Whispering Your Name

+Chapter 1+

By: Rachel*

Rated: PG-13

Gender: Romance/Drama

E-mail: PeachGirlKiley@aol.com

Web Address: www.Spike-Faye-Shrine.cjb.net

+ Hope everyone likes this! First Spirited Away fanfic. Haku and Chihiro are around the ages of 16-17. ^_^ I really only planed this to be a one shot, but then ideas started running through my mind _ ::evil cackle READ + REVIEW!! +

+ I do not own Spirited Away +

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            It was late out. Rain pounded the ground, as lighting danced in the sky illuminating the night with brilliant flashes of light. "Kyoko, wait up!" A man laughed running after the girl. They had both been drinking and staggered in their steps.

            "You have to catch me Omi!" She turned glancing back at him. She smiled before looking back ahead of herself, only to fall as she tripped over something. She yelped landing on the rain soaked grass.

            "Kyoko, are you okay?" Omi hurried over to her. "Did you trip on something—" He looked back. It was a hand? "What the hell…?" He trailed off.

            Kyoko screamed. "Omi, go get help!" She pushed him away and crawled over to the limp body. She wrinkled her nose together. He wasn't dressed, was he dead? "Are you okay?" She rolled him over onto his back.

            "Chihiro…" An uttered cry escaped his pale lips. He was tall and well built, his black-blue hair cut just above his shoulders.

            Kyoko cocked her head to one side. "My name's Kyoko, I'm going to help you. Is someone else out here with you?" She shook him lightly looking around; there was no one that she could see. His eyes opened weakly and he blinked looking up at a blurred figure.

            "Lin, is that you?" His voice was cracked, and very weak. Kyoko shook her head. She noted that he was only around the age of seventeen.

            "Kid, is someone else with you?" She asked him again. Tossing her beer bottle to one side she took off her rain coat and covered him up. "What's your name?"

            He looked at her. Who was she, where was he? "No, I'm alone…" He coughed leaning forward and letting out a mild groan of pain. "My name's… Haku." He breathed looking back at her. She nodded as Omi came running back.

            "I called the hospital; they should be here in a few minutes…" Omi fell to his knees letting his fingers run through his wet locks of hair. Let's get out of this rain."

            Kyoko nodded. "Help me carry him?" She looked back at Omi who rolled his eyes. "Haku, does anything hurt?" He nodded.

            "Everything…" He grumbled holding his head in his hands. It hurt to breath, his head was pounding, and his heart seemed to be tearing in half.

            "Do you feel well enough for us to carry you out of the rain." She was sobering up, she was becoming very worried about Haku, who was this kid, and why was he in the middle of the Moriko Forest?

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            "Chihiro, late again I see…" A stern voice grumbled as a girl ran into her class room and over to her desk.

            "Sorry sir." She breathed bowing respectfully. He nodded and took out his attendance book from a bag and began to read off names. People laughed and gave sneering looks at Chihiro who just blushed and looked down in shame as she took her seat.

            She was tall now. Her brown hair was down at her amber eyes sparkled with life. Seven year, six years this day since Haku had said he would come back to her some day. She had stopped by the local shrine and made her sixth wish. 'Haku, you will come back to me someday, won't you?' She sighed taking out her notebook and a pen readying to get her notes.

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            "It will be an unbearable pain Haku. You will feel like your body is being eaten from the inside out, you won't be able to breath, your head will pain you so much you won't know which was is up…" Yubaba stared at him wearily.

            "I understand." He nodded. Yubaba smiled.

            "You really do love that girl, don't you?" She shook her head from side to side. "Very well, drink this; you'll wake close to the one you love. I've made it so you're a bit older then she is… Chihiro is going to be sixteen. She goes to the school in her town. Know that you can never come back, so you're on your own; make sure that you find her Haku." She smiled as his cheeks flushed.

            "Thank you." He whispered taking the small bottle. It was filled with a red liquid. He turned and began to walk away. 'Chihiro, I'll finally be with you again.'

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            "I told you, I don't remember!" Haku sat in a hospital bed two doctors and a policeman standing over him.

            "No one hurt you, did they?" The officer's voice was deep and filled with concern.

