Chapter 1

A light wind blew through the window of Chihiro's window causing her to look up from finishing her homework hurriedly. Thankfully her birthday had fallen on a Saturday this year so she didn't have to worry about school but her father had told her that she had to at least get most of her homework done before she went out with her friends for the day. She sighed and smiled at the breeze enjoying the way it seemed to play with her hair. Today it seemed to be playing very freely with her hair. It almost seemed like it was trying to pull her hair out of its customary ponytail, but there was no way that it could do that. Finally she couldn't stand it anymore when the wind blew her ponytail over her head and into her eyes while she was trying to concentrate on a particularly difficult math problem; she closed her window sharply.

At that moment her cell phone rang and she picked it up, "Hello?"

"Hi Chihiro where are you?" her best friend Kairi asked impatiently through the phone.

"Dad's making me get homework done before I can go out."

"Homework! But it's your birthday!" Kairi gasped, "Besides you were supposed to be here 15 minutes ago and they do like you to not keep people waiting."

"Yeah I know." Chihiro sighed, "Maybe I can finish this problem and then ask if I can go."

"All right. Beg if you have to. Bye." Kairi hung up.

Chihiro sighed again and got to work on the problem. She tried to concentrate but her imagination seemed to be playing tricks on her cause she could have sworn that there was a light breeze still playing with her hair even though the window was firmly shut. After a few moments she had finally finished the problem and headed downstairs to, as Kairi had put it, beg.

"Dad I finished a good amount of homework can I go now?" she asked her father who was sitting on the couch in the living room, "I was supposed to meet Kairi and Miki 20 minutes ago."

Her father looked up and was about to ask how much she still had when her mother popped her head in from the kitchen.

"Yeah go have fun but just be back in time for your birthday dinner at 6." She smiled at her only daughter.

Chihiro smiled and dashed out the door before her father could try and protest again.

Had she been looking Chihiro might have seen the little bird looking discouraged, sitting in the tree by her window with an envelope in its mouth. It flapped its wings and a little breeze floated out of them and trailed after her, playing with hair again just like it had in her room.

(short I know but I couldn't think of more to write at the moment, R&R please)