Garbage Spirits
Chapter 2: The Difference Between Girls and Boys

Chichiro squirmed a little under the boy's weight having been toppled over upon when he tackled her. He didn't weigh much, this boy, for, from what it seemed from his ribs poking into her sides, he didn't eat much. Her lips stayed tightly sealed as her mind tried to figure out what was going on. The boy atop her began looking around with a cool calm gaze, but his eyes were wide and frantic. She saw his eyes narrow and his hand that had silenced her scream moved down and around her waist tightly. The other hand soon followed, and in a minute she was tossed aside and upon something that had a little bounce to it. The small girl found herself inside a rusted old car with a few pieces of mildewed seat cushions left inside. Her lips turned down in a frown ready to protest the uncleanly-ness, but she had forgotten all about the grossness of the situation as a loud groan escaped her mouth. An elbow had jabbed itself in her side as the boy flung himself in after her. Again, there was a hand clamped over her mouth.

He shoved his lips near her ear and spoke quiet and forcefully. "You idiot.you fool. Do you know what's going to happen to you if they find you?" He shook her in a fury with his free arm. He was quite strong for such a young and lithe boy. "You don't want to know.girls don't belong here. Do you know why? Do you know?" He shook her again until her eyes widened and she nodded in understanding.

There was still a dull pain where his elbow had landed and she thought she might cry. Not from the stinging pain, but from the words whispered in her ear. She knew very well what he meant.or at least thought she did, and various horror stories she had seen on the news scrolled through her mind.

"Listen to me now.I'm not going to hurt you. You have to do what I say or." His whisper faded off into nothingness and his eyes stared off into the same. "Listen, you can't leave now. There's a barrier around this dump once the sun goes down. Understand?"

She nodded her head.

"Good.This place changes at night.Its." His voice froze off cold in an instant as he heard a rustle of some sort very near to the car they lay huddled in. "I'm sorry I have to do this."

Chichiro's eyes widened, again, in horror. What was he so sorry about? Why was his voice so grave? And his eyes.his eyes as he pulled away and reached into the pocket of his pants looked so.so cold! What was he going to do to her?

Her eyes followed his hand in horror as his fingers retreated from the pocket and pulled out slowly dragging out a small thing object which he held shakingly in his hands. With a small motion, a shining blade flipped out and it was much larger than a simple pocket knife. "Don't.please.don't." Her cries were but a whisper, and as much as she tried to back away from him, there was no where to go. He advanced on her quickly and grabbed her roughly by the ponytail hanging from the back of her head.

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His hand gripped the handle of the knife tightly as he saw through the dark brown hair of the girl before him. Moments before, his ears picked up the shouting of his name, and, at that moment, his mind boiled up a plan to save his hide and the girl's. Ukah had noticed that she had on a baggy set of clothes consisting of a t-shirt with a green stripe across it and a pair of baggy khaki shorts. Still being rather young, the girl hadn't quite 'developed' the features that would make her a woman.and with a short trim, she could be easily mistaken for a boy. He wished he had time to explain now, but the voice that called after him was getting closer and closer with each strand of hair he butchered. "Listen.Chichiro." His voice rasped in a hurried manner. "You're name is Sen, get it?" He frowned in disarray as the only reply he received from her was a string of sobs and choked tears. He didn't have time for this, so he shook her violently again. "You listen here you stupid girl.your name is Sen, and if you don't stop crying that person calling my name is going to take you back to camp and rape you. They might even kill you after that, so stop acting like a little girl.your name is Sen, and you're a boy now." His words were harsh, cruel, and extremely necessary. He had to make her listen before they reached him which was now.He heard the footsteps and backed away from Sen throwing the wad of hair in his hand down to the dirtied floor. His head glanced back over his shoulder and saw her wiping away her tears. He nodded and walked out of the broken down worthless car.

"Yo, Ukah! What ya think you're pulling man! Come to find ya and ya knock meh down like that! What's up with you tonight?" The spider armed boy slid across the ground using his many arms and looked a bit pissed from the furrow of his brows.

"Shut up Kaji.I don't have time for you." Ukah crossed his arms and spread his legs starring down at the insect. "You saw him, the intruder. I had to go get him before he escaped. You know Yu's rules as much as I do.No one leaves past sun down."

"Right, right." He scratched his grimy head with only of his many arms starring crucially at the boy before him. "Well, whatever.lemme help you with 'im then. He in that car? Let's bring 'im back then." Kaji made his way over to the busted up automobile until Ukah stepped in front of him.

"I think I can handle this." He shouted out to the girl into the car. "Hey, you.get out of there. Come with us or we'll force you out." Ukah waited, and in a few moments, a frail skinny looking boy wandered out looking scared for his life.

AN: ah.so I finally updated, and its all thanks to that one person who IMed me. You know who you are. ^_^ See reviews, emails, and IMs motivate me to update faster. I'll be gone for awhile on vacation, so I expect lots of reviews for another chapter. ^_-