Whispering Your Name
-Chapter 4-
By: Rachel*
Rated: PG-13 (content)
Gender: Romance/Drama
E-mail: PeachGirlKiley@aol.com
Web Address: www.Spike-Faye-Shrine.cjb.net
+Sorry it's taken so long, and sorry it's so short! I've been working on a Fruits Basket one-shot that's like 20 pages long (Holding On). (Now posted) Also, I knew CB fans would kill me if I didn't get chapter 8 of Tell Me Who I Am posted too, so that's up as well! This is the shortest one, but you finally figure out why Aya and Taro are acting the way they are! Also Chihiro and Haku's relationship gets a little more romantic, before taking its deadly plunge at the end… What will happen?!+
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"The sun's still setting." Chihiro smiled taking his hand as they walked down the street.
Haku smiled as she squeezed lightly and he did the same in return. "Feel like staying out late?" He smiled. He wasn't the outgoing type, but something inside him, maybe it was Chihiro made his head spin, and he needed that adrenalin rush, that high to last forever.
A spark seemed to be firing in her eyes and she nodded. "Where can we go? I mean…" She trailed off. "The woods, there's this place, near a cliff; you can see the city lights from it!" She smiled. "I was only there once before, come on!" She tugged him to the right and headed towards the woodlands behind the church.
"A…A cliff?" Haku was a little worried by her words.
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"That boy…" Aya hissed clenching her fists. She wanted him to come home. "No, that girl, she's the one behind this…"
Taro smiled brightly pulling on a pair of leather gloves and taking a handgun out of the dashboard. "Honey, calm down, we can take care of this…" His eyes narrowed as he heard Chihiro's laughs and Haku's playful shouting as he chased after her.
"Let me take care of Chihiro though, okay?" She pouted snuggling against Taro's shoulder. He smiled and nodded.
"Of course honey." He sighed, opening the car do. "Let's get going, or we'll loose them." Aya nodded smiling brightly.
"I still don't think he has any idea who we are." She laughed freely creeping behind Taro.
He nodded as a gust of wind blew his hair back. "None, at all Aya."
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A cool breeze blew through the air rustling the leaves scattering shadows that surrounded Haku and Chihiro and they hurried along. The only noise was their breathing and the crunching of the leaves and twigs beneath their feet.
Haku heaved for breath, only if he could still fly… "Are we almost there?" He paused as Chihiro looked around.
She smiled. "Yep." She pointed ahead and Haku's eyes widened a smile forming on his lips.
Before him was a large patch of grass and moss with a small running stream that rolled off the edge of the cliff. Ten feet ahead and he could look down and thirty feet of so below was a large lake. He smiled wrapping his arms around her tiny waist letting his lips fall onto her neck.
Chihiro smiled letting her eyes flutter shut. Letting a small sigh escape from her lips Chihiro pulled her arms and hands back to run through his thick locks of hair. "Chihiro." He turned her around pulling her against his strong frame.
She nodded pressing her lips to his pulling him onto the ground. Closing his eyes he could feel his heart pounding. Chihiro laid down on her back, and looked up at Haku an innocent smile forming on her pale lips. Haku's face was flushed as he leaned forward, kissing her cheek as he brushed her bangs out of her eyes.
The overwhelming feeling in the back of his mind was screaming at him again. His heart raced faster and faster with every touch, every kiss. His arms laced around her and he bent forward just resting his head in the crook of her neck. His eyes fluttered shut as she did the same. "I love you." She whispered. Haku pulled away looking into her eyes his face beat read. She laughed bringing her hands to his face to trace his pale lips and run her fingers through his silky hair.
Smiling, she leaned forward kissing him again breathing against his neck. Haku swallowed the lump in his throat and pulled away shaking his head. It took all his might. "No, not yet Chihiro." He uttered putting his forehead to hers.
She shook her head in protest. "I want this Haku." She was almost begging him.
"Chihiro, how old are we…?" He trailed off shaking his head the blush deepening. "How old are you, and how old do I look?" He growled sitting up and staring down at her.
"I'm sixteen, and you're seventeen, why? Lots of people do it at this age…" She moved closer.
"Do they stay together forever Chihiro?" He smiled a little and she bowed her head in shame. In most cases they never did.
"Just wait." He whispered. Haku drew her closer into his arms she laid her head in his chest and wrapped her arms around his lower waist.
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"There's our boy." Aya mused, narrowing her eyes at the sight before her. "Aim for Chihiro first." She growled. Taro nodded readying his gun and aiming…
"Bang." Taro whispered as he let the bullet fly.
Chihiro screamed out as something it hit the ground next to her. Haku's eyes widened, what was that noise, he had heard that before, but a long time ago… "Someone's shooting at us." He shouted, standing up. "Chihiro, Chihiro, are you okay?" He helped her to her feet.
"Better run now girly." Aya smiled brightly stepping towards Haku and Chihiro.
"Aya, what are you doing?" Haku hissed gritting his teeth. "How did you even know we were—"
"You're so blind my little Haku." She laughed as Taro creped out from behind her. Haku's eyes narrowed where had, he heard that before. "You still don't know who we are?" She threw her head back, laughing again.
