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disclaimer: just like the last diclaimer. And the one before that. And the one before that. And the one ... -trails off repeteing self-
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I couldnt believe how things were turnning out. But all I knew was that I wasnt going to let anything happen to them. Even if they befriended me. Even if they hated me. I will not let them die because I cant do anything right.
I knew where I was going. I knew that I was about to risk everything. But I also knew that I was'nt going to let everything get all mixed up.
As I passed over the long waters, I could see fish swimming in the water.
/that would be distroyed./ I thought.
I passed over a tree meraculously sticking out of the water.
/That would no longer stand./
A nest rested inside the tree. That's what hurt the most.
/They would'nt even have the chance to learn to fly./
I turnned my head, and closed my eyes, remembering
the day that I was supposed to choose, which pigs were
my parents. The look on Yubabas face when I said none of
them were. That was how good I knew my parents. But
somehow we separated from that day on. My parents didnt
act different, but they also didnt act the same. They loved me
yes, but they never were around. My father started to eat more.
My mother worked more often. And I grew up, and changed in
the way I looked, spoke, and reacted around them.
/How would I act right now if I had the choice to go back? What would I do when I saw them/
I shook the thought from my head, and opened my eyes.
The bathhouse was in my sight. The note played over
and over in my head. Kohakus word of lost trust towards
the letter Lin sent me. I knew what I was going to do, and
with that I flew even faster.
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"Lin, she's coming." Yubaba whispered to the woman putting clothes on top of clothes in a pile. "Go tell her to leave."
Lin looked up at Yubaba, face angry. She now didnt care if she were to be turnned into a pig.
"No one is with on in this Yubaba. What would you do if we all turnned against you?"
Yubaba sudenly thought of her son. She frowned. "I would easily just turn you into pigs." Yubaba turnned around.
"Yes but then you would have no one." Lin spat.
Boa kept running through her mind with those words.
Yubaba frowned. "I would have someone." Then Yubaba turnned around and glared at Lin. "Get to work!"
"What about Sen?" Lin asked.
"Do as I say. Tell her to leave." Lin wanted to say no, but turnned reluctantly to ward off her friend.
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"Chihiro!" I heard someone call out to me. I landed in the middle of the empty town. It was all quiet. I felt like a child again. I turnned recognizeing a booth. I could see my parents sitting down.
"Chihiro, come on and try this!" I heard the faint memory of my mother say. I backed away, bumping into a little pole.
"Come on!'' I whispered along with the memory. "Lets go"
I could see my mother and father doing the exact opposite,
as they shoved their faces in the fatening food. The sun
started to fall. I turnned and started to walk away from the
memory. Only to keep remembering myself running away from
spirits that walked around me. Gasping and turnning, running
towards the feild.
My foot dropped into water. "Water?" I heard me and my child voice say. The boat that I had seen a lot time ago came into view. Bunches of Spirits started coming into view.
This time I turnned around. Not so scared as I was a long time ago. I started to run back through the town, all the way to the long steps leading to the bathhouse. As I ran up those steps, I could see Lin at the top.
"Sen!" She called. I shut my eyes, opening my arms. She did the same, and my body clung to hers as we hugged each other.
She rubbed my back, her hands flowing through the fethers. "Sen..."
My gasps came hard, and long. I couldnt believe all of this led me to almost crying in Lins arms. I sobbed once, then pushed away, looking up at her very happy face.
"Hey kid..." She whispered.
I pushed completely away from her arms, and wiped away what tears were going to come and dusted off my un-dirtied shirt.
"I'm not a kid." I said pouting. I saw her smile. She brought her hand up and pat me on the head.
"In my eyes you are." She let her hand fall to her side, and she started to frown. "You know... what you did was foolish. Yubaba knows you stole the Jewel."
"I took it back today." I said. She was shocked.
"And no one is there protecting it?" She knelt down a little.
"I'm going soon. I had a feeling."
"What kind of feeling?" She stood back up.
"That the letter was wrong. Even..." I sighed. "Kohaku feels the same way."
Lin seemed to slouch. "Oh yeah... Hows the runt doing?" She asked pointing it towards Kohaku.
