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Sen was the first to wake up the next day, hearing something before anyone else was up. She instantly remembered where she was, and her eyes shot open, seeing Ani lying next to her on her own futon. She put out a hand to wake her up.

Ani opened her eyes blearily. "What-" she began.

"I can hear something!" Sen whispered.

Ani shrugged and closed her eyes as the rice doors opened and a familiar figure stepped in. Sen quickly feigned sleep.

A familiar voice spoke as the two girls each felt the pressure of a hand on their covered shoulders. "Meet me at the bridge. I'll take you to your parents."

And just like that, he was gone.

The girls got dressed quickly and went down to the bridge. Ani took in the beauty of the bathouse all over again. "Isn't it magnificent, Sen?" she asked.

"Yeah, whatever." her younger sister mumbled. She was still recovering from last night's events. She also felt a little bit spooked at the motionless figure that had been on the bridge the night before and was still there – a big black form with a traditional Japanese Noh play mask.

Haku didn't take long to turn up, and he led the girls to the pig pen. Their parents were asleep.

Sen went straight up to the fence and started yelling. "Mom, Dad, are you all right, it's me, Sen! Hey...wake up!" The pigs didn't react. "What's wrong with them? Are they sick?"

"No." Haku answered. "They ate too much. They're sleeping it off. They don't remember being human."

Ani quickly memorized exactly what their parents looked like in relation to the other animals in the pig pen.

"Don't worry I promise I'll get you out of there just don't get any fatter or else they'll eat you!" Sen screamed at the top of her voice with no pauses, just a long string of words. Then she ran away tearfully.

Ani kept herself calm. "Mom, Dad?" she said softly. "If you don't remember being human, you won't remember me. Just try to think back. Don't eat. Me and Sen will get you back to normal as soon as we can." Then she ran after her sister.

Haku followed the girls, and then gave them back the clothes and shoes they'd been wearing in the human world. They needed them before they could go home. Then Sen found the card that came with her bouquet from her best friend that read "I'll miss you, Chihiro."

"Chihiro..." the younger girl read it out. "That's my name, isn't it?" Haku gave a nod.

"That's how Yubaba controls you, by stealing your name. If you completely forget it, you'll never find your way home. I've tried everything to remember mine."

Ani gasped. "Oh no! Sen – I mean, Chihiro – I'd forgotten your name, and I can't remember whatever mine was, either!"

Chihiro screwed up her face in thought, and then exclaimed "I remember! You're Arya!"

"Arya..." the older girl nodded. "Yes, I remember now."

Chihiro realized something else Haku had said. "Wait...you can't remember your name?"

"No...but for some reason I remember yours." Haku smiled. "Both of yours. I'm not sure why, but Chihiro's name is stronger in my memory. I'm not sure why. Anyway, hang onto that card, and while you're here, you must call yourselves Sen and Ani." He pulled out a pen and wrote Arya's real name on the card, just so they could both remember.

After that, he offered them some onigiri, which was really something they needed. Sure, both girls started to cry after a few bites, but Haku put an arm around both of them and after they'd recovered, they felt much better than they had the night before.

They had to rush back to the bathouse quickly. Lin had woken up by the time they got back, and she'd been worried about them.

The girls had to get to work immediately. Chihiro had trouble as some of the girls ran back and forth cleaning the floors. Arya laughed at her.

Chihiro glared. "Here." she threw her rag down. "I'll do whatever you're supposed to be doing now, and you do my job."

"Watch me shine..." Arya sang the title of a song she liked. "...the floors." She laughed again, but when she tried, she was nearly as bad as Chihiro was.

"Geez, girls," Lin commented about twenty minutes later, "Haven't you ever worked a day in your lives?"

At that moment, one of the workers came by, saying "Lin, Sen, Ani, you get the big tub today."

"That's frog work!" exclaimed Lin angrily.

"Orders from the top, so quit your complaining."

"Is that bad?" Arya asked. "Guess us humans are liabilities. Sorry, Lin." She didn't sound or feel that sorry, but a bit of sympathy towards Lin crept in when she saw the state of said tub, although she felt more sorry for herself, having to scrub it.

"We only use this tub for our really filthy guests." Lin explained. At that moment, someone told them that they had customers, and Lin threw down the rag she was scrubbing with for a moment. "Give us a minute! This is clearly harassment. Ani, you go get a herbal soap token from the foreman. Soaking the tub will make it easier to clean." The tub was much taller than either of the girls, so Lin had to lift Arya out of it. Then the foreman refused to give her a token.

"What do you mean, you can't give me one?" the eleven-year-old demanded. "You'd give one to any spirit if they were asking. You're just refusing to give me one because I"m a human."

The foreman ignored her accusation of discrimination and simply answered "I can't waste a token on you." He broke off to give out some tokens to others, before snapping again at Arya. "Why are you still here? Scrub it yourself! I'm not giving you a token."

Arya scowled. "I'm working with Lin. She sent me. The tub has to have a herbal soak."

"That's too bad." the foreman said coldly..

At that moment, a figure appeared beside the foreman. Arya gasped at the black figure with the mask from the bridge. She smiled tentatively at it, wondering when he came in. It disappeared before the foreman saw him, but when the phone rang and the foreman was distracted, a random soap token suddenly rose up and gave itself to Arya.

Arya smiled sweetly at the foreman, knowing it had something to do with the masked spirit. All the same, she bowed, saying "Thank you." before running back to Chihiro and Lin, ignoring the foreman's yelling.

Lin showed the girls how to snap the soap token onto a strap inside the wall, then pull down on it to send it to Kamaji, who would then send the water through a pipe in the wall when they pulled a rope. Chihiro pulled the rope and immediately slipped over, since she was balancing on the tub.

"Ugh, you're such a klutz." muttered Lin, not unkindly. She went to get some breakfast for all three of them, and that was when the masked black figure showed up again. It had an armful of soap tokens, which it offered to both Chihiro and Arya.

"Who is this dude?" Arya asked.

"I don't know." Chihiro whispered back. "He was standing outside in the rain, so I left the door open for him."

"He got me a token earlier on." Arya said. "The foreman refused to give me one."

The masked figure didn't seem to be able to say anything past "Uh," but he seemed friendly, although he didn't show himself to anyone but the girls.

"Thanks, but we don't need any more." Chihiro told the masked spirit. He frowned.

"Aw, come on, you made him sad." Arya said. "I think he wants us to accept them." She smiled up at the spirit. "Is that right?"

The mask nodded. "Uh, uh."

Chihiro frowned. "How did he get all of them, though?" she asked. "I don't know if we should take them." That was when the spirit completely faded away and the tokens fell to the floor. After that, the tub started overflowing and Arya ran to pull the rope again to stop it.

Next chapter will not just be Chihiro's story. Arya has her own path, and it's not Chihiro's. Please review!