Author's Note: Hello everyone! how have you all been? I'm so sorry for
updating late. I'm glad that you all enjoy my story so far. Anyways, school
had just started and plus I got FINALS(testing) coming up soon so I have
been busy studying and all these schools things going on, so that explains
why I haven't got any time to update my story. For now, my story might be
updating kind of slow, due to school., but I will still try my best to
update this story as soon as possible. Okay!!^.^ Well... here's the next
chapter. Read and enjoy. Oh yeah one more thing! I appreciate all of your
wonderful reviews.^_^
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Special Thanks To All Of My Reviewers: I am so sorry that I cannot answer to all of your questions and responses. Like I said before I got school and its really pressuring me to keep up with school and this story. So again I'm sorry, but all of your reviews were very nice and I am really thankful to have you all reading my story.^_^
Lonely Heart
Chapter 6: Creepy River
-The next day- Chihiro was still sleeping in, until someone came and woke her up. "Chihiro! Wake up! It's time to get up!" Someone shouted in Chihiro's ears. Chihiro popped her eyes open immediately to see Lin standing before her, then Chihiro looked around the room it was still dark. "Lin, why are you waking me up in the middle of the night?" Chihiro asked in a sleepy tone.
"Chihiro it's 4:30 in the morning, and its time to go to work!" Lin said with full energy in herself.
"Wow! That's so early!"
"No, actually you overslept."
"Overslept? How? It's 4:30 in the morning."
"Well everyone got up at 4:00 already and they're eating breakfast right now... so you better hurry or else everyone is going to eat up the food before you get there." Lin started explaining. Chihiro quickly got out of bed no questions ask and got dressed extremely fast like who knows how fast. Lin fixed Chihiro's bed while she was in the bathroom cleaning up. When Chihiro was done she and Lin went to the kitchen and grabbed their bowl of breakfast. Waking up 4:00 in the morning was something new to Chihiro. As a princess, she never have to wake up that early to do anything except use the restroom but other than that she never did have to wake up that early, but now that she's not in Shanghai anymore, she had to get use to waking up early one way or another. Plus it was better than getting married.
~Back in Shanghai Kingdom~ The queen started to worry about Chihiro it's the next day already and still she hasn't came down from her bedroom. Many servants have gone to Chihiro's room to check, but each time they did, they got no responses. Now everyone in the kingdom was worry. "I think we should break in." the king suggested.
"I think you're right, because I'm starting to get worry about Chihiro." The queen answer back. Then during that afternoon, the knights were order to break down Chihiro's bedroom door. After they broke in, everyone notice that Chihiro wasn't even there. Everyone started to panic especially the queen and the king. The king then orders all of the knights to search for Chihiro. Chihiro's picture were pasted around the kingdom and town, and if anyone found her they would be rewarded a lot. "What if someone kidnapped Chihiro?" The queen asked her husband.
"I don't know, but we have to find her..." the king replied.
"What are we going to tell the prince and his parents when they come?"
"Just tell them to wait until we can find Chihiro."
"Well, let's just hope we can find her before tomorrow." The queen said. Chihiro's parents were very worried because they really wanted to sell her off( hehe...that's all Chihiro's parents want with her...) The queen was very worried because she thought that maybe Chihiro got kidnapped or committed suicide, but she never thought that Chihiro ran away.
~Back at Aburaya Kingdom~ After eating Breakfast, Chihiro and Lin started working. Chihiro and Lin were walking off somewhere carrying some empty buckets. As they were walking someone shouted at them. "LIN! LIN!" Chihiro and Lin turned around at the same time to look at who had called. They saw a girl with black hair. Her name was Maylou; she was the same girl who handed Haku's Clothes to Chihiro when she first arrived.
"What?!" Lin yelled back.
"We need more help! So could you help us!" Maylou asked.
"Okay! Hold on!" Lin answered.
"Hurry!" Maylou told Lin.
"Okay!" Lin yelled back. "Come on Chihiro; let's go help them." Lin said to Chihiro, and she nodded in return. Then just when Lin and Chihiro were coming towards the group of girl who needed help, Maylou notice Chihiro coming along too. Somehow Maylou just hated Chihiro from the start. She didn't want to work with Chihiro so she came up with a quick plan.
"Oh... We only need Lin, not you Chihiro." Maylou yelled in an annoying tone.
"Oh...um... Lin, since they only need your help, I'll just go back and get water instead. Okay?" Chihiro said to Lin. Maylou had hurted Chihiro's feelings but Chihiro pretended not to get offended by her words.
"Are you sure?" Lin asked Chihiro.
"Yes, I'm sure, go ahead and go help them, I'll be all right." Chihiro saying with confidences.
