Disclaimer: I do not own the movie 'Spirited Away' or any of its characters. I also don't own the Disney Channel movie 'The Thirteenth Year', which this story is loosely based on. I also do not own the name 'Ishakari River' as it is a real river in Japan. I also do not own the 'Ronin Warriors', from which the guys are inspired from. I do not own the name Kenshin, as I got that off of 'Rurouni Kenshin', which I don't own.
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^Flames will be used to feed my pet dragon.^
^There may be one to two or more curse words in this chapter. Would you say that's grounds for upping the rating?^
^To make up for making my loyal reviewers wait so long, I made it as long as I could before hitting a writer's block. Oh my head, too much writing at once...@.@...^
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^I wrote this chapter of the story once before and didn't like it, so I tore it apart and rewrote it. If anything doesn't make sense-say I call Haku a Prince or something else weird like that-please, please, please tell me in a review or e-mail. I don't want to screw up this story-if it ain't already screwed up that is.^
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*Mental speaking*
"Speaking"
'Thought'
Chapter Eight
The Story
"This is going to be a long night..." Sakura muttered and opened her mouth to start telling a very long story, only to be interrupted by a strong gust of wind, which rattled the window almost hard enough to take the shutters right off of their hinges.
Sakura stared at the window angrily, as if it had rudely interrupted her. Haku and Lin's mouths nearly hit the floor, as a River Spirit, a Fire Spirit, and a Wind Spirit came waltzing into Zeneba's house as if they owned it.
The Fire Spirit was decked out in a bright red outfit similar to Haku's Bathhouse uniform. The Fire Spirit had raven black hair, which spiked up like a fire would burn and dazzling blue eyes. He was laughing along with the other two Spirits.
The River Spirit was decked out in a light blue outfit similar to the Fire Spirit's. His hair was short, aburn brown, and his eyes were blue. The Wind Spirit wore an outfit of green, which matched his eyes, and his hair was a spiky, light blond.
Haku felt that he knew these three and they seemed to look oddly familiar, but his memory of any time before the Bathhouse was still shrouded in mystery. All that he knew about himself either circulated around the Bathhouse or it was something Chihiro had helped him remember.
Chihiro-that name was like a dagger in his heart. Haku bitterly remembered the helplessness he had felt when she had been taken away from him. He vowed that he would find Rekou and make him pay for taking Chihiro away from him. Rekou would know the meaning of pain if he had touched her or caused her pain in any other way.
'If he has moved even one single hair out of place on her head, I'll-' Haku stopped himself, shook his head to clear his thoughts, and suddenly remembered that he wasn't alone in the room.
"RYO, SAGE, and CYE!" Sakura yelled angrily, finally over her shock, as she shot up from her seat.
The three Spirits suddenly went white as sheets. The one in the bright red turned out to be Ryo, the one in light blue was Cye, and the one in green was Sage. All three looked like they had just signed their death warrents and were now in front of the firing squad.
"Sakura!" Ryo yelped, fearful of the female River Spirit, "We didn't know that you were here!"
"Then why did you come here?" Sakura asked them harshly.
"Sage felt a presence here that seemed to be similiar to Crystal and he wanted to see who it was," Cye explained softly.
"I don't think that it takes the Prince of the Water Kingdom, the King of the Fire Kingdom, and the Prince of the Wind Kingdom to investigate something like that!"
Sage's head suddenly snapped toward Haku. He stared at Haku for a minute or so before he attacked. Haku didn't now what hit him, one minute he was sitting in his chair and the next he was suddenly being held by the collar of his shirt, pressed up against a wall.
"Who are you?!" Sage asked him savagely.
"SAGE!" Sakura yelled angrily, "That's no way to treat a Protector!"
Sage let go, making Haku fall to the floor.
"Protector?" Sage replied, repeating Sakura.
"Let me tell these two a story and maybe you'll understand," Sakura stated, "Now if there will be no more interruptions I can start."
