I Don't Even Like Fish

By: TheNastyBunny

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of its characters.

Rating: M [for later chapters]

Characters: KisaIta

Warnings: This fic contains graphic scenes between men. Don't like? Don't read. Also, this is not beta-ed. All typos, grammatical errors are mine.

Summary: After fainting, Itachi's mother suddenly changed. So changed that she was saying his father was a merman. How can that be? He doesn't even have a father.

Prologue

Since he was a child, Itachi had been very responsible. When he was three, he never left his toys scattered around the house, he always made sure that they were safe inside the protection of his red toy box after he played with them. When he learned how to cook simple dishes when he six, he never forgot to clean the utensils he used. When he was in primary school, not a single homework was left undone and not perfected. When he met Naruto, his only friend, got sick because of a favor he made for Itachi, he made sure the huge blond well-taken cared off. Itachi was a responsible man. So when his beloved mother and only family, Mikoto, suddenly fainted while walking along the beach, he vowed to do everything he could to make her healthy and smiling again.

Chapter 1

Itachi was not happy. He harshly tossed his phone on his bed. His mother still hasn't recovered, what's worse was that she was not responding to any medication the doctors had prescribed her. Since her fainting four months ago, they had gone to the best doctors in the country, even to world renowned ones. Still, her mother remained passive and unresponsive towards any medication. Her health, Itachi knew, was deteriorating in an alarming rate. Her illness, they told him, was not really physical. It seemed that her fainting was caused by nausea and when she woke up at the hospital, she had been asking why she was there, that she was not sick. He was not going to stand there and let his mom suffer.

The long-haired man walked to his Mom's room, agitation and frustration evident in his heavy strides. He knocked three times, a habit; though he knew his Mom was not going to answer him since her verbal capacity seemed to have shortened to words such as those that can be related to mermaids and tridents more often than not. Itachi never knew the reason why. He opened the door slowly and stepped inside the room with ocean blue wallpapers.

"Mother?"

"Yes, dear Itachi?" Oh good, she was quite normal, verbally, today.

She was on the rocking chair again. She insisted to have the piece of furniture when they had been walking around a bazaar on a Saturday because Itachi wanted her to have some fresh air.

"How have you been? I'm sorry I had to leave early because of some emergency at the restaurant."

He inquired as he sat on the bed, just a few feet away from the rocking chair. Though her illness was never physical, such as fever and such, signs of it showed in her once beautiful and radiant face, like now. Her face was pale and sickly. There were dark circles around her eyes, her cheeks now beginning to hollow, making her cheekbones more protruding. Itachi felt some emotion invade his chest.

"Oh Itachi, you know that I'm well. I'm not sick. I never really understand why you insist we visit those doctors. I told you, when I feel nauseous, just go to your father and ask him for some medicine." She was staring at the window while saying this.

Itachi's pink lips thinned as he kept his mouth shut. A week after his mother fainted, she started this nonsense about his father. At first, it was just spontaneous slips of "Do you remember when went to the beach with your father, 'Tachi? Oh, it was such an experience…" These slips happened many times, so often that the pale man mastered how to block his Mother's voice full of fondness. When she woke up after her accident, she changed. It's as if she had lived another life. Se was remembering things that did not happen. This nonsense about his 'father' and that of the ocean and everything in it occupied his mother's mind.

Father huh? Tch. He decided to humor his mother. "He was not there, Mother. I think he went out."

"Really? So that's why I haven't seen him at all. Don't worry. Where could he be?" She all said this in a small voice.

Maybe burning in hell for leaving you, us, when you were just 5 months pregnant with me, he thought smugly. He heard a gasp; it was Mother, looking at him with side eyes hands covering her gaping mouth.

"Itachi! What are you saying? He never left us! Your father is an honorable man. He didn't do any of that. He's right there behind you!" she pointed behind him.

"Is that so Mother? Cause the only thing behind me is a wall and your hideous wallpaper."

