Author's Note: a meat ball to jo jo and tons of cookies to Draechaeli and a fortune cookie with names in it to Bailey for your awesome reviews! (As for Bou's name, I always watch with subtitles so I kinda just read it off the screen! hahahahahaha )
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Chapter 4
"What's the matter Chihiro? You haven't touched a thing on your plate." Mrs. Ogino looked at her daughter with concern.
"I'm just not hungry mom. May I go to my room? I'm tired from all the biking this morning." Chihiro left the dining table and walked upstairs to her room, holding back the tears threatening to fall. She can't get back to the Spirit World to see her friends. She had lost her red hair tie. She has nothing left that links her to the Spirit World. She lost every single one of her friends: Granny, Bou, Yu-bird, No Face, the soot balls, Kamajii, Rin and … Haku. Haku… Chihiro pulled a pillow close to herself and cried.
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Chihiro wasn't sure why she was back here yet again. In front of the tunnel, peering into the darkness. The forest around her was still and silent. She stepped into the tunnel and walked through it, hoping, wishing that this time, she wouldn't see trees on the other side like so many times before. She squeezed her eyes shut and tried to remember what her friends in the Spirit World had looked like but was unable to form the image of their faces. She opened her eyes and found herself once again facing row after row of trees. Dark, unfeeling trees.
Instead of turning and walking back home, Chihiro walked up to the nearest tree and pulled out a small pocket knife. With the knife, she carefully carved the names of all her friends in the Spirit World onto the bark. That done, she put her pocket knife back into her pocket and took out a little metal box. She opened the box and looked at the contents inside: a page ripped out of her diary from the day she found the Spirit World, folded neatly and protected by a thin plastic wrapper. She dug a hole in the soil at the bottom of the tree and buried the box in the hole. Brushing the dirt off her hands, she took the bouquet of dried flowers that her friend Rumi had given her when she moved and put it on top of the little mound of dirt that held her box of memories. Without looking back, Chihiro walked back across the tunnel, whispering a reluctant goodbye that lost itself in the loud silence of the forest.
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A/N: this one was a bit on the short side even for me. but the next one's longer i promise review plz!
