Hi! This is my first Spirited Away fan fiction! Please. I don't mind critiques but I really do not like flames! There IS a difference!

Dreams are Forever

Chapter 1 - Back Again?

"Was it a dream? All just an imaginations of a silly 10 year old?" Chihiro inquired of herself.

"No. It wasn't," she whispered so softly she wasn't even sure she had said it.

She looked down at her purple hair band.

It sparkled in the dim moonlight.

"I'll go. It has been what..? Only a year! Surely they couldn't have forgotten about me already!"

Chihiro slowly crept out of bed. The moon still shone brightly on her bed where she changed into the clothes she wore when she first met Haku.

When she first entered the spirit world.

The clothes. The first thing she did when she came to her new house was to jump into the car and buy the exact same clothes.

But bigger.

She knew she would some day go visit them.

Rin. Haku. Yubaba. Bou. Zeniba.

"Yeah! I am going!"

Chihiro slowly crept into the garage where she took out a flashlight from her father's utensil kit. It was labeled, 'Fix-it-yourself!'

Chihiro snickered a bit before walking out of the garage door.

She walked silently, herself a perfect resemblance to a cat.

She walked for about 10 minutes before she got there.

"IT'S STILL HERE!" She yelled particularly to no one.

The light from the lanterns shown. The black spirits moved around.

She got on a ferryboat to the little island. The masks were inside a room.

Chihiro stood outside, marveling at the ways that the moon shone brightly, reflecting off the surfaces of the water.

"Hmm. That's strange. I remember it being more. people. or rather, spirits around here," She wondered to herself.

As she got off the boat. The lantern lights still shone brightly, but. there just wasn't anyone there.

"Hey! There's SEN!"

They still remember me!!!

"Sen! It's been horrible ever since you left!"

"Sen! Where'd you go?"

"Sen!"

"Sen!"

Chihiro or rather Sen's name rang out everywhere.

Chi- (I mean) Sen smiled and grinned with pure happiness.

"Sen's here??!!"

The familiar voice rang out again.

"RIN!"

(A/N; You thought it was HAKU! HAH~ WELL YO THOUGHT WRONG!)

"You came back! The bathhouse has been the most horrible place with out you! Ya see.. Well! Let's just go see everyone!"

Rin dragged Sen toward the main house.

"SEN'S HERE!" Rin bellowed loudly, and Sen cringed.

"Did you have to say it so loud?"

"Yeah! Everyone knows you! Everyone wants to meet you here! Even Yubaba!"

"Why Yubaba?"

"Well. You know the River Spirit you helped when he acted like he was a Stink Spirit?"

"Yeah."

"Well he happens to be rich AND powerful and he told everyone about the little human girl who served him very well."

"Oh."

"He came to this bathhouse demanding Sen but. But I didn't know where you were!"

"Awww. Don't be so hard on yourself. You couldn't have come and have gotten me if you wanted to!"

"SEN!"

Sen turned around at the sound of the voice.

"Y-Yubaba?!"

"No m'dear. Zeniba. Of course it's me! Who do you think it is?!"

"Uh. Sorry?" It came out as more of a question.

Then a high pitched giggling was heard.

"And then! He said 'chickens'!"

Sen turned around to find Haku. Wrapped up in the arms of another girl. He laughed a bit at her joke.

Then he turned to meet her eyes.

"Chihiro..?!"