Summon the Sun Goddess

Disclaimer: Still don't have rights to SA. So...Yeah.

Chihiro started up the car's engine, and Haku cautiously got in on the passenger side of the car. Worry flooded his expression, and Chihiro giggled.

"I'm a good driver. But if you still aren't convinced, pull that strap thing and click it into the thing sticking out of the seat. It's a called a seatbelt. It will keep you from flying out of the windshield if my magic driving skills fail." Chihiro said, grinning.

"I trust you..." Haku said, obviously lying.

Chihiro smirked, and pushed on the gas pedal with her foot, heading to her house.

"So, who was that kid on top of you? I can't believe he would try something like that..." Haku asked, his eyes fixed on the black sea of pavement, striped with yellow lines that glowed like stars against the night sky.

"That," Chihiro began, pressing lightly on the brake as they approached a traffic light. "was none other than Shinji. The school quarterback." Chihiro sighed. "He totally played me. I mean, I thought...Well...I thought we could be a couple."

The two were silent. Chihiro glanced over at Haku and back at the road.

"I thought you wouldn't come back. I had to move on eventually. But you have to be proud of me. I'm one of the most popular girls in school, and I've never had a boyfriend. I've been waiting for you for six years..." she said, her voice trailing into the blaring and screeching of sirens. They were at Chihiro's home, and it had been sectioned off with yellow caution tape.

"What the..." Chihiro parked her car at the edge of the street and hopped out. Haku got out with her, but stood behind a tree out of sight.

"Excuse me, miss. But unless you have any business here, I'm afraid you will have to leave." A cop said to her. He had on a deep blue suit and a deep blue cap. His expression was worn out and tired.

"I live here. What happened? Is my sister okay? Are my parents in trouble? If it's about the drugs, those are prescription. My mom takes them for her headaches." Chihiro gushed.

"Chi!!" A familiar squeaky voice called to her.

Chihiro looked to her left, and saw her sister, standing by a short and plump policeman. She ran over to her big sister and clung to her waist. Her sister's eyes were red and puffy, and she had a runny nose.

"What happened, Yuri?" Chi asked, concerned as hell, grasping her sister, who was shaking profusely.

The cop wandered away, and chatted with his fellow cops about what happened. Chihiro made out only fragments of things, like, "...Yeah, busted through a window...Didn't take anything...bleeding...Dead...Has two kids..."

"Oh Chi..." Yuri sniffled. "When I was about to go back to my room after you had left...I heard the living room window open...Then I heard banging. I looked down the stairs and there were two men. One was tall and fat and the other was short and skinny...Their faces and all of their skin was hidden...They walked funny, and didn't take anything, but I knew they shouldn't be there. I ran into mom and dad's bedroom and told them, and dad went downstairs with a bat. Mom followed with a lamp or something, and daddy hit the skinny one, but—" at this point, Yuri started to crying again, and it was a horrible sight for Chi to watch.

"Go on, Yuri. Be strong."

Yuri nodded and continued.

"But the tall one pulled out a gun. He shot daddy...And he died. Instantly. Then mom dropped the lamp, and the men told her to get 'the heir'. She didn't understand, so they punched her. She said she didn't have what they were looking for, so they looked themselves. They went to the other room. She said she was sick so she ran upstairs. Instead she called the police. They heard her talking, so they went upstairs, and shot her twice. They looked in my room, all over, but I was hidden under my bed. But I knew I couldn't let them go...I knew mom's call had gotten through, but I knew they would just get away. So I ran to mom's room, and got daddy's gun...I knew it was a horrible thing, but they had killed my daddy, and shot mommy. So I—I...I tiptoed downstairs, and while they were on the front lawn, walking to a forest, I shot them. I didn't kill them. They just started screaming...Actually, it sounded like a bird. And they didn't have their gun's so they didn't shoot me back. I broke down and cried on the front lawn...Mom is in a coma...And one of the men died, but because he tried to get up and run, and he got hit by a car."

