Disclaimers Notice: I do not own.you do not sue.leave me alone.cause now
I'm blue.
Authors Beginning Note: Due to a Unanimous demand, I will be making fluff in this story before I officially end it, and will be doing a sequel!
Warning, some time skipping here, I'll explain it at my bottom author's note
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Chapter 29
Roof Top Discussion,
Flying feathers, and Tavern Songs
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After taking a shower I slowly made my way through hallways until I came to a door that led to a particular rooftop.
I was met by cool refreshing air out on my favorite sitting place on one or the rooftops. The stars are so pretty. They glitter and shine way up there like shiny stones smoothed by sand and water. They surround the moon, as if protecting her from the darkness.
"You still come here to think?" Came a sudden voice. I jumped. Kohaku came and sat besides me drawing his knees slightly to his chest, his arms resting on them. He must have taken a shower too, for he is now clean, not a sign of sweat or ash on him. His hair slightly still wet on the tips, and he now wears a clean outfit, much like the one he usually wears, a white shirt, a purple sash, and newly dyed pants that tighten at the ankle. I looked back at the moon and her protected innocence.
"Yah. I've never found a better spot to be. Hardly anyone comes up here, and the noise isn't so loud up here." I said smiling faintly.
"You get a good view of the sky."
"How did you know I used to always come up here?" I asked suddenly. Kohaku blushed in the moonlit darkness.
"When you first came here, after while, I noticed you kept disappearing from time to time, so I decided to follow you one day. I took a wrong turn and I lost you, but I found myself on one of the other roofs over there and watched you." He said pointing. I looked over to the one nearest to us. It's amazing I never noticed him there before.
"Why did you watch me?" Kohaku blushed even more.
"I remembered you from somewhere, but I couldn't figure out where or how. You intrigued me. And I was worried you might fall." I looked at him in surprise as he fiddled with his fingers. After a moment of silence he stood up. He stared up at the sky.
"You know, everyday here seemed like an eternity. Every moment felt like a decade, especially when I wasn't in control anymore. What made it seem even longer though was when I had a promise I wanted to keep, but wasn't able to." Looking at his face, you can see the troubled expression as he relived the past years in his thoughts. He turned and I stood up.
"Where are you going?" I asked almost sadly. He stopped and faced me. I smiled and took a step forwards.
"Stay here. There's no need to leave. Besides, it gets lonely up here sometimes with no one else around." I said invitingly. Beginning to realize our closeness I blushed as I looked down.
"You know.it seemed like an eternity for me too, while I waited for a promise to be filled. I really got worried after a while. Sometime I would have nightmares and then wake up crying. It was those times I thought back on that promise the most, and made waiting the hardest. It was like an itch that can't be reached. Then there were those days when I was so sure that you were okay, that I couldn't help but smile every moment I could." A small tear slipped down my face as I looked to my side and at a particularly bright star. I felt warm hands under my chin and they brought my face to look at Kohaku's, then feeling his thumb brush away the single tear that stained my face.
"I'm not going anywhere. There's no need to cry, so please don't. It doesn't suite you." He said softly, looking troubled at the thought of more tears sliding down my face. I looked into his eyes.
"I won't. As long as you're okay, and we're together. I'll never have a need to cry. I don't plan on leaving either." I smiled at him a shy, but happy smile. He gave me a bright smile in return of joy, much like the one when we were flying in the air, right after he had gotten his name. It made my stomach flip and my heart beat faster.
"Chihiro.I love you." He leaned his forehead against mine and shut his eyes. His strong hands holding my arms gently.
"I love you to Kohaku." I said softly. Kohaku opened his eyes and n even happier smile appeared and his eyes lit up with joy. He pulled me into his strong embrace and our lips found each other as we began to kiss a passionate lovers kiss. Untainted, and full of purity. Our hearts beating as one and each melting into the other. Kohaku pulled back.
"Chihiro, will you marry me? Will you be willing to make me your husband?" I nearly jumped for joy as my heart gave a gleeful leap.
"I thought you would never ask!" I said happily. Kohaku picked me up and we both laughed and cried for joy as he twirled me around. He set me on the ground and gave me another sweet soft deliciouse kiss.
When we pulled away he pulled something out of his shirt. He let me look at it. It was a smooth light in color wooden ring with silver gems studded on the outside and evenly parted. He watched me as I carefully examined it, and then took it from me. Gently taking my hand he slipped it on my finger.
