Disclaimer: I don't own Spirited Away or any of its characters.
Chapter 2: Doctor
The girl and woman walked into the doctor's office in Okayama a few towns away. From where the girl had been found. The woman talked to the receptionist while the girl continued to hold the blood soaked tissue to her cut and looked around the reception area. There were chairs lining the walls and a few toys in the middle, one end table held children's books and the other held magazines. The walls where of a dark brown wood and the carpet of a lighter brown. There was many cheery pictures hanging on the walls. Ones of bright colored sunsets, or peaceful blue oceans. No matter how many cheery picture where in that room, a lingering 'stench' of sorrow, worry, and pain could be 'smelled' and 'felt'. There were two people sitting in the corner of the room both shorter then the blonde woman and taller then the girl. They had darker skin and black hair. The woman of the two who were waiting was bouncing a baby dressed in blue on her knee.
The woman motioned to the girl to follow her into a examination room, she need stitches and fast. The man in the waiting room was about to object to the girl being seen before he was because he had been waiting for a very long time. The girl turned and looked at the man who was half out of his chair. The man stopped when her saw the girls tears and the blood red tissue that she was holding.
A nurse motioned for the woman and girl to enter the first room on the right. "The doctor will be here in a minute, I'll bring the girl some clean clothes" the nurse was told that the girl was in desperate need of a doctor and was most likely homeless, that the woman was a kind lady taking the poor girl to the doctor and afterwards to an orphanage. The nurse closed the door.
"Thank you," replied the woman who sat down in the chair. The girl sat down in the rolley chair and spun around, she had stopped crying the pain had lessened a little but if she moved a finger or repositioned the tissue a quick shot of pain came. The girl spun around on the chair while keeping her hand very still.
The doctor walked in and looked at the girl who was still spinning around, "Could you please climb up here on my examination table please," said the doctor in a kind hearty voice.
The girl stopped spinning around and looked at the doctor, he wasn't at all what she expected he was tall and big boned with kind brown eyes and black hair, for some reason she had expected someone who had more then two arms, who was older and had a big mustache. Although she didn't know why.
The doctor patted the examination table waiting for the girl to climb up. The girl decided that the man looked trust worthy. She slowly stood up and climbed up on the table. The doctor looked at her dirty face and her dirty hands that were holding the dirty, bloody tissue. The doctor walked to the sink and put on a pair of rubber gloves he took a paper towel and got it wet, and squirted some antibacterial soap on it.
The doctor walked back over to the girl, who was patiently waiting. The doctor carefully removed the girl's hand that held the tissue, from her face. The girl cringed in pain a few tears fell down her face. The doctor took the tissue and threw it away in the orange biohazard trash can. The doctor quickly and gently washed up the girls whole face before throwing the paper towel in the same trash can.
"Now can you please lay down for me and close your eyes and sing me a song, but what ever you do or feel don't open your eyes," said the doctor changing his gloves and throwing away the old ones. The girl nodded and laid down, she closed her eyes and hummed a tune that neither the doctor or woman knew. It was soft and enchanting, "Perfect, thank you."
The doctor picked up the needle that held the pain remover. He slowly inject some of the pain remover in the girls head around her cut. All the girl could feel was small cold points around the cut they were soothing the pain that the cut had caused. The cold points had stopped and the girl didn't feel anything the doctor did to her head.
"Ok you can sit up now sweetie, you did a wonderful job," said the doctor. The girl stopped humming and sat up she opened her eyes and lifted a hand to her forehead she could feel eleven stitches. The girl looked at the woman who smiled then she looked back at the doctor, "Now I'm going to take some of your blood, ok?"
The girl looked confused as the doctor tied a rubber rope around her arm, "Just look over there at Miss. Jones for a minute," said the doctor who was pointing to the woman. Miss. Jones was making funny faces, they didn't amuse the girl who decided to examine the examination room. It was a white room with a computer that sat next to the sink that was by the chair that Miss. Jones sat in. The floor was a soft green and there was lots of gadgets surrounding the examination table and hanging on the walls. There was another cheery picture of a boy throwing an apple down from and apple tree to the girl below. But the picture didn't help the room it was still full of the feel of pain and fright.