"Okay be careful. But do you know where the Kohaku River is?" Lin asked Chihiro because Chihiro had never been to the Kohaku River, Chihiro heard that there was a river near the kingdom but she didn't know exactly where it was located.
Chihiro nodded a 'no'
"Okay, you just walk straightforward and there you'll see the river." Lin explained.
"Okay got it." Chihiro understood the simply direction, and started walking with the buckets she was carrying earlier.
It was snowing lightly as Chihiro was walking towards the river. Her whole body was freezing she could barely move her toes. She could see her breath as she was breathing in the cold air that surrounded the foggy place. Then she finally spotted the Kohaku River up ahead after a short walk in the snow. When she got there, the river was cold and dirty, the water was shallow and it gave Chihiro the shivers down her spine. She quickly grabbed one of the buckets and started filling it up with water, as well as the second bucket.
From the distances the same person with emerald green eyes and black hair was watching as Chihiro was filling up the buckets with dirty water. That person was the dark prince, Haku. He glared at her the whole entire time, but then suddenly he stopped and started to observe her every move as she was trying to get clean water into the bucket. "Worthless girl, she doesn't even know how to work." He said to himself coldly. With one last glare at Chihiro he left stepping on a piece of branch causing it to make a cracking sound. O_O When Chihiro heard the noise, she jumped 2 feet in the air causing her bucket of water to fall on her head making her hair and clothes all soaked. "What was that?" Chihiro said to herself. Her heart was pounding really fast. She then looked from side to side to see where the cracking noise had came from. She took a big gulp. "This Kohaku River is creepy." She said to herself once again. "-Sigh- I hope that was nothing." Chihiro then looked around again just to make sure that it was really nothing.
"Hey Chihiro, what took you so long!" A voice called from behind Chihiro.
"AHHHHH!" Chihiro yelled and quickly turning around to see Lin standing behind her.
"-Sigh- Lin you scared me to death." Chihiro said.
"Uh, sorry. What took you so long?" Lin asked.
"I was trying to get clean water into the bucket but then somehow the dirty water just kept coming into the bucket, so I have to pour it out and refill it, but then the same thing happens again." Chihiro explained. Lin looked at Chihiro.
"Chihiro, if you want to get clean water, you don't get it from the shore. You have to walk into the water and get it from the center, because the middle of the river has clean water and the shore contains only dirty water." Lin explained to the confuse Chihiro.
"Oh. I see... thanks." The reason why Chihiro was taking so long was that she kept getting water from the shore instead of the center. After getting some clean water into the buckets, Chihiro and Lin walked back towards the castle to help with more work.
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Author's Note: Hope you enjoy that! Please Review...
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Special Thanks To All Of My Reviewers: I am so sorry that I cannot answer to all of your questions and responses. Like I said before I got school and its really pressuring me to keep up with school and this story. So again I'm sorry, but all of your reviews were very nice and I am really thankful to have you all reading my story.^_^
Lonely Heart
Chapter 6: Creepy River
-The next day- Chihiro was still sleeping in, until someone came and woke her up. "Chihiro! Wake up! It's time to get up!" Someone shouted in Chihiro's ears. Chihiro popped her eyes open immediately to see Lin standing before her, then Chihiro looked around the room it was still dark. "Lin, why are you waking me up in the middle of the night?" Chihiro asked in a sleepy tone.
"Chihiro it's 4:30 in the morning, and its time to go to work!" Lin said with full energy in herself.
"Wow! That's so early!"
"No, actually you overslept."
"Overslept? How? It's 4:30 in the morning."
"Well everyone got up at 4:00 already and they're eating breakfast right now... so you better hurry or else everyone is going to eat up the food before you get there." Lin started explaining. Chihiro quickly got out of bed no questions ask and got dressed extremely fast like who knows how fast. Lin fixed Chihiro's bed while she was in the bathroom cleaning up. When Chihiro was done she and Lin went to the kitchen and grabbed their bowl of breakfast. Waking up 4:00 in the morning was something new to Chihiro. As a princess, she never have to wake up that early to do anything except use the restroom but other than that she never did have to wake up that early, but now that she's not in Shanghai anymore, she had to get use to waking up early one way or another. Plus it was better than getting married.
~Back in Shanghai Kingdom~ The queen started to worry about Chihiro it's the next day already and still she hasn't came down from her bedroom. Many servants have gone to Chihiro's room to check, but each time they did, they got no responses. Now everyone in the kingdom was worry. "I think we should break in." the king suggested.
"I think you're right, because I'm starting to get worry about Chihiro." The queen answer back. Then during that afternoon, the knights were order to break down Chihiro's bedroom door. After they broke in, everyone notice that Chihiro wasn't even there. Everyone started to panic especially the queen and the king. The king then orders all of the knights to search for Chihiro. Chihiro's picture were pasted around the kingdom and town, and if anyone found her they would be rewarded a lot. "What if someone kidnapped Chihiro?" The queen asked her husband.
