Spirited Away 2: the Promise

by TrickedPast


Hello there! I'd just like to give a quick thank you to Silver Sea Mist for adding this story to their favorites! Now who wants chapter 1? I do!


[POV:: THIRD PERSON CHIHIRO]

Chihiro sat at the table with her mom and dad. Her mom set a plate with some assorted foods on it and sat down across from her. "Thanks Mom." Chihiro said as she picked up her chopsticks and began eating.

The meal went on with casual talk. But the her parents came to a subject she didn't really want to talk about.

"Chihiro, honey, are you going to tell us who you were talking to again yesterday?" They had caught her talking to thin air – or so they thought – again. This was the fifth time that they had seen her doing that this year.

"I don't really want to talk about it. Besides, you wouldn't believe me," she said as she set her plate in the sink. "I'm gonna go on a walk really quickly. To clear my mind. If you all are still worried about it when I get back I'll tell you I guess."

Her mother sighed. "Alright Chihiro."

"Don't worry Mom. I'll be back in half an hour." she then left the house, dashing through the front door. Yuko looked over to Akio after she had left. He looked to be in deep thought. She reaached out and put a hand on his shoulder, trying to comfort him. Their daughter was really concerning them.


Chihiro sprinted around the side of her house and down the hill in the back. She knew this route all to well. When she reached the dirt road she sprinted alonng side it. She followed the road for about fifteen minutes until she came to a wall. Just a big, flat, plaster wall. No tunnel. Just a stupid, stupid wall.

She groaned in frustration and kicked the wall. "I hate you, you idiotic wall," she said to no one in particullar. "If it weren't for you I could see him now." She leaned up against a tree trunk and put her face in her hands. She needed him right now. Not for long, just a few moments for him to confort her, maybe even help her explain the memories to her parents. After a while of staring at the wall, and nothing happening, she stood up and look back down the road. She sighed and started to make her way home.


She slowly opened the front door of her house and shut it. Chihiro slowly glanced around the entryway, only to find it empty.

"In here honey!" She glanced in the direction of her father's voice and found him in the living room sitting next to Yuko on the couch. Chihiro sighed and sat on the chair the was facing the couch at a 45 degree angle. "So... Care to tell is who this 'Haku' guy is?" Akio had his eyebrow raised as he asked this.

Chihiro gulped. "Alright... but you guys have to promise to believe me. No matter how ridiculous any of this sounds."

Yuko nodded, while her father simply said, "I'll have to hear it first."

"Well... That's good enough I guess. Here goes everything." She swallowed and looked from her mom to her dad. "It started when we first moved here, when I was ten, and dad missed the turn off to our house. We decided to take this little dirt road to see if it would get there, but it only led to a big building with a tunnel in the center of the wall. Dad wanted to look inside so we all went there, albait with a little protest from me. It turned out to be an abondoned amusment park – or so we thoought. Dad smelled some food as we were looking around, so he thought the place might still be in buissness. We went up some steps and onto a little street filled with resturaunts. Dad finally found the food and started looking around for employees, to pay for some food. No one answered, but Dad decided we could just pay when they got back. You all kept on trying to get me to eat, but I refused, not wanting to get in trouble. I kept on urging you to get going but, you wouldn't listen. So, I walked off. I went further down the street and found a bridge leading to a huge bath house. I walked onto the bridge and looked over the side at the train that was passing under the bridge. Then, I got the railing and looked behind me. To my surprise there was a guy there, who looked about 12, maybe 13 years old. He looked pretty angry. Next thing I knew he was yelling 'You shouldn't be here! Go back before it's too late!' I was startled, and took a few steps back and ran. All around me lamps were turning on, iluminating the street and resturaunts. I saw these things that looked like ghosts, and to say the least I was scared. I started calling out to you, and ran towards the place where I saw you two last. When I got there, you were both still eating. So I did the only thing a paniced ten year old could. I yelled 'Come on, you guys. Hurry!" When dad turned to look at me, to my shock, he wasn't dad, he was a freaking pig. So I kept on running. I ran towards the steps at the side of the field we were on. When I got there I ran as fast as I could down them into water, to my dismay. I saw a boat with a whole bunch more of the 'ghosts' docking. I started chanting quietly to myself: 'It's just a dream... It's just a dream. Go away. Go away. Disappear...' Then when I opened my eyes and saw my hands I realised my wish was coming true but not in the way I wanted. My hands were see through. So when the first of the spirits got off – That's what they were by the way – I started running up the hill to my side." She told the rest of the story, her parents paying attention to her the whole time. When she got to the part about leaving she had been crying for some time now.

Her mom came and put her hand on her shoulder, trying to comfort her. "Oh sweetie."

Her dad's mouth was agape. "I'm sorry Chichi, but I just have trouble believing that. Are you sure that wasn't a dream?"

"Yes I'm sure!" She yelled. "I know for a fact that it was real." She put her head back in her hands as her mother gave her father a 'Shup up or you'll regret it' look mixed with a bit of a 'Really?' look in there.

"Chihiro, I have trouble believing you as well, but I'm doing my best to understand," her mother said in a kind, soft voice.


That night Chihiro cryed herself to sleep. Sleep filled with dreams of Haku.


A/N: GUESS WHAT? You guys get a double update today! Haku will be introduced soon, maybe even the next chapter! But until then, please read and review! You get a cookie if you do! Come on who doesn't love free cookies. [By cookies I mean a faster update... but don't tell anyone I told you that.]

~tricked