Disclaimers Notice: Do I look like the wonderfully and famously acclaimed
Hayao Miyazaki? No, I didn't think so.wait! How do you know what I look
like! Ah ha, I knew I was being stocked. Hmph, wait till my lawyers hear
about this.
Authors Beginning Note: Nice lengthy chapter. Too lazy to write more to this right now.must.write.story.
Chapter 15
So Many Questions, So Few Answers
"Chihiro!" I looked around me. It's so dark in here. I can barely see five feet in front of me. It's the same like all of my other dreams. Is it a dream even? It feels so real.
"Kohaku? Where are you?" I shout out. Silence. I began to move.
"Stop. Don't move." Kohaku said urgently. I froze.
"If you move, there, you'll never be free again." I nodded.
"Now, step back.Then you can turn around" I did as he said. I turned around and there he stood. I gasped, which was a mistake, because of my stomach wound. I doubled over and he came and kneeled right next to me.
"Chihiro, what happened?" My breaths were coming in ragged and I could taste blood in my mouth.
"Chihiro, answer me." I looked into his eyes, holding back tears. I can't cry, not now. I have to be strong, if I want to help Kohaku. It's going to be hard, but I'll do it for Kohaku, and all of my friends. He had me lay down and pulled my hand from my stomach. His face turned white as he saw the oozing cascade of blood that showed no sign of ever stopping. He tore his gaze from my stomach to my eyes. His face was full of worry, and for once, I actually saw him scared.which scared me. I got a good look at Kohaku and became even more fightened.
"Kohaku, you're disappearing." I whispered sadly. He nodded.
"Kohaku, what's going on? Kohaku I." then I started caughing up blood again.
"Shhh. Chihiro, relax." He said. I closed my eyes. I felt his cool hand run over my forehead.
"With the wind and water within me, heal her." He said, my eyes slowly and reluctantly opened again. He began to disappear even more.
"Kohaku!" I tried to sit up, but couldn't. I was too tired to move.
"Kohaku, you're disappearing even more!" He nodded. His face was emotionless.
"You're healed, partially. I'm sorry I couldn't heal you more."
"But why are you becoming so see through? What's wrong?"
"Chihiro, I'm dying. My spirit is being eaten. I had to use some of my energy to help you, and that made me disappear some too. I can't stop it Chihiro. You have to free me." He said and I nodded.
"I will Kohaku.I promise." I said determinedly, and not just with my mouth, but with my whole body.
"I know you will." He smiled. His hand brushed my forehead again.
"There, you don't have a fever anymore. You should sleep now." He said. I didn't even have the will to stop it, but slowly, I fell into a dreamless sleep.
"Chihiro.Chihiro.Chihiro." I tried to roll over but it hurt too much. When the voice persistently called out my name, I reluctantly gave in and opened my eyes.
"Granny." I smiled. I was laying down in a soft bed made of what felt like feathers. I looked over beside me and there was Rin sleeping.
"Here, you must drink this, it will help build up your strength." She said. Helping me to sit up, she handed me a cup. I looked in it and saw a blue like substance.
"Uh.what is it?"
"It's a magical remedy to help. I'm glad Kohaku was able to help you as much as he did. I would never have been able to you know. You have a really good friend you know." My head shot up.
"How did you know." Her wrinkles turned upward into a huge smile.
"Why, he's the only one who could have saved you. He's the one who put this spell on you, he was the only would he would be able to take it off." She turned her back on me and went to the oven to pull something out.
"Granny, I don't think it was Kohaku who did that to me..well, not really. Not willingly. Something is wrong with him. Like, he's a whole other person." I said concerned. I know she doesn't exactly like him, considering the whole thing about him stealing her Golden Hologram Seal and all, but that doesn't mean he deserves to be blamed for almost killing me, especially when I know it wasn't his fault.
"Don't worry dear. I believe you." I sighed and then smiled.
"Drink up Chihiro, you'll need all the strength you can get." I nodded and tilted my head back as I drank the luke-warm concoction she had given me. It tastes sweet, but bitter at the same time, like blueberries. I drank the whole thing and felt life begin to creep through out my whole body. I looked around and saw everything the same, except for the area around the spinning wheel. It look as if it had been used not to long ago. Smiling, I thought of when I last saw Koanashi and how he seemed to be a natural and spinning and threading.
