CHAPTER #10
(Still waiting till I get 80 reviews. Then I will answer.)
HI!!!
So, what do you people think of my story so far?
I'd like to thank Ke (sorry, I had to give you SOME nickname) for some really cool ideas! Ari gateau!
Disclaimer: I do not own Totoro or Spirited Away characters. All that is mine (so far,) is the characters dubbed: Umiko, Nile, and Kimiko.
Chapter #10
Chihiro looked at her new helper. "So, Nile, how old are you? Ten?"
The girl frowned, and rolled her eyes. "I'm fourteen."
Chihiro gaped. "You're FOURTEEN. Are you SURE?" Nile sighed. "Yeah, I know, I look young. I've ALWAYS looked young."
They talked little as they worked, other then 'would you please excuse me a moment whilst I get myself a clean rag, Miss. Sen?' and 'did I remember to thank you gratefully for allowing me to work with you Miss. Sen?' Chihiro wiped the sweat out of her eyes, and looked at the position of the sun outside. (You don't really expect them to have CLOCKS, do you?) She gratefully put down the mop, and groaned, stretching her back. "Come on Nile, our shift is over." She began walking, and Nile trailed behind her. As her mind began to squirm it's way from the pattern of work (Which was as follows: Mop this floor, wipe this surface, mop this floor, clean these walls, scrub this bathtub, put in bath token, groan in excruciating pain as spout crashes down on head..) her thoughts began to roam, and her forgotten anger at Haku returned, but it was greatly reduced. Chihiro didn't know whether to forgive Haku, or to stay angry at him. She was so immersed in thought, she forgot about the half-step that was placed at the door of the woman's dorm. Chihiro half saw the open doorway and walked straight forward through what would bring her into the dorm.
Or she would have, if the man who invented the half-step, hadn't invented it.
Chihiro tripped, stubbed her toe (simultaneously, at that!), windmilled her arms, let out a cry as pain from her shoulder ripped through her, and face planted into the floor. (**giggle** Sorry, I envisioned it in slow motion)
Nile looked at her (rather klutzy) mistress. "Oh, you're hurt!" she exclaimed. "Here, let's go inside and I'll tend to it."
Chihiro allowed herself to be led inside. She gratefully sat on the bed mat, and gingerly held out her arm, pulling the sleeve up. Nile took a glass vile from her sleeve. She removed the stopper, and poised it over the deep, long wound. Chihiro raised her eyebrows. "What is that, some kind of healing magic? Is it powerful? Does it work well? What's it for? Nile, what do you call it?"
"Peroxide."
Everyone looked up in the bathhouse, as a cry wrenched the calm. "OWW!!!!! YOU COULD HAVE WARNED ME!!!!!!!!!!" screamed Chihiro, her wound fizzing. Nile shrugged. "Sorry, Miss. Sen." Chihiro sighed, as Nile pulled out the bandages, to rap around her arm. "Haku could have done much better."
Nile's head was brought up in surprise. "Oh, you know Haku, Miss. Sen?" Chihiro nodded, slowly. She opened her mouth to speak, but Nile intervened. "Oh yes, I know Haku." She said grimly. "He and I know each other well." Chihiro raised her eyebrows. "He and I are related, second cousins, I think. Eight years ago, he came to stay with us shortly before my parents were sick. He talked to me, played games with me, and, later, cared for my parents. He was gentle, kind, and loving with all three of us. My father was the Pacific, and my mother was the Atlantic. They both held great power, as anyone who controlled those two seas would. Haku fed them medicine, and talked to them softly for three years." She paused, and drew in a sharp, sad breath, sighed, then continued. "Then my mother and father died. Haku gained power over both the Atlantic and Pacific, because my parents had wished to give it to him for his kindness."