She shot a look over at the three, who were too busy being shocked to notice her look. She turned to Haku and then sat back down in her chair.
"Haku, your father was the Protector of the Royal family of the Wind Kingdom. Your mother was the Protecter of the Royal family of the Water Kingdom. At the time, there was a total of eight Kingdoms in our realm. The Wind Kingdom, the Water Kingdom, the Ice Kingdom, the Fire Kingdom, the Forest Kingdom, the Stratos Kingdom, the Earth Kingdom, and the Dark Kingdom.
"There was an agreement between the eight Kingdoms that all children of Royal lineage would be engaged at birth. Also, it was agreed that it was forbidden for a royal child to fall in love with someone other than their fiancé or fiancée. Thought not engaged to her, the heir Prince of the Wind Kingdom fell in love with the Princess of the Water Kingdom-Sakura-yes I am that Sakura-and she fell in love with the Prince-Roc.
"The Water Kingdom's King-my father-forbade me from seeing Roc, to talk to him, and to be even in the same room at the same time as him. Then he punished me by confining me to within the castle, under constant watch, but even that did not stop us. When the King found out that we were still somehow seeing each other, he was furious and ordered that our helper be found and executed on the spot. What he did not know was that it was Cye helping me see my love.
"To prevent me from further disobeying him, father informed my entended-the Prince of the Dark Kingdom-Rook-about the goings on behind his back. But because of this, there was a terrible battle. A battle between the angry Princes of the seven good Kingdoms and Rook. The princes all knew that Rook was deadly when it came to women."
Here all three male Spirits nodded, while Lin just stared in shock. All three had dark looks on their faces and looked ready to kill someone.
"Ryo was finally able to convince the King-Shoten-to break off my engagement with Rook. There was a terrible battle between the eight kingdoms which came to a draw with heavy casulties. So the eight kingdoms split apart into fours, one was the Water-Wind-Fire Kingdom, the Stratos-Earth Kingdom, the Forest-Ice Kingdom, and the Dark Kingdom.
"Then one day, Rook-now grown and King of the Dark Kingdom-found out that the Queen of the Water-Wind Kingdom, the very Princess that he had let slip through his fingers, was heavy with child. So for my remaining four months he schemed. All of which were ways to make me pay for not marrying him. So after Ishakari and Kenshin were born, Rook made his move.
"When I saw Rook trying to kill my children, I fled with them, only to be seperated from my baby girl. For fifteen years I searched for my child with no luck. I was about to give up hope, when, out of the blue, a human child walked up to my river, where I was hiding, and spoke to me. This girl was adopted and wanted to know if I had seen her real mother on the night that she had been found.
"It was that very night that she found out part of the truth. She wasn't human at all, she was a River Spirit that had been raised as a human. On her fifteenth birthday she began to change. Once she found out who she was, she found her way here and that's all I can tell you."
Haku sucked in a breath in shock and then gasped in surprise. The realization was like a slap in the face-Chihiro was a Princess! AN UNTOUCHABLE ROYAL PRINCESS! She was definitely out of his league.
"And now Chihiro's gone," Haku whispered softly.
"Who?" Sage replied, confused.
"Chihiro," Sakura stated softly, "Ishakari is her real name, Chihiro is her human name, and Sen is the name she had when she worked in the Bathhouse. Rekou has gotten her and has probably taken her to Rook."
"Are you telling me that-" Sage stopped, growled in anger, and grabbed up Haku by his shirt collar, lifting him clean off the ground once more, "Even though you are a Protector of the Wind-Water Kingdom, you let Rekou kidnap my niece, Princess Ishakari?!"
With that said, Sage tossed Haku into another wall, which was clear across the one room house, making him thud against it painfully. Cye and Ryo both winced, as Haku learned, the hard way, that Prince Sage was very protective of his family, especially of his long lost niece.