The doctor walked in the direction of the sink with a tube filled with the girls blood. He put down the tube and picked up a purple lollypop, he walked back to the girl and handed her the lollypop, "You did a wonderful job, here you can have this lollypop." The girl suspiciously took the lollypop, she cautiously looked it over. The girl smelled the lollypop it was like a grape but not exactly a grape. She slowly touched to lollypop to her tongue, it tasted odd but good. She placed the whole lollypop in her mouth and sucked on it.
The door opened, the nurse walked in with a pile of clean clothes that she was hoping would fit the girl, "Ah yes Sora, thank you, could you please take the little miss here and give her a bath?" asked the doctor.
Sora replied as she walked into the room holding her hand out to the girl, "No problem, What do you want me to write down for this case?"
"Charity," said the doctor.
Sora nodded, "Come with me we are going to get you all cleaned up." The girl nodded taking the nurses outstretched hand and getting off the examination table. They walked out of the room.
The doctor turned to Miss. Jones, "I'm going to run a full test on her blood to make sure she is healthy, it will take an hour or two. After she is done with her bath I'll run a physical. After I drop off the blood I'll call the orphanage and if you don't mind could you drop her off there when we are finished up here?"
Miss. Jones replied, "Why of course it is no problem at all." The doctor nodded and picked up the blood and walked out of the room.
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Asuko and Yoshi had arrived at the park only ten minutes after they had hung the phone up with talking to Kohaku. They had called the police and rushed over to the park. The police and an ambulance truck showed up to Chihiro's luck. The police searched the whole playground for Ryu. The police asked Kohaku and Chihiro, after she woke up, a lot of questions. Such questions like 'do you live here?' They got answers that were just a simple 'no' but the following question that was 'so where do you live?' was answered with 'At a bath house.' Since Chihiro and Kohaku had no address or phone number, and couldn't say were exactly they lived, the police were beginning to think it was a hoax. The police couldn't understand how loving parent of a six year old girl, would only have a few pictures of their child that were from Asuko and Yoshi's wedding when she was two years old and those were the most recent photos.
The police man glanced over the playground, but they shouldn't have been there the missing person wasn't even missing for 24 hours yet. The police left promising that they would write up the paper work and look into it if Ryu didn't return after 24 hours. They had taken down Yoshi's and Asuko's phone number and address.
There was a small amount of fresh blood on the jungle gym that Ryu hit her head on, and a few drops on the ground. But that day the blood went unnoticed.
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Sora brought the girl back into the examination room clean and dressed in a blue t-shirt and white shorts, her long brown hair lay loose on her back. The girl sat back on the rolley chair and span around. Sora handed Miss. Jones the girls old clothes and left to get the doctor.
Miss. Jones set the clothes down on the floor and watched as the girl span around. The door opened again and the doctor reentered. The girl stopped spinning and looked up at the doctor as he walked in. She stood up and climbed back up on the examination table.
The doctor greeted both of them and then preceded with the physical, by sticking a thermometer in the girls ear, "98.8 healthy." The doctor wrote down the results. And continued to look in the girls ears, eyes, and mouth with his light.
Miss. Jones picked up the girl's old clothes and looked them over there was a pair of oversized pants that were stained and ripped, as well as the over sized shirt, both so dirty it was hard to tell that they were originally orange. Miss. Jones picked up the dark blue apron, it was rather heavy. Miss. Jones looked in the pockets they were filled with sand. She gave a short snicker and put her hand in the sand, it was just regular old sand box sand. The sand slipped back into the pocket through her fingers, Miss. Jones saw a piece of paper that was covered in the sand. She dropped the rest of the sand back into the pocket and pulled out the paper.
The piece of paper at one time read, See you again March 21, 3588.....We are invited to the wedding right? –Saki from when the uniform belonged to Chihiro. But it was now to old an worn that most of the letters had worn off there was many dirt stains the name Saki was the only thing that was still readable although a large stain covered the 'i' and some of the 'k'. Miss Jones starred at the name and at the stained and thought that at one time the name read 'Sakura'.
