AN: clears throat:: hem hem:: without any further wait or fuss here it is
the one the only, Dragonball Z Spirited Away crossover. Please send in many
reviews as this is my fist fanfic and your opinions would be great.
However, all flames will be used to burn my many candles.
Disclaimer: I own nothing except my computer and my CD player, neither of
which I could live without. I am completely broke so any attempts to sue me
will be unprofitable and if I did own Dbz or Spirited Away I would not
spend my Saturday evenings lying in bed writing fanfiction.
Summary: The Cell games are over and Gohan is hanging around the 439
mountain district thinking about Goku. Chihiro and her family are finally
back in the real world and have moved into the same district and these two
sufferers meet and help each other through their pain. Amazing discoveries
lead to Chihiro's return to the spirit world, with Gohan in tow.
For The Love Of A Spirit
Chapter One- Meetings and talking
Gohan sat by the river bank dabbling his toes into the cold water, thinking of the all too recent death of his father. Despite many assurances that Goku's death was not his fault, Gohan still blamed himself for letting his Saiyan side take control of his emotions when he was fighting, thus stopping him from killing cell while he had the chance. He was so wrapped up in his thoughts that he did not notice the approach of another person until they were standing by his side, staring into the water with him. To his surprise Gohan looked up into the face of a complete stranger. It was a girl about his age, with black hair and brown eyes rimmed red from crying like his. Her clothes were rather average and so was she, except for her hair tie, which seemed to be lit from the inside with some kind of magical light. The girl sat down and without talking began to take off her socks and shoes and dabble her toes in the water alongside Gohan's. After a few minutes of sitting in silence like this, the girl reached out her hand to introduce herself; 'My name is Ogino Chihiro, what are you called?' 'I'm Son Gohan' said person muttered. After these social niceties were completed, they lapsed back into companionable silence. They stayed there for over half an hour, simply sitting and not talking before Gohan glanced at his watch and realised it was time for him to go back home and study. Without saying a word, he stood up, waved goodbye to Chihiro and left. They were both back at the same time the next day.
These silent moments of companionship continued for a week without either saying a word, yet they felt utterly comfortable in the other's presence. Their meetings continued in this manner for a fortnight. The day when the silence ended was the one-month anniversary of the Cell Games and Goku's death. When Chihiro arrived at the glade for her meeting with Gohan she found him curled up in a ball crying softly to himself. Some instinct told her to comfort him and this she did, sliding up next to him and wrapping her arms around him, rocking him gently like a mother rocks a babe. He curled up into her and sobbed into her shirt, his sobs becoming all the more desperate and breathy as they sat there. When Gohan had sobbed his heart dry of tears Chihiro gently asked, 'What's the matter Gohan, you don't have to tell me but I want to help you and it would help me if I knew what the matter was?' 'My. My.. My Dad died a month ago and it's all my fault for being so arrogant and not k..killing Cell when I had the chance and he asked not to be wished back 'cos he thinks it's his fault that people keep attacking earth and my mom's pregnant and I'm scared,' With this whispered admission, Gohan started to sob again. If Chihiro was shocked by what Gohan had said then she showed no sign, she merely continued to rub gentle circles on Gohan's back. 'It is not your fault your dad died Gohan,' Chihiro said in a tone that brooked no argument,' none of us are perfect and we all make mistakes, Kami knows I've made enough of them myself, so don't blame yourself.' 'But he left and he won't come back' Gohan sobbed 'Do you love him?' Chihiro asked 'Yes' Gohan muttered, unsure as to where Chihiro was leading the conversation. 'Well then, if you love him then he will come back because people who love each other enough cannot be kept apart.' Chihiro said. 'But why did he have to leave anyway?' Gohan hiccuped' 'Because he loved you and if you love people you have to leave them sometimes, no matter how much it hurts.' Chihiro said sadly. 'How would you know?' Gohan said, anger overcoming grief for long enough for him to feel patronised. ' Look, this would probably be a lot easier if we knew each other's story,' Chihiro said equably,' so tell me about you and I'll tell you about me.'
