Disclaimer: I don't own Rurouni Kenshin or The Little Mermaid!!!!!
Author's Notes: Hey, everyone! DarkFairy here!! I had this little idea swimming though my head for awhile, and finally decided to write it!! The Little Mermaid in my number one favorite Disney movie....kind of sad for a teenager... ^^;;;;; Heehee.... Anywayz, I was watch TLM and thought... What would it be like if I mixed my favorite anime with my favorite Disney? Then, BAM! The idea came to me!! This won't exactly be like the movie because you'd know what would happen, but it will have its similarities!! This will have its own twist and turns from me!! Some characters also might be OOC!! Hope you enjoy it!! Read, review, and enjoy!!!
Dedication: To Spellcaster!! Thanks for the help with the characters!! You rock, chika!! ^~
Chapter One:
Mysterious Fathoms Below & Above
"I'll tell you a tale of the bottomless blue
And it's hey to the starboard, heave ho
Look out, lad, a mermaid be waitin' for you
In mysterious fathoms below"
Prince Kenshin Himura sighed restlessly as he leaned against his balcony that overlooked the beautiful blue ocean. His father, King Hiko XIII, had been pushing him for months now to marry a princess. He remembered the conversation he had earlier with him,
"When are you going to find you a princess, and get married, baka deshi?" Hiko demanded irritably, and Kenshin smiled at the nickname. Instead of having a trainer to teach him swordsmanship, Hiko taught his son himself and gave him the nickname of 'baka deshi'.
"Father, you're just bitter that I didn't fall for the princess of Glauerhaven," Kenshin remarked cheerfully, "but don't worry."
"Don't worry?" Hiko arched an eyebrow, "I never worry, it's the whole kingdom that's worried. They want to see you settled down the right girl."
Kenshin smiled, he knew that his father was worried about him too. It was just that, Hiko had to much pride to admit it.
"She's out there somewhere, I just need to find her." he replied with confidence. Hiko scoffed and began to walk away, mumbling about what a romantic girly man his son was.
Returning back to the present, Kenshin felt the salty sea breeze blow at his crimson mane. He had always dreamt that there was the perfect woman out there for him, waiting. All he had to do was find her, too bad it wasn't that easy. Looking in the crashing indigo waves, Kenshin wondered if having a soul mate was really true. Perhaps he was just being an idealist, dreaming about his ideal match.
"Thinking too hard can be unhealthy, you know," a genki voice called, breaking him from his reverie. The petite form walked towards him with a slight bounce in her step, and a wide grin as she stood next to him. Princess Misao Himura leaned her back against the balcony as her sea green eyes met her brother's amethyst ones.
"Father, making a big deal of marrying again?" she grinned. Kenshin nodded and rested his arms on the cool marble.
"He doesn't understand that-," he begun.
"That you're looking for your one true love." Misao finished, knowing her brother like the back of her own hand. In truth, she, too, believed in the whole soul mate idea, but decided that you were only lucky to find them. Kenshin gave his little sister an affectionate look before staring back into the ocean. Misao turned and mimicked Kenshin's actions while thinking about another less depressing subject.
"Don't you love the feel of the wind blowing against your face?" he asked softly. Their mother enjoyed being out at sea, even though they didn't know her well. She had died when Kenshin was only three years old, and that was when she was giving birth to Misao.
"King Aoshi must really be in a friendly mood." Misao nodded. Kenshin snapped his gaze towards her, and gave her a puzzled look.
"Oro, King who?" he blinked.
"King Aoshi, ruler of the merfolk," she laughed mockingly, "I thought every good sailor knew about him."
"I'd know about him IF I was a good sailor, Misao-chan." he shot back with a smile. They both laughed and shook their heads, unknowing that the merfolk they spoke of swam in the water beneath them.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Dark raven hair swished this way and that as Princess Kaoru of the Merfolk swam into a sunken ship. A medium sized sack floated at her side while she peered into dark entrance.