The doctor walked over to Miss Jones, "Well she is healthy, I'm going to go see if her blood work up is finished." Miss. Jones just nodded. The doctor left the room.
Miss. Jones looked up at the girl, "Is your name Sakura? Does Sakura sound familiar?"
The girl looked at Miss. Jones, "Sak... yeah it sounds familiar."
(a/n: She only said Sak as in remembering the name Saki and not Sakura from the bedtime stories that her parents told her of their adventures.)
"Well Sakura come here and let me redo your hair, how do you want it done pigtails?" asked Miss. Jones. Sakura nodded and got off the examination table and sat on the floor in front of Miss. Jones. Miss. Jones picked up her purse and pulled out a small travel hair brush and searched for as couple hair ties. The ones that originally held Sakura's hair had been lost when she took a bath. Miss Jones neatly brushed Sakura's hair and did it up in two low pigtails like they were before.
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"Kohaku, Chihiro, come on, come back to our house for the night, it's already dark. We'll return tomorrow and look for her tomorrow and so will the police," said Asuko beckoning Chihiro and Kohaku to leave the playground.
"Rin and Shu! If Ryu went there then they would have no way of telling us and they wouldn't send her back, because they would be afraid she would get lost!" exclaimed Kohaku. He drag Chihiro up from the bench that they were sitting on, and walked off towards the river. Asuko and Yoshi followed.
"Rin! Shu! Morio! Kawatarou! Is Ryu with you!?" yelled Kohaku running up to the Mishu-Kapi river and Rinako Naoko forest. Chihiro was running next to him, followed by Yoshi and Asuko.
"Aunt Sen, Uncle Haku!" yelled the twins who were swimming in the river. Kawatarou and Morio were twins but you couldn't tell. Kawatarou normally stayed in his dragon form and in the water he had blue tinted scales and a blue mane with soft watery blue eyes. Morio preferred his human form, he was a forest boy after all. He had dark brown hair with a strange green tint to it and he had big hazel eyes. Morio in dragon form had green tinted scales and a brown mane. Kawatarou looked just like his brother in human form except his eyes were blue. As dragons they looked similar to Mishu-Kapi or Kohaku in dragon form, and in human form they looked a lot like Rinako Naoko, with the same soft features (Mishu-Kapi swears as they grow they'll look more masculine).
"Oh good Sen, Haku, Kaonashi came by just a few minutes before, You guys need to return to Aburaya something is wrong," said Rinako Naoko walking to the edge of her forest.
"We can't Ryu is missing!" protested Chihiro letting tears once again trickle down her cheeks. Kohaku held her close, comforting her.
"What! Oh no my sweet niece!" exclaimed Mishu-Kapi.
"Pi they have to return Kaonashi said that something was wrong, some new trouble at Aburaya and they have to return tonight," replied Rinako Naoko.
"We can't leave Ryu!" cried Chihiro.
Asuko stepped closer to Chihiro and Kohaku putting a comforting hand on Chihiro's shoulder, "Chihiro it sounds like you need to go home, Yoshi and I will continue to look for her tonight as well as Rin and Shu I presume. And you two can return tomorrow and help the police look."
Chihiro nodded in agreement until Yoshi added, "I just hope that she doesn't think the Spirit world was a dream."
"Why would you say that?" asked Kohaku looking worried.
"Yoshi!" exclaimed Asuko, her voice softened, "Well that's what happened to us the Spirit world seems to be a dream, that we were never there but since we have pictures of you guys at the wedding we force ourselves to remember that it was real. But I'm sure since she is a Spirit herself she wont forget."
"When did that happen to you?" asked Chihiro.
Yoshi looked down and fiddled with the grass with his foot, "Not long after we returned. We weren't even sure if we were leaving your wedding invitation at an old amusement park or in the Spirit world."
"But then why didn't I forget and think it was only a dream?" asked Chihiro.
