Chapter #11: 3 days
I own none of the characters except for my version of the Sea Witch Athena, I do not own Naruto! There will be some comedy in this chapter since the last chapters were pretty dramatic! :D . By the way, all of the songs in this story are all mine! I came up with the lyrics! Now, please enjoy, :D .
~Naruto: the Little Merman~
Sasuke found a job as a fisherman hunting for fish while Naruto spent his days at home relaxing eating only when he was allowed to eat and what he was allowed to eat while working on his "gift" for the Sea Witch. Coming home with 100 SD (sand dollars), Sasuke found Naruto smiling happy singing lovely melodies and other little beats and tunes while writing something down on a single paper made of wood and seaweed, a white quill, and a little bottle of erasable octopus ink. The house they lived in now was made out of pure coral reef, and it wasn't small, nor was it very large, it was a medium sized house with a small living room, bathroom, a large kitchen, and two bedrooms. One bedroom was very large and filled with baby supplies.
The other room was a medium sized room with a small double sized bed with a desk, a chair, a bookshelf, a closet full of clothes, a TV, and a computer (yes, these objects are water-proof). Sasuke smiled and gave his lover a kiss, this was day #1. of finding a gift for the octopus, and Sasuke was too busy working in order to find something "worthy" enough for the brat! But it seemed that Naruto had already found something, although his lover couldn't tell what it was and Naruto wouldn't tell him anyway. "It's supposed to be a surprise!" He cheered.
"Haven't we had enough surprises?" Sasuke asked coldly resting his head up against his hand.
"Those were bad surprises though! This one's going to be a good one! And she'll love it!" the golden covered blond cheered again, it was very obvious that he was excited for this, although Sasuke couldn't understand why, he remained quiet and let his lover do as he pleased.
"Your belly's getting real big huh?" He finally asked after an hour of silence noticing the large belly popping out of Naruto's large shirt.
"Yep! And heavy," he complained, "I went up to the beach today to meet Hinata at 1:30 like we had planned earlier and we did a check-up thing in her doctors office that Neji-sama built for her, the baby weighs 19 pounds now, and it's so heavy! Even in the weightless water!"
Sasuke's smile grew bigger as he pulled his lover out of the wooden chair and into the warm bed, small bubbles moving as their tails moved. "It has been 6 months now," he mumbled giving the blond a kiss, "hey, the Sea Witch said when the sun sets on the third day and if we still didn't have anything for her, she'll take our baby, but how can she take it if it's not born yet?"
"She'll do a sea section and but the baby in a special bubble that will help support and keep it alive until it wakes up."
"How do you know that?"
"She told me, she told me while you were in the bathroom, it was scary. How she told me."
"She didn't touch your stomach did she?"
"Oh yeah she did!" Naruto exclaimed, "she had her hands and claws all over my 'basket'!"
Sasuke raised an eyebrow, "a 'basket'?"
"You know, my stomach is kind of like a basket 'cause it's carrying the baby?" The blond chimed playing with the blankets as Sasuke set the tiny Merman on his lap and tucked him in.
"OK then."
"I wanna watch Ocean Park!" Naruto sang happily as Sasuke frowned and wrinkled his nose.
"No."
Naruto gasped, "b-but why! ?"
"Why? That show is vulgar, repulsive, disgusting, and you're going to be a mother soon so there's no good reason on why you should be watching it!"
Naruto scrunched up his face, "I'm not a woman! Only woman are mothers I'm a man, therefore I'm a father!"
"No! I'm the father! I'm seme, more dominant, and more manly, you're small, shota, and way less dominant, and the baby can't go around saying 'daddy!' to me and 'daddy!' to you, it'll be confusing, and because you're shota, you're 'mommy' whether you like it or not!" Sasuke explained in a way that Naruto would say: "heartlessly".
Naruto pouted, "fine, but I still wanna watch Ocean Park!"
"No." And right when Sasuke thought that his final answer had gotten through to his golden covered blond, the bright, ocean, light blue eyed boy switched the water-proof TV on and turned it to the comedy channel where Eric Cartman was striving to swim towards the Jewish boy Kyle Browfloski to hit him.
"You know, I've seen the original, which is called South Park, and now that I think of it, Cartman looks horrible as a Merman! I mean, look at all of that fat hanging out! It's sickening! Just look at hang and sag! And don't even get me started on his man boobs!" Sasuke's face turned purple as he looked at the swimming Merman on the glass screen, he was struggling so much, Cartman made swimming look HARD.
"And eeew! Look at that! Is that belly button lint! ?" Naruto asked pointing to the screen laughing, "he's so fat! Look a this blubber float!"
