ok...the idea for this story literally woke me up at 4 in morning on friday...it sucked...i was in a deep sleep all nice and warm, and next thing i knew i was wide awake...3 little words passed through my head and the plot bunnies started spawning like crazy...i tried to get back to sleep cuz my eyes were still saying 'i want more sleep' and i had a big test in teh morning, but my mind was like 'NO! you will write this NOW!' so i obliged and started writing on this story...oi...this idea isn't as weird as 2 of my other stories...but a major change in one of the characters is absolutely weird yet it was one of teh three words that popped into my head lol
warning: ok i jus forgot...o now i remember...the begining part here will be a lil rough on the transitions but that's cuz i wrote this at 4 in the freakin morning!!
fyi: this takes place from sasuke's perspective and it's during his time with orochimaru...naruto never grew up in konoha so team kakashi has an OC to take naruto's place and the only ones running after sasuke is mainly Sakura...remember naruto ain't a konoha-nin
dis: if i owned naruto...there would be some weird story ideas and a weird character or two...so be thankful i don't own naruto lol
Sasuke walked along the beach. The lair they were currently residing in was along Fire Country's coast. At first, the ocean air brought back memories of what happened in the Country in the Waves, but they were easily ignored now a days. He had no need to remember those days, as they were nothing but boring and hellish. He was weak back then, and didn't want to be reminded of it.
The sand he walked across wasn't a perfectly fine granule. It was somewhat large and pebbles were common. It wasn't one of the finer beaches around. That's why he preferred to walk here because no one was around. His reasons for walking along the beach were only known to him, but if you knew the company he traveled with, you'd have a good guess at one reason. He was pissed at Kabuto, again. The main reason for this assumption? He was radiating the cold, killing aura once more. One of the worst as of late.
That Kabuto always knew how to piss him off. Mainly, Sasuke just got irritated at smelling the man, especially when he came out of his workroom. He always reeked of rotting corpses and blood.
Sasuke's anger increased. He could smell the blood, even now. The raven glared at one of the boulders along the shoreline. He let out an irritated sigh, and froze. The smell of blood really was on the air. He took another whiff. There was a strange twang to the blood. Sasuke shrugged it off, thinking that the sea air was messing with the scent, and kept walking. The beach was starting to be cluttered by medium-sized boulders. Sometimes, hidden between them, Sasuke came across a tide pool. Each pool he found ranged in all sizes. He glanced in a few of them, but walked on. As he rounded a particularly large boulder, a huge tide pool greeted him. He walked up to its edge and looked across. The boundaries on two sides were boulders and were nearly 10 feet apart at their widest edge. The boundary on the landward side was the gently sloping beach. It ran smoothly into the calm waters. Sasuke looked across it at the far boulder edge. It was a ragged chain of rocks jutting into the ocean and blocking the constant moving of the waves. With each swell of the sea, water sprayed over the rocks and into the calm pool, causing faint ripples that danced for a few seconds and disappeared. Sasuke's eyes followed the edge and found the main source of the water. There was a gap between the two rock edges. It was only 4 feet across, making the pool look like an almost complete, rugged circle.
Sasuke felt his anger slowly ebbing away with each swell of the tide. If he had found this place earlier, he would've came to this spot more, just to control his anger and killing urges better. But, this beach was long, and this was as far as he had gotten along its shoreline.
Sasuke sighed and continued walking on along the large pool's edge. The ground was made up pebbles, rather than sand. It was because there weren't any waves to eat away at the rocks. He passed behind a boulder that was the beginning of the other boundary. Out of the sea breeze, the smell of blood was stronger. The scent didn't smell entirely human either. Feeling his irritation come back, Sasuke walked on a little faster, looking for the source of the smell. He rounded boulder after boulder with no luck. For two minutes he searched, yet there was nothing to show of it, but the smell was strong. Sasuke's irritation had turned into anger. The elusive scent was driving him crazy because he couldn't find its source. He decided upon two more boulders, then he would give up if he found nothing. The bend of the first boulder gave nothing. He rounded the second, and stopped, feeling his anger peak more. There was nothing. He turned and sliver flashed him. Pausing, he looked to his right and saw a large fishtail sticking out from behind a boulder.
All this for a fish, he thought angrily.
Letting out a small growl of rage, he walked towards the boulder. The tail kept getting longer, and, as he noticed, it started getting a blue shimmer to its scales, along with the silver. Sasuke rounded the boulder, and stopped dead. Resting in the shade of the rock was a half fish, half man, and his source of the smell of blood.
