Broken Heart

A quiet girl who is like a shadow keeps a dark secret, a handsome boy who wants to help her. Chihiro has never felt love, and a boy she meets wants to change that. But is it enough to mend her heart. (Totally original story, doesn't flow with the movie)

Disclaimer: Me don't own Spirited Away! But did you have to break the truth to me?

Chapter 2

Waking from his slumber, Haku rubbed his eyes and stretched easily. Easy to say he slept comfortably. He stood from his futon and walked towards his wardrobe and pulled out a blue t-shirt and white shirt with shreds in the shoulders. Then he pulled out a pair of blue pants. After slipping off his night shirt and boxers, he slipped a new pair of boxers on and pulled on the blue shirt, then the white one. Afterward he yanked his pants on and rushed out of his room.

As he raced through the hallways, he passed by his cousin, Lin, who was just walking out of her room. She frowned after him and shouted, "Hey Haku! It'd be considerate if you'd clean up after yourself once in awhile!" The boy just glanced at the tall brunette girl before replying, "The servants take care of that!" before running down the stairs. "Yea! And they run this house! Lazy bastard," Lin mumbled as she buckled a blue belt around her waist and followed after her younger cousin.

When the girl reached the kitchen, Haku was shoving his face full of an omelet, a bowl of rice, and a plate of fish and curry. "Geez, you're gonna get fat if you eat all that," Lin remarked as she sat down with one bowl of rice. Haku's mother walked in and smiled at the two kids. "Well Kohaku's a growing boy; he needs a lot of nutrition!" Haku groaned as he slurped his tea loudly. "Mother, I told you, just call me Haku." Lin smirked at him as his mother ruffled his hair. "Oh sweetie give it a rest. Your friends may call you Haku, but I'm your mother so I can call you Kohaku if I please." Lin giggled as Haku pouted in his chair before finishing his breakfast.

Lin and Haku grabbed their back packs as they headed towards the front door. "Bye mother!" Haku called out loudly as two servants closed the doors to the house behind them. The two hurried down the path way from the mansion atop the hill down to the wrought iron gate that separated the River family's estate from the town. Two guards stood on both sides of the gate and they bowed respectfully to the two teenagers as the gates opened and they walked through them.

Haku brought his hands behind his head as the two walked towards their school. They walked in pretty much silence this morning until they got closer to the school grounds. When they reached the school and entered through the gate, they saw a small crowd gathering around a group of students. Haku and Lin watched and listened as they got closer, but gained worried frowns when they heard sounds of a fight. The two pushed through the crowd till they reached the center ring where they saw three boys surrounding a girl who was lying on the grass.

One of the boys had short blonde hair and was standing over the girl. He smirked as his buddies chuckled before he brought his foot back and sent a kick into the girl's stomach. She barely made a sound as his shoe collided with her tender belly through her sweatshirt. Some kids winced a bit, but others were loving it. Haku felt anger bubble up inside of him and when he looked over to Lin, he saw she'd snapped. Lin ran forward and axe kicked the guy that had kicked the girl. He howled in pain and turned around to punch whoever had kicked him. He threw a punch at Lin who dodged it easily and then punched him in the side of the face.

After beating up the boy, Lin dropped to her knees and placed a protective arm around the girl's shoulders. Then turning back to the other students, she hissed, "All of you, get out of here now!" students scattered and the other two boys grabbed their friend and ran for it. Haku was the only one who remained. He took a few steps towards them and heard Lin whisper some soft words with the girl, "I'm sorry that happened to you, I'm so sorry Sen."

Chihiro's POV

I felt the boy's foot kick my stomach again, and I wondered why I didn't cry out. Probably because no one would have helped me anyway. But then I heard someone run towards me, and then I felt an arm around my shoulder. Then I heard her voice hiss dangerously, "All of you, get out of here now!" Then I heard her whisper to me and tell me I was all right, if only she knew. Then I heard her say my name, Sen. I knew that was supposed to be my name now and Gai had taken my real name, but even after six years of hearing Sen, I still hated the sound of it.

End POV

Sitting up, Sen rubbed her right cheek which was starting to swell from when one of them punched her and knocked her down. "Sen, are you okay?" Lin asked in an older sister tone as she helped the girl with long brown hair stand up. "Yea, I'm okay. It doesn't even hurt. Arigato Lin," she whispered before looking up. What Haku saw caused him to feel a strange feeling inside. That girl, her eyes. They hold no light in them, what is going through her head right now? The boy wondered. Sen felt someone staring at her, and she looked over and saw the last person she'd expect to be seeing. Haku River.

