Here we go... A whole month without a chapter... I am SOOOOO Sorry for leaving you with a cliffhanger xDDD

I betaed the chapter! So It's readable xD ENJOY! I Myself think this is a cute chapter~ x3

Nagisa could not breathe for much longer. He bend his neck to look towards the windows again. He had tears down his face as he saw Karma trying to break the window. His vision was blurry and tried his hardest to breathe for a bit longer. He closed his eyes.

"K-Karma…"

He heard the glass break.

"NAGISA!"

Karma finally got through the broken glass. He went through the hole, making it big enough for his way out. He rushed over to the bluenette who was pale and lightly blue over his face. He quickly grabbed the merman. He then felt how dry he was, he carried him out of the room and out in the rain. He sat down and embraced the bluenette. He stroke his pale face. Nagisa was not breathing and his eyes were closed.

"Nagisa… Hey… I am here now… Breathe…" he whispered and did not know what to do. He shook him a bit. "Breathe…" The rain poured down over them and the bluenette was soaked now, but still not moving or breathing at all. Nagisa… please… Don't give up… I am so sorry for being too slow…

Within second, he thought it was the end, but then a great wheeze came from the bluenette whose chest rose along with the breathing. Nagisa jumped up from the lying position and coughed heavily. He looked confused around him and then realized the red head was the one holding him. Karma looked surprised at him. He was shocked to see the bluenette being all right and smiled. Nagisa sighed relieved and leaned up against him. He felt safe again.

"Nagisa… Are you alright now?" Karma asked with a very relieved voice. He was very scared as he thought he had lost him and now, he had him again. Nagisa looked up at him and nodded.

"Yeah… I wondered about something…" he answered and looked at his tail. "Why did I suddenly turn back?" he asked himself and moved it around a bit.

"You should be careful, Prince…" Nagisa's eyes widened and looked around in fright. He knew that voice. Dark. Just dark and sinister with true horror in it. Karma looked confused at the panicking boy.

"What's wrong?" he asked and tried to get the scared boy's attention, but it seemed like he was deeply concentrated on something. Nagisa looked towards the dark ocean as a red light shone over there. He suddenly saw the owner of the voice. Gakuho! He froze at the sight of the merman who was held up by water splashing under him.

"You won't survive for long up there… I have my better half there with his eyes on you..." Nagisa did not get what he meant, but then turned his head a bit. He the saw Gakushuu far away, staring angrily at them.

"Asano-kun…" he whispered in fear and the feeling of hopelessness came through him. Gakushuu walked away and towards the haven.

"You will soon be dead and the kingdom will be mine… My little prince…" The man's laughter echoed inside of the bluenette's head and at the end disappeared. Without knowing it, he clenched his grip in the red head hardly, making the red head even more concerned.

"Nagisa!" Nagisa finally snapped out of it and looked frightened at him. He sighed heavily and relaxed in the arms of the red head. "What happened? Why were you scared all of a sudden?" Karma asked, but was sure he would not get an answer. "Who is… Asano-kun?" The bluenette jolted at the mention of that name. He looked down.

"I…"

"Karma!" It was Manami. She came into the room by the door and then saw the broken window. Fortunately, she was the only one there. "..You ran off so suddenly and I thought something might have happened to Na-" She gasped and ran over to the broken window in her shoes. She hurried over the glass and then saw the boys out in the rain. She looked stunned at the tail. "It's back… Why is it back?" She was devastated over the sight of the tail, as she knew her elixir had not work properly. She sighed disappointed and then turned worried and looked at them.

"Manami… Can you make it again? I think the elixir's affection has worn off" Karma looked up at her and it was clear to her what was most important to him right now. She smiled warmly as she now knew what the feeling inside her was. She was very happy for her fiancé to have found something to care about this much. She nodded when finally giving an answer.

"Yes! I will work hard to make it fast…!" she saluted happily and rushed inside, but stopped quickly. She hurried over to them with a blanket. "Karma… You can get sick by staying out in the rain…" Karma chuckled over her consideration and nodded.

"I know… If you get me a parasol, then I can stay under that while Nagisa can have his tail in the rain…" he said and with that said, Manami hurried out in the rain and grabbed an old styled parasol and placed it over the two boys to have them in shelter.

"Now, Take this and keep warm, I will hurry…" she said before disappearing inside again. Karma had taken the blanket and covered himself and the boy with it while having his arms around Nagisa, keeping him safe and warm. Nagisa had not really been paying attention to anything happening around him. He was deep in his thoughts. Gakuho was here… He talked to me… Why now of all times? He could have attacked me when I was alone earlier? Something doesn't seem right. Karma could see the bluenette was deep in his thoughts. He sighed shortly and caress the wet blue hair.

"Nagisa…? Are you okay?" he asked and tried to get the bluenette's attention. Nagisa heard him and slowly looked up at him. He saw the concerned look he had. He tilted his head as he was confused.

