(WARNING WARNING! Lots of fluffiness up ahead… hehe… with clothes!!! No this isn't as extreme as when they got caught… I'll say lime ahead for something like that… courtesy for those who dislike limes. WAIT!!! I was just writing a part of this story and… lime haters… when they wake up… you might wanna skip that part… I'll write in a reminder… cos I just got the idea…)
Fufa - Thank you so much for reviewing! I thought for sure that my sixth chapter sucked… mostly because I wrote it at like 1 in the morning. But thank you for sticking with this story for so long. (Well it seems like a long time to me because usually by this time, I would've abandoned the story.)
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Chihiro had followed the faint light for some time now, and she felt as if she were loosing all of her stamina. It seemed like days but really, it had only been a few hours. The darkness was taking up her endurance, and how long she could stay there she didn't know, so she pressed on, not once complaining.
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Haku sat against the tree catching his breath in painful whimpers. His body was still surging as if electricity had gone through him, which is were his weakness came from. It made sense… he is a river spirit, and all bodies of water conduct electricity. After a few moments he caught his breath and the pain subsided.
"This isn't the best place to rest. If the evils from that house find out we still linger, it will mean death to Chihiro. I cannot touch her… and if they do find her, I cant leave her like this. It will be dying a most un-honorable death." Haku had yet to be able to speak his emotions aloud. hehehe… like Inuyasha… god help that boy
"I wonder if I can still reach her…"
-Haku! I'm lost, I can no longer find the light. Everything is dark, I am so afraid.- Chihiro felt a tingling on her back. It made her shiver and move her hair to smack the spot, but she realized it was her hair tickling her back.
-I don't like this, I don't like it at all.-
--Chihiro?--
-Haku! I cant feel anything, what's wrong with me?-
"hmmm, she cant feel anything." Haku took a branch and tossed it on her leg.
-What was that? My leg, something touched me.- "She still feels the outside… I don't understand."
Haku heard the crunching of leaves and the snapping of twigs. He turned to his right to see himself in dragon form. But this dragon's eyes were red, and his mouth was dripping of blood. Haku took a sharp intake of breath that even Chihiro heard.
-Is that a manly gasp? Wait… you wouldn't… Haku what's wrong?! What's happening?!-
--I'm being attacked!-- Haku jumped in front of Chihiro to block her unconscious body from any attacks that might come from the raging spirit in front of him.
-By who?!-
--By myself, stop asking questions, I cant concentrate.--
"Oh he's got some nerve. Being rude to me… the jerk! Even when I was in trouble I was nice to him… he'll get his, just wait. AS SOON AS I GET OUT OF HERE !!!" There was a sudden outbreak of bright light. "My eyes!!! I cant see… wait … light. Am I dead?! (gasp) Haku!!!"
Chihiro saw Haku dodging himself. There were two dragons, one had blood dripping from his fangs, while the other one also had blood dripping from it's fangs. One had a cut on it's head while the other had bite marks on it's neck.
"He didn't tell me all of this now. Keh… jerk." Chihiro whispered. She got onto her feet and stood up leaning against the tree, getting up so suddenly gave her a dizzy spell. She got out of it and saw that one dragon had the other in it's mouth by the other one's neck.
"Haku! Which one are you?!" The dragon that was being held by the other flapped it's tail. --Chihiro…--
"Haku you dumb boy you!" Chihiro began to tear seeing Haku like that. Her hands began to glow gold as the healthier dragon let go of Haku in shock. Haku untransformed and lay in his human form on the floor. It was now night but for some reason the forest glowed. It was a brilliant gold color and it was coming from Chihiro. Her eyes grew a dull white with a hint of gray swirls as her pupils became cat like. She got on all fours and transformed into a dragon herself, but although her form was almost like Haku's she was a little shorter, by like two inches. She was a very light gray, (gray like… well its such a light gray it almost looks white.) with white and baby blue highlights on her scales. Her retractable talons were clear and her hair a bright and shiny white, with blue and green highlights. (Like when the light hit her hair it would shine blue and greenish… like instead of it being even whiter… same thing with the scales. )
She started to growl as she inched towards the offending dragon. Chihiro leaped at him and with one swipe of her long talons, he was dead and out of their way. (speaking of their…) Chihiro galloped back to Haku.
