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Authors Beginning Note: Answering the Q's of the time frame for my story:
~%~ Okay, for those of you confused about the time frame difference.This whole story takes place 6 years later when Chihiro is sixteen, everything leads up to one weeks worth of time, in which when the day of the Sano Saishe Festival begins, so does the battle, then my chapter ---- The After Effects--- though it is not specifically stated, I intended it to be nearly three weeks after at least, that would be the time frame Chihiro had been unconscious which makes enough sense, being as she DID have a life threatening wound and setting up temporary hospitals takes more than a few days to build.after all Rome wasn't built in a Day, then my chapter ---------Where is Kohaku--- took place three months after that, so, so far my story has taken the time of almost 4-5 months.
Chapter 27
It's About to Blow UP!
~*~ 4 days later ~*~ (Kohaku was briefed on what happened while he was away, the war, ect. by Arelinita in the mean time)
"There. Your fully healed I'd say, as far as the scratches go, but as for your leg, another week off of it would do you some good." I said removing the last of the bandages.
"Not even a scar left. You're pretty good at his sort of thing." Kohaku said looking down at his bare chest. I began to blush and looked out the window.
"Chihiro.I'm sorry." Kohaku said. Looking over in his direction, I saw tears drip down his face.
"Sorry? Why?" I asked going over and sitting besides him on his bed, taking his warm, calloused hinds between mine. Hi looked up at me, his green eyes, almost a watery blue.
"That I couldn't help you. That I never did keep your promise." He watched my face change into utter confusion.
"I promised that I would come for you. I never did, instead you had to come on your own, and it put you in danger."
"You're here now. You came back here, even though you could have wondered any where else, you came back here thinking that I might be here as well. You did come back. And you didn't put me in danger." Now it was his turn to look at me in confusion.
"I put myself there more or less. I didn't have to come here, I didn't have to sneak away to Granny's, or to go into battle. I had so many chances to leave. I didn't take them. So it wasn't your fault, it was mine." I said smiling slightly, but my smile began to waver, just remembering all of the worry I had at the though of loosing him.
"Chihiro?"
"I was so scared."
"About dieing?"
"No, about loosing you. I was so scared that I did something wrong and that I would loose you forever." I said sobbing. Trying my hardest and failing, the tears came. I felt strong arms wrap around me as I was pulled into Kohaku's warm chest, where I can feel his heart beating. I could feel him rubbing my back soothingly before he stopped.
"What's this on your back.?" He asked tracing a slight indent on my back through the cloth.
"That's my scar, from when Yubaaba through the sword an it went though me. They ran out of healing ointment that week that was strong enough to heal the wounds enough beyond scaring." I said calmly, not even flinching, unlike for along time after that, I had trouble even speaking of it.
"You're the strongest person I know Chihiro." He said smiling, wiping away the last of my tears.
"Oh, by the way, I was supposed to tell you, Granny is coming over today, and she wants to see you." I said smiling, he looked a little unnerved.
"Don't worry, she forgave you a long time ago after stealing that Gold Seal of hers. She's actually quite fond of you." I said reassuringly.
"Well, if you're sure." I nodded in reply.
"I have to go do chores now, I was lucky to even get this much time off. I'll have one of the other workers come in and fit you for some new decent clothes. If all goes well, you should have them before this evening." I said smiling before leaving.
"Miss Chihiro, there's trouble down at the lower floors."
"Who is it this time?"
"It's Enreesia, she's arguing with Assyria again."
"Oh, not again! I'm afraid I'll have to punish her even worse than last time. Thank you Inarago." I said to the aureaguru. He bowed politely and left. When I took up this job, I thought it was going to be easy. Not with Enressia. She's a hard to deal with. Even though she doesn't remember a thing about me hitting her a long time ago when she tried to steel the box, she still refuses to take my orders sometimes and loves to make things harder for me. Well, I guess it's one way to start my day of work.