"Aren't you going to go in, busu?" Yahiko, a merboy, swam next to her. Kaoru gritted her teeth, and swatted him across the head with her ever trusty bokken that she kept with her.
"Why don't you go in first, Yahiko-CHAN?" Kaoru answered sweetly, "or are you to much of a guppy to do so?"
Yahiko scowled, and promptly swam into the ship without a moment's hesitation, "I am not a guppy!!"
Kaoru smiled at how easy her plan worked, she soon followed Yahiko, and began her search for human items to add to her collection. Sorting through the rubble, a sparkle caught her eye. She turned and saw it.
It was a silver fork in still perfect shape, and it awed her. Kaoru dashed towards it and exclaimed,
"Have you ever seen something as lovely as this, Yahiko?" Yahiko lazily swam towards her and gave her a bored look.
"What is it?"
Kaoru was stumped at the question, and after a short silence she shrugged.
"I don't know, but I bet Sano will."
Yahiko scoffed and mumbled, "What would that rooster wannabe know?"
As Kaoru continued with her search, Yahiko floated on his back, bored out of his mind. The only reason he was even there was because annoying the Princess of the Merfolk was one of his favorite past times. His eyes wandered around and past a ravenous looking shark. A few seconds he took a double take, a shark? Yahiko whipped his tail as fast he can towards Kaoru, who was busy looking at a pipe.
"SHARK!!", he yelled, "Move it, busu! SHARK!"
Kaoru snapped out of her thoughts and saw Yahiko swimming quickly towards her. Her indigo eyes widened in shock, and then quickly moved her tail out of there as she stuffed her newly found items in her sack.
"We're gonna die!" Yahiko shouted in panic, not thinking straight.
"Shut up, Yahiko," angrily growled Kaoru, who was desprately pushing him out of there. They both quick hightailed as far away as they could from the sunken ship with the hungry shark chasing after them. Kaoru looked to the bokken that she gripped tightly in her hand. She wasn't stupid. She knew that if she even so much as stopped swimming, the shark would tear her to pieces and she'd be the meal of the day. What she needed was a plan. A half buried anchor caught her eye, and a plan formed in her head. As Yahiko continued to swim straight, Kaoru shifted directions. The shark followed her as she swam in zig-zags and dizzying directions, hoping to confuse it. Like a bullet, Kaoru zipped through the eye of the anchor with the shark following.
The shark's head got trapped within the eye, and tried to get out. Kaoru gave a victorious smile, and turned to Yahiko.
"You really are a guppy, Yahiko-chan." she sighed, slowly swimming to the surface to vist Sano.
"I AM NOT!" he protested.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
In a fancy bedroom, Misao laid on her side with books strewn everywhere. They were all open to pages about the merfolk. Ever since the sailors told her about the merfolk when she was sailing, Misao had been intrigued with the tale. From what she learned was that the leader of the merfolk was King Aoshi, the one with the icy blue eyes. He had a sister named Kaoru had eyes that couldn't compare to the color of the ocean.
King Aoshi, or Aoshi-sama as she called him, was a figure shrouded in mystery. There had been a few sketches here there of him, but not detailed ones. No one had ever seen him or any other merfolk, so they used their imaginations.
Misao longed for the freedom the merfolk had. They had the chance to be free, and lived their lives as they wished. Not like the restrictions Misao was put under. Never going anywhere without supervision, or always being watched over like a hawk. She knew her father loved her and her brother, but sometimes she felt overwhelmed by it all. Misao yearned for adventure, for something more than being a princess. She hungered for complete freedom.
King Hiko was very protective of her, especially when it came to men. The only men she was ever near were the servants, her brother, her father, and her bodyguard Seta Soujiro. Soujiro was one of her closest friends, but sometimes she saw an emotion in his eyes that she couldn't quite place. It bothered her, but she brushed it off as just a figment of her imagination.
