Please, please, pllleeasseee don't be mad at me for now updating for .. Well.. A long time now. I really was meant to update sooner, but I kind of got writers block! Hehe.. Well, anyways, I'm not going to waste your time but going on and on and on and on.. And I'm babbling again. Well, here's the next chapter!
Disclaimer: I know I said I was going to get on with the next chapter, but I wanted to make something clear. Lol. So far, none of the spirited away cast are mine. The OCness is mine, of course, and the plot is also mine. As well as Alyssa Ayuki. Though, Carissa belongs to one of my reviewers, and I figured I'd best give Kalikia the benefit for lending me the character to use, as well as one of the new characters in this story, that belongs to 'Imma-spoiled'. You'll find out her name during this chapter, I'm not gonna go and ruin it for ya! And oh yes, to 'Imma-spoiled', I'm sorry if your character is kind of OC, but I had to make up a new kind of personality for her. So I really hope you don't mind. If you do, just review and tell me so. Lol. And I'll try to go back and change the name and put one of my own characters as the girl. Ehehe. And to those two people, thank you very, veerrryyyy much for lettin' me use your characters. Oh yes, and I know I typo'd in the second chapter. It wasn't supposed to be, "You are away" it was supposed to be "You're awake!" Lmfao. My own stupidness for not realizing the mistake.
Now then, as I said before. Onnnn with the chapter!
Kohaku's eyes widened as he saw that Chihiro was about ready to step off of the balcony's edge. She seemed not to notice, and kept moving further forward, before Kohaku snapped out of his daze and his arm shot forward to grasp a hold of her shoulder before she fell. His fingers slipped as she seemed to fall to the side, down toward the sludge ridden lake below, and Kohaku had to leap forward a bit to catch onto her hand before she fell. What was going on? He didn't stray to far with his thoughts as he heaved Chihiro up onto the balcony, and once she was safely away from the edge of it, he pulled her into his arms sighing to himself. He was lucky that he'd gotten here on time. God knows what would've happened to Chihiro if she'd of fallen in that disgusting sludge that now made up the once beautiful lake.
Kohaku glanced down toward Chihiro, admiring her features. She'd definatly grown to be a beautiful women, and she looked so peaceful in her slumber. He frowned. 'Why did she look so angry with me..?' he thought to himself on this for a few minutes, before sighing. He honestly hadn't a clue as to why she was so angered. He was going to keep his promise, really, he was... As soon as he'd convinced Alexia to let him go to the human world to see her. And even that would've been impossible now. He was surprised, to say the least, that Chihiro and that other girl.. Carissa was it? Actually made it through the portal between the spirit world and the human world. He would've thought that Deruku would've been smart enough to close it off. But apparently he wasn't as smart as Kohaku had thought he was. Deruku was slowly destroying the spirit world, and it was digusting at how much it had changed since the goddess had died. It was saddening, but everyone must've known that her rein wouldn't of lasted forever.
Kohaku was knocked from his thoughts as he heard a soft moan come from the girl in his arms, causing him to glance down toward her, furrowing his eyebrows together. His dark black hair fell into his face, almost completely shading his emerald green eyes as they peered down at Chihiro in mild curiousity, and a bit in worry as to if she was okay or not.
Chihiro groaned and turned to the side, frowning a bit at the warmth that was covering her entire body. It was strange, she hadn't noticed that the blanket was this warm before. Shrugging it off, she sighed in contentment, and snuggled further into the warmth, her face being burried into what she thought was a pillow, and was actually Kohaku's chest. Poor Kohaku couldn't help the blush that spread across his pale cheeks from this small action. It was amazing at how much Chihiro could get him to react from the smallest of things, then again, he amazed himself as he pulled Chihiro closer to himself, allowing the smaller form to snuggle into him.
Kohaku slightly smiled to himself, before a sigh escaped his barely parted lips, his eyes straying up to meet the dark night sky. It was always eerie outside, silent as it had never been before. The train would make sure of that as it ran through the clear glistening water below and made the amount of racket that he once thought was annoying, but now found that he actually missed that blissful sound. His lips curled down into a frown, the sky was still clouded with darkness and almost an evil that he had never sensed before in his life. It was scary in a way, it always had been. He'd never felt such fear of going outside, as he now did, just because of the change in his surroundings. The lake never disappeared, and turned into the small creek that was once there during the day when everyone was sleeping. They could never tell if it was night or day anymore.. It was all so different. And the change had begun to get on Kohaku's nerves, in a way.
