Chapter 1:

a/n: hello guys! this is my first story, it took a lot of time to set up everything for the plot and research Greek mythology and Sirens and what not. i did it for you guys. i hope you guys like it! :-)

Rose Quartz

When he stood, he perched himself meticulously atop the bowsprit of the ship (much too meticulous for a pirate, and a pirate captain no less), and let the warm ocean breeze dominate his senses and bare face. The prudent way the man stood, albeit the lazy slouch in his posture, indicated that perhaps he may have been a sterling fighter or lancer in his younger days. Maybe he was even a nobleman who abandoned his status to quench a thirst for adventure. In contrast, with his un-fastidious mess of silver hair that suspended onto the eye-patch covering his damaged left optical organ, he physically was nothing short of a model corsair. Despite the way he carried himself, however, he led like a true marauder. He had gained nothing but respect from his crew over the years he had been in the profession- but, really, there was nothing professional about piracy. Kakashi liked the lack of rule and order, and how he could designate his own destiny aboard his own ship.

This time was one of the very few where Kakashi Hatake would unveil himself and allow his black mask to hang loosely around his neck. He enjoyed parting his lips slightly to accede the sapphire sea whisking below him to fill his mouth with the salty breeze. It was nothing short of calming, but the man did not let that sparkling sapphire sea act as a beautiful pretense for what lurked evilly below it.

The ocean held a variety of creatures that would massacre him without a second thought; they were feral beasts with no morality, as they were simply not capable of processing such a concept. Kakashi forgave them for that. He forgave the creatures for killing countless numbers of his men. They needed to survive. This was the most striking difference between humans and animals- a moral compass, a functioning brain telling them what they were doing was evil. It's merely how they were constructed. The animals weren't stealing lives, they were plainly hungry or threatened.

There was a fatal Siren gliding in the waters below, and she was capable of processing this morality. He knew she was. So Kakashi resented her for it. He wanted her dead and he was going to carry out the deed single-handedly. From all of the hearsay from his sailors who survived her, for the man had personally not seen her yet, he had gathered that she unambiguously slaughtered people for her own amusement. It was unambiguous because of that reported coy smile she executed when men would jump into the water for her, and how she would dip underneath the water's surface and the men would de-materialize to never be seen again. Not only did she inundate his men's minds with her melodic voice, she went a step further and inundated them to their deaths.

They called this monster Rose Quartz. She reportedly had lengthy pink hair, porcelain skin, and lambent, irradiated, green eyes.

Around the time Kakashi started thinking about her more deeply, he tugged at the mask around his throat half-consciously. Although his men and others near the shore in his town dispatched the message of how she looked physically all of the same opinion and report, he questioned if she really was a Siren. Pink didn't belong to the sea. Neither did the shade of bright green her eyes took on. The fact that she killed men for fun was also very, very atypical for a Siren. Sirens only wanted to make ships crash so they could plunder what was inside.

He definitely did have his doubts. Because of the characteristics and number of Sirens he executed in his time as a marauder, he went off personal anecdotal experience rather than stories and folktales. There were only three of them because they were so attenuate in number, but were so detrimental in ability- Sirens were quality over quantity. His doubts corded themselves from the way they all had looked. They shared similar attributes. All of the ones he killed had dark blue hair coinciding with the color of their sea, tan skin from the sun's constant streaming through the ocean, and eyes of the same hue as their hair. Only the long stretch of hair and the petite figure they maintained were of similar quality to Rose Quartz. Rose Quartz allegedly was an anomaly among the Siren world. It led the captain to believe that she was a hybrid of sorts. The first thing that came to mind was that a male Siren fell in love and had a child with a Huldra, a seductive forest nymph. Rose Quartz apparently looked more of a Huldra than a Siren, but again, he had never seen her and nobody had seen her from the waist down yet.

No matter her origins, his resolve was to kill her. A treacherous thing like that needed to be destroyed.

With one last parting glance at the sea, he dragged his facial cloak back to its' original position. It was dusk and time to set out on the sea. A journey to the Land of Earth was in order so the crew could resupply on vital items, mainly fresh water. They had docked their ship in the Land of Mist for a night.

