Disclaimer: I give full and unconditonal rights for Spirited Away to Hayao Miyazaki and Studion Ghibli. I own nothing

Chihiro sighed for the umpteenth time, pushing away from her computer desk and spinning her chair lazily in circles. She studdied the walls of her room as they slowly passed by, the pastel green paint and the posters and pictures of dragons covering it. She had once again browsed every single site for every new tidbitt about her passion.

As she settled into her new life in the new house, she had started with the public library, pouring through every book on myths and magical creatures she could find. That had lasted about a year and a half before running out. She'd started looking for other outlets for her obsession, classes, TV and the local bookstore. Those hadn't lasted very long at all before she was once again at a loss for what to do.

Then came what she had been searching for. A seemingly endless supply of information updated on a daily basis. High speed internet. For three years now she had scoured the internet for every site with even a mention of dragons, but once again she had browsed every new post and run out.

Her parents didn't understand her at all. She never told them about her journey to the spirit world. They'd just think she was nuts. So she's kept it to herself, the only inkling she allowed to show was the dragons. All of her time was spent looking at and reading about them. Her mother kept encouraging her to go out and make some friends, but whenever she tried to she ended up making a fool of herself and getting laughed out of wherever she was. Her father on the other hand was much tougher on her. He'd always wanted her to do great things, so he pushed her to study hard and get into a good high school. But when her 8th grade year had come and she'd been only making average grades, he decided to put an end to the dragons. He'd banned anything related to dragons from the house. It took a month for him to realize that she had at least four hidden stashes of pictures and stories, and that he was fighting a futile war. And now her freshman year was here and she'd been accepted to a decent high school, though not the one her father had hoped.

She knew that she should have been studying right then, but she knew that as soon as she cracked a book that her focus would slide away into more exciting realms, so she sat in her chair, slowly spinning. Should she draw? No inspiration for that. Work on her story? Writers block killed that idea in it's tracks.

With another sigh she pushed the chair around again, spinning some more, drifting off into a day dream. The images swam into life before her glazed eyes, taking her back to the top of the stone steps above the sometimes river. The dream became more and more real as she drifted deeper, hearing someone calling out to her.

"Chihiro,"

She quickly turned, smiling as she saw the piercing jade jade eyes of the person who'ed changed her life forever.

"Haku, I've missed you." She replied walking towards him, taking in his new, older looking form.

The wind picked up then, blowing her hair into her face and rustling the grass in the meadow.

"I've missed you too," he said, smiling back at the beautiful young woman, brushing a strand of hair from her face, " I meant to make good on my promise long ago. I'm sorry."

"It's ok, I always knew you'd come."

"Now we can be together forever."

"Oh, Haku."

Chihiro threw herself into Haku's open arms, nestling herself against his warm chest.

"Haku, I.."

"Chihiro, get down here for dinner!"

Her father voice brought her out of her dream, bringing her back to reality with a jolt.

"Wow, that was the corniest one yet. I've been reading too many romance stories." she muttered to herself, rising from her chair.

She sighed again and headed down the stairs to her waiting parents. Her mother was the first one to see her enter the dining room.

"Chihiro honey, could you help me set the table."

"Of course mother." she replied, taking the plates and arranging them at the place settings.

As the all sat down to eat, her father piped up about school.

"What were you up to up there? I hope you were studying hard." he pressed, "I spoke to your language arts teacher today. He says that you have a lot of talent, but you need to put a little more effort into the course work."

"Yeah, writing stories is the only thing that I'm good at." She replied, poking at her udon.

"Oh Chihiro you have a lot of talent. Look at all of those beautiful pictures you've drawn. I'm sure that you could do anything that you wanted too." Her mother remarked encouragingly.

"Thank you mother. May I be excused? I'm really very tired."

"Of course dear. You need a good nights sleep for school tomorrow." her father said, "Good night."

Whenever her parents brought up the fact that they were disappointed with the grades she was getting it always brought her spirits down. She did want to make them proud, but Haku had changed everything. It had been 5 years now, and she still believed that he would come back for her, he'd promised that he'd see her again.

She slid into her favorite blue and white pinstriped pajama's and turned out the light. Once she'd gotten situated under the covers she picked up the beautiful white dragon statuette on her night stand.

"Good night my dragon. Please come back for me." she wispered as she gently kissed the dragons nose.

Setting it down once again, she rolled over and got comfortable for the night, slowly drifting off for real dreams to take her.

I don't know how often I'll be able to update this story as I have 2 small children, but I'l do my best to keep this story going!