Into Another World
Chapter 1 - draft version
a Sen to Chihiro no Kamikushi (Spirited Away) / Tenkuu no Escaflowne (Vision of Escaflowne) crossover fanfiction
by Selene
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Disclaimer: it's a FANfiction. if i own these characters, would I be calling it a fanfiction?
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"Yukari, I better get going now or I'll be late!" Hitomi said, rummaging through her backpack for her wallet.
Her best friend for years, Yukari, flicked her wrist to peer at her watch. "Oh, you're giving tuition to that kid again?"
"Yeah." Hitomi found her wallet and opened it. She pulled out some money and put it in front of Yukari. "For my food. Handle the bill, would you? I need to go now."
"Sure. Take care and have fun!" Yukari said cheerfully.
Hitomi slid out from her chair and made a face at Yukari. "Giving tuition for a junior high kid is not -that- fun."
Yukari laughed. "Enjoy it anyway!"
Hitomi smiled. "Alright, see you later! Bye!" She hurriedly went to the exit door of the restaurant they were in and stepped out into the crowded street outside with hundreds of people milling around. Busy Tokyo, as always.
Yukari sighed and sipped her drink slowly, staring out of the window. It had taken Hitomi over five years to "return" to normal life. After her mysterious disappearance when they were freshmen in senior high, she had been withdrawn and troubled. She had told Yukari all about what happened, about Gaea, about Fanelia, about Allen, and about Van.... Hitomi had been relunctant to admit it but Yukari finally managed to make her admit to herself and to her, that she had left her heart in Gaea, on a particular young king of Fanelia. Hitomi had been heart-broken and she had felt out of place in her world - she alone held the knowledge of what lay across space and time, a world whose inhabitants had called her home planet Earth, Mystic Moon.
It took years for Hitomi to accept the fact that it was all in the past and that she had to move on with her life, that she had to look ahead, towards a brighter future. That was when the old cheerful, self-assured Hitomi returned. Yukari was grateful for it - best friend she might be, but she had felt Hitomi couldn't continue living the way she had. Yes, she was grateful that Hitomi was trying to live her life the best she could now. Although, sometimes, she still caught Hitomi spacing out looking at something unseen, as if her mind were on something far, far away, out of her reach, out of anyone's reach.
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Chihiro frowned at the open book in front of her.
"Hi-to-miiiiiii!" she started whining. "I can't solve this problem! Why does it have to be this complicated, anyway? It's not going to come out inthe test, right?"
"How am I suppose to know? I'm not the one making the test questions!" Hitomi retorted. "Just try and do it first, would you? Use that formula you learned last week."
Chihiro put on a sulky face, but she complied anyway. After a while she was deep in concentration, trying to figure the problem out.
Hitomi sighed inwardly. Chihiro was a nice and friendly 15-year old girl and she wasn't exactly stupid, either - she just needed someone to push her to do her work well. And that's Hitomi's job as her tutor. She enjoyed her weekly session with Chihiro, Chihiro was such a sunny and cheerful girl, Hitomi couldn't help feeling the same way everytime she was around her. Chihiro reminded Hitomi of herself, when she was Chihiro's age, back before -it- happened. She refused to think what -it- exactly was.
"Hitomi........."
"Are you done?"
"Hmm... yeah... sort of..... Kinda easy..." Chihiro unceremoniously shoved the paper she had been writing on in front of Hitomi's face.
Hitomi reached for the paper and frowned darkly at Chihiro before lowering her head to check Chihiro's answer.
"Nee, Hitomi......"
"Hmm?" An absent-minded answer from the tutor who was busy checking the pupil's answer.
"Do you believe that....... there's another world out there, a different world?"
THAT made Hitomi jerked her head up sharply. "What do you mean, Chihiro?" Her tone cautious, her eyes narrowing.
Chihiro raised her eyebrows at her, looking puzzled because of her reaction. "Well...... I had a weird dream last night. It wasn't a dream exactly because when I woke up, I knew it really did happened a long time ago to me. Except I had forgotten about it......." She turned her head to face the window, the late afternoon sunlight streaming into the room from it, and she put her chin on top of her hand, the elbow propped up on the table. "It was just..... so weird........"
