I do not own naruto nor do I own any characters from naruto, got that? Read it, learn it, and memorize it! I DO NOT OWN NARUTO!

Sasuke, Naruto, Shikamaru and Neji are the Konoha four; they get forced by Tsunade to go to the beach. There they meet the mermaids Sakura, Hinata, Ino and Tenten who've been sent to negotiate with the ninjas! SasuSaku, NaruHina, ShikaIno, NejiTen Will love bloom between them? Mermaids and Humans don't exactly mix…

"Hi" (talking)

"Hi" (inner selves)

"Hi" (thinking)

"Hi" (flashback)


Chapter 4- Seraka

"Are we there yet?" a blond boy asked yet again. Every sighed angrily hoping that this 'troublesome kid' would just SHUT UP! "So… are we there yet?"

"NO!" Ino yelled to him.

"Are we there yet now?" Naruto asked yet again.

"SHUT UP!" Ino screamed, and then tail slapped him in the face.

"Ino…" Hinata muttered and then flinched when the blond girl glared at her giving her a death look.

"WHY IS THIS WHOLE DAMN WORLD SO DAMN LOUD AND ANNOYING?" Ino screamed out of nowhere.

"What a troublesome woman…" Shikamaru said quietly to himself.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY?" Ino screamed and attempt to strangle the poor man if not for Sakura and Sasuke who karate chopped her on her neck, she then fainted.

"Shikamaru." Sasuke started.

"You carry her." Sakura finished. Shikamaru's jaw's dropped.

"Why me?" He moaned like a child.

"Cuz you're body bonded to her." Sasuke just muttered and that made Sakura stared him amazingly.

"Wow I didn't expect any mortal to understand that concept so quickly!" Sakura said, Sasuke just sighed and ignored her. Sakura of course noticed this. "Whatever…" She muttered when she noticed his cold expression and looked away with a hint of red on her cheeks. "We'll stop here for the night." Sakura said.

"How can you tell whether it's night or morning?" Neji asked.

"It's just a feeling we get, and it's always right so there you have it." Tenten muttered yet again. Neji looked over at the mermaid. She was not very mermaid-like and acted more like a guy than a female. "What?" Tenten growled and then looked over to Neji.

"Fight me." Neji said.

"What?"

"Fight me…"

"You make me laugh… do you think you're even a match for me?" Tenten asked with a smirk. Neji nodded. "Fine…" she said and they fought a 'friendly' battle. Neji took his Hyuuga fighting stand. "I'm guessing that's the Hyuuga's byakugan right?" Tenten asked as he activated his byakugan.

"Aa" Neji said and then held out a palm, Tenten's eyes widened as a blast of water flew to her knocking her back.

"And I'm guessing that that was the Hyuuga's 'gentle fist'… tch, its not so gentle so me…" Tenten muttered and then stood back up into the water. She raised her hand and made some hand seals. When she was finished, two scrolls appeared on her hands.

"What is that…" Neji whispered as he looked intently at the scrolls.

"This is gonna be interesting…" Tenten muttered as she flapped open the scrolls. "Twin dragons!" She shouted as two white dragons swirled in the water around her, but the dragons then turned to scrolls.

"Weapon scrolls!" Neji thought as Tenten threw hundreds of weapons at him at a time but was blocked with his ultimate defense.

"Damn, so much for that…" Tenten muttered.


Meanwhile…

"Okay, it's almost nighttime… we'll have to rest for the night. All right… so, all we have to do is go over coral borders and then we'll reach the aqua marine city ruled by our aunt and uncle. We have to get a pass from them and go west. That will lead us to the azure estate ruled by our grandmother. We'll have to rest there for the night and then continue our journey the next morning…" Sakura said to the Konoha ninjas but then she looked up and noticed that nobody was listening. Naruto was busy talking to Hinata, Shikamaru was staring at the sleeping Ino instead of the clouds and Neji was too busy fighting Tenten and apparently he was loosing badly now.

"You won't get anywhere explaining to them." Sasuke said in monotone. Sakura looked over to him and then sighed.

"Then I guess I'll have to explain to you right?" Sakura asked.

"Do you want to explain to them?" Sasuke asked. Sakura looked at the others. Naruto was now flirting with Hinata who is redder than a tomato, Ino was flirting with Shikamaru who had a hint of red in his cheeks and Neji has Tenten pinned down on the sea floor.

"No actually I don't…" Sakura muttered and just explained everything they had to do.

"HA! You'll never beat any mermaid if you're underwater!" Sakura heard Tenten yell with a menacing look on her face.

"Tenten! You're not aloud to kill him no matter how much you hate him!" Sakura called to her who just rolled her eyes in response.

"She hates him?" Sasuke asked and Sakura's eyes widened.

"Who are you and what have you done with Sasuke?" Sakura said quickly only to receive a glare from the prodigy. "Okay… I guess you ARE Sasuke-kun…" She whispered. "Sorry about that… it's just that it's amazing that you're actually the one to start the conversation… and anyway… it's not just Neji that Tenten hate. She hates all human and you might find that she especially hates you." Sakura said to Sasuke and then looked back to Tenten.

