DISCLAIMER: I do not own Spirited Away, no matter how much I wish I do. It belongs to Hayou Miyazaki, and I don't take any credit for anything brought into this story form the movie.

A/N: This is the first fan-fic that I have written, so please be kind with the reviews ~_^ Also, I couldn't remember her friends name :( I think it was Ruby, so that's the name I used.

"Will we meet again sometime?"

"Sure we will."

"Promise?"

"Promise."

Chihiro clung to these words while she walked back through the tunnel. As she neared the car, she saw the two-faced stone, and a single tear ran down her cheek. Seeing it reminded her of everything she was leaving behind: The bath house was like a second home to her. She knew that she would always miss Rin, Kamajii, Bou, No-Face, Zeniiba……… and especially Haku. He was the one who guided her throughout her adventures in the Spirit World. He was the one who had saved her from drowning, and she had saved him from Yubaba. Being there in the Spirit World had made her braver and more outgoing, too. But still, she knew she would never again know any place like it.

It had been six years since her trip to the Spirit World, and Chihiro had changed a lot. For one thing, her hair was much longer. She was still as scrawny as ever though, but she had a very nice figure otherwise. She didn't think about her adventures much anymore though, and when she saw something that should reminded her of it, she didn't really notice. Her memories were slipping away from her....... Suddenly, a voice shook her out of her daydream of long ago........

"Wow! Chihiro, look at that place! I'll bet they have a great selection!" It was Ruby, Chihiro's best friend. She and Chihiro were sitting on a bench eating ice-cream, and Ruby was pointing out a little shop on one of the busy streets of the city that wasn't far from Chihiro's little blue house. Ruby looked mostly like Chihiro, what with her long, dark hair and her good figure, except for her style…. She was much less self-conscious, and the way she dressed let you see that. Nothing too revealing though, just tube tops and very short shorts. Ruby had been coming to visit Chihiro every summer since Chihiro moved, and her mother very nicely gave Ruby money to shop for school clothes with Chihiro near the end of the visit. The shop she was pointing to was, of course, a place she wanted to look into for clothes.

"Oh…. What?" Chihiro said in a confused manner, knowing that she missed at least half of what Ruby was telling her.

"Over there! Look! Let's go in and see what they have!"

"Oh, ok," was Chihiro's reply. She was lost in very deep thought, as she often was, but this time was different. Something around her made her feel like there was some sort of power near her, as if revealed to her as a sign, and she felt like she had seen something from the street before, but somewhere else. Of course she had seen everything there the past times that she shopped for groceries and clothes, but it wasn't that sort of feeling… it was like something was there from when she was a child, but she couldn't figure out when she had been around it, or where it was that she had seen it before.

Dismissing it from her mind so as to try and have good rest-of-the-summer with Ruby, she fallowed her to the store to try on the clothes.

She got up and fallowed Ruby, but stopped to throw her ice-cream cup and spoon away. As she turned from the trash can to catch up to Ruby, she suddenly bumped into a man carrying white roses from a shop to his car. He was an older man, probably in his late sixties, and he had a scruffy face, as if he hadn't shaved in a few days, but still, he didn't yet have a beard.

"Oh! I'm very sorry sir! Please excuse me!" Chihiro said while bowing furiously. Then she helped the man pick up his roses, and that power came into her mind again……

"That's ok, think nothing of it," the man said. "My name is Gyukudo. I was just picking up these roses for my daughter. It's her birthday today, and I wanted to give her these along with her other gift."

"My name is Chihiro. Nice to meet you, sir," she said, still bowing. "I'm very sorry if I ruined your daughter's birthday gift!"

"Aw, that's all right. She's only five and won't know the difference anyway."

"Thank you for forgiving me, sir! I have to go now; it was nice meeting you! Bye!"

"G'bye, Chihiro," he replied as Chihiro caught up to Ruby, just as she was entering the shop. It was rather small, but Ruby soon found that it was her favorite store so far, because it had many clothes in her taste. It wasn't too long before she found a shirt she liked to try on, and that's just what she did.

"Well, Chihiro, what do you think? Doesn't it look like it was made from magic, the way it's got the glitter on it like that?" That was exactly what Chihiro thought. The shirt was black, and it had white rose petals on it that were glittery, and in such a position that it looked as if they were blowing in the wind. Suddenly Chihiro didn't know what to do, because weather she liked it or not, that power she had felt twice before was now stronger than ever. It hit her all at once too, so she started not to feel so well…..

"Chihiro? Are you ok?" Ruby was beginning to worry about her, when the store manager came.

"What are you two still doing in here? We are about to close! Get out of here!" he said…… Then it started to make sense…..

".....You shouldn't be here.....

Get out of here.... NOW. I'll distract them!"