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 2-
Sakura and Naruto stood before an angry Triton, Naruto was standing behind Sakura and slightly off to the side like a good servant should be. Naruto looked out of the side of his eye and saw Tsuke in the room looking a little pleased that they were getting in trouble once again, Naruto knew that Tsuke had been really embarrassed when Sakura wasn't there on time and made him look like a fool, so he knew why he was happy.
"I don't know what I'm going to do with you young lady." Triton said bringing Naruto back to the present situation. Naruto took a deep breath and cleared his throat getting everyone's attention on him.
"I'm sorry my lord, it was my fault. I should have been paying attention, but me and Princesses Sakura were having so much fun that time simply slipped away from me, my lord." Naruto said bowing.
"As a result of your careless behavior-" Triton started.
"Careless and reckless behavior!" Tsuke said and Triton gave him a look.
"Yes, well, because of your behavior the celebration was-" Triton started again.
"It was ruined! That's all. Completely destroyed! This concert was to be the pinnacle of my distinguished career. Now thanks to you I am the laughing stock of the entire kingdom!" Tsuke yelled and Naruto flinched back.
"Yes, and you will be punished for ruining my celebration." Triton said and Naruto closed his eyes and nodded.
"No Daddy! It wasn't his fault! I drug him to a sunken ship, and he tried to get me back. But then a shark attacked us and if it wasn't for him we would both be goners. And then Sai started talking about music and reminded me about the concert." Sakura said and Naruto slapped his forehead.
"Sai? Sai the Seagull? You went up to the surface again didn't you? Even after I told you never to go up there!" Triton asked even more angry.
"Nothing happened Daddy!" Sakura said.
"Oh, Sakura, how many times must we go through this? You could have been seen by one of those barbarians - by - by one of those humans!" Triton said.
"Sakura, don't do it." Naruto muttered under his breath.
"They're not barbarians Daddy!" Sakura cried."They're dangerous. Do you think I want to see my youngest daughter snared by some fish-eater's hook?" Triton asked and Naruto closed his eyes knowing what was going to happen next and got ready to follow a crying Sakura out of the room.
"I'm sixteen years old - I'm not a child anymore!" Sakura yelled.
"Don't you take that tone of voice with me young lady. As long as you live under my ocean, you'll obey my rules!" Triton ordered
"But if you would just listen-" Sakura tried but was cut off.
"Not another word! And I am never, NEVER to hear of you going to the surface again. Is that clear?" Triton ordered and Sakura swam out of the room crying, Naruto bowed to Triton and swam after her.
"Hm! Teenagers. They think they know everything. You give them an inch, they swim all over you." Tsuke said swimming up to Triton.
"Do you, er, think I-I was too hard on her?" Triton asked worried about his daughter.
"Definitely not. Why, if Sakura was my daughter, I'd show her who was boss. None of this "flitting to the surface" and other such nonsense. No, sir, I'd keep her under tight control." Tsuke said.
"You're absolutely right, Tsuke." Triton said smiling.
"Of course I am." Tsuke said.
"Sakura needs constant supervision, other than that boy Naruto." Triton said.
"Constant." Tsuke agreed.
"Someone to watch over her, to keep her out of trouble." Triton said leaning closer to Tsuke.
"All the time-" Tsuke said not noticing how Triton was looking at him.
"And YOU are just the crab to do it." Triton said shocking Tsuke.
.:'':.
Tsuke was slowly walking down the hallway, still in shock at what Triton said to him "How do I get myself into these situations? I should be writing symphonies, not tagging along after some headstrong teenager." He looked to the side of him just in time to see Sakura and Naruto swimming out of Sakura's room. "Hmm? What is that girl up to this time?" He followed them out of the castle. They swam for a few minutes, making sure no one saw them, and ended up at a cave that was covered by a large bolder.
"Are you sure about this Sakura? We could get in even more trouble than we already are." Naruto said.
"Just open the cave Naruto, I need to put this stuff in there before my father finds them." Sakura said and Naruto nodded. He went over to the bolder and began to move it as if it weighed nothing, once the opening was wide enough Sakura quickly swam in and Naruto followed her and began to move the bolder back, Tsuke quickly swam through the door, making sure Naruto didn't see him. He barely made it through before it shut and was shocked at what he saw. The cave walls were covered in many different objects that Tsuke had never seen before.
