Hey, thanks a bunch for all the reviews so far ^_^ Sorry to tell you, but I'm losing ideas, so don't mind if the chapters start to come a bit slower…

Their kiss was interrupted when Haku saw, over Sen's shoulder, rustling in the tall stalks of flowers. His hands, which had been running through Sen's hair, were now turning her head towards the intrusive disturbance. Sen stood up with surprise and took a few steps back. Haku was standing in front of her with a puzzled expression. Who would be looking for them here?

As they watched, they saw the stalks get pushed aside, but nothing came out of them. They heard a few more steps in front of them, and could see footprints appearing one by one, but couldn't actually see who it was that was making them.

The footprints stopped, and slowly, the figure became visible. It was No-Face, and he was holding a piece of paper.

"No-Face! You startled us with that invisibility act you pulled," she said with relief. "Were you looking for us? Did you walk all this way???"

"Ah, ah," was his exhausted reply as he handed the paper to Sen. It was a letter for her. She read it out loud:

Sen (It's Sen again by now, right?),

I would like it if you could come and visit me sometime. I would also like to meet your friend who you brought along; No-Face has been drawing pictures of you and her since he got back to my house after waking you for Gyukudo that morning. Will you also bring Boh with you? It's been a while since I've seen him.

            -Granny

"Oh my gosh… I completely forgot about Boh!"

"Don't feel bad, the waiting will probably make him happier to see you when we get him. And who's Granny?" Haku asked.

"That's Zeniiba. When I brought her seal back to her, she wanted me to call her Granny."

"Ah. Ah," No-Face said as he turned the note over in Sen's hands. There was a drawing of her and Naomi on the other side done with a blue crayon. Below it was a small star… Sen didn't know why it was there, she just accepted it.

"Wow, this looks just like us! Can I keep it?"

No-Face gave an enthusiastic nod accompanied by an, "Ah. Ah," as Sen folded the note and put it in her pocket.

"No-Face, did Zeniiba tell you a way that we could all get to her house? I would fly there with Haku, but he would also have to take Naomi and Boh with us, which would be too heavy. I would walk, but I don't know the way, and you look like you're about to collapse from walking, No-Face. And I'm pretty sure that Kamagii doesn't have any more train tickets."

No-Face motioned for Sen to take the letter back out. When she did, he pointed to the star at the bottom.

"Oh, I know what that is now! Sen, Yubaba has a portal underneath the bridge that she used to use to travel to Zeniiba's house."

"Is that why Naomi and I had to hold our breaths while we crossed?"

"Yup; the energy that it emits would have interfered with my spell if you didn't. And that little drawing of a star represents the key we need to work it," Haku explained.

"It's a key?"

"Well, so to speak. There's a slot at the top of the portal that the key fits into. I don't know how we're going to find it though; Yubaba probably won't give it up. Partly because she's just cruel, but more because she might not even know where it is, since she hasn't used it in ages." Sen could sense the doubt in his voice.

"Well, we could always try……" She said as they started walking back to the bath house.

While they were going on their way, Sen couldn't help but notice the way No-Face was wobbling about with fatigue. Why would Zeniiba want him to walk all that way, just to ask her to visit? Could something be wrong?

They were just reaching the ground under the bridge, when there was a thud above them. Haku looked up to see what it was, and there was a disturbingly in-human face looking back at him. Its skin was dark gray and scaly, and had small horns down its scalp. Its eyes were completely white, but you could still somehow know where it was looking: strait at Haku.

"I'm warning you, Kosho," he said under his breath. "Sen, go get Naomi, Boh, and the key, and hurry!" As Haku said this, Kosho dove from the bridge at him as he pushed Sen towards the bath house. She started running, but looked back for one last glance of what on earth was going on.

Kosho, who was a very tall, stealthy and swift character, was persistently lunging at Haku.

He had an advantage, too; he was built with legs that had extra joints, which helped him move faster, and he had scythes protruding from his wrists. He also had bony and featherless wings. He must have landed on the bridge after they were already below it.

Haku was only narrowly dodging the blows as he muttered spells to try and stop Kosho. No-Face wanted to help, but all he could do was sit on a rock and catch his breath.

"Kosho…... Isn't he…..? Oh no…," Sen thought to herself, "I have to hurry!"

She climbed up the steep slope under the bridge as fast as she could, and tore into the bath house. As she neared the kitchen, she saw Naomi carrying a load of dirty dishes on a tray to be cleaned, and Dayu was on her shoulder. Sen grabbed her by the wrist as she tried to run faster, making Naomi drop all the dishes in her haste.

Struggling to keep up, Naomi asked in confusion, "What the… Where are we going in such a rush?"

"No time to explain," Sen said as she waved an apologetic hand at the people who were hit with the dishes. Dayu was clinging to Naomi with all his strength and squealing with perplexed anticipation.

With Sen leading the way, they bolted into the elevator. It didn't even take that long before the doors began to close, but even so, it was too slow for the situation at hand. She and Naomi left the elevator and climbed up the stairs as quickly as their legs would allow them.

After what seemed like hours to Sen, they finally reached the top floor where Yubaba's office was. They charged down the hall and right up to the first door with the infamous doorknocker on it.

"And where do you think you're—" The doorknocker was interrupted by their abrupt entrance through the door, and the fact that they completely ignored it.

"YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT! Didn't your parents ever teach you any MANNERS?!" All they heard after that was muffled grunts about how Yubaba could turn them into things for intruding.

The rest of the doors along the hallway were still open, thankfully. It probably would have doubled the time it took them to get there if they had to stop and open each individual door.

When they at last reached Yubaba's office, Sen immediately began ransacking the room to find the key.

"Naomi, go get Boh from his nursery," Sen commanded as she pointed to the padded room just beyond some curtains.

Naomi went, trying to remember who Boh was form when Sen told her about her last visit there. Sen just continued to search, and then a glint of light caught her eye. She picked it up, and saw that it was just what she was looking for.

Just then, Naomi burst through the curtains with a terrified look on her face. "Sen, he's huge! And he's NAPPING! What do you want me to do? I'm afraid to wake him up…"

Sen began to get slightly frustrated with Naomi for that. But since she had found the key, she could just go and get Boh herself. So, leaving Yubaba's office in quite a mess, she ran into the nursery and found Boh lying in a heap of pillows.

"Wake up, Boh! We need to go see Granny!"

"Mmmmmff… hmmmrrrrrmmm…"

"Get up NOW!"

Meanwhile, Naomi was nervously poking at Boh's head, trying to help. Dayu was jumping up and down on his stomach.

Suddenly, from far off, they heard swift footsteps, which could only be Yubaba's, the way they sounded so close together. They panicked, knowing that the doorknocker must have told her all about what they were doing. Or if not what they were doing, it would have made up stories just to get them into deeper trouble.

"GET UP, BOH! WE NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE NOW!" Sen was waving her arms frantically in the air, when suddenly, and orange bubble surrounded Boh. They all jumped back a step, and the bubble seemed to be magnetically attracted to Sen. Did she make that happen? It seemed to be so, because she could direct where the bubble went. She could even make it levitate with the flick of a finger.

Thinking quickly, she analyzed the situation. Yubaba was coming for them as fast as she could, Haku was in trouble, they needed to get through the portal, and she had a floating bubble. What to do?

"Naomi, get on!" she said as she straddled the bubble. Once Naomi got on, Sen steered the bubble out of the nursery. Yubaba ran into the room just as they entered it, and she tried to stop them, but they were already out the window and had just barely missed being turned into lumps of coal.

They flew around the building with amazing speed, although it was a very bumpy ride. Sen had difficulty controlling it because first of all, she hadn't even planned on creating the thing in the first place. For another thing, every time they turned a corner, she would almost fall off of it.

Meanwhile, Naomi was suffering from just about the same things. However, there was the exception that she couldn't understand her purpose for being there. Not to mention how quickly it was all happening for her. She was doing her work, when boom: she was told to wake up this huge, I-don't-even-want-to-know-where-that-thing-has-been type of baby. That may not seem too difficult to you, but when you have a reputation for making babies cry, it is.

Boh wasn't having a good time either. But, just so that he doesn't look like a complete baby (even though he is one), imagine this: You're sleeping peacefully in a big, comfy mound of pillows, when this girl who you haven't seen in six years comes up and starts screaming at you. Then, suddenly, you're trapped in a sphere, you're hurled out the window, and you can see the tremendous distance between the ground and yourself. I don't know about you, but I feel for the kid. I really do.

Dayu, on the other hand, was very relaxed and enjoying himself. Even though he didn't know what was happening either, he had a good seat on Sen's shoulder, and fortunately, he wasn't afraid of heights. It's not like it would actually hurt if he fell; he was so light that he probably wouldn't feel a thing. All he had to do the entire flight was throw his arms up like he was on a roller coaster.

But anyway, the four of them were soaring closer and closer to the portal by the second. The bridge came into sight, and they soon saw Haku fighting with Kosho, too. Sen did her best to land the bubble and get off so she could put the key into the slot on the portal. Once she did that, a swirling vortex appeared in the frame of the portal. Kosho became distracted by it; now was Haku's chance to strike. He leaped into the air and kicked the side of one of Kosho's scythes as hard as he could. The sharp tip of it gouged out Kosho's right eye as he screamed in agony. Blood gushed out from the now empty socket and streamed down his face. In a fit of rage, Kosho started lashing out at nothing but the air around him.

Haku ran over to the portal, but Kosho was close behind him. Sen steered the bubble into the portal just before Naomi jumped in, and then reached into her pocket. She pulled out her dragon-shaped whistle and spun the string on it around in a circle like she had once done before. The red, transparent shield appeared in front of her and Kosho threw himself against it, trying to attack Sen. She managed to stay on her feet under the incredible blow, and she squeezed the handle of the shield as hard as she could manage. It trembled violently in her fist for a while, and then she loosened her grip. Immediately, the largest blast of fire she had ever hoped to see shot out the center of the shield and knocked Kosho onto the ground, unconscious.

Haku heard some workers coming out to see what had happened, and motioned for Sen to go into the portal. She was just about to go into it, when Kosho stirred. He didn't attack though; he just ran in circles for a moment and then flew off with one last terrified look at them.

The sound of the workers approaching grew louder, and Sen ran into the portal. Haku fallowed her in, and they finally made their exit.

"What are you still doing here? I told you to leave!"

Well…. That about wraps up chapter 10. Personally, this is my favorite one so far. So gimmie more reviews!