(Discontinued) Haku x Reader The sky's not the limit

New Job

Haruka's POV

I groaned, my stomach was throbbing but was somehow feeling much better than it was several minutes? Hours? Days? ago. However long it was, but that didn't really matter too much. My not so white shirt was unbuttoned but still on, there were several black bruises around my torso and a small scar. That's strange, the bullet hole couldn't of closed by itself that fast, could it? I looked at my surroundings, finding that I was in some sort of boiler room. A man with many arms was working on the right side of where I currently was, and a bunch of bewitched soot balls were carrying lumps of coal. They honestly looked a little cute.

"Excuse me, may I ask where I am?" I asked the boiler man, hoping that he would snap at me or anything.

"Ahhh...you're awake. Well you are in the boiler room of the great bathhouse of the spirits. Haku told me that you were on the edge of dying and he was quite right" He said in an old and raspy kind of voice.

"I've fixed up your bullet wound but your bruises will have to heal on their own." I bowed down.

"Thank you Mr boiler man."

"No need to thank me, you did save an innocent spirit from terrible men." A spirit? Maybe that explained the purple hair, Garden spirits have either deep green or purple hair, or even a mixture of both. I walked up to the wall and leaned on it, sighing in the process. I was just about to ask how I got here when a tall brunette slid the little door open and walked in. Her hair was long and was wearing a sort of pink and white bath house uniform.

"Kamaji, where's your bowl, you know. From yesterday? I keep telling you to leave them out." This lady seemed to have some sass.

"Common soot balls, chow time." She was feeding them little colourful stars, who would of guessed.

"Are you feeding them candy?" I asked, she clearly still didn't know I was here.

"Yeah, they love this kind of stu..... wait a minute." The lady swivelled around and looked at me with big eyes.

"A human! Kamaji, what is she doing here?! And whats that stuff on her shirt?"

"Lin, this young lady here risked her life to save the garden spirit's life. She was shot and beaten up whilst doing so." He turned to me. "I'm so sorry, I didn't quite catch your name earlier."

"Haruka, My name is Haruka Tenoh." I smirked, they still couldn't detect that I was also a spirit.

"Lin, can you take Haruka up to Yubaba's office? She needs to get a job if she doesn't want to become a pig or some other animal."

"No way am I risk...." Kamaji quickly cut her off by bringing up a roasted newt to her face, honestly some people just can't resist.

"How 'bout a roasted newt, heh Lin?" He cooed in an almost mocking way.

"Fine! Haruka, come with me." I nodded and quickly bowed once more.

"Good luck!" These were the last words I heard from him as I exited with Lin.

"Yubaba lives on the top floor, so we're going to have to go all the way up there. I'm so glad that we don't have to walk up the stairs!" Then she turned to me.

" So.. How many men did you fight off then?"

"Three, but they weren't all playing nice." Lin laughed and then slowly regained her mask.

"Okay Haruka, Just take this lift up and walk straight down the hall. Good luck!" I smiled and pulled down the lever, shooting up to the top floor. As the doors slid open once more I spotted two large other doors, which were covered in jewels and other shiny trinkets. I knocked using the hand knocker (I dunno) and waited for a response.

"Come in." A raspy and old voice cooed. the doors opened slowly, I navigated my way through the room until I got to the main office.

"State your business human."

"I'm here to get a job at this bath house."

"Yes, Haku told me about you. You can get the job if you can tell me when this bath house was made." I smirked, she clearly thought that I was stupid.

"This bath house was created approximately 35 463 565 467 years ago, created by your grandfather. She looked at me in disbelief, then she glared.

"fine human, just sign the contract and get out of my sight."

"Yes ma'm." I signed the contracted and bowed once more, I heard her mumbling about how I at least had some manners.

I walked out, finding Lin pacing nervously at the ground floor.

"Haruka! You made it, come on. Let's get a uniform. What colour do you prefer?" She showed me several different colours ranging from pink to green.

"I'll have the black one."

"Okay....now. where is it? Aha! Here you go Haruka!" I smiled and said thanks, I went off to get changed into my bath house uniform (It is just like Haku's one but black instead of blue.)

This was going to be interesting.

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I hope you all are staying safe and being careful 😁😁 where your masks people😷