Deep Connections; Deeper Than He Thought.

Beep Beep Beep

The darkness of the room around him was forgotten momentarily as he stared out the large bay window at the very front of the house. His expression was not only blank, but forlorn and his dark grey eyes were unmoving. His mind was at a loss of all emotions and he felt empty and completely drained; hollow-like. It wasn't the normal, cold feeling that usually swept through and invaded every nook and craney of his body, but something extremely different; different and terrifying. His breath caught in his throat as yet another 'beep' closed in on his brain waves.

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

Only... it was held...

ICU

Paramedics rushed into the room, surrounding the comatose body that was Chihiro's. Her condition had seemed to worsen over the week that she had awoken; the doctors never seeing what had come that night.

"She's flatlining!" the nurse told the doctor in a panicked voice.

"I can see that Julia. CLEAR!!" the doctor reported back as calmly as his voice would allow.

The power hit two fifty, and just as the doctors were about to call it quits, a blessed sound filled the ICU bedroom.

Beep Beep Beep

Her vitals were checked; a normal heart rate. That's what the doctors had wanted to hear. The paramedics left quietly after making sure that all of the young girls bedside equipment was working properly, before they left the room. They, and most of the others working in the ICU, hoped that the wonderfully brave, and strong teenage girl would pull through.

Tears welled up in Haku's eyes when the steady beeps filled his head once again. She was alive and he had to see her, even if that meant disobeying Lin. "Maybe if I just ask Lin?" Haku asked himself.

"Ask me what?" a voice sounded from the stairs.

Turning his head, his greenish-brown hair flying with it, Haku stared at the tall woman heading down the stairs. Her long, brown hair was up tighty in a elegant do and her light blue, tailored buisness suit was wrinkle-free. The slightest hint of blush made her cheeks appear rather rosy, and to complete the look, a pair of light blue heels adhoned her feet.

"Lin? Why are you up? It's only like...."

"5:30 Haku. I have to go out of town. I'm allowing you to skip school but this is the last time. You have got to go back on Monday." she said as she slipped a pair of earrings into the holes in her ears. Haku looked up the woman with soft, and sad eyes.

"Chihiro flat lined." haku told her sotly.

"What?" the woman asked taking a few steps toward the boy. "Haku? Where did... How did you... Was that that on the news?"

Haku shook his head softly, trying to not let the tremendous amounts of tears that threatened to fall once again. "Not from the TV Lin," Haku said softly. Pointing to his temple, he looked up at Lin with scared eyes. "From here, right here." the boy responded slightly.

With a confused stare, Lin took a seat next to Haku on the overstuffed window seat, staring with concerned eyes at the boy she had grown to love as a brother. She placed a hand on his shoulder gently, all too suprised to see that he didn't object it being there. "I don't understand Haku." Lin said softly, the tone of her voice motherly and kind.

Haku shook his head lightly. His greenish brown hair swung around his face as he did so, and with one hand he pushed it from his eyes. "I don't understand it either Lin," Haku told the brunette. "Ever since Chihiro and her parents left the bath house, I have had this weird connection to her. Like a mental link that I can't control. I can't hear her thoughts, but I can hear others around her. It sounds like they are speaking in whispers, but I can hear them just the same. Voices and noises. I heard the gunshots and screaming. The screams that were not Chihiro's voice, but someone else's."

Haku stopped there, his voice and body trembling. He tried to maintain a cool and calm dispositon, but the tears that began to roll down his cheeks proved otherwise in his emotional state.

"Kohaku," Lin started. She was at a loss of what to tell the boy. She could feel something was wrong, but she didn't like it. She didn't like it one bit. Why did Haku have to go through this? Why Chihiro, after that young girl had already gone through so much as it was? She tried to calm herself and knew that when she spoke, her voice was going to be shaky. She took a deep breath, " What does this have to do with Chihiro flatlining?" the woman asking, hoping that what she thought, after hearing Haku speak... she could only pray.

"I could hear the beeps... from the monitor. They were steady for some time; all night. They just repeated themselves over and over again all night and I was content on listening to them. Then... this morning..." He couldn't continue, he woudn't. It was too hard. The thought of his Chihiro so close to death sending shivers down his spine, and he tried hard to not let the tears fall down his face.

"She flat-lined?" Lin asked him. The boy nodded his head softly, and Lin could feel the tears sting at the back of her eyes. She looked at Haku, tears streamed down his face, and she quickly enveloped him in a tight hug. "It's alright to cry Haku... It's not like she's really gone. She's in your heart and always will be."

"S-s-s he-e's still a-a -live Lin." Haku stumbled out softly.

"But, from the way you made it sound... You made it sound as though she were..."

"Dead?" Haku finished softly for th woman. "The paramedics on her floor saved her life. So much electricity. She almost didn't make it Lin."

Tucking a stray strand of hair behind her ear, the brunette looked down at the boy. "Perhaps I should stay home today." Lin said, more to herslef than a question to Haku.

Haku shook his head. "You have to go to work. I'm going to be ok Lin. I will be just fine. Like you told me yesterday, Chihiro will be fine. She's a strong girl right?" he asked, his voice still shaking lightly. "Then again, after her parents were turned into pigs, she worked at the bathhouse, almost lost her name, let in and got No-Face out of the bathhouse, traveled to Zeniba's house, overcame Yubabba's challenge, and she managed to leave without looking back. How could she not be strong?" Haku asked.

"That's the Haku I know. I am aware that it hurts to... hear Chihiro in so much pain, but we just have to be strong and pray that she gets better and not worse from this point on. Now, I'm late. Are you sure that you will be alright today?" Lin asked.

When he finally nodded his head, and wipws the tears from his yes, Lin took her leave. He made sure that she was all the way down the street and around the corner, before her bolted up the stairs taking the stairs two at a time. Throwing open the door of Lin's study, he quickly went to her desk and dug around in the massive pile of papers, and found what he was looking for. With the slip of paper in his hand, he went back to his room to change.

There was one thing that might help Chihiro wake up, and he was going to bring it to her.

A/N: Finally finished with this chapter. I'm sorry that it took me so long to et this up guys. I know you hve all probably been looking for it. Plus, because of the wait, I'm giving you two chapters(only the second one will be up later today or early tomorrow because, I don't have time to finish typing the last two paragraphs up right now.), and I hope you enjoy them both. Anyway, it's late and I have school tomorrow, so goodnight and I love you all. Oh and before I forget, thanks to those of you who have reviewed. I MUST hve at least 10 reviews before I will update after these two chapters. I am not kidding. It has to be 10. Also, thank you so much to my wonderful beta: theoneandonlyzaria!!!! I love you so much for helping with this, and you are a life saver. I want you to keep up the good work.