Suddenly Nile's face twisted with rage. "Then he stopped talking to me. His face was blank, and he pushed me, a 6-year-old orphan, off to fend for myself. He said that he planned to go to the spirit bathhouse. Everyone else accepted his lie, and thought he wanted a job to keep himself busy. But I KNEW that he planned to gain more power from Yu-baba. He used us all; he killed my parents." She bit her lip, and continued. "Whoever he makes friends with, whosever's trust he gains: he plans to use them."
Chihiro looked at Nile disbelievingly. Memories swam through her head. Sudden pictures of Haku helping her find a job, healing her, caring for her, helping her remember her name..
Sudden panic lanced through Chihiro. She searched and searched for her name, but the only think she could think of was 'Sen'. Her eyes widened, but then her thoughts came back to the present case. ~So everything that was between us, our friendship, everything, was a lie? To use me?~ Suddenly, her world collapsed. Chihiro felt bewildered and bemused. It was like her parents were pigs again. The person who she trusted the most, cared about the most, was a LIE?!?! She felt as if she was 12 years old, all over again, in a new place, being lost and alone, and felt as if she was dragged hither and thither. Her throat ached, and her eyes itched: she felt as if she was going to cry. But her grief was so deep that the tears wouldn't come.
Nile knelt back and bowed, Japanese style, placing both palms on the floor, and bowing over them.
"Please excuse me Miss. Sen, but I feel exhausted. I'm going to retire to bed now. Goodnight Miss. Sen."
She left, closing the door behind her.
Chihiro's feelings overwhelmed her. She knelt and put her face in her hands. ~Haku, how could you? You're a cruel, lying murderer and..and..~she burst into tears. She cried late into the night. She drifted off thinking, ~I'll have to face him sometime, accuse him..~ she thought as she twisted and turned until she finally fell into a fitful sleep.
The next morning, (Saturday, so no work) Chihiro woke up, and for a few minutes tried to fall to sleep. Then the past events of last night struck her hard, and misery and anger overcame her. When Nile came over to her with breakfast, she pushed her off, muttering "Nt' hungry."
She sat up, and went to a mirror. A girl with dark circles under her eyes and tearstained cheeks staring back.
She dressed in a navy blue kimono, with silver sakuras (cherry blossoms) decorating her obi (belt). She took silver chopsticks, and pinned up her hair. The kimono gave her courage, and made her feel stronger. She slipped on bamboo sandals, and walked to Haku's dorm. At each step she took anger fought doubt inside the pit of her stomach. She forced herself not to turn back. She raised her fist to hammer on the door.
Boom boom
A voice answered dejectedly. "Go away, I'm not interested"
She smashed her fist on the door.
BANG BANG (Chihiro had a bruise on her knuckle for a week afterwards!)
The door opened. "I told you I'm not..CHIHIRO!!!!!!!"
Chihiro became confused for a moment, then rallied. "My name is not Chihiro, it's SEN!" she said coldly.
"What?"
"You lying, thieving MURDERER!" she hissed, venom in her voice.
"Chihiro, what are you talking about?"
"I TOLD YOU MY NAME'S SEN!!!!!!!!!!!"
Her hand swung around, and raked Haku's face. Blood spattered. Chihiro looked bemused at the sharp claws at her hands. They disappeared again, as suddenly as they had appeared.
She looked up.
Haku had three bleeding gashes across his cheek, and blood..the blood was on her hands..
She sank to the floor cradling her head in her arms. "What have I DONE?" she murmured, "What have I BECOME?"
"Chihi- Sen. Come in." begged Haku. Chihiro allowed herself to be led inside the room. She sagged into the couch, tiredly. But anger flared and empowered her once again as she stared into Haku's face. "How could you? Use me? Haku, I thought I could trust you!" she exploded.
Haku stood up, confused and angry to be accused like this. "Use you? USE you! WHY WOULD I USE YOU!?!?!? WHAT MADE YOU THINK..?"