They could travel to Konoha, their home town, and restock, but the Land of Earth was also a prime spot for encountering Rose Quartz in the deep waters. It was here where a majority of her musical barrages would occur. This was another contributing factor that lead Kakashi to believe she was a Siren/Huldra mix. Many Sirens made their watery dwellings in the Land of Mist and most were even born there. The Land of Mist accommodated their needs better than Earth; it was almost always rainy there, the waters were always full, there was more turbulence to confuse the sailors even more so they would crash their ship more easily near their reefs. Earth's land incorporated more grassy and seaweed ridden shores, its' reefs had more iridescent land plants than dark water plants. It was more of a place for Huldras.

With his thoughts of Rose Quartz racing, the captain turned and ambled down his bowsprit with ease. He walked slowly so as to think of the watery vixen more, and how his very own men could succumb to a simple but pretty harmony. He never understood it; Kakashi had heard many a song from Sirens, but to fall prey to it was foolish. It was vacuous. And to their actual deaths? He would never understand that either.

Kakashi was only taking the most tenacious and unyielding men of his crew for this journey. He prayed to the gods above, if there were any, that these men would not succumb to Rose Quartz's malignant voice. To lose even one would be calamitous. If one capitulated to her, another would follow, and then another and another. It was how Sirens got large vessels to wreck on their coasts so they could loot the sailors and pirates and the ship itself. If only one man yielded to their prepossessing song, these ship wrecks would never occur for another man could take a hold of the helm, the mainmast, and crow's nest. Sirens had the ability to take down the entirety of the ship in one swing. It made them one of the most powerful creatures of the sea, if not the most.

Kakashi had become so immersed in his theories he hadn't realized he was now standing in front of his quartermaster. The senbon between the quartermaster's lips moved with his smirk and he strolled up to his captain.

Though the captain slouched, he was still a whole head taller than his quartermaster.

"Aye, we are all stocked up to the best of our ability. Til' we get to Earth. Dunno how long takin' down Quartz will be but if it's more than two days, our men'll be sufferin'. You need to take 'er down swiftly and do so in a sterile manner. Heard that Siren blood can be poisonous to a man," the brunette quartermaster said. The handsome silver haired man smiled but shook his head.

"I will kill her briskly, but you have been listening to too many wives tales. Human blood can survive and intermingle with Siren blood. Genma, what exactly are Sirens again?"

The way that Kakashi talked was also another clear indicator that he had not been born into a pirate blooded family. He had a polite vocabulary, and spoke softly and with great nimb.

"Greek myths will tell me different things. One day 'll hear that these Sirens are Persephone's hand maidens, that they're demi-goddesses incapable of dying. The next day 'll hear that they are actually some sort of sea bird who were punished by Demeter herself by not defending Persephone from Hades' abduction. It is all too confusing for me."

Kakashi ran a hand through his mussed hair and tilted his head up slightly.

"Myths and gods aside, you've seen me kill three Sirens; they are not immortal. They are only half human and half fish, but with a dangerous voice. That is it," Kakashi divulged to Genma smoothly. A scoff escaped from Genma's lips and it rattled the senbon between them even more.

"You can't possibly tell me that a creature responsible for killing scores of yer' own men is not of the supernatural? Tis' simply not 'half human half fish'," Genma scorned his captain and even removed his senbon from his mouth. Gemna was allowed to go against Kakashi verbally because as a quartermaster, he was almost on par with his captain except in terms of battle. Them being close friends also allowed them to talk back to each other. It wasn't a matter of polite diplomacy; Kakashi valued Genma's opinion more than any other crew member on his ship.

Kakashi looked at Genma, and his one visible eye crinkled. "Going into battle with a creature you have talked yourself into believing is solely just a wretched, pathetic interbreed of man and fish makes going into the fight easier," Kakashi told to him. He waited for the man's irascible retort.

"Talking yerself into something that might not be true leads to cockiness and cockiness leads to defeat. Kakashi, friend, please do not underestimate your opponent. Quartz may be, to you, just be a beautiful woman with a beautiful voice, but I've seen her kill your men before my own two eyes."