Agreeing to this, Gohan straitened up and began his story, 'My name is, as you know, Son Gohan and my father was Son Goku. This may come as a shock to you but I'm not entirely human, my mother, Son Chichi, is a human, but my father is an alien, one of the last remaining Saiyans in the universe. Saiyans are a warrior race and when my father was born he was sent to this planet so he would wipe out its occupants and the planet would be sellable. However, he hit his head as a baby and forgot his programming and therefore earth survived. When he was older, he helped Bulma Briefs on her quest to find the dragon balls, legendary balls with the power to grant any wish. On this quest he met many friends and enemies and learned how to use ki and even mastered the kamehameha wave. Later on he married my mother and not long after that I was born. An evil alien called Frieza had destroyed the home planet of the Saiyans and all but four Saiyans were dead. The four remaining were Nappa, Raditz, the Prince Vegeta and my dad. The first three were already in the service of the evil Frieza and when Raditz, who was my father's brother, remembered my father's existence he came here to recruit my father to the service of Frieza. When Raditz arrived on earth, my father refused to come with him and in an effort to get my dad to help him, I was kidnapped. My dad and Piccolo-san followed my uncle and there was a brutal battle in which both my dad and my uncle died. However, my uncle managed to discover about the dragon balls and sent this information to Vegeta and Nappa. They set course to earth in order to find these items and use them for personal gain. Piccolo-san kidnapped me and took me off into the wilderness to train me for the Saiyans' arrival. Meanwhile, my dad was being trained in the otherworld by Kaio-sama the lord of the worlds. When the Saiyans were due to arrive on earth my dad was wished back to life and began his journey back to this world. There was a terrible battle in which Piccolo and others died, however, Piccolo is the embodiment of the negative energy in Kami and when he died, Kami died and as Kami was the creator of the dragon balls they disappeared at his death. Prince Vegeta left earth in his space ship and set course for planet Namek where another set of dragon balls could be found. We followed and, to cut an extremely long story short, my dad ended up fighting the powerful tyrant Frieza. Even though my dad was powerful he was still not strong enough to defeat Frieza and things were looking pretty bad until my dad unlocked the mythical state of Super Saiyan. This state made him powerful enough to defeat Frieza. However, we left planet Namek before him and he only just managed to escape in a faulty ship before the planet exploded. Frieza also survived the destruction of planet Namek and was nursed back to health by his father King Cold. They arrived on earth before my dad did and things were looking bad for the earth's special forces until a mysterious stranger arrived and easily killed both Frieza and his father. He then told us that he was going to meet my dad and asked if we wanted to join him we were intruiged, both by this statement and by the fact that it appeared he had gone super saiyan whilst fighting the two ice-jins. We followed him and my dad returned as the stranger had said he would. After the stranger had talked to my father he left and it turned out that he was called Trunks and was from the future. He told my father that in three years the earth's special forces would be wiped out and only I would survive. My dad would die of a heart virus before this event and I would die not long afterwards. The agents of this destruction were two terrible androids created by the diabolical Dr. Gero. The stranger decided that some things in the future were worth changing and gave my dad the antidote to the heart disease that had killed him in his time. Although I did not know at the time, he had also informed my father that he was the son of Vegeta and Bulma. We decided that we did not want to die and began to train hard in preparation for the arrival of these androids. We arrived at the location where the stranger from the future had told us the androids would arrive. We found them and my father fought a vicious battle with one until the heart virus Trunks had told him about struck. When all seemed lost, Vegeta, who had until now been absent from the proceedings, turned up, rescued my dad, killed one of the androids and assisted Piccolo to kill the other. Then Trunks turned up again and informed us that the two androids that we had just disposed of were not the two who were terrorising his world. These two androids woke up, bringing with them a third, who was programmed solely for the purpose of killing my dad. In an act of desperation, Piccolo went to Kami's lookout, where he and Kami were reunified into one powerful being. HOWEVER, this meant that there were no longer any dragon balls on the earth so dad instant transmissioned to planet Namek to bring back Dende and make him the god of the earth. Dende also created us some new dragon balls. It was now that Cell appeared and began absorbing