I know, I know, I waited a while. But I wanted to pick my next editor!
And I found one:DDD her name is NitenGale! Hoyea, I just hope she is prepared for me ;
Disclaimer- I do not own spirited away, but Akina, Sano, and Takki are MINE! Though I got the name for takashi from a friend (happy jii-chan?)
Anywho.. I tweaked the plot A TINY bit.. but all the stuff that's happened is still needed and in the previous chappies thankee sai
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"talking"
'thinking'
doing
flashback type stuff.. sometimes song lyrics
(A/N)
EN's were in blue. But theyre for me to fix my crap, so its likely you wont see them :P
Chapter 7Why?
"So, Chihiro, where are you from?" Akina asked as they went to their tubs to start work.
Chihiro thought a minute, "I'm not really from around here," she said, walking next to Rin.
"Let's see, they said we only needed to clean the smaller tubs," Rin mumbled, looking for the one they were assigned to. "Here it is!" she announced, dragging Akina and Chihiro into the room.
"Hey Rin, why is there more than one bath in this one?" Chihiro asked, looking at it.
"Because these types of rooms are for Ootori-sama's," Rin answered before looking at Akina. "Go get a regular bath token," she instructed, stopping her from asking Chihiro a million questions.
"Okay," said Akina simply, leaving to get the requested bit of wood
One she left, Rin looked at Chihiro. "She's really talkative."
"I think she's nice. Maybe a little curious, but nice," Chihiro said as Akina returned.
"Alright, now put it in the wall slot to send to Kamajii" Rin said, crossing her arms.
"Ok—hey! Why am I doing all the work?" Akina asks, looking at Rin, hands on her hips.
"Because you're the new girl, besides, Chihiro and I are scrubbing the tub" Rin said, climbing in to join Chihiro "Anyways, on Chihiro's first day she was fine."
"Riin! I need help!" Chihiro yelled, poking her head out.
"Alright, sorry! I'll start on the other tub. Kohana, you get the last one" Rin instructs, getting a bundle of rope and going to another smaller bath.
"Okay, okay!" Akina said and sighed, putting the bath token in the wooden slot and pulling down on the rope. The token went down lightly, before shooting up into the darkness. A few moments later, the large water slope came down with the rope.
Chihiro climbed out of a bath. "This ones done!" she said, pointing to it.
"Alright! I'll fill it up." Akina said, nodding.
"CHIIIHIIIIRRROOOOO!" came a loud yelling, accompanied by loud thudding, which grew rapidly louder.
"Eh?" Chihiro asked, looking around. "Wait! I know that voice, it's Bou!" she said and looked around for him.
Bou soon bounded on in and over to Chihiro. "Hey Chihiro, guess what?" Bou asked sounding excited. Chihiro saw Yu-bird, still small, buzzing around Bou's head.
"What?" Chihiro asked, patting the mini yu-bird's head for a moment.
"Mama said you could play with me today!" Bou explained happily.
"That's great Bou, but I have to work" Chihiro said, "I couldn't leave Rin and Kohana by themselves."
"Go on. Have some fun!" Rin said, smiling and climbing out of the large tub she was helping Chihiro with . "You won't get many opportunities."
"Are you sure?" Chihiro asked.
Akina and Rin nodded.
"Alright. Thanks guys!" Chihiro said.
"All riiight! Come on Chihiro!" Bou said happily, grabbing Chihiro's hand and bounding off.
Chihiro's hand slipped, but she followed Bou, running.
Bou was whizzing past yunas and formen. He even ran past Haku. "Hii Hakkuuuu! See you later!" he yelled, running.
Chihiro soon followed, only waving at Haku, as she didn't have any breath to spare.
Haku just stopped, confused.
----------------------Bou's room----------------
Once up in Bou's room, they sat down, Bou on his pillows, Chihiro on a giant chair. Chihiro just looked around, it hadn't really changed at all. Bou had toys for toddlers now, since he was almost three.
"So Chihiro, how come you came back?" Bou asked, messing around with a stuffed
pig.
Chihiro paused a minute "Well one of the reasons is because I missed all of you guys!" she said.