^All reviews welcomed, but kindly lay off any obscene, profain, or distasteful comments.^
^Flames will be used to feed my pet dragon.^
^There may be one to two or more curse words in this chapter. Would you say that's grounds for upping the rating?^
^To make up for making my loyal reviewers wait so long, I made it as long as I could before hitting a writer's block. Oh my head, too much writing at once...@.@...^
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Erinamation-limited2-nothing: Thanks for the smiling review.
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Fire Kitsune Goddess: I'm working on updating faster.
tomoyo-chan(): I'm working as fast as I can.
Yana5: Thanks for the review. As I just said to tomoyo-chan(), I'm working as fast as I can. PS-thank's for the e-mail.
digitude: Thanks for the review and the compliment. Oh, and I plan on it.
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^Star Trek's Scotty (in the background): "She can't take much more, Captain! She's gonna explode!"^ (don't own quote)
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^I wrote this chapter of the story once before and didn't like it, so I tore it apart and rewrote it. If anything doesn't make sense-say I call Haku a Prince or something else weird like that-please, please, please tell me in a review or e-mail. I don't want to screw up this story-if it ain't already screwed up that is.^
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*Mental speaking*
"Speaking"
'Thought'
Chapter Eight
The Story
"This is going to be a long night..." Sakura muttered and opened her mouth to start telling a very long story, only to be interrupted by a strong gust of wind, which rattled the window almost hard enough to take the shutters right off of their hinges.
Sakura stared at the window angrily, as if it had rudely interrupted her. Haku and Lin's mouths nearly hit the floor, as a River Spirit, a Fire Spirit, and a Wind Spirit came waltzing into Zeneba's house as if they owned it.
The Fire Spirit was decked out in a bright red outfit similar to Haku's Bathhouse uniform. The Fire Spirit had raven black hair, which spiked up like a fire would burn and dazzling blue eyes. He was laughing along with the other two Spirits.
The River Spirit was decked out in a light blue outfit similar to the Fire Spirit's. His hair was short, aburn brown, and his eyes were blue. The Wind Spirit wore an outfit of green, which matched his eyes, and his hair was a spiky, light blond.
Haku felt that he knew these three and they seemed to look oddly familiar, but his memory of any time before the Bathhouse was still shrouded in mystery. All that he knew about himself either circulated around the Bathhouse or it was something Chihiro had helped him remember.
Chihiro-that name was like a dagger in his heart. Haku bitterly remembered the helplessness he had felt when she had been taken away from him. He vowed that he would find Rekou and make him pay for taking Chihiro away from him. Rekou would know the meaning of pain if he had touched her or caused her pain in any other way.
'If he has moved even one single hair out of place on her head, I'll-' Haku stopped himself, shook his head to clear his thoughts, and suddenly remembered that he wasn't alone in the room.
"RYO, SAGE, and CYE!" Sakura yelled angrily, finally over her shock, as she shot up from her seat.
The three Spirits suddenly went white as sheets. The one in the bright red turned out to be Ryo, the one in light blue was Cye, and the one in green was Sage. All three looked like they had just signed their death warrents and were now in front of the firing squad.
"Sakura!" Ryo yelped, fearful of the female River Spirit, "We didn't know that you were here!"
"Then why did you come here?" Sakura asked them harshly.
"Sage felt a presence here that seemed to be similiar to Crystal and he wanted to see who it was," Cye explained softly.
"I don't think that it takes the Prince of the Water Kingdom, the King of the Fire Kingdom, and the Prince of the Wind Kingdom to investigate something like that!"
Sage's head suddenly snapped toward Haku. He stared at Haku for a minute or so before he attacked. Haku didn't now what hit him, one minute he was sitting in his chair and the next he was suddenly being held by the collar of his shirt, pressed up against a wall.
"Who are you?!" Sage asked him savagely.
"SAGE!" Sakura yelled angrily, "That's no way to treat a Protector!"
Sage let go, making Haku fall to the floor.
"Protector?" Sage replied, repeating Sakura.