Feeling a small shiver run through Chihiro's body, Kohaku once again turned his gaze down to glance at her, his face softening whenever he looked at the beautiful woman in his arms. A stray strand of hair had fallen in front of Chihiro's face, and she looked as if she were trying to turn her head and get it away from her sensitive flesh. The strand of hair tickling the soft skin that it brushed up against whenever a soft breeze would blow by. Now that Kohaku thought about it, it was getting rather cold outside, and he should bring Chihiro inside of the bathhouse before she caught a cold. So, with that thought in mind, Kohaku brushed the strand of hair from Chihiro's face, as to not wake her up, and carefully shifted the girl in his arms, before getting to his knees, then his feet with a careful jump. After getting to his feet, he once more glanced down at Chihiro's still peaceful looking face, and turned to the side, entering through the open doors, creeping inside in silence. He then shifted one of his arms to hold Chihiro to his chest, as he closed the door behind him that led to the balcony, and silently went past the other sleeping forms, to the small bed that Chihiro had messily made for herself.
Kohaku bent down and placed Chihiro's body down on the blanket, after pulling back the one that was used to cover herself, and layed her head against the small pillow, acting as if she were a delicate flower as he put her there. He then sighed, and moved the blanket that was bent near the end of her feet, pulling it up over Chihiro's body, covering her with the new warmth, causing Chihiro to gently snuggle into the blanket, nuzzling her cheek into the pillow. Kohaku then sat down beside her still sleeping form, and placed his middle finger on her cheek, dragging it down against the soft ivory skin. After doing this, he got up from the ground where he was sat, and turned around to leave, almost at the door as he heard a faint whisper, almost a mumbled, "Kohaku.." come from Chihiro. Smiling to himself once more, inspite of what had just happened, he opened the sliding doors and peered back toward Chihiro once more, speaking in a soft tone as he said, "Goodnight, Chihiro.." Before he slipped out of the womans dorm, and slid the doors closed behind himself, wandering away back up the stairs and toward his own room that was located near the top floor.
Chihiro was woken up by a soft shaking from the other side of her body. She frowned, her eyebrows knitting together as she tried to roll away from the annoying shaking, swatting a hand uselessly in the air to try and get whatever was shaking her to leave her alone. Her hand came in contact with just air, this causing the girl in the messy blanket to groan once more, and burry her face into the pillow, pulling the blanket up over her head, causing her feet to be uncovered. She shivered a bit at the coldness that now drifted to her once warm feet, cracking an eye open only to be met with the darkness under the blanket that she had pulled over her head. The shaking still hadn't stopped, and it was starting to get on her nerves.
She sighed and yanked the blanket off of her head, startling the girl that was trying to wake her up beside her. Chihiro blinked and peered at the girl in front of her, not recongnizing her at all, "Who are you?" She asked, not trying to sound rude as she unconsciously let a small hint of coldness enter her tone.
The girl blinked her crystal clear blue eyes, and tilted her head toward Chihiro, staring at her dumbly for a moment, before perking up and smiling toward the girl, almost as if just realizing that she was talking to her, "Oh! Sorry. My name's Vina. Vina Nashori. Nice to meet you!" She grinned down at Chihiro, raising her slender arm up and placing her hand in front of Chihiro's face, ignoring the coldness that had entered Chihiro's voice.
Now it was time of Chihiro to blink stupidly at the girl, staring at her hand for a moment, before following the arm up and staring at the girl. She didn't look all that much older then Chihiro, and she looked human, which was strange. Long shoulder length black hair moved to cover half of Vina's face as she stared expectantly at Chihiro, who just gave her a blank look in response. Vina snorted and took her hand back, folding her arms across her chest as she glared down at Chihiro in a stubborn manor, "The least you could do was say a hello, or offer my greeting, ya know!" She said crossly toward Chihiro.
Chihiro blinked for a minute, before tilting her head to the side, sitting up as she brushed the covers off of her slim form, still staring at Vina. She then shook her head, before speaking, "I'm not really one to greet someone who woke me up at.." She frowned, and glanced around, before looking out the window. It was still dark outside. This caused Chihiro to scowl, "It's still night out! What's your problem? Waking me up this early! And you wonder why I'm not going to say hello to you!" Chihiro all but screamed toward Vina, who didn't seem to be all that affected, and only offered Chihiro a scowl back.