"The hair tie that you got from Zeniiba," replied Rin, "It wouldn't let you forget. So even if Tea was capable of forgetting she is sporting two of those hair ties and her uniform they'll keep her from thinking that she was dreaming." Chihiro still looked worried she knew that she wasn't even considered Human anymore, but blood runs thick, heritage is hard to erase. And it was the same blood that ran through Ryu.
Asuko added, "She is right my grandmother didn't think it was a dream because Zeniiba gave her a bracelets like Chihiro's, but when she lost it the memories faded into a dream."
"She might be six, but Tea is the oldest six year old I know she can take care of herself, and you two can return tomorrow," said Yoshi.
"Yes I agree, I'm more worried about Aburaya then Ryu. Maybe she'll be safer now that she is here," agreed Mishu-Kapi. Chihiro and Kohaku nodded and turned to return home.
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"Well," said the doctor walking back into Sakura's room, Miss. Jones looked at the doctor, "She is 100% healthy, well except her acute amnesia, her memory should return in a few days. But she has never gone to a day of school in her life and most likely not to a doctor either."
"How can you tell that?" asked Miss. Jones, Sakura was asleep in her lap.
"There was no antibodies found in her blood, no antibodies for Polio, or Chicken Pox, etc. She has never had a medical or drug injection in her life, until today. Schools require that all student have been vaccinated for Polio, Chicken Pox, etc. so she wouldn't have been allowed to go to school," said the doctor.
"Ok, so what does this mean?" asked Miss. Jones.
"Well I'm figuring she lived in a poor family, if she had a family for this long, who couldn't afford to send her to school or to a doctor. And recently they had to just leave her out in the 'cold' because of money problems. But until her memory comes back she'll have to be turned over to the state. The closest orphanage is about three hours drive from here, in a small town by Takamatsu on Shikoku, it's a very small orphanage good for raising the small amount of kids they have, I think about seventeen children between the ages of two and ten. I already called the orphanage and they are expecting her," replied the doctor.
"Yes, I know the place it's by my sisters house. I was on my way there today when I found her. I can bring her there no problem," added Miss. Jones.
"Well that would be great, your going to need to fill out this form, so that we know who, and where you are and I'll call the orphanage in the morning to make sure that she has gotten there safely. We can't have her disappearing, you understand," said the doctor handing Miss. Jones a form to fill out. The form even asked for license plate number and a copy of drivers license and for a non Japanese born person, passport copy was also required, "So does she have a name or is she a Jane Doe?"
Miss. Jones hurried to fill out the form, it was almost eight at night, "Sakura, I found an old piece of paper in her old clothes, half of the name was covered all you could clearly read was 'Sak' I asked her if Sakura sounded familiar and she said yes. So now I call her Sakura and she answers." Miss. Jones handed the doctor the form her drivers license and South African Passport. The doctor left to make photo copies. Miss. Jones woke up Sakura and stood up. Miss. Jones had lived in Japan for a long time, her sister had married a Japanese man and Miss. Jones visited them often.
Miss. Jones picked up Sakura's old tattered clothes and threw them away in the orange trash can. The doctor came back returning the license and passport, and bid Miss. Jones and Sakura good-bye.
Author's Note: Disclaimer: I have no medical experience and never got stitches ( I had staples and tarry(not sure of spelling) straps). I also don't remember the movie specifically saying where Chihiro moved to if I'm wrong please tell me and I'll change it to be correct. Basically I have them in the city of Okayama which is on the big island Honshu on the coast by a smaller island Shikoku(I can't remember the Japanese Island names and I hope these are correct for English because my atlas is in German). My map has a highway connecting the two islands with the closest city on the Shikoku to Okayama being Takamatsu, so I'm also just estimating that it is a three hours drive. I just needed Ryu to get off the island but not really be to far away. So there is a better chance that it takes longer to find her. Not that it's a good thing that she is missing for awhile for the stories sake she can't be found the next day. But if Okayama is really far from the town Chihiro's family moved to (still don't remembering it having a name but its been 8 months since I saw the movie) please tell me. Happy Reading!!! ~Na
Chapter 2: Doctor
The girl and woman walked into the doctor's office in Okayama a few towns away. From where the girl had been found. The woman talked to the receptionist while the girl continued to hold the blood soaked tissue to her cut and looked around the reception area. There were chairs lining the walls and a few toys in the middle, one end table held children's books and the other held magazines. The walls where of a dark brown wood and the carpet of a lighter brown. There was many cheery pictures hanging on the walls. Ones of bright colored sunsets, or peaceful blue oceans. No matter how many cheery picture where in that room, a lingering 'stench' of sorrow, worry, and pain could be 'smelled' and 'felt'. There were two people sitting in the corner of the room both shorter then the blonde woman and taller then the girl. They had darker skin and black hair. The woman of the two who were waiting was bouncing a baby dressed in blue on her knee.
