MOON SAYS: This is chapter 10, two more to go! I finished them today! Hope you like! Over 2000 words!

Secrets Kept Hidden

Chapter 10

Hurry up, you need to be healed my friend! Leena sighed as she watched him from her mind's eye sneak through the city that the sprits claimed for there own. She remembered it like it was just yesterday when she felt someone enter this world that shouldn't be here…that hadn't been here in centuries. She was curious, so she had watched. Leena was shocked that her Haku didn't recognize the girl he helped.

She made those thoughts disappear; this wasn't he time for that. She looked through his eyes and around him and saw the girl that he took from the Human World. She knew that the girl was unhurt. But because of that little fact she wanted to hurt her. How dare she walk away without a scratch when her friend came away worse for wear?

It wasn't right in her opinion, but on that subject Haku didn't give her a vote so her opinion didn't matter did it? Though Haku did right and didn't let her get hurt. They both knew Yubaba would do anything to keep him and given the chance…

She stopped thinking when Haku came in. The man with six arms working the Boiler gasped at Haku. The last time that boy had come in here looking like that he was almost dead. Then that human girl saved him with her love. But that human girl wasn't here to save him this time. And that one he was with sure didn't look like her. He knew that the girl couldn't save him.

He went back to his work when he saw Aleena walk out of the shadows to her friend, her lifeline. For she knew it was because of Haku that she was still alive and most of the Spirit World too for that matter. If she was going to be honest, she didn't think that the Spirit World would survive if she wasn't here. She was it's Guardian after all, the needed her more then she needed them.

She sighed again as she knelt next to her friend. "I will never stop sighing will I sweetie?" Leena asked as she chuckled.

The girl had backed herself into a corner. She knew the one tending to her rescuer. She knew the power that girl held and she didn't want to risk angering her, when it was her fault that her friend was hurt in the first place. Lea didn't know what she would do to her; frankly she didn't want to find out.

Haku chuckled as well, "How long are you going to take care of me? We are both how old now? Were a couple hundred or maybe a few thousand years old?"

Leena rolled her eyes. "Too old, my friend." But she laughed, "Now let's heal you my dear…damn we sound like an old married couple." She hit him softly, he groaned. Even when she hit softly it still hurt a lot.

She healed him right up. It took a few minutes, but she got it done. It had been a while since she had last healed him. It had been quite a few years in fact. At some point he stopped asking for help.

"You know what's going to happen now right?" she said practically whispering.

Haku nodded, he knew she didn't have to tell him. He knew Chihiro and him would have to run and soon. He knew—not when—that he was going to come out of hiding. Would Leena be ready to face her past then, without him to shield her? He knew she was a big girl and all, but still…..a day or so doesn't erase centuries of needing him. Even if the situation called for it, he wasn't sure if she could handle it.

Haku gave her a concerned look, which she replied to with a smile. Not a very convincing one and he knew it.

Leena went still, her eyes turned pure black. Haku knew what was happing. She was having a vision, and thank Kami this one didn't hurt. This time her mind was prepared for anything, it wasn't like last time when she was caught off guard by her past. He knew because of the way she acting now that she was ready to face her past. It made him smile, he was proud of her.

After exactly two minutes of looking into the future she fell from her sitting position. Haku slowly picked her up and helped her steady herself.

She muttered something about indecency, things that should remain private and not wanting to see people doing the nasty, he barely caught that last one. He was about to ask her what she was talking about but he stopped he really didn't want to know.

She looked into his eyes after her muttering was through. Her eyes felt like they were seeing straight through him, like she knew everything about him—which she did. "Haku when the time comes I will hold him off. No matter what happens, even if I snap, you must go! You know what needs to be done; you know what you must do."

Haku's eyes narrowed into hers, he knew what she was saying: self sacrifice. He'd be damned if he let her sacrifice herself for him. After everything they had been through together, he couldn't let her do that.