Sen quickly bowed her head to the boy and raced off toward the school building, only being tripped by other students three times. Haku looked over to his cousin who looked ready to kill somebody. "I can't believe the kids here! Sen barely says anything to anyone, and they all pick on her! It drives me mad!" Haku stared worriedly after the fleeing girl, something about the way she was running, holding herself up, and moving, wasn't right. It was as if she had pain coursing through her body. He could recognize the girl's run because his teammates on the football team usually staggered a bit like that after practice. "Lin, how do you know her?" Lin seemed to calm down a bit with the question. "I found her stuck in a janitor's closet a little while ago, and then I seemed to find her in hallway corners with a bruise on her face or picking up her books, or stuck in a locker. A girl like Sen really needs a friend. But she won't let me be seen with her, she thinks people will go against me and shun me too. She's such a caring person; it makes me wonder what happens to her at home,"

Haku instantly made a conclusion that the girl did need a friend, or maybe two; and he'd gladly become her friend. "Hey Lin, do you know what classes she takes?" he asked the girl. Lin nodded, "Yea, she's in all your classes. That's why I can remember her schedule so easily, why?" Haku grinned, "Like you said, a girl like her really needs a friend, besides you." Lin smiled, "All right, but she'll be very reluctant to let you even be around her. My guess is she won't see me for the rest of the day." The boy nodded and hurried to class as Lin rushed to her own. She was a year older than him, and was in another grade as well.

Sen took her seat in the back corner of the class and rummaged through her binder for her homework assignment when she realized she wasn't able to do it last night. She groaned softly and slumped in her chair as Haku strode into the classroom. The teacher, Ms. Riley looked up from the attendance sheet and frowned, "You're late Mr. River." Haku smirked as he sat down. The bell rang momentarily afterward and he replied, "Actually, I'm right on time." Ms. Riley frowned and checked his name off on the list.

She stood from her chair and went to close the door and after she returned to her seat, she grabbed another list. "All right, now we'll check and see who has the homework assignment. And if you don't have it, I want an excuse and two hours of detention after school." Some students groaned, but sighed happily after finding the assignment crumbled in a binder of folder. "Haku, do you have your assignment?" Haku nodded. After going through the rest of the class, Sen sighed gratefully when she realized the teacher forgot about her. But then she froze up when Ms. Riley continued, "Oh, and Sen. Did you do your assignment?" Some students turned around in their seats to watch the girl stutter. "Actually, Ms Riley I don't." The teacher leaned forward in her chair and smirked, "And what excuse do you have?" Sen stuttered as she looked around. So many people are looking at me, and Ms. Riley's staring at me. I can't tell why! What am I supposed to say? 'Sorry Ms. Riley, I couldn't do it last night because Gai was beating the hell out of me?' That might even work, and then I'll be sent to therapy, and they'll think I'm crazy and send me to an asylum! Where I can sit around and rock back and forth and recite the Periodic Table of Elements all day and get medically-happy and high from anti-depressants and become a pill-popper. Great.

As Sen waged a war in her head, Ms. Riley became impatient. "Sen Kurono!" she shouted. The girl in the back paled and she whispered one word that made Haku widen his eyes in realization. "Chihiro…" she mumbled. Ms. Riley cocked an eye brow. "Excuse me?" she asked. Sen looked up with horror written over her face. I said it…Chihiro…in front of them"I-I was looking up something, about, a," Sen was shaking badly as she felt something snap in her head and she closed her eyes before blacking out and falling from her desk.

Haku was the only one that got up out from their desk to take a look at Sen. The boy lifted her into a sitting position and turned to the teacher. "Ms. Riley, we should get Sen to the Nurse's Office," he stated as if he was in command of the class now. Ms. Riley just nodded her head as Haku reached a hand under Sen's knees and around her back before lifting her up and carrying her out the door and into the hallway. Ms. Riley seemed to recover from watching a student faint in her classroom and frowned angrily. "All of you! Page three hundred and four in your text books! Do problems one through forty! You have ten minutes," she added sweetly before the students rushed to open their text books.

Haku sat in a chair next to the standard clinic bed Sen was now lying on. The nurse said she was probly knocked out when she fell from the desk, but Haku knew she had been under mental stress that cause her to shut down. Like when your laptop gets over heated, you shut it down for awhile. But what he knew was that whatever was going through Sen's head, it wasn't no walk through the park.