"It's beautiful Kohaku!" I said. He smiled happily.
"I made it a long time ago for you. You can wear it whenever you want to, even if your fingers swell or if you take a shower. It's water proof, and adjust to the wearers finger size."
"I love it."
"I'm glad. Though it's not nearly as beautiful as you." I could feel my face heat up as I blushed at the sudden compliment. He smiled and softly brushed his lips with mine.
"It's about time!" came a voice over towards the door. Kohaku and I turned around to see a smug Arelinita.
"Rin." Said Kohaku. It's amazing he can still talk; I'm still too busy blushing.
"All right, I'll leave you two love birds ALONE." She said stressing the 'alone' part. When she left I began giggling. Kohaku smiled at me and smiled. We both went back inside. As soon as we got to the main area, everyone stopped and looked at us, before a hooting, and hollering, and whistling. Then I spotted Arelinita in the middle of the crowd, smiling a little too innocently.
"You want me to?" Kohaku said grinning slyly.
"No, let me." I said sending an evil smile Arelinita's way. She paled a bit before she disappeared. Before long, after chasing her all around the bathhouse, we ended up in the Head Mistress's room, where I had her pinned to the ground begging for mercy.
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~*~ One Week later ~*~ Sleep over in Arelinita's room ****************
"I can't believe I'm getting married."
"Well you better get used to it! Your wedding is in four weeks."
"I know." I said smiling. Pillow feathers were lying all over the floor.
"What are you going to do when you get married?"
"What do you mean?"
"What I mean is, are you going to still work here, or are you two moving out?" I got more comfortable on my bed role thinking about it.
"I don't know. I talked to Kohaku and he doesn't know either. Not really. We don't have any particular place we want to live so, I guess we're still looking for options." I said sighing. We laid there in silence for a moment.
"Hey! I know! Why don't you live up in the attic!"? "The attic? It's dusty up there isn't it?"
"Well, yah, but there's a lot of room in there, almost like a small house, with it's own bathroom accommodations as well. It would be perfect if you were to live there. There's even room there if you were to have children!" She said getting excited.
"Arelinita!" I said blushing.
"What, you two are going to have children aren't you!" She said coyly.
"Yah but." I can feel myself blush an even deeper crimson. She hit me with her pillow in the face before laying on it again.
"We can look at it tomorrow and if you two can't find anywhere else to live, you two can live there if you want." I smiled.
"Thanks Arelinita. Your nice." I said.
"Uh? You think I'm nice? I'm not nice, I just don't want to see my best worker moving away. You know how long it will take me to replace you otherwise?" She said. It was my turn to hit her with a pillow, before we both began to laugh. When our laughter subsided we began our conversation again.
"Chihiro."
"Hmm?" I asked.
"What is Kohaku going to do for a job?"
"I don't know."
"You sure have a lot of I don't knows, don't ya."
"I don't know." I said playfully this time.
"Don't tell me that's going to be your answer for every question I ask now!" She said sitting up. I smiled again.
"I don't know!" I whacked her with a pillow. A few feathers went flying and landed on the top of her head.
"Oh, you're going to get it now!" She said and threw a pillow at me. She missed.
"You missed." I was bombarded by a mouth full of pillow before I could finish.
"I'm going to get you!" I said standing up. Our pillow fight continued through most of the day, before we fell asleep.
"Arelinita it's.ah.ah.achoo!" I sneezed.
"Yah, I know, it's dusty, but it can easily be cleaned up." She said optimistically. I went over to what must be a window, stumbling on different odds and ends in the barely audible light. I wiped away the encrusted dust on it and the moon shined right through it. Wiping more away, I discovered it was a large glass door. Not finding a knob or a latch I gave it a push, and with a screech, it opened out to a balcony that looped around to another door not to far away.
"It opens up to a balcony Arelinita." I said surprised, and delighted.
"I wouldn't go out on it quite yet. The wood may have rotted. After all, who knows when someone was last up here" She said before stumbling on something and cursing it, before kicking it, hurting her toe even more, and cursing some more. I let out a giggle.
"You know what Arelinita, for once, I think you might be right." I said smiling at the full moon. After a few moments searching, we found a light switch. I looked around.
"It's huge!" I said. I looked at the front area, that could easily be made into a living room/entry way. The area was filled with broken dishes, old boxes, broken chairs, and other such rubbish that was covered in so much dust; you couldn't decide what it was. To my right there was a curved wall that had an archway in the middle that held an old stove and broken table.