He lay on the floor bleeding uncontrollably from the shoulders and neck. Chihiro untransformed and saw that Haku was not cut on any of his veins, so it wasn't vital, but he was still loosing a lot of blood.
She flipped him over so that he laid on his back. He opened his eyes slightly and saw her hands glow once again. She reached out and touched the skin of his neck where the wound wasn't. His body then glowed gold and hid bleeding stopped, the wound had also healed, but his blood he would have to regenerate on his own.
She picked him up and took him to a nearby spring where she washed off all of the blood, she transformed and jumped in the water, feeling happy, but not exactly happy. -Guess I'm not a water dragon… so that means… the talk with Yu-Baba… this amulet… its still on me! Does that mean…-
Chihiro jumped out of the water and nudged Haku on her back. She flew into the air cautiously and started to fly slowly. When she got the hang of it she started to fly faster. She felt at peace and huffed air from her mouth. The wind grew strong and she found herself flying into a tree with Haku still on her back.
"AHHHHHH!!!" (THUD) The tree cracked and she fell down with it. She untransformed and Haku fell off of her back, bringing her down with him. They fell to the forest floor and rolled under the tree, Chihiro fell asleep from lack of energy.
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Light showed through the gap of the tree and hit Chihiro dead in the face. "mmph, where's my pillow?" She patted around her without looking and felt fabric, she crawled the short distance to it still without looking and plopped back down snuggling her head into it. "mmph, where's my teddy? I never sleep (yawn) without teddy… me no find teddy…oh well… this good enough." Chihiro wrapped her legs around her 'pillow' and put the 'teddy's' arm around her waist. She then snuggled her head under her forearm to block out the sunlight. (Obviously, she, like I, sleeps with a body pillow… they are sooo comfortable… (nani snuggles and snores.))
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(for those of you who don't like limes… you might wanna stop like here… cos I thinkin' a little limey here… at least I warned you… I'll put in a YOU CAN READ NOW! When the parts over kay?)
Haku opened his eyes, getting annoyed by the sunlight. He went to turn on his side when he felt something strangely warm and solid next to him. He looked over to his right to see Chihiro with her head snuggled into his chest with her arm blocking the sun. She had her left leg wrapped around his waist and he had his arm around her waist. (they both are completely clothed mind you. Chest meaning on top of his chest, with his shirt on… I'm not gonna put in a lime nor lemon until I put up a warning on the beginning of the chapter.)
Haku blushed and started getting hot, not from the human laying beside him, and not from the sun… (you get it now?) He started to get impure thoughts and tried to close his eyes to block them out. It wouldn't work… they only got more vivid.
Haku didn't want to wake her up, but he knew he would have to in a short period of time. He had promised hands off… and he planned to keep it, but with the way he was blushing, we was scared that he might get tempted. "Chihiro please wake up… wake up please wake up." He kept saying to himself, half hoping and half needing her to, or else he would have to wake her up by force.
She still hadn't woken up, and it had been fifteen minutes. Haku began to squirm.
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From one of her dreams, Chihiro felt her pillow starting to move. She slowly began to drift away from her dreams, but she was too tired to actually wake up.
"Eh… stop moving you weird pillow… (sleepy moan) I'm not ready to wake up yet. Tell mom I want pancakes." Chihiro put her hand up and touched Haku's nose. She squeezed her 'pillow' a little tighter (like when you stretch) and loosened her grip. Her hand drifted down a little more and she felt lips. Haku just kept blinking and keeping quiet and biting his bottom lip.
Chihiro jerked awake and looked up. She met with Haku's eyes and looked at her hands on his lips. She pulled back immediately and looked down. She had thought he was her pillow while she was half asleep and now she realized her big mistake. Haku was already hard, she could feel it on her left calve.
(gulp) "Haku… well… I…uh um… good morning!" Chihiro slowly took her leg off of him and got up her knees. "I'm sorry… I guess I thought you were my pillow and… I snuggle up to my pillow like that a lot. I kinda thought you where it because I'm so used to sleeping with it… and I usually have a bear, so… I am so sorry!!! And uh… um." Chihiro looked at him and looked hesitant. She took his hand and shook it, "Mornin' partner! Well last night was a bit of an exhauster and we slept in a little too late, so it's time we get up, wash off and get goin." She said perky only to see that Haku had taken it the wrong way. She blinked a few times finally catching on.
