I KNOW!!!! I KNOW!! I haven't updated in THE longest time. I'm REALLY sorry! I will finish the story though. I promise. ^^ I'm horrible person, flame me all you want! I've just been busy, that's it. It's horrible of me to just blow you off like that… Here's the story. ^^;

Mokona

Chapter 3

Fear twisted Chihiro's stomach.

"I suggest that you don't move at all while I look for something on you." The girl said. She lifted Chihiro's shirt a little. She felt around her hips and waist, feeling for something. Chihiro shivered at her touch and the coldness. Then the girl let go of her.

"Look at me." Chihiro turned and looked at the girl. She was a young teenage girl, with light brown hair down to her shoulders, and intense green-yellow eyes. She had fuzzy ears like a cat, and seemed to have sharper teeth than normal humans and claw-like nails. "Well, it doesn't look like you're a bad guy, so I'll let ya go. Now go." The girl replied. She had stern, steady face on.

"Wait, could you tell me where I am, and why you just felt me up like that?"

The girl looked confused, yet understanding. "You're in the foothills of the Corum Mountains. And I was looking for a mark on you, to see if you were a follower of Shoto."

Chihiro looked thoroughly confused. The girl sighed. "It looked like you needed help. You aren't from around here, are you?" Chihiro nodded her head no. "Ok, we'll begin with introductions…I'm Mokona! I'm just a transporter, always looking for adventure!"

"Oh…I'm Chihiro, and I'm looking for someone. I'm actually from the other world…"

Mokona gasped. "You mean, like, the real, real world?!"

"Um, yeah."

"Th-then how do you know about this world, the Spirit World?!" Mokona asked, alarmed, and sort of backing away from Chihiro.

"W-well, you see, I've been here before. I stumbled upon this world like 5 years ago, when I was 10. I met this guy, Haku, or maybe Kohaku, because he was the river spirit of the Kohaku River. So we did a bunch of stuff then I went back to the real world and now I'm back, except I MEANT to come here this time, not by accident!" Chihiro explained.

"All right, so…you're…AAAAIIIEEEEEE!!! YOU'RE TRANSPARENT!" Mokona screamed.

"Wha-AAAAGH!" Chihiro screamed. She had forgotten about this little part. "Ok ok, um, Haku gave me something to eat, and I became myself again! Um…WHERE'S SOME FREAKIN FOOD?!" Chihiro screamed, frantic.

"HERE!" Mokona yelled, shoving rice down Chihiro's throat. She choked a little, but got it down. "Whoa, I guess because Haku was there and had handled it I forgot about it…"

"Whew…that was really scary." Mokona commented. "You know, there has been some freaky stuff happening. I might know where you're 'Haku' is."

"What kind of freaky stuff? Does it have to do with that Shoto gang?" Chihiro replied, helping herself to some rice Mokona offered.

"Ok, I'll do my best to try and make sense of the little pub rumors, because that's what my source is." Mokona replied. "So, there's a rumor that there's some evil spirit gang going around, and they call themselves the Shoto. They're like the spirits of pollution, and as you can guess, they're polluting the Spirit World. It's almost like a reflection of the real world, where pollution is getting bad on Earth, got me? So, these gangs are just pretty much torturing other spirits, maybe you're Haku. Now, lately they've been talked about a lot. It seems they're getting even too powerful for some of the stronger spirits to fight off. Obviously, they used to be controlled here, but now they're going on a rampage. That's pretty much all I've heard, so you make sense of it."

"It must be getting serious then, huh? But why wasn't it stopped before?" Chihiro asked.

"Nobody knows. Some say it's because someone was just feeding it, making it get stronger, and it got to hard to handle them. Sort of sucks." Mokona said, kicking a rock.

"Right…so what are you delivering?" Chihiro asked.

"Oh, I was delivering some herbs to a really fancy bathhouse. And I was delivering a few other things, but they were 'secret', so I wasn't allowed in on it. But it was important."

"Are you by yourself?"

"Nah, I'm meeting up with my partner later. She took the safer, longer road. We're meeting at that train station, loading everything up, and then going to some bath house."

Chihiro perked up. "What's the name of the bathhouse?"

"Uuuuh…does it really matter? Because I forgot…"

"Yes, it matters REALLY badly!"

"Uh…I'm not sure. I think it was Choka's bath house or something…"

"Yubaba's bathhouse?!"

"Yeah, yeah, that's right!"

"Let's get going!" Chihiro yelled.

"All right!" Mokona yelled back.

And so, the 2 young ladies headed toward the train station together, not knowing just what they were going to go through.

So, there's chapter three. ^^; I hope there are still some readers…

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