The woman motioned to the girl to follow her into a examination room, she need stitches and fast. The man in the waiting room was about to object to the girl being seen before he was because he had been waiting for a very long time. The girl turned and looked at the man who was half out of his chair. The man stopped when her saw the girls tears and the blood red tissue that she was holding.
A nurse motioned for the woman and girl to enter the first room on the right. "The doctor will be here in a minute, I'll bring the girl some clean clothes" the nurse was told that the girl was in desperate need of a doctor and was most likely homeless, that the woman was a kind lady taking the poor girl to the doctor and afterwards to an orphanage. The nurse closed the door.
"Thank you," replied the woman who sat down in the chair. The girl sat down in the rolley chair and spun around, she had stopped crying the pain had lessened a little but if she moved a finger or repositioned the tissue a quick shot of pain came. The girl spun around on the chair while keeping her hand very still.
The doctor walked in and looked at the girl who was still spinning around, "Could you please climb up here on my examination table please," said the doctor in a kind hearty voice.
The girl stopped spinning around and looked at the doctor, he wasn't at all what she expected he was tall and big boned with kind brown eyes and black hair, for some reason she had expected someone who had more then two arms, who was older and had a big mustache. Although she didn't know why.
The doctor patted the examination table waiting for the girl to climb up. The girl decided that the man looked trust worthy. She slowly stood up and climbed up on the table. The doctor looked at her dirty face and her dirty hands that were holding the dirty, bloody tissue. The doctor walked to the sink and put on a pair of rubber gloves he took a paper towel and got it wet, and squirted some antibacterial soap on it.
The doctor walked back over to the girl, who was patiently waiting. The doctor carefully removed the girl's hand that held the tissue, from her face. The girl cringed in pain a few tears fell down her face. The doctor took the tissue and threw it away in the orange biohazard trash can. The doctor quickly and gently washed up the girls whole face before throwing the paper towel in the same trash can.
"Now can you please lay down for me and close your eyes and sing me a song, but what ever you do or feel don't open your eyes," said the doctor changing his gloves and throwing away the old ones. The girl nodded and laid down, she closed her eyes and hummed a tune that neither the doctor or woman knew. It was soft and enchanting, "Perfect, thank you."
The doctor picked up the needle that held the pain remover. He slowly inject some of the pain remover in the girls head around her cut. All the girl could feel was small cold points around the cut they were soothing the pain that the cut had caused. The cold points had stopped and the girl didn't feel anything the doctor did to her head.
"Ok you can sit up now sweetie, you did a wonderful job," said the doctor. The girl stopped humming and sat up she opened her eyes and lifted a hand to her forehead she could feel eleven stitches. The girl looked at the woman who smiled then she looked back at the doctor, "Now I'm going to take some of your blood, ok?"
The girl looked confused as the doctor tied a rubber rope around her arm, "Just look over there at Miss. Jones for a minute," said the doctor who was pointing to the woman. Miss. Jones was making funny faces, they didn't amuse the girl who decided to examine the examination room. It was a white room with a computer that sat next to the sink that was by the chair that Miss. Jones sat in. The floor was a soft green and there was lots of gadgets surrounding the examination table and hanging on the walls. There was another cheery picture of a boy throwing an apple down from and apple tree to the girl below. But the picture didn't help the room it was still full of the feel of pain and fright.
