Disclaimer: I don't own Spirited Away, but I do own the plot and Takai.

The Power of the River

I had transported Haku and I back to his house and I laid him on his bed. I laid down beside him leaning against him.

"I won't let Takai or Yubaba take you away without me. I'll never leave you again." I said getting closer to him. If he was going to be evil, I would, too.

I almost fell asleep, when Haku started disappearing. His knees were beginning to vanish when I noticed. I grasped what was left of him. When he had fully disappeared, I began to cry harder than ever. I had broken my promise, when Haku hadn't. He had promised to see me again. And he did, when I was eleven. Now I repaid him with promising him to never leave him again, and broke it about an hour later.

I cried and cried so hard, that I didn't realize I was beginning to disappear, as well.

"Huh? What would Yubaba and Takai want with me?" I said to myself. I also just thought about how Takai could function without Yubaba talking for her. I din't want to worry about that then, I had more important things to worry about.

After I was fully disappeared, I was in a dark room with Haku, who had woken up.

"Why did I disappear with you? Why did you disappear in the first place? Where are we?" I was frantically asking questions getting worried. There was a horrid smell in the dank room, like mold and old shoes and rotten eggs.

"Calm down," Haku said standing up from his sitting position on the wet floor. I stood up as well. I was getting wet and smelly by sitting on the floor. "When a promise is made to a river spirit, it is kept. The power of The River Of Promises makes this happen. The spirit can stop this effect if the promise is bad." Haku said trying to simplify the explanation for my first question. "I disappeared because Takai and Yubaba teleported us here. They actually wanted just me, but they don't know about The River Of Promises. They want me to, well..."

I got the idea of what Haku was trying to say.

"They're not going to kill you! If they want to, they will have to battle me first!" I screamed. I was angry, very angry. At Takai and Yubaba. I was mad at everything. Why couldn't I just be with Haku alone without people wanting to kill us? Were they jealous of our love? Were they that crazy about spirits and humans being in love?

"Chihiro..." Haku said not knowing what to say. I knew how stupid and ridiculous it was to say, "They will battle me first", but I was just trying to protect Haku. I'd do anything for him.

"Never mind now, what about where we are?" I asked Haku.

"I think we are in a dungeon of some sort. We're not in the bathhouse, though." Haku answered looking around at the smelly dungeon.

"What about Takai? How can she be doing things at the same time Yubaba is?" I asked. I really wanted the answer to that one.

"Yubaba gave her her own mind that is programmed to eternally serve her. Takai is still like a robot. Even If somehow we gave her back her own body and mind, she wouldn't know who either one of us are." Haku said sighing. He looked away from me to the pitch-black side of the dungeon. "There never was a Takai, and there never will be." Haku said sighing once more. "But she's not who I love, and not who I'm loved by." Haku said turning back towards me.

I knew what he meant. He loved me back? I felt happy. I loved somebody and they loved me back, other than my parents.

"You really..." my voice trailed off. I was too astounded to talk.

"Yes, Chihiro. I..."

Eeeek

A cell-door opened from the pitch-black area of the dungeon. It sounded as if it was from our cell. It was.

Fire-red eyes shone against the darkness. Soon, Takai's figure shone in the pale torch-light.

"Humans and spirits can't love each other." Takai said slowly walking towards Haku and I. Takai grabbed Haku by his neck. He didn't sputter. He calmly pried Takai's hand off from around his neck. Takai glared at Haku and shot a fire bolt at him. Haku fell to the wet ground.

"You..." I began to Takai. I swore like a sailor. Her mouth was wide open as she walked over to me to grab my neck. I dodged her, grabbed her by the ankle, and tripped her. She got right back up and tried to ram me. I dodged her again. I could tell she was getting really frustrated.

"Nobody touches Haku." I said gritting my teeth.

Suddenly, I glowed a whitish yellow and a gust came around me. Wind was swirling all of the dust and filth around in the air. I ignored it and flung my hand up in the air. A huge beam of light came out of my hand and zapped Takai right in the stomach. She fell to the ground and was knocked out.

Haku regained consciousness as I glowed.

"I guess I'm not human." I said smiling at Takai on the ground. "Now that means I can be with Haku." I said grinning wide lightly kicking Takai.

I sat down next to Haku on the ground. He sat up and brushed off his pants. I brushed off mine as well.

Just then, something magical happened; Haku and I kissed again. I was so happy to be loved.

My happiness faded when the cell door opened once more and I saw two large brown eyes against the darkness.

"Hello my pretty," were the scraggly words that came out of the person's mouth. I knew that voice. "Human or not, that spirit is mine." the voice said, getting a meaner tone.

Then, I saw a huge nose and a blue dress.

Afterword:

Was that to boring? Was the fight scene too dumb? I need feedback. No matter how harsh, I need to know what I need to improve. I hope everybody is enjoying the story so far and I love, LOVVE reviews. It makes me feel happy to know that people other than me are enjoying the story. My play practice for "Oliver!" is tonight. I joined basically for friends, but I loove acting, too. Anywho, reviews (and I mean lots of them!) help me update and they make me feel confident about my writing. My goal is if I get 100 reviews I will try and publish this on another site or something to get my story popular. Thanks for all the reviews, Vampy, they are what made me write two chapters in an hour. :) Thanks also to Ty'sGirl andMiss Tidal Wave, you have helped me as well. I recommend "Searching For You", "Who Says We're Too Young to Love", "Reflections in the Water", "Convergence" and ALL of LadyRainDragon's work ("Promise of a River", "Rivers Never Die", "River's Keep Flowing"). Anyway, sorry for the long afterword, I just wanted to metion a bunch of crap. Oh BTH, I wanted to say I probabaly have a sequel to this and I will be updating in a day or two. I will probably end this story at at least 21-23 chappies. Ok,ANIMAL LIBERATION! GO VEGETARIAN!