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:+: Hinata's Point Of View :+:
'' GET OUT OF HERE!'' the oh so familiar voice sounding foreign to my ears, A voice so pure and sweet now hoarse from yelling.
Even as I was being forcibly dragged away, my eyes did not move. I did not look away as a dark figure loomed over my mother, my ears did not register the sickly sound of metal scrapping against the side of its sheath, I did not cry out as the figure mouth spread into the wickedest smile that I'd ever seen before raising his sword up into the air as if he was preparing to bring it down upon my mother. What did I do? I woke up faster than a sailfish rushing towards a school of anchovies! every sense on high alert and though my lavender tinted eyes are open and my heart pounding, my mind is blank.
Where was I? My body ached, and my lungs began fighting for the tiny bit of oxygen that this place provided. My eyes scanned the area, spotting my best friend Sakura unconscious on the floor, her bright cherry pink hair draped in odd folds around her. I watched as her Red clam covered chest slowly began to rise and fall reassuring me that she was still alive, that's when my eyes landed on the bruise beginning to form around her mouth, I stared intently at the foreign colour on her skin, seeming to morph from a brash purple to a murky grey, standing proud as a reminder of what's happened . Her emerald green tail much like her eyes, lying flat against the white floor.
How did we get into this mess? My mind began to wrap its head around yesterday's event, seeming to remember the icy cold hand that had engulfed mine as it dragged me away from my mother, from my home. "NEJI"! I called out my voice penetrating the walls of our quiet imprisonment. I quickly turn to my right probably giving myself whiplash in the process and place a hand on my heart. His intense stormy white eyes giving me a quizzical look at the outburst. Even with all the events that's transpired he still looked regal, cold and untouchable. His long brown hair released from its usual restrain, free flowing past his broad shoulders and down his back, contrasting against his white tail, which held the same greyish hue as his eyes. I sighed. Even in a situation like this, he was as calm as ever.
After my little outburst we both sat in silence staring at each other, I could see the gears in his mind turning, probably trying to figure out a way out of here. We stayed this way for what felt like eternity, when a slight movement to my left broke our staring competition. Sakura's bright emerald green eyes staring at us. ''What happened?'' Sakura asked, voice sounding shrill. I watched her eyes take in our surroundings, which wasn't much to say the least, just 4 white walls, the material feeling foreign against my skin, bumpy and hard to the touch like millions of jagged pebbles. The whole place seemed to be made of this material besides a thick blue line which looked smooth to the touch, but I dare not swim towards it to find out. I watched as she finished examining the room, emerald green eyes clashing with my own tinted milky white ones ''What Happened.'' She stated again.
'' A-A Net'' I mumbled softly, I watched how her eyes widen in realization, while we were escaping we left the safety of the barrier surrounding our kingdom and began to trudge through cold murky waters, Tired & exhausted from swimming for hours we made sure to stay close to the sea floor as to not be spotted easily . That's when I heard the unforgettable sound of thick heavy metal dredging the bottom of the sea floor, its claws unearthing with it sand and debris, causing a whirlpool of destruction. I heard Sakura yell out in pain as I quickly turned back I was hit by an unknown object knocking me unconscious. I stared quizzically at Neji wondering if he knew what happened afterwards, but he seemed to be lost in thought, I cast my own downwards gaze as I began to wonder what happened to the rest of my family. I feared that they were injured and scared somewhere … or worst.
Seeming to grow increasingly uncomfortable with the silence, Sakura began to aimlessly fill the room with chatter "Even when you've been dragged through the sand you still manage to look gorgeous" she joked giving me a small smile, After all that's happened I didn't even take the chance to look at myself, I immediately looked at my chest my golden trident necklace with a jewelled design of the Hyuga crest at the bottom , glistening under the light that this room provided. Thank Neptune! my once lavender coloured Bandeau stayed wrapped around my chest. I ran my hand threw my mid back Bluish - Blackish hair, tenderly releasing the knots with my fingers. I didn't have any real injuries besides a few scrapes here and there. As Sakura continued to chat away I began to hear a faint pitter patter, the sound growing closer by the second. I quickly turn to Neji, who was already by Sakura's side motioning me to follow, I complied instantly. Finding safety and comfort behind my cousin. He was always protecting me, whenever something was wrong I could always rely on him. ''What?'' Sakura asked, her voice wobbling as she ducked further behind Neji, my eyes softened at this, though not usually one to be afraid I could tell that my loud, outgoing, boisterous friend was terrified.
