InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ From Dreams to Reality ❯ You're... Real?! ( Chapter 5 )

Chapter 5: You're… Real?!

Haily sat frozen in her bed temporarily unable to speak. She hugged her favorite stuffed animal close to her chest and just sat shocked. After a few attempts at speaking, it seemed as if she had regained her voice, and replied to the figure.

"I AM smart and brave, I also know how to defend myself. Now answer my question, who are you?"

"Well well, aren't we the forward one… but I do believe that you already know who I am."

"If you don't tell me your name, why you are in MY room… and why your aura doesn't seem human, all in the next 10 seconds then I will turn on my light and scream for my mother."

Suddenly a loud growl filled the room as the figure replied, "You will do no such thing. I may like your ability to think, your forwardness, and your `spice', but do not push my patience."

Haily audibly gulped at the growl and tone of voice that this figure used. But then she sensed something.

`His aura is so different… it definitely isn't human, it doesn't seem to work, function, or present itself quite like a human aura should.'

Then she realized it… it was like a light bulb went off in her head.

"OH MY GOD!!! You, you, you…you aren't human at all… you're a youkai!!! I never ever thought that youkai were real or even existed. I never thought that they were anything more then a story, a myth- but it has to be what you are… you have to be a youkai… I can tell by your aura."

Haily rambled on for a few minutes after her realization. This was more to convince and reassure herself than for anything else. She did this much to the figure's amusement. After she stopped going on, she took a moment to collect her thoughts and replayed their conversation in her mind.

"Wait a minute… you said that I already know you… but I've never met you before, let alone met a youkai."

"That is correct, you have never met me before- I have never had a reason to appear to you before now- but you do know who I am, just think. It's not very hard, actually it's quite a shockingly simple answer."

"Well…the only youkai I know of are Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru, Naraku, Kouga, and Shippo. You aren't Inu because I can sense that you are a full demon; not Naraku either because of the same reason, and also because your aura isn't evil. You're too mature and forward to be Shippo- so that only leaves Sesshoumaru and Kouga."

"Please, do keep going."

"Ummm well lets see…"

Haily concentrates on the demon's aura to see if she can detect anything else that could be of importance.

"Well this is certainly interesting, you aren't Kouga because I couldn't sense any power fields that could originate from Shikon no Tama shards. So that only leaves one answer, but it's probably too good to be true… the only other person left is Sesshoumaru."

"You are quite wise, and also happen to be correct. It is I, Sesshoumaru."

He then steps out of the darkness and the shadows and gracefully takes a seat at the edge of Haily's bed. When Haily sees him and registers everything in her brain, she goes into total shock, even worse than the first time. As he seats himself on her bed, she has to pinch herself to make sure that she isn't dreaming. Sesshoumaru picks up on this and chuckles as he responds to her unspoken question.

"No Haily this is not a dream, this is real- I am real… there are many things we need to discuss though."

As Haily comes back to reality and hears the taiyoukai's words she realizes the manner in which she had spoken to him.

"Gomen- nasai"

"Nani?"

"I'm sorry for how I spoke to you earlier Lord Sesshoumaru- sama…you are Lord of the West and deserve respect- of which I didn't give."

"Do not worry about your manner of speaking, you were only responding to your instinct to defend yourself, however now that you know who you are addressing, do not let it happen again. And also one more thing when it is just the two of us in private - gods I never do this- you do not need to add `Lord' and `sama' to my name."

"But, but, but… why?"

"Because I said so… now we have important matters to discuss, but it has become late due to our `introduction' and you need sleep. You have education tomorrow and then I need to show you something in the evening. I will return to you tomorrow, now get some rest- and if you need anything then just call to me in your mind, I will respond."

*Yawns*

"Goodnight Sesshoumaru, I will see you tomorrow", Haily said sleepily and smiled up at the youkai lord.

"One more thing though my dear… this must stay strictly between us. Do not tell anyone about me, or I will not return… there will be a time for that in the future."

"Ok I promise, just between us", Haily smiled again, very close to falling asleep.

Sesshoumaru passed his hand over her head, feeling her silky hair and whispered, "Until tomorrow". With a small smile on his face he silently turned and left.

Haily fell asleep to the sight of Sesshoumaru smiling down at her, and his golden eyes twinkling. She vaguely realized that he didn't seem himself, or OOC as her fanfics. would put it, before the dreamland captured her assuring a night of pleasant dreams.