Hitomi laughed good-naturedly, nervously. "It was just a dream, Chihiro."
Chihiro turned her head sharply, her eyes unnaturally wide, glistening with unshed tears, looking straight into Hitomi's eyes. "It wasn't, Hitomi," she said quietly. "I know for sure, it wasn't."
Hitomi felt her heart stopped.
"Wh...... what happened?" she asked hesitantly.
Chihiro turned her head towards the window again, an unreadable expression on her face.
"Why do people drain rivers and erase its path, as if it has never existed?"
Hitomi blinked, surprised with the sudden change of topic. "Rivers? Well....... I suppose it's for land development, of course. The land can be used to build houses for people to live in after it's worked on."
"Stupid, isn't it? Where do you suppose the drained river go, then?"
Hitomi frowned. "Nowhere, Chihiro. It's been drained. The water just..... disappears...... channeled else where, or used for something else..."
Chihiro bit her lower lip, her eyes suddenly glistening with unshed tears, the golden sky outside the window reflected clearly upon them. "But he didn't disappear................. Didn't he?"
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Hitomi had tried to make herself forget Chihiro's odd behaviours and words two weeks ago. She couldn't quite get them out of her head, but she couldn't bring herself to ask Chihiro more about it. She was half-worried that she might just be entertaining a child's fantasy.
She frowned at the ceiling of her bedroom. Chihiro was hardly a child. She was 15 years old, old enough to know what is real and what is not. If Hitomi had told someone older than herself about her magical journey to Gaea when she was Chihiro's age, would the person had believed her? She let out a long sigh, confronting one more worry she had been having: what other world was Chihiro talking about? She wanted desperately to know whether it was Gaea and if it was, how Chihiro knew about it. Or whether she had been there. There were so many questions in Hitomi's head.
The phone beside her bedroom rang.
"Hello," Hitomi said.
"Hitomi, it's me, Chihiro..... Ne, there's something I need to ask you.... can I ask for a favour?"
Hitomi bit her lip, shoulders tense. She fought to keep her voice neutral and level, "Of course, what is it?"
"I remember what happened... I'd like to go back there, Hitomi, and I can't ask Father or Mother to come with me... so I'm asking you."
"Go back where?"
"When I was 10, we moved to another town... on the way there, we sorta got lost and something happened... I remember everything now. I remember how to get to the place."
"But... what happened? Why did you forget about it if it were so important?"
"......"
"Chihiro?"
"I told Father and Mother about it but they wouldn't believed me. After a while I didn't believe myself, either. I put it all behind and... I guess, I just forgot about it until that dream the other day. I've been trying to remember the details ever since."
"You haven't told me what happened."
A sigh from the other end. "If I told you I went to another world, a different world, would you believe me, Hitomi?"
Hitomi said nothing, her hand clenching the phone tightly against her ear. Finally, fighting the tightening of her throat, she said, "Yes, Chihiro, I would."
"REALLY??" Chihiro said, sounding excited.
"Yes."
"But....... why?"
"Because I've been to one too."
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TBC
Notes:
This is an idea I've been playing with for the longest time, letting Hitomi meet someone else who's had the same experience. I could always let her meet Miaka of Fushigi Yuugi but I don't see myself writing an FY fic *laugh* Sen to Chihiro no Kamikushi is one of my favourite movies now, perhaps not many people know about it so if you want to know more, go to an excellent website on it: http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/sen
This is a draft, so forgive the disjointedness and the grammatical errors. Please forgive the OOCness, especially in Hitomi's part. The rationale behind it was that, compared to Chihiro, she had a more traumatic experience (the war and the visions and all that gory detail LOL). She was older, too.
