Disclaimer: I don't own Spirited Away or any of its characters.
Author's Note: I got writers block for my other story and not this one so I decided to write the first chapter or so hope you enjoy. Happy reading! ~Na
Chapter 1: Playground
Chihiro and Kohaku sat on a bench in a park in the human world they hadn't come back in four years. It was a beautiful warm May day, just like summer. Chihiro sat in Kohaku's arms reading a story that was written by Asuko and Yoshi about the Spirit world, while Kohaku listened and played with Chihiro's waist long brown hair. Unlike Chihiro Kohaku hadn't let his hair grow out it was the same length and same black hair he always had.
Both Chihiro and Kohaku found the story to be very humorous. It was written so that Asuko and Yoshi could publish it and not have people know how to get to the Spirit world, and many names were changed for example Kohaku was Hokahu. But not all names were a simple word scramble. Asuko and Yoshi had also added lots of things that didn't happen and stretched their whole adventure to two week. Two Prologues were written one about Chihiro and the other about Asuko's grandmother. Giving the story a grand total of 317 pages double spaced.
Chihiro looked up and spotted her six year old daughter crawling in the dirt under a slide. Chihiro just laughed Ryu was covered head to toe in dirt and her long brown low pigtails where falling out. At that moment Ryu looked like a poor dirty child, but her shining bright green eyes and smile showed it was all just fun. Ryu insisted on wearing Chihiro's original uniform from when she was ten. The uniform was too large for Ryu, the sleeves where always tied up with the white (no longer white, Ryu had gotten it very dirty) ribbon that was used to keep loose sleeve out of the way. Her pants were rolled up every day, but in her games they were unrolled and torn. Ryu looked so much like Chihiro when Chihiro was young, except she had the smile, eyes, and spirit of her father Kohaku.
Chihiro and Kohaku loved their energetic child, she was their one and only, their sun of their universe. In all the seemingly impossibilities that Ryu was born, she was, fulfilling wishes and hopes of a happy family. Ryu was very smart and strong willed for her age, sometimes stubborn. If it meant someone's life might be in danger or just a possible broken arm, she didn't care what rules she broke.
A few people walked by Chihiro and Kohaku, they were starring and giving evil looks. Chihiro and Kohaku just ignored them, most people knew who they were though they knew almost no one. Chihiro and Kohaku really looked the same from when they were younger. Chihiro was a lot more toned from her work but that was about all. Their clothes were a dead give away, it was very hard for all three of them to wear the clothes of today, jeans and shirts. For girls most were to tight for Chihiro's tastes and the loose boys clothes were to loose for Kohaku.
"What's today's date?" asked Chihiro.
"May 25 why?" replied Kohaku looking at Chihiro.
"We are on vacation again and I still owe two years ten months and twenty-three days, with out a day off," laughed Chihiro.
"Well that is Zeniiba, you know. So what happens next after Hiyae returns early from business and finds us all there?" asked Kohaku. Chihiro turned back to the story. It was very suspenseful, Hiyae returns early and finds Yoshi, Kohaku, and Chihiro in the garden Ryu was left home. Since this really didn't happen Kohaku and Chihiro didn't know the outcome.
Ryu climbed out from under the slide and ran to the closest metal jungle gym. She stood on the path and starred at the jungle gym, it wasn't that she was scared to climb it she was just wondering if it was to high to jump off of. Ryu surveyed the jungle gym from the ground when she heard a child cry.
Ryu looked in the direction of the crying, two boys on the other side of the jungle gym were fighting over a toy truck and one hit the other. Ryu slowly walked around the jungle gym to see if the boy was alright. A biker rang his bell to warn Ryu that he was coming up close and fast. Ryu whipped around and jumped back almost getting hit by the biker. Ryu turned back around, she was standing on a small wobbly rock. The rock slipped and Ryu fell forward hitting her head on the jungle gym.
The cold metal was the last thing that Ryu felt before everything went black. Blood streamed down her face from a three centimeter long cut that would need stitches.