people to increase his power. Training in the hyperbolic time chamber I was able to turn super saiyan and my dad and I became even more powerful. Whilst this was happening, Cell managed to absorb both of the androids, achieving his perfect form. He then challenged the world to a martial arts tournament, Cell Games. The z gang all attended the Cell games and after Hercule had been sent flying out of the ring the real fight began. My dad fought with cell for a while and then said that he couldn't beat him and asked me to fight for him. I was scared and surprised as I did not know my true potential and thought that if my dad couldn't beat Cell I certainly couldn't. However, I fought Cell and eventually I was about to destroy him and I continued to make him suffer instead of finishing him off. He saw that he couldn't win and decided to self-destruct. This would blow up the world and anyone on it anyway. Seeing that we couldn't stop him, my dad used his instant transmission to save the earth. He died. We thought that he had taken Cell with him into the otherworld, but Cell had the ability to regenerate and using dad's instant transmission, he returned to the earth. I fought Cell and eventually defeated him. We then returned to the lookout so as to use the dragon balls to wish back those who had been killed by Cell. When our first wish did not return dad to life we attempted to use the entire second wish to return him to this plane of existence. However, communicating with us, using the telepathic powers of King Kai, dad said that he didn't want to be wished back because it was his fault that everyone got attacked and if he were dead then we would be safe. And he's gone and I miss him so much.' Gohan stuttered to a finish and started to cry again, hating himself for this show of open weakness. Chihiro looked a little but shocked but hid it well, putting aside her own astonishment in order to comfort Gohan. 'Well my story isn't half as interesting as that but I'll tell you it anyway,' Chihiro said soothingly, 'My name is Chihiro Ogino, I was born in Tokyo and lived there until I was eleven. I was spoilt and selfish and my foster parents were fed up with my attitude and decided to move here. When we came here, we took a wrong turn and ended up by this mysterious place in the woods. My foster parents decided to investigate. When we came out the other end, I was still uncomfortable but I started to explore. My foster father said that we were in an abandoned theme park. We crossed a small riverbed and entered the town area. My foster mother and father smelt food and went to find it. They started to eat but I didn't want to seeing no other people around. I started to explore and came to a bridge leading to what looked like a bathhouse. I walked part the way across the bridge and was looking at a train track that ran beneath it when a boy ran out onto the bridge. He was angry and told me that I had to get across the river. I returned to the restaurant where my foster parents were still eating and discovered to my horror that they had been turned into pigs. I ran in delirium towards the river, only to discover that it was too late and the river was too deep for me to cross. Then to my shock I began to become transparent. I was terrified and began to cry. I ran away, not knowing or caring where I went. Then the same boy as had told me to leave turned up and told me that if I didn't eat something from that world I would disappear. I didn't want to eat it as I thought it would turn me into a pig. The stranger informed that it would not turn me into a pig. I eventually agreed to eat what he was giving me. I regained my shape and the boy escorted me back towards the bridge. He told me that I was to hold my breath over the bridge or people would be able to see me. We were almost over the bridge when a small frog creature jumped into our way. I was forced to take a breath, causing me to become visible again. There was uproar and the stranger and I managed to slip away through a side door. The stranger told me to go down the stairs and to ask for a job from the boiler man Kamajie. Somehow this man knew my name but when I asked him how he said he didn't know.
I eventually slipped down the stairs and came to the boiler room. Kamajie wouldn't give me a job but he persuaded a woman called Lin to take me to see Yubaba. Yubaba didn't want to give me a job, but eventually she agreed. She took my name away and gave me a new, I was now called Sen. The stranger from before, who I had learned was called Haku, escorted me to somewhere I could be assigned a job. Eventually I was assigned to the woman Lin from before. She congratulated me on getting me a job. Haku had been cruel to me on the way down to get me a job and I asked Lin if there were two of him because he had been so nice before. She said that thankfully there weren't and that Haku was Yubaba's henchman and that I was not to trust anything he said. I slept fitfully and early in the morning Haku came and showed me where my parents were being kept with the other pigs. He gave me back my old clothes and in one of these items I found a card with my true name on it.