"Hmm, we would have to get you guys some new furniture after we cleaned it up a bit too." She said putting her hands on her hips. I walked to a doorway with the hinges broken off, so the door was slightly off kilter.
"Help me with this Arelinita." I said. The door was thick and heavy, but covered in beautiful markings. We managed to move it against the wall together. We stared in at the room, and after searching some more, we found another light switch. At first the light wouldn't go on, but it flickered a few times before coming back on.
"Hmm, lighting should be checked too." I looked over at the eight beds and four huge dressers in the room, the two panels that must be the doors to the balcony, and the floor covered with more boxes, broken bedsides, and of COURSE..more dust. We went galavantering through the gigantic attic and we came to the conclusion that it's big enough to house twelve large Spirits at least, and a couple million-dust bunnies.
"I love it, once you get past all of the dust and broken furniture, but."
"But what?" asked Arelinita sensing my sudden disappointment?
"What if Kohaku doesn't like it?" I asked worried. For indeed I had fallen in love with the place already, but if he really doesn't want to live here, than I will willingly go to the ends of the earth for him.
"You just leave that to me." Arelinita said. I looked at the evil glint that sparkled in her eyes, but before I could question her, she began to talk.
"Well, I guess you should get started then. Get eighteen of the best cleaning workers to help you. I want this whole place so clean I can see my reflection on the floor paneling. When it's clean I'll have six of our available repair Spirits up here to see what they can do, than I believe a little more cleaning will be needed." She began rambling on and on about all that was supposed to be done in less than a week.
"But.we also need to plan for the wedding too!" I said piping up.
"Yes, of course! I know that. Zeniiba is coming to help though as well, so that should be quick work. Two Weeks tops and we'll be ready." She glanced over at my worried and stressed face.
"Don't worry! We'll get it done! We've suffered through Yubaaba and her Tyrannous work, major battles, and getting this whole place put back into order, not to mention, managed to keep Kohaku in bed long enough to heal up for the most part. I think we can manage this!" She said optimistically. I sighed, but quickly smiled.
"All right Rin.let's do it." I said happily, while using her old name, to show that I fully support her ideas.
"Well, then lets get to it! Right now!" She cried. I gave her a mock bow.
"Yes Ma'am!" She smiled, punching me playfully in the arm as we walked down the stairs. Me to find eighteen cleaners, and her off to another dismal night of doing the 'Head Mistress' thing.
In the end, I chose Irah and Riah, the both of them are just bounding with energy; Enreesia though she can be a pain, she is a very good worker, Anna, Rhea, Schema, all three for their dedicated work; Yukiko, Eirwen, Siofra, Enuresis, Fiammeta, Chennai, for their cleaning skills; Sedalia, Dalai, Wisteria, for their patience; Riana, and Neshia both of which never complain and are good with details. Oh, and I made sure that Narua and Gina would be the ones to bring us up our food when we were on break. Oh boy, this is not going to be an easy task.
When all of the buckets, mops, scrubbing brushes, dust pans, dust wipers, brooms, rags, and other such cleaning utensils were up, all of us began our tasks. Splitting into groups, we separated into three of the main rooms.
"Let's sing a song!" I said cheerily, earning a fair share of happy replies and agreements.
"But what song."
"Shall we sing?" finished Irah for her sister. I smiled sweetly at their dust-covered faces, and already dirty clothes.
"I don't know, I was thinking maybe you two could decide for us?" They jumped for joy.
"Irah, what song should we sing first?"
"Lets sing 'The Drunkards Inn" She cried. I shook my head, a lovely fast, and giddy song it is, and silly too.
"In A city deep, where the drink is cheep." Riah started.
"There is a Tavern called."Irah said in an alto voice.
"The Drunkards Inn. ."
"The Drunkards Inn." On this part, we began to join in the song, and without intentionally doing it we began to scrub, sweep or what ever to the beat.
Chorus Where the Spirits all drunk scream Yo Ho Hum! Please kind worker get us some more Rum! They whoop and holler when their pints come! The drink and drink till they all fall on their bum!
Oh The Drunkards Inn What a wonderful place Many gambles you could win And drink enough to turn purple, your face
Chorus Where the Spirits all drunk scream Yo Ho Hum! Please kind worker get us some more Rum! They whoop and holler when their pints come! The drink and drink till they all fall on their bum!