A woman who had say the accident ran over to Ryu's side. She put a hand on Ryu's shoulder and her other hand took out a tissue to wipe up the blood. The woman lightly touched Ryu's cut. The woman looked around, "Where is her mother?" she said, but no worried mother came running up. The woman looked at Ryu, she was thin and dirty, wearing torn, old, old fashioned clothes. Ryu's eyes fluttered open, to see a worried face of a blonde haired woman looking down at her, she had pale skin and soft blue eyes. She was definitely not from around here, or maybe she was... Ryu no longer knew where she was.
"Are you alright? What's your name sweetie? Where is your mother?" asked the woman in a soft sing song voice.
"I'm fine," said Ryu slowly sitting up and placing a hand on her cut, a few tears trickled down her face from the pain, "I...I... don't remember my name... and what's a mother?"
The woman looked shocked, she looked the girl over again. The girl would have to see a doctor, and she also looked like she was a homeless child. Who got her clothes at the Christmas Homeless dinner, that also gave out clothes and blankets (some which were very old).
The woman held her hand out to the girl, "Come with me sweetie you need to see a doctor."
The girl took the hand of the woman and stood up. Her head was a little light feeling and the pain from her cut was now excruciating. Tears streamed down her face, the girl cried in pain. The sound of the painful cry was drowned out by near by construction as together the woman and girl walked out of the park. They quickly crossed the street, at the crosswalk where they were lucky that a car stopped for them. They walked to the parking lot where the woman's car was parked. The girl climbed in the car holding the tissue on her cut, and crying. The woman helped her buckle up, and then she started the car.
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"What? Yoshi hit Hiyae!" laughed Kohaku.
Chihiro was laughing, "It's not over with yet, maybe you'll eat him!"
Kohaku made a disgusted face, "Gross!" Chihiro laughed, she looked over at the playground where Ryu was playing. Ryu wasn't there, Chihiro stopped laughing.
"Kohaku where is Ryu?" Chihiro said seriously, and worried.
"Oh don't worry she probably is just on the other side of the playground," replied Kohaku calming down Chihiro.
Chihiro sighed, "Yeah your probably right, but we should be going." Chihiro stood up pulling Kohaku up with her. They stepped on the cement walking/biking/skateboarding/rollerblade/(etc.) path and walked towards the slide that Ryu was under only ten minutes before.
Kohaku peered his head under the slide, he could tell that Ryu had been there. There were several of Ryu's foot prints half defined in the dirt the other half was a cloth mark, from stepping on her oversized pants.
"Ryu! Are you under here?" Kohaku could clearly see she wasn't, but it was worth a try. Kohaku stood back up and walked towards the swings, the opposite direction of the metal jungle gym Ryu went to.
"Ryu! Ryu! Come on we need to go and see your Aunt and Uncle!" Chihiro Screamed as they slowly walked around the playground in search of Ryu.
Kohaku yelled there was a hint of worry in his voice, "Ryu!"
"She probably is playing a trick on us, or only answering to Tea today," replied Chihiro also sounding worried.
"Tea!" they both screamed.
"Ryuichi Teataura Nushi! This isn't funny!" yelled Chihiro, she gripped Kohaku's hand tightly, they had walked around the whole playground and they hadn't found Ryu, "It was only ten minutes, Kohaku, ten minutes!" A tear trickled down Chihiro's face.
Kohaku and Chihiro turned around expecting, hoping that Ryu would be standing there laughing because they had looked for her and she was following them the whole time. Chihiro and Kohaku's faces lit up and then dropped lower then they were before, Ryu wasn't there.
Kohaku and Chihiro started to walk around the playground again Chihiro was in tears, and Kohaku was choking back the tears. Ryu was no where to be seen.
Kohaku and Chihiro began to ask everyone they saw, "Have you seen a six year old girl, about this tall with long brown hair in messy pigtails, and green eyes, wearing a orange out fit like mine/hers?" Kohaku and Chihiro placed their hands a little below their hips for Ryu's height, and motioned at Chihiro's uniform for Ryu's dress. No one had seen her, a few people said they thought they did but it was a while ago.