"I don't know, but we have to find her..." the king replied.
"What are we going to tell the prince and his parents when they come?"
"Just tell them to wait until we can find Chihiro."
"Well, let's just hope we can find her before tomorrow." The queen said. Chihiro's parents were very worried because they really wanted to sell her off( hehe...that's all Chihiro's parents want with her...) The queen was very worried because she thought that maybe Chihiro got kidnapped or committed suicide, but she never thought that Chihiro ran away.
~Back at Aburaya Kingdom~ After eating Breakfast, Chihiro and Lin started working. Chihiro and Lin were walking off somewhere carrying some empty buckets. As they were walking someone shouted at them. "LIN! LIN!" Chihiro and Lin turned around at the same time to look at who had called. They saw a girl with black hair. Her name was Maylou; she was the same girl who handed Haku's Clothes to Chihiro when she first arrived.
"What?!" Lin yelled back.
"We need more help! So could you help us!" Maylou asked.
"Okay! Hold on!" Lin answered.
"Hurry!" Maylou told Lin.
"Okay!" Lin yelled back. "Come on Chihiro; let's go help them." Lin said to Chihiro, and she nodded in return. Then just when Lin and Chihiro were coming towards the group of girl who needed help, Maylou notice Chihiro coming along too. Somehow Maylou just hated Chihiro from the start. She didn't want to work with Chihiro so she came up with a quick plan.
"Oh... We only need Lin, not you Chihiro." Maylou yelled in an annoying tone.
"Oh...um... Lin, since they only need your help, I'll just go back and get water instead. Okay?" Chihiro said to Lin. Maylou had hurted Chihiro's feelings but Chihiro pretended not to get offended by her words.
"Are you sure?" Lin asked Chihiro.
"Yes, I'm sure, go ahead and go help them, I'll be all right." Chihiro saying with confidences.
"Okay be careful. But do you know where the Kohaku River is?" Lin asked Chihiro because Chihiro had never been to the Kohaku River, Chihiro heard that there was a river near the kingdom but she didn't know exactly where it was located.
Chihiro nodded a 'no'
"Okay, you just walk straightforward and there you'll see the river." Lin explained.
"Okay got it." Chihiro understood the simply direction, and started walking with the buckets she was carrying earlier.
It was snowing lightly as Chihiro was walking towards the river. Her whole body was freezing she could barely move her toes. She could see her breath as she was breathing in the cold air that surrounded the foggy place. Then she finally spotted the Kohaku River up ahead after a short walk in the snow. When she got there, the river was cold and dirty, the water was shallow and it gave Chihiro the shivers down her spine. She quickly grabbed one of the buckets and started filling it up with water, as well as the second bucket.
From the distances the same person with emerald green eyes and black hair was watching as Chihiro was filling up the buckets with dirty water. That person was the dark prince, Haku. He glared at her the whole entire time, but then suddenly he stopped and started to observe her every move as she was trying to get clean water into the bucket. "Worthless girl, she doesn't even know how to work." He said to himself coldly. With one last glare at Chihiro he left stepping on a piece of branch causing it to make a cracking sound. O_O When Chihiro heard the noise, she jumped 2 feet in the air causing her bucket of water to fall on her head making her hair and clothes all soaked. "What was that?" Chihiro said to herself. Her heart was pounding really fast. She then looked from side to side to see where the cracking noise had came from. She took a big gulp. "This Kohaku River is creepy." She said to herself once again. "-Sigh- I hope that was nothing." Chihiro then looked around again just to make sure that it was really nothing.
"Hey Chihiro, what took you so long!" A voice called from behind Chihiro.
"AHHHHH!" Chihiro yelled and quickly turning around to see Lin standing behind her.
"-Sigh- Lin you scared me to death." Chihiro said.
"Uh, sorry. What took you so long?" Lin asked.
"I was trying to get clean water into the bucket but then somehow the dirty water just kept coming into the bucket, so I have to pour it out and refill it, but then the same thing happens again." Chihiro explained. Lin looked at Chihiro.
"Chihiro, if you want to get clean water, you don't get it from the shore. You have to walk into the water and get it from the center, because the middle of the river has clean water and the shore contains only dirty water." Lin explained to the confuse Chihiro.
"Oh. I see... thanks." The reason why Chihiro was taking so long was that she kept getting water from the shore instead of the center. After getting some clean water into the buckets, Chihiro and Lin walked back towards the castle to help with more work.
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Author's Note: Hope you enjoy that! Please Review...