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"Yubaba wants to see me?"
"What for?" Rin asked.
"How am I supposed to know? I'm only the messenger. But I assume it can't be for Chinatsu's good, but there's only one way to find out. We can't disobey Yubaba."
The entire way up to Yubaba's Chinatsu's heart was pounding in her ears, like when she first arrived in the spirit world. She was a little afraid of what Yubaba would be like, but there was a picture in her mind that she had pictured ever since she heard her name. She was tacky, very tacky. She had a large face and an abnormally large nose. She had a ring on almost every finger, a blue dress, and her long gray hair was up in a bun. The only reason she thought this was most likely the way this old witch looked was because everything else she had thought seemed familiar, and so this probably was as well. And sure enough, when they entered the office, Yubaba was exactly as she had pictured.
The old witch studied her for several long moments. She felt like a flea under Yubaba's gaze, and she just wanted to shrink away and disappear. "Haku was right," she finally spoke in a crackly old voice, "you look just like her."
Chinatsu didn't speak. She didn't know what to say, or what she could say.
"Rin, Haku, I am going to kindly ask you to step outside."
"Kindly?" Rin snorted. "Hardly."
"Don't make me turn you into a pig Rin…" the witch warned.
Haku grabbed her shoulders and turned her around. "Come on Rin, she'll be fine."
Haku's eyes met Chinatsu's and his heart almost melted with the begging look the girl held in those chocolate eyes, just pleading for them to stay. She was terrified to be left alone with the witch.
After the door clicked shut, Yubaba turned back to the terrified girl. "I can see you shaking," the witch said with amusement. "You seem quite different then Chihiro. Honestly, I don't know what that dragon saw in her. In my opinion, forgetting about Chihiro and going after you would be a much more realistic idea for one such as him."
Once again, Chinatsu was silent.
"Now you're probably wondering why I called you up here."
"Yes ma'am," she replied quietly, suddenly remembering her manners and attempting to be polite.
"I am going to offer you a job."
"A job?" Chinatsu squeaked out.
"Yes, a job, with excellent gold pay."
"I just want to go home," she managed to reply.
"Oh but child, this is an offer one with a brain could never refuse."
"I don't care, I just want to go home." She could feel her confidence returning and more courage entered her in an attempt to stand up to this witch.
"Now let me just tell you. Now, as we all know, you are indeed Chihiro's reincarnation."
"How do you know that for sure?" she countered.
"It's obvious darling. I've had my share of encounters with previous reincarnates many times, and this one is no different. Anyway," Yubaba stood up and walked around the desk and stood before Chinatsu. "My job offer for you is to be messanger, with Haku, I might add, between the little town countries in this world. It's a very interesting job, and people love it. You get to travel all around, and you'll be with Haku, he will be your escort, protecter, and company. Now it is often..."
"Not interested," Chinatsu inturrupted, turning around to leave.
"Hey I'm not done yet child!"
"I don't care! Why in the world would you think I would accept some simple job offer I could accept anywhere in my OWN world?" she shouted, clenching her fists.
"Because I need you to stay here!" the witch blurted out frantically.
"What?" Chinatsu started, confused.
"If you take that stupid messanger job I could care less! But I need you to stay here."
"Why?"
"Spirits would flock from the other side of the spirit world to see Chihiro and get service from her because they heard she was extremely nice. My workers were in a better mood before she left, and then returned to their normal state shortly after she left."
"Since when have you cared about the well-being of your workers?" she snorted, then gasped and covered her mouth.
Yubaba's eyebrows quickly raised.
"I... don't think that was... me," Chinatsu stuttered after several silent moments.
"Most likely Chihiro speaking from within you."
After a few more stunned moments, Chinatsu's eyes narrowed. "Since when have you cared about the well-being of your workers?" she repeated with raised eyebrows. "Perhaps Chihiro will stop me from making the biggest mistake of my life."
"I have always cared about them! They help keep my business running!"
"Listen, do what you want to, but I... we, need you here. Haku, Rin, Kamajii, the soot balls even, the customers, the workers... if they know you are Chihiro's reincarnation this place will be booming with business! And I'd give you 1/4 of the profits!"
"How do you know the 3/4 of the profits that you will keep will be more then what you make now?"
"Believe me Chinatsu, they will be. Business has already picked up in the day since you've been here."
"So you're going to use me for business? I don't think so. I just want to go home," she sighed, exasperated that the old witch would not drop the subject.
"Chinatsu, you will learn to like it here more then your old world."
"No I won't learn, because I'm not going to stay!"
"Yes you are!"
"NO!"
"Hate to dissapoint you, but I have plenty of ways to make you stay."
"I won't fall for any of your tricks! Chihiro made that mistake, I won't!"
"Hm... now you're even beginning to remember what happened in Chihiro's life. Interesting."
This just enraged the girl even more. She turned to run out of the room, but Yubaba flew up behind her, one large and wrinkled finger around her neck. "Sign this!" she snapped, thrusting a piece of paper before her. "Sign it and you'll get to leave for god's sake!"
"How do I know this isn't one of your tricks?"
"Do you want to go home or not?" the witch growled, removing her finger from the girl's neck.
She did, but how did she know that this signature wouldn't bind her to this world or something? She felt a tugging at her heart. She wasn't sure if it was Chihiro trying to warn her of something of her wanting to go home, but she took the chance. Yubaba wouldn't let her out of here otherwise.
"Why would I need to sign something to go home?" she questioned, taking the slip of paper.
"You're already bound to this world, so now you must unbind yourself," Yubaba sighed in annoyance.
Slowly, Chinatsu took the pen Yubaba handed her. "I don't want to sign this."
"Then you're not going home!"
She wouldn't have a choice anyway. If she didn't sign it, Yubaba would keep her here by force, and if this was indeed one of Yubaba's tricks to keep her here, she would have been forced to stay here anyway! It didn't matter what she did. The result would most likely be the same, unless this was really what Yubaba said it was: a signature to let her go home.
Slowly she lowered the pen to the paper and signed: Maruyama Chinatsu.