Chapter one
"Promise?"
"I promise now go"
Sen ran through the green field, when she got to the end her parents were there waiting for her; just like Haku said. "Come on Sen" They said as they walked through the tunnel, Sen went to look back but she stopped half way and remembered what Haku said; don't look back until you are through the tunnel.
Sen came out of the tunnel, she turned around and gave it one last sad look before getting in her parents car, never to see her friends from the other world ever again, oh sure she went back to the red building, but there was no entrance, and after a while she couldn't even find the building that once was an entrance to the spirit world.
Chihiro stopped the story, her grade three class loved the story of Sen and Haku, of how they survived through powerful magic and parole, and still loved each other more than life it self.
"Ms. Chihiro?" said a little girl from the back of the class; Chihiro looked at the little girl. "Yes Shizuki, what do you need?" asked Chihiro, the little girl fiddled with her fingers, she looked embarrassed about asking her question. "Is that story true?" the whole class laughed at the little girls question, Chihiro blinked.
"Why would you ask that?" Chihiro walked over to Shizuki, the little looked down and fiddled with her fingers again. "Well, you tell it with so much detail" stated Shizuki, Chihiro gave her a little look; she didn't know that the girl had such a big vocabulary, after all she was only eight.
"Well, no the story is not real, but I like to think in a way that the more people believe in Sen and Haku's love the more the story is real" Chihiro smiled at her class, Shizuki nodded her head, and Chihiro turned around.
"But Ms. Chihiro" Chihiro stopped and turned around to face the little girl; she was just full of questions. "Yes Shizuki" Chihiro said in a slightly annoyed tone, the little girl looked up at her teacher.
"If the story is not real then how can it be real if Sen and Haku love each other?" asked the little girl, Chihiro sighed, how was she going to explain this to a grade three class? If it was a grade five class well they might have gotten it, well what the heck just tell them the only way she knows.
"Well, the story it self signifies love, stories of a hero saving a damsel and falling in love have been around for thousands of years, all of those stories are about love, the more you believe in the love that the stories are made up of the more they are real" the entire class had a confused look on their faces.
"When you are all older and more mature will you all get it" Chihiro said to her class. The bell rung a few minutes later, the class emptied faster than a tornado; it was summer vacation, Chihiro walked up to her desk to get her stuff, when Shizuki walked up to her desk.
"Ms. Chihiro" Chihiro looked up from her things. "Yes Shizuki?" said an annoyed Chihiro, the little girl had some thing in her hands. "I really do wish that Sen and Haku's story was true, thank you for telling it to us" the little girl put a picture on her desk than ran out of the room.
Chihiro picked the picture up, it was of a little girl ridding a dragon, her lips trembled, her eyes darkened, and she had a tear rolling down her face; she missed her dragon, she missed him a lot.
It had been eleven years since her adventure in the Spirit world, since she was saved by Haku and since she had helped him discover his real name, she held on to the picture like it was a life line. Yet even with all that to reassure her, she still wondered if it was all just a dream, her parents didn't remember any thing, they just said it was all her imagination.
She was brought out of her thoughts by some one calling her. "What, who? Oh Yomiko don't scare me like that" Chihiro put the picture in her bag. "Oh sorry Chihiro, I was wondering if you wanted to get some coffee?" the young woman asked Chihiro. "Sure let me get my stuff" Chihiro grabbed her bag and followed her friend.
When they got tot the little café they both ordered a coffee and sat down. Yomiko took a news paper out of her bag and started to read it. "Interesting" said Yomiko, Chihiro looked up from her coffee. "What is it?" she asked, her friend handed her the paper. "Look for your self" Chihiro did.
Her eyes widened, it couldn't be, the Kohaku river is flowing; Haku's river lives. "H-how could this be" she said in an aw-struck way, her friend egged over to the paper and took it out of her friends hands. "It says that a strange earth quake happened and totaled the apartment buildings on it, supposedly the river was still flowing, but the way the building sat caused it not to crumble, but the earth quake did, yet the strange thing was none of the other buildings around it were damaged, some people believe it was the spirit getting revenge for what we did, yet amazing enough no one was hurt" her friend said.
Chihiro stood up, her entire body shook and her eyes were round like marbles. "Chihiro what is it?" asked her friend, there was worry in her voice. "When I was three I lost my shoe in the Kohaku River, I went to get it and fell in; I was under the water for a minute and forty second, I thought I was going to die when some thing saved me, I don't know what it is but I know it was not human, it brought me to the shore, it saved my life." Chihiro stopped; her friend gave her a look that said continue.
Finally when I was out of the river an old an come up to us, he said that the spirit of the Kohaku river saved me, my parents didn't believe him they said he was just a crazy old fool, I asked him what the spirit looked like he said that all river spirits take the form of a dragon, I remember some thing smooth pick me up, when we left I looked back at the river, I swear I saw some sort of a snake swimming" Chihiro had a blank face on, she sat back down with a slouch. "Yomiko, I need to go to the Kohaku River, I never really got to thank it for saving me" her friend gave her an understanding look.