Sighing, Misao turned over on her stomach and gazed at a picture of Aoshi-sama. In her most secret fantasies, she dreamed that she was a mermaid, and King Aoshi would take her away from her. Sea green eyes drooping, she slowly fell asleep with a sweet smile on her face as she dreamed of the mysterious fathoms below.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Kaoru broke through the surface of the water, and reveled in the feeling of the cool wind upon her. It was forbidden for her to go above the surface, but how could she not? She loved the world above because it mystified her and left her entranced. That was why she collected human items. Some part of her wanted to be human to see what it was like. With Yahiko, she easily swam to Sano's small island as she drunk in the aspects of the mysterious fathoms above.
Sanosuke, Sano, the seagull was fiddling with his telescope on his small island when he heard a familiar voice call to him. Placing the telescope backwards to his eye, he saw Kaoru and Yahiko waving to him.
"Hey, Sano!" she said cheerfully.
"Jou-chan!" he grinned, "get your fishy tail over here!"
Kaoru frowned at the remark. What was he talking about? She was right in front of his face looking at her through a telescope. As Sano lowered the telescope, he was surprised at how close Kaoru & Yahiko really were.
"Wow, fast swim!" Sano scratched his head.
"Sano, look what we found!" she babbled excitedly as she placed the fork and the pipe in front of him.
"Human stuff, huh?"
"Yeah, tori-atama, we were chased by a shark to get it." Yahiko drawled.
"You probably took off, and left Kaoru to fend for herself." Sano shot back with a raised eyebrow. Yahiko glared and splashed some waters at the smirking seagull. Sano shook of his wet feathers, and return his attention to the items before him. He picked up the fork and started grinning with glee.
"Do you know what this is?" he cried.
"If we did, we wouldn't be here." Yahiko drummed his fingers against the fallen telescope.
"Shut up, Yahiko-chan!" Kaoru snapped.
"Don't call me -CHAN!" he ordered.
"What is it, Sano?" Kaoru questioned. Sano stopped fluttering about, and waved the fork in front of her face.
"This, Jou-chan, is a dinglehopper!"
"A dinglehopper?" replied Yahiko and Kaoru with interest.
"Humans use these to fix their hair to make the most perfect configuration of hair they go nuts over!" Sano twisted the dinglehopper in the feathers on his hair then yanked it out. Making the feathers that were already spiked there even spikier. Did I mention Sano was no ordinary seagull?
"Now you look like a messed up rooster, tori-atama!" cackled Yahiko. Kaoru hurridely picked up the pipe and passed it to Sano,
"What's this?" Sano dropped the dinglehopper and moved on to fawn over the pipe.
"Now this! I haven't seen this in years!" he said, "This is a snarfblat!"
"Oooh..." Kaoru and Yahiko cooed.
"This baby dates back to prehistoric times when humans used to sit around and stare each other," Sano explain as he shoved his face into Kaoru to prove his point, "Got very boring. So they invented the snarfblat to make fine music. Like this,"
Sano proceeded to blow into the pipe, but instead of music, seaweed and sand popped out. He started coughing and contemplated the snarfblat,
"Maybe you can make a little planter out of this or something,"
"Music?!" Kaoru yelled," The concert! Aoshi's going to kill me!!"
Yahiko's eyes bulged as he rememberd too,
"The concert was today?"
Kaoru gathered the dinglehopper and the snarfblat together.
"I've got to go!" she waved her goodbye to him, "Thanks and bye, Sano!"
She and Yahiko took off speedily, hoping they didn't get into too much trouble.
"Anytime, Jou-chan!," Sano called, "anytime!"
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Two eels and a dark figure watched a magical bubble projection of Kaoru and Yahiko hurrying back to the palace.
"Yes, hurry home, princess," the shadowed figured said in a mocking tone, "We wouldn't want you to miss your big brother's celebration, now would we?"
Author's Notes: Welpz, that's it for now!! Please review!! Hope ya liked it it!!!
REVIEW & MAKE ME HAPPY!!!!