The doctor walked in the direction of the sink with a tube filled with the girls blood. He put down the tube and picked up a purple lollypop, he walked back to the girl and handed her the lollypop, "You did a wonderful job, here you can have this lollypop." The girl suspiciously took the lollypop, she cautiously looked it over. The girl smelled the lollypop it was like a grape but not exactly a grape. She slowly touched to lollypop to her tongue, it tasted odd but good. She placed the whole lollypop in her mouth and sucked on it.
The door opened, the nurse walked in with a pile of clean clothes that she was hoping would fit the girl, "Ah yes Sora, thank you, could you please take the little miss here and give her a bath?" asked the doctor.
Sora replied as she walked into the room holding her hand out to the girl, "No problem, What do you want me to write down for this case?"
"Charity," said the doctor.
Sora nodded, "Come with me we are going to get you all cleaned up." The girl nodded taking the nurses outstretched hand and getting off the examination table. They walked out of the room.
The doctor turned to Miss. Jones, "I'm going to run a full test on her blood to make sure she is healthy, it will take an hour or two. After she is done with her bath I'll run a physical. After I drop off the blood I'll call the orphanage and if you don't mind could you drop her off there when we are finished up here?"
Miss. Jones replied, "Why of course it is no problem at all." The doctor nodded and picked up the blood and walked out of the room.
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Asuko and Yoshi had arrived at the park only ten minutes after they had hung the phone up with talking to Kohaku. They had called the police and rushed over to the park. The police and an ambulance truck showed up to Chihiro's luck. The police searched the whole playground for Ryu. The police asked Kohaku and Chihiro, after she woke up, a lot of questions. Such questions like 'do you live here?' They got answers that were just a simple 'no' but the following question that was 'so where do you live?' was answered with 'At a bath house.' Since Chihiro and Kohaku had no address or phone number, and couldn't say were exactly they lived, the police were beginning to think it was a hoax. The police couldn't understand how loving parent of a six year old girl, would only have a few pictures of their child that were from Asuko and Yoshi's wedding when she was two years old and those were the most recent photos.
The police man glanced over the playground, but they shouldn't have been there the missing person wasn't even missing for 24 hours yet. The police left promising that they would write up the paper work and look into it if Ryu didn't return after 24 hours. They had taken down Yoshi's and Asuko's phone number and address.
There was a small amount of fresh blood on the jungle gym that Ryu hit her head on, and a few drops on the ground. But that day the blood went unnoticed.
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Sora brought the girl back into the examination room clean and dressed in a blue t-shirt and white shorts, her long brown hair lay loose on her back. The girl sat back on the rolley chair and span around. Sora handed Miss. Jones the girls old clothes and left to get the doctor.
Miss. Jones set the clothes down on the floor and watched as the girl span around. The door opened again and the doctor reentered. The girl stopped spinning and looked up at the doctor as he walked in. She stood up and climbed back up on the examination table.
The doctor greeted both of them and then preceded with the physical, by sticking a thermometer in the girls ear, "98.8 healthy." The doctor wrote down the results. And continued to look in the girls ears, eyes, and mouth with his light.
Miss. Jones picked up the girl's old clothes and looked them over there was a pair of oversized pants that were stained and ripped, as well as the over sized shirt, both so dirty it was hard to tell that they were originally orange. Miss. Jones picked up the dark blue apron, it was rather heavy. Miss. Jones looked in the pockets they were filled with sand. She gave a short snicker and put her hand in the sand, it was just regular old sand box sand. The sand slipped back into the pocket through her fingers, Miss. Jones saw a piece of paper that was covered in the sand. She dropped the rest of the sand back into the pocket and pulled out the paper.
The piece of paper at one time read, See you again March 21, 3588.....We are invited to the wedding right? –Saki from when the uniform belonged to Chihiro. But it was now to old an worn that most of the letters had worn off there was many dirt stains the name Saki was the only thing that was still readable although a large stain covered the 'i' and some of the 'k'. Miss Jones starred at the name and at the stained and thought that at one time the name read 'Sakura'.