"Granny, where is Koanashi?" I asked.
"Oh, he's just getting me some herbs. He'll be back before too long." I smiled.
Here, it was made by your friends. it will help protect you.
It was then that I realized that my hair had been taken down and that I couldn't find my hair tie. I looked around my bed searching for it, wincing I moved wrong. I lifted up the cotton pajama's that Granny must have put on me. My stomach was covered in bandage wrapping, and there I saw a thin line of blood faintly showing through it. Well, at least the bleeding has slowed down considerably, but there is still the question of how it got there?
"Granny?"
"Yes dear." She said and came over to me with a tray of food. I smiled. She then went over and stoked the fire before she came and sat right next to me.
"Now tell me all of the things that has happened to you."
"But before that, why is my cut on my stomach? It was on my hand earlier. And my hair band? I was wearing it when I came here, now where is it? Oh, and another thing."
"Shh, Chihiro, don't get so worked up. I can only answer one question at a time." She said gently. Just then Koanashi walked in with a basket.
"Koanashi!" I said excitedly. Rin moaned a little, turned over and continued to sleep.
"Shh, not so loud, Rin still needs to sleep." Koanashi smiled.
"Now Koanashi, won't you pull up a chair and join us?" Koanashi nodded vigerously and pulled up a chair right next to Granny. I smiled.
"Now Chihiro, go ahead and ask me a question." I They both sat there looking intently at me.
"I want to know exactly what's wrong with Kohaku, and how I can help?" Zeniiba shook her head back and forth looking sad.
"I don't know deary. It could be a thousand of different things. There is no end to what my sister could do." I sighed. Rin grumbled. I looked over at her and saw her eyes flutter open lightly.
"Chihiro?"
"I'm right here Rin." I said. Zeniiba quickly got up, poured some more blue stuff intoi a cup and handed the cup to Rin.
"Here you go Rin. Drink it up while it's still warm." Rin sat up and drank it. I could tell that she didn't like it.
"What was that stuff?" She asked disdainly as Granny sat back down at the side of my bed.
"Why it's my own special recipe that I learned form an earth Spirit so many years ago." She nodded.
"Now, what else were you going to ask?"
"My wound, why is it on my stomach and not my hand?" Rin looked stricken.
"What do you mean Jin?" I showed her my stomach and then my smooth, scarless hand. She shook her head and looked as if she were going to be sick.
"When did this happen?"
"Just when we arived here."
"But.how?"
"I was just getting to that." Both Rin's attention and mine were on Granny again.
"The spell that was put on her cut was very complicated. The first part to it was that it would never stop bleeding until the person who gave it to her, made it stop. Then the second part was, if for some reason it couldn't bleed in that area, it would suddenly appear somewhere else. That person would then get a high fever, and die within a few hours. Much faster than if the cut had stayed in the original place." Rin was deathly pale.
"But, how then did it heal? I mean.Kohaku wasn't hear, was he?" Her voice squeeked.
"No, he was in my dream." I saw that she was thouroughly confused and went ahead and explained it, seeing some realization dawn upon her, I went ahead and asked Granny my next question.
"Why wouldn't those memories stop? It was like watching a movie on fast forward and couldn't stop. Only this way, it hurt my head." I asked concerned. Maybe I was going crazy?
"It's because of your hair tie."
"What? You mean the one you gave me? But I thought it was supposed to protect me."
"It was Chihiro. It was protecting you from forgetting."
"I don't under stand why would I forget?"
"Because my sister Yubaaba has you under her contract still."
"What? But that was destroyed a long time ago.how can that be."
"Because it wasn't your contract she destroyed."
"Than who's was it?" asked Rin, really irritated.
"It was yours Rin."
Authors Ending Note: It was Rin's! Oh My Gosh! I would have never have guessed that.wait ya I would have, because I did and wrote it! Oh ya, I forgot. HEHE! Anyways, what now? Not only is Chihiro slowly dying (remember, Kohaku wasn't able to fully heal her) she's still under Yubaaba's contract, Kohaku is being eaten (by what?), Rin is stupefied by this news, and Zeniiba seems to be dealing out this information quite calmly. Geez, this really makes you wonder what's going to happen next, don't it? Well, your going to have to wait, Till Next TIMe!
