Chapter Three: Disturbing Sights

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ON WITH THE SLIGHTLY DEMENTED SHOW!

"Yo, Haku, get up!" Chihiro slapped the boy's face in attempt to arouse him. "Come on, you need to get up!"

Finally, Haku opened his eyes, looking at her with emerald green gems. He sat up weakly, putting a hand to his head.

"There's a human here!" A voice shouted from inside the bathhouse.

"It reeks! Get it out of this place!" Another cried, rather rudely.

"They know you're here." Haku murmured softly.

"Wow. That was a big ego-booster..." Chihiro stated bluntly, falling into a sulk.

"Oh, here, I have something that will help your hideous stench. In fact, I do believe it will cure you of your noxious odor completely." He fumbled through his pocket as Chihiro's sulk became deeper at his words. "Aha!" Haku brought out a pearly pink vial, with hearts decorating the sides and a large pink gem for the cap. "It's perfume."

Chihiro's left eye began to twitch. "Haku...why do you have ladies' perfume with you?"

"NO REASON!" He blurted out defensively, then said gruffly, "Do you want to use it or not?" Hesitant, Chihiro nodded. Anything was better than hearing comments about her smell all day. Unscrewing the sparkly jewel cap, he sprayed a bit on Chihiro, who seemed to glow. Then, when Chihiro's eyes were closed from the spray that had wandered into her eyes, Haku quickly showered himself with the perfume.

When the brown-haired girl opened her eyes, she found Haku looking all spruce and handsome. She could only guess that he used some on himself. "Where did you get that? It smells heavenly!"

"Uh...from no one..." Haku quickly put it back in his pocket, patting it a few times before turning back to Chihiro. Then suddenly someone from the bathhouse walked around the corner. Haku and Chihiro froze, knowing they would be exposed. They didn't realize how close they were together. It was terror instinct to cling to the one next to you.

"HAKU!" the man's (well, frogman) voice rang, scolding. "We're all looking for you--Yu-baaba wishes to see you--and you're out here with a lady! Really! I thought you were above all this nonsense!" He babbled on, talking almost to himself rather than to anyone in particular.

Haku and Chihiro realized their position together and released each other hastily, and then Chihiro scrambled away, cheeks burning.

Haku rose also, following the still-talking man back inside the bathhouse.

Chihiro came to the stairs that hung precariously high over the train tracks. She was ready for the stairs and their evilness this time. Chihiro took a tentative step, then another, and another. All was going well. Until, of course, the girl just had to trip over her dang feet again and roll clumsily, and painfully, down the stairs. Her fall was broken by the dreaded wall...yet again. Above her, the window swung open, and then to Chihiro's great surprise, it was NOT a frog smoking a cigarette that popped his head out, but the bird-man she saw before. Except that he was completely human now, in dashing features.
The man was femmily brushing his hair and humming a tune.

Chihiro gazed up at him for a moment before turning around the corner. She faintly heard a few words. "I wonder where my perfume went to..." Chihiro shook her head, out of view and made a mental reminder to laugh hysterically at Haku the next time she saw him.

Chihiro continued through the door.

Her meeting with Kamaji and Rin worked pretty much the same as it had when she first visited the Spirit World. She was near Yu-baaba's room, at the two large elaborately decorated double-doors with the freakish golden door knocker. Chihiro hesitated. Maybe she should actually knock this time... She reached her hand forward to rasp her knuckles against the door when they flew open without a warning. Yu-baaba's evil cackle resounded in her head.

Chihiro panicked. This was definitely not supposed to happen! Chihiro screamed when the same pulling effect drug her forward, except it wasn't exactly as she remembered. The walls around her faded to ebony and the room grew icy cold. Her hair blew out of the loose ponytail it had been held in and whipped around her face. The glittering ruby-hued ponytail holder her spirit-friends wove her flew from her reach. She screamed again. The cold laugh of Yu-baaba grew louder.

Suddenly everything halted in mid-breath. Yu-baaba was in front of her, standing in a swirling vortex of silver. Wind bellowed both of them, but Yu-baaba seemed well-accustomed to it.

"Chihiro, Chihiro..." Yu-baaba the terrible evil ugly fat bigheaded witch of the bathhouse began. "I knew you would return."

"W-what?"

"Don't play innocent with me, you sniveling brat. You've got the Sight. I had been expecting your visit. So predictable you humans are. Missed your spirit-friends, have you?"

"...Well, actually this all was a mistake..."

"Oh, come now. I know what your aim was. Free your friends from me? You have finally realized your full potential..."

Chihiro cocked an eyebrow. "Please, continue..."

"...You really don't know yet, do you?" She laughed again. "How sad."

"If you would be so kind as to remind me--" She stopped when the vortex around her fissured when Yu-baaba threw her hands up.

"Whatever the reason you came back for, don't think you can succeed again!" The witch began to start up her horrific cackle once and again.

At once, someone entered their conversation. Chihiro saw him and fulfilled her thought and laughed at him hysterically. He looked at Yu-baaba. "You called for me--OH MY FRAMED PICTURE OF CHIHIRO THAT I LOOK AT EVERY NIGHT!" He exclaimed in shock. Both Yu-baaba and Chihiro looked at him, stupefied. "I-I mean OH MY GOODNESS!" Haku rubbed his eyelids to make sure he wasn't dreaming. He remembered--everything! And he remembered that Chihiro had—

"ENOUGH!"

Yu-baaba slapped her hands together, creating a flash of white light.

"What in the world...?" Chihiro woke up to find herself in the old freakish bathroom in her new school. Her head throbbed with a dull but pulsing ache. She stumbled to her feet. "I...must have fallen asleep..." She walked clumsily over to the door, exiting the bathroom. Hopefully she didn't waste too much time asleep on the unused bathroom floor.

Haku opened his eyes, seeing a pink and white tiled floor beneath him that looked as if it hadn't been swept in years. He stood up after a moment and looked around him with bewildered emerald eyes. Confused, he went over to the sink and splashed some cold water on his face. Refreshing...

He threw open the door very elaborately and grandly, threw his arms out wide and took a deep, dramatic breath, huffing it out and putting his hands on his hips like some crazed super hero.

School kids halted in front of him, turned red, and started laughing. Haku, confused, looked behind him to find that upon the bathroom door lay a sign with a childish silhouette of a girl in a dress...

Until we meet again, my what... 7 fans..? --;
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