"Enreesia, Assyria, stop right now!" I said interrupting the two immature adults. Their jobs were to do laundry, right now it looked more like they had been in a water fight. If my job wasn't to be serious, It'd be really hard not to laugh right now.
"I'm sincerely sorry Miss Chihiro, but Enreesia."
"Assyria, I wish not to hear poor excuses. As your punishment, you will have seven days worth of an hours more of laundry, do you understand?" I said regally.
"Yes, Miss Chihiro, sincerely sorry I am." She said bowing while Enreesia snickered.
"As for you, Enreesia. I've about had enough of you. This is your eighth fight in the past six days, and just because I've been gone does not mean I am deaf to the things around me." I said seeing her surprised look as her smile disappeared.
"You will have scrubbing duties for three weeks. Your first task will be the big tub."
"But that's not fair!"
"Would you prefer I talk with Arelinita and see to it that you are thrown out? If you are good I may reconsider and just have you go back to your daily chores, but only otherwise. Is that clear?"
"Yes, Miss Chihiro." She said seehthingly and bowed slightly, if not stiffly. I pretended not to notice it.
"Oh now! No what?" I groaned as people began to rush frantically from place to place.
"Miss Chihiro, Miss Chihiro! You must leave, the bath house is being evacuated." Said one of the augearu panting as if he had been running everywhere.
"Why? What is happening?"
"The boiler room! It's about to blow up!" He said before rushing off.
"Oh no! Kamajii!" I said hiking up my workers pants and tieing back my shirt sleeves with my second sash before running down the halls.
"Excuse me, pardon me, I have to get through please!" I said as I rushed against the crowd, soon finding myself in the elevator, I pulled the lever down, and down I go.
"It's so hot! I hope Kamajii is okay." Soon enough I landed on the bottom floor and as soon as I got off the elevator began moving upwards.
"Kamajii! Kamajii!" I screamed entering the boiling, steaming room. My eyes are all ready watering.
"Chihiro? Is that you?" Came a gruff voice.
"Kamajii! Where are you?" I made my way to his little platform, but he wasn't there.
"Chihiro, I'm up here, in the pipe workings." I walked over to the little platform and looked up, only to be greeted by the sight of an eight legged old man way up in the intricket workings off the many pipes, holding two different set of pipes together with five of his many hands, while staying in place by usage of his two feet and his last remaining free arm.
"Kamajii! What are doing? You must hurry! This place is going to blow!"
"If I let go of these pipes, boiling water will pour out all over the place."
"What bother is that if it's going to blow up? You have hold of those pipes, why is it still boiling up?"
"It's the air preasurization, I can't get to the lever that controles the preasure of it in the pipes and water temperatures."
"Where is it?"
"Over there, farther up on your right side, it's the big red wheel up there." He said looking up. Rubbing away the tears, I could see it.
"I think I can get to it!"
"No Chihiro, wait! What if you fall, or you burn yourself."
"I have to chance it. There could be thousands of Spirits who haven't evacuated, and ould die if I don't." I yelled back up above the noise of steam, sounding much like an angry teapot.
"I you must, than step on the blue colored pipes. Cold water travels through them, and you won't burn yourself. The bright orange pipes are o.k. to touch as well, it's the red and black you have to be careful of." I nodded. How am I going to do it though, the nearest bar is nearly seven feet up, unless.
Looking over to the platform that Kamajii lays on while doing his work, I hurried over, and began climbing up. Getting prepared to jump, I stepped back.
"Here it goes!" And up I went.
"Gotchya." I said self satisfactory. Okay, now to get up on it and balance myself.
"Careful, carefull now.I said carefull!" Kamajii said as I almost fell back just after standing on it. Looking up, there's another blue one.
"This is like climbing a tree." I said to myself before climbing one pipe after another, and another, soon reaching an orange one and walking a few feet on it.
"I'm almost there!" I yelled. I looked straight ahead at the wheel, and looking for a blue or orange pipe.
"Oh, no! There's only no more blue, and one more orange one, and that's 3/4s of the way there! I'll have to jump, and hope I'm able to land on it!"