Authors Beginning Note: Nice lengthy chapter. Too lazy to write more to this right now.must.write.story.
Chapter 15
So Many Questions, So Few Answers
"Chihiro!" I looked around me. It's so dark in here. I can barely see five feet in front of me. It's the same like all of my other dreams. Is it a dream even? It feels so real.
"Kohaku? Where are you?" I shout out. Silence. I began to move.
"Stop. Don't move." Kohaku said urgently. I froze.
"If you move, there, you'll never be free again." I nodded.
"Now, step back.Then you can turn around" I did as he said. I turned around and there he stood. I gasped, which was a mistake, because of my stomach wound. I doubled over and he came and kneeled right next to me.
"Chihiro, what happened?" My breaths were coming in ragged and I could taste blood in my mouth.
"Chihiro, answer me." I looked into his eyes, holding back tears. I can't cry, not now. I have to be strong, if I want to help Kohaku. It's going to be hard, but I'll do it for Kohaku, and all of my friends. He had me lay down and pulled my hand from my stomach. His face turned white as he saw the oozing cascade of blood that showed no sign of ever stopping. He tore his gaze from my stomach to my eyes. His face was full of worry, and for once, I actually saw him scared.which scared me. I got a good look at Kohaku and became even more fightened.
"Kohaku, you're disappearing." I whispered sadly. He nodded.
"Kohaku, what's going on? Kohaku I." then I started caughing up blood again.
"Shhh. Chihiro, relax." He said. I closed my eyes. I felt his cool hand run over my forehead.
"With the wind and water within me, heal her." He said, my eyes slowly and reluctantly opened again. He began to disappear even more.
"Kohaku!" I tried to sit up, but couldn't. I was too tired to move.
"Kohaku, you're disappearing even more!" He nodded. His face was emotionless.
"You're healed, partially. I'm sorry I couldn't heal you more."
"But why are you becoming so see through? What's wrong?"
"Chihiro, I'm dying. My spirit is being eaten. I had to use some of my energy to help you, and that made me disappear some too. I can't stop it Chihiro. You have to free me." He said and I nodded.
"I will Kohaku.I promise." I said determinedly, and not just with my mouth, but with my whole body.
"I know you will." He smiled. His hand brushed my forehead again.
"There, you don't have a fever anymore. You should sleep now." He said. I didn't even have the will to stop it, but slowly, I fell into a dreamless sleep.
"Chihiro.Chihiro.Chihiro." I tried to roll over but it hurt too much. When the voice persistently called out my name, I reluctantly gave in and opened my eyes.
"Granny." I smiled. I was laying down in a soft bed made of what felt like feathers. I looked over beside me and there was Rin sleeping.
"Here, you must drink this, it will help build up your strength." She said. Helping me to sit up, she handed me a cup. I looked in it and saw a blue like substance.
"Uh.what is it?"
"It's a magical remedy to help. I'm glad Kohaku was able to help you as much as he did. I would never have been able to you know. You have a really good friend you know." My head shot up.
"How did you know." Her wrinkles turned upward into a huge smile.
"Why, he's the only one who could have saved you. He's the one who put this spell on you, he was the only would he would be able to take it off." She turned her back on me and went to the oven to pull something out.
"Granny, I don't think it was Kohaku who did that to me..well, not really. Not willingly. Something is wrong with him. Like, he's a whole other person." I said concerned. I know she doesn't exactly like him, considering the whole thing about him stealing her Golden Hologram Seal and all, but that doesn't mean he deserves to be blamed for almost killing me, especially when I know it wasn't his fault.
"Don't worry dear. I believe you." I sighed and then smiled.
"Drink up Chihiro, you'll need all the strength you can get." I nodded and tilted my head back as I drank the luke-warm concoction she had given me. It tastes sweet, but bitter at the same time, like blueberries. I drank the whole thing and felt life begin to creep through out my whole body. I looked around and saw everything the same, except for the area around the spinning wheel. It look as if it had been used not to long ago. Smiling, I thought of when I last saw Koanashi and how he seemed to be a natural and spinning and threading.
