Chapter 5: I Walk Threw walls.

Chihiros POV:

I awoke to a small little scuttling sound, in the early afternoon. The fireplace was going and it was hot, my clothes clung to my skin and my hair was damp. I turned to check on Haku but there wasn't a bead of sweat on him, he lay there perfectly content looking completely cool. I eyed him in annoyance and gently placed a hand on his chest. To my surprise he was cold to the touch, like the first time you dip your toe into a swimming pool to check if it's freezing or just right. Haku had that just right feeling. What did I expect from a river spirit. I pressed my damp forehead to his chest and let out a relieved sigh. "Heaven" I whispered. He didn't wake or even move as I rubbed my face on his chest. He was out cold… literally.

Before I could enjoy another moment of the sweet cool temperature of his body another scuttling noise in the corner caught my attention. I turned to look and there looking not so out of place in the room was a small distressed looking fox. I got up slowly and it looked back eyes flashing red. I took a step back frightened and almost stepped on poor Haku. "Sorry" I whispered to him and took a step forward towards the fox. It stopped scratching at the wall for a moment to turn and look at me once more.

"Hello little fox." I stepped towards it again hand outstretched. I had learned that it's best to let a dog smell you before touching it; I was guessing a fox was close enough to a dog for the same rule to apply. When I finally crouched down it didn't make a move. It just sat there looking at me with those big red eyes. I held my fingers to its nose and it sniffed me then sneezed. I giggled and put my hands on its head. "Hi there..." but it leapt back, pushed against the wall then turned and began to scratch at it. "Hey wait!" I exclaimed and grabbed its hind legs in an attempt to pick it up, but suddenly I was falling fox pup in hand straight through the wall! "Haku!" I managed to squeak out but it was too late.

I fell face first into the darkness clutching the little fox to my chest. I looked and rising up from the darkness was a floor. It looked so familiar with an intricately designed rug covering hard wood floors and it just so happened that that floor was coming up fast straight at my face. "Somebody heeellppp!" I screamed and just as I was about to face plant into the ground i stopped floating for a second in the middle of what I recognized as Yubaba's study. I turned my head slowly in midair and there she was sitting at her desk looking at me eyes wider than usual, her mouth a gape. "S- SIN!" she screeched and then covered her mouth with one hand looking fearfully at the room where her baby should be sleeping.

"HELP!" I yelled as I went flying through the floor once more past the guest rooms, through the bath rooms and into the boiler room where Kamaji slept. The little fox in my hand suddenly let out a pained screech and then went limp in my arms and I crashed on my butt onto the hard wooden floors."Agh!" I let out a pained screech and set down the little fox so I could rub my poor bottom. I rolled side to side in pain. "Who do you think you are disturbing and old man's slumber? Huh speak up missy!" the old boiler man roared. His many hands came to life throwing off his blanket and taking a sip of water from the gold kettle he kept by his side. "Grandpa!" I screamed in delight and threw my arms around him. He let out a surprised grunt and shook me off. "Grandpa? Now listen here miss I may be old but…" he trailed off as he took in the site of me. "My God, it couldn't be, but it must be. No, no, no she was just a young girl then and you're a woman." He seemed in total utter shock as he sat there. He adjusted his glasses and the said in total disbelief. "Chihiro…"

"Yes it's me!" I smiled. Then a grin spread on his old face "How is this possible? You shouldn't be, not after last time, but yet here you are all grown up now. Oh that Lin is going to be happy to see you and…" he stopped again and the smile left his face. "What's that you got there, getting into trouble again Chihiro."

"Oh!" I turned and ran towards the little fox picking the limp little body gently in my hands. I turned to Kamaji and began to retell him what happened when I had found it and how I had ended up him. He listened intently eyeing the little fox all the while. Then finally after a moment of silence he said ominously "They Who Walk Through Walls. That is what this little spirit is. They are a type of fox spirit who travel through the shadows, using their powers to go through anything even solid steel. Hence their name. The pups usually stay with their mother till they're old enough to hunt and transport themselves on their own. It's a peculiar thing for this one to be on its own, downright wrong."

"They Who Walk Through Walls…? I mumbled. "Then why are you all alone little guy."