Chapter Fifteen the Epilogue Part One
----Seven Years into the Future----
Chihiro yawned and woke up in her apartment in the city of Tokyo.
"Wow, the years pasted by so quickly," she muttered to herself. "It feels like just yesterday I was in the Spirit World and Haku told me to leave." Ever since then, Chihiro had kept a calendar marking the days until today. Today was the day that Chihiro could return to the Spirit World.
"I wonder if I should still do it?" she asked herself. I mean Chihiro was now twenty and she did have a pretty decent life, but sometimes she'd find herself thinking about Haku. Chihiro had a wonderful life and a loving family; would she throw it all away out of love? She passed High School and was almost about to graduate from Collage.
"Yeah, I will do it," Chihiro said to herself again. "I'm going to see Haku today." Chihiro got out of her bed and dressed in a light pink dress that reached her mid thigh. The dress had three buttons going down from the circle neck line. It fit her slim body nicely; she had definitely grown since she'd seen Haku. Her hair was now very long and tied back into a pony tail with the band that Zeniba and her friends made for her the first time she visited the Spirit World. She tied up her chunky white sneakers and put on a pair of socks. She looked at herself contently in her full length mirror.
"Eh, fuck the make up," she said looking at her face. She just brushed her teeth and washed her face. After Chihiro had eaten breakfast she took a road down memory lane. She pulled her light blue car out of the lot under her apartment and drove down to where her parents were still living; she also went down the roads that lead her to the Spirit World. Remembering the first time her dad had gone up the wrong way and was speeding down the bumpy roads.
"I wonder if Haku still loves me like he said he would and if he kept his promise," Chihiro said to herself. "I know…I still love him." She thought about Haku and stated that she had indeed still loved him. Chihiro stopped her car when she reached the entrance to the abandoned theme park. Even though she was much older her memory was still the same. The sun shown brightly and the grass were as green as ever. Chihiro smiled as her long hair flew in the breeze. She took her first couple steps across the grass and the empty stream. Chihiro walked into the Spirit World hoping she had made the right choice. She thought about both choices, one Haku not loving her or two, Haku is already dead from the battle between him and his sister. Chihiro found her way, by memorization, to the bridge to the bath house. Across the way stood another woman about her age. She seemed very familiar to Chihiro.
"Hello," the woman said getting closer to Chihiro. "My name is…Kagome. And, welcome to the bath house, Chihiro."