Omg i cant believe i got reviews IM SO FREAKING HAPPY anyways i think ill regret this chapter and possibly erase and replace it I do that sometimes...well there you go i tried

They lied in the water together for a long time. Haru ended up wrapped around Rin, who had changed position with Haru so he was the one sitting with Haru on top of him. Anyways. The merman had done that thing where he wrapped his tail around his leg and Rin smirked lightly and chuckled as he did, getting a "shut up" in return. Rin fidgeted with the silky black hair as he smiled dorkily. Just what in the world was making him act like this? He looked down at Haru and sighed.

Before they had fallen to silence Haru had said something that had made him feel a little bad.

"It will be almost impossible" Haru had said looking down as Rin pecked his face all over. "I´m different from you, I-"

"You may be different" Rin had murmured. "But that thing you said about the tail? ´It only happens if it is real´?"

"Yes" he had sighed. "But it goes only for merfolk. Humans and merfolk…It has never happened before; at least not in a long time"

"But you can´t change" Rin had reasoned, causing Haru to stay silent. "It has to be real"

It was impossible, Rin thought, looking at his leg enveloped by the turquoise tail. Where did he get the idea that this—whatever this was—would work? He had just kissed a merman, the creature he was supposed to be afraid of; one that he was supposed to treat as an object; the creature he could sell for so much money…whose tears could cure any disease; who only had trust in him and was just lying with him…

It only happens if it is real, Rin remembered Haru saying. And just then it occurred to him, what if he wasn´t a creature? That way it would work, wouldn´t it? Rin looked back down at Haru; the bent where the knees would be was noticeable, so maybe…no. It was impossible. Rin shook it out of his head, but he still looked down at Haru and wondered what he would do tomorrow when he had to go to the station.

"Rin…" Haru´s monotone voice took him out of his train of thought.

"Yeah?" Rin answered. "Everything right, babe?" babe. Babe? Since when did he use that word? God, love was as complicated and endumbing (if that was even a word) as everyone said it was.

"Can I ask you a question?" he sounded curious. Haru was sitting a little upright on Rin´s chest, and he seemed to be really thinking something, giving it turns in his head.

"Sure" Rin cautiously replied, bracing himself for anything. What would he ask? And after several slow seconds he was starting to get nervous when-

"What if I could change?" Rin was taken off guard and Haru just kept not looking at him. "Maybe there´s a way…a way to change"

"You think—I mean—it´s possible?" Rin croaked out. Maybe there´s a way. That was it. That was a solution.

"Maybe…but, after all that has happened…" he shook his head. "I think there was a way…only they never could try"

"´They´? Who´s ´they´?" Rin was getting excited.

"The leaders of my tribe…they couldn´t because we never had the right ingredients and fire was needed; we weren´t allowed to go to the surface even for something like that"

"Do you remember?" Haru frowned. "The things you need, I mean"

"Yes, I remember" he started muttering under his breath. "But after physical come mentally…" he raised his voice to normal "we would need a contract. I can do it. Just say yes"

Rin thought for a second. Here it was, a way to be with the person he loved, but something didn´t fit. He gently put his hands on Haru´s hips, just where the tail started, feeling the slippery scales. Haru first went rigid for a second, then relaxed as Rin started making gentle circles with his thumbs. Haru could get legs, but would he be willing to lose his tail? Would it be forever? Rin couldn´t take something so amazing as a freaking mermaid tail just for something like love. What if Haru regretted it afterward?

But that wasn´t it "Is it dangerous?"

Haru nodded slowly "Yes"

"How much?"

He bit his lip. "Worst…it takes my life, but-"

"I can´t ask you that" Rin said a little lamentably, looking at the way Haru was staring at him like a child that was just taken candy from. "I wouldn´t bear it if you then regretted losing your tail, maybe you could hate me and…I just can´t imagine it. And even if you didn´t regret it, if anything happened to you…" Rin brought his hand to Haru´s cheek and the merman leaned into his hand. "I would never forgive myself"

"If I stay like this, you will have to carry me around everywhere forever" he tried to reason with Rin, but he wouldn´t budge so easy.

"That doesn´t sound so bad…" Rin teased him, trying to kiss him; but Haru just turned his head to the side and blew out a huff.

"You could never go outside with me" Haru pushed. Even though his tone was dry and emotionless, his eyes looked disappointed. "It´s the only way. I…I´d give my life to be able to walk with you"

"No" Rin said, deadly serious.

"But we could-" He tried again but-

"I said no"

With a sigh, Haru´s head fell straight to Rin´s chest and he groaned. The merman was clearly willing to risk it all, but Rin, even though he just wanted so badly for him to turn human, wouldn´t gamble Haru´s life. Apart from that, he was getting angry.

"I could be normal" Haru whispered out, but the look on his face showed he regretted it when Rin reacted.

"I don´t want you normal! I want you safe!" he yelled at Haru, and the merman quickly responded.

The scales on his arms stood up and his tail disentangled from his leg, the edges of the fins turning as sharp as broken glass; his pupils turned to slits and he opened his mouth in a hiss, showing sharp teeth; his hands, that were on Rin´s arms, had turned webbed and his nails were long and sharp, cutting deep into his skin. Only hisses were coming out of his mouth, but Rin was sure it sounded like a language; a very angry language.

Rin quickly got out of the tub, falling into the hard tiled floor; hearing the sound of splashing water and more angry hisses behind him. Now he was at his limit: he was wet, he was bleeding, his legs hurt and he was angry. He stood up shaking with rage, turned around, and screamed so loud that he thought the neighbors 5 blocks down would hear him. "I WON´T LET YOU"

Rin was seeing red. Only after several huge breathes and looking at the floor calming down, he finally found courage enough to look at the tub, bracing himself to see Haru. He was expecting to see the same creature he had seen only some inches apart a few seconds ago, with sharp teeth and slit eyes; but all he saw was a scared merman, with silky black hair and blue scared eyes; looking at him as though he was a monster.

Haru was shaking slightly, his back pressed against the wall of the tub, trying to get as far from Rin as possible. You´re the one who just grew sharp teeth and made me bleed with your freaking claws, Rin though helplessly and was about to scream again but decided against it seeing the look on Haru´s face.

Instead, he tried kneeling in front of him to try reason because he got fucking scared. "Haru I-" but as soon as he opened his mouth Haru let out another hiss, retreating from where Rin was leaning into. "Fine, I´ll leave you alone" and with that he went to his room, slamming the door behind him.

God, what did he get himself into? He saved a merman, gained his trust faster than any human had, fell in love with him, contemplated the true form of a merfolk when it´s angry, bled because of a merman, lost his trust and possibly broken up with him in less than 48 hours.

There was only one thing to do.

Ring. Ring. "Rin?"

"Makoto I screwed up"