"This is all my fault I shouldn't have been reading!" cried Chihiro after they had circled the playground for the fifth time. Kohaku was agreeing with Chihiro just putting himself at blame. Kohaku's hand reached a pay phone, he shakily placed a coin in the slot and dialed the only number he knew.
Kohaku was still trying to choke back his tears but it was no use a few stray tears fell down his cheek as the phone rang. The phone rang for what seemed an eternity, but Kohaku wouldn't hang up he needed someone to help to search for his daughter. To distract himself he counted the rings he heard, 23...there was silence once again the impact of his missing daughter trickled into his head. He could tell that the person on the other end had dropped the phone and that is why there was no answer at first.
"Mato, Hello," said a male voice on the other end of the phone.
"Yoshi... Ryu is missing, we can't find her anywhere," replied the sullen Kohaku. The phone dropped again.
Kohaku could hear another person walk into the room on Yoshi's end of the phone. Yoshi started to talk to the person, Kohaku couldn't tell what he said. Asuko picked up the phone, "Kohaku? Where are you?"
"The park downtown," replied Kohaku wiping his face dry from his tears.
"We'll be there in a minute, bye," Asuko said, she handed the phone to Yoshi.
Yoshi said comfortably, "Don't worry man, we'll find her. I'm sure she just heard an ice cream truck and will be walking back to you two any second." Yoshi hung up the phone Kohaku just stood there holding the dead phone to his ear. After a minute he slowly hung up the phone.
Kohaku turned around to face Chihiro and tell her that Asuko and Yoshi were coming, "Chihiro..." Kohaku slowly said, he looked into Chihiro's eyes they were red from crying, she looked incredibly pale. Chihiro wobbled a bit then her eyes rolled back in her head and she fainted to the ground. With the thud of Chihiro's body hitting the ground Kohaku ran the three meters to her and sat on the ground next to her. Kohaku placed a hand on Chihiro's face, he cried.
Author's Note: How did you guys like the first chapter???? I really wanna know because no one reviewed my Prologue(as of this second but I haven't checked my e-mail yet today). So tell me please... but if ya don't no big deal chapter 2 will still come!
~Na
Author's Note: I got writers block for my other story and not this one so I decided to write the first chapter or so hope you enjoy. Happy reading! ~Na
Chapter 1: Playground
Chihiro and Kohaku sat on a bench in a park in the human world they hadn't come back in four years. It was a beautiful warm May day, just like summer. Chihiro sat in Kohaku's arms reading a story that was written by Asuko and Yoshi about the Spirit world, while Kohaku listened and played with Chihiro's waist long brown hair. Unlike Chihiro Kohaku hadn't let his hair grow out it was the same length and same black hair he always had.
Both Chihiro and Kohaku found the story to be very humorous. It was written so that Asuko and Yoshi could publish it and not have people know how to get to the Spirit world, and many names were changed for example Kohaku was Hokahu. But not all names were a simple word scramble. Asuko and Yoshi had also added lots of things that didn't happen and stretched their whole adventure to two week. Two Prologues were written one about Chihiro and the other about Asuko's grandmother. Giving the story a grand total of 317 pages double spaced.
Chihiro looked up and spotted her six year old daughter crawling in the dirt under a slide. Chihiro just laughed Ryu was covered head to toe in dirt and her long brown low pigtails where falling out. At that moment Ryu looked like a poor dirty child, but her shining bright green eyes and smile showed it was all just fun. Ryu insisted on wearing Chihiro's original uniform from when she was ten. The uniform was too large for Ryu, the sleeves where always tied up with the white (no longer white, Ryu had gotten it very dirty) ribbon that was used to keep loose sleeve out of the way. Her pants were rolled up every day, but in her games they were unrolled and torn. Ryu looked so much like Chihiro when Chihiro was young, except she had the smile, eyes, and spirit of her father Kohaku.
Chihiro and Kohaku loved their energetic child, she was their one and only, their sun of their universe. In all the seemingly impossibilities that Ryu was born, she was, fulfilling wishes and hopes of a happy family. Ryu was very smart and strong willed for her age, sometimes stubborn. If it meant someone's life might be in danger or just a possible broken arm, she didn't care what rules she broke.