The doctor walked over to Miss Jones, "Well she is healthy, I'm going to go see if her blood work up is finished." Miss. Jones just nodded. The doctor left the room.
Miss. Jones looked up at the girl, "Is your name Sakura? Does Sakura sound familiar?"
The girl looked at Miss. Jones, "Sak... yeah it sounds familiar."
(a/n: She only said Sak as in remembering the name Saki and not Sakura from the bedtime stories that her parents told her of their adventures.)
"Well Sakura come here and let me redo your hair, how do you want it done pigtails?" asked Miss. Jones. Sakura nodded and got off the examination table and sat on the floor in front of Miss. Jones. Miss. Jones picked up her purse and pulled out a small travel hair brush and searched for as couple hair ties. The ones that originally held Sakura's hair had been lost when she took a bath. Miss Jones neatly brushed Sakura's hair and did it up in two low pigtails like they were before.
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"Kohaku, Chihiro, come on, come back to our house for the night, it's already dark. We'll return tomorrow and look for her tomorrow and so will the police," said Asuko beckoning Chihiro and Kohaku to leave the playground.
"Rin and Shu! If Ryu went there then they would have no way of telling us and they wouldn't send her back, because they would be afraid she would get lost!" exclaimed Kohaku. He drag Chihiro up from the bench that they were sitting on, and walked off towards the river. Asuko and Yoshi followed.
"Rin! Shu! Morio! Kawatarou! Is Ryu with you!?" yelled Kohaku running up to the Mishu-Kapi river and Rinako Naoko forest. Chihiro was running next to him, followed by Yoshi and Asuko.
"Aunt Sen, Uncle Haku!" yelled the twins who were swimming in the river. Kawatarou and Morio were twins but you couldn't tell. Kawatarou normally stayed in his dragon form and in the water he had blue tinted scales and a blue mane with soft watery blue eyes. Morio preferred his human form, he was a forest boy after all. He had dark brown hair with a strange green tint to it and he had big hazel eyes. Morio in dragon form had green tinted scales and a brown mane. Kawatarou looked just like his brother in human form except his eyes were blue. As dragons they looked similar to Mishu-Kapi or Kohaku in dragon form, and in human form they looked a lot like Rinako Naoko, with the same soft features (Mishu-Kapi swears as they grow they'll look more masculine).
"Oh good Sen, Haku, Kaonashi came by just a few minutes before, You guys need to return to Aburaya something is wrong," said Rinako Naoko walking to the edge of her forest.
"We can't Ryu is missing!" protested Chihiro letting tears once again trickle down her cheeks. Kohaku held her close, comforting her.
"What! Oh no my sweet niece!" exclaimed Mishu-Kapi.
"Pi they have to return Kaonashi said that something was wrong, some new trouble at Aburaya and they have to return tonight," replied Rinako Naoko.
"We can't leave Ryu!" cried Chihiro.
Asuko stepped closer to Chihiro and Kohaku putting a comforting hand on Chihiro's shoulder, "Chihiro it sounds like you need to go home, Yoshi and I will continue to look for her tonight as well as Rin and Shu I presume. And you two can return tomorrow and help the police look."
Chihiro nodded in agreement until Yoshi added, "I just hope that she doesn't think the Spirit world was a dream."
"Why would you say that?" asked Kohaku looking worried.
"Yoshi!" exclaimed Asuko, her voice softened, "Well that's what happened to us the Spirit world seems to be a dream, that we were never there but since we have pictures of you guys at the wedding we force ourselves to remember that it was real. But I'm sure since she is a Spirit herself she wont forget."
"When did that happen to you?" asked Chihiro.
Yoshi looked down and fiddled with the grass with his foot, "Not long after we returned. We weren't even sure if we were leaving your wedding invitation at an old amusement park or in the Spirit world."
"But then why didn't I forget and think it was only a dream?" asked Chihiro.
