Chapter 6 is here! HOORAY! *throws confetti* I was thinking of when I had career day while I was writing this, and I remembered my friend wants to be a chef, or at least she wanted to be in the cooking class for that day. So, most of this is a kitchen thing. Another thing: I just learned No-Face's real name, so that's why I'm using it from now on and I didn't before. Btw…… the title "BAM" of this chapter is meant to be a quote from the chef, Emeril. He always says that when he cooks.

Chihiro and Ruby suddenly felt like they were being pulled by their shirts. The door in front of them whipped open, then another, then another, and so on with about seven other doors. A magical force pulled them through the open doorways, and then tugged them around a sharp corner. It tossed them onto the ground, and when they came back to their senses they saw that they were in Yubaba's office already. Chihiro got up and fixed herself, then waited until Yubaba would listen. Ruby on the other hand, was toiling with those scary little heads that were jumping around her. Yubaba waved a weary hand and the heads stacked themselves up on each other near her desk. It was then that Chihiro noticed Haku sitting against the wall behind Yubaba's desk. As she finished working, Yubaba looked up ant Chihiro and Ruby.

"Nice to see you again Chihiro. Haku tells me that you and Ruby are looking for jobs here. You can have the same that you did last time. Here are your contracts," she said as she had two pieces of paper float towards them. They both signed their names onto their contracts, which were soon taken from them. Yubaba didn't even bother to rearrange Chihiro's name.

"Chihiro, your new name will be Sen, just like before. But you…….," she said, turning to Ruby and studying her signature, "I think I will call you….." She paused to rearrange the writing on the contract. "You new name is Naomi. Do you understand? Answer me."

"Yes, ma'am. I understand."

"Now go on Haku, take these girls to—"

"Yubaba," Chihiro interrupted, "Don't you have anything else to say to me? Don't you think that I deserve more of a welcome or something?" Chihiro had never really liked Yubaba, but she never thought that she was so heartless.

"Well, I didn't think that you would want to hear more from me. But to be honest, you do sound more courageous and responsible from what Haku tells me. And you look better than before. Happy now?"

"Yes," Chihiro said somewhat sarcastically. She would not have been satisfied if someone else had said that, but since it was Yubaba, she didn't expect much more.

"Now as I was saying, Haku you have to take these girls to see Rin again. Get them to work until Gyukudo tells me what they have to do."

"Ok. Come on, I think Rin is in the kitchen downstairs. She got a promotion you know; now half of her hours are there and she spends less time cleaning the tubs," Haku told them as they walked out of Yubaba's office. The long hallway of doors was still wide open, and they soon reached the elevator to go to the kitchen and meet Rin.

When they got there, it was very busy. Many workers were preparing all sorts of dishes for guests; but luckily, Rin was working near the doorway, so it wasn't too hard to find her in the crowd.

"Hey guys," she said before the rest of them could even open their mouths. "You wanna see what it's like to cook for a spirit? I could use some help."

"That would be fine, Rin. They signed their contracts in Yubaba's office and I brought them here to help you work. But shouldn't you get them their uniforms first? I can step in for you while you do that," Haku offered.

"Oh that's right, thanks for reminding me. But first, Chihiro I know that you are Sen now, but what's your new name Ruby?"

"It's Naomi."

"Wow you're lucky. I always wanted that name, but I'm stuck with Rin. Ok then, let's go get you two some uniforms," Rin said as she began to walk out the door. "And Haku," she shouted over her shoulder, "I was just making some lasagnas. Some big guest is super hungry, and practically the entire staff has to make at least four of five. We'll be back down soon to help."

Haku grimaced. He wondered if it was Kaonashi (No-Face). Not that he didn't like the guy, but him being in the bath house never really did any good for anybody.

As they walked through the hall on their way to the living quarters of the bath house, Sen was thinking about the same thing and asked, "Rin, is the guest Kaonashi again? I really was hoping that this wouldn't have to happen while I was here."

"Don't worry, it's just a river spirit. I think it's the same one that you helped out before when he looked like a stink spirit and we had to give him a bath. When I set him up with a tub he said something about a gift he gave one of the workers here for some reason. But in any case, he wont tear the place down. Don't worry."

