Hello folks. I'm back with a new story (I know, it's a bad habit of mine to publish new stories before I finish the ones I already have uploaded, but Inuyasha is my new favorite anime and I wanted to write a fic for that fandom and then this idea popped into my head). I know this has been done before with the Naruto characters but this idea was too good to ignore, I started writing and I culdn't stop. The chapters are shorter than those I usually write but it was either that or a long one-shot with over 10,000 words, possibly. I hope you will like it and please, when you're done post a review, it will only take 20 seconds of your time and it will make an author like me extremely happy.
In case you're reading my other stories I apolegize for the lack of updates but I'm having a huge writer's block right now but I can tell you that I am writing on the next chapter of 'Caught in the Whirlpool' it's just a slow process and it's especially hard when I lack interest in the anime (Naruto in this case).
Chapter One - The Ship Wreck
Below the blue waves that occasionally flushed up on the beach, leaving the sand damp and flat, deep down in the sea it was said that people lived. The sailors called them merpeople. And according to them they looked like humans from the waist and up but instead of legs they had long, elegant fishtails. It was said that they lived in a kingdom on the bottom of the ocean and that a Queen named Kaede ruled over them.
But it was only the sailors who believed in those tales, other people just thought of it as a fairytale that they had invented to scare others.
Prince Inuyasha did not know if he actually believed the stories about the merpeople but they were entertaining and every time some of the sailors he traveled across the sea with was talking about the people beneath the waves he listened with interest. The nobles in his castle thought the tales of the merpeople to be rubbish, and he never talked about it either when he was home, but right now, sitting on the deck, leaning his back against the rail, he was free, when he traveled across the waves he was not the Prince but an ordinary sailor and he was never afraid to ask any of the other sailors questions about the people on the bottom of the ocean and neither was he afraid to admit that he liked the stories.
He sighed with delight as he felt the fresh salty sea breeze caress his fair-skinned face. This was life, he thought, moving across the sea and waking up to be greeted by the salty smell of the water every morning and not having to worry about duties at the castle. He couldn't ask for more. The weather was just perfect, the sun was shining down on the ship and it's light was neither too warm or too cold, it was just right, as it should be, and he heard the waves touch the ship and make it rock a little in the water. Queen Kaede would have to be in a very good mood today, he thought.
And the Prince was right. Kaede, the Queen of the underwater kingdom of Tokyo, was indeed in a good mood. Today was a good day and just about every creature that lived in Tokyo was excited for the events that would occur that night. The seven Princesses would have a concert. And everyone knew what beautiful voices that the daughters of the Queen possessed. Though the youngest of the daughters, the most beautiful one, had the most wonderful voice of them all.
And right now said daughter of the Queen was swimming around with her best friend, a little yellow fish named Souta. The youngest daughter's name was Kagome. She had beautiful black hair that reached her waist. She was an adventurous girl that hardly could sit still in one spot. Every day she and Souta went on a new adventure. Today they were on their way to the wreck of a ship that Kagome wanted to explore.
"There it is Souta," Kagome told the yellow fish with excitement. "Let's check it out".
Kagome swam down to the wreck followed by a very nervous Souta. The poor little fellow wasn't really the bravest fish around and he thought that Kagome sometimes was too excited and curious for her own good. But he always followed her nonetheless; after all, what kind of friend would he be if he didn't?
Finally Kagome stopped when they were right beside the wreck.
"What do you think Souta?" the young mermaid asked. "Pretty cool huh?"
"If you think so," the fish said, while trembling. He didn't see anything cool about the ship; he just wanted to go back home. He had asked himself several times already why he always agreed with Kagome every time she suggested that they'd go to explore something. He wished that he knew how to say no to her.
"Let's check it out," Kagome proposed, "I want to see what's inside, how about you, Souta?"
Souta shook his head violently. "No thanks, I think I'll pass this time".
Kagome smirked. "Oh, all right, you can stay outside to keep watch for the shark demons".
"Shark demons?" Souta stuttered, having suddenly gained even more fright.
But the little fish got no answer, because Kagome had already disappeared through a porthole. "Kagome, wait for me!" Souta exclaimed and rushed over to the hole. But unfortunately he got stuck in the hole when he was halfway through. "Kagome!" he yelled for help.
The mermaid heard his call and rushed over to him. "Oh Souta," she laughed as she dragged him through the porthole, "you really are a coward, aren't you?"
"I'm not a coward," Souta stuttered. Kagome just smirked. "Come on".
