(Before I give you Chapter 2, I just wanted to say thank you for the reviews. This is my first Spirited Away fic, so I am a little nervous about it. Please leave nice reviews if you like it. Thanks-The Author)

Chapter Two

Sen sat on the balcony of the room she and Lin shared. She thought about her plight. It wasn't too bad, with Haku in charge. The witch Yubabba hadn't found her out yet. Haku was only strict with her when the other workers were watching. She really did like him, and understood why her mother had too. She swallowed hard, thinking about her mother. Would she still be looking for her? Sen had lost count of the number of days she'd been missing. In her new home, she was too busy to keep count.

"Sen! Haku's been looking for you!" Lin's head appeared.

"Oh no! I'm going to get it!" She'd lost herself in her thoughts, again.

"I don't think he'll hurt you this time." Lin pulled her in, and dragged her to to my office.

"Sen." I looked up from my work. "Where have you been?" My voice was cold, as usual,since my assistants were present.

"I…I'm sorry, Master Haku. I lost myself again."

"Mopping duty for her, Lin." I dismissed Lin, and my assistants. "Sen. You have to stop daydreaming. If I call you , you need to come, immediately." I looked down at my papers, pausing. More softly,I said, "It's been three months, Sen. You've been here three months."

"Oh. Haku…am I ever going to get home? I miss Mommy and Tiffy so much." She bit her trembling lower lip, to keep from crying, but I was not fooled. The tears were there.

"I made you a promise, Sen. I will not break it. There is a problem though. Yubabba was asking about you."

"Why? What have I done wrong?" She knelt on the floor slowly. "I've done what you told me to."

"She does not remember your face." I stood up, and walked over,putting an arm around her. "I'm trying to fix it, Sen."

"Thank you, Haku, for everything." She said solemnly. "If I wind up working for her, I will never forget you."

"No more talk like that, Sen!" I spoke sternly. "Yubabba will never touch you." I looked towards the door, alert by a noise in the hall. "She's coming. Take the back stairs, and go to Lin. She will set you up with the sponges and buckets for the floors." I set her on her way, and was closing the secret panel, when Yubabba burst into my office. "What do you want?"

"Where is this girl you call Sen?"

"What do you want of her? She works for me, not you." I glowered at her , and feigned being exhausted by the hordes of paperwork I had around me. "She is working, Yubabba."

"Even if she does belong to you, Haku, you still belong to me. Therefore, I am to approve all your workers. I never saw that child before in my life!"

I thought quickly, before a thought occurred to me. I could use the power of trickery on her mind. "You did approve her, Yubabba. She signed a contract. Sen is the name I gave her, since she reminded me of Chihiro. "

"What was her real name then?" She challenged me.

"Min." I smirked at her. I had won, and she knew it.

"Fine. If I find out you're lying to me, Haku, I'll punish you both." She stomped out of my office, sending the papers scattering.

I just laughed, and set them back in order. "You're so thick, Yubabba, you can't see what's in front of you!" I left my paperwork unfinished, and went to check on Sen, and wreak more havoc on my other workers.