Just watched the movie for the third time and read some fanfic's on it and just had to write my own! Ok it's been five years since the movie, so Chihiro is fifteen and Haku is seventeen. There age's from the movie is a guess, I don't know if they were really ten and twelve years old, it's just a guesstimation! Well hope you like!

PROLOGUE: RETURN TO THE SPIRIT WORLD

Chihiro was sitting in her room, five years. It's been five years since I last saw them she thought. She was lying on her stomach on her bed, staring at the hair tie in her hands. The hair tie was the only proof she had that Haku and the spirit world wasn't a dream, and she treasured it dearly.

She lived in an orphanage now. Her parents had been killed by a serious disease that had swept through the country side for 6 whole months. She was lucky not to have caught it, but the whole time she had the hair tie on person. She couldn't bring herself to give it to someone else.

She was the youngest in the room she shared, but even though there were people her age in other rooms, she had no friends, they all bullied her, she felt like crying but thought of Haku and the tears would always go away. She got up tying her now waist length brown locks in a pony –tail and chucking on a heavy sweater with a hoody on top, along with a pair of skinny jeans, before placing on her sneakers, then ran off into the night. She couldn't handle staying there any longer.

The kids always picked on her, and she missed Haku. She ran off into the forest, she was going to make sure Haku kept his promise, she had decided that morning, that tonight was the night she would return to the spirit world. At any costs.

She quickly ran through the forest and over to the old tunnel. She stopped once she reached it. She looked behind her, making sure she wasn't followed, she checked the clock on her watch, it was two-fifteen in the morning, she quickly hurried into the tunnel, cursing herself for waiting so late and hesitating.

Upon reaching the end, she ran to the fairy that was about to leave, the guard noticing her, stopped her immediately.

"Whoa there, missy, no ticket, no ride." He said,

"But you gotta let me on! I have to see Haku!" she shouted, causing some of the guests to look at her. The guard shook his head.

"No ticket, no ride" with that he closed the gate and signalled the driver to move on.

Chihiro huffed and sat down on the ground. She laid her head down, telling herself it was only for a minute, but she ended up waking up a few hours later with the light on her face. She stood up and brushed herself off, she looked at the meadow that laid out in front of her, instead of the ocean from the night before.

Carefully she set one foot on the grass, when nothing bad happened; she continued to walk across the meadow, once coming upon the familiar rocks that held a small stream running through it, she smiled and climbed over the rocks before climbing the stairs.

She walked through the town and came to the familiar bridge. She did exactly what she did the last time she came, went to the garden and out the back fence and down the stairs to the boiler room. She walked inside and saw kamaji sound asleep. She didn't want to wake him, but the black soot balls saw her and came running out, recognising her immediately.

Kamaji awoke when they started squealing with excitement and jumping up and down causing Chihiro to laugh.

"What? Who's there?" he asked, he still hadn't turned around, when he did, he smiled, well at least Chihiro thought he did, she couldn't tell with the beard in the way, "Sin! It's been a long time!" Chihiro smiled at her old name.

"Yeah it has, you haven't changed a bit kamaji!" she said smiling as he came down and gave her a hug.

"No but you have" he said holding her at arm's length, so he could get a good look at her, "How long has it been?"

"Five years" she said, smiling. Suddenly the small wooden door opened up, and Lin came in through it, she didn't notice Chihiro at first, not until it was time to feed the soot. She ended up dropping the bowl when she did, and the food went everywhere, but the soot could still get it considering it was dropped on the foyer.

"Sin!" she shouted, running over to her, "Your back!" she said wrapping her arms around her, Chihiro laughed.

"Yeah, I'm back. Miss me?" she said teasingly.

"Hell yeah!" Lin shouted. "Oh god, you've changed so much! You even have a chest now!" she said, causing Chihiro to blush, it was true, her chest had grown, and they weren't small either.

'Yeah, of course they have! I'm fifteen now" she replied, Lin nodded.

"Oh god, just wait till Haku see's you!" she said

"Haku? He's here?" Chihiro asked, trying not to sound too eager, and failing.

"Of course, he runs the bathhouse now"

"He does?"

"Yeah' Lin said, picking up the bucked she had dropped, "After you left he challenged Yubaba and won, so he took over the bathhouse" Chihiro nodded, and followed Lin out the little door. She quickly waved to kamaji and left with Lin. They took the same path as the last time to get to the top floor.

'I'll leave you too it" Lin said, after knocking, "I got chores to do" she then left. The doors opened and Chihiro walked inside and headed to the office, her hands clutched at her chest.

Upon reaching it, she saw Haku sitting at the desk, he writing something, and didn't even look up. Chihiro stopped in front of the desk, and quickly ate the piece of food Lin had given her, when they both noticed she was starting to disappear.

She cleared her throat afterwards, trying to help the food go down, Haku sighed putting down his pen, "What is it now? Can't you live without me for a second longer?" he asked, irritated, he quickly stood up, he still hadn't noticed her, and turned around to get something out of the draws behind him.

Chihiro knew he thought it was one of the workers, but smiled and found herself answering anyway.

"No, I don't think I could" she watched as he tensed up and spun around

"Chihiro!" he shouted, running around his desk and hugging her. " Oh god, I missed you" he said, Chihiro felt the tears fall down her cheeks.

"I've missed you too"

Stay tuned for more! Please comment! Flames accepted, but only nice one's. this is my first time writing a fanfic about this couple!