Authors note: Wow, I love snow days because I'm catching up on everything I really needed to do. Just to warn you all, I won't be able to update this coming weekend because my marine friends are kidnapping me so that I can babysit them on their drinking escapades. I'll try to squeeze another chapter into this week and if not look for chapter 11 on late Tuesday early Wednesday. Now to the "thank you:"

A big hearty thank you goes out to filly8; you by far are the best beta ever! If it wasn't for you, this story would have gone into the trash.

Thank you to KatKat 376 for alerting my story.

Last but not least, thank you to soccergirl 12 for the favorite.

Wait! Another thing I've noticed! In the movie, Kohaku's dragon side is blue and white correct; he is wearing the same color as his outfit also. So my question for you is: Does his dragon color change with the outfit or is the same each time?

Disclaimer: Do you think Miyazaki is adopting?

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Chapter 10:

"When is he planning to strike Master Kohaku?"

The office was in complete silence before the Foreman spoke, Chihiro could have cut the tension in the room with a knife. She sat next to Thy which was a big mistake because the Goddess was ignoring the whole conversation. They all decided to deal with this problem after closing hours of the bath house but even now no one came up with a good idea of how to stop Yukio.

"He didn't say there's a good chance he'll attack the river first." Thy said, her eyes were glazed over and her nails racked over her chin as she thought.

"Over my dead body." Kohaku murmured under his breath without even thinking about it.

Chihiro cringed; she didn't want the spirits that she had just met to go to war with a dear friend of hers. "Is there any other way around this?" She asked in a small, hesitant voice and when Kohaku glared at her she shrunk down as much as she could in her seat.

Thy put up her hand "Kohaku stop it, you're scaring the poor girl." She stood and circled Chihiro's chair. "The two will always be at war; water and earth are two strong elements that need a lot of room to survive." She said while caressing the scared girl's shoulders. "I just hope when the second river is finished there won't be any more problems." Thy looked over at Kohaku who was practically ripping his desk apart with his fingertips.

The Foreman bowed his head, "just in case I will prepare the bath house for the possible attack." He took his departure and left the three alone to contemplate what they will do.

Kohaku eyed daggers at his mistress. "When is your lover coming to finish me off for good?" He asked Thy in a voice filled with venom.

"What happened to "let him come, we'll be ready for him?"" Thy let go of the girl's shoulders before she did any real damage. "Besides, that had nothing to do with what's going on in the near future."

"You'd be surprised, he's the reason why I can't enjoy my freedom in peace, you're the reason why I had contact with Chihiro again, and he's the reason why I can't find her anywhere. The control's out of my hands and it's your fault." He could have screamed that at the grey haired girl in front of him. But the thing that bothered him the most was that she stood their calm, cool, and collected.

"Well guess what Kohaku river. You're the reason why I'm trapped here." Thy spun on heel and left his office, she used her magic to open the door and to slam it close.

I've tried everything to remember mine, but for some reason I remember yours.

Chihiro's eyes glazed over from the memory, since the last one they have become more vivid. But that wasn't what struck her as odd, what did was that Thy had relations with the man she called friend in the human world. She heard Kohaku stand from his seat and over to the book shelf on the other side of the room.

"Great, she's mad at me." She heard him say whist fingering through the collection of books. "I hate it when I can't through to her."

"What did she mean when she said she was trapped?" Chihiro asked the man, he stopped what he was doing to turn to her.

Kohaku shook his head, "I don't know, I never signed a contract with her and she leaves whenever she wants." His voice softened and his anger dissipated, he couldn't be angry with her around. He rubbed his temple while still scanning the books. "I'm going to put a protective spell on the bath house, while I'm doing that can you find Thy and calm her down?"

Chihiro nodded her head and went to leave; she stopped in her tracts when she heard his last statement.

"Who are you really?"

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Lin stifled a laugh when Chihiro finished her story; she didn't even go to seek out the Goddess and instead went to Lin's personal room and woke Lin out of her peaceful slumber.

"Really? Kohaku is flustered about that? Here I thought he was a mighty dragon." She said and continued laughing. Chihiro sighed out; this girl had a sick sense of humor.

"How's the memory coming along?" Lin's sudden switch startled her, Chihiro almost forgot about what happened with her today.

"I had three flash backs today but all of them are from my story so I do not know if it's real or not." She thought the floor was fascinating when she said that, she couldn't look at the girl. "I never knew it would be so difficult."

"Don't push them away Sen, they are real. Trust me, I lived them with you." Lin bit back a yawn, it was a long day of preparing, there was news that a very wealthy and powerful Sky God was coming in a few days with his son and everything had to be perfect.

Chihiro instantly felt sorry for waking the girl up, but she needed someone to talk to that instant. She could feel the sleep coming to her as well. "Well good morning Lin, I will see you when the lanterns come back on." She heard the girl laugh when she closed the door.

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Yumi Reitenshi-

Looky looky, another chapter on a snowy day! I love snow days because it reminds me of my home town, I miss Buffalo a lot but I'm glad to be a Penn Stater.