Book 2- Sequel to Courage of the Spirit. A Spirited Away Fanfiction.
A few more days in Chihiro's new life. Will her fledgeling relationship with Haku blossom? Or fall foul of the differences between immortal and mortal? An Epilogue to Courage of th...
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Chihiro had expected a crowd. What she had not expected was Haku's rooms to be bursting at the seams with people. When Haku came flying through his windows, he almost flattened two Yunas. Chihiro slipped from his scaly neck, and he changed forms. The couple clasped hands and stared at the assembly. The spirits stared back, and all was silent. Finally, Linca managed to elbow her way through the crush.
"Chi!" she cried, and ran to her sister slipping one arm around her and the other around a very surprised looking Haku. She squeezed both of them together tightly.
"Oh, congratulations, both of you!" she gushed she then turned to Haku and threw both arms around his middle and hugged him tightly; her white head barely came to his chest. "I never had a bother-in-law before!" Haku glanced incredulously at Chihiro for a moment; he was unused to being touched by anyone but his human. But when he saw Chihiro beaming at the comical picture, they both made he could not help but laugh.
On seeing the dragon was not displeased with their intrusion into his quarters the crowd relaxed and started to talk amongst themselves again. Linca released the dragon from her vice-like grip and sighed happily.
"What is all this, Linca?" Chihiro asked.
"Have you never been to a troth-plight party before?" asked the spirit, taking her sister's hand.
"No," replied Chihiro.
"Good because I only invented it this morning. I would have been very vexed if ones already existed. People so rarely become life mates that I decided to throw you both a party based on just your pledge to each other."
"That's called an engagement party, Linca," laughed Chihiro.
"Pha! This is not an engagement party. This is a troth-plight party, and it's a hundred, million times better than anything a human would celebrate."
Chihiro gave Haku a long-suffering look. He shrugged and smiled, his eyes sparkling. Chihiro could tell that the dragon was quite touched. They had both expected a warm welcome but not a full-blown celebration in their honour. Linca pulled at Chihiro's hand.
"Come on, there is a mountain of presents for you to open, and as this whole gift thing was my idea, you must open mine first."
Indeed the gifts were stacked in a pile as tall as Haku; most turned out to be fixtures and fittings such as mirrors, candlesticks and rugs. There were also some bizarre examples of kitchen ironmongery that Chihiro was not sure how to use. Linca thrust her cloth wrapped gift into Chihiro's hands. It turned out to be a wine rack made of a grey metal that was cold to the touch. Vines and grapes picked out in semi-precious stones twined up the sides of the rack; it was beautiful.
"You have to store Haku's wine in it, that way I'll know exactly where it is when I come to borrow some."
"You won't get your hands on any of it if we start keeping it at Haku's river," teased Chihiro.