A few people walked by Chihiro and Kohaku, they were starring and giving evil looks. Chihiro and Kohaku just ignored them, most people knew who they were though they knew almost no one. Chihiro and Kohaku really looked the same from when they were younger. Chihiro was a lot more toned from her work but that was about all. Their clothes were a dead give away, it was very hard for all three of them to wear the clothes of today, jeans and shirts. For girls most were to tight for Chihiro's tastes and the loose boys clothes were to loose for Kohaku.
"What's today's date?" asked Chihiro.
"May 25 why?" replied Kohaku looking at Chihiro.
"We are on vacation again and I still owe two years ten months and twenty-three days, with out a day off," laughed Chihiro.
"Well that is Zeniiba, you know. So what happens next after Hiyae returns early from business and finds us all there?" asked Kohaku. Chihiro turned back to the story. It was very suspenseful, Hiyae returns early and finds Yoshi, Kohaku, and Chihiro in the garden Ryu was left home. Since this really didn't happen Kohaku and Chihiro didn't know the outcome.
Ryu climbed out from under the slide and ran to the closest metal jungle gym. She stood on the path and starred at the jungle gym, it wasn't that she was scared to climb it she was just wondering if it was to high to jump off of. Ryu surveyed the jungle gym from the ground when she heard a child cry.
Ryu looked in the direction of the crying, two boys on the other side of the jungle gym were fighting over a toy truck and one hit the other. Ryu slowly walked around the jungle gym to see if the boy was alright. A biker rang his bell to warn Ryu that he was coming up close and fast. Ryu whipped around and jumped back almost getting hit by the biker. Ryu turned back around, she was standing on a small wobbly rock. The rock slipped and Ryu fell forward hitting her head on the jungle gym.
The cold metal was the last thing that Ryu felt before everything went black. Blood streamed down her face from a three centimeter long cut that would need stitches.
A woman who had say the accident ran over to Ryu's side. She put a hand on Ryu's shoulder and her other hand took out a tissue to wipe up the blood. The woman lightly touched Ryu's cut. The woman looked around, "Where is her mother?" she said, but no worried mother came running up. The woman looked at Ryu, she was thin and dirty, wearing torn, old, old fashioned clothes. Ryu's eyes fluttered open, to see a worried face of a blonde haired woman looking down at her, she had pale skin and soft blue eyes. She was definitely not from around here, or maybe she was... Ryu no longer knew where she was.
"Are you alright? What's your name sweetie? Where is your mother?" asked the woman in a soft sing song voice.
"I'm fine," said Ryu slowly sitting up and placing a hand on her cut, a few tears trickled down her face from the pain, "I...I... don't remember my name... and what's a mother?"
The woman looked shocked, she looked the girl over again. The girl would have to see a doctor, and she also looked like she was a homeless child. Who got her clothes at the Christmas Homeless dinner, that also gave out clothes and blankets (some which were very old).
The woman held her hand out to the girl, "Come with me sweetie you need to see a doctor."
The girl took the hand of the woman and stood up. Her head was a little light feeling and the pain from her cut was now excruciating. Tears streamed down her face, the girl cried in pain. The sound of the painful cry was drowned out by near by construction as together the woman and girl walked out of the park. They quickly crossed the street, at the crosswalk where they were lucky that a car stopped for them. They walked to the parking lot where the woman's car was parked. The girl climbed in the car holding the tissue on her cut, and crying. The woman helped her buckle up, and then she started the car.
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"What? Yoshi hit Hiyae!" laughed Kohaku.
Chihiro was laughing, "It's not over with yet, maybe you'll eat him!"
Kohaku made a disgusted face, "Gross!" Chihiro laughed, she looked over at the playground where Ryu was playing. Ryu wasn't there, Chihiro stopped laughing.
"Kohaku where is Ryu?" Chihiro said seriously, and worried.
"Oh don't worry she probably is just on the other side of the playground," replied Kohaku calming down Chihiro.