            "Damn it, no, okay? I want to leave, I need to find—" He stopped himself and looked down as the sheet on his bed. Glaring he gripped them tightly.

            "You'll be going home with a foster family this evening. You can start school tomorrow if you really want to." One of the doctors spoke. He was short and stocky, with dark red hair and bright blue eyes.

            Haku just glared at him and then let his head fall back onto his pillow. 'At this rate I was better of staying dead…' He cursed under his breath and rolled onto his side. "Just leave me alone." He growled. The other doctor nodded and glanced at the officer and his fellow comrade to leave with him.

            "You're foster parents should be here within an hour." The officer spoke up. He smirked. "Hope you find what you're looking for kid." Haku's eyes widened and he sat up looking at the man. "Take it easy kid, and if you need anything feel free to stop by the station." Haku managed a gestured nod of the head. He fell back onto his bed again. Yawning, he slowly closed his eyes. "I'll find you my Chihiro."

            It wasn't for another three hours that Haku's eyes opened. "Honey, look." A voice whispered. He heard footsteps. "Haku, Haku, my name's Aya, and this is my husband Taro." Haku moaned rolling onto his other side and pulling the blankets over his head. The woman laughed and shook his shoulder lightly. "You're a typical teenager…"

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            "It's very odd though." The doctor rubbed his face with his hands and looked back at the foster parents. "We did a brain scan on him, to see if it indeed was amnesia. However, there was nothing there at all… No spotted patches in the least, except for the portion of his brain telling him to do everyday things."

            "What are you saying?" A woman stood outside Haku's room trying to absorb the information the doctor was giving him.

            He bit down on his lower lip and looked into the woman's eyes. "I've never seen anything like this, it's like he was born into the body of a seventeen year old boy."

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            "Hey!" A low, but harsh whisper came from behind her. "Chihiro, take the note…" A girl tossed it over by her desk. She smiled and went to pick it up.

            "Chihiro, I mean honestly, is it your dream to make a mockery of my class, hand me the note please…" The stern voice of the teacher spoke up." She blushed and nodded her head handing him the note…

            Opening the folded paper he read it for a moment and smirked looking back at the girl sitting behind Chihiro. "Chihiro, isn't it nice out today? Oh, and have you seen the new kid yet, he just enrolled today?! He's such a hottie; we'll have to scope it out later today, right? Your best friend, Sae." His eyebrow arched and the rest of the people in the class laughed.

            "It's true Mr. Takamorie; he's supposed to be the cutest guy in our school!" Another girl laughed. All the guys groaned in disappointment.

            "Always a guy, never a cute girl…" The guys all groaned turning away in depression.

            "Hey, but maybe he's really into sports!" A guy shouted, they all looked at him with bright smiles.

            "We need a new person for the soccer team!" A guy threw his hand into the air.

            "Goro's arm is broken, so we need a new member for the kendo club too!" They all laughed and gathered in a circle leaving the six girls in the class to themselves. Mr. Takamorie shook his head and gave up. There were only three minutes of his class left, and then he would be freed of his first period students.

            "Sae, do you know what his came is?" Chihiro's friend shook her head.

            "Chihiro, I would wait before making a pass at this one… He's a cutie and everything, but get this… He doesn't know who he is, only his name. My dad is a doctor at the hospital. They said two college students found him by the woods, naked. No one has put out a missing persons report either!" All the girls gasped.

            "Do you know his name though?" Chihiro yawned putting her things in her bag.

            "Something like, Haku. He doesn't have a last name, because he doesn't remember it!" They all laughed. Chihiro's brown eyes widened and her bag dropped to the ground.

            "H…" She trailed off. "Mr. Takamorie, can I go to the bathroom please?" He nodded and she grabbed her bag running out of the room.

            "What's up with her today, one second she's running into class, the next she's running out like there's no tomorrow." Sae's eye narrowed in concern. Chihiro had told her about Haku when she first started going to the local elementary school. To this day Sae only thought it was some crazy story, or a dream… Was it true; was there some chance that Haku was real?