Chihiro glared into his face. On the outside she was furious and sure, but on the inside she was a mass of swirling emotions. "You just stood there when I was being attacked, when I was hit," she spat, raising the sleeve of her kimono to show a bandaged wound. "I could have been killed, and YOU JUST STOOD THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Haku moved to the window, looking down out at the waters. He stayed like this for some time. When he spoke, he did not turn his head away from the view. His voice was hoarse.
"Chihiro, I don't know what happened. It was like, like I was being controlled. I couldn't move my body, but I could still see and hear what was happening." He croaked. "When I saw you injured, bleeding, wounded, I.." his voice broke.
Chihiro gaped at him, but then remembered what her trainee had said to her earlier. "You killed, murdered for power. You abandoned a young orphan. YOU killed Nile's parents."
Haku turned at the name. "Nile? As in The River Nile? That girl? Chihiro, what did she tell you, what did SHE SAY!!!!!!!!????????!!!!!"
His voice had risen to a crescendo. Chihiro related the story. Haku turned back to the window.
"That lying, thieving, framing, heartless being. I NEVER inherited those two seas. SHE will, when she's seventeen. SHE invited me to stay with her family, then, when she had me positioned, SHE," he bit his lip, and lowered his eyes. Chihiro saw the droplet of water travel down pre-tearstained cheeks. "SHE poisoned them. HER OWN PARENTS!!!!!!!! They were the only family I really ever had. AND SHE KILLED THEM!!! My parents were killed in a drought. My older sister was killed by mortals, shot because they thought she was DIFFERENT. My younger brother died with her, trying to protect her. Everyone I had ever cared about, had died." His hands began to tremble. "And then I almost lost YOU. Those were some of the worst moments in my life, Chihiro. Almost losing you, knowing I couldn't do anything.." He rasped.
Chihiro looked at his face from an angle. Yes, she decided, he has been crying over something, before I brought this up. But what..
"Chihiro." She murmured. "That's MY name isn't it?"
Haku nodded slowly, not tearing his gaze from the window.
Chihiro looked at her hands, and thought, ~Haku, I never knew. Why didn't you tell me? I never knew.~ A tear slipped down her cheek. She sighed, and shook her head at realizing what she had just done to him accusing him like that. "Haku," he turned. "I..I'm sorry. I was wrong. I shouldn't have accused you like that. I.." she gulped, more tears spilling, spotting her kimono.
"Chihiro, you're crying."
An old flare of temper arose in Chihiro, nothing like the rage that had filled her earlier. "First, I don't cry enough, then I cry TOO MUCH!!! MAKE UP YOR MIND!!!"
Haku sat beside her, and gently wiped away a tear. "Did I ever say that? Is something wrong? You've been on edge for a while. You're spotting your clothes, by the way." He added.
Chihiro looked down at her hands. "They, they turned into claws. But I'm HUMAN! I can't.."
Haku shrugged, pushing it off, though deeply it worried him. Chihiro looked at him and slowly raised her hand to his face..
And let out a yelp of pain as her wound protested. (**sigh** Poor, forgetful Chihiro. :D)
Concern showed on Haku's face. "Chihiro, let me see." Chihiro lifted up the silk sleeve of her kimono. Haku gently unwound the bandage to reveal a nasty looking wound. He winced, stood up, and went to an odd cabinet. He pulled out a lotion, and smoothed it into a fresh bandage. He then went back to Chihiro, and wound it around her arm, as carefully as possible. She winced slightly, but Haku pretended not to notice. Haku fumbled for side talk. "You, you look nice." He then cursed himself mentally and hastily added. "Where did you get the kimono?" Chihiro looked down. "Umiko, my friends' mother made it for me." She looked up, grinning. "She said I'd grow into it. She made it for me a year after I left." Haku smiled, picturing a young Chihiro dwarfed in a HUGE kimono, the belt slowly slipping past her knees. He began to laugh. Chihiro joined in.
