The Secret of the Natsuin Island
Kitten: So this idea came to me while I was kayaking on a lake. The waves rocking me, the beautiful scenary around me... Mmmmh Lovely! It began as a daydream, which I will now gladly write and share! So please enjoy
Warning: There is Smex in the later chapters. But for three chaps or so, there will be none! Maybe a bit of fluff here and there… But nothing more until chapter 4 I do believe. So leave PLENTY of comments, they boost my muse and make the smex EVEN hotter! -purrs-
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Intro
The Spotting of the Pod
Jiraiya, a 50 year old sailor, ran head long into an unexpected storm, nearly 20 years ago. The mixture of the waves, the rain and the lightning caused the aging sailor to capsize and become shipwrecked upon an unknown island. With no way to contact anyone, Jiraiya was stranded and practically left for dead. However, the 50 year old was a stubborn and wouldn't give his life away so easily.
For three days, he went through what was left of his ship, finding bits and pieces of things he could still use.
He found:
A Swiss army knife
Three bags of untouched food
A ripped flag
Some jewels
An old compuse
A map of where he was going, slightly damp
And a strange whistle
For those three days while scavenging through his belongings, he began to look over the island, which turned out to be pretty big and beautiful. It was untouched by anyone other than him, and even if he had lost almost everything he felt like he had gained an all new treasure. In the middle of the island as far as his eye could see, there was a waterfall, which lead into a small deep pool that had hidden tunnels underneath it. The tunnels lead to the sea and the waterfall was fresh water that was deeply imbedded within the island. With the mix of salt and fresh water it was a perfect spot for drinking and bathing water.
It was here where Jiraiya found another treasure. But in the form of an animal.
Jiraiya was hiking to the waterfall, where he had never been before even in his four days stay he had never trekked to the waterfall. However today he was because he needed not only water for himself but a bath as well.
Walking through the thick underbrush of the island he came upon several different species of birds, bugs and plants. He even spotted smaller species of deer, some larger sized mice… What looked like mice anyway. As he hiked the area and came closer and closer to the waterfall, he suddenly heard splashing and clicking. The sound was very familiar and Jiraiya could tell that the sound was coming from a pod of dolphins. However, Jiraiya could not understand why dolphins would be swimming in mixed water.
Speeding up, the aging sailor finally came into the small clearing of the waterfall. Where he spotted the pod of dolphin instantly, and they were definitely not made out for mixed water. They were sea dolphins and they belonged in the sea not in a pool like this. Yet what caught Jiraiya's actual attention was a small figure that was laying upon the bank of the pool.
It was quiet small, looked like a lump of mud but a closer look exposed the fur that covered its body. It was two feet long, to nose to tail and barely a foot around. Dark velvety short fur covered the small bundle. And at first, Jiraiya thought it may have been a strangely colored piglet from the female boar he had seen earlier. But as he drew closer, he could tell it was not a boar piglet at all, but a baby seal.
Jiraiya knelt down to look over the young pup. It couldn't be more than three weeks old at most. By the looks of it, it had no parents. However, Jiraiya had to rethink his hypothesis about not having a family for when he went to pick the motionless pup, the dolphins in the pool began to make a ruckus and splash about with a panic. Looking to the dolphins Jiraiya was amazed at their behavior. In all his life being on the water he had never seen dolphins take in a baby seal before. With a smile Jiraiya nodded to the dolphins and looked at the pup once more before taking his make shift pack off his back and plopping it down next to the pup who did not stir.
Jiraiya was nervous for the pup, he seemed extremely dry, and there was a wound on the bridge of its nose. Along with a couple of scrapes and deep cuts scattered upon his body. Jiraiya concluded that when the storm hit, the pod and the pup had been sucked into the underground tunnels that were under the island and ended up in the pool, where the pup was pushed to shore either by his adopted family or by the harsh waves. So they were stranded just like Jiraiya was. Yet that didn't explain why the pod hadn't left… But looking at how worried their sounds were Jiraiya knew they wouldn't dare leave a family member behind… Also the pool seemed to be rising a bit.
And with that, a sudden rotting smell came to the 50 year olds nose. He looked about and noticed another body, yet it was floating partly in the water by the waterfall itself. One of the pod members had died and was rotting away in the water. Disgusted by the rotting corps, Jiraiya looked at the pod again and noticed something else. They all looked sick. With the mixture of the water, their worry and the corps, the family had become extremely sick. Like their child who now was laying helplessly on shore with no way to survive.
