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 and Chihiro's spirit self 'Chiro'.

Chapter Thirteen: In Which Envy and Revenge Coincide

A/N: Funny how that's the title of this chapter because I wrote the chapter in green ink. You know greenenvy ha ha. Well life is a butt right now, with summer ending soon and I'm going off to college (August 27th), and all. It's been a butt! But good news! With all the nerves and everything on overdrive the only thing that keeps me sane is writing and drawing! So that's great news for ya'll!

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Chapter 13: In which Envy and Revenge Coincide

Yuiki raced into Yubaba's office lightly panting, but still held her stature "You called for me?"

Yubaba didn't look up she acted as if she had no idea that Yuiki was even there. There were a few minutes of soft scratching on parchment before the room went completely silent. Sighing Yubaba finally looked up at Yuiki, studying her face for a bit before opening her mouth.

"How is she?"

Yuiki was flustered as it was, but now having to talk about that spirit! That woman! It was maddening!

"Fine" was all her clutched teeth would allow.

'Yeah she's fine and dandy! And it's too damn bad if you ask me!'

Yuiki crossed her arms and fell into a relaxed posture and rolled her eyes muttering before snapping back into 'attention' as Yubaba cleared her throat threateningly.

"Good, see to it that she stays that way! She's the most rich…

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Chiro sighed as she looked around the room, as she pulled out a few of her 'tear' pearls and proceeded to play a game of marbles with them.

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…and powerful…

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Clouds began to form over Chiro's head. A slight down pour began soaking her. With an irritated look on her face Chiro glanced up. "Stop" she commanded …but the down pour had other ideas, soft thunder could be heard now.

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…spirit around so be kind and treat her like you would a queen or king! The way mortals respect their rulers!" Yubaba continued. "So any news on what had happened? Anyone missing?" Yubaba went back to her writing and left the question in the air as if she was asking about the weather.

Yuiki snapped back from her own thoughts, not really paying attention for they were talking about – how Yuiki liked to put it – that damned spirit bitch. "What? Oh…uh…that is…"

Yubaba's eyes glared up at Yuiki, her hand still gliding down the parchment as she wrote. A glint of the fire, or maybe it was annoyance, shown in her eye. Her patience was wearing thin…thinner than it had been in five years now.

"Is or is there not anyone missing?" demanded Yubaba, her pen slammed onto her desk, making some papers flutter into the air but landing still on the desk.

"Not that I know of Madam."

"Then why don't you go and check! All we need is another servant going missing!" Yubaba's muscles relaxed and she cast her eyes downward, barely audible she continued "not now…not when she's here." Yubaba looked up once more and Yuiki straightened up a bit more. "That reminds me…" Yubaba said now in her normal voice, she herself straightening up to her full height as she spoke. "…Yuiki anymore pigs slaughtered?" There was a twinkle in her eye…as if she was remembering something about pigs and slaughter. Maybe she was thinking about the only two pigs that ever got away…

Yuiki looked at her feet in thought, than brought her attention back up to Yubaba. "Yes madam three. Two pig's one piglet."

Yubaba slammed her fist onto her desk once again, this time two or three pieces of parchment flying into the air and landing just an inch from her desk on the floor. "Damn it! Find that monster and either kill it or bring it to me!" she snarled.

Yuiki nodded and then gave a look that asked if there was anything else.

Yubaba looked back down at her paperwork and waved her hand to indicate that she could go.

Yuiki bowed and took three backward steps before turning and walking out the door.

Yubaba watched her go out of the corner of her eye. Sighing she closed her eyes in thought then a moment later opened and frowned at the sight of her messy desk. A flick of her wrist sent all the papers (even the two or three on the floor) to their appropriate places in the stacks of parchment on her desk.

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Yuiki hurried out into the hallway and began to smile devilishly as a spark and a new color ventured into her eyes. As another servant passed, Yuiki glanced over into the others eyes. Suddenly the servant's eyes grew to a very pale grey before continuing back to their original color. The servant bowed her head slightly and continued on her way. Yuiki's smile widened into a sneer as she followed the hall towards the elevators.

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The frog servants tried to hold their breath, for the cloth masks were hardly helping, as they gathered the pigs' remains.

Haku walked through almost unmoved by the stench. For some reason these pigs that were slaughtered today had a stench of a four day old pig. The piglet that Haku had grown fond of and spoke to (chapter eight) whined as it watched its piglet friends' dead corpse get carried away by a frog servant.

"Clean up as much as you can then go to bed." Haku told them, watching them nod in thanks and understanding. Haku Smiled at the little piglet, yet the smile did not reach his eyes, "It's alright Sen…no one will do you harm." He whispered as the piglet went and sat at Haku's feet. Sen was its name, the name that was handed down, so says Haku, from the very bravest servant that ever worked in that bathhouse. And that was the reason Haku had given this piglet that name…so that the real Sen could be remembered.

As his thoughts lingered Haku's eyes glistened and floated over to the direction of the entrance to the human world.

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A cool breeze blew through the trees as the students began to make their way towards the school. Whispers of Chihiro's disappearance still lingering on their lips, even the ones that never got a chance to even meet Chihiro were worried and kept an eye out for her and an ear open for any word from her or anyone that may know where she was.

"Well I heard that she was kidnapped!"

"Well my brother told me that she got into a HUGE fight with her parents and stormed out at midnight!"

"That's NOTHING! I was told by a reliable source that her parents were jealous or something and murdered her in her sleep, dragged her body into a vacant lot and sliced her up into tiny pieces and then buried her, then reported her missing so that they could collect on the insurance!"

These were just a few of the more popular ones. Others were more out there, dealing with aliens and whatnot.

But all that subsided when there was talk of a dragon like creature being spotted flying over the town every night. Searching for something it seemed like.