Chihiro looked sideways at Haku. ~We've both changed a LOT since then.~
Suddenly everything was too much. She sank down in the couch, and put her head in her hands. Haku sat beside her, and gently laid an arm around her shoulder. "Chihiro.." "Everything, everything's just.." "You can tell me Chihiro." She jumped up.
"WHY IS IT ANY OF YOUR BUISNESS?!?!?"
"I NEVER SAID IT WAS, CHIHIRO!!!!!!"
"YES YOU DID! YOU'RE PRYING!!!!!!!!"
"NO I'M NOT!!!!!!!!"
"WHY DO YOU CARE ANYWAY?!?"
Haku shook his head. He was NOT going to answer that one.
"YOU ARE PRYING!!! JUST BECAUSE I WON'T GIVE YOU THE SPELIFICS.specickiks.SPECIFICS!!!!!!!!"
Haku grinned. "We fight too much."
"No, REALLY?"
"Yes, we do." Said Haku seriously, missing the sarcasm.
Chihiro dissolved into fits of laughter.
Haku stood up with Chihiro when she stood up to prepare to leave. When she was at the door, he said "Chihiro!"
She turned.
Haku grabbed her shoulders, and looked straight into her eyes. "Chihiro. Promise me, PROMISE, that you will not face Nile without me, alright? Act as if everything is fine, but DON'T TRUST HER ONE BIT. Please Chihiro."
~How did he know I was planning on going?~ "Haku," she said in a disagreeing tone.
"Meet me outside the woman's room at sunset. Please, Chihiro."
"Why should I? Why can't I do it by myself?"
Haku looked hesitant, but then swept her in a hug. "I don't want anything to happen to you."
Chihiro, stepped back..
..and fell backwards over the half-step.
She stood up, rubbed her side, and stuck out her tongue at the laughing figure of Haku. He was gripping the doorframes, having a fit of laughter.
"Tonight, then." +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Hmm, interesting, neh? A question answered, more questions presented. What does everyone think? Please review! ARI GATEAU EVERYONE!!!!!!!! My chapters are actually LONG now!
Ja ne ~Jose~
(Still waiting till I get 80 reviews. Then I will answer.)
HI!!!
So, what do you people think of my story so far?
I'd like to thank Ke (sorry, I had to give you SOME nickname) for some really cool ideas! Ari gateau!
Disclaimer: I do not own Totoro or Spirited Away characters. All that is mine (so far,) is the characters dubbed: Umiko, Nile, and Kimiko.
Chapter #10
Chihiro looked at her new helper. "So, Nile, how old are you? Ten?"
The girl frowned, and rolled her eyes. "I'm fourteen."
Chihiro gaped. "You're FOURTEEN. Are you SURE?" Nile sighed. "Yeah, I know, I look young. I've ALWAYS looked young."
They talked little as they worked, other then 'would you please excuse me a moment whilst I get myself a clean rag, Miss. Sen?' and 'did I remember to thank you gratefully for allowing me to work with you Miss. Sen?' Chihiro wiped the sweat out of her eyes, and looked at the position of the sun outside. (You don't really expect them to have CLOCKS, do you?) She gratefully put down the mop, and groaned, stretching her back. "Come on Nile, our shift is over." She began walking, and Nile trailed behind her. As her mind began to squirm it's way from the pattern of work (Which was as follows: Mop this floor, wipe this surface, mop this floor, clean these walls, scrub this bathtub, put in bath token, groan in excruciating pain as spout crashes down on head..) her thoughts began to roam, and her forgotten anger at Haku returned, but it was greatly reduced. Chihiro didn't know whether to forgive Haku, or to stay angry at him. She was so immersed in thought, she forgot about the half-step that was placed at the door of the woman's dorm. Chihiro half saw the open doorway and walked straight forward through what would bring her into the dorm.
Or she would have, if the man who invented the half-step, hadn't invented it.