But beware you drunkards When your mates come in And drag you out Of the Drunkards Inn
Chorus Where the Spirits all drunk scream Yo Ho Hum! Please kind worker get us some more Rum! They whoop and holler when their pints come! The drink and drink till they all fall on their bum!
So if you're lonely Come on down To the Drunkards Inn In the center of Town!
Chorus Where the Spirits all drunk scream Yo Ho Hum! Please kind worker get us some more Rum! They whoop and holler when their pints come! The drink and drink till they all fall on their bum!
It's amazing really, when Yubaaba was here, we would never be allowed to sing songs while we worked, but now we can. We can be ourselves while we work.
"Lets sing another!" The twins squealed. I laughed as I sat back on my knees from scrubbing.
"Yes lets, only this time, something less, crude?" I asked. They looked at me and smiled evilly.
"Then we'll sing 'Lady Spirit Fare' " I stared in horror, but it was too late. They had already begun to sing their song jovially while continuing their floor scrubbing, which we sing almost everyday when working at least three times. Oh well, let them enjoy their song. I smile as I too let my Soprano voice join in.
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Authors Ending Note: Yes, I do claim that song, because I wrote it, and it is mine. Finally something I can claim.there is no Lady Spirit Fair song either that I know of either, I came up with it.
Now to explain the time jumps, because I know it confuses you peoples sometimes, though I did try to key it down a bit-TRY--- as a key word.
In my last chapter, I left off where Chihiro left the room while Kohaku was being repaired, to speak lightly; well this chapter takes place after that kind of, well it mentions the shower and all up to the point where she is sitting on the roof. That's where my first Romance scene ever written takes place (I feel so proud.tear).
Then it skips to a week later taking place in Arelinita's room, where there is like a sleep over (it's a girl thing), then the next night (remember, they work at nights-correct me if I'm wrong though.I think it's crazy) up in the attic, then they go down, Chihiro assembles the BCS (the Bathhouse Cleaning Squad-lol! Not really called that!) And they begin cleaning.
Oh! Just the scoop on my future "Spirited Away" related writings, before I completely end this story I'm going to give you a glimpse at what the bad guys are up to, though it's going to be shrouded in tons of mystery as well.thus giving me my opening to writing the sequel! Bodda Bing, badda BOOM! Vwala! Amazing aren't I?
Authors Beginning Note: Due to a Unanimous demand, I will be making fluff in this story before I officially end it, and will be doing a sequel!
Warning, some time skipping here, I'll explain it at my bottom author's note
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Chapter 29
Roof Top Discussion,
Flying feathers, and Tavern Songs
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After taking a shower I slowly made my way through hallways until I came to a door that led to a particular rooftop.
I was met by cool refreshing air out on my favorite sitting place on one or the rooftops. The stars are so pretty. They glitter and shine way up there like shiny stones smoothed by sand and water. They surround the moon, as if protecting her from the darkness.
"You still come here to think?" Came a sudden voice. I jumped. Kohaku came and sat besides me drawing his knees slightly to his chest, his arms resting on them. He must have taken a shower too, for he is now clean, not a sign of sweat or ash on him. His hair slightly still wet on the tips, and he now wears a clean outfit, much like the one he usually wears, a white shirt, a purple sash, and newly dyed pants that tighten at the ankle. I looked back at the moon and her protected innocence.
"Yah. I've never found a better spot to be. Hardly anyone comes up here, and the noise isn't so loud up here." I said smiling faintly.
"You get a good view of the sky."
"How did you know I used to always come up here?" I asked suddenly. Kohaku blushed in the moonlit darkness.
"When you first came here, after while, I noticed you kept disappearing from time to time, so I decided to follow you one day. I took a wrong turn and I lost you, but I found myself on one of the other roofs over there and watched you." He said pointing. I looked over to the one nearest to us. It's amazing I never noticed him there before.
"Why did you watch me?" Kohaku blushed even more.
"I remembered you from somewhere, but I couldn't figure out where or how. You intrigued me. And I was worried you might fall." I looked at him in surprise as he fiddled with his fingers. After a moment of silence he stood up. He stared up at the sky.
"You know, everyday here seemed like an eternity. Every moment felt like a decade, especially when I wasn't in control anymore. What made it seem even longer though was when I had a promise I wanted to keep, but wasn't able to." Looking at his face, you can see the troubled expression as he relived the past years in his thoughts. He turned and I stood up.
"Where are you going?" I asked almost sadly. He stopped and faced me. I smiled and took a step forwards.