Happy me equals faster writing!!!
Author's Notes: Hey, everyone! DarkFairy here!! I had this little idea swimming though my head for awhile, and finally decided to write it!! The Little Mermaid in my number one favorite Disney movie....kind of sad for a teenager... ^^;;;;; Heehee.... Anywayz, I was watch TLM and thought... What would it be like if I mixed my favorite anime with my favorite Disney? Then, BAM! The idea came to me!! This won't exactly be like the movie because you'd know what would happen, but it will have its similarities!! This will have its own twist and turns from me!! Some characters also might be OOC!! Hope you enjoy it!! Read, review, and enjoy!!!
Dedication: To Spellcaster!! Thanks for the help with the characters!! You rock, chika!! ^~
Chapter One:
Mysterious Fathoms Below & Above
"I'll tell you a tale of the bottomless blue
And it's hey to the starboard, heave ho
Look out, lad, a mermaid be waitin' for you
In mysterious fathoms below"
Prince Kenshin Himura sighed restlessly as he leaned against his balcony that overlooked the beautiful blue ocean. His father, King Hiko XIII, had been pushing him for months now to marry a princess. He remembered the conversation he had earlier with him,
"When are you going to find you a princess, and get married, baka deshi?" Hiko demanded irritably, and Kenshin smiled at the nickname. Instead of having a trainer to teach him swordsmanship, Hiko taught his son himself and gave him the nickname of 'baka deshi'.
"Father, you're just bitter that I didn't fall for the princess of Glauerhaven," Kenshin remarked cheerfully, "but don't worry."
"Don't worry?" Hiko arched an eyebrow, "I never worry, it's the whole kingdom that's worried. They want to see you settled down the right girl."
Kenshin smiled, he knew that his father was worried about him too. It was just that, Hiko had to much pride to admit it.
"She's out there somewhere, I just need to find her." he replied with confidence. Hiko scoffed and began to walk away, mumbling about what a romantic girly man his son was.
Returning back to the present, Kenshin felt the salty sea breeze blow at his crimson mane. He had always dreamt that there was the perfect woman out there for him, waiting. All he had to do was find her, too bad it wasn't that easy. Looking in the crashing indigo waves, Kenshin wondered if having a soul mate was really true. Perhaps he was just being an idealist, dreaming about his ideal match.
"Thinking too hard can be unhealthy, you know," a genki voice called, breaking him from his reverie. The petite form walked towards him with a slight bounce in her step, and a wide grin as she stood next to him. Princess Misao Himura leaned her back against the balcony as her sea green eyes met her brother's amethyst ones.
"Father, making a big deal of marrying again?" she grinned. Kenshin nodded and rested his arms on the cool marble.
"He doesn't understand that-," he begun.
"That you're looking for your one true love." Misao finished, knowing her brother like the back of her own hand. In truth, she, too, believed in the whole soul mate idea, but decided that you were only lucky to find them. Kenshin gave his little sister an affectionate look before staring back into the ocean. Misao turned and mimicked Kenshin's actions while thinking about another less depressing subject.
"Don't you love the feel of the wind blowing against your face?" he asked softly. Their mother enjoyed being out at sea, even though they didn't know her well. She had died when Kenshin was only three years old, and that was when she was giving birth to Misao.
"King Aoshi must really be in a friendly mood." Misao nodded. Kenshin snapped his gaze towards her, and gave her a puzzled look.
"Oro, King who?" he blinked.
"King Aoshi, ruler of the merfolk," she laughed mockingly, "I thought every good sailor knew about him."
"I'd know about him IF I was a good sailor, Misao-chan." he shot back with a smile. They both laughed and shook their heads, unknowing that the merfolk they spoke of swam in the water beneath them.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Dark raven hair swished this way and that as Princess Kaoru of the Merfolk swam into a sunken ship. A medium sized sack floated at her side while she peered into dark entrance.
