She growls and turns away, I start snickering and follow her. This is gonna be fun.
As I exit the boiler room, Rin and I enter a room that looks like a storage room. "Yubaba lives way up at the top, in the back." I turn around to see the woman half way across the room, and I race to catch up with her. When we enter the next room, I stop and look around. 'Woah, must be their elevator system or something.' Rin wave her hand in a motion to follow her. I look around once more, then follow.
"Get over here!" Rin is already in the elevator ready to go.
"I'm coming, I'm coming warden." I say in annoyance. Damn, I should at least be able to look around. She sticks her tongue out at me like some three year old, and frowns. "What are you, three?" I whisper as enter the elevator.
"What was that?" she snapped.
"Nothing, can we just get moving already?" I replied.
She rolls her eyes, pulls the lever, and up we go. As we're going up, I notice how close the wall is to the elevator. I decide to see how close I can get face to the wall without injury. As my nose is about to touch the moving wall, I hear Rin asking, "You wanna lose your nose?" I turn around and say,
"Maybe." and return to my little game. She sighs in defeat and I smirk in victory.
I hear Rin move in front of me, and about to ask why, when I notice the hallways of the bathhouse are full of workers. I move further behind her, knowing that if I was caught, game over. After a few seconds, we arrive in an empty hallway, and Rin steps out making sure it's safe for us to walk about. "Alright, let's go." she confirms.
"Understood." I say in a military style way.
We walk down the hallway to our left, then take another left just to enter another elevator. 'Damn how many elevators does this freakin' place have!' Like in the other elevator, Rin stands in front of me, so I won't be seen. She pulls the lever down, and we continue up. Rin looks at me and says, "We're almost there, then I can get rid of your ass."
"Same to you, warden."
I look threw the bars in the back of the elevator to see lights and blurry images. "Here we are." Rin brings me back to reality to see the doors opening to a giant, white, fat, spirit thing with a red hat. In normal circumstances, I would laugh my freaking ass of, but because the spirit thing could probably kill with one word, I hold my tongue. But I slip my phone out of my pocket, and take a quick picture to show to Akira and my boyfriend Ryou when, or if, I return home.
"Welcome!" says Rin, a little too innocently. The spirit thing just grunts and I see its whisker things move. Then it points upwards with its noodle like fingers with a 'squeak'. "This elevator is not in service, sir. Please use another." Rin says politely, then immediatley walks out of the elevator. I follow close behind when I hear a squeak behind me. I turn to see the thing following us.
We walk down the hallway to a bridge, cross it, and go down another hallway. I would normally be taking in the sights, but this thing would not leave us alone! 'Stalker alert!'
"It's following us." I say to Rin, without taking my eyes off the thing.
"Quit gawking and just don't look at him." she says. So it's a he. I decide to listen to her for once and turn back to what's around me. After a few more steps, we arrive to the next elevator.
Rin presses a button and steps closer to me in order to keep the spirit away from me. After a few seconds, the doors open and a male spirit announcing his and his customers arrival. "Here we are." Three ugly monster type spirits step out, and my eyes widen in surprise. Rin steps further in front of me, because of a small gasp I let escape. She has kept a nonchalant expression on her face all through now, and I congratulate her in my mind.
"Your room is on the right." says the male spirit worker as he follows his clients. He soon stops, turns, and calls for Rin.
"What is it you want this time?" she says as she pushes me into the elevator, with the spirit thing following closely behind.
"What's that smell?" he asks while smelling the air around Rin. "It's human! You reek of human!" he exclaims.
"Is that so?" says Rin casually.
I feel myself being squished by the fat spirit as he tries to turn in the elevator. "I smell it, I do! Smells mighty tasty too. You're hiding something." the male spirit says slyly while smelling the air. "Tell me the truth, now!" Rin digs into her pocket and pulls out the roasted newt Kamajii gave her.
"Is this what you smell?" The worker starts sweating and drooling uncontrollably.
"Rosted...Gimme!" he yells.
Rin pulls it out of his grasp, and says, "Not a chance! I'm saving it for myself." she said smugly.
"I'm begging you! I'll settle for a leg!" Rin begins taunting him with it as he jumps up and down for it. 'Wow... I guess I'll have to try one of those things...' I am brought out of my thoughts by Rin calling to me.
"Just pull the lever down to go up, alright?" I nod my okay to her, and try to reach for the lever. 'Shit tubby, you're gonna have to go on a freakin' diet!' I think to myself as I finally reach the lever.
I pull down on it, and the doors close before I can thank Rin. But I receive the strangest feeling that we'll meet up again very soon. And I've learned not to go against those feelings.
