Chapter Three Plan in Action and the Trip
The next day Chihiro woke up with much anticipation to meet Haku. She woke up and got dressed in her shorts and white shirt with a solid green stripe and her yellow sneakers. She washed up and then went down the stairs to see her mom making breakfast.
"Chihiro, honey, where are you going?" asked her mom.
"Hi mom, I left some of my school work near the river, can I go get it before school starts?" lied Chihiro.
"Of course honey but, here are two rice balls for your breakfast, you can eat them on the way to school. Oh yes, and don't forget to go on the bus today because you dad and I have to go to work earlier than usual," said Chihiro's mom.
"Right, the bus, I'll see you later mom," said Chihiro grabbing her backpack and the rice balls and then heading towards the river. Once she slipped under the fence there was Haku standing there and smiling brightly.
"Hi Haku," called Chihiro from a couple feet away.
"Morning Chihiro," said Haku walking closer to Chihiro. He kissed her as they both met with only a stance not too far away from each other. Chihiro kissed him back. Then, Haku pulled away and said, "When we get to my house, in the Spirit World we'll do more kissing."
"Sounds good," said Chihiro happily. "So, ready to start?"
"Yup, okay let's go down to your house," said Haku. The two both walked down back to Chihiro's house when they got there Haku put on the spell near the rear entrance of her house. Suddenly the duplicate appeared in front of Haku and Chihiro. There was a bright inner circle that was displayed and then another Chihiro was right in front of them, Haku's spell had worked.
"Okay, here's the deal," said Haku to the duplicate of Chihiro. "Your name is 'Chihiro', you have a mom and dad and there inside." The duplicate looked into the window to see the two adults and the other Chihiro nodded. "You go to school everyday of the week and you are a good student. Your friends are the ones you'll see at the "school place" and they know your name so they ARE indeed your friends. Do you understand?"
"Yes, Haku. I understand," said the duplicate in a monotone Chihiro's voice.
"Good, now go to school," said Haku.
"Okay, see you later," said the duplicate you started to walk to the near bus stop.
"How'd she know where the bus stop was?" asked Chihiro glaring at the duplicate of herself.
"She has your most treasured memories and knows many important things about you," said Haku also watching the duplicate make its way onto the bus. Once the bus left Haku and Chihiro started to walk back to the abandoned house where Chihiro first found the Spirit World. It was a long walk but, the made it there, hand in hand through the house and past the sea green field of grass. When they reached the Spirit World Haku let go of Chihiro's hand an embraced her tightly and kissed her cheek softly.
"We made it," whispered Haku softly.
"Sure did," responded Chihiro. They walked the rest of the distance to the bath house. Their first duties were to visit Kamajii and maybe get jobs or somehow sneak into the bath house and find out who is Yubabba's new apprentice.
I updated. R&R short chapter. btw, updating very soon