Haku told me that my name was the way Yubaba controlled me. If I knew my true name then she had no real power over me. Haku told me that he had spent a long time trying to remember his real name but he still had no idea of what it was. He returned me to the bathhouse and as we were crossing the bridge I saw a mysterious spirit who disappeared when I looked back at him. Later that day, Lin and I were cleaning the bathhouse and I was emptying a bucket of water when I saw this spirit again. I let him into the bathhouse. Lin and I were assigned to clean the big tub. It was filthy and Lin told me that I should go and get a bath token. The foreman would not give me a bath token and then the mysterious spirit gave me one. I went back to the big tub and Lin showed me how to use the bath tokens. While Lin was going to get us some breakfast, the spirit returned again and tried to give me many more bath tokens.
Whilst this was going on, something that looked like a stink spirit arrived at the bathhouse requesting a bath. Yubaba decided to test me and made me take this unwelcome guest to the big tub. The spirit was so filthy that I had to use one of the extra tokens given me by the strange spirit from earlier. I was too short to reach the handle to turn off the water and I slipped into the bath. When I was leaving the water I saw something that looked like a thorn stuck in the spirit's side. I told Yubaba and almost all the spirits in the bath house helped me to pull it out of the so-called stink spirit. When it was out it turned out that the spirit was in fact a river spirit and this was great good luck. The spirit gave me some medicine, which I kept secret. Yubaba gave out sakes on the house that night.
The next day the mysterious spirit whom I had let in was in the bathhouse giving out gold. However, whilst everyone was buttering up the mysterious guest I could think of no one but Haku. I was sitting in our quarters when I saw the dragon I had come to recognise as Haku. He was being mobbed by strange bird like creatures. I helped him to escape these creatures. Then he left and went up to Yubaba's apartments at the top of the bathhouse. I eventually managed to get away from the spirits who wanted me to get out of the way as they attempted to get money out of the strange spirit. I eventually managed to come to Yubaba's quarters and after getting away from her gigantic baby I found Haku. He was dying on Yubaba's carpet and the horrendous green heads that Yubaba kept around her rooms were trying to push him down a hole in the floor. Things were looking bad as Yubaba's baby threatened to call his mother if I didn't play with him and the heads were getting even closer to getting rid of Haku. Then someone with a striking resemblance to Yubaba appeared through the floor. She turned Yubaba's son into a mouse, her pet bird into a fly and the three heads into a copy of Yubaba's baby. She then attempted to get me out of her way to Haku but I protected him. Haku and I fell down the hole in the floor into the boiler room.
Kamajie helped me to heal Haku, using medicine of his own and some of the medicine the river spirit had given me. He turned back into his usual humanoid form. The Yubaba look a like had told me that she was Yubaba's sister, Zeniba, and that Haku had stolen her magic seal and that she had put a spell on it saying that anyone who stole it would die. Haku coughed up the seal and a black slug, which I squashed. I decided to go to Zeniba and apologise for Haku. Kamajie gave me train tickets and then Lin appeared, telling me that the mysterious no face was eating people and demanding to see me. I managed to slip him the rest of my medicine and escape. He followed me and accompanied me on my journey to swamp bottom where Zeniba lived. I apologised to Zeniba and she accepted my apology. Then she the mouse, the fly and no face created my hair scrunchy. When they had finished Haku arrived and took me back to the bathhouse. On the way back to the bathhouse I remembered that Haku was in fact the spirit of the Kohaku River where I had once almost died and mysteriously survived. We returned to the bathhouse where I passed Yubaba's test and my foster parents and me were allowed to return, as humans, to this world. Haku was no longer under Yubaba's power as the black slug I had squashed had been her way of controlling. Haku accompanied me to the edge of the spirit world where he told me that we would meet again. I love him and I know that will see him again I just have to.' Chihiro finished, choking back breathy sobs.
Gohan looked at Chihiro and the sorrow in her face, trying to determine if she was lying. He saw only truth and loss in her eyes and breathed. 'I believe you.' Chihiro dried her eyes and turned to Gohan and whispered, 'I believe you too.' Gohan hid his surprise and stood up, he stretched out a hand and said, 'Do you want to come for supper?' Chihiro looked at his outstretched hand and lifted her own to place it in his, 'I'd love to Gohan.'