The title "Into Another World" is a terrible cliche ^^ but it's based on a Yoko Kanno song of the same title, from Chikyuu Shoujo Arjuna. A wonderful piece, like all Yoko Kanno songs =D
Chapter 1 - draft version
a Sen to Chihiro no Kamikushi (Spirited Away) / Tenkuu no Escaflowne (Vision of Escaflowne) crossover fanfiction
by Selene
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Disclaimer: it's a FANfiction. if i own these characters, would I be calling it a fanfiction?
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"Yukari, I better get going now or I'll be late!" Hitomi said, rummaging through her backpack for her wallet.
Her best friend for years, Yukari, flicked her wrist to peer at her watch. "Oh, you're giving tuition to that kid again?"
"Yeah." Hitomi found her wallet and opened it. She pulled out some money and put it in front of Yukari. "For my food. Handle the bill, would you? I need to go now."
"Sure. Take care and have fun!" Yukari said cheerfully.
Hitomi slid out from her chair and made a face at Yukari. "Giving tuition for a junior high kid is not -that- fun."
Yukari laughed. "Enjoy it anyway!"
Hitomi smiled. "Alright, see you later! Bye!" She hurriedly went to the exit door of the restaurant they were in and stepped out into the crowded street outside with hundreds of people milling around. Busy Tokyo, as always.
Yukari sighed and sipped her drink slowly, staring out of the window. It had taken Hitomi over five years to "return" to normal life. After her mysterious disappearance when they were freshmen in senior high, she had been withdrawn and troubled. She had told Yukari all about what happened, about Gaea, about Fanelia, about Allen, and about Van.... Hitomi had been relunctant to admit it but Yukari finally managed to make her admit to herself and to her, that she had left her heart in Gaea, on a particular young king of Fanelia. Hitomi had been heart-broken and she had felt out of place in her world - she alone held the knowledge of what lay across space and time, a world whose inhabitants had called her home planet Earth, Mystic Moon.
It took years for Hitomi to accept the fact that it was all in the past and that she had to move on with her life, that she had to look ahead, towards a brighter future. That was when the old cheerful, self-assured Hitomi returned. Yukari was grateful for it - best friend she might be, but she had felt Hitomi couldn't continue living the way she had. Yes, she was grateful that Hitomi was trying to live her life the best she could now. Although, sometimes, she still caught Hitomi spacing out looking at something unseen, as if her mind were on something far, far away, out of her reach, out of anyone's reach.
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Chihiro frowned at the open book in front of her.
"Hi-to-miiiiiii!" she started whining. "I can't solve this problem! Why does it have to be this complicated, anyway? It's not going to come out inthe test, right?"
"How am I suppose to know? I'm not the one making the test questions!" Hitomi retorted. "Just try and do it first, would you? Use that formula you learned last week."
Chihiro put on a sulky face, but she complied anyway. After a while she was deep in concentration, trying to figure the problem out.
Hitomi sighed inwardly. Chihiro was a nice and friendly 15-year old girl and she wasn't exactly stupid, either - she just needed someone to push her to do her work well. And that's Hitomi's job as her tutor. She enjoyed her weekly session with Chihiro, Chihiro was such a sunny and cheerful girl, Hitomi couldn't help feeling the same way everytime she was around her. Chihiro reminded Hitomi of herself, when she was Chihiro's age, back before -it- happened. She refused to think what -it- exactly was.
"Hitomi........."
"Are you done?"
"Hmm... yeah... sort of..... Kinda easy..." Chihiro unceremoniously shoved the paper she had been writing on in front of Hitomi's face.
Hitomi reached for the paper and frowned darkly at Chihiro before lowering her head to check Chihiro's answer.
"Nee, Hitomi......"
"Hmm?" An absent-minded answer from the tutor who was busy checking the pupil's answer.
"Do you believe that....... there's another world out there, a different world?"
THAT made Hitomi jerked her head up sharply. "What do you mean, Chihiro?" Her tone cautious, her eyes narrowing.
Chihiro raised her eyebrows at her, looking puzzled because of her reaction. "Well...... I had a weird dream last night. It wasn't a dream exactly because when I woke up, I knew it really did happened a long time ago to me. Except I had forgotten about it......." She turned her head to face the window, the late afternoon sunlight streaming into the room from it, and she put her chin on top of her hand, the elbow propped up on the table. "It was just..... so weird........"
