"Haku?" Chihiro said, hopefully.

Haku didn't even twitch. He remained in his position, but the voice carried on. It sounded very much like Haku, but it couldn't have been.

Not in his mind, though. It was dark, cold and almost empty. Where are you? There came a devilish laugh, he turned but saw nothing. All there was there were images, randomly floating about everywhere.

"show yourself, you coward!"

"talking to yourself again? When will you learn…?"

Haku looked up at a few of the pictures. He could see all of his memories, dreams, nightmares.

"you cannot beat me. You said it. You will only awaken when I leave. I'm not planning on going that quick…"

a silhouette approached Haku, looking a lot more like his own shadow. Dark hair, pale face… but golden eyes?

"what do you want?" he snapped.

"I merely wanted your Chihiro. But now that you've put us both to sleep, I guess torturing you is the next best thing!"

Haku snarled. "we'll just see about that!" he made an attempt to transform but got nothing. He tried again… nothing?

The Ghost Haku cackled in his twisted way. "transforming is a physical thing. Not a mental thing. You can't morph in here…"

Haku's blood boiled, his hands curled into a fist. All he could do was fight him the 'old fashioned' way. He darted towards him, swinging his clenched fingers. The Ghost Haku disappeared into mist as the punch came to hit him. Haku stood, confused.

"who are you?" he said, panting.

He smiled wryly. "so you still don't believe that I'm you, huh?"

"don't count on it," he spat.

"fine. But first, I want you to remember something. Turn your attention to the memory over in the corner, where you tried to forget." He led Haku over.

It was one of his earliest memories. His mother stood over his cradle, smiling at her two-day-old son. He got his glorious eyes from her, and his hair from his father.

His mother picked him up, cradling him closely with love. The joy in her face was unexplainable. Haku's father kissed him on the forehead lightly.

Then he caught a glimpse of his father's eyes, glazing gold. He looked completely different, anger consuming him. He grabbed Haku, without much care.

"what are you doing? Be careful with our child!" she said, worriedly.

His father dumped him in the bed and turned to his mate. Haku cried. He could not see what was going on, but he knew that he was hurting his mother. He couldn't do anything but scream in hope that someone would come.

"quiet!" he commanded. "it's you or the child!"

"no! leave us!"

Haku cried harder.

"enough!!" he held his hands to his ears tightly. "why are you showing me this, Katsu?!"

"ah, so you remember me?" he cackled.

Haku clenched his fists. "how could I forget the man who caused my parent's death?"

"your father killed himself, as you know. He wanted to escape me, and hw knew that the only way was to kill himself whilst I was inside of him. Fortunately, I went to you as a young boy before he stabbed himself."

"so you left him to die. You disgust me…!" he had an urge to punch his face off but knew it would not help.

"remember your mother?" he smirked.

Haku remained silent. He never really knew what happened to his mother. He never saw her again since the age of five where he found himself by the bath house.

"no, of course you don't! that's because I made you run away. She spent the rest of her miserable life looking for you, but never did find you. And now she's dead. The way she belongs!"

"STOP!"

"and now I'm going to do the same to your precious Chihiro!"

"you will not lay a finger on her! Thanks to you she doesn't trust me, and probably never will!"

The golden eyed Haku laughed. It seemed that he found pleasure in tormenting innocent people.

"I don't understand you, Haku. You love Chihiro, you want her to be yours. And yet, you do not want to make the first move."

"I am only protecting her. She does not want this so I will not force her."

"because you are a coward. You cannot grow a flower without planting the seed,"

"what did you call me?" he hissed. "you are the coward. You are the one unable to admit defeat-"

"defeat? I am undefeated. Even my name means 'victory', Haku."

"Katsu, you cannot live without another's body. You have no real power…!"

"I have all the power I need!"

"without me, you would be nothing!" Haku provoked.

"SILENCE!" he flew at Haku, but ended up flying straight through him.

This time, it was Haku that laughed. He enjoyed annoying him…

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