The Little Merman
Summary-
Naruto is a merman that was assigned to watch Sakura, Triton's youngest daughter. When Sakura falls in love with a human Prince, she goes to the sea wizard to be with him. While trying to stop and save her Naruto takes the full blast of the spell and becomes human while Sakura just loses her voice. Now in order to free Sakura from the sea wizard Naruto must complete the contract that Sakura had signed and make the human Prince fall in love with him in two weeks. Can Naruto do it? Or will he and Sakura belong to the sea wizard forever.
Chapter 1-
A young man with short black hair and onyx black eyes was sitting on the side of a ship starring out into the sea, bored. Him and his older brother were coming back from visiting another kingdom in hopes that one of them would have fallen for one of the Princesses there, but alas, that didn't happen. The young man sighed and looked around him, the sailors were catching fish and preparing for the celebration tonight. Even though neither him nor his brother had gotten married, they were still going to celebrate because it was his 18th birthday that night.
"The sun is shining, the wind his blowing quite nicely, it's the perfect weather for sailing." Some one said from behind him, the young man turned to see a man with shoulder length black hair and pitch black eyes standing behind him.
"Brother?" the young man asked.
"Don't you agree, Sasuke?" the man asked and Sasuke looked back out towards the sea.
"Yeah, it is a perfect day for sailing." Sasuke muttered.
"Triton must be in a good mood today." A random sailor said and Sasuke looked at him confused.
"Triton?" Sasuke asked and his brother's eyes twitched in annoyance.
"The King of the Sea and Mer-people." The sailor said catching Sasuke's attention. His brother inwardly groaned, he had tried so hard to keep his little brother from all the wild and crazy made up stories the sailors made out here on the sea and away from the real world.
"Mer-people?" Sasuke asked.
"Yes, they live at the bottom of the sea and are said to be the most beautiful creatures alive with the torso of a human and the fin of a fish in place of legs." The sailor went to say something else but Sasuke's brother cut him off.
"That's enough! Get back to work and stop filling my brother's head with this nonsense about Mer-people!" The man snapped and the sailor blanched.
"Sorry Prince Itachi!" The sailor cried and scurried off to do his job. Sasuke turned towards Itachi to ask more about Mer-people, they had sounded very interesting.
"Forget what that sailor said, there is no such thing as Triton and Mer-people. It is just a made-up story." Itachi said and an older sailor holding a fish came up behind him.
"The tales are all true Prince Itachi, Prince Sasuke." The sailor said and the fish slipped out of the old sailor's hand, slapped Itachi in the face with it's tail, before slipping back into the water. Sasuke laughed at the shocked and disgusting look on Itachi's face then quickly leaned over the side of the ship to watch with a smile as the fish swam away.
The fish swam deep into the ocean away from the ship. Once it believed that it was far enough away from the ship it stopped and looked at the bottom of the ship before sighing a deep sigh of relief. It then looked around and smiled before it took off towards the bottom of the ocean. As it swam it was met up with many other fish, the school of fish swam through a golden arch and met up with a group of Mer-people as they swan towards a beautiful golden castle. A beautiful silver sea-horse greeted them and pointed the towards a concert hall.
The concert hall was filled with many different ocean life and Mer-people, they were all excited and were chatting to each other excitedly. It wasn't often they were allowed into the palace, but today was a very special day, the youngest Princess was debuting in the musical world like her sister did when they were her age. A while later a line of sea-horses came out blowing trumpets as a very small sea-horse started speaking.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome our Lord and Master, Triton!" the small sea-horse said. The crowed clapped as a handsome merman with short sandy blond hair and green eyes swam into the room smiling and waving, in his left hand he held a trident. "And please welcome the best composer ever to swim the blue seas, Tsuke!" the sea-horse said and a small red crab swam into the room and up to Triton.
"I expect this will be a wonderful show, Tsuke." Triton said.
"Oh it will be my Lord. Your daughters are stars." Tsuke said.
"And my Little Sakura?" Triton asked.
"Sakura has the most beautiful voice," Tsuke said and made his way to a podium that held some sheet music, "If she would ever come to rehearsal." He muttered then took his baton and taped the podium gaining the attention of the band. On his signal the band started to play and seven different colored shells rose up. They opened to show seven very beautiful mermaids, they opened their mouths and started to sing.
"Ah, we are the daughters of Triton.
Great father who loves us and named us well:
Aquata, Andrina, Arista, Atina, Adella, Allana." A light pink shell began to rise in the middle of the mermaids and they began to swim around it still singing.