Chi just stared at her little sister, proud, but then it hit her, My parents are dead...At least one...She began crying. The two sisters cried together.

Eventually, a man in a white coat approached them, with a solemn expression on his face.

"Girls, I know this is tough. The funeral director will be here soon, to take care of the plans for your parents. You won't have to make any decisions about the funeral, because your aunts and uncles will be flown over here in the morning, and you will be sent to live with them..." the man stroked his chin.

"Parents? Did our mother die, too?" Chihiro gasped for breath.

"I'm so sorry." The man said, and he patted the girls on the back. "At least they won't be suffering anymore. In the meantime, I suggest that you call a friend, and see if you can spend the night at their house. You girls have school tomorrow, and we wouldn't want you two to miss out."

The man walked away, and Chihiro scowled at him, while rubbing Yuri's back. Haku approached them and put his hands on Chihiro's shoulders.

"I need to get back..." He said, whispering into Chi's ear. His voice took away some of the pain from losing her parents so suddenly.

"Who will we stay with? Everyone is at the party!" Chihiro said, turning to Haku, tears rolling down her creamy skin.

Yuri looked up at Haku. She smiled and waved at him, and wiped away a few crocodile tears that dampened her face.

"Who is this, Chi?" The little girl mused.

"This is my good friend Kohaku. He is very important." Chihiro answered, focusing on Haku entirely.

"Chihiro...I know this is traumatic. And I know this is the last time I will see you, since you will be moving with one of your aunts or uncles...I just wanted to say I—" Haku was cut off by Chihiro's sobbing. She had a full on break down, and leaned on Haku, and Yuri grabbed onto Chihiro's waist from the back and cried with her.

"Chihiro, I—"

"Hold that thought!" Chihiro said, suddenly popping up with happiness in her voice. "What if we left, you, me, and Yuri, for the spirit world? We could stay together, and we wouldn't have to live with Aunt Mole!" Chihiro grinned. "And Yuri I could work at the bath house..." Chihiro stopped.

"Chihiro...I came here tonight...Not to save you from Shinji...But to warn you about going to the party because of the burglars...But I was too late. I also came to tell you that..." Haku said, stopping to take in a deep breath before continuing.

"That..." Chihiro encouraged him to finish his sentence.

"That Yuri...Is heir to the sun goddess throne...Your sister...The burglars were sent by Yubaba, after she was informed by a sun spirit that he had located the heir to the sun goddess, but he couldn't leave the spirit world. He offered her money to retrieve your sister, and, naturally, she accepted. If we go back, your sister will be taken to another part of the spirit world, where she will be sacrificed, in an annual ritual, where the sun goddess is sacrificed, in order to bring peace to their people." Haku hung his head, sorrow filling up his emerald eyes once again.

"Isn't there something we can do? To disguise Yuri? Anything?" Chihiro asked, desperately.

"Well..." Haku said, shifting his weight from one foot to another uneasily. "we could...Transform her into an animal. You might want to explain this to her, or like...Let her choose an animal to be." Haku finished.

"No need to explain it. I'm a smart young child with a high IQ of 112. That's much higher than most grown adults. I say I want to be a puppy. Named...Yuriketsu." Yuri answered, and when she spoke, Haku was highly impressed.

"Ohhh no! Oh no no no no no! My sister will not be turned into some mangy mutt!" Chihiro exclaimed, throwing her hands in the air.

"Actually, it is the only way. Dogs are nice. She will be able to speak. And do everything a dog can do. She can act like a dog around everyone, and talk normally around us. It's the only way Yubaba and the Sun Worshipers won't find her. Unless you want to live with Aunt Mole, where Yubaba and her cohorts will locate your sister, and kill Aunt Mole, your sister and you." Haku answered.

Chihiro bit her lip nervously.

"Well...Okay. As long as she doesn't get fleas."

Afterword:: How was it? The end was kind of bad. This is the last realistic chapter in which I hate. It will be mystical and more like my previous work after this. Please review!

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