There's always a way
By Chikara-Yuy
Okay I am happy with the few reviews I do have on this and I am so sorry it has taken me so long to update!
Talk about writer's block.
Bah. Anyway I do not own spirited away!
Chihiro walked through the long tunnel and wondered if her friends would remember her, and if Yubaba would giver her job again. She sighed and when she reached the exit a smile broke out on her face. She raced across the green grass, past the strange statues she had seen on her first time here. She stopped and thought about changing. She hadn't been in her spirit form in a long, long time.
Chihiro stood still and closed her eyes. Her already tall height didn't change, but her shoulder-blade length hair grew longer. When Chihiro opened her eyes she looked down at herself and spun seeing her long hair fan out. Taking off her bag she searched through it and pulled out the small hair band Granny and her friends had made her. She then took her hair and put it in a low ponytail. (An: think Sango from InuYahsa.)
When she finished and then picked her bag
up and hurried towards the buildings. She had changed into a different sort of robes before she made it back to the spirit realm. As a part time job she had worked at her friend's, father's shrine. She had also been given priestess robes as she had to wear them when working.
The top was white and the bottoms where blue. Chihiro leaned away from the railing and looked towards the bath house, and walked towards it and the bridge that led across the water.
She hurried across as the other spirits started to appear, and hurried along she looked to the right and saw the pigs in their pens. Then she was racing through the gardens again, when she reached the doors into the bath house she turned and crawled through the small hidden door. Without a thought she hurried down the stairs managing unlike the first time avoided running into the wall. She slowed down and looked to the door that led to the boiler room where Kamajii worked with the soot balls. Chihiro remembered that she had come here to beg for a job and he had sent her to Yu-baba, helping her out a lot.
She straightened her shoulders, opened the door and walked in. Kamajii was working away at the boilers and didn't turn around, probably couldn't hear the door open over the boilers.
Chihiro took a deep breath and yelled, "I NEED A JOB!" at the top of her lungs.
"I can't give you a job so you might as well.." Kamajii stopped as he had turned around to face her,
"Sen?"
Chihiro smiled at her old name. "Well who else would it be?"
"Sen your back how good to see you girl!"
Chihiro ran over to him and gave him a hug.
"How is everyone grandpa? Where's Haku, and Rin?"
"Well, Rin is just fine, but.."
Chihiro turned and smiled as Rin had crawled through the door. She was starring at her as if she had seen a ghost.
"Sen!"
Rin moved to her and hugged her. "Gosh, Sen look how tall you've gotten, and your hair!"
Kamajii smiled as he watched the two of them.
"Sen, what are you doing back?"
Chihiro sat down and told them everything. Rin and Kamajii both comforted her. "So you are a river spirit?"
Chihiro tilted her head. "Yeah. But part light spirit which is kinda weird. But cool."
The she asked a question they had dreaded.
Chihiro wiped her eyes. "Where's Haku? How is he?"
Rin looked quickly to Kamajii and the two exchanged a look.
"Wellhe's ." Rin started.
"He is lord of the bathhouse now," said Kamajii.
"What, wait where's Yubaba?"
"Retired." said Rin.
"Oh."
"So what have you been doing lately?" asked Rin quietly.
"I learned to play the flute." said Chihiro, she pulled it out of her bag it was in its case. She also had a bigger case next to it.
"What is the bigger one granddaughter?"
"A guitar. I learned to play it too."
"Play something please? I would love to hear you play it!" said Rin.
Chihiro nodded and opened the guitar case and pulled out the instrument. She then pulled out her guitar pick and strummed the cords and tightened them so that they sounded right.
"Okay here is a good one I learned."
Chihiro strung the first cords and smiled lightly as she began to sing.
"If there were no words,
No way to speak,
I would still hear you."
Chihiro sang the song softly, strumming the guitar and swaying some with the tune. When she had first heard it on her radio she had wanted to learn to play it. She sung it first then learned to play it on both instruments. She had been so happy. The song reminded her of Haku.
"If there were no tears
No way to feel inside
I'd still feel for you."
Rin and Kamajii listened silently awestruck. They were both proud of her. But both were worrying about when she would see Haku but the song almost drove that from their minds.They just listened and smiled at her. Rin almost wanted to dance to the song. Kamajii was happy for her and he was going to ask her to stay with them she was like a granddaughter to him already.
"And even if the sun refused to shine
Even if romance ran out of rhyme
You would still have my heart until the end of time
You're all I need, my love, my Valentine"
Chihiro had during the entire time she had been in the human world never, ever dated. Not once. She had turned down many guys. Most of them understood some tried again until her friends drove them off. She had taken up many hobbies to keep herself occupied. And she kept her promise and waited for Haku, but as it is sometimes mote to do a heart can grow walls around it. Chihiro's heart had done so and only her parents had ever gotten through it. Now since their death's, the walls were fifty percent thicker.
"All of my life
I have been waiting for
All you give to me
You've opened my eyes
And showed me how to love unselfishly."
"I've dreamed of this a thousand times before
But in my dreams I couldn't love you more
I will give you my heart
Until the end of time...
You're all I need, my love, my Valentine,"
Chihiro's eyes were hidden by her bangs as she bent her head. She would protect her heart with the walls even more so now that she was back here. But would the walls hold up?
" And even if the sun refused to shine
Even if romance ran out of rhyme
You would still have my heart until the end of time
'Cause all I need is you, my Valentine
You're all I need, my love, my Valentine."
Chihiro strummed the last chord to the song and smiled up at Rin and her grandfather who clapped.
"That was beautiful Sen."
"Wonderful Granddaughter!"
Chihiro thanked them and put her guitar back in its case. As she locked it she looked up at them.
"I guess I had better go talk to Haku then huh?" she said. "I will need the job."
okies I hoped you liked this chapter and sorry it took a while. I had writer's block on this thing and then this chapter got lost. But I finally found it! Okies R&R!