"No, no, no! Not like that! I meant…uh" Chihiro touched his shoulder to try to get her point across, when it didn't work she bit her lip and crawled from under the tree and ran to the stream. She had dropped her bag on the impact of last night and found it. She grabbed it and looked inside. She found a pot, chopsticks, apples, pears, a water canteen, instant rice, bandages, a travel pot holder, and bowls. She got the pot and filled it with water from the cold stream.
She put on her bag and ran back to Haku. When she saw him she felt kind of bad for making him feel like that, when they both knew nothing could happened between them like that… at least not now. (hehehe) Chihiro took the pot and dumped all of the cold water onto Haku's head.
"Get a grip! We cant do that right now!!!" Haku bit his lip and looked down at the ground. He knew that, and he felt ashamed for not being able to hold back such feelings. Chihiro knelt down beside him and hugged him from his left side. He looked over at her and saw that everything was ok. He turned to face her and returned the hug. Feeling himself get hot again he tried to let go, but Chihiro had already kissed him.
She straddled him and kept her hold of the hug. Haku went to run his hands over her stomach, but she started laughing into the kiss. She suddenly broke the kiss and fell off of him laughing and trying to get a hold of herself.
(OKAY ITS SAFE NOW!!!)
"What? Do you mock me? Did I do something wrong?"
"No but you tickled me. Come on lets eat some… well brunch and get on our way." --Her bellybutton is ticklish, I'll have to remember that.--
"Remember, I can still hear you for some strange reason." Chihiro attempted to start the fire as Haku took the fruit and went over to the stream to bathe. There was a mini waterfall so he stood under it, allowing the cold water to run down his back and relieve him of the heat the weather was giving off.
A few minutes later Chihiro went over to the stream and saw Haku's dirty clothes. "He cant expect himself to wear this right after he had finished cleaning himself." She sat on the bend of the stream with her back to Haku, hand washing his clothes. "What are you doing?!" He yelled.
-I am washing your clothes.-
--And just what do you expect me to wear?--
-You can wear the clothes wet… but it'll be wrong to wear them dirty when you are clean. Don't worry, I'm not peaking and I couldn't start the fire… that is now your job. And any way, who's to say you need clothes? You could just stay in dragon form until you reach your room and then go into your human form and change. But that's too much work for me anyways.-
Haku laughed and submerged himself until the water was neck high. He sat on a rock in the water until she was done.
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Five minutes later
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"DONE!!" Chihiro got out all of the dirt stains with an exception of two small and stubborn grass stains. Chihiro hung up his clothes and exited the stream area to find more sticks for the fire.
Haku changed and it was Chihiro's turn. She cleaned her clothes before she got in and left them to sundry. By the time she was finished they were only a little damp, which was good enough, so she put them on and set out to find the not so unnoticeable fallen tree.
Haku made the instant rice and had the cleaned fruit already set up. They ate and got ready to leave.
When they had packed up, Chihiro followed Haku out and watched him transform. Chihiro sat there and concentrated as hard as she could, but she felt nothing different. --Uh Chihiro… lets go.--
-WAIT! I can transform… I am a dragon too now… gaaaah! I wont transform what's wrong with me?!!-
--You are transformed…--
-OH!- Chihiro flew up into the air and flew next to Haku. They had a short journey ahead of them so they flew gracefully and cruised on their way there.
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Back in the bath house
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"What's taking them so long?!"
"Chill Yu-Baba… maybe they already became one haha." Lin emphasized the 'became one' to put her point across that she was being sarcastic. Yu-Baba gave a face that showed she was terrified of that one very thing happening.
"What if she already transformed?" Yu-Baba thought out loud, equally mortified.
"That's not possible, unless she a, already had some kind of power, b, she was a spirit in during one time in her life, c, she was really scared and the amulet already processed it for her protection, or d, she and Haku uh…" Lin looked over to Yu-Baba and finished her sentence uneasily. "she, and Haku uh… Oh forget it… the last one chance would have been if her and Haku screwed while she had the amulet on her." Yu-Baba looked like she got upset and looked over to Zeniba who had been listening to Lin's point of view.
"Well either way, we'll see when they get here."
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They'll get there the next time I update… I'm too lazy to finish and any way, I'd like to separate the two happenings… hehe… sorry for being so foreword on Lin's behalf… But that's how I see her character.
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