Tbc AN: sorry that was so long and probably boring but I had to do it to get some of the base of their friendship. Will get much better after this but I had to do this. Please R&R or I will send Yubaba after you so go press that little button on the left or Vegeta will blast you.
For The Love Of A Spirit
Chapter One- Meetings and talking
Gohan sat by the river bank dabbling his toes into the cold water, thinking of the all too recent death of his father. Despite many assurances that Goku's death was not his fault, Gohan still blamed himself for letting his Saiyan side take control of his emotions when he was fighting, thus stopping him from killing cell while he had the chance. He was so wrapped up in his thoughts that he did not notice the approach of another person until they were standing by his side, staring into the water with him. To his surprise Gohan looked up into the face of a complete stranger. It was a girl about his age, with black hair and brown eyes rimmed red from crying like his. Her clothes were rather average and so was she, except for her hair tie, which seemed to be lit from the inside with some kind of magical light. The girl sat down and without talking began to take off her socks and shoes and dabble her toes in the water alongside Gohan's. After a few minutes of sitting in silence like this, the girl reached out her hand to introduce herself; 'My name is Ogino Chihiro, what are you called?' 'I'm Son Gohan' said person muttered. After these social niceties were completed, they lapsed back into companionable silence. They stayed there for over half an hour, simply sitting and not talking before Gohan glanced at his watch and realised it was time for him to go back home and study. Without saying a word, he stood up, waved goodbye to Chihiro and left. They were both back at the same time the next day.
These silent moments of companionship continued for a week without either saying a word, yet they felt utterly comfortable in the other's presence. Their meetings continued in this manner for a fortnight. The day when the silence ended was the one-month anniversary of the Cell Games and Goku's death. When Chihiro arrived at the glade for her meeting with Gohan she found him curled up in a ball crying softly to himself. Some instinct told her to comfort him and this she did, sliding up next to him and wrapping her arms around him, rocking him gently like a mother rocks a babe. He curled up into her and sobbed into her shirt, his sobs becoming all the more desperate and breathy as they sat there. When Gohan had sobbed his heart dry of tears Chihiro gently asked, 'What's the matter Gohan, you don't have to tell me but I want to help you and it would help me if I knew what the matter was?' 'My. My.. My Dad died a month ago and it's all my fault for being so arrogant and not k..killing Cell when I had the chance and he asked not to be wished back 'cos he thinks it's his fault that people keep attacking earth and my mom's pregnant and I'm scared,' With this whispered admission, Gohan started to sob again. If Chihiro was shocked by what Gohan had said then she showed no sign, she merely continued to rub gentle circles on Gohan's back. 'It is not your fault your dad died Gohan,' Chihiro said in a tone that brooked no argument,' none of us are perfect and we all make mistakes, Kami knows I've made enough of them myself, so don't blame yourself.' 'But he left and he won't come back' Gohan sobbed 'Do you love him?' Chihiro asked 'Yes' Gohan muttered, unsure as to where Chihiro was leading the conversation. 'Well then, if you love him then he will come back because people who love each other enough cannot be kept apart.' Chihiro said. 'But why did he have to leave anyway?' Gohan hiccuped' 'Because he loved you and if you love people you have to leave them sometimes, no matter how much it hurts.' Chihiro said sadly. 'How would you know?' Gohan said, anger overcoming grief for long enough for him to feel patronised. ' Look, this would probably be a lot easier if we knew each other's story,' Chihiro said equably,' so tell me about you and I'll tell you about me.'