Chihiro tripped, stubbed her toe (simultaneously, at that!), windmilled her arms, let out a cry as pain from her shoulder ripped through her, and face planted into the floor. (**giggle** Sorry, I envisioned it in slow motion)
Nile looked at her (rather klutzy) mistress. "Oh, you're hurt!" she exclaimed. "Here, let's go inside and I'll tend to it."
Chihiro allowed herself to be led inside. She gratefully sat on the bed mat, and gingerly held out her arm, pulling the sleeve up. Nile took a glass vile from her sleeve. She removed the stopper, and poised it over the deep, long wound. Chihiro raised her eyebrows. "What is that, some kind of healing magic? Is it powerful? Does it work well? What's it for? Nile, what do you call it?"
"Peroxide."
Everyone looked up in the bathhouse, as a cry wrenched the calm. "OWW!!!!! YOU COULD HAVE WARNED ME!!!!!!!!!!" screamed Chihiro, her wound fizzing. Nile shrugged. "Sorry, Miss. Sen." Chihiro sighed, as Nile pulled out the bandages, to rap around her arm. "Haku could have done much better."
Nile's head was brought up in surprise. "Oh, you know Haku, Miss. Sen?" Chihiro nodded, slowly. She opened her mouth to speak, but Nile intervened. "Oh yes, I know Haku." She said grimly. "He and I know each other well." Chihiro raised her eyebrows. "He and I are related, second cousins, I think. Eight years ago, he came to stay with us shortly before my parents were sick. He talked to me, played games with me, and, later, cared for my parents. He was gentle, kind, and loving with all three of us. My father was the Pacific, and my mother was the Atlantic. They both held great power, as anyone who controlled those two seas would. Haku fed them medicine, and talked to them softly for three years." She paused, and drew in a sharp, sad breath, sighed, then continued. "Then my mother and father died. Haku gained power over both the Atlantic and Pacific, because my parents had wished to give it to him for his kindness."
Suddenly Nile's face twisted with rage. "Then he stopped talking to me. His face was blank, and he pushed me, a 6-year-old orphan, off to fend for myself. He said that he planned to go to the spirit bathhouse. Everyone else accepted his lie, and thought he wanted a job to keep himself busy. But I KNEW that he planned to gain more power from Yu-baba. He used us all; he killed my parents." She bit her lip, and continued. "Whoever he makes friends with, whosever's trust he gains: he plans to use them."
Chihiro looked at Nile disbelievingly. Memories swam through her head. Sudden pictures of Haku helping her find a job, healing her, caring for her, helping her remember her name..
Sudden panic lanced through Chihiro. She searched and searched for her name, but the only think she could think of was 'Sen'. Her eyes widened, but then her thoughts came back to the present case. ~So everything that was between us, our friendship, everything, was a lie? To use me?~ Suddenly, her world collapsed. Chihiro felt bewildered and bemused. It was like her parents were pigs again. The person who she trusted the most, cared about the most, was a LIE?!?! She felt as if she was 12 years old, all over again, in a new place, being lost and alone, and felt as if she was dragged hither and thither. Her throat ached, and her eyes itched: she felt as if she was going to cry. But her grief was so deep that the tears wouldn't come.
Nile knelt back and bowed, Japanese style, placing both palms on the floor, and bowing over them.
"Please excuse me Miss. Sen, but I feel exhausted. I'm going to retire to bed now. Goodnight Miss. Sen."
She left, closing the door behind her.
Chihiro's feelings overwhelmed her. She knelt and put her face in her hands. ~Haku, how could you? You're a cruel, lying murderer and..and..~she burst into tears. She cried late into the night. She drifted off thinking, ~I'll have to face him sometime, accuse him..~ she thought as she twisted and turned until she finally fell into a fitful sleep.
The next morning, (Saturday, so no work) Chihiro woke up, and for a few minutes tried to fall to sleep. Then the past events of last night struck her hard, and misery and anger overcame her. When Nile came over to her with breakfast, she pushed her off, muttering "Nt' hungry."
She sat up, and went to a mirror. A girl with dark circles under her eyes and tearstained cheeks staring back.
