Oh dear! What's Haku doing?! Let's see…

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Chihiro managed to get her hand free. She struck it across Haku's pale face. He had torn off practically all of her clothes so she was lying under him in the nude. Haku's head turned back to her. No longer golden, his eyes filled with confusion.

"Chihiro?" he panted, noticing that both their clothes were scattered around them. "w… what happened?"

Chihiro's eyes widened at his comment. She smacked him once more, and kicked him in the groin so he would roll off. She grabbed her top and held it tightly to her chest.

"what was that for?" he said, hunched over.

"are you some sort of idiot?!" she screamed. With her back turned to him as she put her top back on. "how dare you drag me all the way here for your own pleasures and have the cheek to claim that you have no idea what's going on?!"

Haku, who was hurt/confused, went to lay a hand on her soft cheek. Chihiro swatted it away. "don't touch me!"

"Chihiro, I swear, I don't know what happened but whatever it was, I'm sorry!"

Chihiro didn't want to believe him. She never really ever wanted to trust anyone in her life but wasn't sure it that would change for the man she loved. But do I still love him? She asked herself.

"Haku… I accept your apology…" she began. "…but I want my own room… I don't know if I can trust you."

Though Haku was confused, he did not argue. But why doesn't she trust him? What did he do? He forced himself to nod to her request. "anything. Anything you want is yours."

Jekyll and Hyde or what? What is it with this guy? Chihiro stood to go back to the bath house.

"wait. I'll give you a ride if you-"

"no thank you," she stated, firmly.

Chihiro sat with Lin in her room. Lin began to notice that Chihiro was being unusually quiet.

"what's up, Sen?" she asked, polishing off her fifth bowl of ice-cream.

Chihiro didn't answer. She too lost in her own thoughts about her and Haku.

"Sen?" she waved a hand in her face. "SEN!" she screeched, moving to her ear.

"OW! I'm not deaf Lin! But carry on like that and I may be!" she huffed, rubbing the side of her ear.

Lin laughed slightly. "what's up?"

Chihiro was still daydreaming but regained consciousness of reality quickly – which is kind of weird because she's in a mythical world but who's keeping track?

"hmm? Oh, nothing. I was just thinking." She took another scoop of her untouched ice-cream.

"it's about Haku isn't it?" Lin sighed.

Chihiro sighed too. "am I that obvious?" Lin's expression screamed yes. "it's just that… well… I'm not sure if I can trust Haku anymore."

"take my advice, squirt, never trust a guy. They almost always turned out to be something else. And I say almost because the few guys you can trust are in fairytales." She slopped another two or three hundred scoops of ice-cream into her bowl. (A/N: remember those wise words of advice).

This depressed Chihiro even more. She loves him. But he did change, a lot. She hated to admit it, but it was true.

Haku was in his room, cursing himself for whatever it was he did.

"leave me alone," he whispered. "and most importantly, leave Chihiro alone."

Never…

He gasped. "who are you?"

I'm you…

"no you're not! I would never–"

hurt Chihiro. I know. But that's you, I'm another side of you. I do what I like, when I like…

"well not to Chihiro you won't!"

I already have! And you don't even remember! How do you expect to protect her? You can't even protect yourself with me here. Or are you just going mad?

"I am not going mad!"

how can you be so sure? Next thing you know, you'll be hunched in a little back in the corner, rocking back and forth. I mean, you are talking to yourself and you're in denial? Now, Haku, does that sound sane to you?

Haku was not about to reveal how true it all was. The voice even sounded like him. Suddenly, something flashed back to him. Chihiro was struggling, fear plastered across her innocent face. He tried to protect her, fight against himself, but it was too strong for him.

"you…" he growled. "why are you doing this to Chihiro?"

why am I doing this to Chihiro? Why are you asking me? I am basically just doing what you don't have the guts to. But the thing is, I only let you to control your body because there was nothing interesting to do. But now that Chihiro is here, I have no need for you anymore…!

There was a prang of pain in Haku's chest as he prevented him from taking over. He held his chest tight as if holding him from spreading. "NO! I wont let you hurt Chihiro!"

Why not? It'll be fun!

"NO!" he transformed into his dragon form, flying out of his window. In the air, he was whipping his tail against himself, letting the blood pour out. He was hoping to pass out but had no such luck.

You can't knock yourself out, I control the part of you that stays conscious! How else do you think you don't remember anything?

"I can try!"

he found himself flying higher and higher and, without realizing it, he was in sight of Lin's room where they had been chatting about relationships.

He was roaring in pain but refused to stop.

Chihiro gasped. "Haku!" she ran to the window, terrified. "what are you doing?!"

Haku heard this and stopped for a few seconds. Then a second prang of pain shot him by surprise. "ARGH!"

"HAKU!" she screamed.

Lin ran to her side. "what's he doing?" she screamed.

Haku had an idea. He stopped slashing himself and flew down to the boiler room.

"Sen, what's going on?" but as she turned to Chihiro, she realized that she was already half way down the Kamajii's. "Sen! Wait up!"

Haku crashed behind Kamajii's stand, frightening the soot balls back into their holes.

"haven't you ever heard of knocking?!" he turned to see Haku struggle. "Haku?" he got up, using his many long arms to travel over.

It seemed hard for Haku to breath. He was gasping after howls of agony. He transformed back to normal.

Chihiro burst through the door, Lin following shortly after. "Haku, what happened?" she knelt beside him, about to lay her hands on his hunched back.

"no…stay back… too… dangerous…" he said in between grunts. "evil… inside…!"