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This is dedicated to my second reviewer dark chocolate princess!
I do not own Spirited Away, Inuyasha & co. or Hiei and Kurama, Kina is mine though so you can't have her as are Yasha (or at least the concept), Kiko (same), and Yuki (surely you've gotten it by now).
Full Summary: We all know (or if you don't you are a sad, sad little person) the basic story line of Spirited Away. How Chihiro (Sen) saves Haku (Kohaku) from death with true love. How Chihiro goes back to the human world after her adventure in the Spirit World (I don't know if it is the correct term for it and if you don't like it I can fix it) goes home.
This takes place seven years after she's returned. After being in the Spirit World her parents discover that she's a lot stronger so they make her learn about everything, she absorbes it all like a sponge. She decides to return to Haku because she doesn't fit into this world and she hopes that he will remember their love.
Haku was depressed after Chihiro left, for a year he barely ate and didn't speak. Then after a terrible storm he finds a girl different than any spirit or human he's ever seen. Her name is Kina and she brings light back to his world and manages to keep everyone even Yubaba on her toes.
It's seven years after Naraku's defeat, Kagome and Inuyasha are married and have twins; the six year old Yasha (boy) and Kiko (girl). Sango and Miroku got married a few years after that and are pregnant with their first child (I know it sounds weird but that is right). Sesshomaru travels with the group and his arm has grown back (A/N: He will be very OOC in the beginning but as time goes on and Kina annoys him he will revert, some what, into his old self); Rin has died and he carries grief with him all the time.
Yusuke and Keiko were married soon after the Dark Tournament, they had a daughter named Yuki (after her loving midwife). Kurama's mother died shortly after he returned of a strange illness. On the night of her death some strange things appear, even stranger than normal. Kurama and Hiei become roomies and are now myth and legend experts.
I hope that everyone likes it more than my other stories, and I'd love replies!
The sun had only begun to set when Chihiro woke from her sleep. She was still used to the Spirit World schedule. She smiled at herself and firmly told herself that today would be the day when she told Haku she loved him. Dragging her slightly bruised body from the bed, Kina had certainly made many impressions on her.
Stepping quietly into the room with the hot-spring Sen filled up the tub and was about to remove her clothes when she heard a rustling behind her. Thinking it was Haku she turned around with the 'get away' look on her face only to see a woman holding up a bar of soap and smiling at her.
"Hello again Sen, I heard the water and thought that you might like a new bar of soap." Chihiro smiled at the woman and took the soap, the woman then began to add different salts and herbs to the water. "I knew you'd want different soap because Haku uses his far to much, you'd hardly get in a good wash."
"Ummm, who are you?" Chihiro asked when the woman was about to leave. She turned and smiled at Sen.
"My name is Melody, you met me as Kina but as soon as you and the others arrived I decided that secrecy is not a big deal to me any more." Chihiro nodded like she understood and watched Melody fade into the wall, like she wasn't even there to begin with.
The water hugged Chihiro's velvet skin, warming her instantly and waking her from her slumber completely. She began to think about Melody, how good she looked now, how plain she herself was. Would Haku even want her now that Melody was herself again?
Giving herself a mental slap Chihiro began to think of how Haku would take the news, that she would give herself to him freely if only he'd ask.
Oh how grown up he was, taller, a wonderfully pleasant face someone she could love for features, he was kinder now and simply wonderful. Chihiro sighed again and opened her eyes.
"AHHHH!" Chihiro screamed and quickly covered her form with bubbles and soap suds. Haku was standing at the door, and had been looking at her until she screamed now his back was facing her.
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He'd only meant to look for a second, but then she'd been talking to her self about love and how he couldn't love her. Oh how wrong she was, but then again she probably didn't realize that she was speaking aloud, that he could hear her and that he had loved her since the day they met in the river.
Now she was angry at him for prying, he shouldn't have now he would have to act the same towards her.
"Sen you are to join me today for a tour, many things have changed since you've last been here and as a guest you need to know the grounds, and I expect you ready in an hour." He walked away from her a single tear flowing down his face, how could she ever love him, when he thought himself a monster.