Taro walked closer an impish grin on his face. "Let's try to use that memory of ours, shall we?" He stepped even closer and reached his arm out to tap his face.
Haku batted his hand away and pushed Chihiro behind his strong frame. "What are you talking about, you know I don't remember anything about my—"
"The spirit world Haku!" Taro came closer only inches away, his eyes filled with a fiery hate.
Haku's breath caught, and he heard a small gasp escape Chihiro's lips. He nearly doubled over before Chihiro gripped the back of his shirt. She was scared, he could almost feel the fear emanating from her body. "I don't know what you're talking about…" He needed to play dumb as long as he could.
Taro gritted his teeth. "Bad move Haku!" He jabbed Haku in the side with his elbow and gripped Chihiro by the hair putting the gun to her head. She screamed out in pain. "Do you remember now, Haku?!" His eyes widened with an angered, no deranged look in his eyes. The grin on his lips only widened.
He coughed falling to the ground and holding his stomach. Timed seemed to slow down the second the gun went against her head… "I'll talk, I swear, anything you want to know!" He rolled to his knees and buried his face in his knees. His hands dug into the grass as a strong gust of wind blew his hair into his face, shadowing the tears that were threatening to spill. He'd never cried before in his life, well, except for when Chihiro him the first time. He had waited until she was clear across the river…
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A breeze blew by making him shiver. He could make out her small figure entering the tunnel. "Don't look back…" He chanted over and over. His fists were clenched, his teeth grinding together. His chest ached, why did it? His shoulder length hair shook as he fell onto his knees. His body shook; his breath came out in quick puffs as he hit his fist into the large frog statue next to him. As a trickle of water dripped from the mouth of the frog, a single tear rolled down Haku's left cheek.
His eyes widened and he whipped it away in a panic. "What is this? I'm…" He trailed off as another fell from his eye, followed by a steady stream flowing from both of his eyes. He coiled himself into a small ball as he fell onto his side. "Chihiro…" He let a cry escape his lips; his body shook with as let the tears flow freely his cries echoing.
He'd let go what he had wanted to see for so long. She was gone again. He'd have to find her again, no, he would find her again. He'd cross hell's fire, to get to her if need be. "I love her." He murmured. His heart broke that day, his still, un-beating heart was breaking. He'd have to live, to be alive to find her. He would need Yubaba's help, and the use of his magic to get to Chihiro.
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"Are you crying?" Aya pouted coming up from behind him. "Think real hard. I'm sure you can remember something." Her fingers ran through his hair. "Like, how you got a hold of the poison to reincarnate yourself into an older form of yourself?" Her eyebrow arched upwards and her fingers clenched tightly into his hair.
His eyes grew wide and he sat up arching his back when she kicked her foot into his back. He cried out in pain. "How can you…?"
"We had more than one bottle. You took the third, when you took the death of my little sister." Taro growled. "You knew us as Pixies. We're those carefree sprites that flit around the sky, giving birth to new flowers, those little people with wings that make spring…spring." Taro chuckled. "However, you forgot one thing." He closed his eyes and pressed his face to the back of Chihiro's head inhaling the sweet scent.
"Sprites aren't always good. You see there are two types; the good and the rare, yet seen evil ones." Aya laughed pulling his head back and tracing the barrel of the gun around his chin and pressing it into his temple. "The evil ones bring harsh winters, drought, famine, and the ever so popular dieses and epidemics." She bit down on her lower lip. "You made a bad mistake Haku; you took Taro's, little sister's potions."
"Oh, and not to mention the fact that you killed her too, Haku." Taro pulled Chihiro's arm back until she screamed out and then stopped keeping it just at the point before breaking. "It hurts, doesn't it Chihiro, just picture what my sister went through when Haku killed her. What do you think she felt, all jus do he could get a hold of a small vile of liquid. Just picture her wings being ripped from her body, and then her limbs."
"Stop it!" Haku shouted pounding his fists into the ground. "You know I didn't kill her…" He paused thinking of the words. "…like that." He bowed his head. Chihiro's eyes widened. She had staid in silence slowly absorbing the information pouring from everyone's mouths.
"Haku?" Her head turned, but Taro jerked it back.
He shook his head. "When a potion is taken from a sprite in the spirit world, they die." Haku gritted his teeth. "Yubaba said it was the only way." He stared at her. "I didn't hurt her any other way. She goes to sleep and then just passes away!"
Taro's eyes widened and he pulled back out Chihiro's arm. Haku's heart stopped as he heard the crack of Chihiro's arm. She screamed out and began to cry. "Stop…" She whispered. "Just stop! You're evil, aren't you?!" She couldn't think about the pain, only the words screaming in her heart, to get away from them, and be with Haku. "You're evil, I'm sure you cared about her, but she didn't die a painful death!"
Taro dragged Chihiro to the edge of the cliff. Haku crawled forward and gripped Taro's leg. "Don't." He whispered.
Taro simply smiled looked into Chihiro eyes and pushed her forward. Haku's heart stopped. "Haku!" Her voice echoed in the woods and down the side of the cliff.
He gritted his teeth and forced himself past them before they got a chance to shoot. They were both falling down the cliff… "Chihiro!"
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