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Author's Note: sorry for the delay! i have been busy busy. dumplings to Carapheonix, Kute Anime Kitty, Draechaeli and Celestine for your reviews. As for the length of the chapters, again, i apologize. The next one is longer i promise.

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Chapter 6

"Wow Chihiro, I can't believe you've only been here for barely three years! It seems I've known you forever!" Katie added special emphasis to her last word.

Chihiro beamed, nodding at her best friend. "I know! But you were one of the first people I met here after all."

Katie stopped walking and looked at Chihiro teasingly. "I thought I'm the first person you met after you moved?"

"Oh." Chihiro paused. She put on a cheerful face and stuck out her tongue. "You know that's what I meant Katie!"

Katie laughed. "Hey Chihiro. You know what we should do to celebrate the beginning of the summer? We should go camping! Abby said that there's the nicest spot in the forest in front of you house. What do you think?"

Again, Chihiro paused. "The forest in front of my house…" She put on a nonchalant voice. "Uh… sure! But wouldn't it be nicer to camp somewhere a bit further away?"

"You got a point there. We'll see! See you tomorrow Chihiro!" Katie waved goodbye and walked down the street to her house. Chihiro started toward her own house but stopped. Instead, she walked the once familiar road to a tunnel in the forest in front of her house.

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True friends can never truly be forgotten. Chihiro slowly read the names she had carved onto the tree. As her eyes passed over the last name, she felt a wave of nostalgia wash over her. Of course she missed Haku. He was the first friend she had made here. He was the one who had helped her the most in the Spirit World. He was warm, caring, dependable… "I wonder where you are right now Haku." Chihiro said to the trees. "You've probably learned a whole bunch of magic by now." She looked down at the earth beneath the tree. A few crumpled fragments of brown-pink petals lay scattered and buried in the soil. I wonder if you've still got my card Haku. She tried to picture his smiling face but all that came to her were words: olive green eyes, dark chin length hair, gentle expression… Just words. There were no pictures, no sounds, no smells associated with any of these words. They might have been the descriptions of someone she didn't know for all they did in helping her picture him. "But that's okay Haku. I don't have to remember what you looked like three years ago. You will always be my very best friend." Chihiro smiled up at the clear blue sky above her. A light breeze blew softly around her. Chihiro closed her eyes and just remembered. She went over the adventures she had in the Spirit World, jumping over the gaps left in her memory from time and dwelling on what she did remember. She thought about the people she had met. Some of them she no longer remembered the names of. But that was okay. They were all a part of her soul. She didn't need to remember all their names to remember their presence. She didn't need to remember their presence for their essence to forever be a part of her. There was something that seemed to join her to all the people she had ever known; and each of them had a special place in her heart—especially the one named Kohaku.

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