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           "His name is Haku, welcome to our class." A teacher spoke up. Everyone stared at the boy before them. Tall, and good looking. He had his hair cut short, but still long enough at it could fall into his face. The girls all whispered and giggled, as the guys groaned in disappointment. "First period is over now, you can sit behind Toji. The third row, fourth seat."

            Haku nodded and started walking over. "Wait, tell us about yourself!" A kid shouted a wide smile on his face. A girl kicked him, her eyes narrowing.

            "Ron, don't…" She growled.

            Haku stared at him for a moment and then nodded. "Name's Haku, I'm seventeen, and I live with a foster family since I don't remember anything else about myself." He smirked and turned away from the kid and took his seat. A few others glared at the guy, and others looked at Haku with sympathetic eyes.

            "Okay everyone, classes are changing, you've got five minutes, if you need to go to the bathroom make it fast…" The teacher sighed and gathered his things before heading to his next class. Haku stood and walked slowly out the door way. Everyone started yelling at that guy, and other started laughing, and some of the girls were screeching and dancing around the room.

            "Better off dead…" He grumbled again.

            "Yo, Haku," It was Toji. "ignore that guy; he's an ass to all the new kids." Toji was tall, with blue eyes and bleached hair. Haku nodded.

            "Do you know of any girls in this school with the name Chihiro?" Haku's voice was steady and surprisingly calm.

            Toji's eyebrows knit together and he thought for a moment crossing his arms. He leaned into the wall next to him and let the back of his head tap into the wall a few times. "I think she's in another grade, tenth maybe…" Toji frowned. "…not sure though."

            Haku's dark green eyes widened in delight, as images of Chihiro raced through his mind. "Tenth grade, that's floor one, right?"

            Toji looked at him oddly. "Yeah and third is twelfth," He paused as Haku started to run down the hall. "I thought you didn't remember anything about yourself!"

            Haku turned to look back at Toji with a smile on his face. "So I lied!" He laughed and gestured a wave before turning around the corner.

            Toji's eyes widened. Everyone had heard his story. Haku was the boy who was found naked by the woods. The one with no memory of his past, only a name and his age. "Go after her!" Toji cheered him on laughing. Still shaking his head he walked back into class to take his seat.

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            Chihiro ran into the bathroom and over to the mirrors covering her face with her hands. "Haku…" She trailed off. Her heart raced, it hurt to breathe almost. It had been so long, how did he get here, was it even her Haku? She let her bag drop to the tile floor and ran the sink water. Cupping her hands she splashed her face with the cool water trying to catch her breath. "I have to find him." She grabbed a paper towel and dried off her face before picking up her bag and walking out of the room.

            'Chihiro…' Haku's mind was screaming. He had come all this way, would she still be waiting for him, what his journey pointless? He shook his head. "No." He reassured himself. 'She loves you.'

            He ran down the flight of stairs. He flipped his head back trying to get a piece hair out of his face. Aya, that woman… He narrowed her eyes.

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            "What do you mean, you'll look strange?" She laughed shaking her head. "All the kids have their hair cut like this, why not get it cut, I mean…" She trailed off and Haku scowled at her.

            'I swear I was better off staying dead!' He gritted his teeth as Aya took the first snip of his hair off. 'Eight hundred years of being a river spirit has led me to this…' He mentally kicked himself, staring at his clothes; a pair of baggy khaki pants, and a red t-shirt with a sports logo on it.

            "You're looking cuter already!" She smiled brightly and pinched his cheek. Haku scowled still slouching down into his chair. She frowned. "No slouching, its bad posture."

            Haku rolled his eyes in disgust. 'She's worse then Yubaba…' Haku sat back up and pulled away for a moment to grab the chip bag she had bought him when stopping by the food store. 'Food's good at least.'

            "Aya, leave him alone. He's been through enough." Taro called from his office. Haku was told he was a computer programmer, whatever that was. To tell you the truth he was clueless when it came to human's so called, technology. He just knew that the food was good, and the box with moving pictures was even more fascinating.

            Aya pouted in disappointment. "Please Haku, for me?" She was practically begging on her knees, that wasn't going to help either, but he figured he could get away from them faster if he gave in.

            Haku nodded reluctantly. "Fine…" Aya's eyes seemed to glow and she jumped up and down clapping her hands.