''Shhhh'' Neji hissed, I watched him grab hold of a necklace similar to mine, listening intently to the multitude of pattering, slowly a dark shadow began to creep along the edge of our confined until the sound came to an abrupt stop as we all looked up at the foreign faces slightly morphed from the movement of the water. We dare not move. As all six our faces mirrored the same mixture of emotions; curiosity, excitement… fear.
:+: Sasuke Point Of View :+:
My inky black eyes narrowed at the creatures below me, huddled together at the bottom of my indoor swimming pool, I couldn't help the frown that adorned my face, as I ran my hand through my jet-black hair and proceeded to think about how badly I wanted to strangle Naruto for all of this.
:+: Flash Back :+:
''TEME! ''I grunted as I heard my unruly blonde hair friend yell out his favourite 'Nickname' for me, I could never go about my day peaceful if Naruto was visiting. I squinted my eyes as an unwelcomed amount of light entertained my room when Naruto burst open the doors. I watched my bright blue-eyed friend strut into my room, wearing his favourite orange T-shirt which has faded away from the years of abuse that I'm sure he subjugated it to and a pair of light blue washed out jeans. I felt my eye twitch as he casual sat on my black satin covered bed, the three whisker marks he adorned on each cheek stretching into the wide toothy smile he currently adorned.
''What do you want?'' I asked, If Naruto could hear the irritation laced into my voice, he sure didn't show it. To say I was used to this was an understatement.
'' Do you know what day it is?'' The cheeky smile never leaving his face, before I even got the chance to respond he yelled out '' ITS OUR ANNUAL FISHING TRIP!'' I groaned at the thought of it, every year Naruto would drag me out to go deep sea fishing with him, it started after he declared I spent too much time in doors after my family's death. I don't know how I let him coax me into this but ever since that day without fail we went fishing. I watched as he got up and proceeded to head towards my rustic steel doors, where he stopped and looked me in the eyes with the most mischievous look ever ''Oh and Sasuke? If you're not down stairs and ready in half an hour, I'll let all your fan girls into your house'' I grunted.
As soon as I slipped into my black waterproof pants which hugged my thighs quite nicely or, so I've been told and threw on a simple dark blue T-shirt with my family's crest of a red and white fan on the back. I headed down the hall way towards the grand stair case, gingerly touching the black railing as I made my descent. I could hear Naruto yammering away on how he's going to catch the biggest fish the world has even seen, as I finished making my way down the stairs I cautiously watched the girl that Naruto was talking to. She had chocolate brown hair which was tied up into two buns, her warm brown eyes holding some amusement for Naruto Antics, I watched as she casually stood hands behind her back , I raised my eyebrow a bit due to the way she was dressed she had on a white qipao blouse with red trimmings and a pair of red knee length shorts.
I watched the mischievous look in Naruto's eyes when he noticed me ''Took you long enough, what were you even doing up there?... Rubbing one out before you got a start on your day?'' As soon as he started wiggling his eyebrows suggestively, I felt my eyes twitch for a second time that day.
I smirked '' Do you really think I need to 'rub one out' myself?'' that's when a sound to my left caught my attention as Naruto's guest started clearing her throat seeming to remind us that she was still here and clearly amused.
''Oh, Yeah! Teme meet Tenten'' I watched her give me a small nod of recognition '' Tenten's family own the best weapon company in the world & she said agreed to let us test out some sick new fishing equipment if we bring her along''. I eyed the girl for a second time that day, she didn't seem to be one of my fangirls or to be overly loud like Naruto, honestly if she leaves me alone I don't care who Naruto invites. I watched Naruto grab a blue cooler and started heading towards the front door, ''Come on guys we need to get a move on''. I did not follow and instead decided to head towards the kitchen, I knew the dobe wouldn't pack anything good to eat. Not even questioning my sudden departure Naruto yelled out that they're going to start loading everything into the car.