"Aren't you going to go in, busu?" Yahiko, a merboy, swam next to her. Kaoru gritted her teeth, and swatted him across the head with her ever trusty bokken that she kept with her.
"Why don't you go in first, Yahiko-CHAN?" Kaoru answered sweetly, "or are you to much of a guppy to do so?"
Yahiko scowled, and promptly swam into the ship without a moment's hesitation, "I am not a guppy!!"
Kaoru smiled at how easy her plan worked, she soon followed Yahiko, and began her search for human items to add to her collection. Sorting through the rubble, a sparkle caught her eye. She turned and saw it.
It was a silver fork in still perfect shape, and it awed her. Kaoru dashed towards it and exclaimed,
"Have you ever seen something as lovely as this, Yahiko?" Yahiko lazily swam towards her and gave her a bored look.
"What is it?"
Kaoru was stumped at the question, and after a short silence she shrugged.
"I don't know, but I bet Sano will."
Yahiko scoffed and mumbled, "What would that rooster wannabe know?"
As Kaoru continued with her search, Yahiko floated on his back, bored out of his mind. The only reason he was even there was because annoying the Princess of the Merfolk was one of his favorite past times. His eyes wandered around and past a ravenous looking shark. A few seconds he took a double take, a shark? Yahiko whipped his tail as fast he can towards Kaoru, who was busy looking at a pipe.
"SHARK!!", he yelled, "Move it, busu! SHARK!"
Kaoru snapped out of her thoughts and saw Yahiko swimming quickly towards her. Her indigo eyes widened in shock, and then quickly moved her tail out of there as she stuffed her newly found items in her sack.
"We're gonna die!" Yahiko shouted in panic, not thinking straight.
"Shut up, Yahiko," angrily growled Kaoru, who was desprately pushing him out of there. They both quick hightailed as far away as they could from the sunken ship with the hungry shark chasing after them. Kaoru looked to the bokken that she gripped tightly in her hand. She wasn't stupid. She knew that if she even so much as stopped swimming, the shark would tear her to pieces and she'd be the meal of the day. What she needed was a plan. A half buried anchor caught her eye, and a plan formed in her head. As Yahiko continued to swim straight, Kaoru shifted directions. The shark followed her as she swam in zig-zags and dizzying directions, hoping to confuse it. Like a bullet, Kaoru zipped through the eye of the anchor with the shark following.
The shark's head got trapped within the eye, and tried to get out. Kaoru gave a victorious smile, and turned to Yahiko.
"You really are a guppy, Yahiko-chan." she sighed, slowly swimming to the surface to vist Sano.
"I AM NOT!" he protested.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
In a fancy bedroom, Misao laid on her side with books strewn everywhere. They were all open to pages about the merfolk. Ever since the sailors told her about the merfolk when she was sailing, Misao had been intrigued with the tale. From what she learned was that the leader of the merfolk was King Aoshi, the one with the icy blue eyes. He had a sister named Kaoru had eyes that couldn't compare to the color of the ocean.
King Aoshi, or Aoshi-sama as she called him, was a figure shrouded in mystery. There had been a few sketches here there of him, but not detailed ones. No one had ever seen him or any other merfolk, so they used their imaginations.
Misao longed for the freedom the merfolk had. They had the chance to be free, and lived their lives as they wished. Not like the restrictions Misao was put under. Never going anywhere without supervision, or always being watched over like a hawk. She knew her father loved her and her brother, but sometimes she felt overwhelmed by it all. Misao yearned for adventure, for something more than being a princess. She hungered for complete freedom.
King Hiko was very protective of her, especially when it came to men. The only men she was ever near were the servants, her brother, her father, and her bodyguard Seta Soujiro. Soujiro was one of her closest friends, but sometimes she saw an emotion in his eyes that she couldn't quite place. It bothered her, but she brushed it off as just a figment of her imagination.