            "Don't worry Haku; she owns the salon down the street, so you don't have to worry about her messing up that much." Taro was a respectful guy. Haku found himself at ease when around him. Much more so then his hyper wife, Aya…"

            Haku nodded. "Can I go to school tomorrow?" He pulled Aya's hand away from him and leaned over in his chair to glance at Taro.

            "A kid who wants to go to school, huh?" He smirked. "I can go get your uniform and school supplies now." Taro nodded. Haku's eyes widened in delight and he sat back up in his chair.

            "Don't you want to stay home a few more days?" Aya walked over to the oven pulling out a tray of cookies that had Haku's mouth watering at the sight.

            "I want to try and get back to a normal life, or at least try. Maybe I'll remember something about myself…" He trailed off as she took a cookie off the tray and handed it to him.

            "Be careful, they're hot." Haku nodded taking the cookie and placing it on a napkin.

            "Thanks." He smiled and Aya's eyes brightened. Maybe she wasn't that bad after all.

            "You eat as much as you want, and I'll cut your hair, okay?" He nodded and broke off a piece and stuck it in his mouth falling into heaven. "They're double chocolate chunk cookies."

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            He ran around the corner crashing into someone. He shouted, falling down, taking the person down with him. "I'm so sorry, are you…" He looked down. It was a girl, hair hair was long and wavy. Like… "Chihiro?"

            The girl groaned in pain rubbing the back of her head before staring up. It was a boy. Her eyes were blurred. She blinked a few times letting her eyes focus on his face. His eyes, those eyes. "Haku, is it really you?" she sat up pushing him off herself.

            A wide smile formed on his face. He nodded and took hold of her hands. "I did everything I could to get here." He breathed.

            She stared in awe. It was him, he was so much older now, then again she wasn't ten anymore either. She could feel tears forming in her eyes. He had become even more handsome then before. "You cut your hair?" She uttered.

            Haku pierced his lips together and stared up at his bangs. "No, Aya did. She and her husband, Taro are my guardians for now." He bit down on his lower lip looking into her eyes. His heart was racing. His beating heart… He couldn't remember the last time he had felt it. All he knew was that he loved her, loved Chihiro. His grip on her hands tightened and he closed his eyes. His chest was aching again. "I missed you so much Chihiro." He leaned into her and wrapped his arms around her. Embracing Chihiro, he had longed to do so for so long.

            She nodded hugging him back. "You have no idea." She cried into his shoulder. He didn't know weather to let her cry and to try and get her to stop.

            "Chihiro, Chihiro where are you?" It was Sae's voice. Chihiro's eyes widened. She quickly pulled away from Haku and whipped away her tears. "Chihiro, if you scare me again, I swear…" She trailed off as she turned into the stairwell to find Chihiro sitting on the ground with some guy with his hands all over her. "Oh, let go of her!" She screeched.

            "Sae, don't!" Chihiro hissed standing up. She coughed and let her hand run through her hair trying to gather her composure. "It's Haku." She smiled. Sae looked from Chihiro to Haku, and back. She was in a daze, so this was the legendary guy who came from the mysterious spirit world, huh?

            He stood and nodded his head. "Chihiro, I should go." He whispered. He grabbed her hand and pulled her over to himself. "I want you to know, I still love you." He whispered into her ear.

            Her cheeks flushed and she pulled away. "Okay, call me when you get home, okay?" She pulled out a pen from her skirt pocket and wrote her number on his hand. Haku stared at the numbers and nodded.

            "I'll be in the class room, just to let you know, Ms. Magomie is angry with you." Sae hurried along jumping up and down. 'It's true!' She laughed and waited in the doorway for Chihiro to come back.

            Smiled and turned away. "We can talk later…" He whispered.

            "Haku." She walked up to him and let her lips touch his cheek. "Don't forget to call, okay?" She smiled and walked around the corner.

            "Wouldn't dream of it." He sighed leaning into to brick wall. 'Chihiro …'

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Hope everyone likes it so far!! Let's just say the guardians might not be so nice after all… +_+ ::evil glint in her eyes:: *-* Please don't forget to READ + REVIEW!!!!! I want to know what you think!!