Chapter 2.- Spirit Realm.

Chiharu woke up a little dizzy and with a big headache. It took her a couple of seconds to adjust to the dim light.

"Wait a second." She said in a loud voice. "What happened?" She touched her head and remembered. "Ah, yeah, I fell down, went unconscious. Everyone went away without me, I can't believe it. Now I need to go home on my own, it's already sunset and mom…" Just then Chiharu, who had been walking as she talked, got her feet into the water. "What! Damn it! The river." She sighed. "But wait, wasn't it supposed to be all a legend, old stories?"

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And while Chiharu tried to find an answer to her questions someone was looking at her, a beautiful silver dragon was standing over the roof of a nearby building, he looked quite interested in the young girl.

'She has a strong spiritual presence, although she's human.' The dragon thought. 'She looks so much like Her, can it be possible?'

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Chiharu felt like she was being observed, and she didn't like that.

Just then the dragon went to the floor, and turned into a human appearance, with black-green hair and green eyes.

"Chihiro?" he asked.

Chiharu turned around to look at him puzzled.

Just then the dragon-human, noticed the girl's green eyes.

"I'm sorry," he apologized. "I thought you were someone else"

"Chihiro?" Chiharu asked.

He nodded. "My name is Haku."

'Prince Haku!' someone in Chiharu's mind yelled.

"I'm Chiharu Materu. And…" She said bowing. "Chihiro is my mother's name."

Haku turned pale in that moment.

'Her daughter' he thought. 'She has a child, so she sure is married and happy.'

"What are you doing here?" he asked trying to sound as calm as ever.

"Well, I came with my school to a field trip, but I fell down and when I woke up a couple of minutes ago…" Chiharu let the rest hanging. She looked at her surroundings. "But this place sure wasn't this way before I got unconscious."

"It only gets this way at night." Haku answered. "You're in the spirit realm."

'The Spirit Kingdom.' The same voice in Chiharu's mind told her.

"You know, you have a really strong spiritual presence to be a human." Haku commented.

"My mother always taught me to believe in myself, in what I'm inside, my soul, without materialism." Chiharu said, really proud of what se had learned. "Do you know my mother?"

"You can say I'm a childhood friend of hers." Haku answered. "Now come on, it's dangerous for you to stay here."

Chiharu nodded and followed him in silence.

Haku had no problems in the way, as everyone around felt her like a little spirit, no one stopped them. That way he got her to one of the gardens.

"Now wait here." Haku told here. "I need to do something, I'll be back soon. Something very important, don't let anyone to see you."

"Why?" Chiharu asked.

"Lets just say it's to keep you away from danger." Haku answered.

Chiharu nodded.

Haku trusted her, and he entered the building.

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Chiharu stood there for a couple of minutes, until she noticed someone looking at the garden.

'They'll find me.' She thought.

So she knelt down and went silently to a little door at the back of the garden, she crossed it and found herself at the top of a really large staircase.

'Well, I think that now I must go on.' Chiharu told to herself as she began walking down.

After a couple of minutes she reached the end of the staircase, and saw a door. She opened it and went inside. Once inside she saw the most incredible thing: little-puffy black things carrying black rocks, and what looked like an old man with six hands instead of two.

"Something is really weird in here." Chiharu thought to herself.

Just then a small door opened and a woman entered carrying a basket with food. The woman noticed her and stared at her, wide-eyed.

"Se…Oh my God…Sen!" the woman yelled.

"What!" Chiharu and the old man asked at once.

Just then the man noticed her, and called her: "Sen!"

"What?" Chiharu asked. "No, you're confusing me with someone else. My name is Chiharu."

"Chiharu?" the woman asked.

"You are?" Chiharu asked.

"I'm Rin and this is old Kamaji." Rin introduced.

'Lady Rin and Grandpa Kamaji.' The voice spoke in Chiharu's head again.

"This gets weirder with each second that goes by." Chiharu murmured in a low voice.

"Chiharu, here you are." A voice said, arriving.

"Haku, you know her?" Rin asked raising an eyebrow.

"Yes, I do. I found her by the river. Seems that she fell down and just woke up. Got lost, kind of." Haku explained.

"You mean you're human?" Kamaji asked.

"Yes I am." Chiharu answered.

Rin walked around her, looking like she was thinking really hard about something.

"She certainly doesn't smell like one." She finally said.

"Ehm…Chiharu, can you wait for me in the stairs? There's something I need to tell Rin in private." Haku said.

"Sure." Chiharu said and walked out.

"Spit it out, now. Who is she?" Rin demanded.

"She's Chihiro's daughter." Haku explained.

"Chihiro's…ah…you mean Sen's." Kamaji analyzed.

"Exactly, when I first saw her I thought it was Chihiro." Haku explained.

"What?" Rin asked. "You don't expect her to look the same after eighteen years, do you?"

"Well no but…" Haku started.

"You were wishing that it would be her." Kamaji finished for him.

"Well, yes." Haku finally admitted. "I haven't seen her in eleven years." He sihed. "I miss her so much."

"But if she has a daughter she sure is married." Rin said.

"I know but…" Haku didn't know what to say.

"And why don't you go get her?" Rin asked. "You sure don't expect her to be the one looking for you always, do you?"

"It's just that…I don't know why she left." Haku murmured sadly. "I don't understand. We were so happy…"

"And if you don't go find her, and talk with her you'll never know." Rin insisted.

"It's too late." Haku said. "You already said it, she has a beautiful daughter, she must be happily married. No need for me to interrupt her happy life."

Rin shook her head but said nothing more.

"I must go help her." Haku said and left.

"You noticed the same that I, didn't you Rin?" Kamaji asked.

"What?" Rin asked.

"The girl! She has a strong spiritual presence." Kamaji said.

"Being Sen her mother it would be no surprise." Rin said as a matter of factly.

"But still, it is too strong to be of a normal human." Kamaji insisted.

"You mean…" Rin started.

"Exactly." Kamaji cut her.

"Oh my god!" Rin exclaimed. "It would be so perfect!"

I wonder what would be so perfect, don't you? Well no, in fact I don't wonder but as you're supposed to I'll leave it there. I know the chapters are really short but this isn't exactly a long story. I mean, it has a plot and everything, but it's not too long. I hope you'll like it anyway.

A million thanks to my four reviewers, I love you all and I hope you'll follow me all the way to the end. You know the deal: The sooner you leave reviews, the sooner I'll update.