"There's another reason?" Bou asked.
Chihiro nodded. "This place, from the first glance, somehow reminded me of my grandma."
"Your grandma?" Bou asked, a puzzled look on his face.
Chihiro nodded. "My grandma runs a shrine. Before I moved, I'd visit her every weekend, sometimes every day. She always had things for me to do, and she owned a lot of land, so I could run around if I wanted. There were flowers everywhere, and she believed that everything had a purpose, a spirit, and a story behind it's name or how it came to be," she said, seemingly lost in her own world, daydreaming of her days as a child at her grandmother's house.
--flashback--
"Grandma! Grandma!" a five-year-old Chihiro yelled, her hair in two pigtails, running towards an old woman at the entrance of a shrine. She had grayish-black hair tied up in a bun, secured by two chopsticks. She was wearing a light purple kimono.
"Hello Chihiro," the woman smiled, hugging Chihiro. "How have you been?"
"Just great Grandma! Earlier today we went to the park and I got candy, and . . . " Chihiro said, continuing to tell her grandmother about her day.
They went inside for tea. Of course, Chihiro added lots of sugar and honey to hers. "Grandma," Chihiro said, setting down her cup, "can I go play in your garden?"
Chihiro's grandmother smiled. "Of course Chihiro, but be careful of my flowers. And do watch out for my statues, you never know what you'll find" she warned.
"I will, thank you!" Chihiro smiled, getting up and putting her shoes on before running out the door.
Wandering around outside, Chihiro followed the path into the garden. Her grandmother's garden had flowers of every kind, growing far above her head. She loved playing in it. Going off the path, she laid down in the flowers, staring up at the sun, surrounded by snapdragons, daisies, columbines, Lilies, sunflowers, orchids, daffodils, carnations, irises, and Violets. Every flower imaginable was there, meaning every color was there too.
After a while, Chihiro wandered back onto the path and went left at a fork in the road. As she followed it, the flowers thinned out, and when she brushed past them, she saw something out of the corner of her eye. She looked around. There were rose bushes forming a circle around another path and she could see statues everywhere. In the center of the round path was a fountain.
The statue in the fountain looked like a fairy. Though she was silver colored, you could tell she was supposed to be painted blue; the paint had faded. But her blue eyes seemed to stare directly into your soul as she smiled peacefully. Water fell around her, making it look like she was standing in a waterfall. "Whoa," Chihiro said, mesmerized by the statue.
Ignoring the water, Chihiro went up to the statue and touched her face, stroking her cheek. Although she was metal, she seemed so soft. Drying off her hand, Chihiro got out of the fountain and looked around. There were more fairy statues of all kinds and statues of all sorts of mythical creatures.
Following the path further, she stepped into another garden. There weren't any statues around this one. But in the center there was a huge fountain, the size of a children's pool in circumference. In the center was a dragon. The dragon was a silvery white, long, slender, and it had a green mane running all the way down its back. On its head were two horns behind its ears. On it nose were two long whiskers, protruding out of the sides of its nose. The colors were worn, but still there. Water came out of its head, trickling down the dragon's back and falling from random places.
"Chihiro!" Chihiro heard a voice calling her name. It was her grandma. Chihiro turned around to see her—
In that instant the flash back was over. "Chihiro?" Bou asked, trying to get her back from wherever she thought she was.
"Oh, sorry Bou. I was just daydreaming," Chihiro apologized.
"It's alright. But that sounds pretty," Bou said, stars in his eyes. "But what happened to your grandma and her shrine?" he asked, quickly coming out of his own daze.
"She passed away. That's why we moved," Chihiro said. "My mom didn't want to have to remember her. So we moved to our new house," she said.
"Oh," Bou said, then smiled. "Well we're gonna see Granny today so you can be happy!"
"Alright," Chihiro smiled. "But how will we get there?" she asked.
alright… I know I haven't been on in forever but it's the summer for me now.. so hopefully ill be able to roll out more chapter. Longer and faster too!
Thanks so much for the patience everyone(especially since I didn't have anyone yell at me -so happy- :3 toodles!