A/N: This one came to my mind the other night and after I wrote it I thought it was so cute, so I decided to share it with you; enjoy!
(Kisame)
"Ariel"
A door opened in the darkened room and stepping into that room was none other than Kisame.
He was exhausted, having only just gotten back from a fortnight-long mission he was looking forward to some well-deserved rest.
But of course, all thoughts of rest must be forgotten until he does his usually daily chore...
After locking his door and setting his sword down against the wall next to his bed, he turned on the blue lamp that rested upon his desk and a toothy grin broke out on his face.
"And how is my beautiful Ariel doing today?"
His eyes rested upon the huge tank that ran across the length of his room, it was filled with sand, colourful rocks, seaweed and much other needed equipment to keep marine-life living. But it was what was in the water-tank that always caught his interest.
His pet was a 'White Tipped Reef Shark' one of the smallest sharks to inhabit the seas and usually quite harmless; although Kisame would've loved to have had the 'Great White Shark' as a pet, he simply didn't have the room for it and especially didn't have the time to train it. So he settled for something more...conventional-well, for him at least.
His little shark was a female, he'd raised her from when she was only two years old and was roughly below forty inches-she'd been so cute and he couldn't resist purchasing her from a fisherman when he told him that he'd accidentally caught her mother as she was giving birth. Her mother had died soon after from shock, but his little Ariel remained.
He'd been raising Ariel for almost six years now and he knew she'd be ready for breeding soon, deep-down he felt bad for not releasing her back into the ocean-where she rightfully belonged, but he knew he'd just wait up at night worrying about whether she was really alright.
In a way she was the closest thing he had to a friend and he'd be lying if he didn't say he loved her.
Of course none of the other members-aside from Leader knew that he had a rather timid shark (unless provoked) residing in his room, he'd been bragging he had a 'Great White Shark' in his bedroom and that he had Leader's full-permission to let it eat anyone of them should they get on his nerves; they'd bought it without even asking for proof. Leader almost seemed to enjoy torturing the others with stories of Ariel as much as he did and that they were all strictly forbidden from entering his room.
He also assumed the others didn't bother sneaking into his room and actually asking how he managed to get a shark into their base without anyone-especially Kakuzu knowing about it because of his rather shark-like appearance which was another reason why he felt so close to Ariel.
He saw his little Ariel swimming towards the glass screen and he crept forward and placed his hand on the glass, muttering "You must be hungry, girl."
As he picked out a massive juicy, raw steak, ready to open the lid above and drop it in and watch her give over to her true-nature and rip it apart in pure hunger; he remembered the struggle he'd had with naming her.
He'd spent two whole days wandering around the base aimlessly-when he weren't busy taking care of his little shark trying to decide what name would be best suited for her.
At first he'd thought of; Bubbles (but thought it was a little silly and generic), then Aqua (which held too much irony for his liking and then Kisa (thought naming it after himself would make him a loser).
It'd only been when Tobi had prattled on about some book-who knew the lollipop could read? That he'd come up with a name; Ariel. And it suited her nicely.
She looked very satisfied with her meal, after he cleaned his sword; Samehada, he went back over to the tank, lifting the lid, she came up as she always did and allowed him to stroke her gently and it was times like these that Kisame felt so at peace.
A/N: I was actually going to write that Kisame had a pet goldfish, but thought that'd be a bit generic; a little shark suited him better-though if I'd had it my way, he'd have a 'Great White Shark'-only I didn't use it because of how unrealistic that would be, haha!
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