Suddenly Mikoto stood up and passed him, stopped in front of the wall.

"What happened to you, son? He's here, see? Come on look at him-"

"Enough, Mother." He cut her off.

"No! Look at him. See?"

He felt tired all of a sudden, so he gave in. She was looking at the wall, pointing at the fishes, turtles and sharks beneath the tail of another marine animal, only the tail was way bigger.

"Mother, those are aquatic creatures."

Mikoto giggled, "Not those, silly. This one."

He wanted to throw a tantrum.

"That's a crab, Mother. Why are you-"

She hit him on his arm playfully. "Look on top of the crab."

"What could be the dif- Oh." Above the crab, was a creature of both man and fish.

"Mermaids, Mother? " He wanted to punch someone. Where was Deidara when you needed him?

"Yes, Itachi. A mermaid, well a merman to be exact. That's the reason why you're a great swimmer. See? He was there all along. You know when I was still pregnant with you; we used to walk along the beach. There, that exact one in front of our house. You see that big rock? That's our meeting spot. We used to meet there every midnight. He said mer-people comes out at midnight to play. Also, he had a very..."

Itachi blocked his mother's voice. I think she's finally snapped.

Itachi was pissed, exhausted and irritated. Because of what happened last night with hi mother, he feels bad that he lost his cool. Add that to the fact the traffic this morning was vicious. That he left his laptop at home.

He was tackled into ground by a huge tan man, or at least he tried to because Itachi was quick and had good reflexes like that.

"Ouch! Good morning 'mate! How was your mum?" Naruto greeted him with a smile, his blonde hair blinding Itachi for a moment, rubbing his now sore bottom.

"Hn. I think we need to change doctors again." He said while checking the paperworks for the new branch of Mangekyou, his restaurant, in Konoha.

"That so? I told you, let's go to my Gran, she has this medicine she'd been.-"

Naruto stopped as Itachi's phone rang.

"Yes Miss Konan? Good morning? Why are you asking me? Aren't you suppose to be the one with her?... Missing? What do you mean missing? Hold it, I'm going there right now.

"What? Who's missing? What happened?" Naruto was alert.

Itachi was grabbing his things in a frantic pace, "Mother is missing. Miss Konan said she was not there when she arrived. I have to go Naruto. You're in charge." Itachi was out in a flash.

"Mother, I'm leaving. Miss Konan will be here by eight. Take care." Itachi kissed his Mother's cheek and locked the door.

Mikoto glanced at the closed door. She knew Itachi did not believe her. But why? Could it be that he forgot about his father? What about his brother, Sasuke? Does he not remember his younger brother? What happened?

Mikoto tried to recall the day she lost consciousness, but she couldn't. The pain was too much. She walked towards the window, letting the humid air caress her skin, the smell of the ocean permeated around her. The sounds of the waves as they splashed along the shore triggered the onslaught of memories buried deep inside the recesses of her mind. A knock brought her back to reality. Oh, Miss Konan said she'll bring her books about mermaids right? Mikoto opened the door with a kinds smile. Odd thing was Miss Konan seemed to have morphed into a tall, dark-skinned man with tattoos on his cheekbones, almost like gills.

"Yes?" She felt the fear rising within her.

"Good morning. I am to bring you to His Majesty immediately."

"I-I'm sorry. I know no such person." Mikoto tried to close the door.

In a flash, the man was inside, and loomed over her.

"Oh? He said that you might resist and if that's the case I am to tell you that 'Sasuke needs you right now.' His Highness thinks that the prince is in a delicate phase right now."

Mikoto was running outside, yelling at the hulking man to hurry up.

"But Your Highness, what about the other Prince? His Majesty specified that there were two of you to be" Mikoto was already at the water, swimming frantically.

Shit! The Barracudas were on a hunt today! He ran, not bothering to close the door.

A/N: Sorry for the shitty title. Do you have suggestions for other titles? What do you think? :S Reviews make me update faster. :D