Chihiro stared up at the bath house's wall in exasperation. She was determined to do this, and yet it seemed she lacked the courage she had 9 years ago. She sighed. She had to get back to the castle - which she called the bare abode – as soon as possible, or this time Nagi would actually slaughter her.

"Here goes nothing." Chihiro muttered to herself, tightening her sleeves, when suddenly she heard a shout from behind her.

"A human!"

"Not again." Chihiro rolled her eyes as she turned around, wondering who could be up at such an early hour, as the sun glared painfully above.

She gasped as soon as her eyes fell upon the owner of the voice.

It was Haku. Or a mini-Haku. Or a mini-Haku lookalike. Chihiro stared in awe at the little boy who looked about 8 years old, standing with a fierce expression, his hair was a familiar emerald green similar to that of his eyes.

"Disappear murderer!"

"Me? Murderer?" Chihiro repeated puzzled, and jumped back against the wall as Haku's doppelganger charged towards her with a war cry, and pulled out something from his sleeve which resembled a small knife. He ran quite fast for someone his age, and would have been slightly fearful looking, if only he had made his target.

Instead, mini Haku tripped, sprawling onto the ground as the knife flew far from his hands and landed next to Chihiro.

She picked it up, trying to suppress laughter at the cuteness of the boy as she imagined Haku doing the same thing and offered her hand as he tried to get back up.

"Are you alright Haku-I mean sorry, you look exactly like someone I know." The boy scowled at Chihiro, before swiftly grabbing the sword out of Chihiro's hand.

"Hey-"

"My names not Haku, its Saku, Murderer." Chihiro crowched down beside him.

"Then Saku, I'm not a murderer either. You don't like it when I-"

"You will be." Saku cut in, tucking the knife back into his sleeves, and looked straight into Chihiro's eyes.

"Someday you will be. That's why I'll kill you before that. Next time be prepared!" He pointed at Chihiro with a dirt covered hand, making her flinch, before running off towards the main entrance of the bathhouse.

"Saku! Wait, you left these behind!" Chihiro called after him and pointed towards a bucket and spade that was left lying on the ground, but he had already disappeared. Somehow after the crazy little event, she imagined the boy digging a grave for his victims, sending a shiver down her back as the thought of someone who looked so alike Haku doing such malevolent thing scared her.

"What was that about." Chihiro muttered thoughtfully as she went back to the wall. Even their names were alike. She smiled to herself.

"Is anyone here?" Chihiro called out as she slowly peered through the door.

"Yubaba?" Chihiro was proud of her achievement – since she had been declined to enter by the annoying door knob that guarded Yubaba's office, she had come in from the other way around. The pipes running along the wall were rusted than before, and there were many painful times where she was reminded of her obvious increase in weight compared to the first time she had snuck into Yubaba's office to save Haku 9 years ago, but she had made it.

"It's me, Sen. Any one home?" She was disappointed. All that effort and no one at home? Her shoulders drooped in discouragement and was about to leave, when she heard the faintest of voices coming from another room.

"Sen…I'm…here…" It was so small she would have easily missed it, but it was a familiar one she recognised instantly.

"Boh!?" She rushed into the connecting room, Boh's playroom. It was exactly as she remembered, a mountain of toys and elaborate decorations on the wall.

She ran past the mountain where she knew Boh would usually love to hide and straight to the bed, flinging the curtain open.

There lay Boh, exactly as she remembered, but smaller and paler. She gasped in horror.

"What on earth happened to you Boh? Are you alright!?" The sickly baby opened its eyes and looked towards Chihiro, smiling feebly.

"Sen! I knew…you'd come…back…" Boh managed to utter before falling into a fit of coughs.

"What happened!? Who did this to you?" Chihiro demanded, grabbing onto Boh's hand.

"Outside…dangerous…germs….Big….Dragon."

"What!? A Dra-"

"What are you doing here brat?" A voice interrupted, making Chihiro jump and whip her head behind, although she knew instantly who it was.

"Granny! So you were here!"

"Hmph." Yubaba scoffed. "Thought you would've grown up a bit at least, but still seems you're stupid enough to wonder back in here."

Chihiro hurriedly followed behind Yubaba as the old woman disappeared back into her office, after carefully tucking Boh under the cover and hastily whispering that she'd be back soon.

Chihiro glanced around in surprise at the book strewn everywhere as she carefully shut the door behind her.

"Get out of here before I turn you into a pig this time for real, brat."

Yubaba took a seat at her office, and for the first time Chihiro noticed the signs of fatigue clawing away at Yubaba's face.

"You can't. You don't have any magic powers." Yubaba looked surprised momentarily.

"Well well, did our research did we. So what did you come here for? To get revenge for what I did in the past?" Chihiro shook her head coolly.

" I came here to ask you a favour. Two to be precise."

This seemed to catch Yubaba by surprise even more. She laughed loudly, a cackle that Chihiro once found scary, but later realised was the old woman's actual form of laughter.

"Come to make negotiations have we human brat? You know I have no magic power, and yet," Yubaba studied Chihiro's look of determination momentarily. "I can see preparation in your eyes. Fine. But on one condition; ill need something back." Yubaba's eyes twinkled in amusement. "Nothing in this world is free."

Chihiro nodded. "Ofcourse."

"Then?"

"Boh." Chihiro nodded towards the bedridden baby. "I'll cure his sickness for you." Yubaba froze at this, before carefully removing her glasses and placed them on the table.

"How can you be so sure? By now you should now that I'm the one that killed Haku because of our promise, and yet why are you so sure that you can find the cure. You don't even know what happened, and on top of that, a mere human like you without any powers at all. Do you want to end up like that boy, or is it that you already have a plan."

Chihiro shook her head. "To be honest, I have no idea. But I'm confident that I'll be able to solve all this. Plus for you who cannot move freely from this confined space, I think its safe to say that im you only hope."

Yubaba burst into laughter again, and stood up from her chair to look directly at Chihiro.

"Fine. I'll listen to what you have to say, and that's a promise. But let me tell you one interesting fact to commemorate this.

Your parents aren't here. They never stepped into or even close to this world. You've been tricked into coming here by a small illusionist."

Hi again~Kurousa here~ I've decided to change the title to something more ftting~ please look forward to it, and thank for reading till here! Again, reviews are deeply appreciated, although i think ill keep writing regardless as to whether anyones actually reading HAHAHA :))))))))