Agreeing to this, Gohan straitened up and began his story, 'My name is, as you know, Son Gohan and my father was Son Goku. This may come as a shock to you but I'm not entirely human, my mother, Son Chichi, is a human, but my father is an alien, one of the last remaining Saiyans in the universe. Saiyans are a warrior race and when my father was born he was sent to this planet so he would wipe out its occupants and the planet would be sellable. However, he hit his head as a baby and forgot his programming and therefore earth survived. When he was older, he helped Bulma Briefs on her quest to find the dragon balls, legendary balls with the power to grant any wish. On this quest he met many friends and enemies and learned how to use ki and even mastered the kamehameha wave. Later on he married my mother and not long after that I was born. An evil alien called Frieza had destroyed the home planet of the Saiyans and all but four Saiyans were dead. The four remaining were Nappa, Raditz, the Prince Vegeta and my dad. The first three were already in the service of the evil Frieza and when Raditz, who was my father's brother, remembered my father's existence he came here to recruit my father to the service of Frieza. When Raditz arrived on earth, my father refused to come with him and in an effort to get my dad to help him, I was kidnapped. My dad and Piccolo-san followed my uncle and there was a brutal battle in which both my dad and my uncle died. However, my uncle managed to discover about the dragon balls and sent this information to Vegeta and Nappa. They set course to earth in order to find these items and use them for personal gain. Piccolo-san kidnapped me and took me off into the wilderness to train me for the Saiyans' arrival. Meanwhile, my dad was being trained in the otherworld by Kaio-sama the lord of the worlds. When the Saiyans were due to arrive on earth my dad was wished back to life and began his journey back to this world. There was a terrible battle in which Piccolo and others died, however, Piccolo is the embodiment of the negative energy in Kami and when he died, Kami died and as Kami was the creator of the dragon balls they disappeared at his death. Prince Vegeta left earth in his space ship and set course for planet Namek where another set of dragon balls could be found. We followed and, to cut an extremely long story short, my dad ended up fighting the powerful tyrant Frieza. Even though my dad was powerful he was still not strong enough to defeat Frieza and things were looking pretty bad until my dad unlocked the mythical state of Super Saiyan. This state made him powerful enough to defeat Frieza. However, we left planet Namek before him and he only just managed to escape in a faulty ship before the planet exploded. Frieza also survived the destruction of planet Namek and was nursed back to health by his father King Cold. They arrived on earth before my dad did and things were looking bad for the earth's special forces until a mysterious stranger arrived and easily killed both Frieza and his father. He then told us that he was going to meet my dad and asked if we wanted to join him we were intruiged, both by this statement and by the fact that it appeared he had gone super saiyan whilst fighting the two ice-jins. We followed him and my dad returned as the stranger had said he would. After the stranger had talked to my father he left and it turned out that he was called Trunks and was from the future. He told my father that in three years the earth's special forces would be wiped out and only I would survive. My dad would die of a heart virus before this event and I would die not long afterwards. The agents of this destruction were two terrible androids created by the diabolical Dr. Gero. The stranger decided that some things in the future were worth changing and gave my dad the antidote to the heart disease that had killed him in his time. Although I did not know at the time, he had also informed my father that he was the son of Vegeta and Bulma. We decided that we did not want to die and began to train hard in preparation for the arrival of these androids. We arrived at the location where the stranger from the future had told us the androids would arrive. We found them and my father fought a vicious battle with one until the heart virus Trunks had told him about struck. When all seemed lost, Vegeta, who had until now been absent from the proceedings, turned up, rescued my dad, killed one of the androids and assisted Piccolo to kill the other. Then Trunks turned up again and informed us that the two androids that we had just disposed of were not the two who were terrorising his world. These two androids woke up, bringing with them a third, who was programmed solely for the purpose of killing my dad. In an act of desperation, Piccolo went to Kami's lookout, where he and Kami were reunified into one powerful being. HOWEVER, this meant that there were no longer any dragon balls on the earth so dad instant transmissioned to planet Namek to bring back Dende and make him the god of the earth. Dende also created us some new dragon balls. It was now that Cell appeared and began absorbing people to increase his power. Training in the hyperbolic time chamber I was able to turn super saiyan and my dad and I became even more powerful. Whilst this was happening, Cell managed to absorb both of the androids, achieving his perfect form. He then challenged the world to a martial arts tournament, Cell Games. The z gang all attended the Cell games and after Hercule had been sent flying out of the ring the real fight began. My dad fought with