I do not own any Spirited Away characters nor will I ever except for the ones I make up. Which I will post later, because I don't want to give anything away… Sorry for any spelling errors which I make. Please review. Flames are ok, as long as they are not too terrible. Enjoy.
It was three years after Chihiro had left the spirit world. She wondered if Haku would keep his promise to return and see her. She thought that that was a silly idea. He couldn't possibly leave the spirit world. 'There are too many problems with that idea,' she always thought to herself. It wouldn't work. Some part of her wanted to believe it, but most of her didn't. She wished he could come back, but she couldn't make herself believe that he could actually return. As she walked away from school she heard the wind moan. It reminded her of the first time she encountered the strange building. 'That's funny…' she thought, almost beginning to become slightly afraid. There were no trees in the area, or anything else that could stop the wind. She stopped. There was no wind either! "I must be imagining things," she said aloud. "Sen!" she heard Lin's voice ring out around her. Out of the corner of her eye she saw someone. It almost looked like Lin too. She spun quickly around. Nothing was anywhere near her. 'I'm not too far from the schoolyard, maybe someone's following me and playing some kind of prank.' "Hello? If anyone's out there, this isn't funny!" She knew no one was out there though. She hadn't told anyone about her experiences in school. Something white flew through the air out of the corner of her eye. She tried to whirl around and see that it was Haku. They would finally be reunited and she'd talk to him for hours and hours. But nothing was there. Finally she ran towards her house.
Later…
She had been hallucinating things all day, and continually the visions came. She lie on her bed and tried to make sense of it. There was no logical explanation for any of this. She knew they really weren't there, but they looked so real, they sounded so real. She went to her mother. "Mom," she asked, "I'm having visions… of things that had happened in the past… people I knew…"
"Like what sweetie?" her mother inquired.
Chihiro tried to think of something to say. She didn't want to tell the truth, but she didn't like to lie. "My old friends," she quickly blurted out, not thinking of anything better to say. After all it was true. They were her friends. Her mom just wouldn't quite understand what she really meant.
"I understand dear. Sometimes things just haunt us in our minds, and usually it's hard to make them stop." She thought for a minute, and then replied, "Here I'll get you an old phone book and you can try and call some of their old numbers. Would that make you feel any better?"
"No, I think I just need to be alone for a little bit." She went into her room and shut the door. She couldn't take it anymore. Enough was enough. She grabbed some of her clothes and some more belongings and stuffed them into a bag. Then she stopped. If her mom was just out there, how could she get out without being noticed? After she considered all the facts, she decided to climb out her window. She reached over to the handle, unlatched it, swung it open quietly, and climbed out. She had made it. Now for the hard part. She swung her bag across her back and started on what would be, a long journey.
That's it for chapter one. Please, if you've read it, review. I'd like to know what to improve on. It is somewhat short, but the full story will be much longer than this.