"Oh, well I'm soooo sorry Princess. But it's time for you to get your lazy butt up, and go see Yubaba. She asked me to get you for her." Vina said back, in a very calm, yet sarcastic tone. Inside she was fuming, and about ready to slap Chihiro upside the head. How dare this little runt speak to her like that? If it wasn't for the fact that Yubaba seemed to like this girl, she'd be six feet under by now!
Chihiro snorted at the obvious sarcasm in Vina's voice, but shrugged it off as if it were nothing new. She stood up from the bed, her baggy black pants ruffled somewhat from having slept in them, and not bothered to get changed. Yawning, Chihiro stretched her arms above her head, trying to stretch out the muscles in her back that had been paining her slightly. She hated getting up this early, and Yubaba better have a damn good reason for getting her up. Although, Chihiro had yet to clue in that this was how it was always like now in the Spirit world. But, who could blame her? She had only been there for a few days now, it wasn't as if she was all of a sudden going to realize what was going on. Since no one wanted to tell her about this bloody Deruku Moonu character, or who this so called goddess was. That reminded her of what Yubaba had asked her to do last night. 'Take over the bathhouse and find the daughter of the goddess'. How in the hell was she going to do that? People expected way to much of her in Chihiro's opinion.
Vina cleared her throat, trying to get Chihiro's attention. The girl seemed to have completely blanked out and lost herself in her thoughts, and Vina thought she'd be ncie to try and get Chihiro's attention, only to have a sharp glare directed toward her from the said girl. Vina growled in annoyance, man was this girl going to be a pain in the ass. Only just now, did she take note of Chihiro's strange clothing. Vina, herself, was wearing long white pants, that covered her feet, and a baggy shirt that went just around her waist, and dangled from her form because of her being so skinny. The sleeves covered her arms up to her elbow's, where it was then pulled back to reveal the flesh of her forearm. Sighing to herself, Vina grabbed a hold of Chihiro's arm and dragged her over to the cupboard. She was NOT going to be seen with this girl wearing THAT.
Chihiro squeaked as she was pulled from her thoughts by Vina, who started dragging her over to the cupboard. Scowling once again, Chihiro yanked her arm from Vina's grasp, causing the girl to glance over her shoulder at her, "I can walk myself, thank you very much!" Chihiro screamed toward Vina. They both glared daggers at each other, before Chihiro snorted and brushed past Vina, moving toward the sliding doors. She slipped her shoes on, before charging out of the door, away from the annoying girl. It was already clear that Vina and Chihiro, weren't going to be getting along because of their fiery tempers.
Vina rolled her eyes, and shook her head, ignoring the fact that she was supposed to bring Chihiro up to Yubaba's office herself, and moved toward the balcony doors, slipping out and closing them behind her, muttering curses under her breath, that were all directed toward Chihiro who was making her way upstairs, toward Yubaba's office.
After going up the many stairs, and taking the two elevators to the very top floor where Yubaba's office was located, she walked down the hall silently, her hands shoving themselves in her pant pockets. Chihiro paused, and glanced at the doorknob that seemed to be snoring, scowling a bit in irritation. If she had to wake up, then the stupid little doorknob had to wake up too! She'd be damned if she was going to let anyone continue sleeping if she had to get up this early.
Chihiro slipped a hand out of her pocket, and silently went to the door, gazing down at the doorknob with an almost evil glint her chocolate brown eyes. Reaching a hand down, she grabbed a hold of the doorknob and slammed it against the door a couple of times, causing the doorknob to give out a muffled yelp at being wokan up so abruptly.
Chihiro stepped back, smirking as she was clearly proud of herself, for paying the doorknob back for the thousand times that it had annoyed her to no end. And watched as the doorknob's beady little white eyes searched around for the one that had awoken it, before it's eyes rested on Chihiro, "Why you little..-" The doorknob was cut off as the doors snapped open, the door banging against the wall, causing the doorknob to once again yelp out in pain. Chihiro grinned to herself before making her way inbetween the two doors, watching as the torches on either of the walls lining the hallway, lit themselves, before each of the doors snapped open.
Chihiro made her way down the hallway, and through two doors, before turning to the side and walking through one more door, before finally making it to Yubaba's office. Without knocking, still infuriated that Yubaba had woken herself up so early, she pushed open the doors, staring critically at Yubaba who was speaking to Carissa, about to give her a contract.
"And what do you think you're doing? I don't want my best friend to have to work in this place, under a contract where she'd have to change her name. She's not going too." Chihiro said, stalking over to the contract that Carissa had almost signed, before ripping it into tiny little pieces, glaring toward Yubaba who blinked in surprise at her.