Rin is still taunting the male worker until the door closes. Once closed, Rin stuffs the roasted newt into her mouth, whole. The worker stops jumping for it and stares at Rin , longing for that delicious roasted newt.
'Okay... I'm in an elevator with some kind of spirit. Hopefully he's a good guy.' I think to myself as I'm squished between a wall and the spirit thing. We have only been going up for about seven seconds, but it feels like years. The elevator soon comes to a stop, but on the wrong floor. The spirit and I both stick our heads out to see the rooms for the guests.
I feel the spirit beside me move, maybe to leave and go to his room so I can breathe! I look up to see him pulling the lever. "Um, isn't your room on this floor?" I ask politely, as the doors close. He looks down at me, and I start to feel uncomfortable so, I turn away and look down at my feet.
'He has some weird lookin' hair.' I had seen what was under his hat. 'I mean, it was green and looked like radish leaves.' I start to ponder why he has leaves on his head when the elevator stops, and the doors open. The spirit and I step out into a blue hallway with two, big red doors to our right. I hear a squeak and see the spirit thing walk back into the elevator. He gives me a bow, and I return it with a 'thank you'.
As the elevator doors close, something hits me. 'He looked like a radish up close, maybe he was a radish spirit!' I decide it's time to head on. "On to this Yubaba character I've been hearing so much about." I say to myself, as I approach the red door to the right. I reach for the handle, only to be yelled at by, what looks like a golden lock with a face. "Not going to knock!" Its eyes roll as it continues talking, "What a pathetic little girl."
Me...little, I don't think so. "Well excuse me! I would have thought that Yubaba would have known of my coming here. I guess she isn't as great as I've heard." I say with a snarl. The lock ignores me as the doors open to reveal many more dors opening. "Damn... What is with this place?" I whisper in curiosity.
"Come in." says an old raspy voice. "Where are you?" I ask stepping past the first door. "I said come in." says the voice more sternly. "But-" I am cut off as I am dragged by an invisible force, past every door. "What the hell are you doing!" I yell. After another door, the invisible force drags me towards the right, down a red hallway, and through some brown doors. The force releases me, and I go flying into the room.
My hands hit the carpeted floor first, and I give myself the momentum to land on my feet. "God dammit..." I hiss. I twisted my wrist. I look up to see who had the balls to pull that little stunt, and see three green heads bouncing towards me with multiple grunts. I try to kick them away, but they are very quick.
"You're making a racket, keep it down." says that same raspy voice. I look up, in mid-kick, to see an old woman in a blue dress, with a wart on her forehead. The green heads stop bouncing around me and into another room, but not before I kick the nearest one away from me. I look back up to see the old woman signing paper after paper, like it's some kind of meditation. 'Well since she's not going to start, I will.'
"Since you're most likely Yubaba, I want to know if you can give me a job." I say, trying to sound professional. She stops signing, and with pen in hand, makes a motion in the air. I start to ask what she is signaling, but my mouth won't open. I try to pry my lips apart, but it's useless. "Stop babbling." I look up to see Yubaba looking at me. "You're just a useless weakling." She goes back to signing her papers. 'WHAT!' I start yelling very colorful words, that would put a sailor to shame, at her. But it's more like muffled screams.
"Besides," I stop my yelling to hear what she has to say. "This is no place for a human. This is a bathhouse, where gods and spirits can rest their weary bones." Yubaba places a cigarette in her mouth. "Hm, your parents had some nerve! Gobbling our guests' food like pigs! They got their just desserts, I'd say." she says with with a laugh. A small fire appears on her finger.
"And you'll never again...," She uses the small flame to light her cigerette. "See your world." she says before taking a drag, and blowing the smoke out her nose. 'What I wouldn't give to shove my foot up your ass, bitch!'
"You'd make a lovely piglet. Hm, or maybe a lump of coal." says Yubaba with slyly. I start shaking in anger, trying to keep my composure. 'Stay calm...wouldn't be good to anger my soon to be boss...' Yubaba breathes more smoke out of her nose and laughs. "I see your trembling," she announces smugly. "Actually, I'm impressed you made it this far. Someone must have helped you."
I just glare at her, my anger subsiding and is replaced with intrest. 'Does she know about Rin?' I leave my thoughts and continue listening to Yubaba. "I must thank your friend. Just who was it, my dear?" So she doesn't know. "You can tell me." She moves her hand in the same motion she used to seal my mouth shut, just in the opposite direction. As soon as I'm able to move my mouth freely, I put it to good use.
Sorry for the long wait! I've had some personal issues to deal with and haven't been able to focus on writing this FanFiction.