"There." Tsuke heard Sakura say, he looked over and saw that she had placed the fork in a candle holder along with a spoon and knife.
"You're collection just keeps getting bigger each day." Naruto said with a little laugh.
"Yeah, I mean look at this stuff, isn't it neat?" Sakura asked swimming around looking at all over her collection.
"If someone saw this, they would think that you're collection was complete." Naruto said.
"Yeah, they would think that I'm the girl who has everything." Sakura said.
"Look at this trove, and all the treasures you have. How many wonders can one little cavern have?" Naruto asked picking up the candle holder looking bored. Tsuke then knew that Naruto was just trying to make Sakura happy.
"I've got plenty gadgets and gizmos over there, and enough whozits and whatzits to make anyone happy." Sakura said then swam over to a box and picked it up, "I mean, come on, you want Thingamabobs?" She opened up the box to show about twenty wine openers. "Take your pick, I've got twenty. But who cares?" Sakura said slamming the box closed and startling not only Naruto but Tsuke as well, "No big deal. I want more!"
"More?" Naruto asked shocked, "What more could you want?"
"I wanna be where the people are!" Sakura cried pointing up towards the surface, "I wanna see them dancing and waling around on those, oh what are they called?"
"Feet?" Naruto asked cautiously.
"Yes! Feet! You and I both know that flipping your fins you don't really get too far, but legs are required for jumping, dancing, and strolling along down a-a- What's that word again?" Sakura asked and Naruto sighed.
"A street." He said and sat down on the ground and watched her rant.
"Street." Sakura repeated, "I want to be up where they walk, where they run, up where they stay all day in the sun!"
"Why?" Naruto asked.
"I don't know, I just want to be part of that world!" Sakura snapped and Naruto held up hands up in surrender. "What would I give to live out of the waters. What I would pay just to spend one day on the warm said." Sakura smiled at the thought then frowned when her father popped into her head. "I bet you anything that on land they would understand, I bet they don't reprimand their daughters."
"Don't count on it." Naruto muttered confusing Tsuke.
"I'm sick of swimming, I'm ready to stand! Ready to know that the people know! You know, ask them my many questions and finally get some answers." She turned and saw a picture of a candle with a flam and swam over to it. "Like, what's a fire and why does it- Oh what's that word?"
"Burn?" Naruto asked.
"Yes! Burn! Why does it burn?" Sakura asked and Naruto shrugged his shoulders, Naruto laid down and looked up at the surface out of the small hole at the top of the cave. Sakura sighed and floated to be able to sit next to Naruto and also looked up at the surface with a longing look. Something out of the corner of his eyes caught Naruto's attention, he looked over and saw Tsuke standing there looking very shocked, it took only a second for Naruto's brain to register what he was seeing. But as soon as it did he shot up shocking Sakura.
"Shit, Tsuke, what are you doing here? How did you get in here?" Naruto asked and Sakura gasped as she finally noticed Tsuke.
"Sakura, what, are you mad? How could you- what is all this?" He asked gesturing to the cave.
"It, err, it's just my collection." Sakura said nervous.
"Oh. I see. Your collection. Hmm. IF YOUR FATHER KNEW ABOUT THIS PLACE HE'D-" Tsuke started but was cut off by Naruto slamming his hand over his mouth.
"You're not gonna tell him, are you?" Naruto asked glaring at Tsuke, suddenly Tsuke got very nervous.
"Oh, please, Tsuke, he would never understand."
"Sakura, you're under a lot of pressure down here. Come with me, I'll take you home and get you something warm to drink." Suddenly the moon light was blocked and everyone looked to see the bottom of a ship. Tsuke and Naruto both looked annoyed just knowing that Sakura was going to want to get a closer look at it.
"What do you suppose that is?" Sakura asked then quickly swam out of the cave.
"Shit! Sakura stay away from that!" Naruto cried quickly following her, Tsuke took off after both of them. They surface to see some fire works go off, Sakura looked excited while Naruto looked nervous at being so close to live humans.
