Chapter 1

The story continues a year after Chihiro left the Spirit World.

"Okasan!" Chihiro shifted from her comfortable position on the couch.

"Not now, Chihiro. I'm busy!" her mother dismissed her continued sulking with a wave and a rueful smile.

"You promised me so!" Chihiro persisted. "All I ask for is to go there once, just once and I'll never bother you to bring me there again."

Chihiro glanced at her mother, thinking of the Spirit world.

"Don't look back, just go"

"Now I remembered my name, I can return to the real world. "

The smiles they shared, the times they fought for themselves at the bathhouse.

Haku, where are you? She wondered.