Beginning note: I don't own Spirited Away, I'm not making any money off it, and this is all for the funzys.

Ablution - A ceremonial act of washing parts of the body or sacred containers

Attraction

Chihiro watched him at the waters edge, feeling it lap over her toes as the Cove god faded off into the shadows of the cave, and Kohaku stepped toward her, though not close enough to touch, beckoning to her with a lazy smile and a crooked finger.

"I want you to stand beside me as I claim our home."

She laughed ruefully at that. "You forget I'm just a mortal, Kohaku; I can't walk on water."

He beckoned to her again. "Yes you can."

So she stepped forward and once again felt the strange sensation of water shifting and flowing between her toes, though, she did not sink into it, before all there was, was the warmth of her Dragons embrace, and the thunder-boom of rock dislodging from above their heads to crash into the water below.

After a second that could have been an hour long, Chihiro felt warm sunlight on her cheeks.

And when she opened her eyes to look in wonderment, lips halted hers before they could speak, silencing her with a fierce and tender attraction that she couldn't bring herself to end.

So she let her hand snake up into the collar of his kimono to rest over his heart. And as her curious fingertips touched down on the silk that was his skin, his hand came up, jerking a tie, pulling at a piece of fabric, and suddenly she could longer just feel the expanse of his chest but see it.

And his lips where parting from hers in a panting for breath, his forehead resting in her hair.

"Welcome home, my love."

Note: So that was the most stressful weekend in my history of weekenddom. I got home at 2am last night and passed out for 12 straight hours; I woke up to 4 people texting me to ask If I was dead. I literally got up every morning at 6am, drove to the festival, ran around yelling at vendors all day (my feet are STILL killing me) and got home every night at Midnight-1am, just to do it again the next day. I think I'm just going to lay here for the next week and shuck all responsibility off on everyone else.