Although many dismissed this as just cheap gossip, many secretly glanced up into the sky every night before they went to sleep in hopes…or fear of spotting the beast.

As the morning classes began to start it was a nice change of pace to have a new student in Chihiro's old class.

"His name…." began the teacher with her hand resting of the boys shoulder. He was handsome and caught the eye of every female in the room. Even the teacher seemed to have pinker cheeks. His head was slightly bowed and his hands left at his sides. Even though he was dressed in the normal grey pants and white button up shirt with grey sweater vest and red tie with white shoes school uniform…it seemed to look 'less lame' on him. His book bag was coolly resting a strap on one of his shoulders which only made the look even more attractive.

"…is Kohaku Nushi. Now I want everyone to make Nushi-san feel welcomed." She smiled at everyone and gestured at the only empty seat in the entire room. As the new student made his way to the seat a boy in the back stood and with anger gripped his desk and protested.

"But Morimoto sensei…that's Chihiro-chan's desk he can't sit there!" the boy looked over Kohaku with a vile look on his face. As if he was something disgusting on the bottom of his foot.

Kohaku glanced up in the boy's direction but his eyes didn't linger long, he took his seat and gently and silently rested his bag beside him, as the teacher began to quit the class and explain that it was the principles idea and not hers.

"Although we are very pleased to have you with us, Nushi-san!" She quickly added ashamed that he had to be in the room with a class that was not intent on tip toeing around their classmates' delicate situation of being lost.

As the class quieted down and the out spoken young man sat back down, the class finally began to continue.

No one spoke to Kohaku and he did not speak to anyone. He was the perfect new student, charming in appearance every teachers dream student of a bright and quiet student, girls loved him and boys hated him, suddenly his appearance began to have an effect and others began to forget about Chihiro's disappearance. It wasn't until gym that any of his classmates even heard his voice.

"I don't play soccer." Was the first thing anyone had heard from him. He spoke in a strong and slightly deep voice for his age. It seemed warm and cold at the same time, as if it was as hard and controlling as a mountain but as soft and clear as the morning breeze.

His voice seemed to enchant the gym teacher because he nodded and muttered before blowing his whistle to start the game "take a seat then buddy."

The game progressed and little did the others know but Kohaku, even though he seemed to be watching the game, looked around as if looking for someone or something.

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Chiro finally fell asleep around three in the afternoon, which made her waking up in the evening difficult. It took the servant almost nineteen raps on the door until there was a faint "Yes?" from inside.

When the servant had finally left after bringing in her breakfast, Chiro sat up and wrinkled up her nose and yawned. She hated waking up from such lovely dreams, this one was of a twenty year old Haku and herself, and Haku had just proposed to her when she woke up. She sighed and examined her breakfast: a bowel of steamed rice, a fried newt and some egg sushi (scrambled egg that is flat on top of rice and a thin strip of sea weed wrapped around the middle to hold it all together.)

She ate in silence until Lin came barging in. She glanced nervously behind her out into the hall before closing the door and finally turning to Chiro.

"Have you heard?"

Chiro, who was chewing on the fried newt and only the tail, was visible outside her mouth, answered with a muffled "moe?" that translated into a 'no'.

Lin looked excited that she was going to reveal the information first but also nerves like she wasn't sure that she should even say anything.

"Well Yubaba…" she looked around the room as if trying to see if it was bugged. "…she told the staff just before we started waking the guests that we have to be on the lookout for a monster or something! Something…or someone has been killing pigs and servants!"

Chiro's mouth dropped open; luckily the remains of the newt had been swallowed. "What?"

"That's not all!" she continued. "Yuiki has also been on the rampage! Muttering about YOU!" she snickered and crossed her arms the basket she was holding resting on her hip. "What you do to piss her off this time?"

Chiro was about to say that she had no idea when there was a sudden rap on the door. Blinking both women looked at the door as if they had never seen it there before. A second rap was heard.

"Y-yes?" called Chiro.

The door opened to reveal a very warm smiled Kamaji. He smiled as he made his way into the room. Lin and Chiro both sighed in relief.

"Kamaji" whispered Chiro.

"Yubaba wanted me to come up here personally to see if you wished to take a bath…and if so what type of herbal water would you care for?" he playfully bowed and sniggered as he did so. Lin cracked up laughing and Chiro only smiled as she tried to hold back her laughter.

"No Kamaji I think I'll just hang out here for tonight…maybe see what Haku's up to." She smiled.

Kamaji and Lin both glanced at each other then Kamaji said "Well I better go because Yubaba made me swear not to heat any water until you said if you would or wouldn't take on just yet. She wanted you to get the first batch and the best batch of water!" Kamaji rolled his eyes and nodded at Chiro's bag of pearls. "Better hold onto those because Yubaba's determined to get every pearl….erm….tear she can get her greedy little hands on." He began to laugh and waved a goodbye as he turned and went on his way.

Chiro laughed and asked Lin "Where's Haku?"

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A/N (part two): Well this was the best time I ever had for writing a chapter! I sat down and typed it all out in one (actually two) sittings! I didn't have a lot first written because I never got any motivation to go with on this chapter. It's getting hard to keep up the suspense and attractiveness of the chapters. But I think introducing Kohaku Nushi (Haku's full Japanese name does in fact consist of Kohaku Nushi); into Chihiro's world was just what this chapter needed! I PROMISE to have the next one up soon. But I can't promise very soon because college and getting stuff ready and everything. I actually lost my notebook for the Fanfic for 6 MONTHS! And when I found it finally I was shocked to find that I wasn't done with even the first part of the A/N and couldn't even find my "mews" aka the movie. Ha ha. Well I better get going and start that new chapter! Hope to get good reviews! Bye! 3