A New Discovery (SouHaru Fanfiction)

Cold

"Haru, are you cold?" I ask him as I approach him. He nods slowly with a drop water from his hair sliding down his face and across his tense lips. His breathing sounds labored like he was running out of air. "Do you want me to run you some hot water?" I ask him as my own heart began to race. I run back into the bathroom and start the shower again, the water running hot immediately from just being on. I quickly go back to the shaking man and pick him, bringing him to the shower. Before putting him on the floor of the shower, I pull off the shorts the man was wearing. As soon as the water hit his skin, his legs began to morph into one long, scaly tail.

He begins to calm down as his shaking stopped, and his breathing became normal. I sigh in relief and my heartbeat slows down. When my mind finally relaxed, I realized that I was still in just my towel.

"I'll be right back." I tell him before going back into my bedroom, closing the bathroom behind me. I quickly slip on some boxers and loose shorts and go back into the bathroom and sit beside the shower. It's a glass shower so I can easily see him through it.

"Are you feeling any better?" I question the man. He looks at me and nods with a small grin on his lips. "You're used to the bathtub you were in when I found you, weren't you? You could just run the hot water whenever you started getting cold." He nods again. "If I would have known that before, I would have put on the pool heater." I tell myself aloud.

"Are you okay to get out? Or do you need longer?" He tilts his head towards the shower door signaling that he is ready to get out. I pull myself off the floor and turn off the shower, and I open one of the cabinets to grab a couple of towels for the man to dry himself off. I hand him the towel as he's still laying on the shower floor and sit on the edge of the shower with another towel in my hand.

He begins drying himself, patting the towel on his pale skin. I mimic his actions and begin patting the towel against his blue, scaly fin. He looks a little hesitantly at me at first but relaxes after I give him a soft smile, showing that I am just trying to help. After a few minutes of patting him, his scales began to disintegrate; the bases of them sinking into the man's skin. The end of his fin slid off his feet that were reforming along with his legs.

Being that he wasn't wearing any clothes when he got in the shower, now that his fin was gone, he was completely exposed. I advert my eyes and hand him my towel. Once he realizes why I looked away, he glances to the side embarrassed. He grabs the towel out of my hand and covers his waist with it before tapping my arm. I stand up and reach my hand out to him to help him stand. After he's up, I head back into my bedroom and try to find something for him to wear. I find a pair of boxer briefs that Rin had left over by accident one time. It would probably be the only thing that could fit him because he's so small. I grab a shirt out of my closet then head back into the bathroom.
After the man slips on the clothes I handed him, he walks into my bedroom. I am sitting on the edge of my bed, eyeing him. The shirt I had given him was much too big; so big that the boxers were not even visible below the hem of the shirt.

"Here," I turn to him, "Come lay down on here the bed. I'll go turn on the pool heater." Getting up off of the bed, I wait until Haru is laying in the bed to go downstairs. I unlock the backdoor to the pool area to go turn on the heater. It will be a while until the water is warm though.

"It will take a couple of days for the water to heat up so if you wanna sleep in one of my extra bedro--" I cut off my sentence when I look where the man was that I left and see him already fast asleep. Sighing, I walk into the room, beside the bed. His breathing is so quiet that I barely hear it. Without much left to do, I climb onto the other side of the bed facing the man.

As my mind begins to ease and my eyes flutter shut, I feel the man shifting around in the bed. Before I could figure out what he was doing, I feel his face nuzzle into my chest and his arm wrap around my side, pulling himself against me. I am surprised by his action and look down to his face, which shows no emotion. He's fast asleep.

I don't know why, but the feeling of him next to me is soothing and peaceful. This beautiful creature laying beside me as if he were normal. If anyone were to see him in this state, they would not believe that he was anything but. And for a moment, I forget about to too. I ever so lightly rest my arm on him, holding him as my eyes droop closed.