I know... I know. It's been a few days since I updated. Sorry. I've been writing at work, but I keep forgetting to bring it home with me. So actually, I'm two chapters ahead, I just haven't typed them yet. So I'm doing so now.

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Together Again
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"Haku. Is it really you?" Chihiro said, her lower lip quivering.

Haku nodded. Before he could get a word out, Chihiro ran the short distance to him and embraced him. Haku did the only thing he could and put his arms around her.

"I'm so glad you cam," Chihiro cried into his shirt. "You kept your promise."

Haku nodded against her. "Horoshi-sensei said you needed a tutor. Didn't think you needed it this bad though."

Chihiro stiffened and pulled away. "What?"

Haku blinked. "You are Chihiro, right?" She nodded. "Sorry about earlier then. Something about my schedule came up. The Principal said that we could start tomorrow."

"Tutoring?" Chihiro was stunned.

"Yah. You did need help in math, didn't you?"

Chihiro nodded sadly. "Yah." *He doesn't remember!* she cried in her mind. *He's forgotten everything! This can't be!*

More tears swelled up her in eyes. She was trying her hardest to keep them from flowing. "I... I got to go now. Bye." She turned around and took off running.

"Hey! Wait!" Haku called after her. He grabbed his books and threw them in his bas bag, then we went running after the crying girl. "Why was she crying," he said thinking out loud. "It's like she thought she knew me or something." Haku shook his head not really understanding what was going on.

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Chihiro was gasping for breath by the time she reached her destined place. The place was the same as it was the few days before when she visited.

She threw her bad to the mossy floor and sat down next to the Spirit Statue. She folded her arms on the state and just cried into it.

*Why don't you remember!* she thought as she cried. *You finally come back to me like you promised, but you don't even remember that promise, let alone me!*

She snobbed a few more minutes on the Spirit Statue. Then, like the day before, she felt the cold tickle on the back of her neck. She looked up. A slight wind was blowing, and in that slight wind were a few leaves, some dust, and twigs. The wind whistled as it blew the debris into the tunnel.

Chihiro stood up and wiped her eyes on her sleeve. She took all the courage she could muster and walked to the tunnel entrance.

"I have to know what happened!" Chihiro said to the forest spirits. "I have to." Then she went through the tunnel.
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Meanwhile, Haku was bust pushing braches and cobwebs out of his way. "I saw her go in here," he said. "Where the hell am I?"

The path in front of him opened up. The tunnel, the Spirit Statue, and Chihiro's bag were in plain sight. "What the...." Haku looked up at the entrance. "Why... why does this seem so familiar?" He had a wave of Deja Vu, and had to sit down. "I have a bad feeling about this." He looked through the tunnel, but the other side couldn't be seen.

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End of this chapter! I didn't have the whole Haku piece at the end of the original. I just now added it. I had to do SOMETHING with Haku. This might make it more interesting. We'll see how that is going to turn out.