cell for a while and then said that he couldn't beat him and asked me to fight for him. I was scared and surprised as I did not know my true potential and thought that if my dad couldn't beat Cell I certainly couldn't. However, I fought Cell and eventually I was about to destroy him and I continued to make him suffer instead of finishing him off. He saw that he couldn't win and decided to self-destruct. This would blow up the world and anyone on it anyway. Seeing that we couldn't stop him, my dad used his instant transmission to save the earth. He died. We thought that he had taken Cell with him into the otherworld, but Cell had the ability to regenerate and using dad's instant transmission, he returned to the earth. I fought Cell and eventually defeated him. We then returned to the lookout so as to use the dragon balls to wish back those who had been killed by Cell. When our first wish did not return dad to life we attempted to use the entire second wish to return him to this plane of existence. However, communicating with us, using the telepathic powers of King Kai, dad said that he didn't want to be wished back because it was his fault that everyone got attacked and if he were dead then we would be safe. And he's gone and I miss him so much.' Gohan stuttered to a finish and started to cry again, hating himself for this show of open weakness. Chihiro looked a little but shocked but hid it well, putting aside her own astonishment in order to comfort Gohan. 'Well my story isn't half as interesting as that but I'll tell you it anyway,' Chihiro said soothingly, 'My name is Chihiro Ogino, I was born in Tokyo and lived there until I was eleven. I was spoilt and selfish and my foster parents were fed up with my attitude and decided to move here. When we came here, we took a wrong turn and ended up by this mysterious place in the woods. My foster parents decided to investigate. When we came out the other end, I was still uncomfortable but I started to explore. My foster father said that we were in an abandoned theme park. We crossed a small riverbed and entered the town area. My foster mother and father smelt food and went to find it. They started to eat but I didn't want to seeing no other people around. I started to explore and came to a bridge leading to what looked like a bathhouse. I walked part the way across the bridge and was looking at a train track that ran beneath it when a boy ran out onto the bridge. He was angry and told me that I had to get across the river. I returned to the restaurant where my foster parents were still eating and discovered to my horror that they had been turned into pigs. I ran in delirium towards the river, only to discover that it was too late and the river was too deep for me to cross. Then to my shock I began to become transparent. I was terrified and began to cry. I ran away, not knowing or caring where I went. Then the same boy as had told me to leave turned up and told me that if I didn't eat something from that world I would disappear. I didn't want to eat it as I thought it would turn me into a pig. The stranger informed that it would not turn me into a pig. I eventually agreed to eat what he was giving me. I regained my shape and the boy escorted me back towards the bridge. He told me that I was to hold my breath over the bridge or people would be able to see me. We were almost over the bridge when a small frog creature jumped into our way. I was forced to take a breath, causing me to become visible again. There was uproar and the stranger and I managed to slip away through a side door. The stranger told me to go down the stairs and to ask for a job from the boiler man Kamajie. Somehow this man knew my name but when I asked him how he said he didn't know.
I eventually slipped down the stairs and came to the boiler room. Kamajie wouldn't give me a job but he persuaded a woman called Lin to take me to see Yubaba. Yubaba didn't want to give me a job, but eventually she agreed. She took my name away and gave me a new, I was now called Sen. The stranger from before, who I had learned was called Haku, escorted me to somewhere I could be assigned a job. Eventually I was assigned to the woman Lin from before. She congratulated me on getting me a job. Haku had been cruel to me on the way down to get me a job and I asked Lin if there were two of him because he had been so nice before. She said that thankfully there weren't and that Haku was Yubaba's henchman and that I was not to trust anything he said. I slept fitfully and early in the morning Haku came and showed me where my parents were being kept with the other pigs. He gave me back my old clothes and in one of these items I found a card with my true name on it.
Haku told me that my name was the way Yubaba controlled me. If I knew my true name then she had no real power over me. Haku told me that he had spent a long time trying to remember his real name but he still had no idea of what it was. He returned me to the bathhouse and as we were crossing the bridge I saw a mysterious spirit who disappeared when I looked back at him. Later that day, Lin and I were cleaning the bathhouse and I was emptying a bucket of water when I saw this spirit again. I let him into the bathhouse. Lin and I were assigned to clean the big tub. It was filthy and Lin told me that I should go and get a bath token. The foreman would not give me a bath token and then the mysterious spirit gave me one. I went back to the big tub and Lin showed me how to use the bath tokens. While Lin was going to get us some breakfast, the spirit returned again and tried to give me many more bath tokens.
