"Is that true?" the girl asked him in a cautious and firm tone.

She had accidentally overheard something about her condition from the gossips within the servants in the castle. She was shocked and bewildered. How could this happen to her? It was only a trap…one night… It can't be true.

No. I must have heard it wrongly. She kept reassuring herself. Unconsciously she touched her stomach. It's still flat. She put down her hand slightly relieved but still uncertain. She got to ask him. He must have known something. Without wasting anytime, she walked quickly to the library where he would be working.

Now standing in front of him, she held her breath. She was afraid, afraid that all of this is true.

He stared back at her, not speaking. He was irritated by her rudeness to interrupt him in the midst of his work. But upon looking at her face and her question, he felt tensed. He had no idea how she knew about this. Damn rumors. No, he couldn't tell her the truth. He did not wish to see this girl get hurt again, become lost again. He had promised that he would take responsibility but this..is not what he had expected too.

Looking at his passive expression, she asked him again, "Is it true that I am with child?" She almost choked after finishing the sentence. Oh, how she wanted to know the truth and how she hated him. Always so unemotional, so cold and so untouchable. Sometimes, she really wished she could be like him, always being calm and cool. So perfect.

She looked at him waiting for him to answer. He nodded his head slightly. Though it was only a small gesture, she felt she was struck by a lightning.

No…

She held on to the tears that threatened to fall. She would not cry in front of him. "Are you sure?" she asked him again. This time like a whisper while her body trembled.

He saw it all and knew she wanted an answer with not action but words.

The truth hurts.

"Yes. You bear the child of this Sesshoumaru." He said out the cruel fact unemotionally.