Numerous wounds criss-crossed the merman's body. Sasuke's eyes lingered on his sides. Three curved slices were moving faintly, and quickly. One set of gills was lagging behind though. It was the side that was facing the rock. Sasuke walked up to the fish man and looked at the gills on that side. A large cut ran up and down all three fragile gills. Sasuke looked up the muscle toned, and wounded, body to the golden blonde head. The merman's, or actually mer-boy's since he appeared to be only a teenager, hair was a little shorter than his. The creature's face was lax of any emotion, which was a little surprising to Sasuke since it was badly wounded. Because of the peaceful expression, he figured the mer-boy was already at death's door.
Sasuke straightened and continued looking at the well-defined figure. Salt was dried on its skin everywhere, but his tail still had some shimmer left. His stomach supported a well toned 6-pack that flowed smoothly into the tail. Where blue and silver met skin, was right at the middle of the boy's hips. The skin had started to take the shape of scales and slowly turned to blue and sliver. Sasuke's eyes followed the large fin. It too, had a few deep gashes.
The raven looked away, turned around, and started walking again. He glanced over his shoulder and stopped. Deep, pure blue eyes barely looked at him through salt covered lids. It wasn't the color of the boy's eyes that stopped him, but the pain they said. Sasuke could see all the pains ever felt in the world, running through the boy's eyes, but he could also see, faintly, a small spark to live. The blonde boy blinked once, slowly, then closed his eyes again. Sasuke looked away, but stood still. After a few minutes, with a small sound of irritation, he turned around and went back to the mer-boy. He knelt down and carefully slid his hands underneath the boy's body and picked him up, bridal style. When he was standing straight again, he glanced down at where his wounded charge had lain. The sand was soaked with blood. The raven looked down at the large heavyweight in his arms. The sun brought to light the livid bruises, as well as the countless wounds on the boy's body. He looked at his face. There were 3 parallel scars on both of his cheeks. The sun made the tousled hair seem to be alight with its rays. Shifting the boy's weight, Sasuke started walking. The fin at the end of the tail was longer than he had expected. The two edge pieces were only 2 feet off the ground.
He rounded a boulder and the large tidal pool greeted him again. Sasuke stopped and looked down at the gasping gills. Slipping off his sandals and sword, he slowly waded into the calm waters. The coolness of the water was a relief in the scorching day. Watching the boy in his arms carefully, Sasuke waded out until he was waist deep. When the water started touching the blonde's tail, he started to stir. Deep blue eyes looked up and locked onto Sasuke's black voids. Slowly, keeping his eyes fastened on the blue ones, he lowered the boy into the water. The salt burned his wounds, causing pain to crease the tanned face, but the kiss of the sea upon his gills relaxed his every muscle, and his chest moved deeply to the intake of oxygen and water.
Sasuke let the boy slowly slide from his grip. He watched as the blonde disappeared underneath the surface, gently brushing against his legs as he landed on the ocean floor. The shimmer of the water made the blue eyes and golden hair stand out even more as they looked up at Sasuke in exhaustion. He stared back, entranced, then turned back to land. The mer-boy's hands brushed against his legs as he walked back to the shore.
After two days, Sasuke found himself back at the tide pool. If you asked him why, he'd say piss off and that he was bored and angry at Kabuto. But really, he was curious if the mer-boy was still around. The sapphire eyes had haunted him every time he closed his eyes. Today, he was able to leave without notice again. He sat on the rocks closest to the far edge, right next to the ocean. His sandals and sword were left on the beach. His eyes were lost at sea. It calmed him to watch the ocean, but he didn't understand how such a restless thing could do that.
"Hello."
Sasuke glared down at the source of the voice in the calm pool, then relaxed just a little, but the blonde still ducked at the glare.
"Sorry for disturbing you," he mumbled.
Sasuke rolled his eyes and looked away, wondering how in the hell the blonde snuck up on him. "It's ok. I was just thinking."
"About what?" the accented voice asked.
Sasuke glared at the boy. "Nothing."
The blonde's face clouded in confusion. "How can you think about nothing?"
Rolling his eyes, Sasuke looked back across the ocean.
There was silence for a total of 5 seconds.
"What's your name?"
Sasuke groaned inside. This boy was starting to annoy him already. He looked down into the innocent face that was turned up towards him. At first, names to call the boy popped into his head, but they disappeared the longer he looked at the blonde.
"Sasuke," he mumbled.
The blonde grinned. "I'm Naruto. Aren't you hot up there sitting in the sun?"
Sasuke's glare sharpened. "What do you want?"
Naruto pouted in irritation, causing a weird feeling to appear in Sasuke's chest.
"I just wanted to thank you and have a little conversation."
