Hey everyone its Rikku with chapter 2 this one took longer for me to get up than what I wanted but I had test and then I got my wisdom teeth out which left me in pain for a week. Then a whole bunch of other crap. Haaa life is cruel, but life moves on. I will tell you however that its my goal to have at least one chapter loaded up per month. Anyhow on with the show!
Disclaimer: I don't own Spirited Away
Chapter 2
Ominous Feeling
I awoke to the sound of birds chirping their morning call. The night before had been hell. I was just getting over being sick and all through the night all I did was hack and cough. I walk to the bathroom and look at myself in the mirror. I look as if I hadn't slept in days. My head was pounding and my throat ached.
"Chihiro hurry up and get ready for school!" my mother shouted from downstairs.
"Uuuhh," I moaned.
I didn't want to go I still felt terrible but mom said that finals are coming up and I've missed so many days because of this. So I'm being forced to go.
As I walked down stairs to get breakfast I could hear as dad cursed and yelled at people over the phone for doing whatever it was that they did. I sat down at the table and ate. Mom gave me some eggs and toast I didn't really want much my stomach was still killing me. Right after that I left to go to school the sun was pounding down on my head.
"Chihiro!"
I heard someone yell from behind me. I turned around to see Maki running up to me.
"Hey …you're going …..back …to school ….already?" she asked.
I took a good look at her she was dripping swet and was out of breath.
"Yea my mom's making me, she says I've too much of school," I explained with depressed voice.
Maki laughed. We continued to walk to school. We talked on the way about the stuff that I had missed. Listening to Maki talked so fast it was my head spin. As we approached the school you could see the giant sign that said " Suna High School". Maki and I continued our slow pace walk while others were starting to run right passed us. Why are they running? I thought to myself. That question was soon answered as I heard the bell ring.
"Oh no! Hurry Chihiro we might be able to still make it," Yelled Maki
Maki ran ahead of me. I too began to run with all my might, but it felt as if I was getting nowhere. As I ran towards the front door I could see a strange figure standing in the door way. It appeared to be a strange man. He wore old samurai armor, with a mask on his face. He had a sword at his side with a spear in his hands. He did not move an inch as I ran closer and closer to him. As the distance between us shrunk I began to have this feeling of fear in the pit of my stomach. I started to sweat and my heart was racing. What is he doing? Why isn't he moving, he sees me doesn't he? When I was only about ten feet away he took his fight stance and came charging at me. I screamed,
"Haaa!"
He stopped dead in front of me and swung his spear, I closed my eyes. The last thing I saw was his spear coming at me. When I reopened my eyes I was standing in the door way to the school. The man was gone.
Teachers came running down the hall throwing a million questions at me. They wanted to know why I was screaming.
"Chihiro why were you screaming? Did someone attack you? Are you hurt?"
Was I hurt? Was someone there? This is what they ask me. Was someone there? I ask myself. I was in a daze, what I saw was so real but now it's not here. Was I going insane? The teachers began to shake me to try to figure out what had happened. But how could I answered their question when I didn't even know what had happened.
There was so much noise I couldn't hear myself think.
"I'm sorry," I began, "I saw a stray dog jump out from the bushes and it scared me. I didn't mean to cause any trouble."
I watched as I saw a look of ease come over the teacher's faces. It almost seemed like some of them were beigining to laugh at the thought that they over reacted. Some of the teachers began to return to their rooms, it was the beiginng of homeroom now and I'm sure that none of them trusted their students enough to let them be alone in the classroom.
"That's alright Chihiro as long as you're not hurt," said my homeroom teacher.
"No, I'm not hurt; I was just surprised is all,"
My homeroom teacher Mrs. Kawasaki placed her hand on my shoulder. She looked right into my eyes and smiled. She was a kind teacher. If you ever needed anything she would always be there to help. Having her there in front of me help to come me down, her presence was relaxing.
"Shall we walk to homeroom then? I promise I won't give you detention for being late" she sang in a humorous tone.
I nodded my head yes and we began a slow walk down the hall. I turned my head to look back at the school entrance. Though there was no trace of anyone else being there I was sure that someone had been there. In the pit of my stomach had the feeling that this wasn't going to be the end. Today was only the beiginng.
Rikku's question of the day:
Ok I forgot to do this in the first chapter so I'm giving you guys two questions to make up for it. So, for chapter 1 - if you had an experience like our heroine then would you keep the hope that he or she would come back? Next for chapter 2 – What would you do if you had seen something you thought was so real but then found out that it wasn't? Would you think that you had gone insane? Or maybe that it was something that only you could see?