Aftermath (five years later...)

A fanfic about Spirited Away

Written by: ZimXGir

Disclaimer: I do not own Spirited Away.....although I do own Pernaki. X3

Good now that we got THAT out of the way.....Well this is my first S.A. fanfic and I hope you guys like it! It's a lot better then some others I'm working on...shifts eyes then whispers actually it's my first third person fanfic grins sheepishly. I hope with this fanfic I at least get 5 reviews and at least one dedicated reader! Well I know how boring it is to read these stupid author notes so let's get on with the fic!

Chapter one: In which Sen comes to visit

"Chihiro....Chihiro...."

"Mom my flowers are dieing!"

"Chihiro don't cling like that...."

"......that's true love for ya"

"go and don't look back!"

"hey.....what happened?!?"

Suddenly Chihiro shot up from her bed. "Gawd not that dream again....doesn't my mind KNOW I can't go back?" Chihiro lay back down and curled up with her little 'going away' card that had helped her remember her own name. "Sigh I wonder what Haku is doing right now..." She looked over at her digital alarm clock. "....oh...it's near midnight....the bathhouse is still open.....hmmm." She got out of bed and got dressed; and put her hair up with the hair band that her friends made her together. Smiling she climbed out her window and started to walk down the hill to the road leading to the spirit world.

When Chihiro passed those little stone houses there were lights on inside. And suddenly a voice was heard "Chihiro what do you think your doing?"

"Oh hello Pernaki, I was just going to......"

"Just going to get me in trouble with Yubaba!" exclaimed Pernaki.

Chihiro sighed and crossed her arms "don't tell me granny STILL won't let me come back!"

Pernaki nodded and sighed "yeah I'm sorry but you know how her kid and Haku gets!" he snickered which made her blush a deep magenta. "But seriously she doesn't like losing servants......SEN!"

Chihiro slightly cringed as she heard her old bath-house name. "Oh by the way how IS Haku?" she said trying to change the subject to a better topic.

"He's ok....didn't he come and tell you the news yesterday?" Pernaki asked with questionable eyes. "And didn't you talk to him last week....and the week before that? Seriously he comes to see you every week but you're always not there or asleep!" he said as he scratched his head "though he DOSE come every week at 2 in the morning...."

Chirhiro fell to her knees in disbelief "y-ya mean he comes to see me every week?!?!" she looked astonished and gazed into space and whispered "I thought he had forgotten about me....." This made her feel warm and happy inside.

"Chihiro...." Pernaki said kind of uneasily.

"What is it?" she asked bringing her gaze back to him smiling.

"I...I don't think it's a good idea to go back to the bath-house right now" he looked at the bottom of his shoes poked out.

"What do you mean?" she asked a little confused.

"Well...it's just that Haku is..." Pernaki sighed and looked around. As if he was waiting for the sun to come up so he would have to go back to the spirit world and not have to finish his statement. But the darkness still swirled about them.

"Haku's what?" Chihiro asked trying...hoping that it was good news; and not the bad news she was thinking.

"well....you see there was this girl....around your age....that showed up the other day....and well.....he....um....that is he...."

"He fell in love with her.....didn't he?" by now tears were sliding down her cheeks and free falling to the soft cold soil at Pernaki's feet.

Pernaki sheepishly looked up at her "uh.....yeah" Chihiro's face drained of all color and turned a shade of white. Tears were streaming down her cheeks now.

At this moment a suit ball came out of his house with a handkerchief and handed it to her to wipe her tears away. But she didn't see this...she was staring down the road that led to the spirit world (or the bath-house which ever you want to think of) and tears fell to the ground. One tear hit the poor little suit ball on the head. As he shook off the wetness he stared up at Chihiro with worry in his big soft eyes. Suddenly she stood and took a step down the road.

"Chihiro no!" exclaimed Pernaki.

"Sen"

"What?" Pernaki asked as a single sweat drop slid down the side of his face.

Without faceing him and slowly walking down the road; tears still moistening the soil at her feet Chihiro said softly almost at a whisper. "My name is Sen....NOT Chihiro!"She walked away from the light of the little stone houses and was engulfed by the darkness.

Pernaki closed his eyes and sighed. Without opening them he told the suitball"Go and tell Kamagi that Ch...er....Sen has returned...but only after she passes the bridge. Understand?"

Pernaki opened one eye and looked over at the suit ball. The suit ball bounced up and down squeaking. "Good...now follow her!" he then turned and glided into his house to relax muttering something to himself. The suit ball watched Pernaki until he had entered his house then bounced/floated after Sen.

Sen at that moment was following the road and thinking of what she should do when she got to the bath-house. 'maybe I should hold my breath as I passed over that damn bridge!' She set her mind to this as she looked up and saw the entrance to the Spirit World. She gulped and walked a little faster.

As she neared, the short chubby statue grew white and then became flesh and blood. "What spirit are you young one?" the alive statue asked as Sen neared it.

"Oh....um..." Sen said a little nervous and thought then looked up at a cloud that was passing right in front of the moon at that very moment. She smiled softly and the brought her gaze back to him and answered his question "The spirit of the Clouds!" she hoped the statue believed her. The statue looked her over then bowed low.

"It's nice to finally meet you madam." The statue (while still bowing) moved his arm to show that she could pass. "I hope you have a nice visit at Yubaba's bath-house." She moved past him and into the walk way and started to walk towards the light at the end.

As she did so she realized that her top morphed into a light pinkish tube top with a small sleeve over her left shoulder. And her shorts morphed into a light pinkish long skirt that flowed to the floor with a slit up to her mid-hip on both sides. Her sneakers also morphed into light baby blue sandals that laced around her leg (like a ballerina's shoe) up to her mid-calf. Her hair became curly and baby (sky) blue. Small white angel wings appeared just below her shoulder blades.

Sen took out her hair-tie out and let her hair fall to the bottom of the wings. She put the hair-tie around her right wrist. Her eye color also changed.......though they were still dark brown.....purple swirled in with the dark brown color.

She was a little shocked as she walked into the train station. As the light hit her a pearl white choker appeared around her neck. "What has happened to me?" she whispered to herself. Sen looked around and caught sight of a familiar face...the Radish spirit. Sen smiled and walked towards him.

He was buying a ticket for the fairy that would take him across the large river. He glanced back and held up one finger to the ticket seller then pointed at Sen. The Radish spirit moved to a doorway and waited. The ticket seller put the Radish spirits money away then gave Sen her ticket and then bowed.

"Cloud spirit....er madam....it's a pleasure to meet you!" every spirit that heared the ticket seller turned and slightly bowed to her.

"Um....thanks" Sen said as she blushed, took the ticket, and walked over to the doorway and stood by the Radish spirit. They stood there and waited for the fairy to dock.

Finally the boat docked and they were allowed to board. Sen smiled and thought 'I'm almost there!' as she stepped onto the deck.

The suit ball (that has been unnoticed) followed her onto the boat. It moved over to her shadow so no one would see it. The cute little suit ball watched Sen as she watched the boat leave the dock and slowly draw near the other side of the river.

A/N: Well that's it for chapter one. Hope you liked it! The next chapter should be up in a little while.....if not then I have too much homework or a HUGE test coming up. grins don't you just love my logic? lmfao.....anyways please, please, please R&R (aka read and review!) If you do review then I will have a surprise for you in the next chapter or so laughs mischievously... baibai nows!

JA!