"Granny, where is Koanashi?" I asked.
"Oh, he's just getting me some herbs. He'll be back before too long." I smiled.
Here, it was made by your friends. it will help protect you.
It was then that I realized that my hair had been taken down and that I couldn't find my hair tie. I looked around my bed searching for it, wincing I moved wrong. I lifted up the cotton pajama's that Granny must have put on me. My stomach was covered in bandage wrapping, and there I saw a thin line of blood faintly showing through it. Well, at least the bleeding has slowed down considerably, but there is still the question of how it got there?
"Granny?"
"Yes dear." She said and came over to me with a tray of food. I smiled. She then went over and stoked the fire before she came and sat right next to me.
"Now tell me all of the things that has happened to you."
"But before that, why is my cut on my stomach? It was on my hand earlier. And my hair band? I was wearing it when I came here, now where is it? Oh, and another thing."
"Shh, Chihiro, don't get so worked up. I can only answer one question at a time." She said gently. Just then Koanashi walked in with a basket.
"Koanashi!" I said excitedly. Rin moaned a little, turned over and continued to sleep.
"Shh, not so loud, Rin still needs to sleep." Koanashi smiled.
"Now Koanashi, won't you pull up a chair and join us?" Koanashi nodded vigerously and pulled up a chair right next to Granny. I smiled.
"Now Chihiro, go ahead and ask me a question." I They both sat there looking intently at me.
"I want to know exactly what's wrong with Kohaku, and how I can help?" Zeniiba shook her head back and forth looking sad.
"I don't know deary. It could be a thousand of different things. There is no end to what my sister could do." I sighed. Rin grumbled. I looked over at her and saw her eyes flutter open lightly.
"Chihiro?"
"I'm right here Rin." I said. Zeniiba quickly got up, poured some more blue stuff intoi a cup and handed the cup to Rin.
"Here you go Rin. Drink it up while it's still warm." Rin sat up and drank it. I could tell that she didn't like it.
"What was that stuff?" She asked disdainly as Granny sat back down at the side of my bed.
"Why it's my own special recipe that I learned form an earth Spirit so many years ago." She nodded.
"Now, what else were you going to ask?"
"My wound, why is it on my stomach and not my hand?" Rin looked stricken.
"What do you mean Jin?" I showed her my stomach and then my smooth, scarless hand. She shook her head and looked as if she were going to be sick.
"When did this happen?"
"Just when we arived here."
"But.how?"
"I was just getting to that." Both Rin's attention and mine were on Granny again.
"The spell that was put on her cut was very complicated. The first part to it was that it would never stop bleeding until the person who gave it to her, made it stop. Then the second part was, if for some reason it couldn't bleed in that area, it would suddenly appear somewhere else. That person would then get a high fever, and die within a few hours. Much faster than if the cut had stayed in the original place." Rin was deathly pale.
"But, how then did it heal? I mean.Kohaku wasn't hear, was he?" Her voice squeeked.
"No, he was in my dream." I saw that she was thouroughly confused and went ahead and explained it, seeing some realization dawn upon her, I went ahead and asked Granny my next question.
"Why wouldn't those memories stop? It was like watching a movie on fast forward and couldn't stop. Only this way, it hurt my head." I asked concerned. Maybe I was going crazy?
"It's because of your hair tie."
"What? You mean the one you gave me? But I thought it was supposed to protect me."
"It was Chihiro. It was protecting you from forgetting."
"I don't under stand why would I forget?"
"Because my sister Yubaaba has you under her contract still."
"What? But that was destroyed a long time ago.how can that be."
"Because it wasn't your contract she destroyed."
"Than who's was it?" asked Rin, really irritated.
"It was yours Rin."
Authors Ending Note: It was Rin's! Oh My Gosh! I would have never have guessed that.wait ya I would have, because I did and wrote it! Oh ya, I forgot. HEHE! Anyways, what now? Not only is Chihiro slowly dying (remember, Kohaku wasn't able to fully heal her) she's still under Yubaaba's contract, Kohaku is being eaten (by what?), Rin is stupefied by this news, and Zeniiba seems to be dealing out this information quite calmly. Geez, this really makes you wonder what's going to happen next, don't it? Well, your going to have to wait, Till Next TIMe!