I looked away and sighed. "He's not so happy with me right now."
She saw my discomfert. "Oh... well... I need to tell you something."
I looked up. "What is it?"
She knelt down on one knee to be eye level with me. Her hands came up to my arms and rubbed up and down as if I were cold or something. Her eyes were scared.
"I just dont understand why she's doing it Sen. But... Yubaba.
She said she is going to have to war after all." Lin looked down as if
ashamed of being even so close to Yubaba. "You have to tell
everyone. Tell king Kokoro."
I didnt know how she knew that I knew him, but I nodded
not wanting to argue. "I'll do what I have to." I said. I knew
that I wasnt going to tell them. I wasnt going to tell anyone.
I looked at the top of the bathhouse. Where Yubaba must have
been. "I have to see her." I said.
"Who?" Lin asked. Her hands tightened around my arms.
I reached up and removed her hands. "Yubaba. Who else."
"Why would you want to see your enemy?" She asked.
"In the regular world, we reason before just starting a war." My voice seemed a little annoyed. She backed away.
"Why would they do that?" She asked.
"To save the lived of the people we love." I said. I opened my wings,
and before she could stop me, I was up in the air and flying
towards the very top.
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Yubaba wasnt in her desk. She wasnt sitting by her fireplace.
She wasnt in that front room. Though not in sight, I could
faintly hear her talking in the back room. I walked over and
hid behind the door. She was talking to her young baby Boa.
"Mama! Stop crying Mama!" Boa yelped. You could feel the room shake as the baby made his way to his mother. I watched as the baby wrapped its overweight arms around the woman. She was so weak it seemed. Her hands were covering her eyes, hair down and wraggled. She seemed like the sadest person in the world.
"Mama? What's wrong?" Boa asked.
"Oh Boa. I know i'm bad. But I have to do this. I dont want you to stay cooped up forever!" She broke into sobs.
"Mama? What are you going to do mama? Why will you do it"
He asked.
The boy shrunk in his mothers arms. His arms barely made their way around his mothers waiste.
"Boa..." She whispered. She sniffed up a few huffs of tears. "The spirits said you would be large." Boa looked into his mothers eyes barely understanding anything she said. He just wanted her to stop crying. "If... if I took everything over... the spirit world could be your playground. Oh Boa.. I'm so sorry." She wrapped her arms around the boy and cried even more. Then she went still. She looked around. Then I knew she sensed me. She pushed Boa away and wiped away her tears.
Boa only looked around for a toy to play with. "Come out Sen." She ordered.
I obliged. I wanted to know the truth, and nothing would stop me.
I hopped over a large pillow, and noticed Boa was looking at me as if he were scared.
I still looked at his worry as I said, "I dont understand."
Yubaba stood to her feet. She smoothed out her dress, and looked at me. "You wouldnt."
"What do you mean? Why wouldnt I?" I asked.
She started to walk towards me but I didnt move. Then I noticed she wasnt even walking towards me, but past me. She walked into her office type room. I finally looked away from Boas scared face and followed her into the room. Her hand flicked towards me and I thought the meant to hit me with a power or somthing. I felt nothing except for a gust of wind, and a loud noise as the door to Boas room slammed shut.
All around her things moved around. Her hand came up to her small red lamp and it lit. Her haid flew around and somehow turnned into a bun. She sat down in a chair just as it moved under her. I felt as the three grunting heads started to move out from under her desk. They hopped over towards me and all around me. I looked down at them as if annoyed by their grunts and they moved away.
I looked back at Yubaba as she stared off into space. Her eyes were puffy, and it looked as if her large nose slumped. At this moment I would have laughed, but my soft side got the better of me.
"Tell me Yubaba! Tell me why you would go so far!" I ordered. My foot stomped on the carpet and the three heads stiffened at my anger.
"Why should I tell you? You're just a human." She snarled, looking back at me.
"I'm also involved! And down forget what you placed on my back Yubaba!" I pointed at my wings.
"Fine." She said. My hand fell to my side. She motioned for me to sit, and I did.