Jiraiya made a plan after that day. He would save the pods life, and the pups as well. But first he would have to get rid of the corps's body and see why the water was rising like it was. Probably because the tunnels may have been blocked.
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Three weeks had passed since the discovery of the pup and the pod that were trapped. He had taken the pup to his camp site which caused some commotion with the family of dolphins. They did not like the fact that they could not see their baby anymore, but every day, Jiraiya would carry the pup back and forth to the pool. By the first week, Jiraiya had successfully got rid of the rotting body of the dolphin yet he could not enter the pool until another week went by because of the smell and how the water was getting.
And in the first week of having the pup with him, Jiraiya noticed a lot of little things that were different about the seal pup, the first thing he found out about the pup was, he was a male. Also he understood Jiraiya completely. Every word and motion as though he was human himself. Little did Jiraiya know that he would have more unexpected discoveries from the pup as time wore on.
The second week was when Jiraiya finally was able to enter the water of the pool. And just like what he had thought. The tunnels had been blocked. It took several days to unplug all of them. And even after he unplugged them all, he had to figure out how to get the dolphins to re-enter the tunnels to go back home. It took another week for Jiraiya to come up with a plan to coax the frightened dolphins through the tunnels, and to his suprice it wasn't his idea… But the pups. By the last day of the second week, the pup had entered the water again for the first time in nearly two weeks. Jiraiya had tried everything… from putting fresh fish in the water, to bubbles and even by force but nothing worked. But in the end the little pup did it by himself. He was also the one to tell Jiraiya what the strange whistle he had found was good for. The dolphins seemed to react to it every time the old man used it.
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Nearly a year had passed since the storm had shipwrecked Jiraiya, and hurtled a pod of dolphins into a death trap. Sad to say some of the dolphins never made it through after returning to the sea. Half the pod is gone, yet they are strong and Jiraiya watches them every morning riding the waves as the sun rises bleaching the sky with color.
Each day Jiraiya would take three hours out of his personal life just to watch his new found family play with the waves. He was especially fawned of the pup who he called Iruka. For three years he would watch them. It had been four and a half years since they found each other, but one day everything changed.
Jiraiya went out like normal, to watch Iruka's pod play in the sun's colored water. However when he went to the beach and sat down and looked out over the sunrise… There were no big pods of dolphins playing. Just the crashing waves and the bright blinding light of the sun, with its magical lights. Jiraiya was devastated. He let it slip once telling himself they would be there the next day… But the next day came and no sign of the family. Days turned to weeks, weeks turned to months and for three more years, Jiraiya did not see them.
Then, one day, Jiraiya was on the cliff looking over the sea. The sun was high in the sky. The sea's breeze was cool and the heat was bearable when he spotted a group of dots on the horizon. He had stepped forward to give it another good look and to his astonishment he could make out the forms of a pod. He had finally spotted the pod. Iruka would be there, hopefully.
He had charged through the undergrowth of the island and rushed to the beach where he was greeted with dolphin calls and a seal yelp. And from the waves they came riding in, the dolphins staying back but the seal, charging forward, going passed the waves onto the beach and right to Jiraiya, yet while on the last wave and the sandy beach, a transformation accured with Iruak. Instead of a seal, he was a seven and a half year old little boy!
"PAPA!" The little boy cried flinging himself into the shocked legs of Jiraiya who stumbled back and fell onto his back in the moist sand. The naked boy was naturally tanned, dark brown hair was now to the middle of his back and at first Jiraiya didn't do anything he couldn't believe that this boy was the seal he had saved. But one look at the boys face changed everything. There, on the face of the seven year old was the same scare and those large brown eyes stared back at him. He was the seal he had saved several years ago! Jiraiya smiled back and laughed.
"Ah my boy! You finally returned!" They both embraced.
And laying on the beach was a skin, a skin of a seal that belonged to Iruka.
And that is how the secret of the Natsuin Island began and only the dolphins that surfed the waves and Jiraiya knew the truth! Until
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Kitten: Okay so it's a little choppy I do believe… I hope it makes you curious about the next chapters! So please read, I will be making the chaps longer and more detailed, its been awhile since I wrote and posted anything!
Japanese Word: Natsuin
Meaning: Seal
Next Chapter: The Secret Expands