The raven looked back out at the ocean again. Naruto ducked farther under water until only his head showed. He shot irritated glares at Sasuke and mumbled angrily. Sasuke caught a few words. The blonde was calling him all kinds of names. The raven rolled his eyes and continued looking across the ocean, but the glare off the water was starting to hurt. He looked at the rocks across from him, but became aware of the heat baking him. Sighing, he gave up and stripped to his boxers then jumped in near the blonde. When he resurfaced, Naruto was smiling happily at him. Sasuke could see sharp teeth barely hidden by the blonde's lips.
"So, what exactly are you?" Sasuke asked.
Naruto flipped his tail once and circled Sasuke. "I think the word you humans use is "merman.""
Sasuke raised an eyebrow. "There's no such thing as mermen, let alone mermaids."
"Then how do you explain this?" Naruto asked, sticking his tail up out of water.
Sasuke ignored the comment and did a few backstrokes away from the blonde. "If you're some "merman," how did you get to be so wounded?"
Naruto's smile fell. He looked away from Sasuke, making the raven's curiosity peak. "I don't want to talk about it."
Even though he was curious, the look on the blonde's face said that talking about it would cause him more pain than the actual wounds did. Sasuke dropped the topic and continued doing backstrokes.
"You're not very graceful in water, are you?" Naruto asked innocently.
Sasuke kept his anger in check. "You're not very graceful on land."
"True," Naruto said with a small smile.
He flipped his tail once more and came up beside Sasuke. The raven stood up. In the shallow water he towered over the other boy. He reached down and pulled Naruto out of the water to the point his scales were starting to show. Naruto remained relaxed, but stared at Sasuke. He ignored the look, and his thought of 'why the hell am I worried about his injuries,' and looked over the boy's wounds. The shallow cuts were scabbed over, but the deeper ones were badly irritated, yet healing. He then looked at his gills. They open and closed, but the wounded ones lagged behind and didn't open as wide as his others. Sasuke looked closer and noticed that the cut was deeper. It had cleanly separated all 3 gills on that side in half. He scowled at the wound.
Naruto noticed the scowl. "What?"
Sasuke lowered him back into the water. The question that was bugging him escaped before he could stop it. "Can you breath ok with that slice?"
Why the hell did I just ask that?!
Even though that thought screamed through his head, he remained emotionless and stared back at the blonde, waiting for an answer.
Naruto stared back, somewhat surprised at his concern. "I can't take deep breaths, or breath fast, without causing more damage to them."
Sasuke nodded once, and went back to swimming, completely calm as if nothing had happened, but it was different on the inside.
I really need to get away from this thing. I've never felt concerned about anything yet I was concerned about his wounds. If I want to kill Him, I need to get away from this blonde.
He looked over at the sun-kissed boy who was watching him calmly, trust shining in his sapphire like eyes.
"Why aren't you afraid of me?" Naruto blurted out.
Sasuke shrugged and continued making laps. Naruto pouted angrily at the answer. The raven felt another strange tug inside him as he smirked. He watched Naruto racking his brains trying to come up with a way to get back at him. Sasuke sighed and floated on his back. He looked up to the clear sky with the warm water gently hugging him. It was calming. Naruto's wet head and sparkling eyes came out of nowhere above him.
"Sasuke, do you trust me?"
The raven didn't really hear the lack of honorific; he was lost in the blonde's eyes. They were a deeper shade than the darkest part of the sky during the day.
"Sasuke?"
"What are you planning?" he replied.
A frown creased Naruto's face, but to Sasuke, it only added more to the exotic boy's looks.
"I want to take you out into the open ocean, but I know how you humans aren't that good of swimmers. I'll make sure nothing happens to you."
Sasuke stared into Naruto's hope-filled face. He felt the boy's tail barely brush his back. It caused a shiver to run up his spine, but he didn't understand why. "Why do you want to do that?"
The blonde shrugged. "I just wanted to do something for you in return for returning me to the water."
Sasuke looked up at him emotionlessly. The other boy's face amused him. It went through more emotion in 5 minutes than anybody else's he's met in the past 16 years of his life. Right now, innocence and hope radiated from his eyes. Sasuke sighed and stood up.
He looked down at the begging face. "Fine, but not for too long."
The biggest grin yet erupted across the blonde's face and before he knew what happened, Naruto was behind him in deeper water. "Come on, Sasuke!"
The raven sighed in irritation, wondering what the hell he just agreed to. He waded out to Naruto who then held out his hands.
"Take my hands and relax. I'll pull you along."
Sasuke glared. He didn't like the prospect of holding hands with another guy.
"You might get dragged away by the surf," Naruto put in.
Sighing, Sasuke placed his hands slowly in Naruto's. He didn't feel like fighting the ocean today. Naruto smiled and tightened his grip around Sasuke and slowly started swimming backwards. Instinctively, Sasuke tensed, but relaxed when he realized Naruto really wasn't going to do anything to him. With each kick of the blonde's tail, Sasuke felt the water fly past his legs. It was a slow rhythm that increased slightly with each passing foot.
