Ohshit! I'm back!

Aha, anyway! After, what, 3 months of procrastinating, I'm back with a new chapter.

Disclaimer: I own Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch. NOT /Borat

"Shizu?..." Kaito called out as he opened the door to his apartment.

"Yeah, what is it?" Shizu's small, attitude-full voice called out. Kaito wasn't surprised to see her leaning by the pantry, a large scowl on her small face with equally large tears dripping of her cheeks.

"Aww, Shizu…" Kaito said softly, opening his arms and hoping his daughter wouldn't push him away. Luckily, Shizu needed his comfort, and ran straight into his arms.

"How do you expect me to do homework after today?!" she sobbed, falling down to the floor.

"I didn't…" Kaito whispered softly, kneeling down with her.

"Check mate!" Hiromu laughed sneakily, as she knocked Kinoh's white king into the air. The girl opposite her grabbed the flying king and put it in the pile of her defeated players.

"Nice reflexes!" Hiromu laughed, taking a sip of her ginger ale.

"Thanks" Kinoh said quietly, packing away the chess board into her small cupboard of board games. Hiromu got up and stood behind her, looking through the shelves of classic family games.

"What games haven't we played tonight?" Hiromu asked, taking a big gulp of ginger ale.

"None…you tried too hard to distract me from making salad" Kinoh said, causing Hiromu to laugh heartily.

"It's your fault that you spend 19 hours at the Basketball arena everyday, and not buy good, tasteful food" Hiromu said, stressing the 'good' and 'tasteful' parts of her sentence. Kinoh sighed in irritation, letting Hiromu know that she had gone past the point of plain teasing her. Hiromu sat back down on the floor of their apartment. It was unsurprisingly clean, knowing that Kinoh probably spends her 5 free hours of the day cleaning.

"So-uh…do you want to go out to the shops and buy something, preferably food?" Hiromu asked. Kinoh raised an eyebrow.

"At 8:00 at night?"

"There's a 7/11 in this town! Albeit it's on the other side of town, but we always need exercise!" Hiromu said. Kinoh could never say 'no' to Hiromu's arguments, so the two found their wallets and made their energetic way outside. The fountain about 50 metres away had been turned off, and the square sounded very quiet.

"So, I'll let you lead me the way to the 7/11" Kinoh said simply, one hand on her hip and the other waving in a random direction. Hiromu laughed nervously, and set out to the beach area of the town.

Suzumi snapped back into real life by the sound of footsteps behind her, leading to the apartment. She turned around quickly to find two blue haired people walking towards the apartment building. They walked past Suzumi, giving Suzumi a good look at them, a woman around her early 30s and a boy only a couple of years older than her. Suzumi shrugged it off, until the woman noticed her and shook her shoulder to catch her attention.

"I love your pendant! Where did you get it?!" the woman asked, her eyes sparkling with envy and excitement.

"I've had it since I was born…it means I'm a Princes…" Suzumi started, and then she covered her mouth and mentally winced. The woman's face went slightly serious.

"Oh, I see…" the woman said, contemplating what to say next. She smirked ever so slightly, saying "Of what ocean?" Suzumi dropped her hand and stared at the woman and quickly conjured up an excuse.

"What are you talking about? It's impossible to be a Princess of an ocean!" Suzumi stuttered, looking to the ground. The boy next to the woman shrugged and went inside the building, leaving the pair alone. The woman waved him goodbye and glanced over to Suzumi, who was obviously sweating.

"I guess you're right" the woman said, flicking back her short, dark blue hair "I hope you have a nice time in our humble little town, princess!" she chanted, walking into the apartment building. Suzumi sighed in relief, and then took off towards the beach, wanting to distance herself from the woman ASAP.

"Oh my gosh…that was so close…who was she? She looks so familiar…" Suzumi thought, weaving between the alleys of the town and into the square. She jogged over to the fountain and leaned against its side, panting.

"Gosh I hate this! I want to go home…" Suzumi thought, catching her breath. Suddenly, a familiar memory came to her mind "Roselle was right…it isn't as beautiful as Meru said…" She thought, about to cry. She caught her breath quickly, and she ran back to the ocean.

"Sakura can do this on her own…I'm leaving!" Suzumi thought, throwing in the towel and arriving at the ocean. The cold spray tickled her bare legs, and the salty smell was comforting. She kicked off her clunky shoes, and made her way to the ocean's edge.