Sasuke's face turned green as he shook his head shutting the TV off, "I don't wanna know!" Naruto laughed while Sasuke lightly shoved him off of his lap and carefully laid him down next to him before switching the life off and going to sleep.
~day 2~
Being home alone was something that Naruto found that he didn't like, he found that it was not only lonely, but that it was a pain, it was too quiet and it made life for him, difficult. Sitting by the desk with his swollen belly up against the side, he carefully rested his belly up against it while writing quickly, octopus ink on the feathered quill and scratching words onto a piece of paper, thinking very hard about what to write, stopping every now and then to take a little break and eat something (a seaweed sandwich that Sasuke made and wouldn't allow him to eat anything else unless it's healthy). But the day remained quiet with not even the school of fish swimming outside. By the time Sasuke got home Naruto had exhausted himself to the point where was sleeping at the desk and Sasuke had to lay him gently in the bed while tucking him in.
Naruto woke up to the smell of sweet sea beacon and the crackling of Seagull eggs. "Breakfast?" He asked wondering slowly out of the bed of seaweed.
"No, it's dinner, you alright? You fell asleep by the desk, that's not good for you or the baby." Sasuke explained removing himself from the wood stove and giving Naruto a warming hug and kiss on his forehead.
"I'm OK and sorry, but I got so lonely yesterday! I don't like not having you home! It's boring and there's nothing to do! Plus, I miss you and so does the baby!" Naruto complained hugging his paper-pale lover back while resting his head on Sasuke's chest.
A small chuckle came from the paper-pale lips before helping Naruto sit down in a chair a serving him his dinner. Yawning Naruto blinked a couple of times before rubbing his eyes with the back of his tiny tan fists. Sasuke, who set the plate down in front of the little Merman who scarfed the food down quickly, "so, what is it that you're working on? Any ideas for that bitch?" He asked coldly before taking a bite of his food.
Naruto frowned, "don't cuss, not nice, kmmff ababy!"
Sasuke raised an eyebrow, "well you shouldn't talk with your mouth full."
Gulping the rest of the bites down with a sip of Whales milk Naruto shook his head, "I do have an idea on what to give her, but I can't tell you or anyone else, it's supposed to be a surprise! And no cussing! You're going to be a father soon! Not a sailor!"
Sasuke laughed and nodded, "very well then, now hurry up and eat so we can get to bed, I have a paid day off tomorrow, we're going to see the Sea Witch early, first thing after our breakfast, so whatever it is you have planned better be done because if she doesn't like the thing I have for her we're screwed!"
"You got her something?" Naruto asked.
"Yeah, a damn pearl, it's rare because it's from a pale-blue clam, but she's a witch, so for all we know, she has hundreds of them."
"Oh."
"Yeah."
~Day 3: the final day~
Naruto went back to writing once Sasuke went to sleep knowing that he didn't have much time left, sneaking quietly out of the house he gathered up a school of hundreds of fish to help him play music, his sleeping lover stirring softly in his now cold bed, the music was heard through the entire ocean! Naruto began singing, but it was so soft, no one heard it, just the loud yet beautiful music. By the time the sun came up and it really was the third day, Naruto headed into the house and started making breakfast so that it was ready when Sasuke woke up. "Bright and early are we?" Naruto gave a silent smile before eating and heading off to bed for another hour.
"Get ready, we live in 30 minutes," came Sasuke's demand. Groggily, Naruto got himself ready and they set out.
~Naruto: the Little Merman~
Sasuke handed his present to the Sea Witch first which she gladly accepted but you (in general) could tell that it wasn't the "thing" she wanted. Naruto gave her a little circular box, "this is a music box, but before you just throw it away or something, I want you to listen to it first."
Clicking the on button, she was surprised to find that it was a recording of Naruto singing a song that he had written for her!
"You~
Set sail, out to be something so beautiful—–
I'm not so sure why you have turned into something that you are not~~~
But it's obvious to me that you're just a lost soul!
Somewhere—along the way you found yourself lost in a place you never knew—
And no one trusted you—
But, you are my friend-
No matter what you are~~
I trust in you!
That you'll be there for me and I'll be there for you~~."
Tears ran down her face as the song told her that was playing gave a message about friendship. Giving a nod she shook the couples' hands and made her deal, "I will help you." And so she did, setting a large blue bubble over the city of at Atlantis and warned them, "if any of you do anything to hurt these two people and their child, this bubble will explode and destroy your precious city!" And being the sea witch that everyone feared, no one dared to testify or see if it was true. Sasuke and Naruto even made some new friends, people that were bystanders of the "bullying". And in the end all was well, until the time had come and Naruto was in tears.