"Why?"

"You see… when mermaids are born, usually there's always another mermaid born to be a slave of the royal ones. Tenten had one too but she became friends with hers. And the slave mermaids are to sacrifice themselves if there was a time where something or someone threatens their life. You… you're and Uchiha right?" Sakura said and looked over to Sasuke with a question filled in her eyes.

"Yeah."

"Tenten used to love to interact with humans until… that day, last year… akatsuki tricked Tenten and her friend into leading them to Ningyo. But the two akatsuki's attacked Ningyo when they got there and killed many and captured a lot more. One that was blue and had the face of a shark or fish going by the name Hoshigaki Kisame and the other with red eyes with bloodlust radiating in them… the one who killed the Uchiha clan called Uchiha Itachi" Sakura said as she sighed.

"ITACHI?" Sasuke suddenly yelled out with a murdering intent. A glowing seal in the back of his neck swarmed around his body.

"SASUKE!" Shikamaru yelled and protected Ino from the dark energy that was storing in Sasuke.

"SASUKE-TEME! STOP!" Naruto yelled to him.

"What's going on?" Ino mumbled staring at Sasuke in shock.

"W…what is ha… happening?" Hinata mumbled.

"Stupid Uchiha! Does he want to die?" Tenten said and glared at the killing intent surrounding Sasuke.

"This is bad…" Neji thought.

"Sasuke-kun! Stop radiating bloodlust or you'll be forced to be pushed out of this ocean!" Sakura yelled wincing in pain of the dark energy that was swirling around them but Sasuke didn't stop. "STOP IT!" She screamed and threw herself to him. A bright green glow came from her body as Sasuke's eyes widened in shock, the seal stopped and went back to its original place.

"Sorry…" Sasuke muttered as Sakura let go of him she was panting really hard.

"No problem…" Sakura said avoiding his eyes. But she quickly fell onto the sea floor.

"Sakura!" Ino yelled as she turned Sakura around. "Hinata!"

"Right!" Hinata said and put a hand on Sakura's forehead. "Phew… she'll be alright… she just used too much magic."

"THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT YOU STUPID UCHIHA!" Tenten screamed at Sasuke struggling to fight him since Neji was holding her back. "IF ONLY YOU AND YOUR BLOODY CLAN DIDN'T EXIST!" Sasuke looked at Tenten with a glare but the glare disappeared from his face very quickly.

(Flashback)

"Tenten used to love to interact with humans until… that day, last year… akatsuki tricked Tenten and her friend into leading them to Ningyo. But the two akatsuki's attacked Ningyo when they got there and killed many and captured a lot more. One that was blue and had the face of a shark or fish going by the name Hoshigaki Kisame and the other with red eyes with bloodlust radiating in them… the one who killed the Uchiha clan called Uchiha Itachi" Sakura said as she sighed.

(End of flashback)

"Tenten… it's not his fault!" Sakura yelled as she got up.

"Sakura are you okay enough to stand?" Ino asked her as she stood up on her tail.

"I'm fine!" Sakura said with a smile. Ino and Hinata exchanged glances before sighing 'why was she so stubborn?' "Tenten, it's okay… really!" She said smiling again. Tenten looked at her with a worrying look and then stopped struggling.

"Fine…"


2 hours later…

"Alrighty everyone! We'll stay here for the night!" Sakura said happily as they all stepped into an underwater inn called 'sea realm'.

"Is this place safe?" Neji asked and looked around.

"Yeah, duh!" Tenten snapped.

"Is this place clean?" Shikamaru asked and also looked around.

"Of course it is!" Ino snapped.

"Does this place have ramen?" Naruto asked out of nowhere.

"Uh… maybe." Hinata said quietly as everyone looked at Naruto and sweatdropped.

"What?" Naruto said out of place as everyone entered the inn.

"Hey Seraka-Chan!" Sakura shouted as they went in. The mermaid behind the desk turned to look at them and then smiled happily.

"What's up Sakura?" The mermaid said back happily. She had mirage green-blue curly hair tied up and a red flowing dress. Seraka then noticed the konoha ninjas and her eyes turned to hearts. "Now who could these hotties be?" she asked checking out all of the ninjas who grew irritated.

"We need eight rooms!" Sakura said waving a hand in front of Seraka's face. Seraka quickly snapped out of her trance.

"Sorry, we only have four left… but you could share since we have four two people bedrooms…" Seraka said.

"Uh…" Sakura mumbled and then turned to look at the others.

"We'll take it." Sasuke just said.

"Alrighty then! Room 7, 15, 22 and 38 are open. Choose your room." Seraka said happily as she grinned when Sakura blushed looking at Sasuke. "You're humans right?" she asked the Konoha ninjas who nodded in reply. "Then I think you should share a room with the mermaid you're body bonded with. It's safer that way and also it's easier for you to fight in case of an emergency with your mermaid bonded to you there." Seraka said as she winked at Sakura who realized her plan.

"OKAY! My rooms with Hinata-Chan! We get room 15!" Naruto said as he pulled her with him to the room.