"Chihiro! You must hurry up! There's not much time!" Kamajii yelled as the steam began to become more shrill sounding, and the temperature rose to another ten degrees.
"Okay then, on the count of three..one..two..three!" I leapt.
"No!" I screamed as my feet missed, but I reached with my hand.
"Ahhh!" I screeched out in pain as I felt pain rush through my hand and up my arm, and narly letting go. The smell of burning flesh nauseating me. I can feel tears flow steadily down my face.
"Chihiro!"
"I-I-I' m fine." I managed to call out weakly and reaching out with my other arm, I swung and grabbed the orange one as If I were on monkey bars. Using my other hand too, I pulled myself up, but not without crying out in pain.
"Chihiro! Hurry! She's about to go!" Came the urgent voice behind all of the smoke and steam.
"Which way do I turn it?"
"Turn it left!" I reached out with my good hand and tried with all of my might to turn it. It wouldn't budge.
"Hurry!"
"I'm trying!" I shouted.
Well, I guess, I'll have to use my other hand.here it goes. I inhaled deeply at the cool touch of the metal, which caused even more pain to pulsate through my hand. Ignoring the fuzy blackness at the edge of my vision I began to apply al of my strength to turning it. It wouldn't budge.
"Come on! You stupid piece of junk! Turn!" I shouted.then there came a creak.
"It budged! Come on.more! Please!" Creaking again, it turned a little bit more, until finally it spun easily.
"The steam! It stopped!" I shouted as the steam that we were hearing faded, and the room began to get considerably cooler in just a short time.
"I did it Kamajii! I."
Feeling my footing slip, a scream from deep with in escaped from my lips, as I fell down a nearly complete vertical drop down, where I would surely die.
Authors Ending Note: Okay, there really was no point in the beginning part of this chapter, and I was getting bored with it, that's why I added the suspense of Chihiro going into the boiler room to try and stop it from Blowing up.
Next Chapter should be up in about a week!
Authors Beginning Note: Answering the Q's of the time frame for my story:
~%~ Okay, for those of you confused about the time frame difference.This whole story takes place 6 years later when Chihiro is sixteen, everything leads up to one weeks worth of time, in which when the day of the Sano Saishe Festival begins, so does the battle, then my chapter ---- The After Effects--- though it is not specifically stated, I intended it to be nearly three weeks after at least, that would be the time frame Chihiro had been unconscious which makes enough sense, being as she DID have a life threatening wound and setting up temporary hospitals takes more than a few days to build.after all Rome wasn't built in a Day, then my chapter ---------Where is Kohaku--- took place three months after that, so, so far my story has taken the time of almost 4-5 months.
Chapter 27
It's About to Blow UP!
~*~ 4 days later ~*~ (Kohaku was briefed on what happened while he was away, the war, ect. by Arelinita in the mean time)
"There. Your fully healed I'd say, as far as the scratches go, but as for your leg, another week off of it would do you some good." I said removing the last of the bandages.
"Not even a scar left. You're pretty good at his sort of thing." Kohaku said looking down at his bare chest. I began to blush and looked out the window.
"Chihiro.I'm sorry." Kohaku said. Looking over in his direction, I saw tears drip down his face.
"Sorry? Why?" I asked going over and sitting besides him on his bed, taking his warm, calloused hinds between mine. Hi looked up at me, his green eyes, almost a watery blue.
"That I couldn't help you. That I never did keep your promise." He watched my face change into utter confusion.
"I promised that I would come for you. I never did, instead you had to come on your own, and it put you in danger."
"You're here now. You came back here, even though you could have wondered any where else, you came back here thinking that I might be here as well. You did come back. And you didn't put me in danger." Now it was his turn to look at me in confusion.
"I put myself there more or less. I didn't have to come here, I didn't have to sneak away to Granny's, or to go into battle. I had so many chances to leave. I didn't take them. So it wasn't your fault, it was mine." I said smiling slightly, but my smile began to waver, just remembering all of the worry I had at the though of loosing him.