"Karma… Why do you worry for me so much? You treat me so nice and so special… I may be a prince of the seven seas, but even after you found out about that, you treated me kindly without being polite…" he asked and looked at little concerned. Karma blushed as he was asked about that. He smiled warmly and chuckled a little.

"I am not really sure… I like you for you and not because you are some prince... So why treat you like one? You did seem to hate it by the way you talked about it…" he answered and had a little neutral look. Nagisa blushed and smiled awkwardly.

"True… Thanks for that…" he thanked him. He leaned into his embraced and relaxed. He held his arms around himself, looking at his tail and made it move a bit.

Manami finally returned with a bottle of the elixir. It was a copy of the one from days before but she added a bit to make it more durable. She gave it to the merman who accepted it at once.

"I hope it will hold for a bit longer this time…" she said and stood by the broken window. They had to have the bluenette turned back normal before doing anything else. Nagisa nodded shortly and drank the elixir. Soon after the same thing that happened the first time, happened again. He felt sick and grabbed onto his throat. Karma held the bluenette close to him as the wind started to blew. Manami covered her eyes as the small shards flew around. Fortunately, she was not hurt. Nagisa got his legs back and fainted. Karma held the unconscious boy in his arms.

"Nagisa?" he tried to wake him, but soon knew it was not possible for now. The humans looked at each other with a relieved look. Karma brought the bluenette inside, but went to another room so he would not be in a room with a broken window.

Nagisa was sleeping. Manami and Karma helped each other with cleaning up the shards of glass.

"You are lucky our parents thought you ran because you were tired of them and not because of Nagisa… They would have followed if they knew something had happened…" she said as she checked for shards of broken glass. Karma had the broken glass in a bin bag and placed it by the door.

"That is a good example on how much they care about me." he smirked as he joked. He knew that they did not come to hear why he left was because they honestly did not care about him. Because of their ego, they only thought about him because he was their son. They had to make sure he would be doing his job when it came to their company. Lovely parents. That was why he hated them. "By the way, we have to get that window fixed early tomorrow…" Manami nodded and they both chuckled.

Nagisa woke up early next morning, finding himself in an unfamiliar room. He got out of the bed and walked a few steps before he realized how much it hurt and fell to floor. He groaned shortly in pain. Ouch… Suddenly the door opened and Karma entered. He rushed over to the bluenette to help him up on his feet.

"You should've called for me when you woke up so I could've helped you…" he said and supported him back to the bed.

"Sorry..." was all the bluenette could say. He smiled awkwardly and faced the floor. Karma found it weird that the bluenette was like this.

"Hey… Are you all right? You seem down…" he was a bit concerned, but looked at him with an emotionless look. Nagisa looked up at him with a little more sad look. He saw his face and looked down again.

"I was thinking about yesterday… You were so worried about me… Must have been irritating to have such a burden by your side…" he whispered sadly. Karma sighed heavily and stood in front of him.

"Why do you think so much about it?" he asked and crossed his arms with a cold glance on the bluenette. He thought it was childish to be so thoughtful about how others think about you. He should try to believe that people would tell if they disliked him or something like that.

"We-well… I just thought I could do nothing… And I had to have you to save me…" Nagisa explained and looked down on his feet. "They are pretty numb already…" he smiled warmly though with a sad glance. Karma looked a little surprised at him.

"Nagisa…" The bluenette looked up at him with an awkward smile.

"Karma! I just got a call from the palace!" Manami called out and stormed into the room with an overjoyed look. "They accepted my elixir because of the success! We did it for real!" She exclaimed in joy and ran over to them. Nagisa was totally lost in what was going on. He looked at them and kept quiet as he tried to get an idea of what was happening. Karma turned to her and smiled determined.

"Sounds great! You are amazing. Manami!" he said and rumbled her hair. She was overjoyed. Nagisa looked at them and thought it was internal so he just thought of trying to walk a bit on his own. He rose and it hurt, but he managed to walk past them. Karma noticed it and kept his eyes on him.

"Did they say anything else…?" he asked the girl while having his eyes on the bluenette. Manami noticed and just let him.

"Yes. They would like us to come visit tomorrow…." she said with a nervous voice. Karma looked confused at her.

"What? Tomorrow?" he was shocked and did not really expect that. She nodded and was nervous about it. Karma nodded shortly as understood and just had a surprised look. "Well… That was quick…" he said and then looked to find the bluenette, but saw the open door. He sighed shortly.

"Y-yeah…" she said and smiled a bit.

"If we can bring Nagisa. I'm in…" he said before rushing out of the door. "Nagisa…?" he called and looked for the bluenette who he saw walking into the show room farther away. He followed him and then entered the room. Nagisa noticed him entering, but stared at the mermaid painting again.

"Karma… How old is this painting?" he asked, as he knew the red head was approaching. Karma chuckled and looked up at the painting.

