This is my first Spirited Away fic so..be nice...and it it's so bad I should delete it, tell me so I can.
I don't own Spirited away. This prologue is about teh ending of Spirited away, so it doesn't ahve the OC in it.
Lie (Prologue)
They ran down the stone steps, Haku's grip on Chihiro's hand tighter then usual.
Because he knew soon, he'd have to let her go.
"Look haku! The waters gone! I can walk across now!" She seemed so happy but still Haku's emerald eyes, though they were bright and happy for her, but he felt a sadness only comparable with when he'd lost his river.
Because she hadn't listened to the others.
"I knew always knew you were good Haku!"
As he loosened his grip on her hand, perparing for it to slip away, he wished he was as certain as she was when it came to being good or bad.
Because even as he forced himself to loosen his grip more, he couldn't help but think he could grab her wrist, use his magic to keep her with him forever.
But he knew she wouldn't understand how he felt, because she'd never had everything preciouse stripped from her and been left to wander only half alive.
She wouldn't understand how hard it was to let go of someone who seemed to care so much about him, when it seemed no one else did.
But then he remembered.
She was a human.
He was a dragon.
She had lived ten years.
He had lived hundreds of years.
She didn't understand the hurt of loosing everything.
He didn't understand how she could care so much about a wandering river spirit.
But as she turned her inocent, trusting eyes to him, he knew what she would ask.
"We'll see each other again, right Haku?"
"No."
"Tell her no!"
"Say it! You can't lie to her!"
"Yes, I promise. Now go, and don't look back till you get out of the tunnel." With that she ran. Ran as fast as she could towards her waiting parents.
Leaving to go back to her normal world and normal friends.
Leaving him to go back to his normal lonliness and normal friendless home.
But it was ok with him as he watched her go. Maybe it was because he'd lost so much, It made it easier to let go.
BBut even as she walked through eth tunnel he turned and walked away. Robbing her of a last glance of him.
He wanted her last memory of him to be of him promising to see her and smiling...
Not crying as he was now, pure teal dragon tears sliding down his face from his saddened green eyes.
He looked up at the sky... Up at the bath house...
And knew that this good bye to Chihiro, the parting gift that she would forget in her hectic life.
Had been a lie.
Because she'd never understand how a dragon loves everything it comes to possess, because it has so little.
Because no one understood.
Even as he walked back towarsd teh bath house, the first drop a rain rolling down his face and embedding itself in his tears...
He thanked the rain as he grew closer and found Lin and Yubaba waiting for him.
They never knew he was crying.
Though silently he mused as he followed Yubaba back to her room at the top of the tower.
They had both seen him when he arrived, pathetic and useless and half alive.
Yubaba had driven him to tears many times when he had arrived.
"Kohaku River...My name is Kohaku..." he murmured to himself as he stood on the bridge that night.
The name itself carried some sort of filth on it and even as he cast it away he knew why.
Because it reminded him of Chihiro
The lesson she'd taught him he knew would last long and hurt very much.
The Love you can't have,
Always lasts the L O N G E S T
Feels the STRONGEST
And HURTS THE MOST
"I'll never love anything else."
Once again, He lied.
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