She took a deep breathe, and dived into the water. She instantly changed back into her more comfortable mermaid form and took a breath of relief for being back in the water.

At least, that's what she would've done, if a large figure didn't break through the surface of the water and scare Suzumi to fall over. She squinted to make out the shape of the object, and noticed it was a man with long hair. He glared at Suzumi, and took a step towards her.

"Who the fuck are you?" he spat at her, taking off his diving mask. He seemed to be peeved off at something, and it made Suzumi want to go home even more.

"Suzumi Paaku…" Suzumi whispered. He raised his eyebrow.

"Oh, so you're one of those mermaid chicks?" he said, seeming to have calmed down. Suzumi nodded slowly, and the man walked towards her. He looked fairly young and had very handsome features, along with beautiful blue eyes, that were clouded by anger.

"I'm terribly sorry for being so rude and foul mouthed before…" he said, extending a gloved hand "let me help you up!" he said, much gentler than before. Suzumi nodded, and took the hand and was pulled up.

It all happened in one fast movement. He whipped out a gun and pointed it at Suzumi's head. He smiled maliciously as he saw the slow look of realisation on Suzumi's face.

"See ya in hell, mermaid!" He laughed "Let's see how Ms Tanake likes it when she sees you dead!" he yelled, pulling the trigger. Suzumi only managed to utter 'You mean Hiro…' before the loud bang triggered her into absolute darkness.

"See, Kinoh! I told you there was a 7/11' Hiromu said, her deep voice laughing as she pointed to the neon sign above the two. The salty smelling breeze had been blowing lightly, and they could clearly hear the crashing of the waves

"I never said there wasn't" Kinoh said, walking inside the store. Hiromu smiled slightly as she followed the girl into the small convenience store. While Hiromu headed to the meat section, Kinoh made her way to the vegetable section, just to spite her meat-loving roommate. Hiromu caught this movement out of the corner of her eye and spun around and walked over to Kinoh, grabbed the back of her coat and pulled her over to the meat section. Kinoh let out a chuckle as Hiromu let her go and started to choose out her favourite lamb chops.

"Ah" Hiromu sighed, smelling the meat "it's nice to be out of the place where all you eat is seafood and you don't drink anything". Kinoh rolled her eyes.

"Why do you live there, then?' Kinoh asked, knowing the answer already.

"It's my business" Hiromu said, with a large armful of meat "Now; I'll buy all of this, while you can wait outside". Kinoh nodded and quickly walked outside. She lent against the window next to the automatic door. You couldn't exact say it was quiet, with the wind blowing in her ears and the waves crashing in a very thunderous manner, but the silence was nothing compared to the ear splitting sound of a gun blast.

Kinoh, out of old habit, drew her concealed gun and pointed it at the source of the noise. Soon, Hiromu and the store's clerk came crashing out of the store, and spotted Kinoh with her gun drawn.

"Kinoh!" Hiromu exclaimed "Don't shoot at random things!". Kinoh sighed in frustration.

"It wasn't me! It's just a habit!" she yelled, and hid her gun again and ran down to the source of the shooting, followed by Hiromu and the clerk. Kinoh stopped in her tracks as she neared the body, the lifeless body, of a young girl. Hiromu took out her mobile phone to illuminate the area.

"Shit!" Hiromu exclaimed as she recognised the body of Suzumi. Kinoh winced as she saw the bloody state of the girl.

"She must've been stabbed several times when we were arguing…" Kinoh hypothesised. Hiromu didn't care, as her face seemed to be wearing a familiar 'I-am-going-to-be-so-stressed-sorting-this-out' expression. Kinoh put a comforting arm around Hiromu, as she noticed a small piece of paper on Suzumi's bloody stomach. She bent down to grab it, but Hiromu snatched it up before her and took a look at it before tearing it into pieces and throwing them into the sea.

"What was that?" Kinoh asked, but was rudely ignored as Hiromu kicked a seashell off into the distance and turned to the store clerk.

"You, help me with the body will you? It's of a friend of mine" she snapped. The clerk nodded, but looked queasy at the sight of Suzumi. Kinoh helped lift her limp body silently.

"Bloody Eamon" Hiromu bitterly muttered in a barely audible whisper "always making things hard for me…"

Oh yes.

I went there. I went there and brought back cake BD.