Hitomi laughed good-naturedly, nervously. "It was just a dream, Chihiro."
Chihiro turned her head sharply, her eyes unnaturally wide, glistening with unshed tears, looking straight into Hitomi's eyes. "It wasn't, Hitomi," she said quietly. "I know for sure, it wasn't."
Hitomi felt her heart stopped.
"Wh...... what happened?" she asked hesitantly.
Chihiro turned her head towards the window again, an unreadable expression on her face.
"Why do people drain rivers and erase its path, as if it has never existed?"
Hitomi blinked, surprised with the sudden change of topic. "Rivers? Well....... I suppose it's for land development, of course. The land can be used to build houses for people to live in after it's worked on."
"Stupid, isn't it? Where do you suppose the drained river go, then?"
Hitomi frowned. "Nowhere, Chihiro. It's been drained. The water just..... disappears...... channeled else where, or used for something else..."
Chihiro bit her lower lip, her eyes suddenly glistening with unshed tears, the golden sky outside the window reflected clearly upon them. "But he didn't disappear................. Didn't he?"
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Hitomi had tried to make herself forget Chihiro's odd behaviours and words two weeks ago. She couldn't quite get them out of her head, but she couldn't bring herself to ask Chihiro more about it. She was half-worried that she might just be entertaining a child's fantasy.
She frowned at the ceiling of her bedroom. Chihiro was hardly a child. She was 15 years old, old enough to know what is real and what is not. If Hitomi had told someone older than herself about her magical journey to Gaea when she was Chihiro's age, would the person had believed her? She let out a long sigh, confronting one more worry she had been having: what other world was Chihiro talking about? She wanted desperately to know whether it was Gaea and if it was, how Chihiro knew about it. Or whether she had been there. There were so many questions in Hitomi's head.
The phone beside her bedroom rang.
"Hello," Hitomi said.
"Hitomi, it's me, Chihiro..... Ne, there's something I need to ask you.... can I ask for a favour?"
Hitomi bit her lip, shoulders tense. She fought to keep her voice neutral and level, "Of course, what is it?"
"I remember what happened... I'd like to go back there, Hitomi, and I can't ask Father or Mother to come with me... so I'm asking you."
"Go back where?"
"When I was 10, we moved to another town... on the way there, we sorta got lost and something happened... I remember everything now. I remember how to get to the place."
"But... what happened? Why did you forget about it if it were so important?"
"......"
"Chihiro?"
"I told Father and Mother about it but they wouldn't believed me. After a while I didn't believe myself, either. I put it all behind and... I guess, I just forgot about it until that dream the other day. I've been trying to remember the details ever since."
"You haven't told me what happened."
A sigh from the other end. "If I told you I went to another world, a different world, would you believe me, Hitomi?"
Hitomi said nothing, her hand clenching the phone tightly against her ear. Finally, fighting the tightening of her throat, she said, "Yes, Chihiro, I would."
"REALLY??" Chihiro said, sounding excited.
"Yes."
"But....... why?"
"Because I've been to one too."
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TBC
Notes:
This is an idea I've been playing with for the longest time, letting Hitomi meet someone else who's had the same experience. I could always let her meet Miaka of Fushigi Yuugi but I don't see myself writing an FY fic *laugh* Sen to Chihiro no Kamikushi is one of my favourite movies now, perhaps not many people know about it so if you want to know more, go to an excellent website on it: http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/sen
This is a draft, so forgive the disjointedness and the grammatical errors. Please forgive the OOCness, especially in Hitomi's part. The rationale behind it was that, compared to Chihiro, she had a more traumatic experience (the war and the visions and all that gory detail LOL). She was older, too.
The title "Into Another World" is a terrible cliche ^^ but it's based on a Yoko Kanno song of the same title, from Chikyuu Shoujo Arjuna. A wonderful piece, like all Yoko Kanno songs =D