Chapter Two: An Important Piece of Advice
At first, Haku took no notice of the imp, or what he had said. He was transfixed on the absence of the cat. That cat had an impact on him that he couldn't quite understand. It's midnight fur and the way it gently padded along. It had made his heart race uncontrollably.
"Sir. If you please?"
"What?" Haku had been entranced in thoughts of that cat.
"I need to tell you something. When Miss Chihiro...well... when she passed away, I didn't realise that her spirit would be reborn into this world. Our world."
There was a silence on the hill. The long blades of grass rustled in the wind, as if they were whispering about what Ashikaga had said. Haku stood slowly, to about five times the height of Ashikaga.
"Why didn't you realise?" Haku muttered, looking down at the grass once more.
"Well because... you see... have you ever heard of soulmates, Mister Haku?"
Haku said nothing, so the imp continued.
"It suggests that two souls are binded by their love-an eternal connection-even in death. Now with Chihiro, if she expresses the wish to be reborn, she will be reborn in close proximity to you and your life, so that you are not apart from each other."
Haku thrust his arms around the small blue man in joy; Chihiro would return to him after all!
"Well yes, as nice as that was Mister Haku, let me just give you some advice. There is some confusion as to how reincarnate magic works in this world and I need you to understand that although part of Chihiro will return, there is a risk that she could come back different. Come back as something, twisted, something not like her at all."
"I don't care what she comes back as, so long as she comes back!" He sternly said as he stared at Ashikaga.
As the small blue man trotted back up the hill to his little house, Haku began to return to the bath-house. He grinned wildly as every step tickled his ankles.
His heart pined. Where had that cat got to?