((Back to the parents))

Sen's father carried her lifeless body out of the water. Her mother went into shock. Her father placed her body in the back seat of the car and called the ambulance.

"WHAT THE JIGOKU WAS A BULLET DOING IN HER CHEST!? WE DIDN'T EVEN HEAR A SHOT!" Shouted her father to no one in particular.

((with Sen.))

Sen awoke to find that she was floating underwater. Her first that was: 'WATER!?' She the bolted up and out of the semi-deep pit (very easily might I add) to land rather painfully on the rock that she fell off of. It was raining. Her second thought was: 'why is it raining? It wasn't even cloudy before!', but she put the thought aside and lifted her head with a groan, to look around. Her vision was rather funk-a-fied. It was grayish with everything leaving trails when she moved her head. Her parents weren't there, but she heard footsteps. And an ambulance. So, not knowing how she did it, she ran/flew/jumped over to the noise.

As soon as she broke free of the forest to the 'road' she saw this: Her parent were raped up in those ugly little gray scratchy blankets that the peoples use all the time on them, her mother sobbing profusely onto her father her father looking towards something, holding back tears (they seemed unaware of the rain. In fact, they looked perfectly dry). This action brought Chihero's attention to what her father was looking at. The doctors were covering her dead body; on her face was a shocked expression. Sen then looked down at herself for the first time, she was in the body of a water spirit. A small one, but one none-the-less.

She shrieked. And then looked at her mother. "MAMA!!! I'M RIGHT HERE!! I'M NOT DEAD!!!" But she couldn't speck since she was in a totally new body. She then used her powers to pounce at her mother, trying to hug her to let her know she was alive and kicking. She went through her mother and crashed into the tree behind her. She then tried her father. Same results but on another tree. She then screeched and tried again and again and again, till she was browsed, bloody and existed. By this time the ambulance started to leave already. She looked through the rain toward its retreating back. Inside were her mother, father, and her body... 'How can I be dead? I'm right here and in a lot of pain, so I'm not dreaming... who am I?' She was in a very painful position. She couldn't move even if she wanted. So, she just put her head in between a fold of her body (a layer sort of...) and just sat there, in the rain, but not being bothered by it at all, and sighed, waiting for her end to come.

-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-((Back at the bath house))-*-*-*-*-*-

"I don't want to be your henchmen any more, YuBaaba!"

"A contract is a contract, dear Haku. YOUR freedom wasn't in the deal we struck. Tell you what, if you teach, raise, or whatever this new spirit, and Kanji-sama is happy with the job, I'll let you have your freedom. Deal?"

"Deal." A good thing too, since at that moment they could feel Sen's death struggle trying to reach her parents. Haku walked out of the main doors and changed into his dragon form. The spirits death struggles were starting to fade so he quickened his pace. He flew over the river, and since it was still daylight, he went over into the spirit world that was based off of the human world.

When Haku flew over Sen, she tensed up, since her newly accrued instincts screamed 'THREAT!' for all they felt was a powerful free roaming water spirit that could easily kill her and take over her river. And she, for some strange reason, didn't want that to happen. So, under the guidance of her instincts, she played dead.

When Haku flew over the injured Sen, he felt her weakened spirit power and thought she had come out of a wrong end of a battle. So he flew down into the street, a little ways away from Sen, and began to walk towards her.

Sen, realizing he wasn't fooled by playing dead, lifted her head up from underneath her fold of flesh to bristle and growl at him, trying, and failing, to scare him away. Her vision was too blurry from being out of water and her blood to see him correctly and she didn't know his sent since she was human before.

Haku looked fully at the new Sen. ((AN: her sent has changed, so he can't recognize her.)) It was a pure-white river spirit. It was female, he could tell by her fox like head. She had golden brown eyes and dark brown hair, same as before. But this spirit was special; she had a 'birth' mark right over her heart. It was on her back and her chest. It was a small hole on the back, but a large jagged hole on the front. ((AN; It looks just like a real bullet hole would. I would know. My brother got shot once...)) Instead of two long think whiskers on either side of he face, she had thin hair-like ones, 12-16 on both sides of her face. She was tiny compared to him (1/2 his size because she was newly made and her river is still small) , and still had blurry vision, signifying she to be newly made.

"Hello, I will not harm you. I am your friend. It will be OK." He said to her in the language of water spirits. Its every spirits first language and they all speck it.

But she didn't. She just growled louder. And he could since her terror. He thought that she was too badly injured and afraid to understand him. And things are less afraid of things smaller then them, he changed into his 'human' form. *Sigh* "What am I going to do with you?" he stated as he walked up to her. She had stopped growling to a degree.

As soon as Haku had spoken, Sen stopped growling completely. She cocked her large head at him and squinted. He had stopped walking towards her as soon as she stopped growling, unpredictable spirits can be dangerous.

She then recognized his unique outfit, hair stile, and walk and began struggling to get to him, whimpering like a lost puppy that found his/her master.

Surprised by this, he hurriedly ran to her, stopping her from injuring her self even more by rubbing her muzzle in his hands. "Shhh, shh, its ok, girl! It'll be all right! Calm down, you'll injure yourself more! Now lets go to the bath house and get these wounds fix, alright?" he said with a smile. Spirits cannot understand the human language (Japanese) when they are newly created but have to learn it. So he thought she couldn't understand him, so he just spoke in a calm caring voice.

Sen just rubbed her face into his chest and relaxed, happy that he was back.

He then let go of her head and changed back into his true for once again. She just nuzzled into his (now longer) neck. She was shocked when he grabbed her with his arms and legs and then took of, flying at a moderate pace. She was so shocked in fact, that she squealed and clutched at him, her new claws cutting into his skin.

He flinched at the unexpected pain, but just ignored it. Besides she already took them out and was just holding on to him.

It took only 1/3 of an hour to reach YuBaaba's office the top of the bathhouse. Sen clutched ever tighter to him as they neared it. 'I wonder if she can fell YuBaaba's evilness.' he thought with a chuckle.

Sen, hearing him, relaxed. a little bit.

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Again, this is a warning. This will be a LEMON, meaning this will have sexual content. Please do not read if you are under 18. But, most likely, you will read it anyway. So this warning is useless.

Have a good morning/day/evening/night.

Monkeys.