"You're confusing confidence for cockiness," Kakashi said.

"...and as for my men, they will be avenged with posthaste."

Genma sighed and deposited his precious senbon back between his teeth. He reached into the back pocket of his tan, cuffed breeches, bringing out a platinum repository and opening it in front of his captain. He withdrew a a large gobbet of beeswax from it. He placed the chunk in the middle of his right palm and extended it to Kakashi.

"Are you going to be the Oedipus of my ship now, Genma? You are the one in charge of keeping them in order. Do what you want."

"Do I have yer' go ahead, Captain?" Gemna asked him. The ardent glimmer in his eyes told Kakashi that he should not make Genma reconsider his tactic. Kakashi nodded. Genma sighed again, but in relief.

"This wax is one of the most undiluted and concentrated of its' kind. If I instruct your men to thrust this in their ears, it will make them less likely to fall prey to Rose Quartz, or any other Siren lurking around," Genma said, rubbing the wax pensively with his thumb.

"Are they going to be supplied with blindfolds as well? It is not just their song that beguiles them," Kakashi said with a sardonic tilt to his soft voice. He looked at the wax with mild derision. The fact that men were weak enough to fall for a woman's vocality made him deject.

"Aye, I'd thought about that, too. I ask you that I may be allowed to order them down to your cabin and lock the door while you, I, and Hidan stay above deck. They'll just rip the blindfolds off."

The ardent glimmer in his eyes seemed to shine more as he requested this. Genma did not wish to see any more senseless deaths. For his quartermaster's piece of mind, he nodded to him.

"With your permission, then, we will set out in a quarter past 5 o'clock."

It was at a quarter past 6 o'clock when he saw her. She was on her stomach atop a small rocky island. Her elbows were situated so that her breasts were pushed together, bound much too tightly together with coruscating crimson seashells.

Kakashi was expecting a dramatic, resplendent entrance. Perhaps a spring out of her ocean with the water splaying all around her, until she dove back down to begin her song. Instead, Rose Quartz lazily cradled her chin in her hand and examined his ship intently. Mayhaps it was the astronomical size of his ship and the colossal black masts that kept her from beginning her vocal assault. Or maybe it was Kakashi himself that kept her weighing her options, because when she caught sight of the captain, her eyes illuminated and she removed the palm from her chin.

This ship was the largest out of his hundreds of watercrafts traveling across the globe. It was intimidating to say the least; it was 1,100 feet long, and its' foremast, mizzenmast, and mainmast towered at just over 800 feet. It was constructed out of the finest steel and mahogany wood. Its' effectiveness in battle rivaled its' beautiful appearance, as this ship had never been hit or damaged by another water vessel. But Rose Quartz's gaze seemed not to be preoccupied by the ship rather that its' owner. The captain and Siren followed each other's gaze- one using binoculars until he was close enough to make her features out clearly with just his one naked eye. He placed the mechanism by his side.

Rose Quartz's eyes darted down to his attire and back up to his face many times as his ship drew nearer to her tiny island. Kakashi knew she was interested in his status as a captain, and that her prey was a high-roller which probably made it more exciting for her. He knew she would have to plan out her tactics more elaborately and carefully than if it was just a regular crew member.

It was obvious that Kakashi was Captain, and a paramount one at that. There were too many gold accolades adorning the right breast of his navy waistcoat for him to not be a preeminent one.

Though Kakashi was a pirate, many providences hailed him as a moral one. He only plundered those corrupt enough to hoard their riches away for themselves and he stole from those he saw unfit to rule themselves and a whole district. He defended the weaker, more principled towns against the corrupt water bandits littering the sea. He wore his prestigious, gold buttoned coat with pride and adjusted his golden epaulettes to see if her gaze shifted. It did.

The pure craving in her eyes told Kakashi that she wanted Captain blood to cascade through her waters.

To kill the captain would be to kill the rest of his crew.

Rose Quartz seemed to follow the 'two birds with one stone' philosophy.