"Let me tell these two a story and maybe you'll understand," Sakura stated, "Now if there will be no more interruptions I can start."
She shot a look over at the three, who were too busy being shocked to notice her look. She turned to Haku and then sat back down in her chair.
"Haku, your father was the Protector of the Royal family of the Wind Kingdom. Your mother was the Protecter of the Royal family of the Water Kingdom. At the time, there was a total of eight Kingdoms in our realm. The Wind Kingdom, the Water Kingdom, the Ice Kingdom, the Fire Kingdom, the Forest Kingdom, the Stratos Kingdom, the Earth Kingdom, and the Dark Kingdom.
"There was an agreement between the eight Kingdoms that all children of Royal lineage would be engaged at birth. Also, it was agreed that it was forbidden for a royal child to fall in love with someone other than their fiancé or fiancée. Thought not engaged to her, the heir Prince of the Wind Kingdom fell in love with the Princess of the Water Kingdom-Sakura-yes I am that Sakura-and she fell in love with the Prince-Roc.
"The Water Kingdom's King-my father-forbade me from seeing Roc, to talk to him, and to be even in the same room at the same time as him. Then he punished me by confining me to within the castle, under constant watch, but even that did not stop us. When the King found out that we were still somehow seeing each other, he was furious and ordered that our helper be found and executed on the spot. What he did not know was that it was Cye helping me see my love.
"To prevent me from further disobeying him, father informed my entended-the Prince of the Dark Kingdom-Rook-about the goings on behind his back. But because of this, there was a terrible battle. A battle between the angry Princes of the seven good Kingdoms and Rook. The princes all knew that Rook was deadly when it came to women."
Here all three male Spirits nodded, while Lin just stared in shock. All three had dark looks on their faces and looked ready to kill someone.
"Ryo was finally able to convince the King-Shoten-to break off my engagement with Rook. There was a terrible battle between the eight kingdoms which came to a draw with heavy casulties. So the eight kingdoms split apart into fours, one was the Water-Wind-Fire Kingdom, the Stratos-Earth Kingdom, the Forest-Ice Kingdom, and the Dark Kingdom.
"Then one day, Rook-now grown and King of the Dark Kingdom-found out that the Queen of the Water-Wind Kingdom, the very Princess that he had let slip through his fingers, was heavy with child. So for my remaining four months he schemed. All of which were ways to make me pay for not marrying him. So after Ishakari and Kenshin were born, Rook made his move.
"When I saw Rook trying to kill my children, I fled with them, only to be seperated from my baby girl. For fifteen years I searched for my child with no luck. I was about to give up hope, when, out of the blue, a human child walked up to my river, where I was hiding, and spoke to me. This girl was adopted and wanted to know if I had seen her real mother on the night that she had been found.
"It was that very night that she found out part of the truth. She wasn't human at all, she was a River Spirit that had been raised as a human. On her fifteenth birthday she began to change. Once she found out who she was, she found her way here and that's all I can tell you."
Haku sucked in a breath in shock and then gasped in surprise. The realization was like a slap in the face-Chihiro was a Princess! AN UNTOUCHABLE ROYAL PRINCESS! She was definitely out of his league.
"And now Chihiro's gone," Haku whispered softly.
"Who?" Sage replied, confused.
"Chihiro," Sakura stated softly, "Ishakari is her real name, Chihiro is her human name, and Sen is the name she had when she worked in the Bathhouse. Rekou has gotten her and has probably taken her to Rook."
"Are you telling me that-" Sage stopped, growled in anger, and grabbed up Haku by his shirt collar, lifting him clean off the ground once more, "Even though you are a Protector of the Wind-Water Kingdom, you let Rekou kidnap my niece, Princess Ishakari?!"
With that said, Sage tossed Haku into another wall, which was clear across the one room house, making him thud against it painfully. Cye and Ryo both winced, as Haku learned, the hard way, that Prince Sage was very protective of his family, especially of his long lost niece.