She leaned back in her chair. "My son... Boa... when my baby boy was born, spirits had warned me that he would be large. A curse I asume sent to him by his father." She looked past me, staring at the wings that layed out lazily. "His father was a wicked man. He did many horrible things, including trying to steal that Jewel. He loved the idea of him having a son. But when he stole the Jewel, it decided to kill him with his biggest fear. I was the one to tell him his son was going to be abnormal. He went crazy, and passed away months before Boa was born." She seemed lost in a memory that wouldnt leave. She quickly looked back at me. "My boy is going to grow to be very large. So large the ocean could be his bath. In the end, my boy would crush the spirit world. I cannot have this happen. So I decided... I would mend this world with all of the worlds, and let him have his own home. A place big enough for him." She again looked away as if to hide her emotions.
"I dont want my boy to live with such a horribly small home. I love him to much for him to suffocate in such a way." She looked back at me, sad and angry at the same time. "If you faught back you would only be irrational. The spirit world would suffer even if I decided to not steal the Jewel!" She stood in her seat. "Why is it you are here?" She started to walk around her desk and towards me.
I was staring at the ground as she walked towards me. I didnt like her meaning for this. I wished that she would just let things stay with her using it for evil. No she wasnt. She was using it for love. Emotions rode all over my body.
I felt her nail under my chin as my body rose from the chair.
I wasnt afraid. She would only hurt me if I were dumb enough to
fight back.
"I wont let you interfere with my intentions!" Her whole hand started to clamp around my throat. I payed no attention as her exact same form started to show in the window.
"Drop her Yubaba!" The form had walked all the way over to the doors of Boa, and she was about to open them.
"What are you doing here Zeniba?" Yubaba cried. She dropped
me to the chair. I brought my hand up to massage my neck.
I watched at Yubaba ran towards her sister. She stopped when Zeniba quickly
opened the door.
Boa was sitting on a bunch of pillows holding one and hugging it to his cheek. The childs cheek was pushed up and he smiled with joy.
Boa noticed the two women at his doorway and become confused.
"Mama... which one is mama...?" He asked, letting the pillow drop.
He stood to his feet, and started to stumble over to the two
twins. "MAMA!" He cried, becoming worried.
"It's me baby. Over here." Yubaba held out her arms. Boa ran towards her causeing an earth quake.
I had been looking elsewhere as the two clung to each other. I was
looking at a picture. It looked like a younger Yubaba, and a man. The man was
extremely ugly, a large nose as well, large stomach and body. He seemed strong.
Then I saw something. I quickly rose to my feet. "Yubaba..." She turnned
her direction towards me, still holding her child.
"Yubaba... what is it you most fear?" I asked.
"I fear nothing." She said.
"No. You do. And it involves your son. Now please... tell me what it is you fear for him." I said.
/the jewel.../
"I said I fear nothing." She said.
I did not believe her. But I had now known something that I hadnt ever noticed before.
"Yubaba... your husband gave you a ring a long time ago to be engaged to you." I said.
She looked at me, confused. "He took it away from me." She said.
"He took it from me when I told him the news of his son."
I knew everything now. "Yubaba. You fear for your son. Please. This is for both me and you." I said, clenching my hands shut.
"What is it you are getting at?" She asked, loosening her grip on her son. "I do fear for his happiness. But why-"
"Dont." I ordered.
"Dont what? Dont fear that my son wont ever be happy?" She asked.
"Exactly. Stop fearing that he wont be happy. He seems more happy than anything right now. In the future he will never be happy. So long as you fear it." I walked towards the large picture of her and her husband. I pointed at the engagement ring.
"He found the Jewel. He found it and took it as a free ring stone. It corrupted you Yubaba. Please. Just dont fear that he will be happy. If you do the Jewel will make sure your fear comes true."
It was all to much. She had to think. She didnt want to think.
It was hard for her not to care for her child. Every mother does.
She looked at her son. He sat there in front of Zeniba confused.
"I have to fear for him. I have to." She told herself. "How can I not?"
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Ok if you are confused... tell me. I wouldnt be supprised. I'd be glad to explain it to you if you are confused one bit.
Ok.. R&R
hope you liked.
InuLover01
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