Aftermath (five years later...)

A fanfic about Spirited Away

Written by: ZimXGir

Disclaimer: I do not own Spirited Away...although I do own Pernaki and Yuiki. X3

A/n: Surprisingly enough…my computer was murdered (I blame all the downloads my brother has…err…had) and that's why the last chapter and this one has taken awhile to update. ; Well THAT and being assigned nine projects all at once and all due at the same time had had a lot to do with it too. But back to the news of my computer being killed…we grieved and had a funeral (and took it to get fixed) so now -crakes knuckles- I locked myself in my room and frantically typed this up for ya'll! So please enjoy!

(EXTRA FYI) To my dearest Moriquessir: Well 'Chiro' has this atmosphere around her that makes people around her feel as happy as her…so techniquly I broke no rule. Wink


Chapter Six: In which Haku dreams

It was almost noon as Haku lay silently in his bedroll. He slept in the same room as Yubaba's son; for her son would get nightmares and would wake up crying and find his mother wasn't there; so Haku slept in the nursery to comfort him if necessary.

Haku stirred as his eyes fluttered open and he sat up, his eyelids still held down with sleep.

"…" He opened his eyes and looked sleepily over at the mountain of pillows that concealed Yubaba's son. He then proceeded to yawn.

The mountain of pillows rose and fell with every breath taken. Haku crawled out of his bedroll and sleepily made his way over to the pillows.

Grabbed a blue and yellow one and picked it up to reveal Boh's face. Haku looked down at him and then put the pillow back in its exact spot. As he made his way back to his bedroll he mumbled…

"Well I did my job."

He then crawled back into his bedroll and went back into the position he was in before he moved. Smiling his heavy eyelids dropped as he began to dream…

Haku walked towards the river as he noticed a little girl doubled over, rocking back and forth, muttering to herself, disappearing slowly. She was hidden in the shadows behind the building that greeted the visiting spirited as they made their way off of the ferry and towards the bathhouse.

He said giving her a berry to eat so she wouldn't depart from the spirit world in such an ugly manner.

Suddenly it was five years later and the girl was no longer ten. She had longer hair that was always pulled back into a ponytail.

She had a different look, denim skirt with a white spaghetti shirt and white flip-flops. But he could tell it was…

"Chihiro!" Haku cried out as he wrapped his arms around her holding her tight.

"Haku!" she said as she buried her face into his shoulder and wept deeply. His shirt soaking up every tear that fell.

Chihiro lifted her head and peered into Haku's eyes.

"I thought you had forgotten about me!"

Haku slightly chuckled as he wiped her eye with his thumb so no tear remained.

"I shall never forget about you!"

Chihiro smiled at this through her tears as she began to disappear.

"NO CHIHIRO!" Haku yelled as he tried to find something for her to eat.

"Chihiro hang on!" he said as he dived at a berry bush…crying.

"Here!" he said as he pushed a berry into her mouth. Tears still falling as he watched her chew then swallow. Haku grabbed her and held her close to him.

"Chihiro please don't leave me…not again! Not like this!" He blinked the lingering tears out of his eyes as he watched painfully as his beloved Chihiro disappeared forever.

"NNNOOO!" Haku yelled as he shot up in his bedroll. Sweat dripping from every pore on his body.

He then glanced around, but he could not shake the dream out of his head. After a few seconds he doubled over shaking vigorously. Attempting to rid himself of the dream.

"W-what is wrong master Ha- (yawn)-ku?" came a voice.

"Chi-Chihiro…" Haku said threw clenched hands over his face.

Boh blinked as he made his way through his pillows. Seeing Haku's expression for the first time. He did not know what to so. Cautiously he stood and walked over to Haku then sat with a slight boom to Haku's right side, and placed a comforting hand on his shoulder.

Haku, realizing that his boss' son was comforting him, soon pulled himself together.

Boh then smiled and said, "Was it a bad dream?"

With out looking at him, Haku proceeded to tell his dream.

"…Then she just disappeared altogether! I couldn't do anything to save her!" he looked up and found that his comforter NOW needed to be comforted.

For huge tears strolled down his face. Haku smiled and patted Boh's hand comfortingly.

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Yuiki snuggled up to her pillow as a soft snore escaped from her lips.

A small blue spark flew into the room and found its way over to Yuiki; squeaking it woke her.

She opened her eyes sleep overflowing in them. "Huh? Wha'? Who 'der?" she yawned and attempted to rub the sleep from her eyes as the blue spark grew larger then smaller as it told Yuiki of Haku's dream.

"What!" Yuiki exclaimed then clasped a hand over her mouth as Lin stirred next to her.

The blue spark finished its statement and grew silent as anger brewed in Yuiki's eyes.

"This isn't how things are supposed to be! He's supposed to NOT love her anymore! I'll just have to try harder!" with that she rose from her bedroll and followed the blue spark out of the room.