"That one? Properly only one year old… It was a gift from our country's prince…" he answered and looked at it as well. His smile disappeared as he thought of something that the painting reminded him of... The truth behind why they actually turned Nagisa into a human. He was guinea pig. Just a guinea pig. He grabbed his head as he decided that the bluenette should know the truth. He smiled a bit. "Nagisa... I think I should tell you this, now that we have come this far with the elixir…" he said and got the bluenette's attention. Nagisa looked confused at him and noticed a bit cold look at the red head.

"What is it?" he asked and got a little nervous. He sat down on a little bench which was in the center of the room. Karma looked at the painting.

"The elixir that we gave you… We were actually not sure if it would work on you…" he said and crossed his arms and looked cold at the bluenette. Let him hate me afterwards. It would be better than knowing that they kind of used him and might have killed him if the elixir was a failure. Nagisa did not quite understand and looked even more confused at him.

"You mean… You gave me that… even with the knowledge of that it might not work…?"

"Or even kill you… We used you to make an elixir for our customer, the Prince…" Karma was serious and he still had his cold look. Nagisa was shocked and grabbed his chest as a weird kind of pain inside began to come. This pain was not something he had felt before. He gulped.

"You… used me?" He had not seen it coming and looked shocked at the red head. He chuckled shortly, as he could not really believe him. "You just used me for your own advantage…? Not because you cared about me…?" he felt tears force their way out of his eyes. He could not believe it and felt so hurt. He was not even sure why it hurt that much. He had never been used before and his father had told him many times how people sometimes use each other. He knew that this was something like what he had been told of. People doing stuff and then lie about it for their own purpose.

"At first, yes… but…" Karma tried to change his look but then he heard a sob.

"I don't know why… I suddenly…" Nagisa sobbed and dried away the newly fallen tears. "…. Why do I feel so sad…?" he tried to collect himself. I thought I had met kind humans and not like those who killed my sister… I thought I had met someone who cared about me for who I was and not what I was… I thought… wrong… The tears fled. "I don't know why I feel this way… It doesn't really hurt me that you used me… It is more… that you lied to me… You said all those things to keep me here as your… thing…?" he faced the red head with a very hurt look. Why do I feel so hurt? I… Is it because it was Karma…? Because Karma was the one who did this? He did not know that had fallen in love with the red head and now. His heart had been broken.

"Nagisa, look…"

"No… I understand… I am just here to be an item to be tested on… I heard you. You got your 'success' which means that you won't be needing me anymore…" Nagisa was not thinking straight anymore. His head was filled with screams and cries. Why did I trust them!? Karma looked a bit shocked at him as he heard the last thing.

"That was before, but now-!"

"Now you won't be needing me anymore and that is why you finally tell me the truth…" Nagisa cried.

"Shut it!" Karma burst. The bluenette froze and sat still. Karma looked irritated at him. He could not hold the poker face anymore. He felt broken inside as well. Seeing the bluenette get this sad was not what he had expected. He expected him to get angry and try to hit him, not start crying. "I never said that that was why I told you… Now listen to me. I told you because we both came to like you so much, that it would be cruel of us never to tell you… I thought you would get angry after knowing the truth… But here you sit and cry like a baby…" he said with an angry voice. Nagisa felt like he was getting scolded and only made the tears fall even more. He kept silent and sobbed while he looked down. He still listened. "In the start. Yes, we only did it because we had an important customer who could have a big influence on Manami's future with science. When we thought it would be the greatest opportunity we would ever get, we had to take it. After I got to know what you had been through… and got to know who you actually was… just got to know you…" his voice became softer and softer. "…I felt so stupid… I felt like a terrible person… I was like my own stupid parents. In addition, when I knew that… I had to find a way to treat you well and make sure nobody would hurt you… So you are not just some 'thing' to me. You are… you…" He sighed heavily as he had let it out. Nagisa widened his eyes as he heard it all. He blushed as he felt stupid for overreacting.

"Karma, I…" he looked sorry at him.

"I am sorry…" Karma finally said and tried to stop himself from blushing. He had never said sorry sincerely before and it was humiliating. The bluenette felt better a moment after. He breathed out in a little relief to know that Karma did not treat him like a thing.

"Thank you for telling me… It is nice that you don't lie to me… well.. from now on, right?" he wanted to be sure. Karma knew it was the perfect timing for teasing.

"Huh? Why not… Lying means I can cheat people to do something… Like that time, when I made the baker run like a chicken as I told his cake was on fire!" he exclaimed in haughtiness. Nagisa looked surprised at him.

"Fire?" he asked. Karma looked surprised at him at first, but then laughed. The bluenette was still a bit clueless to some human-only things. What was fire now...?

So Karma finally told Nagisa the truth? I wonder what that means~~? x3

Anyway! Thank you for keeping on with this one~ I still enjoy writing it~(Yes, It's ongoing... but MANY chapters xDD)

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Pastaaddict - AND HE WAS SAVED~ xD

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