They came into a room where on the floor were many sleeping mats, and on one side was a sliding window that opened up to a small balcony that overlooked the water. Sen saw blood stains on the walls, and recognized the room to be the same one as many years ago; it was the one that she had slept in, and the one that Haku took shelter in from the paper minions that Zeniiba had sent after him. Rin crossed the room, stepping on everything, and walked over to a small storage space where she began searching for some clothes that would fit Sen and Naomi.

"Let's see….. You both look about the same size as I am….," Rin said as she dug through the piles of clothes. "Here we go. Sen, there's a shirt and some pants for you…… and Naomi……… aha. Here are some more. Now…….," she said, looking for aprons for them, "Ok, Here. Now go change and meet me back down in the kitchen. I'm gonna go start helping Haku."

"Ok," they said. After they finished putting on their new clothes, they went back down into the kitchen. There they found that Rin and Haku had just finished washing the pans that they would cook the lasagnas in. Haku saw them coming and ran over to them.

"Rin wants you two to make the strips of pasta. There is a machine over there next to where Rin and I will be cooking, and all the ingredients with the recipe are next to it. "Rin is going to cook the sausage, and I'm going to make the sauce for it. It will go a lot faster with all of us making something for it at the same time."

"How many strips of pasta should we make?" Naomi asked.

"Just keep on making as many as you can. Rin and I will take them as we need them."

"Right," she said as she joined Sen at the pasta maker. She looked to see if they had everything; there were lots of eggs, plenty of flour and water, and a few bowls to mix everything together in. Sen was already scooping flour into the bowl, so Naomi began cracking eggs into it.

Behind them and at a different table, Haku and Rin were busy cooking.

"So Rin," Sen began, "when did Yubaba give you a promotion to the kitchen?"

"Not long after you left, actually. She did it because I got too lazy with the tubs. So I guess you wouldn't really call it a promotion, since I still do the tubs a little."

They continued cooking, and after finishing three lasagnas, the pasta maker got jammed as Naomi was feeding it the dough. Sen pulled on the crank to try and make it budge, but her hand slipped and she lost her balance, causing her to stumble backwards. She put her hand out to keep herself up, and she hit a ladle next to Haku that acted like a catapult and flung tomato sauce all over him. Sen didn't know what to do, so she just stood there with her mouth open, smiling. Everyone else within a seven foot radius of the incident did the same, including Haku.  After a while, he turned to Sen, and started laughing. Then he gave her a hug; partly to get her dirty too, and partly because he never really got to have fun like that since Sen had been there the last time.

So, with both of them just standing there with food on them, Naomi couldn't help but laugh too. Rin threw sausage at her to see if she would laugh after that, but it just made her laugh harder. So Naomi threw a wet noodle back at her. Soon everybody was tossing food at each other. Meanwhile, Haku was chasing Sen around the kitchen; he had smeared a handful of every food he could find onto his shirt, and he was trying to get it onto Sen by giving her another hug.

Yubaba was out in the lobby of the bath house, talking to the river spirit who was eating all the lasagna and other food that was presented to him.

Hearing the noise from the kitchen, she said, "Excuse me sir, I have to attend to another matter. I will tell the staff to bring more food for you also." With that, she headed towards the kitchen.

When she opened the door, she was greeted by Sen running in her direction, fallowed by Haku. Sen turned in time not to run into Yubaba, but Haku slipped and he ended up getting food on Yubaba instead of Sen.

"WHAT IS GOING ON IN HERE????? HAKU!" Yubaba called, enraged that Haku had not been more responsible. "Haku, I expect better from you! Now tell me what happened!"

"There was a food fight!" yelled a nondescript worker, who Yubaba promptly turned into a toad.

"Well, I will have to take that for an answer. It probably the best one I can get. Sen, the river spirit wants a word with you."

As Sen turned to go to the river spirit, Haku gave her that hug he wanted to give her. So practically dripping with food, Sen went out to meet the river spirit.

"Chow time! What's going on? Are you guys fighting again?"