By: Kouji

Hi! This is my very FIRST fanfic so, I would appreciate it if people would review and tell me what I need to work on. Thank you all! ^_^

Disclaimer: I do NOT, I REPEAT do NOT OWN ANY of the CHARACTERS from SPIRITED AWAY!!!!

Konban wa everyone! I'm recently learning Japanese (I'm teaching myself since my school doesn't teach it) and it's more complicated than I thought. I'm also working on a website dedicated to the most bestest character in the world…HAKU!!!! Hehehehe…. I'm not finished yet, and it's REALLY BAD right now…I'll tell ya'll when I get done!

THANK YOU ALL for the reviews! Your all gonna make me cry….sniff…. sniff…. Your all soOoOoOo NICE!!! Arigatoo gozaimashita! Thank you like a million times! You guys don't know how much that means to me! Please keep reviewing so I can reach my goal! Sheesh, I'm all sore, I just came home from camp and I feel really… PAIN!! Hehe j/k I don't hurt that much, but I am sore. Ok, I'm going to reply to the reviews now…BTW, did I say that I have an edited version of this story? Yeah I made one that's rated G so it doesn't have any of the "insane" stuff. J It's called escape and return edited if you wanna go read it!

Reply to reviews:

Chibi Maylan -Hehe, that would be funny, having him go to the lingerie section. Well, here's the dramatic part I promised!

Siren Bloom- Thank you soo much for reviewing!

shrimpy shorts-Thank you for thinking I was a good writer! I don't think that I'm really that good, well I just hope I reach my goal I know it's kinda impossible, but I'll try!

Tippi-Ahhhh Dramatic part!! Thanks for reviewing!

fluffywings- yeah that chapter was just a bit longer… I think this one is pretty long too, I'm not sure…thanks for reviewing

Hoshi-chan- Dramatic part!! Hehehe, I will update as soon as I can!

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Ending of Chapter 3:

Chihiro drifted off lying against the tree. Suddenly someone yelled, "HOY! Chihiro! Where were you?"

Flustered and woken up, she turned around, and sleepily said, "What?" She then turned off the CD player. She saw someone running up to her, and apparently it was Jougensuki. "Hey what's up? What happened, you weren't at school after lunch and what're you doing here?"

"Oh, um, some unscheduled events popped up and I'm waiting for someone."

"How long have you been waiting?"

"About, Oh my gosh! 3hrs?"

"Exactly, why I've come to your rescue. I'll give you a ride home."

"Oh no, it's ok, I'll walk."

"No, I INSIST." Chihiro realized that there was a circle around them. At that precise moment, the circle of people tried to grab her. Luckily, she was able to dodge to the right on time and ran through the city park. They all chased after her except Jougensuki who was just standing there in the same place. Her heart pounded madly as she ran as fast as she could. How was she going to outrun all these guys?

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Chapter 4: A Sacrifice for Love

Right in front her was a river in the park so she shifted directions and turned right. Keeping her eyes on the river, she didn't see a rock below her and she practically tripped into the river. Thinking she didn't have time to go back to dry land she swam. Surpri-singly, Jougensuki's group stopped right in front of the water.

"What are you doing?!?!" demanded Jougensuki. Then he saw it. Chihiro stopped and looked blankly at them. Why did they look like they had just seen a ghost? She hadn't seen it but they did. Behind Chihiro was the river spirit she had helped in the bathhouse long ago. Jougensuki's group looked like they were glaring at her like a dog would at a stranger. They started to burn a orange red color. It looked like they were morphing into…birds? She saw them fully transform into gigantic fireballs. She squinted her eyes seeing that they weren't really fireballs but huge phoenixes. There were about 7 of them up in the sky, squawking, and screeching out glass breaking calls. The noise was so deafening, so she covered her ears. Why were they squawking? Then she realized she wasn't the one being squawked at. Turning around, she saw the river spirit. It was towering over her, like it was protecting her from these firebirds.

"Chihiro, if you don't come to us, we'll hurt your friend!" She started stupidly at Jougensuki. What did he say? The screaming was too loud for her to hear a single word he had said. "WHAT?" She screamed at the top of her lungs. That almost took away her voice. She wasn't even sure that he had heard her. Irritated, Jougensuki yelled at the birds with the same squawking sound they were making. He must have told them to pipe down. (It hard for me to picture a human squawking like a bird :P) Immediately, the birds lowered their screeching voice to a soft, but high-pitched chirp. The birds all came down to the ground with a big THUD. Again, more agitated, Jougensuki said "I said, we'll hurt your friend if you don't come to us! Do you hear me now?!?!?"

She didn't want this river spirit to get hurt, and she also didn't want to go with Jougensuki. He wasn't the same as before. Before she could decide, she heard something. It's like something was trying to talk to her. "Chihiro…….." At first she thought it was Haku, but the voice sounded lower and raspier. "Chihiro…I….can…handle them…." She had no idea how she knew that the river spirit was talking to her telepathically. It's probably intuition. "They…….are….only……lava….spirits…so….river…..spirits… have…an…….advantage." said the low raspy voice. Well, that made sense. Water turns lava into rocks. Why didn't she think of that? Well good thing she knew now. This river spirit had the power to fight all 7 of these phoenixes! "You can't hurt him! He can take all of you, head on!!" Jougensuki knew that his bluff had not worked so he decided to do something else.

