A/N: I always forget...I don't own Spirited Away. also, this is AU so don't be too brutal about it xD Haku will be here soon

She was sent away. It was for her own good they said. She cried, screamed, and refused to let go of her mother's shirt. They gave her a sedative and dragged her off to Roko, the Asylum for the mentally ill.


First Person:

"I'm not crazy!" I screamed after the sedatives wore off and I could see my surroundings.

"I swiped your chart, you hear voices in your head, sounds crazy to me." A voice said, Lin, my roommate.

"But I'm not. It was real, it was all real."

"What was?"

"I- I don't know..."

I couldn't remember any of it. It seemed like a dream. As much as I tried to remember the faces, names, and landscape, I couldn't. Except for one name, the name that has haunted me ever since we moved into our new house.

Sen.

We don't belong here, get us back Chihiro, get us back!

Shut up...just shut up! I couldn't take hearing her voice. I didn't know where she wanted to go, what she wanted me to do! There was no where to go except home...but my own parents didn't want me. They let them bring me here because they couldn't handle me. Couldn't handle their own daughter...I don't understand why. I cleaned everything in the house without them ever asking. I went to school, I got good grades, and I didn't talk to Sen around them. So why couldn't they handle me?

Oh wait, there was that one time...in therapy. They tried to hypnotize me. To unlock memories. That was the only time the faces and names became clear. Then Sen took over. We screamed about going back. Going to the bathhouse, through the tunnel. I had to be restrained, my body hurt so much. I tried to gag her, but it was too late, the damage had been done, she had gotten stronger. I couldn't contain her for a long time, but if I was tired, she could break free.

Many times we tried to run away, to get the tunnel. I tried to tell her that there was nothing there, but she didn't believe me. We kept running, down the slope, my legs got scrapped from the branches, as did my bare feet. Through the abandoned building to an empty field. We kept running until we reached the other end of it. We fell to my knees screaming, crying.

"Where was it?" We screamed, then we fainted.

I made my way back home, to find my parents worried sick. I got the master bedroom, with the adjacent bathroom. Bars were installed on the window and a lock on the outside of the door. I was only let out for school and to eat, when I was in control. If I even seemed tired, my dad would carry us, Sen and I, back to my room to lock us in. To keep me safe they said. She didn't like it. We would scream for hours and bang on the walls, doors, and the window. We even broke it once. We broke my hand too. We would also make me go hoarse. Maybe that's why they said that they couldn't control me. It was Sen's fault.

Get back, get back, we need to get back!

Get back to where Sen? There is nothing for us behind that building. There is no one there.

They are there! They have to be! He promised, HE PROMISED!

"HE PROMISED!" we screamed, she took over again.

"Woah, Chihiro calm down." Lin said from her bed.

"Lin, Lin is it really you? What are you doing here? Why aren't you at the bathhouse with Yubaba and Haku. Lin how is everyone?" We said trying to hug the girl on the bed.

"What are you talking about? Let me go!"

The men in the white jackets were coming in. They really existed, funny huh? Pain in the crook of my arm. Numb. Sleep. Goodnight Sen.

We need to get back.

All she thought about was that place. The place in the dream.


Third Person:

She was running through food stands. Where were her parents?

"Mom! Dad! Where are you?" she called frantically. "MOMMY!"

She found them, but...they were pigs! She screamed and ran and kept running. Her vision got dark. She was not in the witch's office. Demanding a job from Yubaba. After yelling for what seemed like hours, she finally gave in and gave the girl one. She signed her name on a contract...Chihiro...

The witch took it, and left her with Sen.

Chihiro jerked awake, the sedative wore off. The dream was slipping away fast. She grabbed a pen and wrote down the names. Yubaba...Sen...

That's how you got me. She did this...we have to get back.

"But why?" She answered out loud. Lin was taken out of her room, she was alone.

We just have to. We belong there.

"Where is there?"

The spirit world. Don't you remember? No, the gate took your memories. But it left me.

"It's just a dream."

It was real. Just like the hairtie. Check it.

Chihiro sighed and pulled the hairtie off her head, they let her keep it.

The purple hairtie.

"It's red."

YOU CHANGED IT! We're supposed to wear it always! It's supposed to protect us! That's why we're here, you took it off! You stupid stupid girl!

Chihiro didn't answer. She just closed her eyes and returned to her dreams.