I'm soooo sorry for not updating. My family went on vacation for a week and I couldn't work on this. SORRY!

Oh, I'm going to use the US currency since that's where I live. If I ever need to use it...

Chapter 2

"Today's the day! I've been waiting for this moment for... a long time. Just hope I don't screw it up." Haku took a deep breath and started to walk to Yubaba's office. Don't mess up don't mess up don't mess up... he chanted in his mind.

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"Mama?" Boh, the giant toddler, asked innocently, appearing in the doorway.

"Yes my sweet?" she cooed back glancing at her now grown baby. "It's been 4 years since you sent Haku to work in the boilers. Don't you think you should set him free now?" Boh said seriously.

"He's right." came a voice from the door. Haku strolled in, "It has been 4 years so I'm free. Right?" he asked glaring.

"Yes you're free." the answer came. "It's really a shame. You can't imagine how hard it is to imprison a dragon, of all things, to work as a slave in a bathhouse."

"Blah blah blah..." Haku muttered.

Suddenly Boh interrupted. "Mama, didn't you say he only needed to stay for 2 years to pay off the debt? He stayed 2 extra years for nothing! I think you should give Haku something else." the witch growled silently at the baby as Haku turned to look at her.

"You mean I worked for 2 extra years for FREE?" he stomped towards the cowering sorceress. "I think you have to pay me for my efforts. Don't you?"

"Yes yes of course." she told him sweetly and dumped a large bag of diamonds in front of the raging dragon. "There you go, half a million dollars right there for you to waste.

Haku glowered at the last comment, but took the money and left. After all, Yubaba was known for her greedy nature, so it was hard for anyone to receive money from her.

Yubaba turned to the troublesome Boh, "Okay sweetie now its time for your nap! Go to bed."

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Haku blinked. Yubaba just let him free without any other contracts and a lot of money? Maybe she's coming down with a fever... he thought to himself.

Oh well, no use complaining! He was free! Now all he had to do was keep up his promise and find Chihiro... Some quest that'll be.

He sighed and started walking the familiar path down to his room.

"Hey Kamaji. Yubaba set me free," he told the boiler man.

"Congrats! You don't seem too happy about it. What's wrong?" Kamaji asked concerned.

"Oh it's nothing. I just don't know where to find Chihiro, or to even start looking." he looked down.

"Hey Haku, I heard you've been set free! Your so lucky." Rin said appearing from the sliding door, "But did I hear you say that you didn't know where to start looking for Chihiro?" Haku nodded.

"Well that shouldn't be a problem. There aren't a lot of human towns around here, so if you just enroll in the closest town's school it will be easy to find her. The only problem is that you'd be in different grades and you don't know anything..." Rin thought aloud.

"Hey! I know more then you do at least!" the dragon protested. "Anyways, I worry about the different grades thing later. I'm gonna start packing."

"Squeak!" the three soot balls started rushing after him.

"Hi, do you three want to come too?" the little soot balls nodded. "Alright, but first let me ask for permission. Kamaji, can I take these three to help me find Chihiro?"

"Sure. You're bringing Squeak, Squeal, and Squish? Good choice. They are also known as the 'Soot Trio' in their colony. You're going to have a pretty rough time with those soot balls." Kamaji looked over at the 4 and nodded.

"You named them." Haku sweat dropped. "Okay c'mon. I'll have to buy a backpack or something along the way, though."

Haku walked out of the main boiler room and into his own room. He swiftly packed his clothes and several other items and ran back out.

"Well I'm going! Bye Kamaji, Rin. I hope I can see you again." 6 arms quickly engulfed Haku.

"Until we meet again, young friend."

"Yea see you around." Rin smiled waving as Haku changed form and flew away.

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Okay, lets see... I need to rent a place to stay, get food, and pay for tuition. Haku mused. Now that's gonna be a problem. I'll have to find a part-time job. But first, to the town.

This is not my day. First I try to find the site where I got my info for this fic, but get distracted! Then when I try to print the thing that distracted me, the printer runs out of ink and the computer locks down. I couldn't remember the password, so I had to shut it down, wait for it to reload, and this chapter wasn't saved so I had to rewrite it! Not to mention the 'k' key is partially broken so I have to press down hard for it to work.

You didn't need to know that... I was just venting.

This was sooo boring...

-Takes a deep breath- Okay please review!