Chihiro felt her body stiffen up. Darkness was on the edge of her vision. Why did he make her pass out like this. She felt her shoulders get shaken.
"Chihiro relax." he said, shaking her harder still.
An odd noise filled the room. Like a cat being injured. What was making that noise? With a jolt she realized it was her, she was, almost screaming from the pain that was wracking her chest. She felt a sharp sting on her cheek, Haku was looking at her concerned.
"Get away from me." she told him and pulled away.
"Wait."
She opened the door and looked at him, "Get out."
"Chihiro let me-"
"Now! Or I'm calling security!"
He stood up and walked out, looking so dejected, that Chihiro was about to change her mind.
"Let me explain please." he said when he was out the door.
"No."
"Chihiro, if I can't explain this too you by this time tomorrow, it'll be too late. They won't give you another dream like that, it'll be over. We will never see each other again, is that what you want?"
"What's the point if you don't love me? Have I been just an annoyance to you all these years Haku? A human that you play around with?"
"Let me come back in." he pleaded.
She sighed and moved out of the way. He hesitated but walked back into her room. She shut the door behind him.
"You have one minute."
"Love is...limited. Common. I loved Mai, you love your parents. It doesn't express my feelings for you." he sighed, "this is going to take longer than a minute."
She narrowed her eyes at him and glanced at the clock.
"Before I met you, my life had meaning, it had a reason. I had a reason. I was happy with my situation, I wasn't missing anything. After I saved you, you were in the front of my mind, but I wasn't obsessed with finding you, I still had a different reason for existing. But after you left, when you were ten, suddenly, you were my reason. It hurt to be away from you, even for a second."
"But you picked Mai."
"But I still had you there. Mai would have satisfied what my body wanted, actually any female could have done that, but my soul, my very essence. Everything that made up me, was just satisfied having you in the same dimension. When you told me to leave, when I left, it was like ripping my soul in half. This past year, I've been empty."
"That doesn't explain why you don't love me."
"Doesn't it? Chihiro I don't just love you, I don't just want you, I need you. Every cell in my body was in agony without you, since the moment that you told me to leave. Even just a minute ago when you said to get out, my body was hurting. You said being with me causes you pain, being without you causes me even more. I've been in agony without you."
She noted the tears in his eyes, she had never seen a man cry before, it hurt her. Especially knowing that she had caused it.
"Are you in pain now?" she whispered.
"It's manageable." he told her, it was true, having her in the same room as him subdued it a bit. A five out of ten.
"Let me fix it then." she walked into his arms.
She watched his face relax, not realizing how tense he was since she ordered him out. He was a good actor.
"How about now?" she asked.
"It's almost gone."
"What'll make it leave all the way?" she whispered.
She searched his face, waiting for him to say something stupid, like a kiss or sex would fix it.
"Say I can stay."
"You can stay."
"Say you will be with me."
She frowned, here it comes, "I'll be with you."
"Forever?"
"Are you proposing?" she teased.
"Yes."