" Fine, if you don't come to us, we'll hurt your precious Haku!" Haku…it finally came to her. THEY had Haku! She thought of the worst. "What have you done with him?!?!?!"

"That's not your concern!" replied Jougensuki. Come to us NOW or we'll torture him till you do!"

"You can't hurt him! He can defeat you in his dragon form!"

"Well, not that you need to know, but he can't transform into a dragon in the human world."

"And, why should I believe you?"

"because if he could, we probably wouldn't have been able to capture him. Now enough of this!! Come here NOW!"

"OK I'll surrender…" I can't just surrender like that. I need to have a catch. This is the brilliant mind of Chihiro working here! I've learned a lot from the spirit world, so I'll use my knowledge…" I'll surrender ONLY if you exchange Haku for me!"

It looked like Jougensuki had just about enough of this gibberish. More irritated than before, he was about to say (actually yell) something but stopped. He sighed and hesitantly said, "Ok, that's a fair enough deal. You," he pointed at one of the phoenixes that were all now molting. Feathers of gold and orange were everywhere. "go and bring Haku here, NOW!" The phoenix looked at him then exhaled another head-splitting screech. Within a matter of seconds, it had Haku in its talons about 20 feet from the ground. Haku was unconscious and still bound to the chair. The enormous bird dropped Haku, and the chair in which Haku was sitting in broke. Haku lay motionless atop the pile of rubble. He looked as though he was already dead, but then he stirred. He was straining himself to look forward, to Chihiro it looked like. In a very weak and shaky voice, Haku managed to say, "Chihiro…" and before he could finish his sentence, Jougensuki grabbed him by the neck. "A deals, a deal, You hand yourself over and I hand over Haku!" Haku's gloomy and weak eyes suddenly opened very widely. Why did she do this?

While he was thinking to himself, he heard Chihiro say, "Bring him to me first, please let me say goodbye." Jougensuki sighed again. Grudgingly, he signaled her to come, and let Haku and Chihiro have 5 minutes.

She looked once more into his sparkling emerald eyes. She felt tears run down her face. She was now sitting on the ground leaning over to look at his face. "Don't worry Haku, your ok now. I won't let them hurt you anymore."

Suddenly Haku jerked up to look at her. "You're not Ok! Please, don't let them take you they're after me not you! I'm sorry I got you messed up in all this, it's all my fault, it's all my fault! I should have stayed at the…" The next thing that happened was very un-Chihiro like. She slapped him hard on his left cheek. A pool of tears was under them now. "You kept your promise and that's all that matter to me now. In fact, you should be angry with me for even forgetting you and everyone else. I'll be fine I promise and that's a promise I intend to keep. You'll always be with me, mind and body, heart and soul. Thank you Haku…for everything…I will always be with you…" An abundant amount of tears fell evermore, then Haku took her hand. He was pulling her in for a kiss, they were about an inch away from each other's lips, as Jougensuki snatcher her away and handcuffed her wrists.

The phoenixes turned back into humans and ran away, only to come back with a van. "Come on. " motioned Jougensuki. He was telling her to get in the back of the van. She looked back at Haku, only to see him crying, and soaking wet. She mouthed out the words, "I love you." to him before she was shoved into the back of the van.

Haku lay motionless while the van drove away. "Chihiro," He tried to get up but his body didn't cooperate at all. He was too weak from the torture and the drop he had survived from. He hoped that they didn't torture her as much as they did to him.

He pondered about stolen spirits. Did it hurt to have your spirit taken away? How much did it hurt? He couldn't answer any of these questions. He'd never had his spirit broken before. He also wondered why and how would you take a spirit.

Back to reality, (Haku was lost in space while pondering) Haku once again attempted to get up and this time he had succeeded. Still weak and drowsy, he almost fell over, but in time, he got hold of a tree. You could say now that he was leaning on the tree trunk He had to think of a way to get Chihiro back to her parents. And back to him, more importantly.

The sky was dark and her parents were probably wondered where she was. He needed to figure a way to tell Chihiro's parents that she was ok without telling them that she had been kidnapped. If he told her parents what had happened, they would probably be even more panicked and start calling the police. There was no need to get anymore people in this situation. He'd already gotten Chihiro stuck in this mess and now it's time to fix it.

In order to tell Chihiro's parents she was Ok, Haku would have to find her address. Like he knew where she lived or how he would get to her house. After 10 minutes of brilliant thinking, Haku thought of an idea.

He headed to her school office (he knew where it was because he had been to her school) to see if he could ask about Chihiro's school address. Luckily, there was a lady there. How in the world was he going to get Chihiro's address? He quickly thought up a plan while he went inside. "Hello? Excuse me I…"

"Don't you know it's after hours young man?" replied the lady. She then gave him a sigh and smiled. "What is it that you would like dear?"

