Disclaimer: You know the drill…
A/N: yeah I'm a slacker…and a procrastinator…anyways...continuing on.
Be warned. This is a short chapter. I just want to get the waking up thing out of the way. Next chapter will be longer...I hope...
To Be Together
Ch.2: Emerald eyes
"Chihiro." A low voice broke through the gray haze floating around her. The voice seemed distant to Chihiro, and very persistent. The voice kept calling..
"Chihiro are you awake?" Said the voice, gently in her ear. "Yes." Chihiro weakly whispered, her head pounding, "Where am I?"
The voice chuckled "You're in Spirit World. Can you open your eyes? It's a little bright but it's mostly cloudy so it shouldn't be to big a problem" Slowly, Chihiro sat up and slowly opened her eyes. True enough, she was in the room she had shared with all of the girls during her stay in spirit world.
Brown eyes stared into Chihiros. "Rin?" Chihiro whispered hoarsely, looking at woman sitting beside her. "Yes!" she cried happily, embracing her in a quick hug. "I'm so glad you remember me!"
"Of course I do! It's just that you've changed so much I don't recognize you!" said Chihiro, astonished. The spirit woman laughed. "The same can be said about you, you dope!"
True to her words, gone was the clumsy little girl they had all loved, and in her place was a very attractive young woman who had grown up very much in the past 7 years. The only thing that was the same about her was her eyes; the same chocolate brown orbs that looked out at Rin.
"My god how you've grown! And you've grown up so pretty!" Exclaimed Rin. Muttering a thanks, Chihiro looked up, suddenly remembered a question she was going to ask earlier.
"How did I get here?" Rin glared suddenly. "Master Haku brought you in off the bridge where you had passed out." She said sarcastically, sarcasm twisting her pretty face.
Chihiro's face scrunched up in memory of the minutes before she fainted. "I remember…I remember there was Haku. And there was someone there with him. A girl…" Her face smoothed out into impassiveness, even as her feelings churned inside her.
"That would be Hitomie." Said the older woman with a snort. "She showed up here a few months ago. She and Haku hit it off pretty well and got pretty close pretty fast."
"I guessed. It wasn't that hard to figure out, with the way they were groping each other." Chihiro said this crossly, making Rin look at her sympathetically. "I'm sorry." She said quietly. "I didn't mean to upset you."
Chihiro waved her comments away. "You don't need to worry about upsetting me." She said dryly. "It takes more than that to hurt me these days." Noticing Rin's distressed look, Chihiro quickly changed topics.
"Now." She said, getting down to business. "I want you to tell me all that's happened here in my absence." Glad to have a change of topic, Rin quickly jumped on it.
"So much has happened, you wouldn't believe it…"
The spirit woman started into stories of workers and customers alike, telling Chihiro of love interest, feuds and the like, quickly losing herself in the conversation, a small smile of contentedness on her face.
Chihiro zoned out, listening to the slightly lilting voice of her friend, smiling at her apparent pleasure.
Both women were so intent upon their conversation, neither noticed the door slowly sliding open, or the silent figure that stepped inside. The figure let out a small cough.
Startled, Chihiro looked up, eyes widening at the emerald eyes locked on her face. Her face smoothed of, devoid of any thoughts. His, however, shows the anger that he is feeling.
Forcing an ironic smile to her face, Chihiro whispered huskily to the boy she had not seen in 7 years,
"Hello Haku."