"Well then we better pack" her friend stood up, Chihiro blinked. "Your coming?" she asked, her friend nodded, Chihiro stood up as well. "All right meet me at my house tomorrow at eight, we can take my car" said Yomiko, Chihiro nodded. The two girls left the café, Chihiro luckily only lived a few blocks from her friend's house.
When she got to her little western style house she started to pack, she grabbed a tooth brush, tooth paste, a hair brush, and clothes. After she packed she took a shower, she was in the shower when her phone rung, she jumped out of the shower tripping on the carpet, luckily she got to the phone in time. "Hello?" she said, there was no answer, she waited a few seconds than hung up.
Chihiro got changed into her pajamas and crawled onto her bed. Her eyes became droopy, she looked at her window, she swore saw some thing fly by her window, but she ignored it and fell asleep. The last thing on her mind before she hit slumber was seeing Haku once more.
Chihiro awoke the next day at six, she went into her kitchen, she took out a mug, and she put some water on so she could make tea. Ten minutes later she was sitting drinking tea and reading the news paper. Nothing new about the Kohaku River, oh well, she would see it soon, and hopefully see him again. She was remembering Haku when some thing hit her, what if he was not real, that same worry, he has to be real she thought to her self.
Chihiro left her house, after checking that she had not left any windows open or left the stove on. She started to walk to her friend's house, she didn't have a car, and she thought they were to polluting. She walked every where she went unless it was a far distance, like now.
When she got to her friends house, she was already waiting beside her car. "Hey! What took you so long?" asked Yomiko, Chihiro gave an embarrassed look. "I was walking and I got side tracked by the trees" Chihiro looked up at her laughing friend. "I swear you would trade me in for a Sakura tree" Chihiro looked insulted. "No I would not trade you in for a Sakura tree, unless it was really big and bloomed every year" Chihiro grinded at Yomiko's glair.
"I hate it when you do that!" she yelled at Chihiro, Chihiro just laughed. "Well we had better get going, you can put your stuff into the trunk" said Yomiko, Chihiro opened the trunk and thru her bag in then closed it. "All ready" Chihiro said while getting in, the two girls got into the car, and put on there seat belts.
The two were off; Yomiko got bored around two minutes in and turned on her radio. "Oh I love this song!" squealed Yomiko, Chihiro had never heard it before, it was in English but the instruments were cool, she leaned her head on the window and watched the trees pass by, listening to the music, even though she couldn't understand it.
"Who is the group?" she asked Yomiko, Yomiko gave a quick glance at her friend. "Their from the states, their names are Good Charlotte, this song is I just want to live" Chihiro nodded going back to listening.
"Chihiro" Chihiro awoke to find her friend shaking her. "Uh how long did I sleep?" Chihiro asked, her friend looked at her watch. "Around and hour" said Yomiko, Chihiro rubbed her eyes. "Where are we?" she asked, Yomiko smiled. "We are here" Chihiro jumped out of the car, she saw the river and ran to it.
When she got to it, she was hoping for some thing to happen to show her that Haku was alive and well, nothing happened. Half an hour had past, Chihiro sighed and got up, her friend hade already gotten a room for them at a hotel near the river. She started to walk back to the hotel, it must have just been a dream she thought sadly to her self, only a dream, she had a tear sliding down her cheek, and she wiped it away. "Even if it was all just a dream I might as well enjoy myself" she said to her self.
If Chihiro had stayed a little longer she would have seen a green and white dragon dive into the river from the sky. 'Chihiro' Chihiro swore she heard some one call her name, when she turned around there was nothing but a river, so she shrugged it off, on her way back a huge gust of wind nearly lifted her off the ground, she screamed, but as soon as the wind came it disappeared.
Chihiro was a little shaken up about it, but she knew it must have been her imagination. When she got into her hotel room she collapsed on the bed, Yomiko gave her a worried look. "Are you okay Chihiro?" she asked, Chihiro lifted her head from the pillow. "Can wind get strong enough to lift people off the ground?" asked Chihiro, her friend gave her a look.
"Well yah" she said, Chihiro sighed. "Around here I mean" her friend gave her a look. "No, why do you ask?" she said, Chihiro sighed. "I was just lifted six feet off the ground by the wind" she said, her friends eyes widened. "I think you need some rest" said Yomiko, Chihiro plopped her head back into the pillow.
"Mnemen menf" Chihiro said through the pillow, Yomiko blinked. "What?" she asked, Chihiro lifted her head. "I agree, I do need sleep" at that Chihiro fell fast asleep, Yomiko sighed and went and tucked her friend in to bed, as she was leaving the room Chihiro mumbled some thing. "Haku" she repeated, Yomiko shrugged it off and went to her own room; they got a two bedroom sweet.
A figure sat out side Chihiro's room looking at her sleeping form. "Good night Chihiro" he said before jumping out of the tree and landing in the river.
Okay so I said the hotel was near the river, when there was apartment buildings the hotel sat right next to them, they were close but not close enough to touch the river, its about forty feet away from the river.
Oh an I know that Good Charlotte is not big in Japan!
Review please!