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Part VI

I was running... breathing hard... sweat falling down my face. I could feel something was terribly wrong, not right... My feet began to hurt. Everything is black, I couldn't see. I felt arms wrap around my waist and pick me up. I'm being held... someone's holding me! I could hear his breathing in my ear, and his heart beat on my back. His hands move to my hair, and his lips press against mine. My vision clears, and I can see his face.

Haku...

My soul mate... my other half... The one I've been searching for, and he's finally found me.

He shook his head, "not yet..."

"What?" I asked, feeling my heart ache.

"There is still more to wait for, dear," he said, his eyes searching my face. He ran his fingers through my hair, and I felt his heart skip a few beats.

I looked up at him, his face loosing its color. "Haku... what's going on?"

He looked down at me, giving me the warmest smile I've ever seen. "Will you wait for me?"

"I'll wait forever!" I said, pressing myself against him tightly. "But why do I have to wait? I have you right here! I'll never leave, and neither will you!"

He shook his head, his warm smile vanishing to a weak one. I felt my heart beat faster, wishing that he wasn't upset. I begged him with my eyes, pleading him not to look at me that way, but his smile had not changed.

"Chihiro... we cannot be together in this world..."

"What? Why not?"

"I am a spirit, not a real human of flesh and blood like you. There is only one place where we can be together."

I knew where he meant, but I dared not return there. I was forced to work, forget my name and my parents. I almost forgot about Haku... I could not let that happen again. I shook my head furiously, pounding my fist into his chest. "No! I will not go back to that awful place! Why can't you just stay here like you are now?"

He put his hands onto my cheeks, my tears rolling through his fingers. "I am only allowed to stay here for a while, not as long as I had hoped."

I shook my head, and buried my face in his chest, his heart beat pounding in my ears. "I can't return there... I will forget everything again... I cannot allow myself to go through that again..."

He sighed, and pushed me away from him. "I have two more days, Chihiro. I hope you make up your mind before I leave. There is no way we can meet after I have returned to my world." He was not smiling, his eyes looked of sadness and worry, and he began to slowly step away from me, walking backwards into the darkness.

I reached out my hand, "No! Haku! No! Don't go!"

My cries were useless; he still walked away. With a kiss blown from his lips, he turned his back to me, and I felt every piece of life in me vanish.

I opened my eyes, seeing my ceiling above me. I shuttered my eyelids, forcing my vision to become clear, and I saw that I was lying down on my bed, which was filled with cold sweat. It was early morning, and my alarm was ringing. It had been two hours since it turned off, and my mother would probably yell at me for not waking up in time. With a slow reach of my hand, I shut the ringing off, and rubbed my soar eyes with the back of my hands.

The dream played over and over in my head as I walked to my closet to gather some clothes for the day. Why did he appear in my dream? My dream...

I gasped, dropping my brush and clothes onto the floor. I had that dream before... it was when I didn't remember the promise. I had promised I'd wait for him forever. I had promised him I'd wait forever...

Wait forever...

Forever...

Before I knew it, I was on the ground, crying like I have never cried before. Tears kept streaming down my cheeks and onto the carpet. I felt tired, weak, and helpless. My body was still fatigued from sleep, and I felt weightless. I felt like jelly, but pain rushed into my head, and I sniffed furiously to stop my tears from coming any further.

Nothing worked... I was still crying. I remained on the ground, tears falling from my eyes, for an hour or more. I had lost track of time until my phone rang to snap me back to reality. I forced back what was left of my emotions, and I slowly, shakily, stood up and reached for the phone.

"He-hello?" I asked, my voice quivering.

"Chihiro! Are you just now getting up!" My mother screamed in my ear from downstairs.

I ignored her, and listened closely to the person on the phone.

"Chihiro..." Haku's voice came through the other side. "I leave tomorrow at dawn..."

Oh no... more tears...

"I need to know soon, Chihiro... tonight is the last I can see you."

"No!" I screamed at him, not in any control of my emotions anymore. "We have to see each other before you go! I will not see you off tonight!"

"So... you're not coming... are you?"

I realized the words that had just escaped my mouth, and I gasped. "No! That's not what I meant!"

"Then what did you mean?" He snapped, frustration and pain in his voice sounded much like my own. "Chihiro, I don't have time to wait anymore, it's almost two, and I am leaving at dawn. You got very little time to make up your mind. But you already seem to have made your decision..."

"Haku! I haven't decided anything! I just spent an hour crying on my floor!" Tears began to stroll down my face again. "I don't know what I want... I have to think about this, Haku. You have to give me more time!"

"I was not the one that made this happen... It is the rule us spirits follow. I was here for weeks, I cannot stay any longer..."

"Then why didn't you tell me before?" I screamed back at him. "Why didn't you tell me sooner! I would have made my choice right away!"

"Because you did not remember, Chihiro... you did not remember your promise..."

The promise... that cursed promise I had made years ago! If it wasn't for that promise...

I wouldn't be in love with Haku... and he wouldn't be here right now...

I gave a sigh, feeling tired and incapable of anymore words. I forced them to come out of my mouth, "Haku... where are you leaving?"

He hesitated, but I knew he felt no more need to argue anymore. "At the lake. Right when the sun comes over the mountains... I will be gone..."

I nodded, knowing that he could not see it. "Very well... I will see you there with my decision."

I knew he felt horrible, and I couldn't blame him. I felt bad myself. "Bye," he said quickly, as if he needed to get off to let his emotions go. He hung up before I could even reply, and I hung up myself, feeling the wave of tears come back to my eyes.

I fell back to the ground, my legs numb from the emotion. I could not think anymore... my mind became a complete blur...

With soft cries... I had fallen into sleep that lasted longer than I hoped.