"Wha'... Hey! What do I think I'm doing? What do you think you're doing?" Yubaba all but yelled, earing a glare from Chihiro once again, her brown hair slipping into her face giving her an almost dangerous look. Yubaba blinked toward her once more, smiling in an almost nervous way, "I mean.. Uh.. Yes.. I needed to speak to you about something."
Chihiro snorted as she then crossed her arms over her chest, tapping her foot on the ground impatiently, "Well? What did you have to speak to me about, that caused you to have to send some arrogant girl down there to wake me up, only to have a hand shoved in my face, and then my head nearly bitten off? And at this time of day? You expect me to be peachy about that! Completely fine at being woken up this early?" Chihiro said, ranting on and on about having to be woken up this early, while Carissa and Yubaba just stared at her.
Carissa lightly leaned toward Yubaba, whispering in her ear, "See? This is why I hate having to wake her up. She tries to bite your head off in the morning." Yubaba only nodded in response, still staring at Chihiro blankly.
"I heard that Carissa!" Chihiro said, huffing slightly as she glared daggers at both girls, her face flushed from having used all of her breath to rant.
"Chihiro, the thing that I wanted to talk to you about was..-" The office door opening cut Yubaba off once more, causing her to growl in annoyance as she moved to glare at the person who had interupted her, only to come face to face with a mirror image of herself.
"Who's in here making all that racket?" Zaniiba said, peering into the room with critical reddish blue eyes, much like her sisters. Though, her eyes were covered with a thin pair of glasses, that rested on the bridge of her nose. Zaniiba then glanced over at Chihiro, and she allows a smile to grace her lips, "Why hello Chihiro. It's been a long time." She spoke softly, her voice as soothing as it always had been, especially toward Chihiro, the one who she considered as her grandaughter.
Chihiro blinked, grinning then toward Zeniiba before running over to her and engulfing the older woman in a large bear hug, "Granny!" She'd never gotten over being able to call Zeniiba this, and she didn't really care how she looked, hugging the older woman who returned the hug just as graciously as it was given.
After they hugged, they pulled apart and began to silently chat amongst themselves, before Yubaba sighed, clearing her throat quite loudly, causing both Zeniiba and Chihiro to turn their gaze toward her, blinking.
Yubaba moves a hand up, and rubbed her forehead, dark red nail polish adorning her claw like finger nails. "I hate to ruin the little reunion, as you'll be spending a ton more time together over the bases of three days," She paused, but quickly continued as Chihiro looked as though she were about to say something, and interupt her for the millionth time since she'd come here, "Chihiro, what I was trying to tell you earlier, is that I want you to go with my sister, to her old hut and stay there for three days, while Deruku Moonu comes here to see how things are going." She sighed at this, before shaking her head and continuing, "I do not wish for him to see you here, as he does know about you, and that you're but a human. Carissa, before you interuppted, was signing that contract so that Deruku would think that she was a worker here. I was going to tear the contract up after he left, but you kind of did it for me when you entered here. But, he hasn't even come yet. So, until he leaves and before he comes, you need to stay at Zaniiba's hut." The said twin glared at her sister, at having her house referred to as a hut, which it was far from. It was more like a cottage.. But not a hut of all things!
Before Zaniiba could voice this, Chihiro spoke, "Why do I have to leave? He'll know that Carissa is human, will he not? This doesn't make any sense to me, at all. Espcially considering the fact that.. That.. That.. Child, Vani or whatever her name is, is also a human. Why can't I stay here?" Chihiro all but screamed afterwards, ignoring the fact that she had said Vina's name incorrectly.
Yubaba sighed, and rubbed her forehead once more, shaking her head gently as she gazed up at Chihiro, "Her name is Vina, for one. And yes, this might be true, but there are other reasons for which you must leave. Those that I am not fit to speak of as of yet.. You'll find out eventually. Now, you may leave. Get whatever things that you might have, and leave with Zaniiba immediately. I have no idea when it is that Deruku will be arriving." She said this in a strained, but authorative voice, causing Chihiro to scowl and turn around, stalking off out the door and down the hallway, with Zaniiba who merely smiled and followed after, thinking silently to herself as she walked after the fuming Chihiro, 'Well, this is going to be the most interesting three days of my life.'
Sorry people. I had to end it there. Lol. I'm about to go watch a movie, so, I want to end it here, so that I don't miss it! I'll try to update as soon as I can, since I no longer have a case of writers block. So, please review!