Secrets Kept Hidden

Chapter 4

Chihiro waved bye to Lea as they got off the bus. Chihiro went straight home after that and so did her friend.

Unfortunately to many different people, they didn't live closer to each other, but at the same time it would have been harder if they were closer. Which begs the question which was better?

As Chihiro was walking toward her house she stopped. Her body felt weird, something just happened. She just felt it and knew something had happened. What had just happened she didn't know she didn't understand much of this feeling. She did know that something bad was going to happen. She knew that was all she needed to know, something bad was going to happen, but it would have been nice to know what was going to happen, but wouldn't that spoil everything?

As she hurried home the feeling didn't go away, no the opposite happened, it intensified. She had never felt like this before, or if she did, it was like in another life some how. She just knew that it was happening now, she wanted it to go away, but knew she was just going to have to deal with it for now.

Though she knew that, there was a place inside her that just opened up. It started when she saw that boy hiding in the woods.

I thought I closed that door six years ago. Now after all I've done it has opened? Something is wrong, I made a deal, and she wouldn't go back on it…would she?

Chihiro was stunned, what was that? Who…thought…that? It wasn't her, it was someone else. It had to be, she knew nothing at all about what was in that train of thought.

She shook her head; she knew this was not the time to be thinking about whom the weird voices were coming from and other weird thoughts in her head.

She stopped walking and her face went from confused to horrified. Voices in my head, damn it all I am turning into Lea. I spend too much time with her. She is so rubbing off on me. And that is not a good thing, never a good thing!

She took her hands and banged them against her head, she was trying to beat Lea out of her head and of course the voices too. She stopped, because she knew this wasn't the time to beat herself up over little things like this. Insulting Lea from afar is good, and fun but now was not the time, something was wrong and she had to fix it, not make fun of Lea and beat her self up…literally.

She broke into a run and went straight to her room. She locked the door. She had to take a moment to catch her breath.

Why was she running? There was nothing out there. Or was there? She had watched enough scary and horror movies to know that just because you didn't see anything that so does not mean nothing is out there. That knowledge and the fact that her instincts told her someone was following her.

If there was nothing out there why was she feeling like someone had followed her? Why did she feel like her heart was being pulled apart? Was it because she was running away from that someone who was following her? Or was it something else entirely.

It was like the past was yanking on the rope that was her heart and the present was yanking on the other end of that heart rope.

It hurt like hell. She just couldn't stand there and take it she just couldn't do anything at all. That just was not who she was.

She knew that unless the person she supposedly made a deal with came to her, she wouldn't be able to do anything. She knew she had to expect the knowledge that voice said or she was in a shit load of trouble.

She knew nothing, she should have, but she didn't. Now she was in front of the door again. The one no matter how hard she tried she just couldn't open it.

Then something came to her, the key, if she had the key she could open the door, but again her ideas were shot down and killed in vain.

She closed her eyes and was swearing inside her head, she knew the person that had something to do with that mysterious deal had the key, the one that opened this annoying door. How did she know that? Honestly she didn't know, but she didn't care at the same time.

There really was no other explanation for this, that little statement she head from that little voice in her head.

Those few sentences opened some doors, but there was more closed then ever before. Whatever locked those doors took such care to lock them away so securely.

The question was did Chihiro want to know what was behind them? Was she ready to see what she had forgotten? Did she want to know why she agreed to have them locked away in the first place?

She shook her head again, trying to clear it. It wouldn't help to think about it. The only way to open them is with the key and she didn't have it. So she would give up for now. That was until she had the key.

Chihiro looked at her clock and gasped, when she saw what time it was. It was way past her bed time; it was like a quarter to eleven.

So she took a quick shower and got into bed. She had a feeling she would have yet another one of those dreams about that weird but comforting world again.

What she didn't know was that part of that dream would be beside her, living and dreaming the dream along side of her also.

Kohaku followed her after she had stopped, when that weird feeling over came her.

He was confused at first, why was she acting like this, but when she looked at his hiding place he knew she felt his arrival in the human world.

That was when he was deeply saddened; he knew there were two potentials for his mission. He knew he could never put her in harms way so he choose the other one. He knew he was damn lucky, he also thought that she had something to do with it.

He shook his head and walked on, under the cloak of darkness; he saw her house and started walking slowly to it. He had waited six years, what were a few minutes or couple of hours to that?

He smiled as he saw her through the window. His beautiful Chihiro, how he was so glad that no male human had touched her, been with her or anything like that. It would have been messy, and Aleena would be really mad at him for killing a couple of humans and not inviting her. Sigh, though Kohaku knew she wouldn't do anything to him, she understood him so well. She might actually help him that was the scary part.

He thought for a second, didn't humans call it 'going out' or was it girlfriend? He shook his head, what did Aleena call it, boyfriend and girlfriend, so if she had someone it would have to be a boyfriend.

He gave up on it; he would have to ask Aleena when he saw her next. Which oddly he knew it was going to be soon.

He opened the window and after he was completely inside the room he closed it, he looked around and saw her bed. He saw down on the bed next to her and pushed her hair away from her head.

She looked so pretty, so innocent sleeping like that. His thoughts turned into naughty ones. He knew he shouldn't think these indecent things around such an innocent sleeping girl, but he couldn't help it.

All of a sudden as he was lost in thought, she grabbed his hand, she was still asleep of course, and the next thing he knew he was asleep also. He was pulled into her dream, now their dream.