+ Dream Sequence

When ten year old Chihiro woke up, she couldn't remember anything, it was all drawing a blank to her head. All she could remember was that final moment her parents were alive. She felt like she was moving and when her eyes focused, she realized she was in the backseat of a car. She tried to move, but her muscles felt so exhausted. She could barely keep her eyes open. She tried turning her head and noticed her hair had come out of the pony tail she had kept it in. When she tried to sit up, she felt her bones screaming to stop but she gripped the backset cushions of the car as tightly as possible until she pulled herself up.

"You're finally awake I see," a man's voice stated mockingly as Chihiro felt her head spin. She leaned against the back seat and closed her eyes till the nausea went away, and then she addressed the voice. "What happened? Where am I?" she asked as she felt her stomach churn as the car hit a bump. "Nothing, I don't know what you're talking about Sen. You've been sleeping in the backseat now for quite a few hours since we left town." Chihiro frowned, "Sen?" she asked as she rubbed her forehead which was throbbing. The voice chuckled, "That's your name. Don't tell me you're going crazy now, forgetting your own name," he told her as he turned off of a highway and onto a more isolated road.

Chihiro turned herself to sit forward and she leaned backwards to rest her head on the seat. 'My name's Sen? But I thought it was, Chi, no…what is my name? Sen can't be right, can it?' the girl thought confusedly as she felt the car lurch forward and speed up. Doubling over, the girl held her stomach and gritted her teeth. She didn't know where the pain was coming from, she just hurt all over. She lay back down in the back of the car and closed her eyes, hoping the painful feeling she felt now would go away. Then he spoke up again, "Sen, go back to sleep." As she felt herself slip into unconsciousness once again, she felt a cold feeling run through her spine that seemed to tell her she was in danger. But she ignored it and slipped into a dark, black sleep.

When the car finally stopped an hour or so later, the girl opened her eyes halfway. She heard the front door open and slam closed and then heard footsteps walk toward her side of the car. She tried to wake herself up fully, but she found herself just too tired to move. The door was opened and two arms reached in and grabbed the girl and pulled her out a bit roughly. The door to the back was also slammed and the noise seemed to make the girl jolt back to her senses. She felt as if she was being carried and then looked up into a man's face. Her eyes widened in realization, and she tried screaming when she saw his face; the same smirk and dark glint in his eyes. And she remembered the bloody scene of her parent's deaths. But before any sound came from her throat, the man once again pulled out the white cloth and shoved it over her nose and mouth. She tried not to breathe it in, but the smell entered her airway and she blacked out.

+ End Dream Sequence

Opening her eyes wildly, Sen sat up and panted heavily as she caught her breath in her throat. She looked around, and the first person she saw was Haku. She couldn't recognize him though, and she felt a strange feeling in her body. On instinct, she began to back away from him, but in doing so she fell off of the clinic bed and her back hit the hard tile floor. Haku stood up quickly and ran to her side. "Sen are you okay?" he asked a bit worriedly. Sen winced at hearing that name, and remembered the first person to have called her that. "Gai…" she mumbled quietly, causing Haku to look at her in confusion. But before he could ask her what she meant, Sen began trembling and pushed away from him. "Get away!" she mumbled as she wrapped her arms around her knees and rocked back and forth. Haku watched with wide eyes, but he then frowned determinedly and leaned back towards her. "Sen," he called out to her as he placed his hands on her shoulders.

The girl calmed down and sat still, her arms were still shaking a bit, but otherwise she seemed to be listening to him. "Sen, it's all right." The boy said quietly as he placed an arm around her shoulders. The girl closed her eyes and took a few deep breaths before opening her eyes again. She looked over at him and smiled weakly before getting up to her feet. "Thank you, but I have to go." Sen turned and opened the door easily. As she pulled the door open, she winced a bit from a bruise on her arm and walked into the hallway back to class. Haku still sat on the ground, staring after her. He had seen the wince, and the way she walked was painful he could tell. "What is going on with Her?" He whispered to himself as he got up to follow her. I'll find out, he concluded and exited the Clinic.

Sorry for the late update, it could have been worse though, let me tell you. And thank you my three precious reviewers. Your reviews made me feel all fuzzy inside, or it could have been Chelsea's cooking, anyhoo. I'm glad you three liked my story; I must say I've been in the Inuyasha 'M' category too long, hehe. See ya soon with the next chapter.

Sam