"I need to know Chihiro's address." The lady looked at him suspiciously. "Are you family or a relative?" Gosh, he wasn't any of those. Why did this have to be so complicated? "Uh, I'm her family….her older brother…"

"You're her older brother?" The lady didn't look convinced.

"yeah, she doesn't talk about me much, I'm not schooled."

"Got any ID kid?"

"What's ID?"

"Identification."

"No.."

"Well how do I know you're her brother then. You sure don't look like her brother.

"but.. I am! This is an emergency! I'm lost!" The lady was thinking, how in the world would you forget where you live? Maybe this guy has some kind of disorder. That's why he doesn't go to school. Poor guy, I pity him. "Ok, here take this."

"THANK YOU" and with that he used the map that the lady had given him to venture out and find Chihiro's house. He kept on getting confused though, it's not like he's read a map before.

During Haku's confused state, Chihiro lay on the same solid cement floor that Haku had laid on. She could hear someone's footsteps coming closer to her.

"Here put this on." Jougensuki turned her head and handed her a dress. It kind of looked like the shifts that slaves used to wear during slavery except it was light gray and nearly transparent. You could practically see through it.

"I'm not going to wear that." mumbled Chihiro. She was NOT going to go dress like some sort of prostitute.

Coolly Jougensuki said, "You need to keep your side of the deal. We let Haku go if you do whatever we want you to do. Anyways, if you don't do what we tell you, we could always capture him again." He touched her cheek, his hands were soft and gentle too.

"Fine, just as long as you don't touch Haku." She scanned the dress then the room. (How'd this guy know Chihiro's size, I dunno J ) Everyone was staring at her. She was in an isolated room with teenage boys. This was one of her worst fears and she knew what might happen to her. Praying she would be safe, she started to change into the dress.

Before putting the dress on, she thought of a strategic way of putting the dress on without showing much skin. She knew that the guys were staring at her. Waiting to see her change. What sick perverted minds! Gross, they should at least give me SOME privacy. Taking off her shirt of her uniform partly so it would cover her chest, she pulled the dress over her head. She let it slip down and completely took of her shirt but put it back on over the dress.

"Ok, I have the dress on now." she said sarcastically.

"You may have the dress on but take off the rest of your uniform." The room chuckled.

She turned as red as a tomato as she took them off. The dress was freakin' transparent! You could practically see every inch of her since she wasn't wearing anything under the dress. She shivered madly because of the cold and the dress had a very low collar and the back was an X. It was crisscrossed on the back. Chihiro crumpled herself into a ball on the floor. She had never felt so violated in her entire life!

"Get up!" Jougensuki demanded. "Dance for me." He walked over to her and put shackles on her ankles. She already had handcuffs, like she needed anymore restraints.

She thought in her head, How am I supposed to get up, let alone dance if I have my ankles and wrists tied? She tired to get up but stumbled upon the chains and collapsed. Jougensuki took her arm and pulled her up so that she was standing/slouching. He walked back to his chair and signaled to everyone else to go away. All around her in the dark got up and left until it was she and he only. She was glad that they had all gone away. She stood there in front of him frozen in fear. Tears streamed down her face and he came up to her and wiped her tears away with a finger. He pinned her to a wall and stared into her gray eyes. He pressed his lips against hers, but she didn't resist. She let his tongue through and they played a little inside tag. Saliva mixing, he parted away from her, the pleasant taste still lingering in their taste buds. She stood there while he took off her ponytail and ran his fingers through it. She flinched when he touched her neck. Then he slapped her.

"What did I tell you to do?" His face was so sweet and innocent and yet his voice sounded harsh and strict. How could this be the same Jougensuki she knew in school? Chihiro started to cry even more, then crouched down. Jougensuki looked at her and pushed her down. "Worthless." and with that he turned around and walked away.

On the cold hard floor, she lay motionless, her face covered with tears. Even more fell as she thought about Haku. Where is he? What was he doing? Would he come back for her? Did he even care about her? Or was she just someone who would get him out of trouble? Was he just using her? That thought made her shudder. He was so sincere when I talked to him…he wouldn't do that. He's not like that, or is he? Her teardrops quadrupled in number and her whole body was now soaked. Darkness overshadowed her....

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Well how was that? I told you it would be dramatic, well at least I thought it was…The next chapter is emotional too and uhh….JUST A WARNING…. It has some "Stuff" in it you know like stuff that uhhh Younger people wouldn't like to read or people who don't like the concept of harressment and molesting.. And all that other stuff…what I mean is people who don't like much "sexual contact" shouldn't read the next chapter and should just skip it. I might even change the rating of this story to "R" because of the next chapter. You all know what I mean…or at least I hope you do…Ok I gave you guys a FAIR WARNING!!!! Do not read the next chapter if you are offended by such things… and if you need more descriptive explanation… you can just email me: fluffpuff11@juno.com k?!?!?!?!? I WARNED YOU ALL!!!!