"Sakura, what - what are you- jumping jellyfish! Sakura, Sakura! Please come back!" Sakura ignored him as he swam closer to the ship.
"Fuck." Naruto muttered and swam after hoping to be able to stop her. Sakura grabbed onto some rope on the side of the ship and began to climb up it, Naruto glared at her and grabbed the same rope and followed her. When they got to the railing of the ship they found a sturdy piece of wood attached to the rope and sat on it. Suddenly a dark red fox ran over to them and Naruto quickly pushed Sakura's head down before the fox saw her. Naruto and the fox had a short staring contest, but the fox looked away when Naruto's eyes flashed blood red. Just then someone whistled, Naruto looked away from the fox and Sakura poked her head up to see a young man with short black hair and onyx black eyes bent down, Sakura and Naruto's eyes widened when they saw him
"Come here Kyuubi, Itachi has been looking everywhere for you." the man said.
"Hey Sweet heart, quiet a show huh?" Sai asked as he flew over to them and landed on Sakura's shoulder. Naruto glared at him and Sakura shushed him.
"Sai, be quiet or they will hear you." Sakura said.
"Oh I see. I gotcha." Sai said winking at her, "We're being intrepidatious. WE'RE OUT TO DISCOVER!" Suddenly Naruto crabbed his beak, almost breaking it, before tossing the seagull behind them and way from them, but Sai flew back over.
"I've never seen a human this close before. Oh, he's very handsome, isn't he?" Sakura said with a dreamy sigh and Naruto looked at her shocked, not believing what he just heard from her mouth.
"I dunno, he looks kinda hairy to me." Sai said looked at the fox in the man's hand.
"Not him, the one holding him." Sakura said.
"Silence! Silence!" a man with shoulder length black hair and pitch black eyes said and everyone stopped taking or playing music instantly. "It is now my honor to present my little brother, Prince Sasuke, with a very special, very expensive, and very large birthday present."
"Aw, Itachi, you didn't have to get me anything." Sasuke said.
"I didn't, father did." Itachi said then pulled a sheet off a large, gaudy statue of Sasuke, Kyuubi hissed at the statue.
"Wow, that' really something." Sasuke said.
"Father had hoped it would have been a wedding present." Itachi said.
"So that means you got one too?" Sasuke asked.
"Yes, but mine some how managed to get lost while they were loading the ship." Itachi said smirking.
"Lost my ass." Sasuke muttered. "And I'm not just going to marry someone because father told me to. I want to marry out of love, and I know that the person I'm meant to be with is out there somewhere." he said walking over to the railing here Naruto and Sakura were hiding. Sakura sucked in her breath and Naruto covered her mouth and held on to Sai's beak again. "I'll know the person when I meet them, it'll just hit me like lightning." Suddenly light flashed and thunder rolled and dark clouds rolled in and covered the moon.
"Hurricane is coming! Stand fast! Secure the rigging!" A sailor yelled and every one but the two princes ran all over the place trying to quickly get ready for the storm. Five minutes latter the ran hit them as if it were trying to tear off their skin and wind blew at them trying to make them fly away. Naruto let go of Sai and wrapped and arm around Sakura tightly and held on to the rope as tight as he could.
"Whoa!" Sai yelled also trying to hold on the the rope, "The wind's all of a sudden on the move here" he said just before he was blown away, "I'll see you later!" he cried over the crack of lightning that hit the ship and started a fire.
"Well, there is you're fire for you!" Naruto yelled at Sakura who looked at the fire in wonder and fright. Suddenly the ship crashed into something and everyone put Kyuubi was thrown over bored Naruto held onto Sakura so that they wouldn't get separated as they fell into the water, they resurfaced a safe distance away from the ship.
"Kyuubi!" Itachi yelled. Sasuke suddenly grabbed onto a rope and started to climb back onto the ship, he grabbed Kyuubi and was able to toss him to Itachi just before the ship exploded. "SASUKE!" Sakura gasped and looked at Naruto.
"We have to save him!" Sakura yelled. Naruto sighed, annoyed, but dove under water to find the human, Sakura was right behind him. Sasuke held his breath as long as he could, he didn't have the strength to do anything other than that, he saw something coming towards him, and pretty fast. He looked over thinking it was a shark but saw a beautiful young man with short yellow hair, sky blue eyes, and whisker like scars swimming over to him. Sasuke closed his eyes thinking the boy was an anger coming to take him to heaven.
