Author's Note: Here's chapter 4. Hope you enjoy my story so far. And Thank you for reviewing I really appreciated. In return I'll continue to write more okay. And thank you for taking your precious time to read my story. ^o^

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Sydni Nelson: Thank you. I'm glad you like my story.And yes I'll make room in my story and use your idea, but that will later when Chihiro actually meets Haku.Okay!^_^Thank you for the idea I appreciated.

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Lonely Heart

Chapter 4: Working Hard

Lin led Chihiro to a small room. The room was small made of stone blocks from wall to wall and ceiling to the floor. There were two beds next to each other.

"We're sharing room, so my bed is the one on the left and yours on the right." Lin explained everything to Chihiro.

Chihiro looked around the room, it was much smaller than her bedroom back at home, plus her room wasn't as this one cold either.

"You can start setting your bed; the blankets are in the closet. And once your done you can come out and start helping." Lin told Chihiro. Chihiro nodded and set her things down.

"Oh yeah one more thing, change into this outfit afterwards." Lin handed Chihiro a set of working clothes.

"Thank you Lin." Chihiro then started to set her bed and Lin left. After getting everything ready Chihiro change into the clothing Lin gave her earlier. 'How am I suppose to help when I have no experiences in anything.' She thought, then walked towards the kitchen.

~Back at Shanghai Kingdom~

Chihiro's mother started to get worried about Chihiro. She thought that Chihiro was still in bed sleeping in, but it was already noon and still Chihiro hasn't come down yet. Then the queen ordered one of the servants to go to Chihiro's bedroom and check on her. The servant went upstairs to Chihiro's room and started knocking.

-knock-knock- "Chihiro?" The servant asked, but no one answered. -knock-knock- "Chihiro, are you there?" The servant asked again, still no one answered. Then the servant tried to open the door but it was lock. The servant then went back downstairs to tell the queen that Chihiro isn't answering and that she has her door locked as well. The queen knew that she has probably got Chihiro upset about the marriage, so she told the servant to leave Chihiro alone by herself until Chihiro is ready to come down. But what she didn't know is that Chihiro is long gone ever since last night.

~Back at Aburaya Kingdom~

When Chihiro got into the kitchen, she wanted to start helping on preparing the food for lunch since she was best at cooking. But instead of working in the kitchen she was ordered to do laundries, clean the bathroom, mop the kitchen floor, dust the frames, carry water, fold the blanket sheets, and etc. She was ordered to do all kinds of cleaning but they never mention for her to cook in the kitchen. Cooking was the only thing Chihiro was good at everything else was hard.

Chihiro walked outside to look for Lin, but she was nowhere to be found. Chihiro then decided that she should start with laundries first. She walked over to a group of girls who were hand washing some clothes.

"Um... where do I start?" Chihiro asked confusingly.

"Here are the clothes you are to wash Chihiro." A girl with black hair gave Chihiro a basket of clothes. It was quite weird that the girl already knew her name. Chihiro took it and began to wash the clothes. She didn't know how to wash clothes so she would look at the girls and copy the way of washing clothes. As Chihiro was examining the girl she notice that one of the girl were giving Chihiro a devilish smile it was the girl with the black hair, Chihiro looked away and kept on washing the basket of clothes. 'Why was that girl looking at me like that?' Chihiro thought.

The group of girl kept looking at Chihiro and giggling at the same time. Chihiro didn't know what they were giggling at she thought they were insane. But what Chihiro didn't know was that the basket of clothes she was washing wasn't just anyone's clothes; it was Haku's clothes. No one wanted to wash his clothes because of the way he is and how he wants everything his way and if anyone tries to do anything funny with his clothes who knows what will happen, so they decided to give it to the new girl Chihiro.

After washing the clothes Chihiro dried them. Then she did all the things she was ordered to do. She was really working hard, this was the first time she has ever worked so hard in her life.

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Author's Note: I know this chapter wasn't long but, I hope you still enjoy it!! Please review.^_^