"Chihiro?"
"I was so scared."
"About dieing?"
"No, about loosing you. I was so scared that I did something wrong and that I would loose you forever." I said sobbing. Trying my hardest and failing, the tears came. I felt strong arms wrap around me as I was pulled into Kohaku's warm chest, where I can feel his heart beating. I could feel him rubbing my back soothingly before he stopped.
"What's this on your back.?" He asked tracing a slight indent on my back through the cloth.
"That's my scar, from when Yubaaba through the sword an it went though me. They ran out of healing ointment that week that was strong enough to heal the wounds enough beyond scaring." I said calmly, not even flinching, unlike for along time after that, I had trouble even speaking of it.
"You're the strongest person I know Chihiro." He said smiling, wiping away the last of my tears.
"Oh, by the way, I was supposed to tell you, Granny is coming over today, and she wants to see you." I said smiling, he looked a little unnerved.
"Don't worry, she forgave you a long time ago after stealing that Gold Seal of hers. She's actually quite fond of you." I said reassuringly.
"Well, if you're sure." I nodded in reply.
"I have to go do chores now, I was lucky to even get this much time off. I'll have one of the other workers come in and fit you for some new decent clothes. If all goes well, you should have them before this evening." I said smiling before leaving.
"Miss Chihiro, there's trouble down at the lower floors."
"Who is it this time?"
"It's Enreesia, she's arguing with Assyria again."
"Oh, not again! I'm afraid I'll have to punish her even worse than last time. Thank you Inarago." I said to the aureaguru. He bowed politely and left. When I took up this job, I thought it was going to be easy. Not with Enressia. She's a hard to deal with. Even though she doesn't remember a thing about me hitting her a long time ago when she tried to steel the box, she still refuses to take my orders sometimes and loves to make things harder for me. Well, I guess it's one way to start my day of work.
"Enreesia, Assyria, stop right now!" I said interrupting the two immature adults. Their jobs were to do laundry, right now it looked more like they had been in a water fight. If my job wasn't to be serious, It'd be really hard not to laugh right now.
"I'm sincerely sorry Miss Chihiro, but Enreesia."
"Assyria, I wish not to hear poor excuses. As your punishment, you will have seven days worth of an hours more of laundry, do you understand?" I said regally.
"Yes, Miss Chihiro, sincerely sorry I am." She said bowing while Enreesia snickered.
"As for you, Enreesia. I've about had enough of you. This is your eighth fight in the past six days, and just because I've been gone does not mean I am deaf to the things around me." I said seeing her surprised look as her smile disappeared.
"You will have scrubbing duties for three weeks. Your first task will be the big tub."
"But that's not fair!"
"Would you prefer I talk with Arelinita and see to it that you are thrown out? If you are good I may reconsider and just have you go back to your daily chores, but only otherwise. Is that clear?"
"Yes, Miss Chihiro." She said seehthingly and bowed slightly, if not stiffly. I pretended not to notice it.
"Oh now! No what?" I groaned as people began to rush frantically from place to place.
"Miss Chihiro, Miss Chihiro! You must leave, the bath house is being evacuated." Said one of the augearu panting as if he had been running everywhere.
"Why? What is happening?"
"The boiler room! It's about to blow up!" He said before rushing off.
"Oh no! Kamajii!" I said hiking up my workers pants and tieing back my shirt sleeves with my second sash before running down the halls.
"Excuse me, pardon me, I have to get through please!" I said as I rushed against the crowd, soon finding myself in the elevator, I pulled the lever down, and down I go.
"It's so hot! I hope Kamajii is okay." Soon enough I landed on the bottom floor and as soon as I got off the elevator began moving upwards.
"Kamajii! Kamajii!" I screamed entering the boiling, steaming room. My eyes are all ready watering.
"Chihiro? Is that you?" Came a gruff voice.
"Kamajii! Where are you?" I made my way to his little platform, but he wasn't there.