Naruto sighed when he saw the Prince and grabbed him and swam up to the surface, he looked around and saw a bunch floating pieces of wood, but none of them looked strong enough to hold the Prince up and out of the water. "Shit." Naruto muttered and then began to quickly swim to the closest land knowing the Sakura was following him.
"Where are you going?" Sakura asked.
"We have to get him to land." Naruto said. After a few hours Naruto and Sakura came to a beach, thankfully no one was there. Naruto quickly drug him on to the beach then flopped onto his back, exhausted, just as Sai landed next to them.
"Is he dead?" Sakura asked a little afraid of the answer. Sai hopped up to Sasuke's head and opened his eye.
"It's hard to tell." Sai said then moved to Sasuke's feet and lifted up on to his ear, "I-I don't hear a heart beat." he said and Sakura's eyes teared up. Naruto groaned at the idiot bird and sat up.
"Move!" Naruto demanded then laid his head on Sasuke's chest, he wasn't breathing, but his heart was still beating he had to do something and fast or he would die. He quickly sat up and scoot so that he was near Sasuke's head. He tilted Sasuke's head back and opened his mouth, he took a deep breath and then put his mouth on to Sasuke, Sakura gasped, and blew air into his lungs. Once all the air was out of Naruto's lungs he pulled back and took another deep breath and repeated his actions.
"Wh-what is he doing?" Sakura asked.
"I don't know." Sai said. Suddenly Sasuke coughed and spit up some water, Naruto stopped what he was doing and gave a sigh of relief, then looked at Sakura.
"He'll be fine, he will live." Naruto said never seeing Sasuke's eyes open and look at him.
"SASUKE!" Everyone heard being yelled from a distance, Naruto panicked and grabbed Sakura's hand.
"We have to go." Naruto said and they both dove under the water, a second later Sasuke sat up to stop him but saw no one. A minute late Itachi and a man with short, spiky silver hair with one blue eye and one red eye ran up to him.
"Oh thank god." the silver eyed man said, Itachi bent down and check Sasuke for wounds, when he found none he whacked him on the back of the head.
"Don't you ever do that again!" Itachi roared then hugged him, "You had me so worried."
"A boy saved me." Sasuke said then stood up and walked closer to the sea, "He was talking to someone, he was- he was so beautiful." Itachi and the other man looked at each other before Itachi walked over to Sasuke and gently turned him to face him while the other man looked out into the sea and saw a glimpse of a young man with short yellow hair, sky blue eyes, and whisker like scars on his cheeks before he went under water.
'So that's how it is.' The man thought.
"Sasuke, I think you may have swallowed a bit too much salt water." Itachi said then began to gently lead Sasuke towards a castle, "Come, lets get you inside. I'll have the servants run you a nice bath and have the cook fix you a nice hot meal." The silver haired man followed after them with a smirk on his face. Once they were gone Naruto, Sakura, and Tsuke popped up out of the water.
"Alright, We will just forget this whole thing ever happened. The sea king will never know. You won't tell him, I won't tell him. I will stay in one piece." Tsuke said but no one was paying attention to him, Naruto and Sakura were both staring after Sasuke, Sakura with a deep blush and Naruto with a blank face.
'He called me beautiful.' Naruto thought then thought about his lips against his when he was saving his life, 'His lips were so soft. NO! Stop, he is a human, you are a merman, it could never happen!' Naruto shook his head then looked over as Sakura.
"Come on, lets go home." Naruto said then grabbed Sakura's hand and they both dove under the water with Tsuke following them. After they had all disappeared Kabuto rose from the water smirking, his eyes glowing sending everything he was seeing he had saw.
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"Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. I can't ssssstand it - it'ssssss too easssssssy. The child isssssss in love with a human. And not jusssssssst any human - a princcccccccce! Her daddy will LOVE that. King Triton'sssssssss headssssssssstrong, lovessssssssssick girl would make a charming addition to my little garden." The sea-snake said with a smirk.
.:TBC:.