"Then, Takai and I had to jump in the bath to hide from Yubaba!" Haku said smiling. Everybody got a kick out of his story. He was running away from Yubaba, because she figured out they were the ones who sabotaged her jewelry case with a mousetrap (they actually transformed her green heads into her nice sister Zeniba, but of course, they couldn't tell Mom and Dad that).
"Where'd you say you were from again?" Mom asked after we were all finished laughing.
At the same time, Haku said "Tokyo" and Takai said, "Sheng Hai". Then they switched it around and at the same time Haku said, "Sheng Hai"and Takai said, "Tokyo".
Mom and Dad blinked and then Mom finally spoke.
"Well, not to admit to eavesdropping, but, I overheard you two saying to hadn't eaten for a while. Have you had a place to stay in a while?" she asked cocking her head slightly.
"Well we can't...no." Haku got the idea that Mom was trying to get him and Takai to stay with us.
As he said, "no", his smile faded.
"Oh, you know what I'm going to say." Mom said looking at Haku like he had no choice.
I mean, he was fourteen in human-years, and almost one thousand in dragon-years.
"Fine," Haku finally agreed smiling slightly and getting up to put his dirty dishes in the sink.
"Oh I'll get them," Mom said standing up and getting everyone's plates. "you are the guest," Mom said smiling warmly and heading towards the kitchen.
"You two can stay her in the spare room. It's gonna be really windy outside tonight, Haku, so leave your window open, and, oh, yeah, you can hear the river from here. What is Takai's element?" I asked showing them to the second to the smallest room. My baby brother, Koji, stayed in the smallest bedroom.
"Um, fire." Takai said looking at the blue and red king-sized bed.
"She's the best fire-dragon at the Bath House." Haku gloated. Takai blushed and sat on the bed.
"Haku, Takai, I have pajamas for you." Mom sang out from downstairs.
"I'll get them for you. You just get settled. Or, uh, since you don't have any stuff, stay here." I said bounding downstairs so fast and so heavily, that I tripped and fell down the stairs.
"Chihiro, can you hear me?" Haku asked from over me.
"Oh..." I moaned trying to raise myself up.
"Let me see," Takai said her head over mine. She placed her warm, small hand on my forehead, and the pain went instantly away.
"What did you do to me?" I asked sitting up touching the place where Takai touched.
"I can heal, too," she said starting to glow a little. I wondered why she was glowing like that.
I didn't bother asking, instead, I called out to Mom and said everything was okay, that suddenly, I felt strangely better.
"Come on," Haku urged. "Let's get the robes and we'll tell you what all happened."