A/N: And I'm back with an AU, dedicated to and requested by LuckyTigger. Lovies, here you go!

Blue Horizons

Hikari set the sail with confidence. She had faith that this trip would go smoothly. It had to.

"Hikari," someone said behind the busy girl. Hikari turned around to see a woman with matching blue terraces and eyes. "Please, be careful."

"Of course mother." Hikari nodded. "I've prepared for this for years, and it's my time to complete the family tradition."

Ayako smiled. "Remember, you must first sail to Hoenn, then Johto, Kanto, Unova, then back home. And then you will have completed the sacred family tradition of honor." She fished something out of her pocket and pressed into the hand of her daughter. When Hikari looked down at her hand, she saw a spotted spiral shell. "Trust the ocean, Hikari. And, if you need help, use the shell."

"Mom how could I use-?"

"You'll know when the time comes." Ayako crushed her daughter in a hug, and stepping back from the edge of the dock, she waved one final good-bye to her daughter. She was in the hands of the ocean now.

~o0o~

Setting the sails and maneuvering the boat was like instinct to Hikari. She had been on boats her whole life, always around the ocean. And now, it was time to receive her family honor.

She wasn't scared to be at sea for several months without the care of her mother. She wasn't scared about the fact that her mother barely made it alive from her journey of honor. She had yearned for this time since she was a little girl. She yearned to be at sea without the disturbing forces of the land. Just her and her boat and the endless sea.

Nothing could go wrong.

~o0o~

Dark clouds spread over the sky. Nothing but a little rain, Hikari told her self. Nothing she couldn't handle. Without much thought, she let the wheel go, leaving the boat moving in a straight motion. She calmly walked to the edge of the boat, and looking over the side, spotted a wave train heading to her. Hikari walked over the port side, and saw another wave train. Dread filled her. Eventually, those two trains would collide, and she would be sandwiched in middle.

Of course, there was a 33% chance that maybe the trough and the crest would collide and cancel each other out. There was a 33% chance that the troughs would mesh together and create a super dip. That she could handle. But, she could not handle the 33% that meant a rouge wave would appear.

Hikari bit her bottom lip in frustration. She sighed and sat down behind the wheel, her head in her hands. She winced as a raindrop landed on her head. Cautiously looking up, Hikari was met by a plethora of rain. Thunder clapped and lightning flashed.

Hikari, not knowing what to do, ran to the sail pole. She wrapped her frail arms around the wooden post and wind whipped around, her hair tossed to and fro by the gale.

Her stomach lurched as she spotted the rogue wave towering in front of her. She might've screamed. She might've cried. All she remembered was getting pitched off the boat and into the rough water.

Before she could black out, she managed to pull the spotted shell out of her pocket and, without thinking, she pressed the open hole to her mouth and blew. No sound came out. The edges of her vision smudged to black as she spotted a tail.

Her arms and legs grew limp, and she fainted.

~o0o~

There was silence. Which was strange. On the ocean there was always the subtle lapping of the water against her boat. But now? Nothing.

When Hikari opened her eyes and saw she was lying on a wooden box, half of her body in the water. The water was calmly still, the eerie calm that was always present before and after a storm. Groggily, she looked all around her and all she found was the endless blue horizon.

Fear bubbled inside her. She had no boat. No food. No fresh water. No way to live.

She couldn't help but cry. Everything went wrong. Everything.

Fishing in her pocket. She pulled out a spotted shell. All she had left was this shell. Remembering what her mother had told her, she tried once more to blow into the shell like a whistle.

Nothing. No noise escaped the little shell.

A soft splash happened behind the lost girl. Turning around slowly, Hikari was met with onyx eyes, poking out of the water. Purple hair adorned the boy's head. She saw nothing else of his face, the water coming up to just under his eyes.

Perplexed, and sure she was dreaming, her eyebrows knit together. "Um… Hello?"

The boy said nothing. And Hikari wondered what he was doing in the middle of the see. With a splash of water, the boy was gone, and Hikari was alone.

~o0o~

The first mystery to appear on the box next to her was a small pouch of water. Thirsty and desperate, she tried the water, and found it fresh. Now quenched, and so very tired, Hikari fell asleep.

When she woke up, next to her pouch was a small collection of fruits. She smiled and ate up the fruits and drank some water. She pulled her body out of water and balanced on the box. Looking around the saw a flash of purple disappear under the water.

~o0o~

It had been a week on that little box. Every morning and every evening the little pouch had been refilled and the assortment of fruits and nuts appeared. Everyday, she searched for the mauve-haired boy, but could only catch a flash of purple each time.

One day, she woke up and found no water and no food. She frowned. The thought of the mysterious boy leaving her left her feeling sad. She didn't want to leave. Sighing, she turned to her right and almost gasped.

There was her boat, undamaged and whole only a couple meters from her little box. And in front of the boat was a familiar boy. Hikari slid off her box and swam out to the boy. He backed up, and Hikari advanced. She kept swimming until she had him pinned up against the boat. "Thank you." She whispered and kissed the boy.

The boy disappeared under water, leaving Hikari alone once more.

The girl climbed up the boat, set the GPS and looked over the sea.

What she saw surprised her, but she couldn't help but smile.

She laughed as the saw a tail dive into the water. Giggling, she sailed off to the blue horizons.

A/N: Hope ya liked. LuckyTigger wanted me to write a story that included a merman Shinji and a lost-at-sea Hikari.

If any one has requests, I'd be glad to write for them. If I don't get any requests by Monday, the next Hikari Hikuru will make an appearance then. Oh, and today was my last day of school! WOOOOOOO