She dressed in a navy blue kimono, with silver sakuras (cherry blossoms) decorating her obi (belt). She took silver chopsticks, and pinned up her hair. The kimono gave her courage, and made her feel stronger. She slipped on bamboo sandals, and walked to Haku's dorm. At each step she took anger fought doubt inside the pit of her stomach. She forced herself not to turn back. She raised her fist to hammer on the door.
Boom boom
A voice answered dejectedly. "Go away, I'm not interested"
She smashed her fist on the door.
BANG BANG (Chihiro had a bruise on her knuckle for a week afterwards!)
The door opened. "I told you I'm not..CHIHIRO!!!!!!!"
Chihiro became confused for a moment, then rallied. "My name is not Chihiro, it's SEN!" she said coldly.
"What?"
"You lying, thieving MURDERER!" she hissed, venom in her voice.
"Chihiro, what are you talking about?"
"I TOLD YOU MY NAME'S SEN!!!!!!!!!!!"
Her hand swung around, and raked Haku's face. Blood spattered. Chihiro looked bemused at the sharp claws at her hands. They disappeared again, as suddenly as they had appeared.
She looked up.
Haku had three bleeding gashes across his cheek, and blood..the blood was on her hands..
She sank to the floor cradling her head in her arms. "What have I DONE?" she murmured, "What have I BECOME?"
"Chihi- Sen. Come in." begged Haku. Chihiro allowed herself to be led inside the room. She sagged into the couch, tiredly. But anger flared and empowered her once again as she stared into Haku's face. "How could you? Use me? Haku, I thought I could trust you!" she exploded.
Haku stood up, confused and angry to be accused like this. "Use you? USE you! WHY WOULD I USE YOU!?!?!? WHAT MADE YOU THINK..?"
Chihiro glared into his face. On the outside she was furious and sure, but on the inside she was a mass of swirling emotions. "You just stood there when I was being attacked, when I was hit," she spat, raising the sleeve of her kimono to show a bandaged wound. "I could have been killed, and YOU JUST STOOD THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Haku moved to the window, looking down out at the waters. He stayed like this for some time. When he spoke, he did not turn his head away from the view. His voice was hoarse.
"Chihiro, I don't know what happened. It was like, like I was being controlled. I couldn't move my body, but I could still see and hear what was happening." He croaked. "When I saw you injured, bleeding, wounded, I.." his voice broke.
Chihiro gaped at him, but then remembered what her trainee had said to her earlier. "You killed, murdered for power. You abandoned a young orphan. YOU killed Nile's parents."
Haku turned at the name. "Nile? As in The River Nile? That girl? Chihiro, what did she tell you, what did SHE SAY!!!!!!!!????????!!!!!"
His voice had risen to a crescendo. Chihiro related the story. Haku turned back to the window.
"That lying, thieving, framing, heartless being. I NEVER inherited those two seas. SHE will, when she's seventeen. SHE invited me to stay with her family, then, when she had me positioned, SHE," he bit his lip, and lowered his eyes. Chihiro saw the droplet of water travel down pre-tearstained cheeks. "SHE poisoned them. HER OWN PARENTS!!!!!!!! They were the only family I really ever had. AND SHE KILLED THEM!!! My parents were killed in a drought. My older sister was killed by mortals, shot because they thought she was DIFFERENT. My younger brother died with her, trying to protect her. Everyone I had ever cared about, had died." His hands began to tremble. "And then I almost lost YOU. Those were some of the worst moments in my life, Chihiro. Almost losing you, knowing I couldn't do anything.." He rasped.
Chihiro looked at his face from an angle. Yes, she decided, he has been crying over something, before I brought this up. But what..
"Chihiro." She murmured. "That's MY name isn't it?"
Haku nodded slowly, not tearing his gaze from the window.