But he also knew that Chihiro's life depended on him and Leena. He needed to trust Leena, deep down somewhere inside of him he knew that was what he needed to do. She had lived a lot longer then he had and she knew how to take care of herself. She had survived everything that's been thrown at her; she sure as hell could handle this.

He nodded and hugged her. He then gave Lea a look. "Let's go," he said emotionlessly. There was no feeling in his voice or on his face. Leena was proud of him; she had taught him the art of masking himself perfectly. She felt proud to call him her student, she whispered to him that almost made him smile. You graduate my student!

Haku walked into the elevator with Chihiro's friend. There was complete silence. There was nothing to talk about so there was no talking. There wasn't really any movement either.

Lea wasn't shy—not at all, far from it to be honest—but she knew difference between comfortable silences that surrounded people and uncomfortable silence. It was the latter of the two now. She would admit she liked silence sometimes just the former of the two, it was okay. But the latter, now that wasn't okay.

She decided that she needed to speak up. "What is going on? You have been sad since you came and got me, and got even sadder when you talked to the dragon lady…yes I know she is a dragon. Are you okay? You've—"

Haku cut her off with a glare and some harsh spoken words. "Just because I found you and saved you does not mean we are all chummy now." He stopped talking when the elevator stopped and opened. Haku quickly closed it again before someone got on. Everyone knew by now that no one got into the same elevator as him.

Haku glared at her again, she backed herself into a corner…again. She likes you my friend. A fricking bloody Knight in Shinning Armor indeed. Leena chuckled inside of his head.

He raised an eyebrow. So that was it. That was why she was concerned about him. He had to make sure she understood that nothing was coming out of this. Or as Leena would say, nip it in the bud.

"After I hand you over to Yubaba we will never see each other again—you hear? Do you understand? My job was to bring you here—nothing more." He stated a little too coldly for Lea's taste.

He wanted her to get the point and she did, a little more then she wanted actually. Her heart broke a little at his words. He didn't like her and yet he saved her. Of course he answered that little detail didn't he? It was just a job. That was all she was to him, only a package that had to be delivered.

All her thoughts stooped when the elevator stopped and opened again. They were on the top floor now. She followed him through a series of doors. Finally after what seemed like the fiftieth they stopped going through more doors. They entered an office/room.

"Come in, come in, come in my dears. Haku bring the girl in, what bad manners, and here I thought I taught you some." a voice that wanted to sound sweet but wasn't seemed to cackle.

Lea had never really heard a voice cackle before. But she knew that this voice that was talking to her Haku…no he wasn't hers. But whoever was talking to him, the voice cackled.

Haku pushed her ahead and they stood before Yubaba, the old ugly witch who had lots of grey hair which seemed to be wrapped into a bun on the top of her head.

"So this is her? The girl with all that power…. seems a little small, but great things come in small packages don't they Haku? Look at Aleena; she certainly has a lot of power." Yubaba babbled on as she looked Lea up and adown. "Yes, she has that spark of power. I feel it just as I see it. She is the one!"

Lea was mad not only for that comment on packages…she was already sore with that one. She didn't like to be spoke about like she wasn't here and she was. She didn't seem able to help herself—her personality, who she was—she couldn't hold it back and be polite anymore. "Power? What power? What the hell is going on?" Lea asked not politely at all.

Yubaba scowled. Haku bit back his smile and the laugh that threatened his mask. She was a firecracker. Just like Aleena, putting them in the same room wouldn't be a good idea. Fun entertainment, yes if he didn't have to clean up what was left.

Yubaba thought for a moment, this could work to her advantage. She motioned for the girl to come forward. She wrote quickly on a piece of paper and said, "If you sign this I will tell you everything you want to know."

Lea thought about her options, she didn't have any really. She had a bad feeling about this, but she needed to know, she didn't like being left in the dark. She signed the paper.

She didn't read the paper; if she did she would have known it was a contract. The contract said she would use her power and obey Yubaba till Yubaba released her. Yubaba had learned her lesson with Haku. Don't give a time limit on a contract. They usually ended when she needed them the most.