Chapter Nine

Chihiro woke early in the morning, following San's orders exactly. She quickly changed and met San in Yubabba's office.

"Good Morning!" Chihiro said in a sing-song voice.

"Hello," said San with no expression. 'What is up with her?' asked Chihiro to herself.

"Hi," said Chihiro putting up a hand. "What shall I do on this early morning, ma'am?"

"I guess you can start by working on starting one of the baths for the Earth Spirit. Get a bath token, ok? You do know where to get it, am I not correct?" asked San fingering through some of Yubabba's old books on a shelf.

"Yes, you are indeed correct. I will go start the bath and such now," said Chihiro in a polite voice.

"Oh, and could you go get some breakfast? You may also get some for yourself," suggested San.

"Alright, I'll do that as soon as possible," said Chihiro departing the office. Chihiro walked out the first door, not entirely closing the door yet. She peeked through the small amount of space that she creaked. Inside, Chihiro watched as San was practicing a bending type spell. All the papers in the room flew up immediately as San moved her hands up and down. She was controlling the papers in a way Chihiro had not seen before.

"What is this?" asked Chihiro to herself. In one hand, San had an old book in the other she was pacing it up and down, the papers following her direct orders. She heard San's foot steps and Chihiro ran out the last two doors and ran straight into the open elevator.

"Phew," sighed Chihiro as she wiped off a bit of sweat from her forehead. Chihiro walked to go get a bath token.

"You're back?" asked the guy at the bath token spot.

"Yes, I am working for San and she ordered me to get a bath token for one of the earth spirits. May I have a regular bath token?" asked Chihiro nicely.

"Ah, one of the bold earth spirits," he said kindly. "Of course, did you know San was an Earth Spirit?"

"Was?" asked Chihiro.

"Oh yes, she used to be one of the greatest, they say, she could bend a large rock formation, as big as a---what do you humans call it? Oh yes, I cliff, she lost control of her---," he said. "Oh wow, I'm going to ahead of myself. Here is your bath token." He handed Chihiro her bath token. Chihiro walked away in bit confusion. 'San WAS an Earth Spirit?' she asked herself in confusion. 'Hmm…Maybe I can talk to Haku about that. He'll know!' Chihiro walked into one of the bath rooms and put her token on the slot. It went up and then Chihiro stepped over the bath a pulled down the rope. Water poured out of the ledge and San stood up on the bath until the water reached the rim of the tub. Chihiro pulled on the rope and the water stopped. Chihiro then, waited outside the bath house.

"An Earth Spirit is here!" someone shouted.

"Oh, I have the bath all prepared for the Earth Spirit!" called out Chihiro.

"This kind human will show you to you're bath," the same person said. The large looking Earth Spirit glanced at Chihiro and followed her into the bath house.

"Here you go, ughh…sir," said Chihiro making a hand gesture to the large bath. The Spirit gave Chihiro another glance and gave her some gold. Chihiro left the room and went to go get breakfast for San and herself. After she did that she went back up to Yubabba's office. Chihiro knocked on the door and was then let in. Chihiro walked in and no one was there.

"Hello? San? Anyone here?" asked Chihiro. "San, I brought up some breakfast." Chihiro held up her bowls of rice.

"San, where are you?" asked Chihiro in an almost whisper. Chihiro set one of the rice bowls on the Yubabba's desk and looked around for any clues of where San was. Chihiro peered outside the window and looked on the lengthy balcony. Chihiro squinted at the sight, in a far away distance she saw to long dragons. One that looked like Haku and the other was a pale green and had long grass like green scales. They were very similar and were both fighting each other. Chihiro ran out to the balcony and looked at the two dragons very carefully. She looked closely at dragon that looked like Haku. The two dragons began to come more visible to Chihiro.

"OH MY GOD! HAKU!" shouted Chihiro. She quickly ran away from the balcony and into Yubabba's office. The two dragons suddenly both busted into the office crashing a lot of Yubabba's precious things. The blue dragon that looked like Haku actually was Haku because it slowly turned into Haku. He had many bruises all over his fourteen year old body. The green looking dragon slowly made its way back to looking like a more banged up version of San.

"Haku? San? Why were you guys fighting out there?" demanded Chihiro. Chihiro gently put her hand on Haku's shoulder and shook him a small bit.

"Haku?" she asked shaking him a bit more. "San?" she shook San too.

"Guys, wake up?" screamed Chihiro, tears falling from her chocolate brown eyes.

"C...Ch…Chihiro?" mumbled Haku moaning from the pain of his bruises.

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Hi everyone! Wow this story sure has gotten long. (Well, for me it has) I guess asking you guys that question last time didn't have anything to do with the chapter. Thanks for everyone's advice if they gave. DD I hope you guys enjoyed my new chapter. I'll update soon. Bye for now!