A Mermaid's Magic

by Sukoshi-NinjaFox'sBuddy

AU not a character insert story of 'The Little Mermaid'- because there aren't any normal mermaid stories out there. A young mermaid is captured to become Lady Sakura's new dowry and, as you can image, she's not happy about it. Excerpt- "And what, pray tell, are we supposed to do with a mermaid?" The captain bowed to her. "My queen could keep her as a pet or a slave." ItaOC SasuSaku

1. Chapter 1

Disclaimer: Naruto characters don't belong to me. Neither do the song titles I'm planning on using as chapter titles.

Yes, I know I should be working on any number of other stories but this one is just so awesome…I'm sorry.

Sun Is Up

The rock beneath me still gives off calming heat from the morning sun and the sea laps around my waist lazily, a mother's caress against my skin. Ships sail pass me but I hid myself from their crews' eyes since I prefer not to be seen by mortals.

I opened my eyes slowly and basked in the beauty of the sun reflecting off the water that kept me alive and safe. I smiled and slipped under the waves to return to the pod of dolphins I'd been traveling with. They clicked and whistled at me and I whistled back happily.

They had apparently found a school of fish and were feeding. I smiled as I watched from a short distance away. I swam backwards just a little to escape the few fish that had tried to escape them.

I shrieked in surprise when coarse ropes closed around me and lifted me up through the water. I keened lightly in distress as I ascended further- I would leave the water soon.

The water broke over my head and I glanced at the humans with wide eyes, quickly fixing a pleading look on my face. A man near the other side of the ship cursed and pushed closer as they muttered about 'finding a blooming, freaking mermaid' in their fish net. I keened again and the dolphins joined in with their upset clicks and whistles.

My eyes managed to catch another pair of green in their depths. A well dressed pinkette was staring at me in shock. I pursed my lips into a frown and released a shrill disgruntled blast. Apparently they wanted to give me to the prince the young 'Lady Sakura' was to marry as a 'dowry', whatever that was. I looked back up at the pinkette and cried out at her.

Her face crumpled but before she could do anything a man with silver hair pushed her deeper into the ship. I shrieked angrily and began to hiss as they lowered me to the deck.

As soon as I was down I began to thrash and cut at the ropes, keening the whole while. Many of the mortals were struck away from me by my powerful blue-green tail.

They began to jeer amongst each other and suddenly a young blonde male was flung over me. I hissed but pushed him off gently- he had done nothing to me. Yet.

"Take her to your cell slave." He shot me an apologetic look but began to lift me anyway. "Make sure you don't lose her either." They laughed loudly as he carried me through the door on the opposite side of the ship where the pinkette disappeared.

"You can understand us, can't you?" I looked up at his serious blue eyes and nodded. "I prefer it if you kept that to yourself though." A wide, goofy smile planted itself on his face. "Sure, as long as you stay quiet about me." I nodded and smiled. He wasn't that bad for a mortal.