Lin sat up at once, hearing the sliding door shut, and glared.

"I must warn Sen!" she muttered as she rose and carefully made her way out of the room. Then hurried upstairs to 'Chiro's' room.

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Yuiki placed her back to the wall and cautiously peered around the corner. Seeing no one she closed her eyes and walked down the deserted hallway until she got to Yubaba's main door.

Sweetly and with a smile brightening her face, she softly knocked on the door next to the golden knocker that resembled Yubaba's face ad hair.

"Yubaba? I couldn't sleep, so I came to see if you wanted some tea? Hmmmm?"

She waited for a few minutes then quietly opened the door. Smiling greatly she stuck her head in and said sweetly "Yubaba?"

After a few seconds she frowned and swung the door wide open. Waving her hand to make it stop before it hit the wall.

"Come on" Yuiki said over her shoulder at the blue spark.

Obediently it followed her, as she quickly made her way down the hall only stopping when the halls intersected. She would think then slightly nodded as she figured out which way she needed to go.

She snickered when she turned down a hallway with mirrors lining one wall, passing a private bathing room; she smiled as she found the opening doorway that was the threshold to the nursery.

Yuiki slipped into the room, and hid behind the reddish couch that dwelled there, before she was noticed. The blue spark followed and rested on her shoulder as they both listened to the on going conversation.

"Master Haku?"

"Yes?" Haku said as he fought back a yawn.

"What do you think your dream means? Will Sen truly disappear?" Boh said with a look of concern mixed in with worry haunting his face.

Haku lowered his head as he raised his knees to his chest and hugged them. He thought, sighed and closed his eyes as he replied.

"I really don't know" he then half way opened his eyes and rested his cheek in his knees, not facing Boh.

"I really don't know" Haku said just above a whisper as he starred at the colorfully painted wall.

Boh sighed and starred down at his friend. "If you wish you can go and see Sen!"

Yuiki stood up and opened her mouth to protest then remembered her position and quickly sat back down just as Haku looked up.

"You might be right!" Haku said with a smile. He stood and patted Boh's shoulder.

"I'll go see her! It's almost half past one…" he looked down and thought then rose his gaze back up to Boh's face. "…She should still be in school!" Haku said as he transformed into a beautiful white dragon with torques hair. He flew out of the nursery with a WOOSH and out of Yubaba's open window.

"TELL SEN I SAID HELLO!" Boh called after the dragon while he waved.

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Meanwhile…

Out of breath, Lin raced down the last hallway and slid to a stop outside of a door with a small scroll with Japanese characters on it spelling out 'Spirit of the Clouds'.

Lin gasped for air as she gingerly knocked on the door and opened it, slipping in. She softly rushed over the four-poster bed.

"Sen! Sen!" Lin said slightly shaking her.

"Mmmmm…mom just five more minutes." Came Sen's voice through the covers and she covers moved then settled down indicating that Sen had turned over.

Lin blinked the shook Sen hard one last time "Sen get your ass up!"

Sen sat up but her eyes were still shut. "Ok, ok! I'm up, I'm up!" she stood and walked over to the dresser and opened the top drawer. Lin just stood there curious about what Sen was doing.

Sleepily Sen opened her eyes "Wha'? Where's my uniform?"

"Sen!" Lin said with her arms crossed and a small sweat drop falling down her face. "You goof ball!"

Sen turned, and with great question in her eyes, said "Lin? Is it night already?"

"No its still around noon…Yuiki's up to something! I came to warn you!"

"What?" she asked, her hands still in the drawer absentmindedly still trying to find her uniform.

"Yeah, here's what happened…"

Sen listened with great interest keeping her comments to herself.

" – And that's when I knocked…what are you going to do?"

Sen thought then replied, her hands now at her sides, "I'm going to burst her little blue perky bubble!" she balled her left fist and hit her right palm.


A/N (part two): Well this was a very interesting chapter. I couldn't remember Yubaba's sons name so I watched Spirited Away about ten times. Eight times in English, and two times in Japanese with English subtitles. And the dubbed version laves at lot of cool names and verbal expressions out and it also leave a lot of cool facts out. Like the bathhouse can host 8,000,000,000 spirit gods. After watching the movie and the extra DVD I have greater respect for Miyazaki-san and all the animators that work with him. I recommend to all of you that are obsessed with Miyazaki-san's work to watch the extra DVD it's awesome. Ah! Sorry my attention span is going I guess. ; Anyways, I have found out that Yubaba's sons name is Boh and that he in fact calls her 'Baba' not "mommy" Wow longest chapter (so far) with the longest auther notes…; hehehe Ok I'm going to stop rambling now.

Random reader: THANK GAWD!

Your loving auther: frowns and sniffles that's cold