Chapter 10 - Chapter Ten

Omg! It's almost over! "starts bawling" I'm soooo gonna miss all

you reviewers when I'm done! It's nice hearing from you guys! Anyways, I

don't want to get all emotional or anything, so I'll get on with the chapter."sniffles"



Disclaimer: I do not own Spirited Away. I do own a copy of the movie, Larena, and

any other original characters.



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Chapter Ten



It's been so quiet lately. Somethings wrong, it just feels so....strange. Why hasn't

anything else happened since that demon appeared at the Ogino's?



Those were the thoughts running threw Larena's head as she gazed out her bedroom

window at the stars, sighing quietly to herself. It had been three weeks since the dinner

at the Ogino's, Kohaku having decided to stay there in order to make sure that nothing

happened. The fact that he wasn't staying with her anymore made Larena feel kind of

sad, having grown attached to the boy, but they made sure to spend as much time

together as possible when at school.



She sighed again, her ears twitching in frustration, her tail swaying out of annoyance.

Kohaku had convinced her that it was best for her to let her fox features show every

now and then when she was at home, just so she wouldn't start thinking she was human.

And he had said she was cuter with her ears and tail.



Larena blinked when the phone started ringing, and glanced at the noisy object from the

across the room.



"Larena! It's Kohaku!" she heard her Mom call from downstairs.



Larena dove over her bed and snatched it off the hook, calling "Got it!" back before putting it

to her ear. "Hello?"



"Larena, we've got a problem. A big problem."



"What is it?! What's happened?!"



"Sen's been kidnapped."



Larena gasped, her eye's widening. She almost dropped the phone, but managed to catch herself

and put it back to her ear. "I'll be right there."



She threw the phone back onto it's hook before dashing out of her room and practically jumping

down the stairs, running past a startled Yumi.



"Larena! Wha....?"



"I gotta go Mom! Sen's been kidnapped!"



Yumi stared after her daughter, her hands shaking. Oh no.... "Larena! Be careful!" she called after

her, tears welling slightly in her eyes. I wish I could tell you....



Larena ran, her feet smacking against the pavement as she quickly made her way to Ogino's house.

Reaching the house, she slammed the door open and burst in, not bothering to catch her breath as

she ran to the living room. She stopped short at the scene of Kohaku trying to comfort Mina, who

was bawling into her hands. Then she realised that something else was wrong besides Sen being

kidnapped.



"Kohaku..where's your...?" she started, stopping when he looked at her, his eye's full of tears.



"He's dead," he whispered, looking back down at grandmother, "He tried to stop the demon from

taking Sen, but it killed him. I was at the store getting some things, running back when I sensed

it's presence, but I was too late." he looked away, tears starting to fall from his eyes.



Larena blinked back her own tears, whiping her eyes on her sleeve. She walked out to the backyard,

carefully avoiding the form that she knew was Kohaku's grandfather carefully, and looking around

for any clues. Her eye's locked on something gold sitting on the grass, and she walked over and carefully

picked it up. Gasping, she almost let it fall back to the ground from shock. It was a gold pocket watch

with the name Dimitri Corus etched into the back. "No..." she whispered, clutching it and running

back inside.



"Kohaku! Mina! Look what I found!" she exclaimed, holding it out for them to see. "It's my stepfathers

pocket watch! It was in the backyard!"



Kohaku turned to her slowly, his eyes filling with shocked hurt and anger. "Your stepfathers?! You

were part of this?!" he yelled, turning to face her. Larena's hands came back to her, shaking her

head.



"No! I had nothing to do with this! Kohaku, believe me!" she cried, blinking back tears again.



"I can't believe this. All along, you've been playing with us! Pretending to be our friend when your really

our enemy! Get out!" he shouted, pointing at the door.



Larena's eye's filled with tears, some falling onto her cheeks. She closed her eye's tightly and ran

out, going home, her tears falling from her face.



"Kohaku, you've wrongly accused that girl." Mina said quietly, holding up a hand to quiet him when

he went to speak. "You forget, she was with you all the times we were attacked by the spirit demons,

you told me she herself told you she hates her stepfather, and I could never believe Larena to do

such an evil thing." she finished, gazing at him.



Kohaku's heart tightened when he realised what he had done. He had wrongly accused the girl who

was slowly stealing his heart, his best friend, and the one he had always trusted. "I have to apologize."

he muttered, turning and running out after Larena. I hope she'll forgive me for being such an @$$.





Larena swung her door open, running into her living room with tears still steaming down her cheeks.



"Welcome home Larena." a deep, male voice chuckled and she stopped, looking up. Her stepfather

stepped from the shadows of the room, his eye's glinting maliciously from behind his long black hair.



"Leave me alone." she whimpered, trying to move past him towards the stairs. She was stopped when

her grabbed her by her arm and yanked her back, non-too gently, to face him. He grinned wickedly,

showing off fangs.



"You've interfered in my plans one to many times, little girl. You'll share the fate your father shared,

as well as the rest of the spirit world." he snarled, Larena's eye's widening in shocked realisation.



"That's right Larena. I am the one trying to take over the spirit world. I, Dimitri, the one who almost

succeeded in taking it over many years ago, but was stopped by your little friend's parents. Well not

this time." he picked her up by her throat, his grip tightening. Larena pawed at his hands, gasping

for air.



"Larena!" Dimitri dropped her when a well aimed sutra attached itself to his arm, starting to flame.

He backed away, ripping it off and smirking. Kohaku ran in and grabbed Larena, pulling her away

from him.



"Your too late, little spirit!" he cackled, grinning wickedly. He thrust his arm into the shadows and

pulled Sen out, the poor girl tied up and gagged. "The Spirit world will be mine!" they disappeared

in a puff of black smoke, headed to the spirit world.



"We have to go!" Larena cried, tugging on Kohaku's sleeve.



"Hold on tight." he muttered, whispering a spell. They disappeared in a puff of white smoke, reappearing

in the spirit world.



The two teens gasped, shocked and horrified by what was in front of them. The remainders of the bathhouse

stood before them, windows broken, ceilings and support beams smashed, half the building seemingly

having been cut off. It was destroyed.

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Bumbumbum! Ha! Dimitri is back!(anyone who read the story that this is the sequel to will know who he

is) and the bathhouse is....destroyed! "le gasp" o.o. lol, anyways...waaaaaaaa! It's almost done!! I'm

gonna miss you people! "huggles reviewers" But I'm soo glad your enjoying it! Two more chapters!

Muahaha! And I'm not revealing anything else! To the reviewers:



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Ok, people, that's all for now! See you...tomorrow :) Ja ne



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