Sighing, Misao turned over on her stomach and gazed at a picture of Aoshi-sama. In her most secret fantasies, she dreamed that she was a mermaid, and King Aoshi would take her away from her. Sea green eyes drooping, she slowly fell asleep with a sweet smile on her face as she dreamed of the mysterious fathoms below.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Kaoru broke through the surface of the water, and reveled in the feeling of the cool wind upon her. It was forbidden for her to go above the surface, but how could she not? She loved the world above because it mystified her and left her entranced. That was why she collected human items. Some part of her wanted to be human to see what it was like. With Yahiko, she easily swam to Sano's small island as she drunk in the aspects of the mysterious fathoms above.
Sanosuke, Sano, the seagull was fiddling with his telescope on his small island when he heard a familiar voice call to him. Placing the telescope backwards to his eye, he saw Kaoru and Yahiko waving to him.
"Hey, Sano!" she said cheerfully.
"Jou-chan!" he grinned, "get your fishy tail over here!"
Kaoru frowned at the remark. What was he talking about? She was right in front of his face looking at her through a telescope. As Sano lowered the telescope, he was surprised at how close Kaoru & Yahiko really were.
"Wow, fast swim!" Sano scratched his head.
"Sano, look what we found!" she babbled excitedly as she placed the fork and the pipe in front of him.
"Human stuff, huh?"
"Yeah, tori-atama, we were chased by a shark to get it." Yahiko drawled.
"You probably took off, and left Kaoru to fend for herself." Sano shot back with a raised eyebrow. Yahiko glared and splashed some waters at the smirking seagull. Sano shook of his wet feathers, and return his attention to the items before him. He picked up the fork and started grinning with glee.
"Do you know what this is?" he cried.
"If we did, we wouldn't be here." Yahiko drummed his fingers against the fallen telescope.
"Shut up, Yahiko-chan!" Kaoru snapped.
"Don't call me -CHAN!" he ordered.
"What is it, Sano?" Kaoru questioned. Sano stopped fluttering about, and waved the fork in front of her face.
"This, Jou-chan, is a dinglehopper!"
"A dinglehopper?" replied Yahiko and Kaoru with interest.
"Humans use these to fix their hair to make the most perfect configuration of hair they go nuts over!" Sano twisted the dinglehopper in the feathers on his hair then yanked it out. Making the feathers that were already spiked there even spikier. Did I mention Sano was no ordinary seagull?
"Now you look like a messed up rooster, tori-atama!" cackled Yahiko. Kaoru hurridely picked up the pipe and passed it to Sano,
"What's this?" Sano dropped the dinglehopper and moved on to fawn over the pipe.
"Now this! I haven't seen this in years!" he said, "This is a snarfblat!"
"Oooh..." Kaoru and Yahiko cooed.
"This baby dates back to prehistoric times when humans used to sit around and stare each other," Sano explain as he shoved his face into Kaoru to prove his point, "Got very boring. So they invented the snarfblat to make fine music. Like this,"
Sano proceeded to blow into the pipe, but instead of music, seaweed and sand popped out. He started coughing and contemplated the snarfblat,
"Maybe you can make a little planter out of this or something,"
"Music?!" Kaoru yelled," The concert! Aoshi's going to kill me!!"
Yahiko's eyes bulged as he rememberd too,
"The concert was today?"
Kaoru gathered the dinglehopper and the snarfblat together.
"I've got to go!" she waved her goodbye to him, "Thanks and bye, Sano!"
She and Yahiko took off speedily, hoping they didn't get into too much trouble.
"Anytime, Jou-chan!," Sano called, "anytime!"
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Two eels and a dark figure watched a magical bubble projection of Kaoru and Yahiko hurrying back to the palace.
"Yes, hurry home, princess," the shadowed figured said in a mocking tone, "We wouldn't want you to miss your big brother's celebration, now would we?"
Author's Notes: Welpz, that's it for now!! Please review!! Hope ya liked it it!!!
REVIEW & MAKE ME HAPPY!!!!
Happy me equals faster writing!!!