"Stay here. There's no need to leave. Besides, it gets lonely up here sometimes with no one else around." I said invitingly. Beginning to realize our closeness I blushed as I looked down.
"You know.it seemed like an eternity for me too, while I waited for a promise to be filled. I really got worried after a while. Sometime I would have nightmares and then wake up crying. It was those times I thought back on that promise the most, and made waiting the hardest. It was like an itch that can't be reached. Then there were those days when I was so sure that you were okay, that I couldn't help but smile every moment I could." A small tear slipped down my face as I looked to my side and at a particularly bright star. I felt warm hands under my chin and they brought my face to look at Kohaku's, then feeling his thumb brush away the single tear that stained my face.
"I'm not going anywhere. There's no need to cry, so please don't. It doesn't suite you." He said softly, looking troubled at the thought of more tears sliding down my face. I looked into his eyes.
"I won't. As long as you're okay, and we're together. I'll never have a need to cry. I don't plan on leaving either." I smiled at him a shy, but happy smile. He gave me a bright smile in return of joy, much like the one when we were flying in the air, right after he had gotten his name. It made my stomach flip and my heart beat faster.
"Chihiro.I love you." He leaned his forehead against mine and shut his eyes. His strong hands holding my arms gently.
"I love you to Kohaku." I said softly. Kohaku opened his eyes and n even happier smile appeared and his eyes lit up with joy. He pulled me into his strong embrace and our lips found each other as we began to kiss a passionate lovers kiss. Untainted, and full of purity. Our hearts beating as one and each melting into the other. Kohaku pulled back.
"Chihiro, will you marry me? Will you be willing to make me your husband?" I nearly jumped for joy as my heart gave a gleeful leap.
"I thought you would never ask!" I said happily. Kohaku picked me up and we both laughed and cried for joy as he twirled me around. He set me on the ground and gave me another sweet soft deliciouse kiss.
When we pulled away he pulled something out of his shirt. He let me look at it. It was a smooth light in color wooden ring with silver gems studded on the outside and evenly parted. He watched me as I carefully examined it, and then took it from me. Gently taking my hand he slipped it on my finger.
"It's beautiful Kohaku!" I said. He smiled happily.
"I made it a long time ago for you. You can wear it whenever you want to, even if your fingers swell or if you take a shower. It's water proof, and adjust to the wearers finger size."
"I love it."
"I'm glad. Though it's not nearly as beautiful as you." I could feel my face heat up as I blushed at the sudden compliment. He smiled and softly brushed his lips with mine.
"It's about time!" came a voice over towards the door. Kohaku and I turned around to see a smug Arelinita.
"Rin." Said Kohaku. It's amazing he can still talk; I'm still too busy blushing.
"All right, I'll leave you two love birds ALONE." She said stressing the 'alone' part. When she left I began giggling. Kohaku smiled at me and smiled. We both went back inside. As soon as we got to the main area, everyone stopped and looked at us, before a hooting, and hollering, and whistling. Then I spotted Arelinita in the middle of the crowd, smiling a little too innocently.
"You want me to?" Kohaku said grinning slyly.
"No, let me." I said sending an evil smile Arelinita's way. She paled a bit before she disappeared. Before long, after chasing her all around the bathhouse, we ended up in the Head Mistress's room, where I had her pinned to the ground begging for mercy.
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~*~ One Week later ~*~ Sleep over in Arelinita's room ****************
"I can't believe I'm getting married."
"Well you better get used to it! Your wedding is in four weeks."
"I know." I said smiling. Pillow feathers were lying all over the floor.
"What are you going to do when you get married?"
"What do you mean?"
"What I mean is, are you going to still work here, or are you two moving out?" I got more comfortable on my bed role thinking about it.
"I don't know. I talked to Kohaku and he doesn't know either. Not really. We don't have any particular place we want to live so, I guess we're still looking for options." I said sighing. We laid there in silence for a moment.
"Hey! I know! Why don't you live up in the attic!"? "The attic? It's dusty up there isn't it?"
"Well, yah, but there's a lot of room in there, almost like a small house, with it's own bathroom accommodations as well. It would be perfect if you were to live there. There's even room there if you were to have children!" She said getting excited.
"Arelinita!" I said blushing.
"What, you two are going to have children aren't you!" She said coyly.
"Yah but." I can feel myself blush an even deeper crimson. She hit me with her pillow in the face before laying on it again.