"The hair tie that you got from Zeniiba," replied Rin, "It wouldn't let you forget. So even if Tea was capable of forgetting she is sporting two of those hair ties and her uniform they'll keep her from thinking that she was dreaming." Chihiro still looked worried she knew that she wasn't even considered Human anymore, but blood runs thick, heritage is hard to erase. And it was the same blood that ran through Ryu.
Asuko added, "She is right my grandmother didn't think it was a dream because Zeniiba gave her a bracelets like Chihiro's, but when she lost it the memories faded into a dream."
"She might be six, but Tea is the oldest six year old I know she can take care of herself, and you two can return tomorrow," said Yoshi.
"Yes I agree, I'm more worried about Aburaya then Ryu. Maybe she'll be safer now that she is here," agreed Mishu-Kapi. Chihiro and Kohaku nodded and turned to return home.
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"Well," said the doctor walking back into Sakura's room, Miss. Jones looked at the doctor, "She is 100% healthy, well except her acute amnesia, her memory should return in a few days. But she has never gone to a day of school in her life and most likely not to a doctor either."
"How can you tell that?" asked Miss. Jones, Sakura was asleep in her lap.
"There was no antibodies found in her blood, no antibodies for Polio, or Chicken Pox, etc. She has never had a medical or drug injection in her life, until today. Schools require that all student have been vaccinated for Polio, Chicken Pox, etc. so she wouldn't have been allowed to go to school," said the doctor.
"Ok, so what does this mean?" asked Miss. Jones.
"Well I'm figuring she lived in a poor family, if she had a family for this long, who couldn't afford to send her to school or to a doctor. And recently they had to just leave her out in the 'cold' because of money problems. But until her memory comes back she'll have to be turned over to the state. The closest orphanage is about three hours drive from here, in a small town by Takamatsu on Shikoku, it's a very small orphanage good for raising the small amount of kids they have, I think about seventeen children between the ages of two and ten. I already called the orphanage and they are expecting her," replied the doctor.
"Yes, I know the place it's by my sisters house. I was on my way there today when I found her. I can bring her there no problem," added Miss. Jones.
"Well that would be great, your going to need to fill out this form, so that we know who, and where you are and I'll call the orphanage in the morning to make sure that she has gotten there safely. We can't have her disappearing, you understand," said the doctor handing Miss. Jones a form to fill out. The form even asked for license plate number and a copy of drivers license and for a non Japanese born person, passport copy was also required, "So does she have a name or is she a Jane Doe?"
Miss. Jones hurried to fill out the form, it was almost eight at night, "Sakura, I found an old piece of paper in her old clothes, half of the name was covered all you could clearly read was 'Sak' I asked her if Sakura sounded familiar and she said yes. So now I call her Sakura and she answers." Miss. Jones handed the doctor the form her drivers license and South African Passport. The doctor left to make photo copies. Miss. Jones woke up Sakura and stood up. Miss. Jones had lived in Japan for a long time, her sister had married a Japanese man and Miss. Jones visited them often.
Miss. Jones picked up Sakura's old tattered clothes and threw them away in the orange trash can. The doctor came back returning the license and passport, and bid Miss. Jones and Sakura good-bye.
Author's Note: Disclaimer: I have no medical experience and never got stitches ( I had staples and tarry(not sure of spelling) straps). I also don't remember the movie specifically saying where Chihiro moved to if I'm wrong please tell me and I'll change it to be correct. Basically I have them in the city of Okayama which is on the big island Honshu on the coast by a smaller island Shikoku(I can't remember the Japanese Island names and I hope these are correct for English because my atlas is in German). My map has a highway connecting the two islands with the closest city on the Shikoku to Okayama being Takamatsu, so I'm also just estimating that it is a three hours drive. I just needed Ryu to get off the island but not really be to far away. So there is a better chance that it takes longer to find her. Not that it's a good thing that she is missing for awhile for the stories sake she can't be found the next day. But if Okayama is really far from the town Chihiro's family moved to (still don't remembering it having a name but its been 8 months since I saw the movie) please tell me. Happy Reading!!! ~Na