"And then there is the youngest in her musical debut,
Our seventh little sister, we're presenting her to you,
To sing a song Sebastian wrote, her voice is like a bell,
She's our sister, Sakur- . . ." The shell opened to show it was empty and the mermaids all gasped and swam away from the empty shell. Tsuke's eyes widened and he broke his baton in embarrassment before slowly looking up at a pissed Triton.
"SAKURA!" He yelled.
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A young mermaid with long pink hair and bright green eyes into an old sunk ship through one of the windows, she smiled and was about to swim in through the window when a voice called out behind her. "Sakura, wait for me!" Sakura turned and saw a young merman with short yellow hair, bright sky blue eyes, and three whiskers on his cheeks.
"Hurry up Naruto!" Sakura called to him laughing. "This is it, isn't it fantastic?" Sakura asked once Naruto looked at the sunk ship with worry clear in his eyes, then he looked back at Sakura and smiled a forced smile.
"Yeah, it wonderful. Now come on lets go, we're not suppose to be here." Naruto said and grabbed Sakura's arm.
"You're just scared." Sakura said.
"I'm not scared Sakura, your father band us from being here. I don't want you to get in trouble again, plus it's getting late." Naruto said looking up towards the sky to see that it was only noon, he silently cursed.
"I'm just gonna go look around for a minute, it won't take long. If you don't want to come in with me, then you can just stay here and watch for sharks." Sakura said then quickly swam in through the window.
"Sharks! Shit! SAKURA!" Naruto yelled quickly swimming through the window after her, if a shark was actually near and got Sakura his head would be on the line. When he got to her she was looking around a dark hallway that had a few dead human solders lying around. Thankful that she didn't know what they were he swam up to her. "Sakura, if there are sharks here then we really should leave."
"Oh Naruto, stop being a guppy, there are no sharks here. You just need to relax and have fun." Sakura said, Naruto narrowed his eyes at her as she swam off.
"Oh yes, this is great - I mean, I really love this. Excitement, adventure, danger lurking around every corner." Naruto said sarcastically as he used the tip of his tail to swat a skull away from him in disgust, then followed Sakura into a room. Sakura's eyes widened as she saw a fork laying on a table, she quickly swam over it and picked it up looking at is like it was the answer to life.
"Oh my gosh, look at this. I wonder what it is." Sakura said, Naruto swam over and looked at the fork with a bored look. He gently took it from her and suddenly saw a picture of a handsome man with long black hair and red eyes sitting at a table with class cups filled with strange red liquid and crystal plates filled with food. The man had the fork in his hand, the fork had some food on it and he was in the middle of raising it to his mouth.
"It's a fork." Naruto softly said as he began to turn the fork carefully in his hands, "The humans used it to eat with."
"How do you know?" Sakura asked, Naruto looked at Sakura deep in thought. How did he know? He didn't even know, he just some how knew what it was, what it was for, and how to use it.
"I don't know." Naruto said handing the fork back to her.
"Well, I'm gonna take it to Sai." Sakura said placing the fork in her bag. Naruto rolled his eyes, Scuttle didn't know shit about all the human stuff Sakura brought to him, he just like to show off and Sakura always believed that crazy bird because he lived above the surface. Suddenly a shadow swam past the big windows in the room, the shadow looked suspiciously like a shark, Naruto narrowed his eyes at the window.
"Did you see that?" Naruto asked as Sakura found a pipe.
"I wander what this is." Sakura said, Naruto quickly glanced at the pipe then grabbed Sakura's arm and began to swim away from the room, making Sakura almost drop the pip.
"It's pipe, humans used it to smoke. Now we really need to go." Naruto said and Sakura pulled her arm from his grip.
"Naruto, you really need to relax, nothing is going to happen." Sakura said putting the pipe in her bag. A second later the Shark bit through the window and Sakura screamed.
"Shit! GO!" Naruto said pushing Sakura in front of him, if the shark was going to get someone today he would rather it be him. They swam out of the room, down the hall, into another room, through a crack in the floor, all with the shark close behind them. When they swam through another hole, a piece of wood latched onto Sakura's bag making her drop it.
"My bag!" Sakura cried then suddenly turned and dove for it passing Naruto.
"What the hell are you doing?" Naruto asked and followed her, Sakura quickly grabbed her bag just as the Shark opened his mouth. Naruto quickly punched the shark in the nose stunning him and grabbed Sakura's arm. "Go!" He ordered throwing her in front of him as the shark got over being stunned and quickly swam after them. "Quickly, through the hole in top of the anchor!" Naruto yelled.
"That what?" Sakura yelled back.
