Author's Note: I hope you guys like the story so far, I really haven't really written anything before, so this is my first story ever! Does it suck? Do you like it? Good or bad comments, I take it all! Well I hope you do enjoy it though...

Disclaimer: No, I...do...not...own...Spirited...Away...

Chapter 2

As the sun began to rise the next day Chihiro sleepily sat up in her bed and rubbed her eyes. As she peeked out her window, she noticed the sky was still a deep purple with only a hint of sunlight. She flung her head back down into her pillow. She was definitely NOT a morning person. After about ten minutes she slumped out of her bed and walked down the hall into the bathroom. After taking a quick shower, she walked back into her room with a towel wrapped firmly around her slender body. She pulled on her underwear and her school uniform. How she despised those little uniform skirts they were forced to wear.

After getting fully dressed she walked over to the full length mirror that stood in the corner of her room. She ran a brush through her long brown hair, before finally realizing that she did actually did look pretty good that day. She struck a couple of silly model poses in the mirror.

"Not to shabby." she thought giggling to herself. She quickly grabbed her school bag off the floor and ran out of her room, and down the stairs.

"Morning Mom!" Chihiro shouted as she spotted her mother in the kitchen cooking breakfast. Chihiro took a deep breath inhaling the intoxicating smells of eggs and bacon.

"Shhh, try not to wake your father. He pulled in some long hours last night and he deserves to sleep in."

Chihiro grabbed a piece of stray toast off the kitchen counter and shoved it into her mouth.

"Really Chihiro, you should try to be more lady like."

Chihiro smiled a wide grin showing pieces of chewed toast and crumbs covering her cheeks. Her mother winced slightly. Chihiro chuckled and wiped her mouth.

"Okay I'm off, see ya tonight mom."

Chihiro grabbed a couple pieces of bacon and jogged out the door. She walked down the street to one of her best friends, Akari's, house. Akari had just stepped out of her front door herself. She looked up and waved.

"Hey Chihiro!"

"Hi Akari!"

The two girls walked towards the school together.

"Did you catch the new episode of 'Friends' last night? Rachael finally confessed her love for Ross!"

Chihiro shook her head and tried to act as enthusiastic as her friend. She really couldn't get into sitcoms the way Akari did, they tended to be boring and dragged on forever.

"I've had a lot on my mind, I guess I forgot to watch it."

"Were you too busy thinking about Jaaake?" Akari laughed and poked Chihiro playfully. "You know he seriously is head over heels for you right? You are so lucky!"

"Yeah, Yeah...I guess so." Chihiro couldn't really get into Jake too much. Every time she tried to psych him up in her mind, Haku's face always popped in and overpowered his. Suddenly Chihiro got the strange feeling that someone was watching her, she quickly turned around to see who was behind them. To her surprise no one was there. She glanced toward the sky and only saw white clouds pass over the pale blue sky. "I guess I'm getting paranoid now too."

As they walked toward the entrance grounds of the school Chihiro spotted Jake talking to some of his friends near the main door. Jake was built taller than most of the boys and had short black hair. In their earlier years of school, Jake was always scrawny and lanky. But his body had changed nicely over time, his muscles filled out, and his acne cleared up. He was practically gorgeous.

He caught sight of Chihiro and immediately sprinted over towards her.

"Morning girls!" He waved at Akari and kissed Chihiro lightly on the cheek. Chihiro face turned a deep shade of red.

"Jake! Not in front of the school!" Chihiro said, slightly upset. Akari giggled and walked into the school alone.

Chihiro shouted after her. "Wait up! Hey Akar-"

Jake interrupted her.

"Sorry about that babe..." he said, looking slightly hurt. "Want me to carry your bag for you?"

Without waiting for Chihiro's answer he grabbed her bag off her shoulder and placed it upon his.

"uh...thanks Jake"

Jake unexpectedly grabbed Chihiro's hand and began to lead her up to main doors of the school. "The bells about to ring, we'd better get going."

"Umm, okay." Chihiro blushed an even deeper shade of red and followed her boyfriend's lead into the school.

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Haku watched from the other side of the street as Chihiro entered the school building holding hands with a tall, dark haired boy. He didn't care who the boy was, but he immediately didn't like him. "Maybe she has forgotten about me after all.". He thought sadly. Haku stared to run towards her, but stopped himself. "I must wait till she is alone before I approach her." Haku rubbed his thumb the smooth silver coin in his pocket. Using that coin was the only was he could get into the human world. Yu-Babba had called it, "The currency of passage". It was the only way a spirit can travel freely through the human and spirit world.

As Haku thought about how he was going to confront her, he began to pace up and down the street before settling on a bench that sat adjacent to her school.

Chihiro sat in her English class daydreaming and staring out the window as her teacher went on about sentence structures. Who really cares about sentence structures? No one, that's who.

As Chihiro gazed out the window, a young man sitting alone on a bench in the courtyard caught her eye. He was wearing dark faded blue jeans with a light blue t-shirt. His dark hair was about shoulder length, and from what Chihiro could see, he was quite attractive. "I wonder why he's not in class". No sooner than she thought this, the boy looked up at her and their eyes met. A shiver ran down Chihiro's spine. "Why does he look so familiar? I cant quite put my finger on it..." Suddenly Chihiro's teacher barged into her thoughts.

"Maybe Miss Ogino would like to explain verb conjugations to the class."

"Huh?"

"Miss Ogino, since you obviously don't know what we are doing, I would advise you to keep your head in the lesson, instead of going off into la la land."

A couple of student giggled.

"Sorry Mr. Nashida"

The teacher turned back around and began to write on the board.

"Anyway class, like I was saying, verb conjugations are very important when forming a sente-"

Chihiro ignored her teacher once more glanced back down into the courtyard only to find that the boy had vanished. Her eyes swept over the courtyard for him, only to find nothing there. "I guess he decided to finally to get to class." She attempted to catch some part of the lesson. But her mind kept drifting to the boy in the courtyard. "Why did he look so familiar? Where have I seen him before?" Suddenly she remembered his serene green eyes when they latched onto hers. "It couldn't have been him could it? Not after six years. It must be my imagination running away with me. Haku couldn't have come to see me now. Could he?"

Chihiro shook her head and once again tried to pay attention to Mr. Nashida's lesson.

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Author's Note: So, how was it? R&R!