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Chihiro lay in the water stunned. She had been thinking how wonderful it would be if Haku stripped and joined her in the tub? Would they make love, or just simply enjoy the other's company, sharing things about each other about what had happened over the years.
Crying softly Chihiro lifted herself out of the tub and dressed quickly. No wanting to stain the wonderful silk with her own tears Chihiro took a bath towel to wipe her face.
"I will not let him upset me anymore, if he wants to be cold I'll be colder, he won't break me I will not submit." Chihiro sighed and then left the room, she headed towards the garden with a hardened heart and a smiling face, at least she was back in the Spirit World.
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Kiko woke at the crack of dawn, or at least what she thought was dawn; but staring out at the sky she realized that it must be closer to night. Yawning she moves away from her parents warm bodies.
Standing up she heads to the balcony where she finds Yasha already awake. He had been given a robe that matched Sesshomaru by the girl Kina, except it was different colors, a blue instead of maroon.
She herself was wearing what Kina called a priestesses robe, it was white and red, at the moment it billowed in the wind making Kiko feel like a goddess.
"You shouldn't wear that." Yasha said without looking at her. He had a strong voice, and now had a sword on his side. It was smaller and more lethal then their fathers, it shone like new just like Sesshomaru's.
"And why not Yasha, you know very well that I can't fit into mother's clothes." It was true, they had tried for hours to get Kiko into Kagome's old school clothes.
"They make mother sad, and make father afraid." Kiko huffed.
"I just look like that Kikyou person, but I'm not!" She felt horrible about bringing back her mother's painful memories but she couldn't help how she looked.
Yasha sighed "You very well could be, in fact I don't even want to trust you any longer." Kiko had had enough. She smacked her brother, bringing him to the floor and she jumped off the balcony. Landing on the ground she ran into the pig stalls where she immediately began to cry.
"Why do you cry young one?" A soft voice asked. Kiko looked up and saw a woman dressed like her. Her hair was long and black, and she held a beautiful long bow in her hands. Kiko couldn't help but like the woman because her smile was so kind.
"My brother Yasha, thinks I am evil, thinks that I am Kikyou reborn and that I will kill our mother…But I can't be! Mother is Kikyou reborn! I am just Kiko!" Kiko rushed into the woman's arms where she was held fast.
"Darling Kiko, do you know who I am?"
"No." Kiko sniffled.
"I am the priestess Kikyou, and I am here to help you and your father and brother." Kiko shrunk away slightly but then returned to the warm embrace.
"You will help us?"
"Yes, but you have to help me help you." Kiko smiled at the warmness she felt coming from this woman, who was not at all like her mother.
"Yes, I'll help you no matter what." Kikyou laughed, this child should have been her's with Inuyasha and now she could be, Kagome would be dead before the week was out.
"Young Kiko, I need you to take this plant and place it's leaves in you father's and brother's tea, then you will take my bow and use this arrow to shoot your mother."
Kiko's eyes widened, but then she stared back into Kikyou's eyes and her eyes glassed over.
"Why can't I just use the leaves on mother?"
"Because the leaves will only work on men my darling, my lovely Kiko. Once you do this we will be together forever and no one will think you evil." Kiko nodded and took the bow and the bright green arrow from Kikyou. At once the arrow turned a dull brown.
"I will do this for you, I love you Kikyou. I would do anything to see you happy."
"You can call me mother."
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Melody dressed, it was in the morning, because she needed sleep only a few days every few months; the same as a grown, pure Youkai; she wanted to show Sesshomaru the land in the light as well as the darkness.
"Mel, let me up. I promise I'll be good." Red whined from her bed, but Melody knew full well that if he was free he'd ruin her day with Sesshomaru.
"Nope, you can't get up until the Elders decide to let you back on the ship, and by then I will have gained my freedom." Melody placed a strip of duck tape over his mouth and winked at him before leaving the room with a light fizzle.
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Okay so this is a lot shorter than normal but it was time to crunch and I wanted this out ASAP!
Ja ne
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