Where the Air and Sea Meet
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Naruto x Ariel
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Author's Note
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This chapter is dedicated to pyromania101 who is leaving for College tomorrow I believe.
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Story Start
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Ursula was not pleased by the news her poopsies, Flotsam and Jetsam delivered to her. Her green-gray eels were very loyal and sly, experts at tracking and following people without them so much as alerting their presence. Ursula was well aware of Princess Ariel's near obsessive interest in human culture. She figured Ariel would grow desperate enough to come to her and would be willing to trade anything to be human. It was simple, she would give the girl a pair of legs in exchange of her voice, Ariel would have three days to get a kiss of love and of course the Sea Witch would use Ariel's bartered voice to hypnotize the voice and at the end of the third day Ariel's soul would be hers, but now it was useless. There was now doubt that the boy would be all lovey dovey with her, regardless of her lack of speech.

This would require a new plan. The princess would have to exchange something else. What could she possibly take that would make it impossible for two love sick teens to truly fall in love in three days? Her eyes flashed deviously as a grin formed belling her large teeth. ''Flotsam, Jetsam. Mommy has a new job for you.'' she said, calling out to her eels.

Naruto and Ariel was once more enjoying each other's company. Both of them were rather giddy, the latter more so than the former as kissing seemed to be less common in mermaid culture. She seemed rather addicted to his lips as she took every opportunity to kiss him, not that he was complaining of course. His arms nestled comfortably around her slender waist the feeling of her scale clad lower form against him was kind of weird. Than again it was probably more of the fact that she was the one supporting him above the water that made him feel giddy.

Something moving through the water caught his attention. They broke the kiss as Ariel's eyes widened and a grin broke out on her face. ''Flounder, there you are.'' she said as she let go of Naruto and gracefully swam towards a yellow and blue, pudgy guppy. Naruto watched in amusement as he gently waded in the water as the mermaid and fish communicated. He seemed rather nervous and hesitant, but try as he might the mermaid overpowered him and dragged him over to Naruto. Poor little guy, he looked like he was going to have a heart attack; all things considering with fish and sushi making up a good majority of food at port towns or such.

''Flounder this is Naruto, Naruto Flounder.'' she introduced them as the Guppy fainted. ''Sorry about that, he's shy,'' she stated sheepishly as Naruto merely chuckled.

''All and all I almost got my scuba diving gear ready. I should be ready to join you tomorrow.'' he said as Ariel placed the Guppy down to the water as he began drifting off. Naruto was beginning to suspect Ariel had an attention span tomorrow. ''Ooh, what's that?'' she asked, as she grabbed his wrist and pointed to something far off in the distance. 'Yeah, definitely attention span problem.'

That night Ariel returned to the palace with a blissful smile on her face. Making out the forms of her sleeping sisters she settled onto her shell bed and began to slowly make out the words of the book that Naruto had given her with her finger. The book was made for those who were blind, it was called braille and they were far sturdier then normal books and the letters were shaped with silver beads. Normally they were supposed to be dots, but Naruto explained the items he had given her would last longer in water then their counterparts before eventually being worn out.

''And...so...th...th..tha...'' she slowly read. 'Man, this is so tough.' she thought with a pout but Ariel was far too stubborn to give up. She wanted to learn more about human culture and any scrap of knowledge was worth the effort. Ariel so engrossed in the book she didn't notice the stirring form of one of her sisters. The mermaid was slender with fair skin and long, platinum blonde hair done up in the style of a sloppy ponytail swam up. With a crimson tail and red seashell bra illuminated by the low light of the room her ice blue eyes settled upon Ariel's bed.

''Uugh, what's this?'' Arista said as she snatched the book from the red-head's clutches.

''Arista, stop! Give that back!'' Ariel hissed as she swam after her klepto of a sister.

''Is it about seahorses?'' she giggled as she looked into the book only to realize she couldn't read it. ''Is this,'' she gasped. ''A HUMAN BOOK!'' She squealed only for Ariel to tackle her and cover her mouth.

''Are you trying to wake up the others?'' Ariel hushed her.

'What are you doing with one of these? Do you know what Daddy would do if he found out about this?'' the normally ditzy girl had become deathly serious.

''But human artifacts are dangerous. Daddy says their vicious killers who pollute the sea. Honestly, how can you like, be so interested in them?'' she asked, as Ariel had to bite her tongue to argued against what Arista had to say because it would meant explaining how she could argue in favor of humans in the contrary.

''I'll get rid of it, just please Arista don't say anything.''

''Okay, I'll let it slide, but don't let this happen again.'' the blonde sternly lectured her sister before continuing on to what she was doing. Ariel dropped back down on the bed with a whimper.

'She doesn't understand. None of them do.' though neither of them were aware, another one of their sisters was awake and had seen and heard everything.