After I finished packing something that was edible, I exited out of my large black double doors, already seeing Naruto in the driver seat of his orange ford mustang and Tenten in the passenger seat, strumming her fingers along the dash board. I guess I'm back seating it, before I could even sit on the worn-out leather, Tenten turned to me with a bright smile on her face ''geez, what took you so long? Did you go to masturbate again?''. Naruto let out a wolfish laugh at her statement and I knew that she was already going to fit in. As my main gate opened, we began cruising down the road, Naruto doing at least eighty miles per hour making sure not to miss running over any curbs or adhere to any rules of the road, I'm pretty sure Naruto bought his license with how bad he is at driving. As we drove under a huge white arch with red lettering saying Jiraiya's boat rental, I knew we were here. Tenten's mouth dropped open as Naruto pulled into a parking space. Her eyes looking at all the mini yachts, carefully docked one after the other.
Once Naruto turned off the engine, he didn't waste a second running on the worn out wood of the dock, towards the older gentlemen, wearing a pair tan cargo pants and a colourful button-down floral top with an old beat up bucket hat, his long white spikey hair almost reaching the floor He was currently watching a boat full of bikini clad women prepare to head out to sea. '' Hey, Perverted- Hermit'' Naruto yelled, the outburst caught the attention of the bikini clad women who began throwing dirty glares his way after realising that they were being watched. Jirayia no longer held a lecherous look on his face and instead glared at Naruto.
''How many times have I told you not to call me that'' Naruto ignored his comment and engulfed him into a hug, happy to see his godfather, every year Jirayia let us use one of his boats free of charge (not that I wouldn't be able to afford it anyway) but I knew Naruto didn't get to see him often. Jirayia gave me a wave before quickly pulling Naruto off him as he spotted Tenten, He really is a pervert I mused. He quickly walked over to her '' Hello, I'm Jirayia nice to meet you'' but before Tenten could introduce herself his hands went around her shoulder as he practically began dragging her down the dock with him, he kept chatting about who knows what to her, with Naruto and I following closely behind. I already knew which boat we where going to take, it's the improved model that Jirayia took Naruto's late father on all the time. The frog 2.0, it was a Marquis 630 Sport Yacht with a 900-horse powered engine, black trimmings all around. Why was it called the frog? Due to Jirayia's weird love of the creatures he painted a huge one at the back of all his vessels, he stated that they brought him luck.
Once we reached the vessel, Tenten gently removed Jirayia's hand from her shoulder, which he didn't even seem to mind, probably more surprised that he wasn't slapped '' Let's get her loaded'' Naruto said while giving the boat a pat before walking back towards the car, as we started loading up the equipment I noticed Jirayia staring at Tenten's ass , he really did have no shame. Once we were done loading everything up Jirayia threw Naruto the keys giving him a knowing look to be careful and pulling him into one last hug. I started to untie the vessel from the dock as Naruto made his way to the captain's chair ''Sit back guys, you're in for a ride'' he yelled and once we were out of Jiraiya's sight he kept true to his word, This felt a lot worse than being in a car with him, I saw Tenten holding onto dear life as the boat was lifted slightly in the air by each wave only to drop back down with all its might. The boats engine no longer roared as Naruto began to slow down settling into a random part of the sea. Naruto exited the cockpit of the boat, seemingly impressed with how quickly we arrived. ''All right, who's ready to fish?'' Tenten and I glared at him for that comment, seemingly unaware of the mayhem at the back of the boat due to his recklessness.
Tenten began to unpack this new equipment she wanted us to try and I had to say I was impressed, it was a large Net with clamps at the bottom which I later learned is to help dig up shellfish, this way we could catch a larger number of fish with half the effort. She began to hook the net to a crane like contraption which I didn't even bother trying to learn the ins and out off. '' Alright guys I'm all done'', I could see Naruto's eager face and he waited for anything. His face fell when nothing happened. Tenten rolled her eyes at his reaction, she pointed to the red button at the side, '' If you push this button , the crane will propel the rope in the air and once we start moving forward it will trap fish within the net and we just push the button again and it'll reel everything in I smirked at the thought of it , where was she when Naruto had me out here for hours just so we could barely catch anything.