Chihiro looked at her hands, and thought, ~Haku, I never knew. Why didn't you tell me? I never knew.~ A tear slipped down her cheek. She sighed, and shook her head at realizing what she had just done to him accusing him like that. "Haku," he turned. "I..I'm sorry. I was wrong. I shouldn't have accused you like that. I.." she gulped, more tears spilling, spotting her kimono.
"Chihiro, you're crying."
An old flare of temper arose in Chihiro, nothing like the rage that had filled her earlier. "First, I don't cry enough, then I cry TOO MUCH!!! MAKE UP YOR MIND!!!"
Haku sat beside her, and gently wiped away a tear. "Did I ever say that? Is something wrong? You've been on edge for a while. You're spotting your clothes, by the way." He added.
Chihiro looked down at her hands. "They, they turned into claws. But I'm HUMAN! I can't.."
Haku shrugged, pushing it off, though deeply it worried him. Chihiro looked at him and slowly raised her hand to his face..
And let out a yelp of pain as her wound protested. (**sigh** Poor, forgetful Chihiro. :D)
Concern showed on Haku's face. "Chihiro, let me see." Chihiro lifted up the silk sleeve of her kimono. Haku gently unwound the bandage to reveal a nasty looking wound. He winced, stood up, and went to an odd cabinet. He pulled out a lotion, and smoothed it into a fresh bandage. He then went back to Chihiro, and wound it around her arm, as carefully as possible. She winced slightly, but Haku pretended not to notice. Haku fumbled for side talk. "You, you look nice." He then cursed himself mentally and hastily added. "Where did you get the kimono?" Chihiro looked down. "Umiko, my friends' mother made it for me." She looked up, grinning. "She said I'd grow into it. She made it for me a year after I left." Haku smiled, picturing a young Chihiro dwarfed in a HUGE kimono, the belt slowly slipping past her knees. He began to laugh. Chihiro joined in.
Chihiro looked sideways at Haku. ~We've both changed a LOT since then.~
Suddenly everything was too much. She sank down in the couch, and put her head in her hands. Haku sat beside her, and gently laid an arm around her shoulder. "Chihiro.." "Everything, everything's just.." "You can tell me Chihiro." She jumped up.
"WHY IS IT ANY OF YOUR BUISNESS?!?!?"
"I NEVER SAID IT WAS, CHIHIRO!!!!!!"
"YES YOU DID! YOU'RE PRYING!!!!!!!!"
"NO I'M NOT!!!!!!!!"
"WHY DO YOU CARE ANYWAY?!?"
Haku shook his head. He was NOT going to answer that one.
"YOU ARE PRYING!!! JUST BECAUSE I WON'T GIVE YOU THE SPELIFICS.specickiks.SPECIFICS!!!!!!!!"
Haku grinned. "We fight too much."
"No, REALLY?"
"Yes, we do." Said Haku seriously, missing the sarcasm.
Chihiro dissolved into fits of laughter.
Haku stood up with Chihiro when she stood up to prepare to leave. When she was at the door, he said "Chihiro!"
She turned.
Haku grabbed her shoulders, and looked straight into her eyes. "Chihiro. Promise me, PROMISE, that you will not face Nile without me, alright? Act as if everything is fine, but DON'T TRUST HER ONE BIT. Please Chihiro."
~How did he know I was planning on going?~ "Haku," she said in a disagreeing tone.
"Meet me outside the woman's room at sunset. Please, Chihiro."
"Why should I? Why can't I do it by myself?"
Haku looked hesitant, but then swept her in a hug. "I don't want anything to happen to you."
Chihiro, stepped back..
..and fell backwards over the half-step.
She stood up, rubbed her side, and stuck out her tongue at the laughing figure of Haku. He was gripping the doorframes, having a fit of laughter.
"Tonight, then." +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Hmm, interesting, neh? A question answered, more questions presented. What does everyone think? Please review! ARI GATEAU EVERYONE!!!!!!!! My chapters are actually LONG now!
Ja ne ~Jose~
