The Little Mermaid Naruto Style!
The LONG awaited Chapter 3.
Disclaimer: I does not pwn the Naruto. So there.
The sun was warm. The sand felt grainy and hot. All of nature was singing a song of a hot day on the beach. Hinata had never felt happier. Sure her throat burned and it was awkward learning how to walk, but all of that disappeared, because she was sitting in a beautiful sun dress, under a large parasol, with her prince. A huge smile graced her face and she could barely giggle at the site of the blonde boy who was being overwhelmed by a very large dog. This was almost too much for her to handle. "So, what was it like where you come from?" asked Sasuke. Hinata's head jerked to look at the prince. She lowered her eyes and thought about it. Was it really that different from life in the water? Sasuke shook his head, "I'm sorry. You must miss your home terribly." At this, Hinata looked up and shook her head rapidly. "Sasuke, are you trying to get her to talk again? You know she lost her voice from being shipwrecked!" scolded Sakura. Yes, even the sisters were there as well, but Hinata gave them no mind. "I'm sure he's aware of that, my dear sister." Said Ino. With that, the two sisters started to bicker back and forth. Sasuke and Hinata decided to just ignore the two and just watch the ocean waves. Hinata couldn't help but think about the days she had spent when she was a mermaid. She was usually very shy and never really spoke to anyone. Dwelling on the thoughts about her past, Hinata had not noticed the blonde boy rushing up to them, followed by the enormous canine. "Princess Sakura! Let's go swimming together!" said Naruto. "What! With you? No thanks," she replied, then she turned to Sasuke, "Well, maybe if Prince Sasuke wants to?" Sasuke was not one for many social outings, so it was rare for him to be out at all. But he never tried to ignore a guest, "No. Besides, who will stay with our guest? Sakura, please do not be so rude towards my brother." Sakura felt embarrassed for being scolded by the prince and her sister further insulted her for being foolish and rude.
Hinata's thoughts were elsewhere when they were broken by a call, "What about you miss? Wanna go swimming?" asked the bright eyed, Naruto. Hinata only looked up slowly into the beaming face of the blonde boy, but did not fully understand the question, for she had only noticed that he was addressing her. She tilted her head, for she had no other way of going, 'what?' Naruto had a big grin on his face, but it had changed to a look of confusion when she tilted her head, "Hmm? I guess you don't want to go swimming then?" Hinata's face brightened. She had not gone swimming since she had been there, but the only question was, could she swim as a human now? Ino decided to stop picking on her sister for a moment to interrupt Naruto's polite gesture, "Her go swimming? After being shipwrecked? She's probably scared of the water right now. It's a nice gesture, but I think it wouldn't be wise for her to go in right now." Sasuke looked to his brother, "She's right Naruto, I don't think she's ready to go swimming just yet." Naruto scratched his head and had a bummed out expression, "Oh yeah, you're right. Sorry miss, maybe next time?" Hinata felt a little defeated, but she was not able to speak for herself, nor did she know if she could actually swim with human legs or not. Then Sakura screamed. "W-what is it?!" Ino asked. "I-I don't know!" Sakura replied. Both girls jumped up and held on to each others arms. "Huh?" Naruto looked over, "Hey! It's a crab! It won't hurt you if you don't mess with it." Hinata didn't quite understand what all the fuss was about. She saw crabs all the time, even more so lobsters and shrimp. "I don't care what it is! It's creepy! Ooh, go away!" cried Sakura. Hinata, slowly and shakily got to her feet, with everyone focusing on her and wondering what she was going to do. She walked over to the small crab and picked it up, then proceeded to walk down to the water. She lifted the crab high, pulled her arm back, and sent the crab flying out to a further part of the water. She put a hand to her brow to see where it had landed, gave a small smile of accomplishment, and turned to return to the prince's side. She walked back normally, getting odd looks from the two sisters and Sasuke, Naruto had a look of amazement on his. "WOW! That was amazing! You threw that thing about 50 yards out!" Naruto said in all excitement. Hinata just looked at him with confusion, because she did not know what yards were and/or why it was amazing. Sasuke looked to her and gave a grin, "You have a good arm there." This made Hinata blush. This was her first complement from him, even though it was over something silly.
They had returned to the castle after a long day at the beach. The sisters were tired and went to the chambers where they were staying in. Sasuke walked Hinata to her room, even though she herself was not tired. By herself in the room, Hinata was just curious as to what the rest of the castle looked like. She also wanted to test her new legs out more, just to get a hang of her balance if anything.
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OMG. I'm so very very very very very sorry that it's taken this long for Chapter 3! Life has me by the ankles and I just haven't been able to get this! So please forgive me! Beat me with a large stick or shoe or something….But I will do my best to write even more for Chapter 4! I promise! Come Hell or high water!