The Spirit Games {Sequel to Finding Chihiro}

Chapter Four

A/N: I think I'm back, guys. Life legitimately punched me in the face and I couldn't handle things for a while, but I think I'm back. I'm sorry I was gone for so long, life really sucked and I got super depressed. I'm still depressed now, but I gotta keep my fans happy, right? So I'm back. Updates may be slow, but I'll be getting them out there again, I promise <3

~Caiden

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 I trudged back up to my room. I think, that since I didn't have to work anymore, I was just gonna try to sleep again. This lack of sleep thing was really getting to me. I flopped back on to my bed, not even bothering to change out of my work clothes. Sleeping in these would be so uncomfortable, but I had no energy to even bother changing. I clawed my way up to my pillows and pretty much as soon as my head touched them I was out.

"Mommy, where's daddy?"

I looked down at my now two year old child, I ended up naming her Lin after my best friend in the Spirit World.

"I... I don't know, honey. He told me that he'd come for us when the Games were done... And that was almost three years ago...."

"Did he leave us?"

"No! Haku would never do that!" I think...He wouldn't do that to us, right? He wouldn't leave Lin and I? 

The more I thought about it though, the less sure of myself I was. Maybe he really did abandon us. Maybe he found another Spirit in the Spirit World that made him forget about Lin and I. No... He wouldn't..... Right? He promised that he'd come back for our wedding and our child... He... He promised.

"Mommy, are you crying?"

I reached up to my face, touching it and realized that I was, indeed, crying. "I-- I guess I am."

I kneeled in front of Lin and she hugged me, wrapping her tiny arms around my neck. "I wanna meet daddy..."

"I know, honey, but we're not allowed to go to the Spirit World... Having a child with a Spirit isn't good. If I were to take you there, they'd either try to take you away or hurt you.... And I don't want that... So we have to stay here until he comes back for us... If that happens..."

No, I had to stop doubting Haku. Surely there had to be something that was keeping him in the Spirit World. Like maybe the Games got held back... By a couple years. 

'Or maybe he's dead.' A voice in the back of my head whispered. 'Or cheating on you.'

No, neither of those could be possible.  He couldn't be dead. Or cheating on me. He just couldn't... I wouldn't accept it.

'But what if he is?' The voice sneered, 'You have no way of knowing.'

Shut up. Shut up. SHUT UP.

I bolted up in my bed, panting heavily. What was up with that dream? No, that nightmare. And that voice.... I looked over at my bedside clock and realized only an hour had passed. I sighed  and got up from my bed.

"I need some water...."

I left my room and climbed down the stairs to the living room where my parents were watching something on the TV.

They greeted me, but I was.... Too out out of it to say anything back to them. I just trudged to the kitchen to get me a glass of water. I got a glass from the top cupboard and as I was pulling it out of the cupboard, it slipped from my hand and crashed to the floor, shattering into a lot of tiny pieces.