"We can look at it tomorrow and if you two can't find anywhere else to live, you two can live there if you want." I smiled.
"Thanks Arelinita. Your nice." I said.
"Uh? You think I'm nice? I'm not nice, I just don't want to see my best worker moving away. You know how long it will take me to replace you otherwise?" She said. It was my turn to hit her with a pillow, before we both began to laugh. When our laughter subsided we began our conversation again.
"Chihiro."
"Hmm?" I asked.
"What is Kohaku going to do for a job?"
"I don't know."
"You sure have a lot of I don't knows, don't ya."
"I don't know." I said playfully this time.
"Don't tell me that's going to be your answer for every question I ask now!" She said sitting up. I smiled again.
"I don't know!" I whacked her with a pillow. A few feathers went flying and landed on the top of her head.
"Oh, you're going to get it now!" She said and threw a pillow at me. She missed.
"You missed." I was bombarded by a mouth full of pillow before I could finish.
"I'm going to get you!" I said standing up. Our pillow fight continued through most of the day, before we fell asleep.
"Arelinita it's.ah.ah.achoo!" I sneezed.
"Yah, I know, it's dusty, but it can easily be cleaned up." She said optimistically. I went over to what must be a window, stumbling on different odds and ends in the barely audible light. I wiped away the encrusted dust on it and the moon shined right through it. Wiping more away, I discovered it was a large glass door. Not finding a knob or a latch I gave it a push, and with a screech, it opened out to a balcony that looped around to another door not to far away.
"It opens up to a balcony Arelinita." I said surprised, and delighted.
"I wouldn't go out on it quite yet. The wood may have rotted. After all, who knows when someone was last up here" She said before stumbling on something and cursing it, before kicking it, hurting her toe even more, and cursing some more. I let out a giggle.
"You know what Arelinita, for once, I think you might be right." I said smiling at the full moon. After a few moments searching, we found a light switch. I looked around.
"It's huge!" I said. I looked at the front area, that could easily be made into a living room/entry way. The area was filled with broken dishes, old boxes, broken chairs, and other such rubbish that was covered in so much dust; you couldn't decide what it was. To my right there was a curved wall that had an archway in the middle that held an old stove and broken table.
"Hmm, we would have to get you guys some new furniture after we cleaned it up a bit too." She said putting her hands on her hips. I walked to a doorway with the hinges broken off, so the door was slightly off kilter.
"Help me with this Arelinita." I said. The door was thick and heavy, but covered in beautiful markings. We managed to move it against the wall together. We stared in at the room, and after searching some more, we found another light switch. At first the light wouldn't go on, but it flickered a few times before coming back on.
"Hmm, lighting should be checked too." I looked over at the eight beds and four huge dressers in the room, the two panels that must be the doors to the balcony, and the floor covered with more boxes, broken bedsides, and of COURSE..more dust. We went galavantering through the gigantic attic and we came to the conclusion that it's big enough to house twelve large Spirits at least, and a couple million-dust bunnies.
"I love it, once you get past all of the dust and broken furniture, but."
"But what?" asked Arelinita sensing my sudden disappointment?
"What if Kohaku doesn't like it?" I asked worried. For indeed I had fallen in love with the place already, but if he really doesn't want to live here, than I will willingly go to the ends of the earth for him.
"You just leave that to me." Arelinita said. I looked at the evil glint that sparkled in her eyes, but before I could question her, she began to talk.
"Well, I guess you should get started then. Get eighteen of the best cleaning workers to help you. I want this whole place so clean I can see my reflection on the floor paneling. When it's clean I'll have six of our available repair Spirits up here to see what they can do, than I believe a little more cleaning will be needed." She began rambling on and on about all that was supposed to be done in less than a week.
"But.we also need to plan for the wedding too!" I said piping up.
"Yes, of course! I know that. Zeniiba is coming to help though as well, so that should be quick work. Two Weeks tops and we'll be ready." She glanced over at my worried and stressed face.
"Don't worry! We'll get it done! We've suffered through Yubaaba and her Tyrannous work, major battles, and getting this whole place put back into order, not to mention, managed to keep Kohaku in bed long enough to heal up for the most part. I think we can manage this!" She said optimistically. I sighed, but quickly smiled.
"All right Rin.let's do it." I said happily, while using her old name, to show that I fully support her ideas.
"Well, then lets get to it! Right now!" She cried. I gave her a mock bow.