Souta followed his best friend through the ship. Kagome looked around curiously, obviously trying to find some new human item to add to her collection. But most of the ship was empty, they were likely lost when the ship sank or the humans had managed to take the items with them. Souta hoped that the ship would be proved to have no items and then he and Kagome could go home again before something serious would happen.
Suddenly Souta heard Kagome gasp. He followed her gaze and caught sight at something shiny in the opposite end of the ship.
Kagome quickly swam over to the object. She picked it up and gazed at it with curiosity and excitement. "Oh gosh," she said and cast a brief gaze at her friend. "Souta have you ever seen anything like this before?"
Souta shrugged his fins. He wasn't as excited as Kagome but he didn't have the heart to tell her that. But it didn't seem like Kagome was paying any attention to him anyway, she was too busy admiring that odd shining item. Souta turned away from the over-excited mermaid, he was bored, and he wanted Kagome to finish her business quickly so that they could go home, to safety.
But Kagome just kept swimming around, exploring every inch of the wreck. As the time passed the little fish grew more and more uncomfortable.
Then Souta felt a presence nearby and he slowly turned to look after the newcomer. Souta gasped. It was a demon. When it got a little closer he noticed that it had the form of a shark. So it was a shark demon. The little yellow fish saw no other option than one at the moment. He screamed. Kagome gasped in shock and turned towards her friend. She immediately caught sight of the demon behind him and quickly rushed to Souta and caught him by the fin and dragged him along with her as she, as quickly as she was able, swam away from the shark. In one hand she held Souta's fin and in the other she was holding tight onto her little bag with her newly discovered human items. She used all of her strength to escape the terrible beast following them. The shark demon was very fast and there were several times where her tail was almost locked between the demon's fangs. Luckily the shark got stuck in the hole of an anchor. Kagome quickly made her way up to the surface with Souta in her arms.
When Kagome and Souta stuck their heads out of the water they both sighed in relief. None of them dared to think of what would have happened if the shark demon had caught them. Especially not Souta.
Kagome swam over to a little cliff with Souta right behind her. She always visited this cliff when she visited the surface. Because on this cliff lived one of her best friends. It was a seagull named Shippo. He was a clever bird, who knew many things about the people on land that Kagome didn't. She came to him every time she had a question about the humans.
"Hello Shippo," the little mermaid greeted the seagull once she got close enough.
The seagull smiled. "Well if it isn't little Kagome," he said with a smile. "Always a pleasure".
"Likewise Shippo," Kagome said and chuckled in amusement.
"What can I do for you today?" Shippo gave a low bow, which almost caused the poor bird to fall over his own legs.
Souta tried to cover his giggles with his fins, but Kagome still heard them and she smiled with amusement. "I need you to take a look at these things that Souta and I found today," the mermaid explained, showing the seagull her little bag. She picked out the first item. It was the shiny silver item that had first caught her attention. Now in the sun it was even shinier.
"Wow!" Shippo said in admiration as he picked up the item and examined it. "This is certainly a wonderful thing".
"You know what it is?" Kagome asked with hopeful excitement in her voice.
"Of course," the seagull said and nodded. "This is a dinkelhopper".
"A dinkelhopper?" both Kagome and Souta exclaimed at the same time.
"Correct," the seagull said. "Humans use these kinds of things to comb their hair with".
"Wow". Now it was Kagome's turn to be amazed.
"And what about this?" Souta asked, pointing at the other item with his fin.
"Ah," Shippo said, picking up the item. "I haven't seen such a thing in a long time".
"Well what is it?" Kagome asked, having finally taken her attention off the dinkelhopper.
"It is a snorfblad," the seagull told her. "Humans use this to play music…" At the word music Kagome stopped paying attention to the bird, she had just been reminded of something and it was not good.
"Oh music, the concert," she uttered.
"That was today?" Souta asked.
"Oh now mother is going to be mad at me". She quickly took her items from Shippo and put them back in her little bag. "I'm sorry Shippo, I have to go," Kagome said regretfully, "thank you".
"No problem milady," the seagull replied, waving at her with one of his wings as the mermaid and her friend swam away.
Some distance away in a dark cave a woman; better make her half-woman and half-octopus, sat and stared into a crystal bowl in front of her. "You better hurry back home, Princess, we cannot have mommy worry, can we?" She let out an evil chuckle as she watched the little mermaid swimming through the sea with her little fish friend beside her.
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