Before Naruto could start on one of his rants, probably telling us how this takes all the fun out of fishing I spoke up ''Drop the Nets'' and with that Tenten pushed the button and as promised the crane whirled the net into the air and once she heard the satisfying 'plup' of the Net landing into the water she removed her clothing, revealing a white bikini , which I hadn't noticed her wearing. Once she was successfully freed from her outer layer of clothing, she grabbed a towel and headed towards the front of the boat. Naruto seeing that she had the right idea also threw off his clothes, revealing the of course orange pair of trunks he was wearing underneath his jeans and headed towards the same way as Tenten.
I rolled my eyes at the idiot , seeing as he's forgotten the whole reason we came on this trip was to fish and not for me to watch him tan, I made my way towards the cockpit and did exactly as Tenten instructed, I began slowly moving the boat forward, I watched Tenten stretched out at the front of the boat relaxing before Naruto began to slowly sneak up on her dropping the biggest water balloon that I've seen, which he got from who knows where , Tenten must have jumped at least 10 feet in the air as the balloon hit her back drenching her in cold water. ''N-A-R-U-T-O, I'm going to kill you!'' she proclaimed with the biggest smile on her face but the dobe was long gone and thus began a very dangerous water balloon fight aboard the Frog. I could feel my eyes softening at their antics, no matter how much Naruto annoyed me, I had to admit he was a great friend and always found some way to lift my spirit on this day.
As I placed the boat on auto pilot and began exiting the cockpit, to ask Tenten when do we start pulling up the nets, I saw a dark shadow cover the back of the boat causing me to look up at the sky, The clouds thickened turning into a violent grey, soon not even the sun rays where able to seep through, the dark shadow of gloom covered the ship. I knew I should have checked the weather myself '' Let's head back it looks like its going to rai- '' but before I could finish my sentence we were showered with un-naturally heavy rain, but mother nature did not stop there, as strong winds began to whistle past us, causing the rain to feel like rocks landing against our skin.
'' Pull up the nets!'' Tenten shrieked, as she began to try and cover her body from the harsh rain. I watched as Naruto quickly slammed his hand against the red button. We needed to get out of here and fast. I made my way back into the cockpit, immediately turning off auto pilot and began pushing this baby to her limit and praying that we didn't capsize in the process as we headed back towards shore, as we drove through the 'storm' the waves grew so large that we began to take on a large amount of water, it was almost as if the sea itself was angry. As I steered us through this horrible, tormenting weather, I noticed that just ahead it was completely clear, the sun was shining, the waves lazily rolling into each other, the fluffy white clouds seeming to never drift into the harsh grey ones that we were unfortunately subjugated too. It was almost as the ocean was split in half. Once we where out of the danger zone and back into calm waters, I began to slow down, until I felt like we where a safe distance away from that freak weather. I proceeded to place the boat back on auto pilot and made my way out the cockpit, were different species of fish were flopping about the deck, the net must have flung them onto the ship due to the high winds. I looked back out into the horizon, the grey clouds and harsh weather not moving a millimetre towards us. How strange.
''… Sas… sasuke'', my ears perked as my name was called, I watched as Naruto took a side step from where he was standing next to Tenten, all the colour drained from his face. He looked scared almost as if he's just seen a ghost, that's when my eyes looked down to the exact spot his ghostly blue ones where aimed. I'm pretty sure my face instantly mirrored that of Naruto's. My eyes looked at the 3 creatures laid out on the deck, but one seemed to catch my attention most of all, her inky blue hair framed her heart shaped face, her rosy cheeks and plump lips slightly parted. I watched how the wet cloth around her chest clung for dear life, my eyes continued to drift past her flat stomach to the most peculiar thing of all, large dark purple scales glistening under the suns ray.
''…Mermaids'' Tenten whispered, somebody finally voicing the same thought running through all our heads.
I would have thought it was all a dream if it wasn't for the very real, very alive creatures staring back up at me. I gave them one last fleeting glance, before I proceeded to turn around and leave.
Authors Note: Sorry for the Slow Start, Please Review and Follow.