Chihiro sighed, "Yeah your probably right, but we should be going." Chihiro stood up pulling Kohaku up with her. They stepped on the cement walking/biking/skateboarding/rollerblade/(etc.) path and walked towards the slide that Ryu was under only ten minutes before.
Kohaku peered his head under the slide, he could tell that Ryu had been there. There were several of Ryu's foot prints half defined in the dirt the other half was a cloth mark, from stepping on her oversized pants.
"Ryu! Are you under here?" Kohaku could clearly see she wasn't, but it was worth a try. Kohaku stood back up and walked towards the swings, the opposite direction of the metal jungle gym Ryu went to.
"Ryu! Ryu! Come on we need to go and see your Aunt and Uncle!" Chihiro Screamed as they slowly walked around the playground in search of Ryu.
Kohaku yelled there was a hint of worry in his voice, "Ryu!"
"She probably is playing a trick on us, or only answering to Tea today," replied Chihiro also sounding worried.
"Tea!" they both screamed.
"Ryuichi Teataura Nushi! This isn't funny!" yelled Chihiro, she gripped Kohaku's hand tightly, they had walked around the whole playground and they hadn't found Ryu, "It was only ten minutes, Kohaku, ten minutes!" A tear trickled down Chihiro's face.
Kohaku and Chihiro turned around expecting, hoping that Ryu would be standing there laughing because they had looked for her and she was following them the whole time. Chihiro and Kohaku's faces lit up and then dropped lower then they were before, Ryu wasn't there.
Kohaku and Chihiro started to walk around the playground again Chihiro was in tears, and Kohaku was choking back the tears. Ryu was no where to be seen.
Kohaku and Chihiro began to ask everyone they saw, "Have you seen a six year old girl, about this tall with long brown hair in messy pigtails, and green eyes, wearing a orange out fit like mine/hers?" Kohaku and Chihiro placed their hands a little below their hips for Ryu's height, and motioned at Chihiro's uniform for Ryu's dress. No one had seen her, a few people said they thought they did but it was a while ago.
"This is all my fault I shouldn't have been reading!" cried Chihiro after they had circled the playground for the fifth time. Kohaku was agreeing with Chihiro just putting himself at blame. Kohaku's hand reached a pay phone, he shakily placed a coin in the slot and dialed the only number he knew.
Kohaku was still trying to choke back his tears but it was no use a few stray tears fell down his cheek as the phone rang. The phone rang for what seemed an eternity, but Kohaku wouldn't hang up he needed someone to help to search for his daughter. To distract himself he counted the rings he heard, 23...there was silence once again the impact of his missing daughter trickled into his head. He could tell that the person on the other end had dropped the phone and that is why there was no answer at first.
"Mato, Hello," said a male voice on the other end of the phone.
"Yoshi... Ryu is missing, we can't find her anywhere," replied the sullen Kohaku. The phone dropped again.
Kohaku could hear another person walk into the room on Yoshi's end of the phone. Yoshi started to talk to the person, Kohaku couldn't tell what he said. Asuko picked up the phone, "Kohaku? Where are you?"
"The park downtown," replied Kohaku wiping his face dry from his tears.
"We'll be there in a minute, bye," Asuko said, she handed the phone to Yoshi.
Yoshi said comfortably, "Don't worry man, we'll find her. I'm sure she just heard an ice cream truck and will be walking back to you two any second." Yoshi hung up the phone Kohaku just stood there holding the dead phone to his ear. After a minute he slowly hung up the phone.
Kohaku turned around to face Chihiro and tell her that Asuko and Yoshi were coming, "Chihiro..." Kohaku slowly said, he looked into Chihiro's eyes they were red from crying, she looked incredibly pale. Chihiro wobbled a bit then her eyes rolled back in her head and she fainted to the ground. With the thud of Chihiro's body hitting the ground Kohaku ran the three meters to her and sat on the ground next to her. Kohaku placed a hand on Chihiro's face, he cried.
Author's Note: How did you guys like the first chapter???? I really wanna know because no one reviewed my Prologue(as of this second but I haven't checked my e-mail yet today). So tell me please... but if ya don't no big deal chapter 2 will still come!
~Na