Whilst this was going on, something that looked like a stink spirit arrived at the bathhouse requesting a bath. Yubaba decided to test me and made me take this unwelcome guest to the big tub. The spirit was so filthy that I had to use one of the extra tokens given me by the strange spirit from earlier. I was too short to reach the handle to turn off the water and I slipped into the bath. When I was leaving the water I saw something that looked like a thorn stuck in the spirit's side. I told Yubaba and almost all the spirits in the bath house helped me to pull it out of the so-called stink spirit. When it was out it turned out that the spirit was in fact a river spirit and this was great good luck. The spirit gave me some medicine, which I kept secret. Yubaba gave out sakes on the house that night.
The next day the mysterious spirit whom I had let in was in the bathhouse giving out gold. However, whilst everyone was buttering up the mysterious guest I could think of no one but Haku. I was sitting in our quarters when I saw the dragon I had come to recognise as Haku. He was being mobbed by strange bird like creatures. I helped him to escape these creatures. Then he left and went up to Yubaba's apartments at the top of the bathhouse. I eventually managed to get away from the spirits who wanted me to get out of the way as they attempted to get money out of the strange spirit. I eventually managed to come to Yubaba's quarters and after getting away from her gigantic baby I found Haku. He was dying on Yubaba's carpet and the horrendous green heads that Yubaba kept around her rooms were trying to push him down a hole in the floor. Things were looking bad as Yubaba's baby threatened to call his mother if I didn't play with him and the heads were getting even closer to getting rid of Haku. Then someone with a striking resemblance to Yubaba appeared through the floor. She turned Yubaba's son into a mouse, her pet bird into a fly and the three heads into a copy of Yubaba's baby. She then attempted to get me out of her way to Haku but I protected him. Haku and I fell down the hole in the floor into the boiler room.
Kamajie helped me to heal Haku, using medicine of his own and some of the medicine the river spirit had given me. He turned back into his usual humanoid form. The Yubaba look a like had told me that she was Yubaba's sister, Zeniba, and that Haku had stolen her magic seal and that she had put a spell on it saying that anyone who stole it would die. Haku coughed up the seal and a black slug, which I squashed. I decided to go to Zeniba and apologise for Haku. Kamajie gave me train tickets and then Lin appeared, telling me that the mysterious no face was eating people and demanding to see me. I managed to slip him the rest of my medicine and escape. He followed me and accompanied me on my journey to swamp bottom where Zeniba lived. I apologised to Zeniba and she accepted my apology. Then she the mouse, the fly and no face created my hair scrunchy. When they had finished Haku arrived and took me back to the bathhouse. On the way back to the bathhouse I remembered that Haku was in fact the spirit of the Kohaku River where I had once almost died and mysteriously survived. We returned to the bathhouse where I passed Yubaba's test and my foster parents and me were allowed to return, as humans, to this world. Haku was no longer under Yubaba's power as the black slug I had squashed had been her way of controlling. Haku accompanied me to the edge of the spirit world where he told me that we would meet again. I love him and I know that will see him again I just have to.' Chihiro finished, choking back breathy sobs.
Gohan looked at Chihiro and the sorrow in her face, trying to determine if she was lying. He saw only truth and loss in her eyes and breathed. 'I believe you.' Chihiro dried her eyes and turned to Gohan and whispered, 'I believe you too.' Gohan hid his surprise and stood up, he stretched out a hand and said, 'Do you want to come for supper?' Chihiro looked at his outstretched hand and lifted her own to place it in his, 'I'd love to Gohan.'
Tbc AN: sorry that was so long and probably boring but I had to do it to get some of the base of their friendship. Will get much better after this but I had to do this. Please R&R or I will send Yubaba after you so go press that little button on the left or Vegeta will blast you.