"He actually bothered to choose a room?" everyone thought and sweatdropped.

"Okay… my rooms with Shikamaru then…" Ino said with a sly look on her face. "Choose a room! I prefer big numbers though!"

"How REALLY troublesome…" Shikamaru thought as he sighed. "And there are no clouds to stare at too…" he thought and then gulped before saying, "Uh… room 38?"

"Bingo we have a winner!" she said waving a fan she got out of nowhere. She then went to room 38 that was on the third floor.

"I'm a room mate with Neji…" Tenten mumbled as she yawned. "As that Shikamaru guy always says… 'How TROUBLESOME!'" she thought and muttered some stuff before going to room 22 which was on the second floor. Neji just followed behind with a smirk in his face.

"Room 7." Sasuke told Sakura before walking off to the room. Sakura nodded and then followed along but was stopped.

"You're in love with him right?" someone asked. Sakura froze.

"Mother…" Seraka said as she turned around to see a beautiful mermaid with crimson red hair tied up in a bun and flaming red eyes.

"What makes you say that Naomi-Sama?" Sakura asked nervously as she turned to face the woman. Then she noticed the 'look' that the woman was giving her and nodded.

"I knew it." Naomi said and shook her head slowly. Sakura looked down in shame. "I'll just tell you right now that I've reminded you and your sisters before. Don't get too attached to any human, it leads to your death because humans and mermaids CANNOT be together…" Sakura nodded painfully.

"I know that but… I've never even fallen in love before… plus… something else I also learned while being near the humans is that… it doesn't matter if I'm a mermaid. When it comes to love… race… doesn't matter." Sakura said with a smile before going off to her room.

"But she still doesn't know that even though mermaids have eternal life, one of the only ways for a mermaid to die other than if their magic and life is drained is falling in love with a human and using her magic to protect the human…" Naomi muttered. Seraka's eyes widened.

"But that means… Sakura, Hinata, Tenten and Ino all have a high chance of dying!" Seraka mumbled. Naomi looked at her daughter and nodded. "So if they don't like the humans that they are protecting… they won't die right?" Naomi nodded again. "But because they are the four daughters of the king of the sea… they'll be hunted down… even if they don't kill themselves… in other words… no matter what they choose… they will all end up dead." Seraka said as her eyes widened. "But that isn't fair at all!"

"This is the life of a mermaid… cruelty." Naomi said before leaving.

"Sakura… Hinata… Ino… Tenten!" Seraka thought as she went outside the inn and looked up to the surface of the water. "Please don't die… my best friends…" She whispered.

Room 7…

"Uh… Sasuke-kun?"

"What?" Sasuke asked as he noticed the 'kun' at the end of his name.

"Can I see your weapons?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"Because."

"Because what?"

"…"

"Can I see your weapons then?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"Cuz."

"Because WHAT?"

"Because I don't want you to!"

"Hey I got you to say more than one word for a sentence again!" Sakura said happily clapping her hands. Sasuke sweat dropped.

"O…kay…" he thought.

So you see… Sakura tries to get Sasuke to talk and show her his weapons while Sasuke tries not to…

Room 15…

"… So you see, miso ramen is very good but beef ramen is also as good so add it together and eat it at the same time it'll be twice as good! Chicken flavored ramen does NOT taste as good so never order it because it tastes and smells too much like a chicken but if you have no other option then order it because even if it doesn't taste as good as the other flavors, it still tastes good since it is ramen! After all, ramen is the best food ever anyway! I really LOVE ramen, what I don't like about it is the three minute wait which is so annoying but the good part about that is the smell that gets better every single second and…"

So you see… Naruto talks about ramen… and Hinata just listens…

Room 22…

"Good night." Tenten muttered as she flopped down on the bed and closed her eyes.

"Hey…" Neji called out.

"What?"

"Nothing."

"Huh?"

"I was just wondering if you were still alive." Neji said and smirked. Tenten's eyes snapped open and sat up quickly.

"OF COURSE I'M STILL ALIVE…" She started yelling before banging lips with Neji when she sat up. They both quickly pulled away with red all over their faces. "Stay calm Tenten… he's a human and you're a mermaid… it'll never happen…" she thought.

"What just happened there…" Neji thought.

So you see… for the rest of the night they had red on their faces…

Room 38…

Do you even want to know? I'll give you a hint, Shikamaru said Ino was 'troublesome' and Ino got mad… you guess what she did…


The next day…

"Thanks again Seraka! Bye!" Sakura said as they left the inn. Seraka waved back slowly.

"Bye!" She yelled back to her departing friends. "Be safe…" She whispered and watched as they disappeared into the distance.

"She's a foolish one." Her mother said as she came out.

"Mother…" Seraka mumbled. "Don't say that…"

"It's true, her so called love with only lead to her own death. Along with her sisters too." She said and went back into the inn unaware of the glare that her daughter was giving her.

"She won't die." Seraka whispered and looked up to the surface water. "Will she?"

And thus the Konoha ninjas and the four mermaids continue on their journey to Ningyo…