"Yes Ma'am!" She smiled, punching me playfully in the arm as we walked down the stairs. Me to find eighteen cleaners, and her off to another dismal night of doing the 'Head Mistress' thing.
In the end, I chose Irah and Riah, the both of them are just bounding with energy; Enreesia though she can be a pain, she is a very good worker, Anna, Rhea, Schema, all three for their dedicated work; Yukiko, Eirwen, Siofra, Enuresis, Fiammeta, Chennai, for their cleaning skills; Sedalia, Dalai, Wisteria, for their patience; Riana, and Neshia both of which never complain and are good with details. Oh, and I made sure that Narua and Gina would be the ones to bring us up our food when we were on break. Oh boy, this is not going to be an easy task.
When all of the buckets, mops, scrubbing brushes, dust pans, dust wipers, brooms, rags, and other such cleaning utensils were up, all of us began our tasks. Splitting into groups, we separated into three of the main rooms.
"Let's sing a song!" I said cheerily, earning a fair share of happy replies and agreements.
"But what song."
"Shall we sing?" finished Irah for her sister. I smiled sweetly at their dust-covered faces, and already dirty clothes.
"I don't know, I was thinking maybe you two could decide for us?" They jumped for joy.
"Irah, what song should we sing first?"
"Lets sing 'The Drunkards Inn" She cried. I shook my head, a lovely fast, and giddy song it is, and silly too.
"In A city deep, where the drink is cheep." Riah started.
"There is a Tavern called."Irah said in an alto voice.
"The Drunkards Inn. ."
"The Drunkards Inn." On this part, we began to join in the song, and without intentionally doing it we began to scrub, sweep or what ever to the beat.
Chorus Where the Spirits all drunk scream Yo Ho Hum! Please kind worker get us some more Rum! They whoop and holler when their pints come! The drink and drink till they all fall on their bum!
Oh The Drunkards Inn What a wonderful place Many gambles you could win And drink enough to turn purple, your face
Chorus Where the Spirits all drunk scream Yo Ho Hum! Please kind worker get us some more Rum! They whoop and holler when their pints come! The drink and drink till they all fall on their bum!
But beware you drunkards When your mates come in And drag you out Of the Drunkards Inn
Chorus Where the Spirits all drunk scream Yo Ho Hum! Please kind worker get us some more Rum! They whoop and holler when their pints come! The drink and drink till they all fall on their bum!
So if you're lonely Come on down To the Drunkards Inn In the center of Town!
Chorus Where the Spirits all drunk scream Yo Ho Hum! Please kind worker get us some more Rum! They whoop and holler when their pints come! The drink and drink till they all fall on their bum!
It's amazing really, when Yubaaba was here, we would never be allowed to sing songs while we worked, but now we can. We can be ourselves while we work.
"Lets sing another!" The twins squealed. I laughed as I sat back on my knees from scrubbing.
"Yes lets, only this time, something less, crude?" I asked. They looked at me and smiled evilly.
"Then we'll sing 'Lady Spirit Fare' " I stared in horror, but it was too late. They had already begun to sing their song jovially while continuing their floor scrubbing, which we sing almost everyday when working at least three times. Oh well, let them enjoy their song. I smile as I too let my Soprano voice join in.
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Authors Ending Note: Yes, I do claim that song, because I wrote it, and it is mine. Finally something I can claim.there is no Lady Spirit Fair song either that I know of either, I came up with it.
Now to explain the time jumps, because I know it confuses you peoples sometimes, though I did try to key it down a bit-TRY--- as a key word.
In my last chapter, I left off where Chihiro left the room while Kohaku was being repaired, to speak lightly; well this chapter takes place after that kind of, well it mentions the shower and all up to the point where she is sitting on the roof. That's where my first Romance scene ever written takes place (I feel so proud.tear).
Then it skips to a week later taking place in Arelinita's room, where there is like a sleep over (it's a girl thing), then the next night (remember, they work at nights-correct me if I'm wrong though.I think it's crazy) up in the attic, then they go down, Chihiro assembles the BCS (the Bathhouse Cleaning Squad-lol! Not really called that!) And they begin cleaning.
Oh! Just the scoop on my future "Spirited Away" related writings, before I completely end this story I'm going to give you a glimpse at what the bad guys are up to, though it's going to be shrouded in tons of mystery as well.thus giving me my opening to writing the sequel! Bodda Bing, badda BOOM! Vwala! Amazing aren't I?