Naruto glanced over his shoulder then back at Sasuke. "Before we get into the open, I'll need you to hang onto my shoulders until I can break free of the surf."
Sasuke glared at the boy. Holding hands was bad enough. He did not want to hang off of the boy's shoulders.
Naruto chuckled nervously at the glare. "Or, you could just hold onto my hand?"
"I'll do that," Sasuke replied a little coldly.
He swore to himself that if anybody saw them swimming while holding hands, he would kill them.
The gap where the two rock boundaries almost met was coming closer. Naruto let go of one of Sasuke's hands and turned around. He started to swim faster and the flow of water past Sasuke's legs got stronger. Every now and then the raven felt the edge of Naruto's tail fin pass his shin. Naruto picked up speed and they passed through the gap. Instantly, Sasuke felt a strong tug against his body. Naruto's grip tightened around his hand as he propelled forward, faster. A swell in the ocean appeared ahead.
"Hold your breath," Naruto shouted back.
Sasuke did as was told and Naruto dived, they both passed underneath the wave and resurfaced on the other side. Naruto didn't stop. He pushed off faster and harder. Another wave appeared and Sasuke took a deep breath and held it. Naruto dived again, dragging Sasuke under as well too. The third wave was already coming towards them as they resurfaced. Sasuke took a deep breath again and Naruto dived once more. This wave was larger than the others, forcing them to stay under longer. Sasuke glanced over at the blonde while they were still underwater. He saw the boy's muscles ripple as he moved his tail up and down powerfully. Naruto started to swim to the top again. Sasuke's face broke free and he took another deep breath.
"Almost out," Naruto said without stopping.
Sasuke was glad about that. His arm was a little sore from yesterday's training and being a temporary rope didn't help one bit. He saw the swell start and took a deep breath. Naruto dived once more, and quickly came to the surface, but didn't stop. He pulled them farther out. After a couple minutes, he stopped and let go of Sasuke's hand and turned, smiling, towards him. The raven looked around. They weren't that far from land, but it still seemed a ways away. Everything else was nothing but sparkling, wide-open waters. He heard a splash and turned back to Naruto, or where he had been. Sasuke looked around. There was no sign of the smiling blonde. Taking yet another deep breath, he dived underwater and looked around. The murky water showed nothing. He remained under for a few more minutes.
Yellow appeared off to his right. When he looked at it, he realized it was actually Naruto's hair. The boy was moving fast. As he came closer, Sasuke could tell that he was actually swimming in intricate patterns. He took sharp turns, summersaults, twists at high speeds, on top of other, more complex moves. Sasuke watched entranced. He had seen others doing similar activities on land, but there was just something different about Naruto performing them. The blonde looked up and saw Sasuke. He grinned broadly and swam up to him. When he neared, he slowed and did a perfect circle around Sasuke, his tail brushing against him. Naruto straightened out, smiling, in front of Sasuke. The raven's heart was beating a little stronger than norm. It confused him, but that confusion vanished as he noticed a dark cloud gathering by the blonde's side. He motioned for Naruto to surface.
His lungs greeted the fresh air like there was no tomorrow. He looked over at the blonde. "Your gills are bleeding badly."
Naruto dived. Not even a minute later, his head appeared above water. "I didn't realize it was that bad."
"You dobe," Sasuke said with a glare. "Don't you have predators in the ocean?"
Naruto's head jerked to the side, his eyes somewhat wide. Before Sasuke could ask, the blonde ducked back underwater. Anger rose in Sasuke for the first time since being with Naruto. The blonde surfaced again.
"Where's the boat?"
Sasuke looked at him in confusion and listened. A faint hum was in the background. He looked around, but saw nothing.
"I don't know. Why?"
Naruto looked around. Panic was in his movements.
"Naruto, what's wrong?" Sasuke demanded.
This is officially the longest chapter i have ever posted in any of my stories
ok...i bet all of you are saying/thinking "How in teh HELL can this be a sasunaru when naruto is a freakin fish!!" and i assure u...there is a way...if any of you who've read this have read my other stories...you'd know quite well i LUV to throw in major twists that almost literally change the way the plot seemed to be going...by the 4th chappie of this story (round there) you'll find out how this can be a sasunaru...maybe the 5th chappie...i dunno lol
now...for our fellow flamers...you are warned...you WILL be humiliated in teh chapter after the one u flamed on...and there's this nice lil button on teh reviews now that just keeps begging me to push it...i wonder what it'd say if i did push it...instead of 'that was easy' i bet it'd say "ha suckers!" or something along those lines...maybe even "thank you come again"...but right now that button says "Abuse"...don't give me a reason to push that button : )