Rose Quartz slipped down her smooth rocks with an alacrity that rivaled Kakashi's. Because of his positioning, Kakashi had never gotten to see her tail or fins or see if she even was a Siren at all. He did, however, catch an eyeful of roseate before she glided underneath her salty sea. The brilliant rosy glare that bounced off of the water before her watery departure were caused by the presence of scales. Kakashi had never, in all his days as a waterfarer, seen a hue so flaming from a sea creature.

The Siren plunged deep into the water until she was out of his sight. Kakashi motioned for Genma to enact his task. The quartermaster instructed all the men to stuff their ears full of the wax and gathered them all together to form a huddle. He and Hidan, the latter being a long lasting loyal and strong member of Kakashi's crew, pushed the men into the captain's cabin and locked it. Genma tested the robustness of the steel door by pulling on it. It seemed to be vigorous enough for his liking.

A deep, humming vibration near the ship occurred. It was a slow, throbbing build up that quaked the ship only enough that Kakashi's sharpened senses could detect. When it reached the climax of its' loudest purr, it halted precipitously and everything went deadly restrained.

The Siren started singing a few moments after the silence.

The first thing Kakashi noticed was that her words were not in English. They were Icelandic. This language originated from the West of the Land of Earth, where Huldras originated and ran rampant today. Kakashi now definitely knew he was dealing with a hybrid, so he reconsidered his tactics. He had read up on the weaknesses of both races before setting sail. He did not want to enter battle with this woman unprepared, no matter how superstitious the words he read were.

It was said in the books he held that to kill a Siren, he would have to impale her with a bronze dagger of sword coated with one of her victims. But it also said that a Siren's only weakness was the resistance of a man against her melody, that it would kill her if the man did not fall prey to her bewitching music. And Genma was living proof that that statement was false.

A Huldra's weakness, on the other hand, was simply akin to a human's. It was said that if one saw the cow or fox tail of the Huldra, they would immediately keel over and die. Again, another false statement, for this Huldra hybrid had the tail of a fish that she wasn't afraid to show.

With her pulchritudinous opera twining its' way through his ears, he knew he had to act fast.

Kakashi turned to see Genma and Hidan struggling. They had ample amounts of wax stuffed in their ears, but it was still not enough to escape Rose Quartz's vocals.

Her foreign, beautiful sounding words laced themselves around Kakashi.

Hidan was the most affected by her. He leisurely attempted to walk to the rail-guards of the ship but Genma restrained the man back. Hidan was far more sturdier and sinewy than his shipmate so he broke him off with ease. Kakashi was a match for Hidan in battle, but not for restraint. The captain was lithe with muscles, but was not brawny like Hidan. Kakashi preferred to carry a more slender and athletic figure to fit his life of captaincy better. Hidan's leisurely gate evolved into a full on sprint.

The man was going to jump to his death for Rose Quartz's Icelandic harmony.

Kakashi's sprint was far more swifter and nimble than his so he caught up to Hidan with ease. The captain grabbed the man by his wrist and threw him back, putting his own back to the vast sea behind him. Hidan tumbled to the hard, steel deck as a result of his captain's force.

This time, it was Kakashi whose wrist was grabbed.

Rose Quartz had lept out of her ocean at this sliver of opportunity with the captain's back towards her to take him by surprise. She propelled herself out of the sea with a great force that caused water to barrel onto the deck of Kakashi's ship and it frenzied Genma and Hidan. They both hollered for their captain, but it was too late.

She imprisoned Kakashi's other wrist, used her long tail to push off of the walls of the ship, and trawled the captain with her to the sea below.

Kakashi took his time in the air to break free of the seductress' death grip and flip around to shove his thumbs into the two pressure points of her throat. In their descent, he flipped her around so that her back would hit the water hard enough to break something. It was Kakashi on top of her now. Rose Quartz tried to use her extensive, wine colored tail to wrap around his ankles and put her on top of him. She failed because of the captain's pre-planning- seconds before she attempted to execute this tactic, he clutched the fins decorating her tails, extended his arm back, and catapulted her down to the water.

This was only buying him time, however.

Once he landed into the water, it was her territory.

It was her game the second the water touched his body.

a/n: yeehawww first chapter out of the way. now we can get to face to face kakasaku

reviews and everything else are very welcome! i need to know if you guys like this plot and my writing style.

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