"The big metal thing in front of you!" Naruto yelled.
"Oh." Sakura said then swam through the hole in the top of anchor with Naruto following her, the shark tried to follow them but ended up stuck. A few feet from the shark Naruto stopped and turned to glare at the shark, the shark glared at him and Naruto flipped him off then turned and quickly swam back to Sakura. "What was that hand gesture that you did to the shark?" she asked him
"Nothing you should ever use. Only I am allowed to use it." Naruto said, Sakura nodded then smiled.
"Well, that was fun!" Sakura exclaimed. Naruto slowly turned his head to look at the girl as if she had lost her mind, he then shook his head and grabbed her hand and started swimming towards the surface.
"Come on, lets go speak to Sai so that we can go home." Naruto said.
.:'':.
A seagull was sitting on a small rock like island humming while he had a telescope on his head. "Sai!" He heard someone call, he took the telescope off his head and looked through it backwards and saw Sakura waving to him with an annoyed Naruto beside her, they looked far away. "Whoa! Mermaid and merman off the port bow! Sakura, Naruto, how you doing!" he yelled then put the telescope down and noticed they were right in front of him, Naruto was now glaring at him and had his pink in his ear. "Whoa, what a swim."
"Hey Sai," Sakura giggled, "Look what me and Naruto found while we were searching that sunken ship." She took the fork and pipe out of her bag and laid them in front of the seagull.
"Sakura here wants you to tell her what they are, so quickly tell her so we can leave." Naruto said.
"Human stuff, huh? Hey, lemme see." Sai said then picked up the fork, "Look at this. Wow - this is special - this is very, very unusual." he said sounding shocked and Naruto rolled his eyes while Sakura leaned closer.
"What? What is it?" She asked.
"It's a Dinglehopper!" Sai said and Naruto snorted quietly to himself, "Humans use these little babies . . . to straighten their hair out. See-" Sai put the fork on top of his head and began to spin the fork getting his feathers tangled, "Just a little twirl here an' a yank there and – voiolay!" He pulled the fork out of his feathers making them poof out, Naruto slapped his hand over his mouth trying not to laugh, "You got an aesthetically pleasing configuration of hair that humans go nuts over!" Sakura looked amazed and took the fork back from Sai.
"A Dinglehopper."
"And what about this one?" Naruto asked wanting to hear what crazy thing he would come up with for the pipe, Sai picked up the pipe and looked amazed.
"Ah - this I haven't seen in years. This is wonderful! A banded, bulbous – snarfblat." He said.
"A snarfblat?" Naruto asked snorting.
"Oooh." Sakura said, Sai then got a serious look and Naruto readied himself to hear something totally stupid.
"Now, the snarfblat dates back to prehistorical times, when humans used to sit around, and stare at each other all day. Got very boring. So, they invented the snarfblat to make fine music. Allow me." Sai took a deep breath then blew into it causing seaweed to blow out of the other end, Sai coughed, "It's clogged!"
"Music! Shit the concert!" Naruto yelled.
"Oh my Gosh! My father is so going to kill me!" Sakura cried and put the fork in her bag.
"Shit that was today! I could have sworn it was tomorrow. Well, it was tomorrow yesterday." Naruto muttered to himself. "I'm so dead, I promised Triton that I would make sure she was there."
"Maybe you could use it as a little planter or something." Sai said still talking about the pipe, Sakura suddenly reached up and ripped it from his grip.
"Sorry Sai, gotta go. But thank you!" Sakura waving as she and Naruto suddenly dove under water. With out them realizing it they were being watched by a disturbing looking eel that was wearing glasses, his eyes were glowing an eery yellow.
.:'':.
In a gave deep in the ocean, a man with long black hair and yellow eyes with his lower half as a sea-snake watched a bubble the showed Sakura and Naruto quickly swimming through the water trying to get back to the castle as soon as they could.
"Yessssssssss, hurry home, princessssssss. We wouldn't want to misssssssss old daddy'sssss ccccccccelebration, now, would we? Huh! Ccccccccelebration indeed. Bah! In MY day, we had fantasssssssstical feassssssstsssssss when I lived in the palacccccccce. And now, look at me - wassssssssted away to practically nothing - banished and exiled and practically ssssssssstarving, while he and hisssssssss flimsssssssssy fish-folk cccccccccelebrate. Well, I'll give 'em ssssssssssomething to cccccccccelebrate ssssssssoon enough. Kabuto! I want you to keep an extra clossssssssse watch on thisssssssss pretty little daughter of hissssssssss. She may be the key to Triton'sssssssss undoing. . . ."
.:TBC:.