Spirited Away: Return To The Spirited World

chapter 4

Two more days had passed and Chihiro was back to normal next to the slight scars on her shoulder down to her upper chest from Haku's bite. He still cringed every time he saw them when Zeniba put more herbal cream on them.

" Haku it's alright it'll remind me that I saw you when I go back." Chihiro said smiling thought Zeniba and No Face could tell she didn't really want to go back

The night before Haku had found out from Zeniba that Chihiro would be fine the next day, so they decided that in the morning he'd take her over to the Onsen knowing he'd have to deal with Yubaba too and trying to help the new employees that had just been enslaved while he was gone.

Chihiro woke up to notice that Haku wasn't wrapped around her futon like he had been the last couple of mornings. She got up looking around to see if he was in the room, but he was nowhere to be seen.

" Granny." Chihiro said

" Hai, dear." Zeniba said back smiling as she moved around the kitchen

Chihiro got up out of be and walked to the kitchen table and sat down, " Where's Haku?"

" Oh" Zeniba said surprised she looked around, " I guess he's still out."

" Out? He didn't go back to the Onsen without me did he?" Chihiro asked worried

" Oh no dear, he promised you he'd go and take you to see your friends and Haku wouldn't lie to you ever. He said he needed to go get something over at his lake." Zeniba said

" Did he say what?" Chihiro asked starting to worry

" Iie, I don't remember him telling me what it was he needed." Zeniba said, " Why is something wrong?"

" Iie, it's just I hope he didn't go back and hurt Kamigama." Chihiro said worried

" I didn't." Haku said entering the house

" Haku!" Chihiro said happily turning around quickly, " Why'd you go back to the lake?"

It was then Haku held up her backpack.

" My bag!" She said happily taking it from him and opening it up to see everything was still inside minus the fruits and vegetables from days before.

" They're gone." Chihiro said confused

" What's gone dear?" Zeniba asked

" The fruits and vegetables that my mom packed me are gone now." Chihiro said

" Kamigama said him and the other spirits ate them not wanting to waste them." Haku explained

" Oh that's alright then. I just wondered where they all went to." Chihiro said smiling

" Chihiro" Haku started as she continued to pull things out of the pack to put them back in there neatly

" Humm?" She answered

" The dragon." Haku said looking at the front of the bag

" Do you like it? I tried to make it how I remembered you, but it had been so long I think I messed up some of the details." Chihiro said flipping the bag to look at the front, " Yeah your mane is much wilder and your whiskers are longer."

" Chihiro do you mean you made that dragon on the front?" Zeniba asked intrigued too

" Uh-hum." She said back smiling

" How?" Haku asked also shocked by this

" Oh! In the Human World at our schools your required to have art classes I took an interest in them and furthered my learning and found I was really good in it too. So when I got better I started doing drawing of everyone that I could remember and then when I started college I didn't want to be alone so I made this, so I'd have Haku with me all the time." Chihiro said smiling, which caused Haku to blush at her words