"Chihiro, I'm up here, in the pipe workings." I walked over to the little platform and looked up, only to be greeted by the sight of an eight legged old man way up in the intricket workings off the many pipes, holding two different set of pipes together with five of his many hands, while staying in place by usage of his two feet and his last remaining free arm.
"Kamajii! What are doing? You must hurry! This place is going to blow!"
"If I let go of these pipes, boiling water will pour out all over the place."
"What bother is that if it's going to blow up? You have hold of those pipes, why is it still boiling up?"
"It's the air preasurization, I can't get to the lever that controles the preasure of it in the pipes and water temperatures."
"Where is it?"
"Over there, farther up on your right side, it's the big red wheel up there." He said looking up. Rubbing away the tears, I could see it.
"I think I can get to it!"
"No Chihiro, wait! What if you fall, or you burn yourself."
"I have to chance it. There could be thousands of Spirits who haven't evacuated, and ould die if I don't." I yelled back up above the noise of steam, sounding much like an angry teapot.
"I you must, than step on the blue colored pipes. Cold water travels through them, and you won't burn yourself. The bright orange pipes are o.k. to touch as well, it's the red and black you have to be careful of." I nodded. How am I going to do it though, the nearest bar is nearly seven feet up, unless.
Looking over to the platform that Kamajii lays on while doing his work, I hurried over, and began climbing up. Getting prepared to jump, I stepped back.
"Here it goes!" And up I went.
"Gotchya." I said self satisfactory. Okay, now to get up on it and balance myself.
"Careful, carefull now.I said carefull!" Kamajii said as I almost fell back just after standing on it. Looking up, there's another blue one.
"This is like climbing a tree." I said to myself before climbing one pipe after another, and another, soon reaching an orange one and walking a few feet on it.
"I'm almost there!" I yelled. I looked straight ahead at the wheel, and looking for a blue or orange pipe.
"Oh, no! There's only no more blue, and one more orange one, and that's 3/4s of the way there! I'll have to jump, and hope I'm able to land on it!"
"Chihiro! You must hurry up! There's not much time!" Kamajii yelled as the steam began to become more shrill sounding, and the temperature rose to another ten degrees.
"Okay then, on the count of three..one..two..three!" I leapt.
"No!" I screamed as my feet missed, but I reached with my hand.
"Ahhh!" I screeched out in pain as I felt pain rush through my hand and up my arm, and narly letting go. The smell of burning flesh nauseating me. I can feel tears flow steadily down my face.
"Chihiro!"
"I-I-I' m fine." I managed to call out weakly and reaching out with my other arm, I swung and grabbed the orange one as If I were on monkey bars. Using my other hand too, I pulled myself up, but not without crying out in pain.
"Chihiro! Hurry! She's about to go!" Came the urgent voice behind all of the smoke and steam.
"Which way do I turn it?"
"Turn it left!" I reached out with my good hand and tried with all of my might to turn it. It wouldn't budge.
"Hurry!"
"I'm trying!" I shouted.
Well, I guess, I'll have to use my other hand.here it goes. I inhaled deeply at the cool touch of the metal, which caused even more pain to pulsate through my hand. Ignoring the fuzy blackness at the edge of my vision I began to apply al of my strength to turning it. It wouldn't budge.
"Come on! You stupid piece of junk! Turn!" I shouted.then there came a creak.
"It budged! Come on.more! Please!" Creaking again, it turned a little bit more, until finally it spun easily.
"The steam! It stopped!" I shouted as the steam that we were hearing faded, and the room began to get considerably cooler in just a short time.
"I did it Kamajii! I."
Feeling my footing slip, a scream from deep with in escaped from my lips, as I fell down a nearly complete vertical drop down, where I would surely die.
Authors Ending Note: Okay, there really was no point in the beginning part of this chapter, and I was getting bored with it, that's why I added the suspense of Chihiro going into the boiler room to try and stop it from Blowing up.
Next Chapter should be up in about a week!